The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-15

! to4speak to this audience, for you all know
it. In social intexcoufse as a friend, as q
politician, no man ever held q more fair or
open band than he. Every one viii remem-
Der IN the memorable campaign when II ar
rison was elected President of 1.-The United
States, he was q Wing in principle, and the
course he took in advocating the claims of
the State; the campaign papers that he
wrote and the speeches that he published, II
The labor of writing was very great to him
- the mere corporal business was very lrk-
some to him and when it was urged upon
him to do anything for the cause he would
say, 81 will do anything towards making a
speech, hut cannot write. . The great cam
paign or State paper-whicheYer you may
cali (which was circulated all over the
United States--he drew up. w used to
furnish him with an ainanuensis while he
would speak.
= i remember being in his office on that oc-
casion seeing him walking across the floor
making a speech, when Henry w. Miller was
the ananuensis, sitting at the table writing
down in short, as he could, when twas af-
forwards revised That paper was publish.
ed by committee and circulated over this
State, and respublished and reprinted over
the United States, and was confessedly, the
strongest partisan paper for the life, charac-
ter and history of William Henry Harrison.
Harrison was elected, as you know, Presi-
dent, and he invited Mr. Badger to take a.
seat in the Cabinet, and he did SO. He was
Secretary of the Navy and continued so,
believe, until nearly the close of the four
years when he returned home. He was af-
forwards. elected. Senator in Congress, and
you know how he stood up with such men
as Clay and Webster Calhoun and Benton,
and in the Supreme Court with Reverdy
Johnson,a Webster, and Others, inferior to
none of them. And when the war separated
this country he had then business in the Su-
preme Court<of the United States to a very
large amount which promised to be of ex-
traordinary benefit and profit.
I believe. fellow4citizens, this is all have
to say You know his character. You
know how kind and benevolent man he
was, and, I suppose, he had no enemies in
the world; how. he lived, publicly and pri-
vately, the friend of everybody, and every
body, believe, his friend. These are few
instances in his history which every citizen
in the State will cherish, and which may not
be inappropriate to those who are here.
At the conclusion of Gov Manly's address,
on motion of O. Busbee Esq, Ed. G. Hay
wood, Esq, was chosen Secretary.
On motion of B. F. Moore, Esq, a COM
mittee of five was appointed to draft resolu
lions expressive of the sentiments of the
meeting.
The chairman appointed the following
gentleman committee. Messrs B. F. Moore,
Thomas Bragg, K. P. Battle, w. S. Mason
and r. w. Lassiter, who retired and return
ing reported the following, through their
chairman, Mr.. Moore
WHEREAS, 1t hath pleased Divine Provi-
dence to take from among our much hon
nraf foil x--(sif- ara6 no
E. Badger, it IL due alike to his distinguish
ed position in society, and our deep sense of
the loss we have sustained, to give public
expression to our feelings. Therefore,
ReSolced. That by the death of Mr.. Badger,
we are profoundly sensible the community,
State and country has been deprived of one
who, most loved and respected in life, will
also be long mourned and revere1 by his
friends and an admiring public.
ResOIced, That in the native strength and
enlightened culture of his mind. in his pro-
found and extensive knowledge of law in his
upright and faithful public service, and in
his just and generous sentiments and tried
virtues, we haze eyes found the gentleman,
jurist, statesman and christian, whose exam
pie will be valuesl 50 long as his fame and
his character shall be remembered.
HeSolred, That the members of the bar
now present be requested, in respectful and
considerate treatment of his Juniors, and his
courtesy to all, to wear the usual badge of
mourning for thirty days
ResOtCed, That we tender to his afflicted
family our most sincere and heartfelt sympa-
thy in this bereavement, and that the Chair
man transmit copy of these resolutions to
them, and have the proceedings of this meet
ing inserted in the newspapers of the city.
After reading the resolutions Mr.. Moore
said:
1 shall make no extended remarks on the
distinguished subject of the resolutions re-
ported.
1t was the happy fortune of my early life
to become acquainted with Mr.. Badger. at
the house of my legal preceptor, where he
spent a day or two. He was then q Judge
on his circuit, and n student at law More
than forty years have passed away, but the
interesting occasion is still fresh in my mem
Ory. During the greater part of this bygone
time we have met at the bar and in the walks
of private life 1t was indeed my happy
fortune to make his acquaintance, but it was
my still happier fortune to enjoy, at all times
and almost eve since, his warm, intimate,
UNMARRIED and unreserved friendship No oc-
currence has ever drawn the shade of a line
between u.s..
I may justly claim, therefore, to have
known him as perfectly as one man may know
another.
For his very distinguished reputation at
the bar, it is enough to say of him or any
other man, that he was an Ajax among such
members of the bar, as Seawell, Hogg, Nash
and CASTOR.
Besides being, in my judgment, the most
accomplished legal logician ever heard, he
was one of the most eloquent of orators. In
conversation the brilliancy and charms of his
colloquial powers were dazzling and unri-
vailed.
In truth, Mr.. Chairman. the very highest
tribute which can be paid y the numerous
distinguished merits f onr departed brother
and fellow citizen requires no sketch from the
pencil of fancy Without the aid of flatte-
ry, all may be said of him that can be rea-
sonably said of the most gifted and excellent
of men.
The resolutions express, truly, my appre-
citation of the qualities and character of my
lamented friend and, without another word,
1 might drop them, as my offering on his
tomb. But, as this assemblage is called to-
gether at the instanceo the bar, will use it to
illustrate one trait of his character, for which
he was pre- eminently distinguished. The
illustration exhibits degree of stern up
Brightness, which might serve as chief orna-
ment to the memory of any man, whatever
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