Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-12-09
From The Cincinnati Gaeefis.
MIR. ADAMS AND THE CINCINNATI BAR

I
The Bar of Cincinnati devoted Saturday 10
| Mr. Adams. There was no popular display
no stirring musc-no banners nor hadges--no
! procession. They met him as an elder brother
and as brother he spoke to, and mingled a.
,nong them.-And glorious was this commun-
/ ing We doubt ifany of the profession can
ever forget the scene which was witnessed at
the Assembly Rooms.-Judge Estes eloquent
welcomc--Mr Adams reply, so full of earnest
ness, of honest, heartfelt advice, and of intcgri-
! ty, and the deep stiffness which prevailed
while eagerly all listened to catch every word,
and see every emotion of the venerable speaker
| these thngs, better than loud applause, or
a gala display, spoke of the deep, solemn, and
abiding interest of the occasion. 1t was fit
ting welcome hy the Bar OF Hamilton county
of a good and great man.
Mr. ADAMS responded to Judge Este as fol-
| lows:
HoNoRED SrR-Brcihcrn Of the Bar 1t
! has been my fortune during the last half year,
to appear be!ore my fellow citizens in various
States Of the Union. under circumstances such
as never occurred before in the whole course
ofmy life; but among all these occasions,
there has not been one for which was so to-
/ tally unprcpared as now. | have received COM
! pmentary addresses from fellow citizens of
every class, character, denomination and party;
but this is the first time that have received n
tribute of that nature from my professional brc-
thern.
have been member of that profession up
wards o:a half century. In the early part of
my life, having father abroad, it was my for
tune to travel much in foreign countries still,
under an impression which first received from
my mother, that in this country every man
should have some trade, that trade which, from
the advice Of my parents, and my own inclina-
ton, chose, was the profession Of the Law.
After having completed an education in which,
perhaps more than any other citizen of that
time, had advantage--and which of course
brought with It the incumbent duty Of manifest
ing by my life that those extraordinary advun-
taccs of cducation secured to me by my father,
had not been worhlcssy bestoweG-on coming
into lite after such great advantages, and hav-
ing the duty of selecting psS.~-sreffT'sor my
self, chose that of the B}< | closed my cdu-
cation ao i lawyer with one of the NEST emi-
nent iurists Of the age, Theophilus Parsons, OF
Ncwburyport, at that time practising lawyer,
but subsequently Chief Justice Of the Com.
monwealth Of Massachusetts. Under his in,
structon and advice closed my education, and
commenced what can hardly call the practice
of the Law, in the city Of Boston.
At that time, though | cannot say that
was friendless yet my circumstances were moi
independent. My father was then in situa
ton Of great rcspons hlIty and notoriety in th'
Government OF the United States. But he haC
been long absent from his own country, and stil
cont 'nucd absent from that part OF it 10 whicl
lie belonged and Of Which was native.
went therefore as vounteer-an adventurer-
to Boston--as possible many ofyou whom nov
see before me- may consider yourselves as hay
ing come to Cincinnati. ! was without suppor
Of any kind. | may say | was stranger il
that city, though almost native Of the spot.
say can hardly call II practlce-bccause TO
the space OF one year from that time, it woul,
be difficult for me to name any practice whIcI
had to do. For two years, indeed, can re
call nothing in which was engaged, that ma
be termed practice; though during the Sccon'
year, there were some symptoms, that by tina
persevering patience @: which you, sir, hay
spoken in such eloquent terms, practice misI'
come in time.
c The third year continued this patience an
l. perseverance, having ljue to do, occupied N
>, time as well as could in the study q; thos
IS laws and institutions which have since bee
e called 10 administer. At the end OF the lhir
c year, ] had obtained something which might
e called practice.
The fourth year, | found it swelling 10 sue
: an extent, that / lelt no longer any concern {
to my future destiny, as member Of that pr
tession. But in the midst of the fourth yea
by the will Of the first President of the u.
y and with which the Senate was pleased to CO.
. cur, was selected for station, not perha
ofmo usefulness, but Of greater consequent
in the estimation of mankind, and sent fro
home on mission to foreign parts
y;s From that time--the fourth year after n
admission to the bar of my native state, and I
first year ofmy admission to the bar of the S
'' preme Court of the United States--I was
prived of the exercise Of any further industry