Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-07-09
essional education had been thorough


and complete, as may well be sup
posed from the distinguished charac-
ter of his preceptors. He added to
his scholastic and professional ac-
quirements very remarkable knowl.
edge of human character, and of the
reasons and causes that ordinarily in
tiuence human conduct. These SC
quirements, in connection with the
character be so generally and so de-
servedly had for candor and integri-
ty-personal and professional-gave
him unbounded influence with juries
and made him a most successful
practitioner.
In politics, JUDGE Dunn was
consistent answering Democrat of
the Jefferson and Jackson school,
Nevsr a time server, he had most
sovereign contempt for demagogues
and charlatans. Never an office seek
ef, he was no: ambitious of place, and,
although several times a candidate
for Office, it was more owing to the
persistent demands OF his friends than
to any desire of his own. Indeed,
his tastes were essentially domestic,
and he greatly preferred the quite
pleasures of his own happy home to
the excitement of political controver.
sizes. With all his preference for re-
tirement, however, JUDGE Dunn did
consent to represent hir county in the
State Senate during the years 1853,
ga '55, and So. During the time he
sat upon the court of impeachment
for the trial of Judge Hubbell. He
was at the head of the Judiciary
Committee during his service as Sen
ator, and he exerted large and just
influence on all questions before the
Senate.
In 1853 JUDGE Dunn was a candi-
date for Congress against G. @.
Washburn, in district so strongly
opposed to him in politics, that even
his warmest friends had no expecta-
ton of his election, and he was Of
course, defeated.
Again in 1869 he was most reluct-
antly induced by his friends to accept
Democratic nomination for Judge
Of the Supreme Court, and was de-
fea ed, as he had every reason to sup
pose he would be, in an election con.
Quoted on political grounds.
But it was neither on the bench, at
the bar, in Office, or in political con-
tests, that those traits of character
were developed that endeared JUICE
Dunn, most to those who knew him
hest. In social life, and in every day
intercourse with those friends and
neighbors who knew him so well, and
who priced him so highly, he lived
and moved the object of the highest
esteem and warmest friendship of all
with whom he came in contact.
"With charity for all, and malice
to none," he terminated his earthly
course on the 7th of April last, in the
fullness of years, leaving behind him
numerous friends, regretting that
they "ne'er should look upon his like
again." and who yet had the consol-
alton, that if an abiding faith in the
truth of the doctrines of the Christi
an religion, and life spent in doing
unto others as he would that others
should do unto him, furnish any hope
Of blessed Immortality, that hope is
surely youchsafed to the bereaved
friends of the subject of this imper-
feet obituary sketch. For.
$50 deeds be just and words be true
We need not shrink from natures rule
The tomb SO dark to mortals' view,
Is heavens own blessed vestibule."
Ordered by the Court that the res
olutions be entered on the court rec.
ords, after which the hymn "They
will be done" was sung by the choir.
The Court then adjourned until
Thursday morning.
During the proceedings the court
room was crowded by citizens of our
country, and many from abroad, who
had appeared to attend this meeting