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Excerpt from Speech of Judge Chambers, on the Judicial Tenure, in the Maryland Convention, April, 1851
Judge Chambers, after alluding to various statements made by Mr. Bowie, and several other gentlemen, in reference to the supposed stale of public opinion on the subject of the Judiciary, in different parts of the Slate, proceeded to say: -
Mr. President: - My solo purpose, in reviewing (hose allegations, is to show, that the argument of the important question, upon which we are called to act, should be based upon other grounds than such statements of opinion - that they, in fact, prove nothing. The gentleman, indeed, after alluding to them, admits this; and properly enough says, we ought to give tone to popular sentiment. We are here, not as the mere creatures of a particular party or class of men, to be driven against our convictions, by a supposed current of public sentiment running, in this direction, or in that. We are placed here, to perform high and solemn duties - duties which are to affect the interests, the security, the well-being of society, in all respects, and for all time. In discharging these duties, the most sacred obligations demand, that we exercise our grave and deliberate judgments. The responsibility we owe to the community cannot be met by adopting a course approved by others; if it be not commended to our own judgments, by a conviction of its propriety.
My object then, in alluding to the remarks, I have noticed, is to express my humble opinion, that such considerations ought not to disturb the operation of our minds, in coming to conclusions, upon this subject. There are, in my view, far higher, greater, and more important considerations. According to my judgment, there has not been, there is not, nor will there be, any question before this body, which can in any degree, be compared with this, in the magnitude, in the extent, in the duration of its results and consequences, for good or for evil.
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