strong.] J^ [.Tan. 6, 



edged leadership. He divided the business of the 

 courts with the eminent men who, when he came to 

 the bar, held all that was worth holding. How great 

 his share became, and how completely he won the 

 confidence of the business community, as well as that 

 of his professional brethren, may, in some measure be 

 discovered by an examination of the reported decis- 

 ions of the Supreme Court of the State, of the Supreme 

 Court of the United States, and of the Circuit Court of 

 the United States for this district. His work appears 

 in Binney's reports, in those of Sergeant and Rawle, 

 Rawle, Penrose and Watts, William Rawle, in Wash- 

 ington's Circuit Court reports, and in those of Cranch, 

 Wheaton, and Howard. His engagements in the local 

 courts, and in his office were correspondingly large. 



He was favored by the privilege of conducting most 

 of his cases, and making most of his arguments in the 

 Supreme Court of the State before a Chief Justice who 

 presided there more than twenty years while he was 

 in full practice, and for whose abilities and personal 

 character he had unbounded veneration, and even 

 affectionate regard. He knew also that he in turn 

 enjoyed the fullest confidence of that most excellent 

 magistrate. The advantage of such relations between 

 an advocate and the court he addresses can hardly be 

 over-estimated. In the Federal Circuit Court for this 

 district, where Judge Washington presided, about thirty 

 years, and in the Supreme Court of the United States 

 under Chief Justice Marshall, he enjoyed similar ad- 

 vantages. 



