Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

We are rejoiced to find that the president, in making nominations to the bench of the supreme court of the United States, has found it necessary to make a prodigious ascent upon the scale of competency and decency from the points at which his first efforts centered. Alexander Wolcott--John Q. Adams--Magnum intervallum! Mr. Adams it is true, has, upon some occasions, shown himself excessively perverse and wrong-headed upon certain political topicks; still he is a man of distinguished science; an able civilian; a man of unexceptionable, and as we believe, exemplary morals; a man with whom gentlemen can associate without either disgust or contamination. Have we not reason, then greatly to rejoice when we compare the appointment of this gentleman with what we had reason, a fortnight ago, to expect and to dread?--U. S. Gaz.