Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1882 — JUDGE BLATCHFORD. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE BLATCHFORD.

The President Nominate* Him for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The President sent to the Senate, on the 18th inst, the name of Judge Samuel Blatchfard, of New York, to fill the vacancy on the Supreme bench oreated by the retirement of Justice Hunt, and which had been successively declined by Messrs. Conkling and Edmunds. Judge Blatohford was formerly a law partner of the late Wm. H. Seward, at Auburn, was appointed by President Lincoln to be United States District Judge of New York, and was subsequently promoted to be United States Circuit Judge, which position he now occupies. He' has been on the bench a number of years and is 65 years old. tSONKLINO’B AND EDMUNDS’ LETTERS OF DECLINATION. The following letters in reference to the vacant Associate Justiceship of the United States Supreme Court have been made public : 329 Nassau Street, N. Y., March A Mb. President : Absence prevented a prompt acknowledgment of your two esteemed letters which were found here awaiting my return from Utica. The high and unexpected honor you proffer by selecting me as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is greatly valued. It will ever be a matter of pnde and satisfaction that you and the Senate have deemed me fit for so great and exalted a trust. But for a reason you would not fail to appreciate I am constrained to decline. Although urgent demands on my time Just now prevent my aooepting your oordial invitation to pass a few days with you in Washington, let me hold this as a pleasure deferred, but not lost. I have the honor to be, sincerely, your obedient servant, Roooox Conklino. His Excellency the President. EDMUNDS’ FIRST DECLINATION. Washington, D. C., March 6, 1882. Me. President : I have reoeived through the secretary of State your very flattering offer of appointment as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. I thank you sincerely for this highly-valued proof of your good opinion, but I feel, for reasons, that I ought not to accept. I shall cherish this mark of your kindness and good opinion—though I did not need this proof of it—as one of the most pleasant of my life, I am, sir, very faithfully yours. George F. Edmunds. SECOND DECLINATION. 1411 Massachusetts Avenue, March 1L Mr. President : I sm deeply touched at-the manifest consideration yon have shown me in connection with the Associate Justiceship, but further reflection has not enabled me to change the views I expressed to Mr. Frelinghnysen. With a sincere hope that yon have experienced no embarrassment from the delay yonr kind* ness has caused, I sm faithfully yours, Geo. F. Edmund* JUDGE BLATOHFORD ACCEPTS. Judge Blstchford has formally accepted the nomination as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Thebe is a brand of New Jersey whisky called “ stone fence.” A man who gets drunk on it doesn’t stagger nor fall, but stands up and goes to sleep, and ft thunder storm can’t Wftke him up.