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him, and the more rapidly as the mental labor and anxiety were ac- 

 celerating the work of destruction. As the body yielded to the pres- 

 sure, the resolved mind, by a more than natural energy, essayed to 

 supply the loss of physical strength. The edges of the diamond 

 were but the faster cutting away its inferior setting. He fell pros- 

 trate in insensibility, and the consecjuent constrained rest, in the 

 course of months, wrought partial recovery. At the commencement 

 of the last autumn's business he resumed his judicial functions, with 

 his wonted clearness of mind and ceaseless industry. The energetic 

 mind seemed then unconscious how much it was transcending the 

 sustaining capacity of the impaired body. Again he fell, but now 

 to rise no more. On his way towards his judicial seat, though medi- 

 cally advised, and by one of his family affectionately entreated, to 

 remain at home, he was again stricken, carried home, and within a 

 few days expired. The frailer body utterly succumbed to the indom- 

 itable will. He died January 28d, A. D. 1866. This may now be 

 added to the many proofs of the mind's predominating power over 

 the body; to the evidence that one is immortal, the other mortal, as 

 they part in death. We may add too his to the countless cases of 

 deaths hastened by excess of labor, or trouble, or sorrow. All-con- 

 quering labor at last conquers the laborer, and "by sorrow of the 

 heart the spirit is broken." 



The writer asks to be pardoned for thus dwelling upon the sad 

 surroundings of the last years of the life of our fellow-member and 

 friend ; sad from two causes only, in which the account and accoun- 

 tability are solely between him, as a public servant sacrificed, and 

 that public of which we all are part; for in all else, except more am- 

 ple fortune, he possessed all that could make a good man happy: for 

 he was happy in the respect and regard of all who knew him; happy 

 in his own good character and conscious rectitude ; happy in the love 

 of friends, family and home; happy in the enjoyment of his religious 

 faith and worship, in the love of his God and trust in his Saviour's 

 power atid will to save. He was only not happy in that he was op- 

 pressed by inordinate public burdens; that he was inadequately com- 

 pensated, and foresaw how soon he must be separated from those he 

 most loved, leaving them to mourn his loss, without provision made 

 for their accustomed comforts and enjoyments. Saddest thought is 

 this that can rend the loving parental bosom, when looking narrowly 

 upon the final separation. How little did the public know, as they 

 looked upon the pale, but calm, self-possessed Judge, as he sat daily 

 before them, on the judicial seat, what sorrow, what grief, what 

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