Bushrod Washington held the station of jus tice of the Supreme Court of the United States for thirty-one years, with' a constantly increasing reputation and usefulness. He was a learned judge, whose learning was the result of long con tinued, laborious services, and comprehensive stu dies. He was a christian full of religious sensibility and humility. His religion was tranquil, cheerful unobtrusive, meek and gentle. Attached to the Episcopalian church by education and choice, he was one of its most sincere and unostentatious fricnds.^ Ile died at Philadelphia on the 26th of November 1829, in the 68th year of his age, and his remains were conveyed to Mount Vernon.
At the session of the Supreme Court at January term 1850, Mr Berrien, the attorney general of the United States, moved the court to have the pro ceedings of the bar and officers of the court, ex pressive of their high sense of the merits-and talents of Mr Justice Washington, entered on the record of the court. Mr Chief Justice Marshall said: " The sentiments of respect and affection which the gentlemen of the bar and the officers of the court have expressed for the loss of oar deceased brother, are most grateful to me, and I can say, with confidence, to all my brethren. No man knew
his worth better or deplores his death more than myself; and this sentiment. I am certain, is common to his former associates. I am very sure, I may say for my brethren, as well as for myself, that the ap plication is most gratifying to us all; and that in ordering the resolutions to be entered on the minutes of our proceedings. we indulge our own feelings not less than the feelings of those who make the application." Immediately on the decease of Mr Justice Wash ington, the bar of Philadelphia assembled to testify their sense of the loss sustained in his decease by the court and by the nation. Resolutions expressive of their sentiments and feelings were unanimously adopted, and a gentleman of high attainments and station was requested to pronounce an eulogium on the front an obituary notice of _Mr. Justice Washington, in 3 Peters's Supreme court Reports.