We find them also in cases involving purely legal questions, such as the Bank of the United States v.

Primrose, and The Providence Railroad Co.v.The City of Boston, accompanied always with that ready command of learning which an extraordinary memory made easy.

There seemed to be no diminution of Mr.Webster's great powers in this field as he advanced in years.

In the Rhode Island case and in the Passenger Tax cases, argued when he was sixty-six years old, he rose to the same high plane of clear, impressive, effective reasoning as when he defended his Alma Mater.
Two causes, however, demand more than a passing mention,--the Girard will case and the Rhode Island case.

The former involved no constitutional points.