Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-07-22

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OBTTI ARY.-Late dispatches Announce
the death Of Roswell NJ. Field, which
occurred III St. Louis Tuesday evening.
This event was not wholly unexpected,
As he had been i'll several weeks, and re-
Gently his brother, Charles Il. Field, OF
Brattle boro, was summoned to his bed
side by telegraph yet it Is such blow
a. falls only when great man falls and
1t l. felt with sorrow in his native State
Mr.. Field was the son of the late Gen.
Martin Field, OF Newfane, and at the
time OF his death Gould 1ot have been far
from % years of age. After being adj
mitted to the bar and practicing awhile
IN Windham county, he removed TO 81.
Louis in 1889, where he has ever since
resided and become eminent. An unfor-
] tunate event occurred shortly prior To his
departure, which embittered his feelings
somewhat, and perhaps caused his aban-
! donment of lucrative practice and re-
moval from the State. lie tell in love
with an accomplished young lady in
| Windsor, and though she was engaged to
another gentleman, succeeded in winning
her affections, and inducing her to ioin
lowed by cohabitation III case the consent
of her pare nts could be obtained. but 9TH
erwise to tie void.
! SHE fail ed TO gain that consent and as
soon as he could be summoned from Bo.-
ton was publicly married to her first love.
who Joined her in suit in chancery
against Mr.. Field for the dissolution OF
the secret marriage. Both she and her
an h.. D., L.,
won it in the Supreme Court and the case
is reported at length in the 18th yolu me
of Vermont Reports. Mr. Field felt sore
ly aggrieved at the result and issued
pamphlet in which he sought TO indicate
himself before the world. Afterwards.
however, he married another lady with
whom he lived happily. She has been
dead several years. and four children, we
think, survive them both. 1t is a roman
tic fact that years after the above un for |
tunate suit, the Lady whom he first loved |
and then fought SO persisten tly, then
twice a widow, married "A merchant of /
Windsor County who shortly thereafter
removed to st. Louis, where they lived
for several years, moving in the first cir
Giles Though never meeting Mr.. Field
and where she died suddenly, of heart
disease, about four years since, beloved
by al. knew her.
After his removal to st. Louis. Mr..
Field devoted himself assiduously TO the
law. As an advocate he was very elo-
quent, and as a lawyer he became very
learned. In short time he had his
choice OF cases, and ever since then he has
stood in the front rank. He gain ed a
national reputation as one of the council
In the bred Scott case, and but for
habit of incidence which beset him dur
ing the last fifteen years, he might have
been one of the first men in the nation :
before his death. In the dark DAVIS of ,
1851 and 1862, when st. Louis felt that !
she slept upon powder mine Mr.. Field ,
was one OF the calm and patriotic men !,
that influenced public action, prevented .
rash counsels, impressed the General Gov. !,
eminent with a sense of the real danger :,
and saved the city. Last winter he was
talked of as candidate for the United :
States Senate, in place of Mr.. Henderson. :
and at that time correspondent of the :,
Springfield Republican wrote of him as =
follows:
lie is the Nestor of the Missouri bar !.
md the legal adviser of the Radical mar a,
y, II it has one. The Democrats sorne. Il
lines called him the "head devil of rad;. 8,
'alism. His enunciations, however. in T
avor OF radicalism have all been in the a,
orm OF legal opinions, which have 40 :,
frustrated democratic designs that thew r
ave him probably more credit than he q,
deserves, and hence the epithet. He never y.
ppears at the hustings, and in fact il . r
ort OF old Diogenes that sticks to his tnh -
III 1t is time to be in the supreme CONT ~
'hen he comes forth and delivers his nro' -