The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-04-24
THE U. =. CIRCUIT COURT AT
mlLWAUKsE ON THE PnESI.
DEN1sS DEAIH.

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DENTS DEAlH.
The United States Circuit Court being
in session at Milwaukee at the time OF
the announcement of the death Of Presi.
deut Lincoln, appropriate resolutions wer.
presented by the Bar, with request that
the court adjourn for the term. The
rsolutions we're presented BY Mr.. Arnold
on behalf of the Bar, and the following
response was made on behalf of the court
by Justice Samuel F. Miller, Of the En-
preme Court of the United States:
The Court has listened with lively sch.
sibility to the proceedings OF the bar, and
the remarks Of the eminent counsel who
presents them.
These formal proceedings, the usual
expressions of respect which public bodies
pay to the memory OF public men, though
eminently proper now, must be felt By Gil
to be inadequste to this occasion.
Abraham Lincoln, the President Of the
United States, has fallen by the hand of
an assassin.
The horror at the nature Of the deed
the profound sense Of the national loss.
and the remembrance which rushes upon
Us of the peculiarly amiablc character.
m srcifsl disposition, and tenderness 9f
heart of the victim Of this great tras ed !,
call up emotions which no language can
utter, and which can ooly be Imagined 10
others, By consciousness which fills the
recesses OF our own bosoms.
The Chief Magistrate Of the nation dies
in the hour of the aation's triumphs, =
martyr to the cause OF freedom. Not Dc
a fanatic, who in the name Of liberty, By
a mistaken zeal seeks to enlarge the privi-
leges Of . class, or to establish the inde
pendence OF locality; bu. as the friend
Of humanity, the efficient and succeesful
advocate Of universal emancipation, aiming
to establish the just rights Of the people
of continent. he falls q noble martyr in
the holiest Of causes. And though it BE-
in the midst of grief and dismay, be re
ceives to-day the erandest tribute which
can be paid to the memory of lnan--a
tribute nobler than ssstosied urn or AMI
mated bust'-ths heartfelft sorrow ol
every honest man and true patriot 10 The
land.
The evidence which my presence here
as presiding officer OF this court affords o.
the grateful confidence reposed 10 mo BY
the late President, ~ we'll as several years
of official and social Intercourse, while
they add poiguancy TO the grief which
feel, in common with the nation, may b
supposed to disquslify mo to some sxten,
to speak impsrt'ally Of the merits Of the
/ deceased. Such testimony is not needed
and therefore refrain. / venture, how.
ever, the prediction. that as the storm ol
sorrow shall. Iiks the paseion Of partisan
prejudice. give way 10 the calmer iudg.
ment which time enables us 10 pass 90
the character of all public men, Mr.. Lin.
coin will rise in the general estimation oi
mankind, until his reputation shall occupy
: place 10 history, which few Of his warm.
est adnirers Of tho present day bsse
clsined for hin.
The proceedings Of the Bar will BE- "a.
tered on the records Of this Court. and
10 honor Of the departed head Of the. ps.
ltion tAs Cesst will b. adjourned onti|
the 6rst Monday in July next. 81
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