The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18
CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY.
A Tribute from the Bar of Ramsey
County to his Memory.
The Resolutions Passed-.-Eloquent
Remarks of Judge Sherbufne.

Some most interesting proceedings took
place yesterday morning in the District Court,
Judge Palmer presiding, the occasion being the
tribute from the bar of Ramsey county to the
memory of the late Chief Justice r. B. fancy.
On Thursday committee consisting of Messrs.
Brisbin, Smith and Allis, were appointed to re-
port resolutions expressive Of the sentiment of
fancy.
Yesterday morning, on the assembling of the
court, the committee, through their chairman,
submitted the following report, which was
adopted:
The committee appointed by this Honorable
Court to prepare suitable expression of
the sentiments of the Bar, and the officers of
this Court-touching the death of the late
lamented Chief Justice Tanev of the United
States Supreme Court, beg leave to report the
the same be placed upon the Records of
this Court:
Resolued. That the members of the Bar and
the'officers of the District Court of the Second
Judicial District, deeply deplOre the loss which
the country has sustained in the death of Hon.
Roger B. fancy, who, for a period of nearly
thirty years has filled the exalted position of
United States. adjoining the office by the simple
purity of private character, the unaffected
courtesy of his manners, his high culture,
eminent learning, great legal attainments and
distinguished Judicial abilities.
JOHN B. BRISBIN,
JAMES SMITH, Jr.,
LORENZO ALLIS.
Hon. Moses Sherburne arose and addressed
the Court as follows:
May It please your Honor:
l have this morning been requested by
members of the Bar to sec )nd the resolutions
which have Just been presented. To do so is
most grateful to ones feelings, and second
them most heartily. Thirty years ago knew
well the late Chief Justice fancy, not personal
ly, but through the papers of that day, and re-
member well the great Interest in common
with hosts of others which felt in bis for
tunes. I remember that in the mercantile,
monetary and political commissions of that
day he passed through many fiery ordeal,
and at each successive trial came out brighter
and brighter. well remember that when
the announcement was made of his appoint
ment as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, it was received with fear
and misgivings by many great and good men,
and with what pleasure his friends learned
that when for the first time he took his seat in
the Court as the Chief of his experienced and
learned associates, in presence of Bar the
most distinguished in the country, he at once,
by his great dignity Of department and char
acter and his great legal learning and gigantic
intellect inspired them all with such uniform
Difference and respect, that as 1 was informed
by some who were present at the time, the
tapping Of his pencil would arrest the attention
of the whole court and command perfect
silence. He thus continued to be the presiding
genius of that Court-enforcing the never fail
ing respect and Difference OF his associates and
the Bar from the first day when he took his seat
until short time since, when at an age far
exceeding the age allotted to man, in The full
vigor of intelect-with a mind undimmed, he
retired peacefully to rest from the labors
of this life. During all his judicial career he
has stood solid wall between the contending
elements of the country-veering neither to the