1866. J 221 [Price. 



salary. It is only Judges who are never compensated for high qual- 

 ities, generous labors, and exalted teachings; while nieuibers of the 

 bar, and all others who exert high intellectual and moral qualities, in 

 every calling of life, receive the measure of reward as it flows in gen- 

 erous and ever swelling streams. Let the Legislature, if they please, 

 fix the Judge's salary at but the just equivalent of the mere business 

 requirements of duty, which performed, may do little to advance the 

 science of the law or to elevate the tone of public morality ; yet will 

 they do better than they have ever done. Do that by but the rule 

 that squares with the justice measured to other labor and service, ac- 

 cording to skill and the cost of educational preparation, and that jus- 

 tice must support the Judge and his family reputably while he lives, 

 and leave something to support that family when the Judge is dead. 

 That measure of justice has not been reached ; and it is no excuse to 

 us, the public, that the Judges have been generously willing to take 

 office and meet the sacrifice. Though they have even done so by the 

 promptings of an ambition for distinction, it is not our right to take 

 advantage of the generous or even ambitious aspiration. V^e are yet 

 wrong-doers and oppressors; and we shall never escape this just im- 

 peachment, until we make the salaries cover all the proper expenses 

 of the Judge's reputable living, for each year, and add so much 

 thereto as will, at the end of the judicial life, secure a capital, whose 

 interest will meet the moderate wants of the family, when by death 

 bereft of their head and support, they are left pensionless in the world. 

 The judicial office should not be so poorly paid that the rich only can 

 prudently accept it. 



It has been the proverb of ages that Republics are ungrateful. It 

 has been the glory of our nation in this most eventful time, to wipe out 

 that reproach, by an exhibition of sacrifices and philanthropy, such 

 as the world had never known, and could not have imagined. All 

 classes of persons, if we had classes, became fused into a universal 

 brotherhood and sisterhood of charity, for the relief and comfort of 

 the defenders of our Government. From men, women and children 

 money flowed as water from numberless rills of mountains and hills, 

 and the swelling streams dispensed countless beneficences. If we 

 had an aristocracy it was melted down by a common sympathy and 

 patriotism; exclusiveness forgot its cold reserve; selfishness ceased to 

 be saving; and wealth and personal service became a common offer- 

 ing to our beloved country in peril. Yet are we in one thing still 

 ungrateful ; and worse, for we are unjust. We have public servants 

 set aside to a special service, whom we exclude from all other oppor- 



