CHAPTER IX

THE SUPREME CONSERVATIVE If a judge becomes odious to the people, let him be removed. (William Branch Giles.) Our wisest friends look with gloom to the future. (Joseph Story.) I have always thought, from my earliest youth till now, that the greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary. (Marshall.) "I was in a very great crowd the other evening at M^{rs} Adams' drawing room, but I see very…