Pierce County, now a model of intellectual and moral progress, with a thrifty, energetic and law-abiding population, was, in early Territorial days, a hotbed of local feuds frequently resulting in homicide.

She had no Tacoma, then, to control the spirit of lawlessness and to teach her citizens that life's truer conflicts are different, and nobler.

His knowledge of Statutory law was comprehensive and wonderfully accurate, both in a historical and constructive sense.

He often said that we were too much inclined to go far from home for our law; that we were fond of legal exotics.

He claimed that their use had changed the members of the legal profession from a body of original and stalwart thinkers, to a body of sickly book-worms.

Their inquiry was not, what was the reason of the thing, but what had some Court said?

I am inclined to believe, however that the actual intellectual and moral tone of a given period, as well as the social status, has no truer index than its current anecdotes.

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…

Every profession has connected with it two things: a science, and an art.

The science consists of the principles upon which that art rests.

Where different judges differ, it isn't in the science of the law, it is in the art connected with that science.

However, I was trying to show that pioneer lawyers were forced to do their own reasoning, to rely upon their own intellectual powers.

Then he would learn to do his own thinking and reason from the principles laid down in the fundamental works upon the science of the law.

Steam, whose latent energies were then but little known, under the exploitations of science and inventive genius, became, and continues to be the chief motive power of the world.

While the light of ages comes streaming down the pathway of history, it illumes the present and enlarges the scope of human knowledge, yet it gives no prophetic insight, hence, which will be the final victor is unseen.

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.

Pioneers, Washington, with all her grand resources--developed and yet to be developed--won by your privations, courage and patriotism, is your gift to the Union, to be consecrated to liberty, regulated by law, forever.