56 LIFE OF 



attachments, the same solidity in their friendships^ 

 Alike modest and diffident, each admired in the other 

 those virtues, which in himself be considered as of 

 ordinary value. The hearts of those two excellent 

 men were cast in the same mould, and a true picture 

 of the one is a faithful delineation of the other. 



Judge Tilghman was born with warm passions; 

 but he had learned early to subdue them ; the suc- 

 cessful efforts which he made, joined to his excessive 

 modesty and diffidence, gave to his first appearance 

 an air of coldness and reserve, which might be mista- 

 ken for pride or a want of the kinder feelings : but 

 this soon disappeared on a nearer acquaintance : yet 

 he preserved always in his person and manners that 

 proper dignity which checks undue familiarity, while 

 it puts no obstacle to decent hilarity, or to the warmest 

 effusion of confidence and friendship among those 

 who know how to respect themselves and each other. 



The genuine warmth of his heart found its noblest 

 channel in acts of charity and benevolence. His ac- 

 counts show more than seventeen thousand dolhirs, 

 expended by him in a few years, in charitable dona- 

 tions, and accommodations of mere kindness. His 

 contributions to objects of public utility, form a large 

 item in the list of his expenses. Yet he was not ricli; 

 the property lie left behiLid him is far from considera- 

 ble; but his prudent economy, and the great order 

 and method with which he managed his private affairs, 

 enabled him to live as became his station, and to give 



