Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-22
THE BENCH AND THE BAR.
Address of Cen. w. B. Rate.

. Address OIL Gen. W. H. n1tASs
The publishers have favored US with a
copy of the address Of Gen. w. B. Bate,
delivered before the Alumni Association Of
| Cumberland University, at Lebanon, In
June, on tho subject of the bench and the
bar. The address is replete with breadth
of thought, expressed in the most felicit-
Gus language, and shows how beautifully
the graces of rhetoric can Irvine around
the marble columns Of the law.
The following local illusions to the bar
of Tennessee will awake memories pleas
ant but mournful to the soul:
| La not the legal casket of our own Ten
nessee filled with living jewels (of whom l
will not speak, and does not her historic
urn glow with the sacred ashes Of long
line of judicial fathers and unriValed adj
vocates? The voice of Grundy has
not vet lost its echo in the chambers of the
human memory of to-day-swiit "a Pc
gasus, fiery as Mars, and, in the conduct of
his suit, as artful rs Mercury
Where are Crabbe and Campbell, An.
drew hays and the YergeTs? Has not The
captivating charm of Tom Fletcher, and
the graceful pathos and infinite humOr OF
EphIaim ii. Foster, bright page in the
( Bar-eloq ueoce of the times2 Has the clear
shrill OF John s. Brien-so late re-
ceiyed in the bosom of Mount Ohvet-
who always dashed into the trial OF laws
suit as HoIspur into 6ght, lost its magnetic
touch upon the ear of Tennessee Jurles =?
Where could be found a brighter iustaDce
of genuine Bar elOquence, that Frightened
: all il touched, and could invoke from his
4 captive Jury, as if by magic, the tear or
5 the smile, as his cause was grave or gay,
! than that exempli6ed in the history of the
: late r, NJ. Burton, of the Lebanon Bar,
l the compeer of William Martin yesterday,
= and Stokes and CaIuthers OF to-day?
Q Did not the capacious brain OF John
= Marshall, Of Franklin, full of anIithetiC
n analysis, of logic and learniDg-whether
entangIing the court with the subLlety o.
his refnements and Infinite research, as b
ran the gauntlet of the law, or toying will
q the passions of jury, to the annoyance
n his adversary, demonstrate mastery su
periority in all his varied professional gu
Q tier?
g Can we to-day Tecur for moment t
- the sacred memory of Andrew Ewing
"a without dropping tear for his untlmel
= fate. when, in patriotic exile, he gave hi
=" talents, his energy and his life TO 9Th
u Lost Cause" our cause, dearer than all
7, | Via name il suggestive Of all that wa
n | fair and generous IN legal practice, OF al
,bst vas earnest, aud pathetic and straight
for,sard in argument. Upon his toDgu
IN The Hmys,ic bee" seemed to have "droppe'
8, the h oney Of persuasion" and while he e.
I'd nonse,J his clients cause with zeal this
Of hooked no defeat, when once the lIs
n we're ept cred, like true knight OF medla
I'll vsf chivalry, he poised well his lance an
ne - tbe tar,,et hurled it shivering! Peace
t. ,be asbes of this Bayard of the bar.
it The following touching tribute to Il
~ m,mory of the former President and Il
ay professors of law will beread with interes
an and who viii not drop tear as be recall
ne the forms of the dead heroes, around who
aeo,hlsss names The General has throw
y the vitchery of romance?
u Our venerable President, Dr.. Cosse
is hiss been gathered, as a golden sheaf, I'M
M tbe vranaIy of Eternal Life. Philosopht
he scholar, gentleman
&c "Te has gone to his home like well-ripen
ast The ear in its fuIness, and scar in its leaf;
cd Tie Angels have borne him. with JOY. to G
skies, ,
his The portals of Heaven have closed on tn
/, ofl prize"
A. Caruthers and Green par mobile trdtrir
.co singulsrly adapted, in taste aud cultul
200. for the part each played upon the drar
'ws, of life Inspired by Christian faith, a
practiced in Christian virtues, they, ha
in hand, pursued, with zeal and coura
by the tangled highways that circle about {
lew "Hills of Science" inviting along tn
mn classic ways the young ambition of [
land The results of their noble efio
Inc are seen and felt in every Courthouse
ing the South. Though 4" lost TO sight," Il
aise are 40 memory dear" The one (JuC