The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-27

public councils Of the State, what frenzy
Of political passion, or what audacity OF
partisan attack, has ever dared to breathe
. suspicion of ,sordid or dishonest mo-
tives against Judge Boozer? In early
and middle life, and, indeed, until his
years had quite ''fallen into the seret and
yellow leaf" throughout the calner
days Of the republic, Judge pBoozer's 8
public course seemed to flow in sub
stantial harmony with the great body of
his fellow-citizens But when, late in
life, at an age when many men are put.
ting off the armor of active life,
the mutterings of the coming stupend-
GUS civil convulsion wero heard-then it
was that tho character of Judge Boozer
met its severest test and most trying
ordeal. From that time until tho hour
when death opened to him the gates of
that world where strifcs and contentious
cease. Judge Boozer's public course was
in direct and undisguised conflict with
the sentiment OF his State Thenceforth
he knew what it was to exercise that
virtue which Cicero describes as "the
power of living apart from ones associ-
ates; OF being stranger beside the
ancestral hearth"
May it please your Honors, l do not
disguise from myself the fact TINT J am
trendiuS on the thin ashes which but
half conceal the dying fumes of our
fearful struggle. 1 would not, on any
occasion, least of all on such an occasion
as this, disturb, by so much as Il ripple,
the subsiding waves of our civil con.mo.
ton, but [ cannot help feeling that no
picture of Lemuel Boozer would be
historically correct, or be recognizable by
posterity, or valuable to his friends,
which did not print him as he was, or
which failed to portray this most siguifi-
cant and eveutful passage of his life.
His love of the Union, his attachment
to its history and lis polity. his fuith in
its future, were deep-seatcd, sincere, in
eradicublc For its sake he was willing
to forego honors; to meet obl~Quy: to
endure the loss of friends What gene
rous political foes; VIII manly heart any
where, however bitter may have been the
warfare during his life, is not ready to-
day to lay garland on the grave of QUO
so honest, so sincere, so outspokeu?
OF Judge Boozers later judicial ser,i
ccs, others will speak who have scanned
them more narrowly. But here, as in
al his life, his tirmness, his candor, his
conscientious industry, his fidelity to
duty, were constantly displayed. He
had no revcngcs to glut, no hatreds to
crafty; but a simple, single eyed rur.
pose to do his duty, guided and sustain
ed him until death claimed him in the
midst of his highest usefulness.
May it please your Honors, feel thnt
there is much, very luuch, in such life
and character to enlist our admiration
and TO command our respect. In the
midst of so much shameless sclf-sceking,
how fragrant the example of such
unostentatious eervicc! In the midst OF
such abounding venality, how conspicu-
ous the unspotted purity of such life
In an age of brilliant but shadowy repu-
tations, how grand the simple and solid
strength of such q character!
And so, tcnderly but proudly, we lay
him down, and as the grave closes over
the form of our revered friend, we echo
that strain of lofty and tender lament in
which the Roman historian bewails his
patron and his friend:
"Si 9uiS piorum n0nibus locus, 81, ~
Snpienti6us plucet, non cun, corp0re e.cSiin-
yu,mtur dnimde mdgnae, plucide quiescas. -
Hon. w. +. DeSaussure said
MAY II PLEASE THE COURT: I rise to
second the resolutions offered by the At
torney- General, and to express my cor
dial concurrence in his able, just and
eloquent address. AS the senior member
of the Bar Of the Circuit over which the
deceased Magistrate presided, it is fit
that should add my voice to this pro-
posed tribute of respect to his memory.
But beyond this. my personal relations
with him were ever of the kindest cha
racter, aud call for this expression of my
sincere respect It is more than thirty
years since first knew him ut the Bar
Of Lexington, and 1 had ample opportu-
nifty of observing his course. 1t was
upright, manly and just. This, with his
unfagging industry, in few years,
placed him at the head of the Bur of his
District. The people had confidence in
him, and he vindicatcd that confidence
by devotion to the interests contided to
him; by his sound, practical good sense,
and by his sterling integrity. His influ-
ence with juries was marked, and he was,
for tho most part, successful in his
causes. His brethren of the Bar found
him fair practitioner, resorting to no
petty arts, and formidable opponent.
His manners were courteous; never
heard him speak i'll of any one. It was
contrary to his nature. Advanced to the