New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-05
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA.
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT OF LAW DEPARTING

ANSO al COMMENCEMENT OF LAW DEPARTMENT.
The annual commencement exercises of the Law
Department of the University Of Louisiana took place
at Lyceum Hall yesterday, when the degree of Bach.
elor of Laws was conferred upon the thrty-four
graduates to whom diplomas were awarded. Long
before the time for the opening of the exercises the
hall was filled by large auditory, the graduating
class the faculty and other distinguished members of
the profession being assembled in the Mayors par.
or whence they marched up to the hall in procession
After music from the orchestra Christian Roselius
Esq, called upon the following gentlemen, compos-
ing the graduating Glass; to rise and come forward
e. Allain, j. Allain R. Beauvais j. A. Breaux, L.
L. Butler, T. E. Camus, Il. A. Cross, W. B. benson,
G. Soniat Dufossat W. Duncan, J. T. Ellis E. T. Eel
lows, James Fuller, J. A. Haynes, A. D. Henrques,
W. H. Holmes, s. Hyams, E. Janin, ]. Laurans, G.
H. Luzenburg, G. s. Mayo, G. NJ. Morgan, j. D. s.
Newell, James Newton, E. F. Newman. W. v. Oil.
vier, jr, s. E. Packwood, E. G. Preston A. Sambola
A. W. Semmes, S. s. Semmes, R. Nick. Spearing,
R. Richardson, j. J. Smith.
The class being arranged in semcircle in front of
the STAGE Mr. Roselius conferred upon each and every
member the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and after
wards addressed them in very appropriate and inn
pressive manner. He charged them ever to retain
lively sense of the dignity and Importance of the pro-
fession with which they had identified themselves,
and not to forget that it not trade to be followed
for sordd ucre only that the mission OF Law was the
conservation OF justice, and the lawyer should be
partcipator in its administration. He charged them
never to foment litigation, but to persuade to compro
mise-that the best aspect of litigation that it
was but necessary evil and that no true lawyer,
one who respects his profession would be instrumental
in provoking it. He charged them to refuse to take
part in unworthy cases. and never to lend themselves
to oppression and injustce-to let occasion induce
them to resort to undue means to gain point, to
do that as lawyers which they would be ashamed to
do as men to let honor truthfulness and all virtue
be their professional as well as social guides.
After another blast from the magnificent orchestra
of the Orleans, Rufus NAPLES, Esq, delivered the
Alumni Oration' an effort distinctiyey marked by
the humorous bent of the speakers genius. After
exordum appropriate to the occasion, he took up
the subject proper of his oration, The Golden
Mean of Government ~ that in medic tutissinus
ibis equally removed from license and from despotism
which was contemplated as most readily attanable
by the triad form of government-the republican
form OF government OF the United States, which i:
| divided into three branches, and was triune-tht
Legislative, Executive and Judiciary branches
each forming side of the triangle, and which mus
all retain their proper balance and proportion te
| maintain the unity, strength and effectiveness.
of the whole. But one of the sides was becom
| ing weakened and had received severe blow
one which would effect its destruction and thai
| Of the whole fabric, and which was the making
of the Judiciary elective, and thus sapping its in
dependence at the core. This was the first greal
demonstration Of tho tendency to Absolute De
mocracy, which as bad, worse, than any Other
absolutism this was the crushing down of the bar
rier between Liberty and License, leaving no breast
work between justice and the populace, who could
prevent and disappont it, as it might when misguided
by the unscrupuous and demagoguical to the election
Of candidates wholly disqualified for its adminstra-
tion by character. learning or experience. In clam
oring for mud receiving this elective right the over
weening tendency Of the times toward Absolute De-
mocracy, popular absoutism, was manifested and the
orator proceeded to inyeigh and argue against the
system of elective Judiciary at length, as principle
destructive to our whole theory Of government
taking occasion to say however. that aa yet prac
| tcaly bad results had followed in this immediate
latitude for Ill wearers III the judicial ermina were