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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