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On Tie anaoyncemsnt IF ths deatA Of Chief Just;ce
Nash, dssosrsd II IL. Aeuss 81 osaMons Dassm-
: osrs 9, lsoa. : 81. 49, Is
nounce to this House. the mournfhl intelligence of
the death of the Hon. Frederick Nash, the late ysnr
cradle Chief Justice of North Carolina He expired
at 10 O'clock A. NJ, ON the 4th inst at his residence
in Hillsborough, in the 77th year Of his age.
Having but recently been restored to more than
the wonted health for of his advanced years af
ter protracted indisposihon the family and friends
of Judge Nash cherished the fond hope that his val
ued life might yet be spared for many years. But
1t wasotherwise ordained. violent attack ofpneu-
mona terminated, in few days. his earthly career.
Frederick Nash was the son of Abner Nash, Gov
ernor OF the State in 1899, and nephew of General
Francis Nash, who fell MORALLY wounded by can
non shot in the battle of Germantown. He was born
in Newbern in 1871. He represented the Borough
of Newbern in the House of Commons in 1904 and
1906. In 1918 he was elected Judge of the Superior
Courts, which Office he resigned in 1919. In 1921
and 1928 he represented Hillsborough in the House
of Commons. In 1886 he was again elected Judge
of the Superior Courts, and in 1874 he was trans
ferred to the Supreme Court bench, which dignifed
and important station he has since filled with credit
to himself and satisfaction to the public.
A North Carolinian by birth, Judge Nash devoted
his long life to the interests of his native State in
the various positions which he occupied. And that
life forms one of the most beautiful pages of her his
tory, and will ever be fondly cherished by her as
rich legacy. 's'..
Endowed with superior intellect, inheriting from
his ancestry high toned and lofty spirit, which in
his person admirably subdued and chastened
by the mild virtues of religion, of cultivated mind
polished manners and an ever present politeness
and 5enevolence, Judge Nash will long be remem-
bered rare model of excellence in all the rela-
lions of life, from the kind and conslderate master
to the intrepid learned and eloquent advocate and
the dignifed and courteous Chief Justice -f
The recollection of him whom we mourn, Mr..
Speaker, with all his services and his enrolling at
tributes, is at this moment too wildly present to
to make it necessary for to encroach further upon
the proper functions of the biographer and historian
Nor will vainly attempt to portray him to you
as he was known, and loved and revered, and may
almost say worshipped in the family circle-that
| lovely type of heavenly bliss.
his life was long and bright and happy. And when
the impressive and sublime closing came upon
| him, under his own roof, with the venerable COM
painion of his days. his and his daughters, his
grand children and great grand children, all bowed
In weeping and in sorrow around his expiring couch
the humble Christian and venerable patriarch could
truly tell them that he could look upon his past e
far it concerned his fellow-mortas, without re-
morse and meet open futurty with unfaling trust
he had humbly endeavored to serve his Saviour in
life, and he relied upon his dear promise that he
would not desert him in death; and then with the
composure of one passing from apartment of his
mansion to another this good and great man crossed
the mysterious boundary which separates time from
| eternity.