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Excerpt from Obituary Notices, and Other Testimonials of Respect, on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. Cha's K. Williams, LL. D., Formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Afterwards Governor of the State of Vermont: To Which Is Prefixed a Brief Biographical Notice of the Deceased
Governor williams entered Williams College in 1796 and gradu ated, in course, in 1800, at the age of eighteen. He was appointed tutor in that College in 1802, but having at that time a favorable opportunity to enter upon the active duties of his profession, so soon as he should be admitted to the bar, he declined the appointment. He was admitted to the bar of Rutland County Court, March Term, 1803. Since that time, for the most part, he has been unremitting ly engaged in the active, laborious and responsible duties of his pro fession, in the several offices of Attorney, Counsellor and Judge. He sustained a very high standing at the bar as a sound lawyer and successful advocate. In one essential, cardinal excellence, his repu tatien, as a member of the bar, is perhaps worthy of special com mendation to the members of the profession every where and at all times, since the temptations there to moral delinquencies, are so con stant, and so Spacious often as to be difficult of detection, and not easily resisted always when discovered. He was never suspected of carrying his case by more management and chicanery. He chose to lose those cases which he could not gain fairly. He supposed, when he had done all for his client that truth and justice would warrant, that he had done enough, and chose to trust all the consequences where he must trust all the consequences of his life. In short he was just as scrupulous, just as conscientious in his efforts at the bar, as he would be upon the bench or any where else. It is believed that he never studied to discover or to devise a rule of casuistry, by which, a man may be allowed to do an act, for his client, in the conduct of a cause, without reproach, which if done under other circumstances, would brand him with perpetual infamy in the judg ment of all conscientious and generous minded men.
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