The magazine of American history with notes and queries . voted for his confirmation and notone against him. The new chief justice took the oath of office on the 4thof March, 1874, and immediately entered upon his work. Without a daysexperience on the bench he came to preside over the highest tribunal onearth, and met all its demands acceptably. He represented, says one emi-nent lawyer, the dignity and the public decorum that should exist in suchcourts, and at the same time exercised every kind courtesy and every gen-erous discretion toward the bar and his associates. He presided, saysMelville
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . voted for his confirmation and notone against him. The new chief justice took the oath of office on the 4thof March, 1874, and immediately entered upon his work. Without a daysexperience on the bench he came to preside over the highest tribunal onearth, and met all its demands acceptably. He represented, says one emi-nent lawyer, the dignity and the public decorum that should exist in suchcourts, and at the same time exercised every kind courtesy and every gen-erous discretion toward the bar and his associates. He presided, saysMelville W. Fuller, with dignity, but with winning courtesy, and thoughhe pushed the business in hand with rapidity, he did this with a grace thateluded all offense. He exhibited no lack of will power whenever the exer-cise of it was necessary, but unassuming gentleness and the highest man-hood without pretense, were uniformly in the ascendant. He was apublic surprise in his promotion, and a public benefactor in the discharge CHIEF JUSTICE MORRISON REMICK WAITE. THE HOME OF CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE, IN WASHINGTON. 4 CHIEF JUSTICE MORRISON REMICK WAITE of his duties. He came to the front at a difficult period in the history ofthe court, when questions were before it of the widest importance tohuman rights, quite as knotty and profound and much greater in varietythan those which wrorried his illustrious predecessors. He was no respecterof persons and had no favorites among lawyers. His just conception ofour novel and complex theory of government added immensely to itsstrength in times of great excitement and peril. Few of us appreciate asit deserves the enduring work the Supreme Court performed in the recon-struction period. It aimed to eliminate old issues by settling them. Itwas the court that saved the country, we are told with emphasis, and notthe army or the President. It should be remembered in this connectionthat there is no question of law, equity, admiralty, or patents that may notco
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