1876.] *^* [Strong. 



know of no language which so aptly describes him as 

 that which he applied to Mr. Edward Tilghman, the 

 friend of his youth : " He was an advocate of great 

 power ; a master of every question in his causes ; a 

 wary tactician in the management of them ; highly ac- 

 complished in language ; a faultless logician ; a man of 

 the purest integrity and the brightest honor ; fluent 

 without the least volubility ; concise to a degree that 

 left every one's patience and attention unimpaired, and 

 perspicuous to almost the lowest order of understand- 

 inof, while he was dealinof with almost the hio-hest 

 topics." 



He had great advantages, none of which were neg- 

 lected. Besides the opportunities his collegiate course 

 afforded him, and which he improved to the uttermost, 

 besides the art and habit of study he early acquired, he 

 had examples of excellence before him which it was not 

 in his nature to disregard. He was trained to be a legal 

 tactician by his constant attendance in the courts before 

 he was called to assume the management of causes. He 

 thought logically and spoke and wrote the purest of 

 Eno-lish before he came to the bar. He had a fine com- 

 manding person, an uncommonly handsome face, a dig- 

 nified and graceful manner of address, and a most 

 melodious voice, perfectly under his control, and mod- 

 ulated with unusual skill. He was constitutionally an 

 earnest man, yet while earnest, he had a calm self-pos- 

 session, the fruit of consciousness that he fully under- 

 stood his subject, and of confidence that he could make 



