Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-04-20
VOLUME XXXIII.

markable talent for imparting instruction
and never were so happily employed as
when expounding and solving difficult and
obstruse legal questions They delighted to
take Young men By the hand, and to encour-
| age and stimulate their ambition TO make
LAWYERS Of themsel yes, and not to faint by
the wayside. They were greatly beloved by
their students, and hundreds of them now
scattered throughout the South, will never
cease TO love and venerate their character,
and TO regard them as their fathers in the
law.
As a man and as Christian, the character
Of Judge Green was beyond all estimation.
He was deeply learned in the Scriptures,
and for many years had made them the man
of his counsel. He was a lively, enthusiastic
Christian. As with every other profession
which he made, and every enterprise in
which he embarked, he knew no halfway
position, but gave up his whole soul to this,
the greatest profession of his life. He was
always at church and at the Sunday school
on active and efficient labors. He was the
first man at the prayer meeting. If the
minister was absent, he filled his place, not
reluctantly, but with alacrity. / have seen
him at camp meetings after the ministers
had become exhausted, take the pulpit and
conduct the meetings himself, proftably and
effectively to the worshipping assembly.
His example in this particular TO the young
men of the same school, was most beneficial.
He delighted to teach them that whilst
industry, perseverance and study were neces-
sary to make them lawyers, that the Chris
tian religion was a beautiful ornament to
their profession as lawyers, and would pre-
sent no obstacle 10 their success.
But will not protract these desultOry re-
marks. We cannot relieve ourselve7 or the
community of the sorrow and grif in
which we are plungedby this great loss. The
ways Of Providence are past finding out, but
are always right, and we will acquiesce.
In the words Of Charles Sumner, on the
death Of Judge Story, "Our illustrious
friend has gone to his long home, and we
shall never see him again, except in his
opinions and in the memory of his virtues.
The scales of justice which he so long held
have fallen from his hands, the voice of the
teacher is mute, the fountain which was
once flowing and ever full, is stopped. The
manly form, warm with all the affections of
life with love for family and for friends, for
truth and virtue, is now cold in death. The
righteous Judge, the wise teacher, the faith
full friend, the loving father has ascended
to his Judge, to his Teacher to his Father in
Heaven"
SPEECH OF COLONEL GoLLADAY.
| did not think to say anything upon this
occasion, but having been student under
the charge of the illustrious dead, whose
loss we all deplore, | feel that | should do
myself injustice in refraining from the ex-
preston of my feelings in regard to a loss
which is common to us all. ] most cheer
fully add my feeble testimony to what has
been already said, and TO the worth and use
fulness Of him whose death we commemO-
rate In the language Of the preamble and
resolutions read in our hearing, ! can truly
say, great and good man has passed from
among us. |, for one, can never forget his
urbanity and kindness, and especially to
the younger members of the bar. His repu-
taton as a lawyer his character as a gen.
tleman, will live in memory as long as
society shall entertain proper estimate of
the true the worthy and the good. The
example Of our deceased brother and friend,
and his walk in life, are indeed worthy of
the imitation of all of us. 1t was not per-
mitted him, like my Lord Mansfield, to en-
large and libcralize the doctrines of the
hard, common law it was not TO him, like
my Lord Hardwicke, TO adOrn and amplify
the great and expansive doctrines of equity
and Jurisprudence He found these great
doctrines Of the law in full bloom and per-
fection; but he was the worthy student and
the noble expounder of his illustrious
predecessors.
He is truly entitled to be classed among
the great, good and profound lawyers of his
4 md 3agre rum
lamented Caruthers, was to the law school
at Lebanon what Blackstone was to the
Veneran Professorship in England, it may
with truth be said Judge Nathan Green was
to our school what the lamented Story was
to that of Cambridge.
We have cause, gentlemen, to mourn the
loss of great lawyer and good man. We
shall hear no more his able expositions of
the law, nor learn words of wisdom from his
lips. He is gone and forever. The walks
that have known him, shall know him no
more forever. May we not truthfully say of
him, when contemplating his Judicial ca
reer, as was said of one Of England's illus
trious judges, that
"Hc was an upright judge, who, faithful to his
trust,
With warmth gave judgment and was always
just
As iurisprudent, he drew his inspiration
and principles from that great book ot books,
which teaches "that you do unto Others as
you would others should do unto you" Upon
this broad and beautiful foundation he built
and administered the wise and humane doc
trines Of the law,
This har has been called within the last
four years, TO mourn the loss of some Of the
ablest intellects of the State, Hon, Ahra-
ham Caruthers that wise, great and good
commQn-law lawyer, sleeps in the sod of
Georgia, far removed from the kindred and
friends of his earlier years. HattOn, the
gifted and brilliant, fell upou the soil of the
old mother of States, in the fierce storm-tide
of battle Howard, the open-hearted, free
Just, generous and brave, died in a cause he
conceived in his "heart of hearts" to be just
and right, amid the horrors Of war around
Richmond. Col. Martin, with spirit bro
ken by the fierce sorrows Of his country, has
passed from among us. We mourn them all,
and trust they are at rest and peace from
their labors.
Whilst we mourn our illustrious dead, We
sorrow for none more than for him who, ripe
in years and wisdom, is no more. Wbqtet=
er may be our examples and practices indI7
NluNiiAN. " ltlNAN hN a NNhlHolahltiA W NNNAl
intelligent mind present TO feel and know
that the last end Of Hon. Nathan Green was
quiet, rational and beautiful and exemplary,
for such had been his life No terrible
dreams came to disturb him in his last
moments, of life mis-spent but he fell
gently TO sleep
As one who draws the drapcry
of hiscouch around him, and lies down
To pleasant dreams
He died in the full possession OF the
Christians hope and faith. The spring rains
will soon bring the green grass uppA the sod
Which caVets hit fqEnl. May We all endea-
yor 10 live as he lived and then shall We
die as he has died, exclaimirg, "all is well" ="
SPEECH oy col. IL, h, THOMPSON,
Mr., CHAIRMAN; ! feel that | cannot let
this occasion pass without paying an humble
tribute to the memory Of this great man. /
desire TO relate circumstance which will
| illustrate his character better than words
than high wrought eulogy; A citizen of
! this place and Judge Green were bitter per-
I sonal enemies, the result Of heated politi-
| cal controversy The citizen was a Jealous
| partizan in the late rebellion, and was ar
/ rested and carried TO Gallatin, where he was
/ sentenced to be executed. The old man,
true to the God-like impulse which ever
moved him, although wearied and worn on,
with age and disease followed hl9 S1enlE
/ and without charge y. ice plead Tor him as