Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-01-31


ourselves. with atleas. courtesy ard respect
although in the exercise Of ourown private
Judgment. we may still conclude TO reJect
them.
The people Of North Carolina are under
a deep obligation to Judge Strange for the
work before US. II isa production which,
although it is evident TO the reader that Its
author is a polished rhetorician. - set
chasle and classical. We wish that every
man in North Carolina had copy oil it
tina, it could be read by the youth OF our
State. who are preparing to enter upon The
theatre Of life, and to hose bonds the des-
,,nies of our good Old North State must
be committed. when the present generation
shall have passed away.
We offer no apology for making the
following extract on the character" OF Judge
CASTOR as Il lawyer. Would tina. every
member of the bar in North 'arolina. par
,icuIarIy the younger ones. would read 1t,
and act upon it. too. The picture drawn
by Judge Strange, is one al the most beau-
tifuI things which We have seen ina long
~ lille:
: "In 1898 he commenced the professional
career afterwards SO brilliant and so long con.
tinued. And here, my younger professional
brethren. let us mark the friendly light which
his example casts upon the untrodden path
, that lies before you. He did not set out with
the mere sordid purpose of making money
"of wringing from the hard hands OF peas
!, ants their vile trash by any indlrectIon by
,, the mere exhibition OF his parchment and
snowy display of light and superficial acquire
ments, in the absence OF every thing justly
emitting hi,n to their confidence and qualify
ing him to conduct their affairs. Even as a
! LAWYER, he did not consider himself mere
= human animal. destined to get through life In
" the appropriation to himself of as large share
as possible of its sensual delights aud pecu-
nialv advantages, but as moral and intellec-
tnal being, destined to live an eternal lie, OF
- which his present state was a begnnlng-ln-
" considerable in itself, it is true, but pregnant
. with immense results for the future ;-that he
! owed to himself and TO his family to labor moi
) merely for The bread that Perlsheth even IN
his profession, hut tor fame that might live
:, after him, and he to them richer inheritance
d than the charter of All Eafldom ;-that he nw-
', ed it to the profession he had adopted, as r
- az in him lay TO render it not mere system
: of trick and artilice, where the cunning and
least scrupuons should reap the largest pro-
- fiis-but noble and ennobiing SCIENCE. eH,-
~ ~ bracing those eternal principles of right and
~ wrong; those great truths, moral and meta
' : physical, of which the Almighty was himself
y the Author, and which it had been the bust
II ness of the great and good through all ages to
u search out and IlluStrae-to remember that 1t
!. was a profession not destined to erish with
binoSoIf hOt that N S,nuOllpSS 9th.
% prs without number were to follow him, whose
happiness, usefulness, and moral dignity,
=. would materially depend upon the footmark S
} he might leave in the road before them;-thai
=. he ow ed it to his clients, whose confidence he
" sought. and on whose patronage he waited
. not 10 bring 70 their service mere smatteIing
:" in his profession, and All impudent confluence
shat success mi Yht crown perchance his blum.
- dering efforts; but by patient industry to &C.
- qnIre skill by which he might confidently
: warn them " hen they WI re wrong, and achieve
" for them, with the utmost certainty that be-
longs to any thing human, success when they
te were right;-tha! he owed it to his country
by all in lis power 10 render her aGministra
tion Of justice pure, dignl6ed, and enlighen
d. I'd, liberal and Elective. To these noble ends
Ie he directed the energies Of his vigorous minc
.rl with unwearied application. TO accomplish
D. them, he did not suppose that the Temple o
the Law must be a gothic edlfice, consisting
:" of stiff mathematical figures and marked will
IN black letter insert ptions-but that all the art
al. and sciences should be invoked to give i
n, strength and beauty. That law should b.
:, forever divorced from Eloquence and Poetry
and that lawyers should be ashamed to speaI
u" we'll lest it light he supposed thew We're in
ELL capable OF thought-"ere such barbarian fan
Is cies as dwelt not in his brain; but he justl,
80 deemed, that truth loses nothing from bein!
gracefully set forth, and that although in
~ state of nature We may not be shocked dt TIT
VI sight OF naked mei., yet IN a civilized culIl
IN munity it is not beneath the dignity Of tn
IS most intelligent TO array himself with tast
II, and even with eiegance;-ihat if men hdv
!" heads they have hearts also; and that unde
I'D all circumstances each Is entitled to be req
he ded as one OF the constituents OF the intelltc
10 tual man. Hence, while he was content tina
Il. Coke and his black gowned associates Nigh
-. lay the foundations and build up the walls Q
Il" his edifce. he desired that Chatham, an
ch Burke, and Sheridan, and Pope, and Dryden
lis and Johnson, and Sh kspenre, and other
q such, should carve its cornices, it's columns
., and pilaslers; and that the wild flowers {
Poetry, from every cline, should be planie
ec around to beautify, to freshen its atmosphere
al and fill it with fragrance. And he was ur
willing that even Music should be expelIe
~, from It's sacred recesses but chose rather tna
" they should echo every pleasant sound, fror
y the solemn organ, to the light song of tn
III; Tronbadour. An American lawyer surely i
Iu- not meant 10 be mere black letter index
i'm but noble spacious cabinet of intelligence
49,. where every one may seek for and find som.
NC thing to his taste. Nor shall he be license
WI PIckPo"ket, to appropriate the money of ever
at thonghtess, idle, or passionate mortal he ma
,i- meet, by virtue of his parchment from tn
lSnNIemH Innrf. without nnsSpSsin tho mo i