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position that knew no abatement, he continued to live in 

 the midst of his books and his thoughts, the deHght of 

 his family, and the charm of all those who enjoyed in- 

 tercourse with him until the 12th day of August 1875, 

 when he peacefully passed from this life into a world 

 where his splendid intellectual powers will forever ex- 

 pand, and where his moral excellence will never cease 

 to grow. 



His death occurred forty years after the age when 

 most men are at the zenith of their reputation ; forty 

 years after he had substantially withdrawn from public 

 view and from active participation in all matters that 

 attract general notice, and at the end of a period when 

 public recollection of most lawyers has faded Into in- 

 distinctness, yet it would be difficult to mention a 

 death that caused a sensation more wide spread and 

 profound than his. Not alone in this city, or in this 

 state was it felt that a great luminary had been extin- 

 guished, but the legal profession of the whole country 

 acknowledged the bereavement, and many unprofes- 

 sional hastened to declare their loss. 



I have thus o-iven an outline of the life and labors of 

 this remarkable man. In looking over it I see there is 

 much that ought to be filled in, and some things that 

 deserve particular notice. 



He was a most accomplished lawyer. This, per- 

 haps, might have been expected from his mental en- 

 dowments, and from the habits of study that he ac- 

 quired in early life. But he surpassed expectation. I 



