Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-09-20
NATIONAL iNTELLIGENCER.
THE CHARACTER OF JUDGE STORY,
BY DANIEL WEBSTER.

BY DANIEL WEBSTER.
We are persuaded that we crafty our readers no
less than ourselves by transferring to our columns
from the Boston papers the following report of the
remarks of Mr.. WEBSTER on introducing, at the Bar
Meeting of Suffolk (at BOSTON, the resolutions pub
lished in our last in honor of the memory of Judge
STORY:
Mr. WEBSTER addressed the Chair in substance follows
We have just heard from you, sir, confirmation Of the
solemn fact which had previously heard through other
channels Of intelligence and which has drawn together the
whole Suffolk Bar and all connected with the of this
county, testify their Of the loss which they have
tanned II has drawn from his retirement that venerable
Judge DAyIs whom all respect and honor, who for
thirty years the of the deceased upon the bench
has called here another Judge Judge PurSAN who has
tired from upon that bench which you preside and
who himself the in the Of him whose
loss The members of the school which he
lately presided the friends with whom he associated
public in private e have here to-day One senti-
ment only prevails among all of profound grief But
all of him dead With all of the reparable
loss, we feel that he still lives among us in his spirit in his
recorded WISDOM and in the decisions authority which he
has pronounced Vip eaim rpetq4e semper atque eiam
htius naemoria hoanun sernone rersabifl, post
guam a5 ocuHs recesst"
liner justice, the not elt alone bar
in the courts of this Commonwealth, but is felt every
bar and every court in the Union 1t is confined to this
country this continent He had wider range of
putaion. In the High Court of Parliament every
of Westminster Hail. in every distinguished udcaturc in
Europe in the courts of Paris of Berlin Of Stockholm and
Of St Petersburg in the universities of Germany Italy, and
Spain his authority received and ALL when they hear
Of his death, will agree that great luminay has fallen He
has in measure repaid the debt which America to
England and the mother receive from the daughter
without humiliation and without envy the reversed hereditary
transmission from the child to the parent BY the compre
hensveness of his mind, and by his and varied
ments he most fitted compare the codes of different
nations, and comprehend the results of such research
His love of country pure, and he regarded justice as
the great interest of man. and the only foundation cz
ton On this foundation he has built his fame and united
his own with that of his country. 1t constu-
honal law that much of his attention directed and in the
calculation Of which he pre-emnent " Ad rempuJEca
rnaadam ct ad sabiiendas pires, ef sanaadum porfm
on'nis Gus pergeba institufio."
But unnecessary this day speak detail of his
public judicial services That duty will remain for us TO
perform, and win doubt be executed in worthy
of the occasion. STILL in the homage that will be paid him.
there is one tribute which may well from We have
seen him and known him in private life We bear
to his strict uprghtness and purity Of character
intercourse his great vvacy amidst the labors the
cheering and anmating tone of his conversation, and his
fidelity to his friends and of testify his large
and systematic charities, dispensed in pubic manne
but gladdening the hearts of those whom he assisted p
yatc, distling happiness like the dew of heaven.
His abors all subserient to his great object judca
ture Cesf rain que Ron cherche disfinguer en- Ia
Ia persoane priree ct la pcsonne publigue un meme esprit
les dnime un meme oejet les reunifs rhomme h pere d
faDaie, cfoyea, tout est La Ia gLoirc da
Magisfrn."
Mr. Chief Justice one may live conqueror, king
magistrate, but he must die a The bed Of death
brings every to his pure individuality the intense
contemplation of that deepest of all relations the relation be
the and his creator This relation the deceas
ed always acknowledged He reverenced the Scriptures
Truth he received from them this lesson and submitted him
self in all things 10 the will OF Providence. His on
earth well sustained To the last hour of his life his
cuties remained unimpaired and the lamp the
close undmmed, and without Pickering obscunty. His
last words which heard Ivy mortal crvid sup
plcation to his Maker TO take him to himself