The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-18

mai service a. chief Justice in this State. ne
Attorney Tue nv rst knowledee q nm, prob
was at that term OF the Court and Nabse:
quently for three or four years that be Remained
personal aoq1aan lance and to appear before him
several times. argued, think, before him one OF
portance, after he assumed his bench here in the
Circuit Court as a reargument OF q cause
which ! had argued before Judge THOMPSON,
year, and In Vermont and at Washington, ana In
tals city, socially and professionally, have enjoyed
my personal and Professional sss aa sa Arch
Disnop Whately, in his notes oil LORD Bacon's
Essays, which | believe scholars and moralisfs re-
'eara as not unworthy commentary on so
celebrated text mas drawn CONTRAST
6 eS the relations Of great Lawyer lawyer
Van 1t Is fattering TO us who adhere to the Bar
more pointed perhaps than Is Just. ne says .ha ~
wsnrawn nm the service Of the law by no
means follows that the public or The administia
toa OF Justice thereby suffers loss ios, az ne sug
ge6ts, the great interests OF society, and
being for for the periectIon Of the aaministraa.
advocate has so far outgl own his fellows as that by
his eloquenee BY his learning, by his will, BY has
scales OF Justice against him, perhaps the com
munity gains something by his retirement; but he
sar w ssg n 70 great snd Judge
powers, his authority his name mis- fame are
wholly committed to the general Interests Of the
the scene OF his fabors and their benedccnt dstr-
6unen and activity ts as II the sun were taken
from the heavens. Do we net all feel that Ar this
De true OF any Judge II is true OF Judge NeisonP
Now, MI. Chairman, cannot we all feel at this point
on this remarkable lie and before the end death,
mas set its coronation this tlusri0us work, that
we may assign to Judge Nelson place by the side
OF Eldon and of Mansfield and Kent and Spencer,
and Shaw and Marshal and fancy, and among those
who have reached the Homeric eulogy Of men re-
nowned Tor justice and for length Of days. and that
we incur no imputatiOn OF rashness In pron0uncing
this life fortunate, although 1t has not yet reached
It's closer Great appause.) tif1
~ The following committee was appointed to pre-
cent the address to Judge Nelson Edwards
Pierrepont, 4. w. Stoughton, O. A. Seward, e. II.
owen, @. n Keller, w. NJ Evarts. Sidney Webster,
T. @. T. Buckley, J. NJ Van Colt. J. Z. Ward. 8. l..
| N. Barlow, A. J. Vanderpoel, James Thomson, Au
4 gustus r. Smith, John Sherwood y 80
The aforementioned were appointed q commit
tee to present the address and proceedings to the
United States Circuit Court :-Charles OC0nor,
James w. Gerard, John McKe0n, Daniel d. Lord,
3. d. Silliman Joseph II. Ch0ate, g. p NASH Charles
Blake, J. O. Carter, @. Donohue George Bliss, Jr.,
u, The following committee was also appointed to
| present the address and proceedings to the Su.
preme Court ut Washington wv. M. Evarts, Ed
/ wardes PierrepOnt, E. w. StOughton, George T.
Curtiss Samuel J. Mlden, George Clifford, Q. N.
Keller, Sidney Webster. .f ~ ~ t,-
And the address win be presented to the Court
OF Appeals, at Albany, by the following gentle
men :-E. w. Stought0n, J. K. Porter. Francis Ker-
nan, Lyman Tremain and Samuel HAND,
| The proceedings then closed. rr - erreecr'