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Show THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP. The telegrams inform us that President Presi-dent Grant tendered the Ch ief-Justice- Eoscoo Conkling, of Xew York, and that Mr. Conkling ha? accepted it. There arc not lacking people who will contend that this appointment is a much heavier calamity than the Financial Crash of the past week, considering that while the one is but ft temporary disarrangement of finan- ccs, the other places in the most im portant office in the country a man who has been the obsequious servant of tho present Executive of the nation. na-tion. It was only a few days ago that the Xew York Herald took President Grant roundly to task for not nominating nomin-ating a Chief Justice, and pointed out wherein he might signalize his second term by disregarding polities in the selection of a lawyer of tho greatest eminence for so exalted a life position. Yet, when the matter is fully and fairly considered, without partizan bias or prejudice, few will be able to say that political considerations have not governed the selection. As President Pres-ident Grant appears to hold the theory that the Supreme Court of a Territory is but ft portion of the Governor's -staff, it nmy be that he considers the Supreme Court of the United States a portion of the President's staff, and the Chief Justico as ft kind of superior aid-dc-camp. This view will he pro- i bably strengthened by the knowledge ! of Mr. Conkling's past readiness to do the will of General Grant. Yet there is another aspect of this? subject which claims consideration, lioscoc Conkling is a young man, being be-ing only forty-four on the 30th of October this year; he is high-spirited and ambitious; he is the undoubted possessor of ability of a very superior ' oiiler; and ho is a lawyer of no mean rank. Viewing these facts, it is more than probable that when elevated to 4 the highest judicial seat in the country coun-try he may soar above politics and partisan cvmsi derations, and set to work to make himself a record as brilliant judicially as he certainly has done Con gross ionaily. He was elected :o four Congresses as a representative representa-tive the thirty-sixth, thirty -seventh, Ihirty-ninthand fortieth ;and Li-t winter win-ter was elected for the second time to the United States Senate. His has been a prominent, honorable career as a legislator, and it now remains to be seen whether he will not become - .is honor.kbly non-partisan judicially ;te he has boon strongly partisan io- - liticaJly. .U Chief Justice of the United States, Kcbooc Conkling will bo called upon, with his colleagues ou the Supreme Su-preme bc::ch, tc decide some ot the most important questions that have ever been presented to that tribunal. The encroach m cuts oi the legislative and executive departments of Government upon the rights reserved ; by the Constitution to the people and the several States, are so many and so glaring that the question must come up for decision, judicially, as to how far these rights' extend. And while Mr. Conkling, by political education, proclivities, and associations, may bo in favor of ft "strong centralized government go-vernment ;"lt has to be seen whet'iiU", the occupant of the Chief Jn.-tu-v's chair, he will sustain usuriat:ons or maintain the supremacy of the Constitution Con-stitution in the spirit of, and as hand-id hand-id down by, the Fathers of the lie-public. lie-public. This and other qiu.-ti-.-u at l-suc will have to be deahd in s'ine maun- r in a Very lt.w year-, and ujn the deeL-iuli given may h:ng'' the Jate uf the country. |