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of those who made it, for Judge Cardozo is a very dif- 

 ferent man from Judge Barnard. Courteous but inflex- 

 ible, subtle, clear-headed, and unscrupulous, this magis- 

 trate conceals the iron hand beneath the silken glove. 

 Equally versed in the laws of New York and in the 

 mysteries of Tammany, he had earned his place by a 

 partisan decision on the excise law, and was nominated 

 for the bench by Mr. Fernando Wood, in a few remarks 

 concluding as follows : * Judges were often called on to 

 decide on political questions, and he was sorry to say 

 the majority of them decided according to their political 

 bias. It was therefore absolutely necessary to look to 

 their candidate's political principles. He would nomi- 

 nate, as a fit man for the office of Judge of the Supreme 

 Court, Albert Cardozo.' Nominated as a partisan, a 

 partisan Cardozo has always been, when the occasion 

 demanded. Such was the new and far more formidable 

 champion who now Confronted Sutherland, in place of 

 the vulgar Barnard. His first order in the matter to 

 show cause why the order of his brother judge should 

 not be set aside was not returnable until the 30th, 

 and in the intervening five days many events were to 

 happen. 



" Immediately after the settlement by Judge Suther- 

 land of the order appointing Judge Da vies receiver, 

 that gentleman had proceeded to take possession of his 

 trust. Upon arriving at the Erie building, he found it 

 converted into a fortress, with a sentry patrolling be- 

 hind the bolts and bars, to whom was confided the duty 

 of scrutinizing all comers, and of admitting none but 

 the faithful allies of the garrison. It so happened that 

 Mr. Davies, himself unknown to the custodian, was 

 accompanied by Mr. Eaton, the former attorney of the 



