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The Supreme Court of North Carolina. been lost in this long course of meanness; he dare not use his temporary popularity for any purposes of public good in which there may be a hazard of forfeiting it; and the very eminence to which he is exalted renders but more conspicuous his servility and degradation. However clear the convictions of his judgment, however strong the admonitions of his as yet not thoroughly stifled conscience, not these, not the law of God, nor the rule of right, nor the public good, but the caprice

of his constituents, must be his only guide. Hav ing risen by artifice, and conscious of no worth to support him, he is in hourly dread of being supplanted in the favor of the multitude by some more cunning deceiver. And such, sooner or later, is sure to be his fate. At some unlucky moment, when he bears his blushing honors thick upon him ( and well may such honors blush), he is jerked from his elevation by some more dexterous demagogue, and falls unpitied, never to rise again."

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Taylor, and the father-in-law of Judge Manly. He was succeeded on the bench by Fred erick Nash of Orange. Frederick Nash was born, Feb. 9, 1781, in the old Colonial Palace at Newbern, his father, Abner Nash, being then Governor of the State. He had been elected in Decem ber, 1779, to succeed Richard Caswell, who was the first Governor under the republican form of government. Governor Nash was a member of the Conti nental Congress from 1782 to 1786, and died in the latter year at Philadelphia, while at tending Congress. His wife was the widow of the Royal Governor, Arthur Dobbs. His brother, Francis Nash, was mortally wounded at Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777, and is buried at Kulpsville, not far from Philadelphia. The Nash family was prom inent among the early Surely these are no colonists of North ble words. Carolina. Judge Gaston was When Washington thrice married: (1) in visited Newbern on RICHARD M. PEARSON. 1803 to Miss Susan his Southern tour in Hay, daughter of Joh n 1 79 1, Frederick Nash Hay, the eminent lawyer, of Fayetteville; was presented to him as the nephew of (2) in 1805 to Hannah, daughter of Gen General Nash. He took the boy on his knee, eral McClure, — she died in 1813; (3) in and placing his hand on his head, reminded 18 16 to Miss Worthington, of Georgetown. him of his brave and patriotic uncle as a Through his last two wives he has numerous bright exemplar to follow. This the boy descendants. A daughter by his second never forgot. wife was the first wife of Judge Matthias E. Frederick Nash was sent, when quite Manly, of the Supreme Court of North young, to Williamsboro, to the school of the Carolina. The only child of that union Rev. Mr. Patillo, a Presbyterian clergyman, married a son of Rev. Dr. Francis L. under whom Chief-Justice Henderson had Hawks, of New York, and died a few years also studied. He was prepared for college since, leaving several children. Judge Gaston by Rev. Mr. Irving, of Newbern, who had was thus the brother-in-law of Chief-Justice likewise prepared Judge Gaston; and like 67