The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-12-17
1ohn narshaII Harlan
Thirty Years On the Bench
By Sovoyard.
By Sovoyard.

/, round numbers. without exact
.orantttation Of months and days, six
individuals have served on the tinted
Ets1tcs supreme Court more than thlr-
" years each. Bushr"d Washington.
of Virginia. appointed BY John Adams
in f7gS. was on the bench thirty-onc
wears. John Marshall, Of virginia
also appointed b. John Adams, ~
1901. served thirty-four years Jp-
scph storey, Of M~aS+aohusettS' dP-
roipted bv James Madison in 1911.
remained in that station till 1912
John Mclean. Of Ohio. appointed py
John quincy ADAMS IN loZ9, was on
the bench rs long ~afterNard As 49,.
James VI. Wayne, Of Georgia, appoint
ed bv Andrew Jackson in 1899, con
tinued on the bench until 1861
Stephen J. Field, Of California. APP
pointcd by Abraham Lincoln IN 1868.
did not retire untl 1881. ms va
the longest service. exceeding Mar
shalTs Bv a few weeks, MarshalIS ex-
ceeding Storey's by q Few months.
William Johnson. Of south Carolina,
appointed by Thomas Jefferson III
1904. served thirty years.
John Marshall Harlan. of Kentucky,
was appointed by II. T.. Hayes IN 1910
and is yet on the bench. after more
than thirty years, in q robust physlcaI
at seyenty-fOur, and with =
spIendid mental virility, not yet out
Of it's prime. And it is not hazardous
to prophesy that John NJ. Harlan, Wig
orous In min and strong III bod Will
be dispensing justice from that tn
bunal, which he has 50 long graced,
ten years hence.
Though the bar of Kentucky, for
the first 100 years of the republic,
ranked with the bar of any other
state in character and learning, but
three Kentuckians have been appoint
ed to the Supreme nch-Tod IN
1907 and TrimbIe in 1926, preceding
Harlan. on the other hand, Ohio, q
younger State, has supplied the Su-
preme bench with six members, two
of them Chief Justices.
Section /, Article III, of the Fed
eral Constitution confers on the SD
irene Court the judicial power The
judiciary of no other people allow 1t
to the extent our judiciary has as
sumed it. 1t is a vast and q danger
Gus power, and the wonder Is that IL
has not wrecked this unit That
1T has not. tells volumes for the char
acter and the learning and the purity
of the men who have been elevated
to that bench, and this, too, despite
the fact that politics has entered into
the selection of more than nine of
every ten of the more than threescore
Judges who have worn that ermlne.
%ay. Marshall himself, the greatest
nudge who ever e~xpounded the politics
aud adjudged the statutes of a free
people. got his place on the bench
tor his politics. Gen. Grant made two
Iaan judges of that court 10 get a de-
t:z.or that y gyreIatack is a good legal
ter,7ai. 5-acr the Constitution.
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Tolr HandoI7h. of was as
&r.li1n- = man as ever sat in politi-
a! council in our country. The books
t7et Tfvy and Tacitus wrote and are
lost; the circumstances that M~acauiay,
~Thackaray. and Dickens fell in their
,t--thcse were calamities to letters.
81 j"nt and modern. But there was
Nun named Niles, vino reported the
4.,licaa Congressional debates some
wears ago, and he took ii on nm
to exercise a censorship on Amer
forensic eloquence and refused
c~"rt some of Randolph's great
s0"eches. for the reason that he
H.~ nae sense enough 70 ioii2W
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