New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
: HoNoRs 10 rHe DEBATED.
Parish Court Of Jefferson, Hon. w. r.
Scott. Presiding.

Scott. Presiding.
On the opening of court yesterday morn
| ing we found an unusual number of tn,
| members of the bar, clients and witnesse
in attendance Among the members of tn,
bar were Hon. Christian ROselius, N. Com
| maudeur, X. L. Preston, w. MithOff, B
Elliott, w. B. Hyman, Judge DeBleux
| Judge A. Castatant, DR.. King, and others.
The Hon. Il. X. Cutler rose and said:
If the court please, before cOmmencins
the business of the day, l feel impelled by
my feelings to make motion before thi.
honorable court. This nation is now il
mourning, and think it behoves this court
as well as the members of the bar of this
district, to unite in the common sentiment O.
grief and veneratiOn, and assist in paying
the last sad tribute to one of the nations
lost and greatest SONS.
see this morning large number of wit
nesses in court, it ia true, and a considers
bic portion of the members of the bar here
assembled, but when l discover from the
Geographic dispatches and the morning
papers that the whole nation mourns,
think it becomes us also to show our NEED
OF respect to the memory of that great and
noble man who has passed from earth tC
heaven.
1t, therefore, makes no difference to me
that the business on hand is urgent and
pressing, and even though my clients may
he compelled to remain in Jail, feel / shall
be Justified in making this motion, when
remind this honorable court that he whose
immortal name am about to utter was as
vcnerated and adored as any of the sages
or heroes whose names have ever graced
the annals of our nation
He has passed away, and guardian angels
now welcome his pure spirit to the man
sions of the blessed.
We have had Webster. Clay. Calhoun
and many other great Ihcn, who served
their country well in their day and genera
ton, but Robert Z. Lee was great in the
highest sense of the word, and from no adj
ventitiOus circumstances.
He possessed that purity, and noble ele-
walton of character which marks true great
ness.
He was great, before the war. in his
talents and private virtues; great, during
the war. i'll the wonderful skill, and I'M
swerving fidelity, which he displayed:
great, since the war. in the transformations
course he pursued, and the scrupulOus re-
gard he paid to the strict observance of all
the demands Of a high and chivalric honor.
l therefore move that this honorable
court adjourn until Monday, in memory of
him of who, though the greatest captain of
his age we may say with the poet
And the elements so blended in him,
That nature might stand Up and say
To all the world, This was a man. y
Judge Scott from the bench replied
he SAID that the court was responsive to
the eloquent language of the gentleman,
and the sentiment embodied in it.
The Judge remarked that his personal
sentiment was most aptly expressed in the
Republican Standard. published III this par
ish, OF date this day, and l the more admire
it and indorsc it for its having been written
i'll advance of the actual death of this great
and good man. will read it:
The reported sickness and dangerous con-
dition of General Robert Z. Lee fell upon
the South, and let us hope. upon the entire
people OF the country, with a deep and
solemn impressment. Not even the I'M
expected and devastating foods which
swept away life and fortune in the valleys
of the James and the Potomac rivers,
aroused lis To any such sense of loss as the
possible death of this great man did. We
know that he is mortal, and that his span of
years is limited to a very few more autumns
with us; but let him die when he will. the
heart of the South will never he ready to
accept the death. General Lee is a charac-
ter. He sands alone among the living
men. There is no parallel for his life and
doings outside of the narrow tomb at Mount
er1on.
When he goes away the soil of Virginia
will cover the two greatest graves on this
continent. He was n general. He is
statesman. He has been patriot and will
die one. He is IL Christian gentleman. He
has served his country without betraying
ambition. He resigned power with the
same grace that he accepted it. His life
was never idle. When in position he served
his country-when out of place he offered
his services to his race. Wherever his foot
is seen there the work of his hand is visible
He has always been useful. He has never
wickedly misled a solitary human being.
The world accepts him as a type of excel
lence that only tops a generation. His his
tory commences where that of Washington
ends. Whose life is to follow his
The following order was entered OH the
minutes of the court:
1t is ordered that the motion of Judge
Cutler be entered on the minutes of this
court. and there being 10 objections, il is
flu Their ordered that this court do now ad-
journ until Monday, the seventeenth instant
at ten O'Clock, in honor and respect for this
great man.