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THE JUDICIARY OF OREGON. 313 will, and esteem of the people of the commonwealth, whose hands are the support and mainstay of all institutions of a republican form of government, and this is the highest encomium that can come to a public functionary. It has consistently maintained a commendable independence as a department in the State government, in both the peculiar and the broad sense in which it was designed and in suitable accord with the genius, the spirit, and disposition of the times, and it is earnestly to be hoped that it will continue to grow in grace and in the confidence, favor, and esteem of every citizen from the humblest to the greatest of this, our beloved commonwealth. Such, I am assured, will be its conscientious endeavor to be signified by its good works.