The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-06-21

Sec. q. Tho House Of Representatives.
shall have all the powers now possessed
by the Council of Oensors to order i'm.
peachments, which shall in all cases be
by vote of two.ihirds of its members.
Sec. 4. The forty third section of the
second part of the Constitution of this
State is hereby abrogatcd.
Hon. Dugald Stewart.
Proceedings of the members Of the Bar,
and of Addison County Court, in rela-
ton to the decease of the late Hon.
Dugald Stewart -
Upon the organization of the Court on
the morning of the first Tuesday in June,
1870, and after the Jurors were duly
empanneed and sworn, the Hon. Ebene-
ger N. Briggs, in appropriate and we'll
expressed language, announced that since
the last session of the Court, death had
appeared in our midst and removed our
well beloved brother, Hon. Dugald Stew
art, who has long been member of the
legal profession and for many years, the
Clerk of our County and Supreme Court
After briefly speaking of the high moral
worth the intellectual ability and culture
and his past usefulness as public man
and private citizen, he concluded by
moving, as an act of respect to his mem.
Dry, that the court adjourn. In accord
ance with which motion, the court adj.
journed.
Hon. Geo. W. Grandey, President of
the Addison County Bar Association re.
qussted the members Of the Bar to as
semble Immediately after the adjournment
to take such action as might be deemed
proper to express their sense Of the loss
they had sustained by the decease of their
late Brother and Companion. The mem.
bers of the Bar having met within the
Bar of the Court Room, the President
called them to order and reminded them
that the deceased was not only the clerk
of the court at the time of his death, but
also clerk Of /" The Bar Association, Ad-
Olson County" Whereupon, Rufus
Wainwright, Esq, was chosen to fill the
vacancy.
On motion, committee of three was
appointed by the Chair, to prepare rcso
lutions expressive Of the sentiments Of tn,
. Bar in regard to their deceased Brother
consisting of Hon. f. N. Briggs, Hon. +
j. Phelps, and A. V. Spaulding, Esq.
At subsequent meeting of the Bar
on the 18th instant, the Committee re
ported the following resolutions which
were unanimously adopted:
, Resoired By the members of the Bar Of tn
County of Addison that they consider That the.
have suffered n severe and irreparabe loss in tn
death OF the Hon. Duguid Stewart, who has deceas
ed since the last term Of this court Although
Mr. Stewart not associated with US in the activ
business of our professional practice, yet in his
latons TO us the Clerk of the Court he secured tn
friendship of every member Of the Bar by hi
kindness, aithfulncss, gentlemanly and oblgin
department to all and his sterling integrity every
where.
Rcsolued, That consider that not only the Ba
but the County of Addison and State have sustaine
great loss in losing an able competent and faith
full public servant, in the prime of life and vigor
manhood, and we, with the public in general, de
plore his loss.
Resolved, That we sympathise with his faml
in their deep affection and we tender to them on
afIectionatc coincidence and heartfelt sympathie.
Resolved. That we ask the Court to order thes
resolutions to be placed upon the records of thi
Court and that the Court adjourn in respect to tn
memory of Dugald Stewart.
Resolved, That the Clerk be requested to furnis
a copy of these resolutions to the family OF tn
, deceased.
g During the morning session of tn
court, June 18th, the action of the Ba
meeting was reported to the court by Mr.
Grandey, the President, who read to tn
court the foregoing resolutions.
Mr.. Briggs addressed the court il
S morally and intellectually, and spoke a
length of the invaluable services he bat
rendered, not only in this county, bu
throughout the State, in the various posi-
tions which he had been called to fill
He also spoke with deep emotion, of tn,
irreparable loss to the county and to thu
State occasioned by his death.
Mr.. Briggs was followed by Mr.. Spaul
ding. who spoke as follows:
IF 1t please the Court:
1t is with feelings Of the deepest sad
ness and sorrow that rise to add a few
words to the resolutions just read, in APP
probation of the many virtues and excel
encies of character of the late clerk Of
this court. 1t is fit and proper that We
stop for short season in the midst Of
our labors. to pay feeble tribute of love
and respect to the memory Of the Hon
Dugald Stewart, who has so recently and
since the last term of this court, passed
away from the scenes of earth
1t should be lesson to us who are
living, that our life is but vapor and
that all human things are but vanity
that man even at the height of power and
acme of fame. is weak, frail, and mortal.
And it should remind us that man and
all of his works will pass away; "And
like the bascless fabric of vision, or an
insubstautial pageant, fades the cloud
capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the
solemn temples, yea, the great globe it.
self, and all which it inherits, shall dis
solve and fade away and leave not rock
behind. We are such stuff as dreams are
made Of, and our little life is rounded
with sleep"
He was a man, take him all in all, we
ne'er shall look upon the like again. His
virtues and excellencies of character were
pre.eminent. Although it is fit and be.
coming for the living on all occasions like
the present, to throw the mantle of chart.
ty over the faults of the dead and to
tread lightly upon their ashes; and al
though it is customary on such occasions
to speak of the virtues and excellencies
of character of the deceased and to for
get their vices and faults while living
or, if remembered, not to speak of them
yet l hardly know that we could name
any vices or faults in the character of the
deceased, to whose memory these resolu-
tons are passed, even if we were disposed
to.
Manly, honest, kind, considerate, faith
full, and truthful in all the relations Of
life, he fell at his post of duty, clothed in
the full panoply of a noble manhood and