The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-08-23
THE DEATH OF MIR. MYERS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BAR.

on Saturday afternoon at the courtroom OF
the Supreme Court of Appeals to pay a tri-
butte of respect to the memory of Gustavus
A. Myers, ESQ, deceased, who was one of
the brightest ornaments of the legal profess
sion in this city.
Judge William 7. Joynes was called to
the chair, and John 0. Steger, Esq, was
chosen secretary. William Green, Esq,
moved the appointment of q committee of
FIVE to draft resolutions expressive of the
sense of the meeting.
The Chair appointed Messrs. william
Green, n. Pope Howard, James Alfred
Jones, Judge Crump, and Peachy r. Grat-
tan said committee, who retired, and after
some time returned, and through their
chairman, William Green, Esq, reported
the following preamble and resolutions !;
which were prefaced by brief but feeling
and eloquent tribute to the memory and
worth of the deceased by Mr.. Green:
"The members of the Richmond bar,
who twice SO lately have been convened to
pay the last sad tribute of respect to de-
parted brethren, now find themselves again
assembled upon an occasion of the same
melancholy character. Gustayus A. Myers
is dead. That cultivated intellect, that
kind and honest heart, have left us for
ever and it only remains for us, his sur
vivors, to cherish and honor his memory,
while we profit, as best we may, by the ex-
ample of his unspotted life. This event
must carry sorrow to the heart of every
citizen or resident of RichmOnd--the city
where Mr.. Myers was born and has always
dwelt-to whose interests he was always
uniformly devoted with unsclfsh zeal, and
over whose municipal Council he presided
for many years. But it falls with pecu-
liar burden of grief upon us his brethren
of the bar, who were accustomed TO meet
him, from day to day, in the pursuits and
the intercourse of our common profession
These afforded us the best opportunities
of knowing him we'll; and to know him
we'll was not only to admire him for his high
intelligence and his extensive and varied
information, and to honor him for his in
tegrity, professional zeal, and unwearied
diligence in the discharge of his every duty
as lawyer, but also to love him for the
unaffected kindness of his nature, the gen.
tie courtesy of his dcmeanor, and that over
flowing and hearty benevolence which he
almost seemed to regard an offered opportu-
nifty of comforting obligations on another,
and especially on member of his own
profession, as an actual obligation conferred
upon himself. 1t was impossible that he
should ever have had an enemy; for while
we who knew him well, and saw him often,
felt attracted irresistibly to him by strong
est bonds of personal attachment, those
whose intercourse with him was but occa-
.:o.,o1 .,,l r,ro oor1l ,,ovor oaco rn IN i'm.
preston of at least warm and sincere good
will towards one whose converse was sc
stamped with that general politcness which
springs from consideratc attention to tho
feelings of others, and followed in lesser
matters, as we'll as in greater, the golden
rule Of enlightened pagan morality, NJ
fcceris Glteri quad tibj .ieri non ris,' am
the better prcccpt, 'All things whatsoever
We would that men should do to you, do ye
even so to them Better, far better, than tC
be honorcd and admired is it to he loved
as every man must learn at the hour Of hi:
own death, if not sooner. How cmincntly
happy is he who, like our lamented assO
ciate, combines in his character at once the
qualities that compel honor and those thai
win and secure attachment. We arc
hero to pay him the mingled tribute
of our admiration, our honor, and oul
love; and to express, how inadequate
ly s0ever. our sense OF the heavy anC
irrcparable loss his native city and hiE
chosen profession have alike sustained by
his dcccase. The poor of this community
will perhaps feel that loss even more sensi
bly,, for his unostentatious charity-scarcely
known to any but the recipients, his Owl
family, and few friends whose frequcn
visits at his house gave them casual oppor
tunities of observing it-made many {
widow, many an orphan of Richmond, AZ
almost daily pensioner of his bounty. They
and we must alike feel it as some consola
ton to know that his death was as peaceful
as his life-painless, apparently, and with
out q groan.
" ReSolUcd, As the sincere sentiment o
this meeting, that by the death of Gustayu'
A. Myers the city Of Richmond has lost al
eminently useful citizen, ever Jealous fol
her true interests, and earnest, able, ant
efficient, in promoting them; and that we
the members of the Richmond bar, hay,
lost an associate whom the high and noble
qualities of his head and heart rendered
Mt once distinguished ornament of oul
profession and m object of the warmes
personal regard and attachment on the par
of each and every one Of us, his brethrc1
who survive him.
" ReSolUed, That we tender to his family
our deepest and trucat sympathy in thci
affection, under the heavy calamity to which
they have been subjected by the yisitin!
| hand of Providence, and our assurance
that, with us as with themselves, the me
mory Of their departed relative will abid
as the undying object Of our attachmen
and yeneration.
" ReSolued, That the members Of thi
meeting will, in q body, attend the funera
Of the deceased.
" Resolved, That the several courts hcl,
in this city be respectfully requested b.
the chairman to enroll the proceedings 0
this meeting upon their respective records
that the editors of the city newspapers b.
requested to publish them, and that tn
secretary furnish the requisite copies 70
these purposes, and also deliver u copy t
the family of the deceased"
Judge Crump seconded the preamble ant
resolutions in few impressive remarks
He spoke of Mr.. Myers as the most perfec
model of true gentleman it was ever hi
pleasure to know. He said he was natu
rally polite-polite in the highest sense o
the word. He was possessed of all the no
bier and gentler instincts Of the true gen
tleman; q good neighbor, thoroughly read il
the law, and of eminent attainments as
classical scholar. He was thorough Vir
ginian in feeling, and no one was NOR
deeply imbued with love for his State AM
its traditions than he. His literary tast
was exquisite, and he preserved his tempe
on all occasions. He had gone from amon
Us amidst the grief Of the entire community
His end was peace. He trusted that tn
memory of so estimable citizen would len