Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-01-21
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.

At meeting Of the Judges of the Supreme and Spe-
cal Courts of Appeals OF Virginia, and oil the General
Court the officers of the Courts and the members oil
the BAR at the Special Court Room, on Friday, the 18th
day OF January 1850, to give expression to their seni
ments and feelings upon the death of the Honourable
JOHN ScorT, the Honorable Daniel Smith was called
TO the Chair and Peachy r. Grattan was appointed
Secretary.
The Honorable John r. Lomax addressed the meet
ing in the following terms:
friendship of thirty years subsstng between me oe
ceased and myself will, hope be some excuse ior IN
dulgng my feelings in making an address 10 you on !s
melancholy occasion. Death, i'll the person OF Judge
Scott has smen from the Judicial fraternity ana from
professional fellowship, bright and distinguished He-
ber Our Commonwealth, and society al large, nave
much cause to lament this bereavement in the death OF
one of our most ustrous and useful ctzens lie mas
left few behind him his superors, or his equals, IN mind
and in virtue His intellect was luminous with all the
treasures that learning and profound meditation could
store with and guided by truth to knowledge
useful and beneficial himself and to society, in all
the social concerns of life His virtues ranged through
all his social duties with warmth and seadness that
pIaced him amongst the best OF citizens, the best OF
friends, the best of husbands, and the best OF fathers
Within the walls, wherever consecraed to the admins
ation of justice in Virginia. should his memory be es-
pecialy revered. His name is brightly engraven on
the Constitution of State, in those provisions which
secure judicial independence, and maintain the uncom-
promising integrity and righteousness and importantly
of Judges as the arbers in all the conflicts which dis
turb or agitate the civil relations OF eas the umplres
and the medators between the State and the people
between the high and the low-beween the rc4 ana the
poor-beween the powerful and the feeble. Upon that
bench which he had abored to establish deep and strong
in the foundations of perpetual righteousness, ne DIS
played the character, IN exemplary brightness OF "hal
an honest patient interchangeable, learned, faithful and
upright magistrate u.s. and should be- The records With
in this building which shall know his presence no more,
will, many OF them, display his claims upon the endu-
ring admiration and gratitude OF his State, tor the
iudr and which he maintained nef
institutions The impress Of his luminous mind is ex-
hibted in multiplied less conspicuous, forms, IN
the records OF the courts OF the circuit Whch 'he
monweath, in the administration OF her JUSTICE condeo
exclusively to his and superlntendance.
1t is right that the judicial tribunals OF this State, and
especially that which has enjoyed the cooperation o.
his judicial abors abors which will be most dlicult
ever to supply should, in sorrowlng reverence pay
just tribute to his memory, and fling upon the grave OF
this distinguished urs the marks OF their love and ner
honor for departed virtue and talent 1t is right too,
that in the inconsoabe grets with which this bereave
ment is affecting the bosoms OF his surviving widow,
children family relatives and friends, we should present
them with our sneerest coincidence, springng out OF
common love, esteem and admiration, which, with them,
we bear to the memory of the deceased.
Thereupon, John M. Patton, Esq. offered the follow
ng resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:
Resolued, That mark of respect for the memory
Of the deceased and of the OF this meeting OF
their private af1con and OF the public loss sustained
by his death, we, the members OF the Supreme and
Special Courts of Appeals and other Judges OF the
State and the officers and members OF the bar in the
city of Richmond or elsewhere who join in these test
nonas, will attend the remains OF the deceased, to-
morning, to the cars, their way TO nterment
the late residence Of the deceased and that we will
wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
Resolued That the Supreme Court OF Appeals, the
Special Court Of Appeals, and the Court OF Chancery
session. be requested to enter these proceedings
on their records and that the editors Of the newspapers
| in this city be requested to publish them.
Resolued That the Secretary of this meeting trans
nit to the bereaved widow and family OF Judge Scott
copy of these proceedings in testimony of sincere
coincidence in their heavy af1icton.
DANIEL SMITH, Chairman.
| PEAcHY R. GRATTAN, Secretary