Year: 1867

his own church connections, in which
he has ever been a consistent, active
and leading professor, he cheerfully,
and as a matter of principle, comedies
the right of judging and determining
for themselves to other men. No one
ever heard him denounce any man, or
any sect, for differing with him upon
theological dogmas.


In politics, Judge Williams was at
the first a Wing of the Clay and Web
ster school, holding with the former
that protection to some extent was
necessary to encourage and foster the
industrial interests of Pennsylvania,
and with the latter that there was no
object in our politics so much to be
constantly kept in mind and maintain
ed, in every event, as the perpetual
union of these States. When the
exigencies of the times gave birth to
the Republican party his far-seeing
patriotism, and his long cherished
love of the Union, led him to cast his
votes and give his influence, so far as
it was consistent with his official sta
ton, in favor of the principles and
candidates Of that party. During the
rebellion he supported the Government
and the armies of the Union by every
means in his power, upholding the
credit and authority of the former, and
encouraging by constant faith the glo-
rious success of the latter. Those in
innate with him will not readily for
get his energetic utterance against
treason and traitors and the strong
and emphatic manner with which he
was wont to declare that the Union
must and should, at all hazards, be
preserved. While no partisan or ul-
traist in politics, he is in favor of i'm
provement and reform, when the
changes of the time and wants of the
people demand them.


The judicial position which Judge
Williams has held for overfifteen years
is as important and rcponsible as any
in the State. 1t has been adorned by
some of the best legal minds, and it is
not saying too much for him to say that
he has proved himself in every respect
the equal of them. During that time
he has probably tried as many and as
important commercial, and consttu-
tional cases, as any other Judge of his
years in the State, and as a commercial
and consti tutional lawyer and Judge
he has no superior on the bench
Quick to see the real point in the cause
presented before him, and prompt tc
decide according othc well established
rules of law and evidence, he has shown
himself a sound clear and practical
Judge, whose opinions and decisions
have been as seldom reversed by the
Supreme Court as those of any othel
Judge of any other inferior Court il
the State. These opinions, many o
which have found place in our lega
reports are sound and lucid expositions
of the law of the case before him. They
always possess the merit Of adhesion tC
the question at issue, of clearncss ant
brevity. He never wanders from tht
point involved, and never seeks to in
iect his own notions of law or ethict
into the decisions of the Courts whicl
ought ever be faithful Interpretation;
of Constitution and laws as they are
He is not Judicial law-maker, man,
many of whom, to the grief of the pro
fession, we have, but a judicial law
expounder, leaving the making of th
laws to those whose business it it is
In his charge to the Jury, he lay
down the law of the case with grea
clearneess and leaves all questions o
fact fairly to their determinations.


Judge Williams is emphatically al
honest, impartial and just Judge. H
cannot be turneda hairs breadth by ia
vor or by interest, from what he be
licvcst to be the justice of the cause befor
him. So well is his stern integrity a
a Judge understood in this communit,
that no counsel or suiter ever under
took to influence him in the decision
of a cause pending before him, save BY
legal testimony and sound legal argu
ment.


Judge Williams is christian gen
tlcman, ripe scholar, a sound and wei
read lawyer, and just Judge,to whom
the celebrated lines of the third ode o
Horace will apply with as much fore
and truth as any other man:


Justum ac tenacem propositi vlrum.
{ Non civium ardor prava jubentium.
Non vultus instants tyranni,


Mcnte quatit solde,


With such candidate and in
cause so worthy, our own and the 9th
ther counties of the Western part o
State will vie with Philadelphia ant
[, her sister counties ofthe East in raisin.
: the banner of freedom and the Uniol
still higher, and in inauguratingS cam
paign for free principles and a united
peaceful andhappy country, which shal
culminate in the glorious victories O
1868, under the leadership ofa Thorn
as, Sheridan, a Sherman, or Grant


"WHAR," asked a renowned stum]
orator, who was running for the offic
of constable, "whar, my enlightened
friends of the Sixty-sixth militia dis
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