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"ivill go down vritli applause to posterity, be little' 

 thought what a solid monument he was erecting to his 

 own fame, and the happiness of his country. 



Mis law arguments, were remarkable for the dis- 

 tinctness with which ha presented his case, and for 

 the perspicuity and accuracy with which his legal re- 

 ferences were made to sustain it. He was concise, 

 simple, occasionally nervous, and uniformly faithful 

 to the Court, as he was to the client. But the force 

 of his intellect resided in his judgment ; and even 

 higher faculties than his as an advocate, would have 

 been thrown comparatively into the shade, by the 

 more striking light which surrounded his path as a 

 judge. 



An intimate friend of the Cnief Justice has said 

 that in all their intercourse, he never knew him allude 

 to the circumstance of having been a judge of the 

 federal court. There was doubtless a painful recol- 

 lection connected with it. It is known that his opin- 

 ion was against the validity of the repealing law; for 

 in a very able protest, published by Judge Bassett, 

 another member of the same court, in which the 

 breach of the constitution was strenuously asserted, 

 he remarks, " If any difference between me and my 

 associates in office exists, it relates merely to the point 

 of time for expressing our sentiments. I can confi- 

 dently assert, that, on deliberation, they coincide 

 with me in other respects.'' 



It vv'as reserved forjudge Tilghman, with the aid of 

 able and enlightened colleagues, to carry into effect the 



