Their friends, their kindred, even members of their own families, joined in the Rebellion.

But these patriotic men, one of whom was born during the Revolutionary war and the other during the first term of Washington's Presidency, maintained their judicial positions and were unshaken in their loyalty to the Union.

Their example was followed by few officials from the states that seceded, but the steadfastness of their faith was a striking illustration of the difference between the South of Jefferson and Jackson and the South of Calhoun and Davis.

They sat on the Bench throughout the entire civil struggle,--Judge Catron dying in May, 1865, in the eighty-seventh year of his age, and Judge Wayne in July, 1867, in his seventy-eighth year.
The conduct of these venerable judges is all the more to be praised because they did not personally sympathize in any degree with the Republican leaders.

They did not believe in the creed or the policies of the party, and feared the result of its administration of the National Government.