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plied himself with uninterrupted vigilance to all those private interests and concerns which his constituents have intrusted to his charge, and that he makes it an invariable rule that no letter addressed to him shall remain without an answer. Beneath the surface of this one general fact there is a secret, as between the representative and his people, which is well worth knowing, but not, we think, as universally sought after as it might be. We commend the matter to a more general investigation; for though, by this construction of his duty, a representative must, at times, find the claims upon his time and attention laboriously multiplied, yet he will most probably reap his reward in the gratification of a confiding constituency, and in the accumulating majorities which will be likely to greet his recurring appeal to their suffrages.

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He displayed those essential qualities of judicial excellence, a quick perception, sound judgment, promptness of decision, and

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