Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-04-10

Massachusetts-a stability that extends ah(
over the country. All parts have received the
benefits of that great mind, which has occupie,
thirty years in the annals of our Jurisprudence,
comforting such labors on the people of the
commonwealth as no other man has ever done.
And this fact is admitted wherever his deci-
sions are read
Hon. Isaac Davis said he was one of the
few who was already member of the bar
when the late chief justice was appointed, and
he hoped it would not be deemed egotistcal
for him to Say, that he had been well acquaint-
ed with persons who came up TO this temple
of justice to get their rights but he had never
cisions was questioned by any person. Suit
ors might have their prejudices, but they all
trusted him. After feeling alusion to some
of the more prominent traits in the character
of the eminent deceased, the speaker closed by
saying all had hoped to hear from one dis
tinguished gentlemen present, whose Official
position as chief magistrate at the time, gave
him the responsibility, and enabled him now
to enjoy the high credit of making so iortun.
ate and judicious a selection for the head of
the state judiciary as the appointment of the
eminent jurist whose loss we now so deeply
deplore.
The venerable Elk. Governor Lincoln arose
with much emotion. lie said that he was
overcome, he was oppressed, by the reference
made to him in allusion TO the loss SO deplor-
ri L.. IL.
a word, but to utter the reverence of silence to
the memory of the late chief justice. 1t was
not his happiness to know the late chef JUS
tice in his labors at the bar. His acquaintance
was of more recent date; it was made at Pc
riod of life when friendships are warm and af-
fectiors spontaneous, and he was led to love
him almost as brother. He had had More
acquaintance with him in political life, and
ever when he differed from him he could not
but retain his confidence in him, for he found
in him a spirit of candor and Difference TO
others which did him great justice. He re
vered him as a jurist, as a statesman, as
christian and in all these relations it was the
wish of his heart to pay him this imperfect
tribute of his admiration
The judge ordered the resolutions of the
bar to be entered on the records of the court.
But he said that, as he had not anticipated that
this movement of the bar would be made to-
day, he would trust himself to make an ex,
tempore response to the resolutions, and to
the remarks of those who had addressed him.
He concurred with the bar in all that they had
said respecting the deceased. 1t was unexag-
gerated, and plainly just. He observed that
the results of the chief Justices mental opera
tons were manifest to those who read his opin-
ions or heard them delivered but that the
manner in which his mind operated, in form
ing those opinions, was fully known only to
those who were associated with him in consul.
tation
The judge also wished to say, from personal
kno wledge-what the bar and the public gen
orally had not the means of knowing-that no
man was ever more kind and affectionate, or
more beloved and venerated, in his domestic
relations.
The court was then adjourned till afternoon,
at which time some of the early cases on the
trial list having been settled, no case ior jury
was found ready for trial
After an examination into the state of the
docket, the jurors were excused It'll next week
Wednesday, April 17th. at two O'Clock P. M
and the court adjourned till next Monday,
| April 10Th, at 10 A. NJ, when the court will at
tend TO matters not requiring jury.
I'D W. mill ni1ihsred th?.i4 ali actions at law en-
l
filed by April l1th, and in all actions at law
entered at this time, answers shall be filed by
April 18Th.