Show JUDGE BLACK president attorney At loracy general and second secretary tary of state As ue ile it DesM described betl by ex streator blaine in ills jus forthcoming cook book A review or of a democrats dong 4 judge black who had from the beginning of tho ilia administration AImi nitration boen mr chief adviser now became so by rank as the suo such cessor of gen casa cam in the state department part ment lie ile was wu a man of rc re mark ablo character he ile was endowed by nature with 1 l strong understanding der standing and a will in tho tile profession of the law he lie had attained great eminence his learning had been illustrated by a prolonged ser service vico ou oil the bench before the tile aeo ace at which men oven even of exceptional success at the bar ally attract public attention lie ile had added to ills ilia professional gaud ies which were labori otio and con cou a wide a acquaintance 1 tance with our literature and aud ezal had found in its walks a delight which is yielded to few in ili history abiog biography raphy criticism romance lie 69 had bad absorbed everything in our language worthy of attention Shakes shakespeare milton indeed all tile bogl english is 11 poets were his familiar companion there was not a disputed passage nor an obscure read reading ing in in any 0 one tie of tile great plays upon which lie could not offhand off hand quote the beet best renderings ings s and und throw original light from his own illumined mind upon theology lie had apparently be st stowed wed years of investigation and reflection A sincere christian he lie had bad been a devout event and constant student of the bible end slid could quote its palagea agea and apply its teachings with ein singular gular readiness and felicity to thia this generous etore store of knowledge lie added fluency of speech both in ill public address end and private conversation and a style 0 of f writing which waa was at once na unique powerful and attractive lie had ad attained unto every excellence of 1 mental ne 11 tal discipline described by lord tard bacon reading had madoll made him i a 1 full till man mail talking a ready roan man writing an air exact mail man the judicial literature of the E tongue may be bought in vain vain for finer models abon are found in the opinions of judge black when he lie sat pat and nd was bortl worthy to ait sit as the tile associate of john banister gibson on the tile supreme bench of pennsylva nia in political 0 opinion p i ni on he ile wasa was a democrat eeli inspired i red and adf self taught for his father th P er waa was a it whig who had served his state in congress lie ile idolized Jc fFerson and revered jackson as embodying in their respective characters all the elements of the soundest political political philosophy and all the of tho tile hig highest test political I 1 leadership lie ile believed in tho the principles of democracy e rap v aa as ho be did in a demonstration 0 of f luclid euclid all oll that might be said on the other tido side waa wm necessarily absurd he ile applied to his own political creed the literal teachings of tho the bible if abraham isaac and jacob had held slaves without condemnation or rebuke from the lord of believed that virginia carolina and georgia might dothe do alie same Bame he ile found in the case ease st pauls explicit ap of the fugitive slave law of 1850 aud and in the cruel case of passmore williamson Willi amaon he lie believed himself to be enforcing the lie doctrines of the new testament Tes lament Persona personally hy unwilling to hold even a beast of burden in bondage nothing could i induce him to condemn klave holding in those chow con science permitted them to practise it in the abolitionists lie found the chief disturbers disturb ers odthe of tho republic Ile public and lie held now Eri england gland answerable to posterity and to god for all tho tile which either church or state lie ile had on oil uncompromising hostility to what are fire termed yew new england ideas though the kenderest ten derest deres t ti atiee es of it his is life I 1 i fe wie yn a of new nei england ort origin a the new englander individually ally I 1 t 1 Y affect lio lie often said b but ut in it the tile mass masl I 1 judge theau to bo be stark mad 1 think too he lie would allo you arc lire going to wake much of a new englander lie should uld like dr johnsons scotchman ho caught lie inherited the blood of two strong elements of its population t the lie brou trou german c rm an and the scotch with and he united the I 1 ewt at tic I 1 of bolli both in his own person lie had always looked un upon pennsylvania as the guardian ortho of tho feder i al union almost as the guarantor of its safety and ite its perpetuity lie spoke of her aa As the break breakwater water that protect protected eAl tho the slave states from the waves of radicalism om which were threatening to ingulf southern institutions the success of the republican party in 1880 1800 he regarded as n a portent of nf direst evil indeed as a disaster immeasurably sorrowful the excitement in the southern sou abern states over the probability of air lincoln election he lie coid d ered natural their cerious protect rr t t altogether justifiable 11 ho desired the free states to be awakened to the gravity of the tile situation to be thoroughly alarmed aad and to repent of their sing sins against the sou south ill he ile wished it understood from ocean to ocean that the position of the republican party was inconsistent with loyalty to the union and that its permanent succeed would lead to the destruction of the government it was not unnatural with these extreme view views he should le be carried beyond the bounds of prudenc ennd that in his ilia headlong desire to rebuke tho the republican party as enemies of the union he lie should aid iti in M precipitating 11 p a dissolution of the government 1 raiment before the republic cans could enter upon its administration tra tion ho ifo thus became in a large degree responsible for the unsound position itsou and the dangerous teaching of mr buchanan in truth some of the worst doctrines embodied in the presidents evl eva came directly from front an all opinion given by judge black as attorney general and made by mr buchanan a an still more odious and more dangerous by tho the quotation of a pa part rt and not the whole it was soon manifest however bo wever to judge black that lie heam vas playing 1 with fire anti and that while he I 1 le was himself deiron dei rou only of arousing rou mit the country to the dangers of ant r slavery agitation mr buchanana Buch administration was every day effectually aiding the sout heni conspiracy for the destruction of the union this light dawned on judge black suddenly and irresistibly ho ile was peno personally nally with gen case cam all and d when that venerable statesman retired front the th cabinet to preserve his ilia record of loyalty to he lie union joge black real realized izod that ho he was confronted by an air issue which threatened his political could lie ailed as secretary of state to fol fellow a poll policy icy which gen case believed would destroy his own fame gen caad law was waa nearly fo years of age sith lib his public publio career ended his work done long judge black was wai but SO 30 and anti he lie had bes be fore him possibly the rno t valuable and moat most ambitious period of hid life cass could not be sustained in tho the north he lie could not be BUS sus bained in pennsylvania Penn pennsylvania silvania lie ile po poa mod the atra courage to stand firm to the ond end iu in def defiance lanoe of opposition pool won and re regard gardle lew of oble obloquy quy if he could be sure h he w gsg right but he lie NO begun began to doubt wa and doubt led ld him to review with car care the n of mr and to examine ite its inevitable tendencies he lie did it and with courage he ile had bad none servi servi ency oncy in in southern men which had hi juried so many northern da marata until he lie ente entered rIKI tho the cabinet in 1857 he lie had never come into personal per ronal donal nyi with ijen men from frow the states and bis keen ob observation serration could not fail fiall to discern the inferiority to himself of the lour tour sou them members of the cabinet audgo entered upon hu ilia dumiot as secreta secretary iry of f state on the ou it Dee december ember 17 tho the day on oil which ill jhb disunion oti of south carolina the malign influence of mr inka imsano ago fully at work throughout the south its encouragement only three days were ro q quiren aired by the convention at charles town to pat pao pats s like ali ordinance of scow 8 0 buu o nud and foai fl ofir days lays later gov pickens issued a proclamation declaring smith uth carolina si it separate cirill eig free awl uil independent state with the tile right to levy war conclude peace e ace and negotiate trea treaties lieg from f oba alai tl at m judge blacks position toward the southern leaders wad radically changed they were no longer fellow they we were re the enc ane aties nicea of tle IN buu it to which hf hi was devoted they iv against tho the G inina in 1111 int fit to which lie hai taken a oath of BUI and royalty loyalty |