89
71
internating at the same time that
'his Excellency has failed to prevent reference to the Supreme Government
the matters in difference.
fail
His Excellency cannot perceive that this decision places
me at a disadvantage with the Chief Justice.
I cannot institute the enquiries
which his Excellency declines to
institute; and the Chief Justice will
not. My justification is his impeachment; and those whom
I moved to the
right to
some
former
would have
refuse to
seeking to invoke them in the latter.
It is easy for the Chief Justice to frame broadly the question of "drunk or sober?"
and quite as
easy, especially from
habit
of conviviality,
men of a certain
class, whom I shall not name, to obtain
an issue so
as to secure his acquittal of the charge upon an issue so framed But it is not
so easy for me to get my
questions answered; 'did the Chief Justice misconduct himself before ladies at the Supreme table, in the presence
of all the heads of departments, and upon an
occasion
of high official ceremony?'; if so, 'what were the particular instances of misconduct? and were they such
as
the absence of the excuse of inebriety would aggravate?' and 'were the especial instances, given