. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. ive both pleasure and instruction fromhis society. With the quiet, easy manner of a gentleman, at home in any companyand welcome in all; with that true politeness which, appearing to recog-nise no difference in men, extends the same dignified courtesy to thehumblest and poorest as to the highest and most influential; with thatmino-led pride and delicacy of character which will flatter the vanity andwound the feelings of no one ; plain, unostentatious, and unpretending, itis diffic
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. ive both pleasure and instruction fromhis society. With the quiet, easy manner of a gentleman, at home in any companyand welcome in all; with that true politeness which, appearing to recog-nise no difference in men, extends the same dignified courtesy to thehumblest and poorest as to the highest and most influential; with thatmino-led pride and delicacy of character which will flatter the vanity andwound the feelings of no one ; plain, unostentatious, and unpretending, itis difficult to know without admiring him, and he is believed to be with-out a personal enemy. In his intercourse with his fellow men, his frankand cordial address makes for him hosts of friends. His attention to themultiplied details of his office, and his comprehensive and masterly man-agement of its extended and extending operations, are felt and acknow-ledged in all parts of the country. The portrait of Judge Campbell which acompanies this sketch, doesample justice to his fine, expressive, and classic CALEB CUSHrNG, OF MASSACHUSETTS. 243 CALEB GUSHING, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, Is well known tbroughout the United States as a distinguished politicianand eminent scholar. Mr. Gushing was born in Salisbury, Essex County,Massachusetts, in January, 1800, and consequently is now in his fifty-fourth year. His father, belonging to one of the most respectable oldfamilies of Massachusetts, was extensively engaged in the shipping busi-ness, by which he acquired a handsome fortune. Caleb Gushing enteredHarvard College when very young, and graduated in the eighteenth yearof his age. He commenced the study of the law at Cambridge, andwas appointed tutor of mathematics and natural philosophy in HarvardCollege, which place he held for two years, and then removed to New-buryport, to engage in the practice of law. In his profession he wasvery successful, and acquired the rep
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