The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1852-10-27
STATE OF LOUISlANA.
sixth District Cot -Eqpt Baton Rouop

sixth District Cot -EQDt Baton kouoo.
MospA4, October IS, 1854.
Immediately after tlsreading Of the MINI
utes-Thomas G. Morgan, Esq. >, addresssd
the court as follows:
May it please your honor III
The Telegraph announces that the most
brilliant luminary Of the age has been ex-
tinguished. The most enlightened states
man, the most profound jurist Of our conn
try-the most distinguished member Of our
profession is no more-DANlEL WEB
STER 10 dead.
As tribute of respect to the memory Of
the illustrious dead, move that this court
now adjourn until tomorrow at 10 o'clock,
A. M.
The court then adjourned until tomorrow
morninS at 10 o'clock, A. M.
Tuesday, October rs, 1852.
The court met according to adjournment,
present The Hon. VIM. B. Robinson,
Judge.
On motion of Thos Gibbs Morgan, Esq,
it was ordered by the court, that the follow
ing resolutions adopted at meeting of the
Bar of this Parish, held on the 25th inst, be
spread upon the minutes of this court:
At a meeting of the Bar of the City of
Baton Rouge, held at the Court House in
this place, on Monday, the 25th day Of Oc-
tober, 1852, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the death of the Hon. DAN
TEL WEBSTER, on motion Of T. G. Nor
gan, Esq, Hon. Judge Robinson was called
to the chair, and M. Moreno, Clerk-ap-
pointed Secretary.
On motion of T. G. Morgan. Esq, it was
ordered that the chair appoint committee
Of five, toreport resolutions expressive OF
the feelings of this meeting. Whereupon,
T. G. Morgan, D. d. Avery. Amos Adams,
James M. Brunot and Jas. M. Elan, Esqs.,
were appointed a committee to draft reso-
lutions.
The committee then retired, and shortly
afterwards returned and reported through
their chairman, the following resolutions
Whereas, we have learned, with deep re-
greet of the death of the Hon. DANIEL
WEBSTER, Secretary Of State.
Therefore, be it Rssolucd, That, IN the
death of DAN1EK WEBSTER, the country has
lost one of its greatest orators, the Consti-
tuition, its greatest expounder, and the world,
one of its greatest statesmen.
I'd. Resolved, That while his public ser
vices have eEdeared him to the heart OF his
countrymen, as one who knows no North,
no South, nothing but the Union, his emf
nent legal powers have raised him to the
highest position at the Bar, and that his le-
gal efforts have enlig htened the jurispru-
dence of the country, as much as his states
manship has advanced the nation in all mat
tiers of its civilization and prosperity.
3rd. Resolued, That We deeply sympa-
thize with his bereaved family in this. their
hour eff distress, and that-as members OF
the Bar, Of the Parish of East Baton Rouge,
and citizens Of the country of which he was
so great an ornament, that we wear the
| usual badge Of mourning for thirty days.
Resolued, That copy of these resolutions
be forwarded to the family of the deceased
through the committee.
That another copy be handed to the Hon
the Judge of the District Court, now being
in session in this Parish, and that he be re-
quested to order the same to be spread upon
| the minutes of said court
On motion of A. NJ. Dunn, Esq, it was
Resolved, That the proceedings Of this meet
ing be published in all the newspapers Of
this and the ad accent Parishes.
On motion, the meeting adjourned
VIM. B. ROBERTSON,
M. MORENO, Sec'y. Chair.
CLERKS OrF1cE-PAR1sH OF
EAST BATON ROUGE.
A true extract from the minutes of said
court. M. MORENO, Clerk