. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. o. w La-wyers 439 tive in the thirty-sixth Congress by twelve hundred majorityover so formidable and worthy a competitor as ErastusCorning. Placed upon the Judiciary committee, one of themost important and honorable in the House, he brought allthe energy of his powerful and pure mind upon honest andconstitutional legislation. Although he did not often troublethe House in debate, yet he impressed his compeers with asense of his abilities as a statesman and his sterling qualitiesas a man. At the end of his Congressional ter
. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. o. w La-wyers 439 tive in the thirty-sixth Congress by twelve hundred majorityover so formidable and worthy a competitor as ErastusCorning. Placed upon the Judiciary committee, one of themost important and honorable in the House, he brought allthe energy of his powerful and pure mind upon honest andconstitutional legislation. Although he did not often troublethe House in debate, yet he impressed his compeers with asense of his abilities as a statesman and his sterling qualitiesas a man. At the end of his Congressional term he voluntarily andpermanently withdrew from political life. Thenceforth hewas devoted to the career which he best loved and to theprofession of which he was so brilliant an ornament; andfrom that time the splendor of his success was such as to morethan meet the highest hopes of his many friends and ad-mirers. Untiring in the investigation of his cases, inde-fatigable and eloquent in their advocacy, never at fault inlegal warfare, thorough in his briefs and explorations
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