The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-11-28
MEETING OF THE MEMBERS or THE BAL
TTHORE BAR

At one o'clock on Saturday meeting of the men,
bers ofthe Bar held in the Superior Courtroom.
There very general attendance, the Court
room being crowded
The meeting was called te order bys Charles +.
Mayer, Esq, on whose motion the Hon. Robert n.
Martin was appointed Chairman, and d. c. II. EN-
ory, Esq, appointed Secretary.
After the organization of the meeting. Reverdy
Johnson, Esq, moved that committee of five be
appointed by the Chair to draw up a series of res
olutions expressing the sense of the meeting in
lation to the lamented death of the late Judge of
this Court, the Hon. u. Collins Lee.
The Chairman appointed as the Committee the
Hon. Reverdy johnson. Hon. William Price, Wm.
Schey, Esq, Nathaniel Williams E=q., and Charles
F. Mayer, Esq.
The Committee proceeded to the duty imposed on
them, and after a short absence returned to the
Courtroom, when the Hon. Reverdy johnson spoke
as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, before submitting the report to
the committee, hope to be pardOned by yourself
and the meeting in trespasSng for moment upon
their time. The event which brings us together
admonishes us by a striking example, "what sha-
dows are, and what shadows pursue" Our
late Judge was but yesterday in the possession,
in apparent good health OF one of the most bOnOTa
Bile, because of the most useful of human official
trusts, and with the prospect OF long life, in the
enjoyment of ali the felicity which belongs to the
relation Of the husband and the father In the
midst OF all these sources of happiness, he is sud
denly stricken down by disease which knows no
cure soon becomes as helpless infancy, and dies
without the power to whisper consolation to
his weeping family, or to be conscious fthe mighty
change which he was about to be subjected to--a
| change from short and leetng life to immor-
| tai and eternal
| How imposing the lesson Which OF all may
not, at any moment, be the becs of the same fate?
! And how commanding the yoicH which speaks from
! anticipated death, that we be ready to meet its
coming. That that "great day OF death" will come
we knOwl That solemn day, at whose thought
'each sublunary wish lets 90 its eager grasp and
drops the world, and catches at each reed Of hope
| in Heaven
However these Affections lacerate the hearts Of
| surviving kindred and friends, they serve to do
more than ''to point moral"
| They proclaim everything and watchful Prov
| idence, which will certainly, in its own allotted
| time, transfer all of human kind from a world of
temporary toll and probation, to of never-end-
| ing happiness woe, this life may be spent well
or i'll. Leaving, we should ever reverentially
do, to God, the disposal of u.s. as we from time to
time are to be ushered into His presence for judg-
ment, we yet have reason to hope aud believe, that
lives spent in the honest discharge of all duties,
public and private, and with feelings of goodw i'll
and charity to all, will go far, very far, with the
| mercy Ct Heaven tn excuse the errors which
| spring from the inherent fraties of our natures.
Let this reflection solace in present be
reavement, and stimulate US, yet more to conduct
void of offence to man and God.