Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-10-18

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During ten years now past, il has fallen
to me officially TO participate in the admin
istration OF the law in the Courts Of this
County, and for six years as the presiding
Judge of your County Court.
4 You al know how large II share he has
borne as counsel in the business that has
been here done. You all Know with what
ability, failhiulness and propriety he dis
charged his responsible duties as counsel
lor, and in the especial department in
which, by the concurrent judgment of his
brethren and the public he had no superb
or if any peer.
You all know how his presence as coun-
sci IN cause was regarded as a tower of
strength to the party whom he was called
to serve. You all know how fairly, and
at the same time how thoroughly and
strongly, how judiciously and shrewdIy,
and in all respects how properly, he bore
himself in these encounters of mind with
mind; of interest with interest of will
with will; with what propriety and cour-
tesy towards opposing counsel with what
respectful Difference to the Court; with
what kindly gentleness towards weak and
embarrassed witnesses with what rigor-
Gus and searching questioning of the UNI
willing, the evasive and the false.
| need say no more of him in these re-
spects, in this presence and on this occa-
sion.
1t has fallen to my lot to know Mr.. But
Ter in his character as legislator and a
public man. In the County of my resi-
dence, hardly man outside of that Coun-
ty was more favorably known or more
highly estimated for the qualities that, il
combination, fit man for public service,
ard his name has often been mentioned by
the most judicious and discerning with the
wish that he might become the incumbent
OF some of the highest offices in the State.
His service as Senator gave him sim
liar hold upon the estimation of those who
were associated with and knew him in that
office in other sections of the State and |
make little doubt that, had he been spur-ed
by the personal ambition that is not re-
garded as discreditable in worthy aspirants
for high official position, and, had he in
voked in his own behalf the efforts of those
whose influence is controlling when put
forth in political action, the public would
have had his services in other and more
conspicuous fields than the bar of this
County and the Senate of this State.
But he was not self-seeking nor preten-
tious. Ga The other hand he was modest;
gracefully deferring himself to the more
active pretentions and often to the inferior
merits and worth of others. We all have
in fresh and sorrowing remembrance his
last day of service in this Court at its last
term, how he went home at the close Of
the week expecting TO return TO service on
the opening of the next, when he was
to the sick bed of his son in a
far off State, and moved by the prompt
ings of affection in no father more sensi-
tive or strong, he fastened to profer the
benson of fathers presence, and the
support of fathers arms and the enconr-
agement of fathers words to his Ian
gushing boy. He reached the object of
his parental solicitude, but the fatal dart
was fostering in his own heart, and there
he yielded up life most dear to his fam
lily most valuable to his friends; most SER
viceable to the town, to the County, and to
the State.
That departure from this Court was to
us, the last of our friend and brother in,
life, and yet this place SO rife with his
grateful presence and his excellent service,
renders doubly vivid our memory of his
virtues and his worth; and doubly keen
The sense of our loss. Let US living lay it
to heart and emulate his excellent qualities
and his good name that thus, when we,
like him, pass from these scenes, our men,
Dry, like his, may be enbalmed in The tears
and blessings Of those we leave behind.
The members of the Court fully con-
cur in the sentiments expressed in the
resolutions and the remarks hat have now
been addressed to them, and the Court
cheer fully make the order proposed by the
last of the resolutions.
SPIcY.-Henry Clay Dean recently
wrote TO Horace Greeley, inviting dis
cussion of the national debt question, from
the standpoint Of the Democratic doctrine
Of reputation. In reply II. G. sent the
fellow an extinguisher:
OFFICE OF THE TRIBUNE, NEW York,
Oct. 8, 1867 Mn. DEAN-.Sir 1 have
yours of the 29th ultimo. Should ever
consent to argue the propriety and policy
OF wholesale swindling, l do not know
where the cause of national villainy could
Et,I kn+ nj. IL