whom we delight to honor.'

Of written laws, and their points and subtleties, Fabens confessed
himself ignorant. Coke and Blackstone were never on his shelves. He
had read a stray leaf from Hooker, and these words were incorporated as
so many notes of divine music in his soul--"No less can be said of Law,
than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice is the harmony of the
world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage; the very least,
as feeling her care; the greatest, as not exempted from her power.
Both angels and men, and creatures of whatsoever condition, though each
in different sort and manner; yet each and all with uniform consent
admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy;"--and this was his
idea of law, and about all he had gathered on law from books.

And as for the responsibilities committed to his trust, he fain would
have refused them, and proposed another candidate for the office; but
knowing the simple principles of justice; having a heart attuned to the
harmony of earth and heaven; having Peace as an angel dwelling in his
soul; knowing and loving what was right and lovely between man and man,
he discharged his duties with distinguished success, and his influence
went far to lift up his people to the light and sphere of spiritual
peace.

He still carried on the labors of his fine farm, with the duties of his
office, and made his own private house the seat of that justice which
once in a long while he was compelled to search out and sustain.

The manner and spirit of his administration were therefore patriarchal,
as those which the poet describes of the venerable Albert, of Wyoming;
and to the present day, traditions are preserved, and incidents related
in that peaceful town, which prove the practical wisdom and eminent
justice of "Old Squire Fabens."

Those early and eager pioneers of new countries, the lawyers, found
their way to Summerfield; that is, two or three unruly members of the
profession, while yet Squire Fabens held the wand of peace. They had
not been long there, however, before they joined Troffater, Adonijah
Nixon, and Simon Bogle, to oppose his administration; and made very
desperate efforts to elect another in his stead.

As for the lawyers, we are not at all surprised by their opposition.
He destroyed their business, and they played as checks and
interruptions of that harmony to which his life was tuned. And as for
the troublesome little bandy Troffater, his ill