Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-23
THE CITY.
MEETING OF NASHVILLE BAR.

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MEETING OF NASHVILLE BAR.
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Tribute of Respect so.the aIesasry OF
Major William Glare, Deceased.
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Addresses and Resolutions.
Pursuant to notice, the members of the
Nashville Bar assembled In the Courthouse
at IL O'Clock A. NJ, on Tuesday, the 22d
day of November, to express their. regret
for the death of Maj. William Glare, late a
member of the Nashville Bar, and also to
pay fitting tribute to his memory.
| The attendance was very large, including
both young and old members, and also
those representing nearly every shade Of
political opinion. 8
/ On motion of James T. Brown, Esq,
Gen. William B. Bate was called to pre-
| side.
REMARKS OF GEN. BATE.
| On taking the chair, Gen. Bate said:
Gentlemen of the Bar of Nashville This
meeting, as I understand its object, has
been called for the purpose of paying a
tribute to the memory of tie late Major
/ William Glare. 1t is known that Major
| Glare died on yesterday, and is to be
buried on this evening. Some ceremonies
| are proper upon solemn occasion of this
kind, when one of our brethren has been
stricken down by the hand of death. In
| that view we have assembled for the pur-
pose of paying last sad tribute to him.
and OF attending his remains to the grave.
These things, gentlemen, have occurred
within the past year quite frequently. It
has been but short time since young
man, Mr.. Elliot, and then Pritch-
ard were stricken down by death;
and a shorter time since ope who
| presided on the bench, Judge Smith, has
been called hence; and now again the shaft
of death has found another victim,
Major William Glare, who was one of us,
and one of the best of US, has been called
hence. Young, active, energetic, talented,
| popular, possessing all of those elements
| which are attractive in a man who has the
true nobility of nature, he has been
called suddenly from US. We are all
standing in the vestibule of the
temple of eternity; we are jostling
each other as we crowd on across the
threshold and under that mighty arch
where we are to bow in obedience to the
Great Giyer Of all gifts and the Dispenser
of fates. We are now, many of us, almost
| around that altar, and this sad event
should be taken by us all, whether old or
young, as a solemn warning, and We should
| act upon it.
Maj. Glare was born Gas I know his his
tory by intimate association with him) in
Tuscaloosa, Ala. He was reared and edu-
Gated at Washington, and was a protege of
Hon. VIM. r. King. After that, when he
had scarce attained his majority, he
went again to his native State, and there
commenced the study of the law under
| Gen. L. p. Walker, at Huntsville, Ala.
and when he was twenty-one years of age
he removed to Gadsden, Cherokee county,
in the North-central part of that State,
with the view of practicing his profession.
he was rapidly becoming known as tai
ented and popular young man in that
section of country, in the practice of
his profession, when the tocsin of war
sounded in the late conflict; and,
| gallant, proud hearted and devoted TO his
| Southland, he became one Of the earliest
volunteers under her banner. He followed
its standard through its varied fortunes.
At Shiloh he was severely wounded, and
was promoted from the position Of captain
to that of major, and assigned to that po-
sition for his superior qualities Of head and
heart. He was courtly man, Of quick
and active mind, and indomitable will:
and in that respect, was rarely equalled in
the service, even under the most trying
circumstances. For these peculiar quail
ties, for his high-hearted chivalry and his
pride of character, for his personal bearing
and his happy conversational powers, he
was marked by the government as a fit man
to be placed on the general staff of the
army; and in that capacity, as major in
the general staff, he was associated with
Gen. Bragg, with Gen. johnson, with Gen.
Beauregard, with Gen. Hood, and with
Gen. Lee, partially. All of these have
borne testimony TO the urbanity, the
cultivation, the chivalry, and to the high
hearted and true nobility of man that he
was.
1t has been my fortune, gentlemen, on
more than one occasion, to see him tested
under trying circumstances. 1t has also
been my pride and pleasure, on more than
one occasion, to bear official testimony to
him In connection with those battles which
stand on the records of the Lost Cause I
knew Maj. Glare well knew him to love
him. No man, whether in the field or at
the forum, was his superior in princely,
courtly manners. No one was superior to
him in all those high elements and points
of character which make up the true
man, whether he was practicing at the bar,
whether in the social walks of life or
in the camp or the battlefield.
Such were his characteristics, gentle
men, but he is gone; he has left this
forum and gone to enter another where no
"pless in bar" can delay trials, where no
confession and avoidance" can thwart a
righteous judgment. He has gone to return
to us no more. He has left wife whom he
married near the close of the war, during
the campaign of General Hood at Nash
ville-one of the brightest aud purest and
best of women. He has left two little
children as orphans, and his mother and
sisters, who we're to certain extent de-
pendent upon him, to mourn his loss. He
has gone to the grave. We give him up as
one of the ornaments OF this bar. There
is no man sere, whether old or young,
who ever knew Major Glare to be guilty of
discourtesy at the bar, who can say, whe-
Their upon the trial of a cause, or contin-
ance, or in any other personal association,
that Major Glare ever forgot that which
was generous or that which was
due to the dignity of the profession.
He was exceedingly generous, warm-hea1t-
ed, kind, liberal, polite, and his entire
bearing and beautiful conversation made
him winsome in any circle which he might
be called to move. He never did mean
thing; he was incapable of doing it; and
no man who has known him in all the va
ried and checkersd walks of his young and
active life ever had suspicion that Will
liam Glare was capable of doing that which
was unmanly. My association with him
gives me better opportunity to know his
character than most other men, Ihave been
intimate with him for the last ten years. 1
knew him while he was reading law, before
he entered the army, and we followed its
fortunes together. He followed it, unfortu-
nate as was his flag, even in the darkest and
most sorrowing hour, to the bitter end.
He was young, ambitious, full of hope
and high-hearted. The bow of promise
spanned his future but that light which
led him on in his vision, has gone down,
and the clouds of darkness have taken its
place. We yield him to mother earth as a
jewel; may he sleep in green pastures and
beside the still waters, is the prayer Of his
friend.
NOTIONS AND COMMITTEES.
Col Baxter Smith here made motion,
which was carried, that the representa-
tives of the press present act as Secretaries
of the meeting,
Col Smith further moved that a COM
mittee be appointed to draft suitable reso-
buttons expressing the sense of the Bar on
this occasion.
The motion was carried, and the chair
appointed as said Committee on Resolu-
tions, Col Baxter Smith, Frank Z. Viii
iams, Capt. James Trimble Brown, Ed. w.
Parker and Capt. r. S. Tuthill
The President here stated that during
the retirement of the committee, the chair
would be pleased to hear any remarks in
regard to Maj. Glare, from any of his fellow