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He was digni fied, yet kind and simple, and his relations to the different parties in the court-house were rather friendly than formal. He believed that there are limits to individual responsibility, and was free from that morbid conscientiousness which would hold every man accountable for every thing. He felt that he sat upon the bench, not to make, but to expound law, yet he was the fast friend of liberty and progress, and one of the first to in sist upon the importance of reforming as well a...s of punishing criminals. He was a man upon whom humanity could have relied in the darkest hours. " He reverenced authority, " wrote his friend Sedgwick, as indeed a lawyer is bound to do, " but he loved truth. " He always aimed at principles. * Judge Williams. 46 MEMOIR OF When it is considered that he owed nothing whatever to patronage or favorable circumstances of any sort, and that he was never a very brilliant or showy man, his early success is sufficient evi- dence of his iron industry and indomitable en ergy.
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