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education as could be conferred by the was the excessive cost of justice under the code system. Its popularity with the law country schools. After reading law for a time, he removed yers was compared to that of Diana with to Tennessee, where his legal studies were the jewellers of Ephesus, — " Know ye not completed and practice commenced. In 1847 by this our craft we beget our wealth?" In 1860 he was a member of a commission and 1848 he was a member of the State Legislature, being the only Whig who ever to prepare a system of pleading and practice, with instructions to report within a few represented the district. During the three years he sat as Chief- days. An elaborate report was laid before

the Legislature within Justice he seems to the time, which cre have given general ates a suspicion that satisfaction, although, the Chief-Justice, like by reason of his short Franklin, was in the period of service and habit of carrying sys the limited amount of tems of government business transacted, he failed to leave any in his pocket, ready for any emergency impression on the ju that might arise. risprudence of the State. His inclina The principal result tions seem to have of his labors while in been rather literary Europe was a work and archaeological entitled " A History than legal. After re of the Chaiacter and tiring from the court, Achievements of the he devoted his time so-called Christopher to such studies until Columbus," which was 1 861, when he was ap published in Phila pointed by President delphia in 1874. This Lincoln to the position is a work of consider of Secretary of Lega able interest and in tion at Brussels, where genuity. It is sought heremained until 1869. to be shown that the DAVID COOPER great Christopher's Upon the organi zation of the State in real name was Criego, 1858, Judge Goodrich was appointed a mem and that while pursuing the honorable career ber of a commission charged with the duty of a pirate of many years' experience, he of preparing and reporting to the Legislature came into the possession of the log of a Code for the State. Although favoring some worthy mariner who had been gathered liberal rules of practice, as was evidenced by to his fathers, and thereupon set up as a his dissenting opinion in the first case de great discoverer. cided by the Supreme Court, he was a firm Judge Goodrich was an active partisan of believer in the saving grace of the common Seward, and labored and voted for him for law and on this commission opposed the President in the Convention of 1860. After adoption of the code system. His views his return from Europe he continued to were embodied in an elaborate minority reside in St. Paul until his death. John report. Skinner Goodrich, a brother of the ChiefOne of the reasons given for his dissent Justice, was a judge of the Supreme Court

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