The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-19
LOCAL NEW s..

CoURr CLAIMS March lSAt the opening of the court
III o'clock Mr. Blair the Solicitor of the United States
presented the resolutions Of the bar passed the meeting
yesterday and which have appeared this paper heretofore
On presenting the resolutions Mr. Blair submitted
brief and very appropriate remarks upon the high stand
ing of Mr. Lawrence member of the profession and
the loss sustained by the community in bis DEATH
He then moved the court that the proceedings of the bar
be entertd upon the records of its proceedings
b. b. French esq followed Ir Blair with the following
remarks:
May it please your honors with your permission can
suffer this occasion to pass without adding something
the tributes of respect which have already BEEN eo
quently paid my deceased friend and elowcountry-
man.
Mr. Lawrence and myself natives of the same State
and born within few miles OF each other With his
venerable and always respected father whose heart will be
almost broken the cad of his sons decease
well and intimately acquainted many years ago he hav
ing been practitioner the bar Mt which adj
mitted pracce and afterwards associated with
member OF the house Of representatives Of New Hampshire
With his son, who number of years my junior,
formed my first acquaintance in this city than
ty years ago first met him in the social circle of Wash
ngton OF which he the and PRIDE respected
and beloved BY all and possessing powers Of pleasing
which rendered him welcome wherever be might be-
Some years. think, after my first acquaintance with
him. he became practicing lawyer and very carly In bis
legal life he took exalted stand 10 all the courts OF the
District and very in the highest known to const
uiion--thc Supreme Court of the United States. He
brought with him to the bar vigorous well-sored and
weldscipned mind aud habits Of industry and research
that could fail place him high the ranks of The pro-
essi0D His course from the first he argued up
to the last which be argued in tits court only brief
week before bis DEATH upward and and he has
gone down to the grave in the prime of his manhood in the
midst of his usefulness
Alexander H. Lawrence was man who will be missed.
the courts and the bar will miss him. his we-baanced,
logical aud legal mind shall display before them
The rich fruits of his deep study and intense application
hia chosen profession his pleasant and gentlemanly bear
ing and manner shall no more be seen amongst US,
t1urua will min he fIa
wise adviser the benevolent citizen the good and useful
man. the sincere Christian The social circle will miss him.
appreciated by those who had the good fortune be there
associated with him.
And in his native State-my beloved New Hsmp-
shire-there are, at this moment tears and breaking
hearts, for him. His aged and ne-worn parents who had
hoped, doubtless that their should smoo their
pathway to the tomb, and close their eyes in death
and and dear relatives to whom he the light
OF their eyes are stricken with grief and sorrow to them
he cometh not again, and they will miss him-oh how
much
Bot while he thus missed by us end by those what
tongue teli-what language describe-the void
that his death has made within his household and around
his The loving and beloved husband the a
fectionae and kndheatcd father shall there be
more leave those holy and sacred precincts to that deep
that Is unspeakable, to those torn hearts which
truly know their bitterness with the hope and the
prayer that lie who empers the wind TO the sh0rn lamb
1.-THE widows God and the father OF the fatherlessp will
reach forth His strong and sustain them their deep
sorrow and terrible affection
of friend and brother went down in all the spn
dor of it's meridian brightness in his comparatively bret
life he lost sight OF the preparation of his immortal
soul for eternity be sought and we do not doubt, he
won bat pearl Of great price, which has already assured
him home OF celestial happiness in "hat house not made
with hands, eternal In the htavcns."
Chief Justice Gilchris in behalf Of this court replied
follows;
The court have received The information of the decease Of
Mr. Lawrence with the deepest regret and with strong
sympathy for the loss sustained his relatives and friends
There is place where the absence OF familiar face is
more felt than the bar The antsgonsm between its
members rarely affects their private relations with each
Other and those whose duties their clients place
them in constant opposition in of justice cher
sh for zach other, in the intercourse of life regard
and kindly feeling which have become proverbial No
one of our number better qualified by his generous
disposition and goodness of heart win the affections of
his friends than Mr. Lawrence while his intelligence and
athlness In the discharge OF bis duties gained for him
the respect and confidence OF all My personal acquant
ance with him did commence until my arrival mt
Washington but coming from the State have bad
opportunities Of knowing how much he esteemed in
his native place, and with what aGecopate
brance his memory will be cherished by his friends His
aged father and mother In New Hampshire who in the
binary of nature would have preceded him the
grave and his sorowng family here will have at least the
consolation of rejecting that viruous aud upright life
in this world had prepared him for the life to come and