Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-12-08
tribute. ofRe.pecs--Chancer.y,i Court.

tributes ofRespecs->CIfance Court.
AT the opening of the Chancery Court Mon
DAY morning, JOHN HUGH SMITH, ESQ.,,
from the Committee appointed for that pur-
pose at meeting of the bar on Saturday last,
reported the following preamble and resolu-
tlons in reference to the death of JOHN A.
MCEwEN, Esu
With unfe1gned sorrow we, the members of
the Nashville Bar, have heard of the death of
our cherished and much loved brother men,
Der, 5ohn A McEwen. He breathed his last
IN this city, at the residence of his father, Col
X. IL. McEwen, in the 35th year of his age,
after an Illness of about eighteen months,
from that most fattering and fatal of. all dis
.eases-COnsumption! L III
John McEwen was born in Fayetteville,
Tenn, and removed in early childhood TO this
city where he has ever since resided. He re-
ceived his education in he best schools our
city afforded, and graduated with distinction
in the class of IS43, at the Nashville Univer-
sity, where he afterwards continued for some
time as tutor. In the year 1S45 he was adj
mitted TO the Nashville Bar, where he soon
attained a prominent position, while, by his
talents and industry he secured lucrative
and growing practice, which he was, hOwev-
er. forced to relinquish some months since on
account of his enfeebled health.
John A. McEwen possessed a fine natural
capacity. and having been diligent student
from early youth. he came to the bar with a
well-tra1ned intellect and chastened and re-
fined taste
He was endowed with rare combination
of varied talents and attachments. As a To-
gician he was cogent and clear. yet he had a
rich and cultivated fancy. He was an elo-
quent speaker, yet fluent and classic wri-
ter. He was close student; yet he took an
active interest in whatever tended to elevate
the moral and social condition of his fellow
men. He had studied law as a science, and
expounded its philosophy with great clear
ness and perspicuity. His superior intellect
uality and ripe scholarship have challenged
our admiration, while his genial and social
sympathies made him the welcome guest of
every household. and now, being dead, have
embalmed his memory in the affections of his
brother members of this bar
No matter what station of society was al
lotted to John A. McEwen. whether at the
bar the hustings, Mayor, OF member of
the Board of Education, he always acquitted
himself with prOmptness, ability and elo-
quence. Whilst thus engaged in the midst of
his usefulness and beneficence, in the very
harvest OF his labOrs he is cut down by the
fell destroyer. His untimeIy death has been
a sad bereavement to the members of this bar,
and in testimony of our grief, therefore,
ResOlUed, That in the death of John A. Nc
Even, the nashville oar ana legal procession
have lost one of their brightest ornaments.
Resolred. That we deeply sympathise with
the afflicted family of the deceased in their
bereavement.
ReeolUed That this Court be requested to
spread copy of these proceedings upon its
records, and that copy of them be transmit
ted by the Chairman to the family of the de-
ceased.
The resolutions having been read. the
Court ordered that they be spread upon the
minutes and that the Court adjourn.