Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . attornej in1826, cliairiiian of the highway commission inthe same year, three times justice of the [leace ;master in chancery for the tiiree river coun-ties in IS.^o; commissioner for codifjing thecommon law in and 18.,7, commissionerconcerning the Hats and haiiior of IJoston in1850. As an orator he made no apjieals to passionor prejudice, or even to sentiment, and in-duitied in no fliuhts of fancv, hul carried his. CHARLES E. FORBES. point l.)y clearnes
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . attornej in1826, cliairiiian of the highway commission inthe same year, three times justice of the [leace ;master in chancery for the tiiree river coun-ties in IS.^o; commissioner for codifjing thecommon law in and 18.,7, commissionerconcerning the Hats and haiiior of IJoston in1850. As an orator he made no apjieals to passionor prejudice, or even to sentiment, and in-duitied in no fliuhts of fancv, hul carried his. CHARLES E. FORBES. point l.)y clearness of perception and jiresenta-tion and evident good judgment. The jieopleof Northampton long spoke of a remarkahleaddress of his delivered five years l)efore theouthreak of the Civil \\ar in which he foretoldits coming and the course which it actuallytook,—victory for the South in the con-flicts, triumph for the North in the end,—bas-ing his prediction upon a calm statement ofthe different characteristics of the two sections,the greater readiness of the South, and thegreater resources of the North. In his lateryears, of wdnch alone we have much know I- edge, for his earlier accjuaiutances are no longerliving, he was dignified in appearance, inmanner somewhat formal, kindly in voice,occasionally irascible in temiier, impatient ofunreasonable opposition, restrained from tlieexhibition of feeling by an unconfjuerable orat least unconquered reseive, attached to oldfriends but making new ones with ditliculty ;an exact, methodical, logical, j
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