Stronu;.] OZi [jan. 5, 



grown up between the Judge and the lawyer mutual 

 regard, and even affectionate admiration. These feel- 

 ings and sentiments found unrestrained expression in 

 the sketch, and therein also, he delineated, with his 

 wonted acuteness, the qualities which make up a per- 

 fect nisi prius judge, nowhere else better, if as well, 

 described. 



In the same year (1858) he published those exquis- 

 ite descriptions of three leaders of the old bar of Phil- 

 adelphia, which are still read in this community with in- 

 tense interest, though the men described belonged to 

 a generation long gone past. The freedom of the 

 writer from all envy or jealousy ; the generous appre- 

 ciation and acknowledgment of true and varied ex- 

 cellence ; the searching analysis of intellect and charac- 

 ter, and the graceful presentation of each subjects indi- 

 viduality which the descriptions exhibit, have compelled 

 admiration alike in this country and in England where 

 they were reviewed by Sir John Coleridge, with ex- 

 pressions of warm admiration alike of the sketches, 

 and of the author. 



In 1858, also, he gave to the press a more extended 

 discussion, entitled '• An inquiry into the formation of 

 Washington's farewell address," which is not only curi- 

 ous and interesting, but strikingly illustrative of the 

 •character of his mind, and of his habits of thorough in- 

 vestigation, and of reasoning. It is mainly a treatment 

 of evidence, coupled with a description of conflicting 

 probabilities. From it one who never knew him in the 



