strong.] '-'"* [Jan. 5, 



judgment upon the correctness of his conclusions. Of 

 the argument itself, however, I may speak. It was thor- 

 oughly original, and it was constructed with a force 

 and elegance that won admiration, even where it did 

 not command assent. It is contained in three pamph- 

 lets published successively in 1862, and 1863. They 

 will never cease to be regarded as models of acute 

 reasoning applied to constitutional law. 



To such labors and employments Mr. Binney devoted 

 thelater years of his life. They were happy years, crown- 

 ed with habitual cheerfulness, though not unmingled with 

 sorrow. In 1865 Mrs, Binney, his companion through 

 all his early struggles at the bar, and through the period 

 of his highest success, was removed by death. And in 

 1870 he suffered another severe affliction in the death of 

 his oldest son, Horace Binney, Jr. That son was himself 

 pre-eminent in mental and moral culture, in soundness 

 of judgment, in refinement of taste, in goodness of 

 heart, in true piety, and in all that adorns and ennobles 

 human nature. The father and the son were com- 

 panions to each other, kindred in spirit as well as in 

 blood. Their mutual confidence was perfect, and con- 

 sequently their intercourse with each other was a source 

 of intense happiness to both. This was but a natural 

 result of the attention the father had given to the 

 son's training. During the four years the latter was 

 in college, the closest intimacy was kept up between 

 them by a weekly, and at times, a semi-weekly 

 correspondence, in which the father encouraged the 



