. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. incalling the attention of his adopted state to the propriety and justiceof constitutional reform. His articles upon this subject were quitenumerous, and were republished and read with interest and profitthroughout the state. The interest thus awakened resulted in a callof a convention, which revised and remodeled the Organic Law ofKentucky, making the principal officers of the state, including the ju-diciary, directly elective by the people; a measure stoutly opposed bya strong m
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. incalling the attention of his adopted state to the propriety and justiceof constitutional reform. His articles upon this subject were quitenumerous, and were republished and read with interest and profitthroughout the state. The interest thus awakened resulted in a callof a convention, which revised and remodeled the Organic Law ofKentucky, making the principal officers of the state, including the ju-diciary, directly elective by the people; a measure stoutly opposed bya strong minority, but which, in its practical operations, has vindicateditself, and fully justified the confidence thus reposed in the only sourceof all legitimate power in this country. Early in the spring of 1849, President Taylor appointed him oneof the judges of the Supreme Court of Minnesota, soon after thatterritory was organized by Congress. He immediately repaired tothis new field of usefulness, and entered upon the responsible du-ties inseparable from such a station in a young and rapidly risingterritory. 21. ?^ag-diy. Capeireil-«^io»*-^ 7^ ^^^^
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