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arguing the great case of Curtis v. Leavitt rules of justice, truth, and honor, and re membering the old Roman motto, ' Justitia (16 N. Y. 9) before Hiram Denio, Alexander virtutum regina,' that Justice is the queen of S. Johnson, George F. Comstock, and Sam uel L. Selden. When did such an array of the virtues, who will dare say that this tem lawyers ever before or since address such a ple is not consecrated to a sacred use?" The writing of this sketch has recalled to bench? All of these great lawyers have me my boyish student days of 1856-1857, gone to rest save two. Truly there were| Now three great when I boarded in this city, " in a respecta giants in those days. ble family," for $2.00 a week, and froze my bridges span the river here, and an eighteenmillion-dollar Capitol

ears in crossing the crowns the hill. Have river on foot or in a the lawyers held their sleigh to take the Hud own in talents and son River Railroad education? Perhaps at Greenbush; when the giants are fewer, I saw Rufus Peckham, but the average is Sr., walk up State higher. In those years Street and John V. L. Hill, Hand, Porter, Pruyn walk down, — Reynolds, and Parker which James T. Brady argued nearly all the said it was worth a causes in the Court journey from the city of Appeals, as counsel of New York to see : for the attorneys; but when the old State now, by reason of a Library was standing, day calendar and swift whose alcoves I fre trains, the attorney quented; when the old himself comes over Capitol was standing, night across the State where I listened to and argues his own General Sickels con cause, not fearing any testing for his seat as overpowering Albany Senator; when the old antagonist. Many City Hall was stand of these attorneys ing, where I heard Wil IRVING BROWNE. have been educated liam J. Hadley in one at the Albany Law of his unrivalled crimi nal defences, and listened to such advocates School, and they probably argue their own and orators as John K. Porter, Henry Smith, causes better than the giants of old would Rufus Peckham, and Lyman Tremain; when do it, because they are better acquainted the Court of Appeals held its sessions in a with them. Just now the President has small room in the old Capitol, where I hung appointed a graduate of the Albany Law on the debates of Nicholas Hill, John K. School of 1858 to the Federal Supreme Court Porter, and John H. Reynolds, heard Charles bench. Mr. Justice Bradley, who acquired the rudiments of his legal education by O'Connor and James T. Brady argue a ques tion of alimony in the Forrest divorce case, reading while driving his charcoal-cart from and where for three weeks I listened to a neighboring town to this city, might not have been a better lawyer if the Albany Greene C. Bronson, Samuel Beardsley, Nich Law School had been open to him, but he olas Hill, Benjamin F. Butler, Charles O'Con nor, William Kent, and William Curtis Noyes, would have found the path easier.