The New York herald., 1869-02-14


regard to the memory OF the late James T. Brady
was held at eleven O'Clock yesterday in the General
Term room OF the Supreme Court The apartment
was filed to repleton, as were also the adjoining
chambers and the lobby and 1t s probable that there
were upwards Of six hundred OF the most eminent
members Of the profession In attendance including
Governor John I. Holman, Judges Belts, Biatchford,
Barbour, Barrett, Sutherland, Gilbert, Ingraham,
Aker, Cardozo, Jones and Dowling; exJudges II. T..
Davies, J. X. Porter Mitchell, Strong, Noah Davis;
Messrs. Rapalo, d. D. Field, Augustus M. Smith.
Richard O'Gorman, Edwards Pierrepont. John E. Bur-
nI, Clarkson n Potter, George Shea, Robert D.
Holmes, Nathaniel B. Hoxie, Professor Doremus and
other eminent gentlemen.
Mr.. Justice Ingraham was appointed president,
and Judges woodruff, Blatchford Gilbert, Barbour
Barrett Surrogate Tucker, Henry Nicoll and Re-
corder Hackett vice presidents; Judge Alker and
Messrs. Traphagen, Robinson, Sidney Webster, A.
R. Lawrence and R. D. Holmes were elected secreta-
portrait Of the lamented deceased, draped with
mourning insignia, occupied prominent position
In the room, and near it was placed superb bOquet
q rare flowers n having upon It in floral characters
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Resolved That ws The iasm5sls Of the New York bar
his sphere u:sfunes: our much beloved friend
Resolved As the sense hrs professions. brethren
joymsnss of nssmsSs value Is. bar Ia. lost il. most
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orator and attanmens - jus render his death deeply
Resolved That IN the admirable traits which distinguished
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G. A. Seward seconded the resolutions, after
FRANCIS B. CUTTING rose and said:-Mr. Presi-
dent-Though laborng under severe indspositon
the loss that you have, with the whole community,
standing that am unwel, to attend for the purpose
Of tesyng with you and before you to the respect,
friend. It is not my purpose to detain
you BY any. remarks beyond expressing the
ee OT gr's the Calamity that has
watched the progress that he made pr professionally
and in the community. He had entwined himself
aratiOn has caused q pang greater than have ever
felt, unless 1t might be for one OF my Immediate
a generous and magnanimous Disposition nature
had lavished upon him gifts intellectual and
moral; all the gifts that can adorn man had been
bestowed upon him. and nObly did he use them and
exert them. In the penitude OF his powers, in the
meridian OF his manhood in the zenith Of his fame,
us. Long will he live in memory; until each OF
shall be gathered unto his fathers'' will he live
remembered cSLeeneQ
respected and most beloved OF our brethren.
The next speaker was Mr.. JOHN MCKEON, who
spoke as foll0ws:-Mr. Presdent-This solemn
scene recalls 10 my mind an expression OF our de-
ceased friend on an occasion similar to this, when we
were engaged In paying the last tribute OF respect to
distinguished member OF the judicary:-"Of him
who so eloquently has often spoken Of our dead
brethren who Of the living can speak IN terms such
bility to do that justice which his memory demands
at our hands. come as the humbest OF you to cast
Q garland on the marble home in which lie en-
fha ofn NJ hn Huipr In
common with you / admired and in death
sincerely deplore. Mr.. Brady was known to me from
passed among us His father, Wen trained in cias-
sical attalnments impaired to his son much Of that
information on which was reared his successful
power which in after life won for him national
reputation. His ambition was TO be lawyer. He
sion. He did not view 1t as mere means of the
acquisition Of wealth. He looked upon its honors
far above The transtory regulations won in
high political positions. To the exercise OF the
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personal appearance was one or his great gifts. In
addition to this his mental capacities were Of no
philosophy or the law. He was not q mere otter OF
precedents, Cantor Jornaularunl, SO denounced by
OF profound erudition and Of reason. Ills Judgment
was clear and careful. His knowledge Of human
Il % @ ans
his urDanity y',, q manner, and above al his
be Of that order that the same words which
are inscribed under the bust OF Erskine may
Josensis Jdcte princeps" This gift of eloquence Is
not given to all The powerito sway the VIII and judg
spe ne e ~ we
address, was conferred on our deceased brother. De-
scended Of Celtic stock, he partook OF the fervid
indeed q proud representative Of that Homeric
race from which he sprung-which in the carrier
our bar and in later days descendants OF that race
who have proved not unworthy OF the fame
Of their predecessors The love Of the arts Of all
that refnes while t elevates humanity, which char
actertze the Cet was developed In Brady. But his
imagination was tempered and regulated by severe
judgment and taste. He possessed In q hign degree
o natural magnetism OF manner and subtle power
OF sympathetic feeling which bound his auditors TO
HIM and held them captive to his appeals. Who
will ever forget that peculiar manner OF his we all
have felt and none can describe. lt was evanescent
as the fragrance OF the rose.n Yet there was one
peculiarly of his eoquence which cannot be passed
over. That genial warmth which came bubbing
up from his own large heart was discernable
rolling before our eyes, sweeping in its resistess
power every argument OF his opponents, we az the
same time saw that VIII lGr which % ne was uistln I'D
stream OF his most serious argument. We may refer
to the period OF his introduction TO the bar OF this
city as an epoch IN his history In looking back on
the past we rising before us George Wood, tread
Ing with no uncertain step through the labyrnths OF
with ~" his legal eve over the long and
dreary waste OF waters; David Graham, the younger
and Ogden Hoffman, standing In the full panopy
OF intellectual power before our criminal tribunals.
Into the lists where stood these proud knights
young Brady sprang, ready TO contend with the
mghtiest OF them. How well he contended
many OF you remember, and the honors now paid 10
his memory are JUSTIFIED by the triumphs he has won
Mr.. Brady with the exception OF filling the once OF
the legal adviser OF the municipal authorities never
occupied any public ofice-yet he more OF pub.
lie man than any one among US. on the great ana
momentous questions which have agtated the coun-
try for the last thirty years his voice has always been
heard. and no man say that on every occasion his
advice given TO hrs countrymen II was prompted
alone by OF responsibility to to the interests
OF his country. No motive OF personal advance
ment, no vena consideration OF gain, was ever abb
scribed to him. Though we might differ with MN
TO his opinions. all agresd that they were dictated
by the highest devotion to h6pprable principle. No
man was ever more admired By the masses OF QW
people than Mr.. Brady. The scenes. which have seen
ssspsoos II 13X rs. Has bSs.ossu. No herald was
necessary 70 sniiInlon the populace TO his funeral
rites. When 1t became known that he was dead this
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