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of all by protecting the rights of each. As to the second, intensely local as were his affections and his ties, nothing is more clearly portrayed by his work on this bench than the broad conception which he entertained of the duty to uphold and sustain the authority of the Union as to the subjects coming within the legitimate scope of its power as conferred by the Constitution. As to the third, no demonstration could be more complete than that afforded by his work of the fixed opinion on his part as to the duty to uphold and perpetuate the great guarantees of individual freedom as declared by the Constitution, to the end that the freedom of all might not pass away forever. Convinced as he was from his study of the sources of our constitutional institutions that their enjoyment was dependent upon the limitations in favor of individual right which the Constitution expressed, and that such limitations were essential to secure us from the anguish and turmoil and tyranny and the disappearance of freedom which had always resulted where such guarantees did not exist or were not adhered to, he had come to feel that for the purpose of their preservation he was but a trustee for the millions who were to come. His mind was too penetrating to listen for a moment to the suggestion that freedom would be secured by destroying principles which were essential to its preservation or that wrong would result unless truths which were eternal were violated. Thus controlled, his work on this bench leaves no room to doubt that no thought of mere expediency, no mere conviction concerning economic problems, no belief that the guarantees were becoming obsolete or that their enforcement would incur popular odium ever swayed his unalterable conviction and irrevocable purpose to uphold and protect the great guarantees with every faculty which he possessed. In considering such questions there shone ever in his heart the light of Georgia firesides and the great duty he owed to those firesides, indeed, to every individual, not only in Georgia but elsewhere, to see to it that by no act of his did the inherent

principles of individual freedom guaranteed by the Constitution fail to receive enforcement or their efficacy become impaired by misconception or misrepresentation.

O true American and devoted public servant, O cherished friend and faithful comrade, O sweet and noble soul, may it be vouchsafed that the results of your work may endure and fructify for the preservation of the rights of mankind, and may there be given to us who remain, wiping from our eyes the mists begotten by your loss, to see that through the mercy of the inscrutable providence of God you have been called to rest and to your exceeding reward!

Let the resolutions be recorded.

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