respectable yeoman
stock. And he has honored his heredity by his own intellectual
and moral excellence. Although my personal intimacy with
him has never been close enough to enable me to describe the
footsteps of his upward career with graphical exactness, or
to enrich my memory with interesting anecdotes, I can bear
witness in a general way to his good characteristics, especially
in his youth while he was nearest under my observation, and
to some extent those of his mature years. He was an industrious,
affectionate, and dutiful son from childhood to maturity.
He evinced early intelligence, rationality and moral principle
of a superior type, availing himself by close application
of every opportunity for acquiring useful knowledge, and did
so, as the sequel proved, successfully. He was always an
independent, acute and logical thinker on a wide range of
subjects, as well outside of his professional life as inside.
But his constitution practically confined his ambition and
pursuits to the state of the world's affairs as manageable
for the time being, rather than to expending his energies
for the realization of theories greatly in advance of current
public opinion. In this respect he differed from his friend
who writes this graphic contribution; whom nevertheless he
always respected. But he was by no means a fossil conservative
lagging in the rear of progress. He marched just as far forward
in the column as he was sure it could command the ground.
Thus he espoused the anti-slavery movement in politics in
its germinal stage, and became one of the most sagacious and
efficient organizers of the Republican Party in his native
State. Of this, however, others are better qualified to treat
than this friend. The same is true of his pecuniary and
financial achievements; also of his legal, judicial and official
attainments. Let abler pens in those departments eulogise
him. Whatever this writer saw of him in the judicial chair
or legal forum was unexceptionably creditable to him.

On the great themes of theology his conceptions and beliefs
accorded mainly with those of the writer. They were sublimely
liberal and regenerative, excluding all notions of the divine
attributes and government in the least degree derogatory to
the character of God as the Supreme, All-Perfect Father of
the Universe.

Hoping that his numerous personal friends in the various
relations of life will do greater justice and honor to his
memory th