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LETTERS OF FREDERICK BATES TO A. B. WOODWARD .7
freedom. Judge Thrader has a great deal of collected knowledge. He is a Saxon by birth, and was early instructed in French literature—speaks with facility German, English, and French, and is perhaps as accurate a special pleader as any in the western country. A stranger would be apt to consider him the presiding judge, so entirely does Judge L. suffer him to be the organ of the opinions of the court.
I can yet say little of Judge Coburn. He arrived during my
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