"Judge Thomas H. Kennedy is an eminent jurist and a man of unblemished honor.
He was born in New Orleans, and is now nearly fifty years old. He is of slight but manly form, black haired, with high and broad forehead and eagle eyes.
He is thoroughly acquainted with the ancient and modern writers, and speaks several foreign languages fluently.
With culture, a keen intellect and much force of character, he is always prepared for a full discharge of his duties.
The genial current of his soul is not frozen by calculated policy. He loathes the cold and sordid propensity of clinging to power so epidemic in our day.
Endowed with the highest faculties of the understanding, despising all the surface accomplishments that dazzle the vulgar, he has an immovable fortitude in all those situations in which human weakness is most apt to yield.
His devotion to the maintenance of principle is embellished by modesty. These rare qualities are not only worthy of admiration, but of imitation in this degenerate age.
This true and worthy gentleman acts always so as to satisfy his own conscience. How very few like him!
Judge Kennedy is not only a man of firm mind and steadily fixed principles, but he is also a person of great accomplishments and excellent abilities as a lawyer.
Educated int he study of the civil law at one of our best colleges, he resided long enough in Europe to perfect his learning in all the ordinary branches of education.
Those of our readers who are personally acquainted with him will bear me witness that he is the most unpretending of men.
His abilities and virtues make him an ornament of society.
He was for many years before our late war Judge of the Third District Court. At that time it was a high honor to occupy such a position, because the judicial ermine was then kept in all its purity. Since then how many changes!"
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