Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21
will command as much respect as before
the people heard SO much about it.
G. NJ. III.
In Memorian, Charles C. Dewey.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE RUTLAND COUNT
COURT

be On Saturday morning, the regular bust
lie ness of the Rutland County Court bein,
81 suspended for that purpose, David Z
er Nicholson, on behalf of the Bar, presented
We and read to the court the following reso
Ie- buttons which had teen adopted by tn
of Rutland County Bar in reference to tn
th death of Charles @. Dewey.
Id RESOLUTIONS.
WHEREAS, Since the last adjournment of thi
er Hon. Court, the members of the bar thereof il
m funeral procession have parted at his grave will
the form of their late professional brother
Charles c. Dewey, therefore
al ReS0IUed, That a testimonial OF our high re-
o. spect for the memory of our deceased brother
IL and sympathzing with his deeply afflicted widow
- and children, we put on record now and here
~ our sense of profound and chastened sorrow for
the general loss sustained in this more deeply az
70 fictive family bereavement.
ReS0EUed, That the action of this meeting be
engrossed upon the records of this court, and
that the clerk be requested to furnish a c1py for
b the press and commun cate the same to the fami-
+ Iy Of the deceased.
al REMARKS OF DAVID z. NICHOLSON.
= Mr.. Nicholson, in presenting the resolu-
9 tions, remarked that he did not know
!. what ought to be said on this occasion,
" and he was embarrassed to know what
3 not TO say, He did not intend to enter
upon any eulogy of Mr.. Dewey, and it
was uncalled for. He needed no eulogy,
8 for his general acquaintance and course
at the bar won for him a position which
was secure and not to be affected by what
may be said or left unsaid.
Thoughts recur rapidly to the mind as
they did when he stood beside his open
grave. He had known the representative
men of the county aud state from his
childhood up, and he could perhaps make
his appreciation Of Mr.. Dewey better
known by departure from, perhaps, the
usual course, and by reference to them.
In his youth, his nearest neighbor was
the eminent, distinguished and illustrious
in name and fame, Nathaniel Chapman
He received his first impression of the
bench and bar from him. From him be
thought on to other old veterans of the
bar and he thought them all eligible and .
worthy of the bench. He looked at the
bar aud regarded them with tho same
feelings Of generation as most parsous DO
the President af the United States. He
knew their co-tempor lres of the bench
and bar and looked up to them with the
same feeling of respect and admiration
The frs time that he appeared in the
court house was with the aspiration aud
purpose of becoming a membet vs the bar,
which purpose was fulfilled in his early I
manhood. He then alluded to the bench s
as constituted at that time, referring TO
Judges Williams, Royce, Collamar. Phelps !
and Bennett, who have entered into their |
rest, and to Redfeld who still survivea. i
At the bar were Noble, Clark, Davenport, O
Howe, John Kellogg, Gordon Newell, c
Solomon Foot, Pierpoint, Brown, and
others OF he older members. OF these =
and of the younger attorneys most of them q
had passed away. His professional inter p
course with them had more than confirm u
ed the exalted ideas that, IS youth, he p
had of the high calling Of an attorney -
The only vsluntrry as, ISOLATION to which c.
he belonged was the Rutland County Bar, W
and he desired to belong to no other II
That was honor enough for him. Mr.. j.
Dewey had the same high appreciation Of n,
The bar that he had. fir
He closed by saying that to>i3es TT
christian burial, his only aspiration was =,
hat it might be said of him, as of Mr. s.
Dewey, that che died too young" b.
Mr.. Nicholson's address, of which the
bove is too brief and imperfect an ab- IN
tract. was characterized by unu,u Il feel III
ng and eloquence, a
REMARKS or CHARLES II. JOYCE feI
Way ii Please the C0urt:
l do not rise for the purpose Of pro- W.
ouncing an elaborate eulogy upon the Re
fe and character of our deceased friend sn
nd profession i brother but having Al
nown him for many years. l should fail Fl
D do justice to my own heart if omitted ter
} say few words on this melancholy oc =,
aston, in praise of his talents aud in honor am
his memory. of
desire to come, not as his enlo2ist, but 81
friend, to drop tear and SC utter the tar
w wild fDwers | have hastily gathered. of
pom his new made grave. ia,
AS we contemplate the life and charac- the
r of him, whose talents and virtues we had
ave met this day TO honor, memory, like the
silver cord, runs back to other days and F
ings to the mind a thousand tender re. tho
Elections of him who has baen cut down tbo,
the prime of life and in the very zenith nav
his usefulness. sion
1t was my good fortune and privilege he Y
form an early acquaintauco with Mr. fear
ewey, and although we resided some dis his
nee apart, yet fate, and our own incli- oasi
tions, seemed to draw US often together oror
} were nearly of the same age, and not tore
tirely unlike in our tastes and temper If :
lents our circumstances Ia life ut that rios
ne were very similar, while our mutual invr
pes, poverty, and aspirations, always defo
ely interchanged, made u9 fast friends Mrs
nrst Time we ever met. L had heard both
him often before this, and had learned cono
admire his talents long before I ever r.
Y the man. [ had learned to look up to tent
n as man of superior mental endow- rem
nts and intellectual capacity, feeling incr
ich grew and strengthened with our and
Luaintance, and ended only with his burv
'th. For three years | was associated fer.
n him In business, and came in close TT
'acI ana communication with him but I
ly during that time I tried to study tbod
character and endeavored to measure was
man: his p
1y efforts were, believe, at least, par. he r
ly successful, and I am confident from wber
at I saw and learned of him that he he "a
D shall carefully study his checkered ed hi
and short but brilliant career, will We
ely find fit subjects for thought, ex- plexi
pie and emulation. He will find tina, eptir
re are some scenes, some Alpine emf. casua
ces rising ABOVE the high table-land OF fessio
u professional lie, TO which he VIII indul
ght to follow him, in order that he steal
more fully realize the height to which for II
las ascended, and be enabled the bet In