8232. SUPREME COURT, Republicanism and.—[further continued].
Bidwell's disgrace withdraws
the ablest man of the section in which
Cushing's successor must be named. The
pure integrity, unimpeachable conduct, talents
and republican firmness of [Levi] Lincoln,
leave him now, I think, without a rival. He
is thought not an able
common lawyer. But
there is not and never was an able one in the
New England States. Their system is
sui
generis, in which the common law is little
attended to. Lincoln is one of the ablest in
their system, and it is among them he is to
execute the great portion of his duties.—
To Cæsar A. Rodney. Washington ed. v, 547.
(M.
Sep. 1810)
