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hearing began to fail, he resigned December 31, 1854, then over eighty-one years of age, with intellect undimmed. At a general term of the Supreme Court held at Sandy Hill in January, 185 5, a meet ing of the bench and bar was held at which highly complimentary resolutions were passed while he was yet living. He died at his residence at Johnstown, October 31, 1859, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. In 1874, the Honorable P. G. Webster, a member of the bar of Montgomery County, procured a fine likeness of Judge Cady and sent copies to prominent members of the bar. He received many letters in return. Among such letters extracts are taken from a few as follows : — From John K. Porter, late judge of the court of appeals : — "MY DEAR WEBSTER : I am very much indebted to you for the photograph of Judge Cady. It is perfect, and it refreshes one to look at so speaking a likeness of the Grand Old Man. There is something monumental in his very image. He was a giant among giants." From William A. Beach, the late eloquent advocate and distinguished lawyer: — "My veneration for him as the noblest exem

plar of the honest and profound lawyer led me to preserve his counterfeit presentment, and to allow it to hang in my office with Nelson's, Cowen's, Buell's, and Hill's. I fancy the daily sight of them recalls their professional learning and purity and leads to an ennobling emulation. The love of virtue and truth is quickened by the contemplation of such examples." From Judge Wallace, the present presid ing judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals : — "Accept my sincere thanks for the photograph of Judge Cady. It will aid in perpetuating the memory of a good citizen, an able jurist and a just man, one whose sturdy virtue and vigorous intellect deservedly won for him a conspicuous place among the ablest of his contemporaries of the bench and bar, and who will be ever held in reverent regard by the members of the pro fession of which he was so great an ornament." Like complimentary letters were received from Governor Dix, Roscoe Conklin, Judges Platt Potter, Ira Harris, and James, and numerous others. The writer knew Judge Cady in his latter life, and so venerated him, that he regards it a pleasure and a duty to aid in the perpetuation of his memory, through the columns of THE GREEN BAG.


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