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sixty-eight. He was all his life a conscien upon this occasion that he uttered the mem tious and consistent Republican, and in the orable words : " My conscience is my guide; old days of his party's power in this State he my judgment and patriotism approve, and was a leading spirit. Financially, Judge though I am scorned and hissed, I am will Ludeling was more than successful, and was ing to abide the arbitrament of time and at one time president of the Vicksburg, events as to the correctness of my course. Shreveport, and Pacific Railroad. The act I denounce as one of mad folly, and Mr. Justice James G. Taliaferro was a of which, if my judgment errs not, every Virginian, but came to Louisiana with his signer of that paper will come to be ashamed;

father when quite a and for one, it shall youth, and settled in not herald my name the Ouachita country. to the future infamy He was educated at which I predict will Lexington, Kentucky. be its fate." Judge Taliaferro in Judge Taliaferro his day was one of the died in 1876, at the age most excellent citizens of seventy-eight years. of the State; was a He was succeeded by first-rate scholar in the the Hon. John Edward classics, science, and £ Leonard; and, Mr. history; was most ur Justice Wyly's term bane, refined, and sin of office having ex gularly patriotic in pired, Mr. John E. temperament, — his King was appointed favorite motto (from to succeed him, the former acting from Cicero) being, " DeNov. 6, 1876, and the fendi rempublicam julatter only on Jan. 9, venis; non diseram 1877. The last regu senex." When the troubles between the lar sitting of that court States culminated into was on Dec. 23, 1876. Opinions were read on revolution, he was sent as a member of the Jan. 9, 1877, but no EDWARD BERMUDEZ minutes were kept of convention of that the doings of that sit year, which seceded the State of Louisiana from the Union. It ting. There were present Chief-Justice Lude was in that convention the Roman firmness ling, and Justices Leonard and King, Justice Morgan being absent, and Justice Howell and more than Roman integrity of his char acter shone so conspicuously. Devoted to the having declined to serve. There were then two claimants for the Gov Constitution and the union of the States, he ernorship at the general election in 1876, — calmly, steadily, and fearlessly opposed seces Governor Nicholls, who is the present Exec sion, nobly breasting and combating the un reasoning fury of the popular will. And utive of the State; and Mr. Packard, who was when at last the ordinance of secession was some years ago United States Consul-Genadopted by an almost unanimous vote, he drew eral at Liverpool. On Jan. 8, 1877, Gov up his protest against the act, and asked to ernor Nicholls appointed five justices, who were confirmed by the Senate then sitting, have it spread upon the journal of the con vention. This was denied him. It was which recognized his authority. Packard