HATED, EVEN IN HIS GRAVE.

For presenting that pittance to the destitute daughters of one of the ablest and best men who ever presided over any judicial tribunal, the participators in the meeting were violently assailed by the Radical press, with a bigotry and fanaticism entirely worthy of the darkest era in medieval history.

A marble bust of each chief justice who has passed away has been placed in the supreme court room, save one of Taney. There is even one of Rutledge there, although his nomination was rejected in the senate. In the winter of 1864-65 a bill passed the house of representatives appropriating $10,000 to provide a marble bust of Taney. It was sent to the senate and referred to the committee on the judiciary. The chairman of that committee reported it back favorably, but it was assailed with a malignity scarcely conceivable now that the hates engendered by the war have partially passed away. The dead judge was attacked in his grave, in the most bitter partisan spirit, by Senators Hale, Wade, Wilson and others, who declared that he would go down to history, not as Chief Justice Taney, but as the author and promulgator of the infamous Dred Scott decision, and that the country’s disgrace and infamy should not be perpetuated in marble. Senators Trumbull and Reverdy Johnson in vain attempted to stem the tide of sectional hate and political fanaticism. It was resistless, and the money was not appropriated.

Now, as you enter the main door of the courtroom, on our left is the bust of Jay, and beyond that one of Ellsworth. On the right are Rutledge and Marshall. Let us hope that when the bitterness of the present shall have passed, that Taney’s may be added, and feat when Chase shall be no more, his also may be there.