The magazine of American history with notes and queries . brief andcharacteristic ; that he should have sent such a letter if the request hadbeen made by Martin Luther. To give even a brief account, in a paper like this, of the importantcases in which he was engaged, in a practice that extended over morethan half a century, would be impossible. The cases which he himselfselected and which he had bound up and has left, by his will, to the LawInstitute, alone fill seventy-nine volumes, octavo, to which should be addedseven volumes of written opinions ; and yet these eighty-six volumes ex-tend on
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . brief andcharacteristic ; that he should have sent such a letter if the request hadbeen made by Martin Luther. To give even a brief account, in a paper like this, of the importantcases in which he was engaged, in a practice that extended over morethan half a century, would be impossible. The cases which he himselfselected and which he had bound up and has left, by his will, to the LawInstitute, alone fill seventy-nine volumes, octavo, to which should be addedseven volumes of written opinions ; and yet these eighty-six volumes ex-tend only from 1849, which is little more than one-half of his professionalcareer. The reports of cases in which he was engaged are distributed overmore than 250 volumes of our State Reports; and when the importance of CHARLES O CONOR 53 many of those cases is considered, the questions they have settled, and themagnitude of the interests they involved, and we consider also the manytrials in which he participated of which we have no report, it will be felt that. he has filled a space in the jurisprudence of this State greater than thatof any lawyer that ever lived in it. This is a very high distinction, but we have to connect with this hislabors in the Courts of the United States, where he participated in 532 CHARLES O CONOR trials of national interest, and argued most important questions. Thisgeneral statement will, I think, be sufficient to show what his profes-sional labors were, and how incessant must have been the industry,and great the capacity of a man who could leave such a memorial as thisbehind him. This sketch would be incomplete without at least some notice of hispublic, apart from his professional career. In early life he was nominatedfor assistant alderman of the Sixth Ward ; and being defeated by his ownparty, and in a ward wrhere the Irish greatly predominated, he was morti-fied ; and never willingly thereafter sought public stations. In 1846 he was elected almost unani
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