Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Vol. 12: December Term, 1851 It has rarely happened that any citizen has enjoyed such a suc cession of exalted public honors as were shared by Judge Wood bury. Governor, Secretary of the Treasury, Senator, and, his last and greatest distinction, Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, whose jurisdiction is more extended than any other upon the continent, and whose mandate is obeyed from Boston to San Francisco - all these honors, one after the other, were worn by him, but neither they nor any other human distinction could save him to us any longer. He has fallen in the midst of his earthly honors; he has fallen as all of us must fall, and left with us only his fame, which is immortal. Judge Woodbury was a man who wore his honors, great as they were, meekly; and it was his distinguishing merit, that he thought much less of them than of the duties they entailed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.