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While our passenger list was small, we were rcmarlvably favored 

 in respect to the general good character of all, and the excep- 

 tionally liigli character of some of our passengers. Among them 

 were included the venerable ex-Chief Justice of Connecticut, the 

 Honorable Origen S. Seymour, of Litchfield, and his wife; the 

 Honorable George C. Woodruif, a veteran of the bar of Litch- 

 field county, for legal ability probably second to no lawyer in 

 our State, and formerly a member of Congress, and his wife; 

 Mrs. Sanford, the widow of the late Judge Sanford, formerly of 

 the Connecticut Supreme Court, and several members of her 

 family, and an old sea captain who had spent the greater part of 

 some forty years upon tlie ocean. We never looked upon the 

 Litchfield delegation without ff^elinga strong sentiment of state 

 pride, and personal veneration and admiration. What a grand 

 stock! What a place is old Litchfield for mental, moral and phy- 

 sical development! At the ripe ago of seventy-six, with what an 

 elastic step our old judicial chieftain trod the steamer's deck! 

 How keen his intellect! How bright and sparkling his soul-lit 

 eye! How youthful, ever green and sunny his spirits! The great 

 leader of judicial reform, there was not a fossil or a barnacle 

 about him. But, towering high and strong above all, was his 

 tender devotion, his unremitting care and watchfulness, his de- 

 voted and unflagging affection and love for his aged and sea sick 

 wife, the mother of his stalwart and able sons! Turning from 

 him to the hale, hearty, rugged Woodruff, full of the learned 

 lore of the law, we inwardly exclaimed that the dream of the past 

 is a veritable fact — there is a " fountain of perpetual youth," and 

 it bubbles up on the top of Litchfield hill, and these are they 

 who have drank of its wonderful waters. May their shadows 

 never grow less, nor their blood cease to circulate in the veins 

 and arteries of the men of the future! 



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