Orange Jacobs: “His knowledge of Statutory law was comprehensive and wonderfully accurate, both in a historical and constructive sense.”

The silent influence of our institutions has secured the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands--the gem of the Pacific and the outward bulwark of the Pacific States.

Peace has her victories no less renowned than war's.

In the onward sweep of development and civilization, and in the largeness of population, individuality becomes fused in the general mass, and loses its salient characteristics.

He had to rely on his remembrance of general principles; and he learned to reason from those general principles to his conclusions; and his success at the Bar depended upon the clearness of his statements and the cogency and force of his…