It was an ovation more heart-felt than ever greeted the exultant entry of kings. The speech of welcome was made by Jas. Broken in the service of his country, the people elected him again and again to the office of Register, and he discharged its duties with punctilious fidelity. No man ever kept a neater set of books. They are mute, yet eloquent memorials of his patient industry, his methodical precision and undisputed accuracy.
Every page bespeaks the cool collected brain that guided aright the obedient pen.
Wright was a good man by nature, His generosity was not the outgrowth of the formula of schools or creeds. Strong men leaned upon him in hours of adversity, and found an anchor both sure and steadfast. When the storm came they gathered around his commanding form for protection, as do the beasts of the field , need the sheltering oak when the tempest sweeps the forests, and marks is pathway with havoc and destruction. Women, too, were his ardent admirers, because they knew him to be gallant, truthful, and the soul of honor. No impure word ever soiled his lips, or impure thought ever darkened his counsels.