. Life and public services of Edwin M. Stanton . hereached the age of thirty years. When he moved to Pitts-burg he at once took his place with the ablest of our is no small compliment to his memory to say that he addedfresh honors to the bar that could point to its illustrious deadand pronounce the names of Woods, Ross, Baldwin, Semple,Biddle, Fetterman, and Burke, and, among the then greatliving minds, to Wilkins, Fernand, Shaler, Loomis, Metcalf,and their associates. After ten years of full practice here,the rare ability, learning, and success of which may be tracedin contemporary rep
. Life and public services of Edwin M. Stanton . hereached the age of thirty years. When he moved to Pitts-burg he at once took his place with the ablest of our is no small compliment to his memory to say that he addedfresh honors to the bar that could point to its illustrious deadand pronounce the names of Woods, Ross, Baldwin, Semple,Biddle, Fetterman, and Burke, and, among the then greatliving minds, to Wilkins, Fernand, Shaler, Loomis, Metcalf,and their associates. After ten years of full practice here,the rare ability, learning, and success of which may be tracedin contemporary reports, he removed to Washington, soon toenter upon that public career which made his name famouswherever civilization had a foothold, and patriotism, loyalty,and courage had admirers. Before saying a single wordfurther of Mr. Stanton, I may say that if by any human pos-sibilities his valuable public services to this nation could beexpunged from its history; if he had contributed nothingmore than the results of his individual labor as an example. ^ o-rfy CAREER AT PITTSBURG 35 to his countrymen, as an example to the young men of thecountry, still his fame would have been ample and secure. Of Mr. Stantons great capacity for work Mr. Mar-shall said: — I have known men more richly endowed with natural gifts ;I have known more learned men, more eloquent men, morepersuasive men ; but I have never met another man who wascapable of such prodigious, continuous, and incessant mentallabor. I may be paidoned in referring to an instance ofthis power. I think it was in the winter of 1854. I hadoccasion to meet him in regard to a case which had been fixedon a Saturday for trial on the succeeding Monday two cause involved questions of church polity, rules of churchdiscipline, and considerable real estate was dependent uponthe result of the issue. It was a quarrel, a trouble amongthe saints. It was a novel and rare case in the law, intricateand complex in its facts. Mr. Stanton had n
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