Memoir of His Honor Samuel Phillips, L. L. D

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Excerpt from Memoir of His Honor Samuel Phillips, L. L. D The effort to exhume from the past such relics as may serve to portray, with any degree of justice, the character of one whom his contemporaries rather admired than ventured to describe, is unique. It may seem presumptuous as well as arduous: yet with a fitting subject, it has some peculiar attractions. The antiquarian vein is struck; interesting historical reminiscences blend with it; incidents of the times will reflect their light upon the subject to be sketched in the foreground of the picture; facts worthy of note in topography interweave themselves with it; the causes of things are laid open in the light of their effects; the study of "endless genealogies" will beguile some passing hours; the writer and reader will stand amid the scenes, and inhale the air of ancestral virtues; the pure, the good, the true, will appear in its fine essence, divorced by time from the passions and prejudices to which it was wedded.