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as prejudicial to the interests and the welfare of his native country. To this
propensity for satire by ' cuts ' he yielded so far as to permit its indulgence
even in the law courts, and the headquarters of the law makers, the legislative
halls. His embodied, but transformed sarcasm, in the shape of clever car-
toons, was not unknown even to the victims, the subjects of his sketches, and
the junior judge or the budding legislator was each compelled to smile at
the pictured exposure of his own weak points, as the multitude has learned
more recently to do at the pictorial squibs of Grip and Puck, which expose the
habit of political self-seeking by all sorts and conditions of men. Mr. Cogs-
well became a leading citizen of his native city, happy in his good estate, inde-
pendent in all the aspects of social life, conscientious in his religious princi-
ples, generous to the demands of charity, and an active Warden of the Parish
Church. The immediate cause of Mr. Cogswell's death was an accident on
board the Cunard steamship China, which occurred May 3, 1867, on his return
voyage from England to Halifax. A heavy sea broke over the ship and threw
him heavily across the deck, with fata! result."
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