The Star Of The North

PAUL LEIDY, ESQ

This gentleman was nominated for Congress in this district, on last Saturday morning after a protracted struggle among the Conferees, lasting nearly a week. Mr. Leidy will certainly be a strong candidate before the people. His moral character and private habits have always been entirely unexceptionable. As a lawyer he has always been studious, careful, industrious and safe. Without any meteoric brilliancy, he always exhibits that common sense and clear perception which are always the safest elements of character. Political economy Mr. Leidy has studied less thoroughly than law, and has, therefore, sometimes, been misled by the clamor and influence of association, rather than guided by the result of his own reflections. But his intentions are to be always right-he has a logical mind, a willingness to study a subject to the bottom, and these can be made as effectual guides in politics as he has found them in the science of law.