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footsteps, tread on popular prejudices, or crush the schemes of individuals, must expect clamor and resentment. The best way to prevent being perplexed by considerations of that kind is to dismiss them all and never to permit the mind to dwell upon them for a moment. Although a judge may possess the best talents and the purest intentions, yet let him keep a jealous eye over his sensibilities and attachments, lest they imperceptibly give to error too near a resemblance to truth. Nay, let him even watch over that jealousy, for the apprehension of being thought partial to one side has a tendency to incline a delicate mind towards the other."-To John Trumbull, October 20, 1796, Pellew's Life of Jay, 362. No Considerable Portion of the People Mean Well. "As to the position that 'the people always mean well,' or, in other words, that they always mean to say and do what they believe to be right and just, it may be popular, but it cannot be true. The word people * applies to all the individual inhabitants of a country.

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That portion of them who individually mean well never was, nor (until the millenium) will be, considerable."-To Judge Peters, Idem, 364.

A Solid Judiciary.

"In the future administration of this country the firmest security we can have against the effect of visionary schemes or fluctuating theories will be in a solid judiciary."

Popularity.

"Popularity is not among the number of my objects."-Pellew's Life of Jay, 116.

More Important to Govern One's Self Than the State.

"A few years more will put us all in the dust, and it will then be of more importance to me to have gov erned myself than to have governed the State.”—His reply when told he was counted out for Governor of New York, in the interest of Clinton.-Id., 280.

Sovereignty.

"The sovereignty of the Nation is in the people of the Nation, and the residuary sovereignty of each State is in the people of each State. Suability and State sovereignty are not incompatible."-Chisholm Exrs. v. the State of Ga., 2 Dall., 415.

Debts and Credit.

"To be obliged to contract debts and live on credit, is terrible."-From letter to Franklin, 1781; Pellew's Life of Jay, p. 137.

Snow on His Bed.

"To keep the snow off his bed in winter John used to stuff the broken panes of his window with bits of wood."-Pellew's Life of Jay, p. 9.

College Days.

"Entered King's (now Columbia) College in 1760, when he was but little over fourteen, and graduated at nineteen."—Idem, p. 14.

At Twenty-six in Good Business.

At twenty-six he wrote: "With respect to business, I am as well circumstanced as I have a right to expect."-Id., 21.

Not Precocious.

"He was not precocious like, not brilliant-winged like Hamilton, but a lad remarkably sedate.”—Id., 22.

At Twenty-Nine-John Adams' Diary Entry.

"Mr. Jay is a young gentleman of the law, of about twenty-six (in fact, twenty-nine). Mr. Scott says, a hard student and a good speaker,' is the entry in John Adams' diary in 1774."-Id., 35.

Property Qualification to Vote.

""Those who own the country ought to govern it,' was a favorite maxim with Mr. Jay."-Id., 79. 79.

Chief Justice of New York.

"No reports are published of the first twenty-two years' existence of the Supreme Court of New York, consequently little can be said of Jay as Chief Justice of New York.”—Id., 97,

Crimes.

"Delays in punishing crimes encourage the commission of crime. The more certain and speedy the punishment, the fewer will be the objects.”—Id., 99.

His Dress.

"Neatness and utility is all I ought to wish to aim at in dress or equipage; and, perhaps, every citizen of a republic would do well to forbear going further."

Qualifications of a Judge.

"Although a judge may possess the best talents and the purest intentions, yet let him keep a jealous eye over his sensibilities and attachments, lest they imperceptibly give to error too near a resemblance to truth. Nay, let him ever watch over that jealousy, for the apprehension of being thought partial to one side has a tendency to incline a delicate mind towards the other."-To John Trumbull, 1796.

Characteristics.

"His intellectual endowments are easily described. His mind was vigorous, exact and logical. To genius, he could make no pretensions. Judgment -discriminative, penetrating-was the characteristic of his understanding. If over his other faculties imagination had presided, the compass of his thoughts would have been enlarged, and grace and flexibility been imparted to his mind. Jay was not

a variously learned man. Modern genius did not delight him. Of the ancients, Cicero was his favorite. The Bible was his constant study. Observing throughout his life the great principles of justice and rectitude, he 'ascended to the temple of honor through the temple of virtue.'"-Flander's Lives of the Chief Justices.

Chief Justice Jones' Tribute.

"Few men in any country, perhaps scarce one in this, have filled a larger place, and few ever passed through life with such perfect purity, integrity and honor.”—Chief Justice Jones, at the opening of the Superior Court, May 30th, 1829.

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