Now,  it  never  had  been  known  in  this  State,  I  believe  it  never
will  be  known,  that  a  judge  serving  a  term  of  fourteen  years,  retired
into  private  life,  and  after  an  interval  was  re-elected  for  another


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fourteen  years.  The  perpetual,  universal  policy  in  this  State  was
either  when  a  judge's  term  was  ended,  to  let  him  depart  into  private
life,  or,  if  his  services  were  held  so  valuable  that  he  must  be  con-
tinued in  the  service  of  the  State,  to  re-elect  him  immediately,  so
that  his  one  term  should  join  right  on  upon  the  heels  of  that  which
preceded,  and,  therefore,  in  the  only  way  in  which  this  would
apply,  you  would  find  a  judge  who  had  served  fourteen  years  or
more  in  the  service  of  the  State  as  an  acceptable  judge,  and  who
had  reached  the  age  of  seventy,  and  was  thereby  to  be  retired.  Mr.
Chairman,  is  there  any  doubt,  has  anybody  suggested  a  doubt,  as  to
what  that  means?  Nobody.  The  gentleman  from  Essex  (Mr.
