Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-17

IT appears from the Mississippi
papers that Colonel Daniel r. Russell,
of carrollton, Mississippi is no more.
We cannot let the occasion pass with
out a word of tribute to the memory
of a man who was the very soul of
honor, as well as a man Of no ineon-
siderable distinction for his talents
and patriotism. Born and reared in
Washington City, he removed about
the year 1897, in his early youth, to
Carrollton, where he rapidly o ; to
the first rank in the Mississippi bar,
then not second 70 the bar of any
State in the Union, and among whose
lights were Quitman, Winchester,
Prentiss, Holt, Sharkey, Shall, Viii
liam and George Yerger, Anderson,
Foote, Fisher, Handy, Harris, Brooke,
Smith, Shepard. and many others
who would be regarded as lights of
the legal profession anywhere in the
world. To man so generous in his
nature, though he had g large prac-
tice, no profession could be sufficiently
lucrative to amass wealth, which, we
believe, ne never did. When the
Mexican war came on he was one of
the first to volunteer, and led
a company, from CarrolltOn, with
our townsman T~rousdale, we believe,
as his lieutenant, and joined at Vicks-
burg the Mississippi Rifles, led by
jefferson Davis, which saved the bat
tie and won an immortal name on
the bloody field of Buena Vista.
When the late war came on he en-
tered the Confederate service as Colo
mel and served throughout the war.
Having received a wound at al early
period and because of failing health,
his rank remained the same at the
surrender. He was offered by Mr..
Davis, who fully appreciated him, a
b~rigadiers' commission almost'imme-
diately after entering the service, but,
with seltsaerifcing mOdesty, and
with the hope that another would be
more efficient in his place, declined
it. Since the war Col. Russell has de-
voted himself to his profession in the
town of his almost lifelong residence,
where he was very highly esteemed,
and a friend to every man, and every
one a friend to him. He was a man
of some literary pretensions, Of real
genius, Of strong sense, and in all
respects quite on original character.
His speeches were altogether
unique, at one moment con-
vincing the reason, at another stir
ring the emotions to a fever heat,
and the next cOnvulsing his audience
with a never to be forgotten sense Of
the ludicrous in wit and satire of an
order worthy of Hood or Hudibras.
We remember to have read in Know
Nothing times an extract OF one Of
his speeches filling a column of the
London Times, and which went the
rounds, not only of this country, but
of Europe, as me Of the most remark
able passages in American literature.
was in all respects a man Of high
and of a great range Of intel
Iectual power. Thought he obtainednO
high office, and was content to live
respected aud beloved among his
friends, he was a man who was bril-
liant wherever he appeared, a marked
man Of genius in the obscurest pas
of his Life. There have lived no {
men than Daniel r. Russell, ,
md his name cannot be erased from :
he record of WORTHLESS who have
.d9rned the annals of Mississippi. q
NTH his surviving family we beg the {
lonOr Of dropping a tear to his MEM !