Year: 1866

who has received the benefit of reg
ular course of legal studies, who does
not meet and discuss political questions
of national interest all the more inteli-
gently and efficiently by reason Of his
legal studies. No one knows better
than the editor of the Freeman how
many times Judge Poland was annually
elected by our Legislature TO seat on
the Bench of the Supreme Court, how
many times unanimously and how
many years he has been elected to be
Chief Justice And the editor afore-
said ought certainly TO know that
mind long trained to legal and consti-
tutional studies, as the mind ofone long
and successfully in practice in the higher
courts and on the bench must neces-
sarily be, cannot be thrown into debate
on questions of law and law-making
without bringing with it immense ad-
vantages which a mind that has not
been so trained can never possess. The
very habits Of thought formed by such
legal and judicial training make their
possessor ever ready to meet questions
pertaining to government and to the
ri ights and duties of citizenship, that
are continually arising, especially in the
highest branch of the National Legls-
lature and when the Freeman asserts
that questions which men like Judges
Collamer and Poland have studied and
discussed for quarter Of century in
the courts and on the bench, 'have about
as little similarity, so far as the public
know, to the questions that call into
debate our ablest Senator's, that an &C
tion for false warranty Of a horse has
to the question of reconstructing States
and settling upon durable foundations
the future of the Republic" we submit
to its editors own Judgment, and to all
candid, intelligent readers, if this is not a
descending to the plane of the pettifogger,
rather than holding Of that manly and
high-toned position in the discussion Of
the grave and important question now
before the people Of Vermont, which we
had the right to expect of one who is so
generally fair and honorable, and always
so able, as the editor of the Freeman


In speaking of Mr.. Morrills qualifiea-
tions we took special care to do him full
justice. Although we could by no
means admit that his mind had been
trained and nodded by previous habits
of study and labor as had Judges Cola
mer's and Polands, yet we made favora-
BILE allusion to his early mercantile life,
as qualifying him for that usefulness
which he has displayed in the House.


Now if we had sneeringly alluded to
his'early training, and contended that, $50
far as the public know" it had about as
little similarity to questions that call
into debate the ablest Representatives
as the holding Of dry Goldfish by the
tail before village customer, or the sell
ing of jewsharps to village boys, has to
the great questions Of currency and
finance which are discussed in Congress,
we should hardly have done more viO-
lence to the rules of fairness, or TO the
propreties that belong to this discus
sion.


The Freeman very guardedly says
$50 far as the public know" &c, But
how is it so far as the editor of the
Freeman knows? As a graduate in the
legal profession, does he not know that
his comparison is unfair and unjust ?
And if "the public" is so ignorant as
his language would imply, should itnot
be his duty to enlighten it, rather than
to pander to ignorance We have bet
ter opinion Of the publics intelligence,
and have no hesitation in repeating
what we have already said, that the pub
lie does know that the questions which
Judge Poland has studied and discussed
for nearly all his mature life have a
great deal to do with the legal and con-
stitutional questions that are now be-
fore the Senate, and which are insepara-
bly, connected with the highest duties of
a Senator.


Farther along in the article than we
have quoted, the Freeman acknowledges
that conservative and Johnson journals
have praised Judge Polands speech and
warmly eulogized his course" and adds
"But we are certainly unaware of any
natio nal reputation he has gained be-
side this


Perhaps the Editor Of the Freeman
does not read the radical Republican pa
pers with that searching carefulness he
does the conservative and johnson
journals" when looking after Judge Po-
land. Be that as it may, we would re-
spectfully ask him if he saw how per
ley" the Washington correspondent OF
the Boston Journal, telegraphed the en-
tire speech of Senator Poland on the
Amendment to the Postal Appropriation
Bill, complimenting itas powerful one
how the Springfield Republican, from
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