The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-06-26

Member Of Congress, died in highly honorable and
important station in the Administration Of public sf-
iairs uniting 10 his own person, for the time, the
u gh ONCE OF Secnetary OF Stale and the 10 less i'm
portant Office d Attorney General For the short
Tune that ne has heen member of the Administra-
ton, ne has Displayed 10 the general admiration of the
Pu'lic and Of those officially associated with him.
Qualities aud Accomplishments Of mind at once bril-
iiant and sohd, Tor which he had been before famed
and which made him far more an honor TO his Office
than ms Office TO him. But in the general sympathy
OF pubic and private lament his sudden and
premature death, that event derives no Fictitious i'm
portance from his public station, which seems to be
forgotten in personal qualities of which public honors
were not much the reward as his own talents and
virtues were The want Of the public service. The
stream OF public sympathy, therefore, runs pure and
clear through the channels of his personal character
as man and a citizen 1t is the high-toned gentle
man, the scholar, and the patriot who is monrned
II IS no who had eminenty contributed to refine i'm
prove, and enlighten the morals the manners, and
the understandings Of his countrymen and whose
social virtues we've at once the grace Of society," the
delight OF his family and friends and the true sources
OF his own dearest happiness
The Boston Transcript Of Tuesday afternoon
says:
In the Municipal Court, at lis opening this morn
ing, Mt .. D. Parker made the following motion
May IT Please your honor--l cannot forbear from
communicating to the Court the melancholy inteIi-
gencc that the Hon Hugh S. Lcgare, the Attorney
General of these United States died at an early hour
to-day at his lodgings at friends house, in this
city. Distinguished for his talents his eloquence
his learning, his high Of honor and all the ami.
able traits OF the human character his decease at
The present tmc cannot but be deemed by The people
OF these United States very great public CALAMITY
and Out OF respect to his memory, move, your ho-
nor, that the business Of this Court be suspended for
the more solemn contemplation of this mournful
event, and that this Court do now ADJOURN
Judge McIrlck responded, in handsome ST; le and
considering MIR. Legare the official head of the
profession, and standing in an interesting relation to
all the judicial institutions of the country and so
emnently distinguished, has been stated by the
attorney of the Commonwealth, he thought it very
proper to suspend the ordinary business of the Court
and forthwith adjourned.
AT meeting Of the members of the bar and
officers of the Criminal Court, holden at the
Court House in this city, on Thursday, the 22d
instant, JOSEPH Fl. BRADLEY was called TO the
chair, and HENRY May appointed Secretary.
Mr. j. M. CARLISLE presented the following pre-
anpie and resolutions which were unanimously
adopted, viz
The members Of the Bar and Officers Of Ibis Court
having received with profound regret the sudden and
painful intelligence of the death of the Hon. BuGu
,. LEGARE, Attorney General Of the United States
and Secretary of State ad interim, and desiring to
manifest by public token their grief for this event
the deceased, whose public and professional career
was illustrated by singular constellation of brio Int
and useful qualities and powers and over whose pri
vate walks so many virtues shed their milder influ-
ence; who IN the statesman forgot the patriot in
the lawyer merged not the man, and in the man was
stl the Christian; whose blended gifts and varied
attanmens adorned the severr pursuits of the forum
and the Senate With classic scholarship and the lite
raw tastes and habits of his mind Therefore,
Rssotred, That will wear the usual badges of
mourning during the residue of the term and that
the District Attorney do present this preamble and
resolutions to the Court and submit that such order
be taken thereon as to the Court may seem appro-
pirate
find further, Resolued, That we do most heartily
symPahize with the family upon whom this sudden
and heavy blow has fallen; and that the Chairman
and Secretary do communicate to them our sincere
and respectful coincidence.
JOS. Fl. BRADLEY, Chairman.
HENRY MAY, SecrefaTu
Judge DUNLOP said
"The Court receives the intelligence of Mr.. LIZ.
CARES death with feelings of deep regret Stand
ing, as he did, officially at the head Of the profession
IN the Union, and adjoining that lofty station by com
mandng talents and eloquence, his loss will be de-
plored throughout the nation, and especially at the
seat of Government, where he was endeared to so
many who had the pleasure Of his acquaintance
The Court viii direct the proceedings of the Bar
and Officers Of the Court to be entered on its min
rib e