Washington telegraph., 1853-07-20
Tribute of Respect.

aiIuutC VI HAcSpeCt.
On the meeting of the Supreme Court
on Friday morning. July the Sth, 1858,
ATTORNEY GENERAL CLENDENIN arose and
addressed the Court as follows:
May IT PLEASE YOUR HoNoRs:
Since the day when your honors
last occupied the seats upon which you now
sit the sad news of the death of one who
was an Attorney of this court has reached
us, and on yesterday we paid the last tribute
of respect to all that remained of our friend
and associate, FREDERICK W. TRAPNAL1,
who departed this life in Drew county in
this State, on the fourth day of July, inst.
The deceased. who was a native of Ken
lucky, emigrated to Arkansas in the fall of
1886, and commenced the practice of law
in this city, where he early took that emf
nent stand in his profession, which he con-
tinued to retain until his death. Gifted
with great eloquence, he ranked among the
foremost advocates of the State-profound-
" versed in his profession, he was well cal
culated to advise and counselthosc who sought
his servces-of most kind heart and win.
ming manners with graceful and courtlv
address, he won the regard not only of those
who associated with him in his profession,
but of all whom business or pleasure brought
in his way
The confidence of the community was not
alone shown to him in his professional life.
On three several occasions, they expressed
their preference for him, by selecting him
to the Legislature of the State, and very
recently the political party to which he be-
longed, selected him as their candidate for
seat in the Congress of the United States;
he accepted the trust and but few short
weeks since, left us, buoyant with health, to
enter upon the canvass for this distinguished
post, and while in the discharge of this to
him, labor of love- the summons came, call
ing him from time to eternity, from the wife
of his affections, the child of his love, from
his friends from his country.
Knowing the deceased as have done for
now near seventeen years, and associating
with him on the most intimate terms, at
home and upon the circuit the memory of
those by-gone years, and of the friend who
made so many days in them happy, almost
units me to discharge the duty my brothers
have assigned me. At their request | SUBJ
nit to your Honors the resolutions passed
on yesterday by the members of the Bar
in attendance on the Court, and ask that
they NAV be entered on the records of the
court, and printed in the next volume of
Reports
At a meeting of the members of the Bar.
now in attendance upon the Supreme Court.
held in the Supreme Courtroom, July Z,
1858, to express their regret for the death
of their deceased brother, FREDERICK w
TRAPNALL, the following proceedings were
had:
On motion of j. j. Clendenin, ESQ, Col
Absalom Fowler was called to the Chair,
and e. Cummins, Esq, was chosen Secre-
tary.
Whereupon Albert Pike, Esq, reported
the following resolutions which were adopt
ed by the meeting:
ResolUed, That the members of the Bar
of the Supreme Court of Arkansas have
learned with deep regret the death Of their
Brother, FREDERICK w. TRAPNALL, for
nearly seventeen years an honored and hon
orable member of the Bar of that Court
that we lament the great loss which we have
sustained in this sudden severance of those
ties of friendship and pleasant intercourse
which for so many years connected US with
him whose unexpected death we deplore
ResOZUed, That in the death of FREDER-
1cK W. TRAPNALI., not his family alone,
nor his friends, nor the Bar, but his State
also has sustained great loss; his family,
for his domestic virtues, his warm affec-
tions and his generous temper; his friends,
for these and for his affable manners,
and unostentatious habits, his ease of in
tercouse, and the charm of an unaffected
and cheerful vivacity his firm fidelity to
those who had won his regard, and his read
mess to respond to the appeals of the dis
tressed and destitute to the Bar, for his
copious learning and his tact and quickness
as an advocate, made more effective by Wig
orous and persuasive eloquence; his regard
for the honor of the profession, and entire
freedom from jealousy and illiberality, his
frank and manly bearing and the cordial
amenity and uniform courtesy OF his deport-
ment and conversation but his country,
for his high sense of honor, his fidelity to
his political faith under whatever reverses,
and his zeal for the welfare and interest OF
the State; the ardent patriotism which ever
impelled him as a public man and that ge-
MUS and large measure OF knowledge
which made him as able as he was willing,
to be of service to his State or the nation.