Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-08

A PORTRAIT in oil, Of the late Judge
Dunn, painted at the instance Of his only
Daughter, Mrs Dewey, of Grant county.
was presented to the Supreme Bench Of
Wisconsin, to be hung in the court room,
by Hon E. G. Ryan, on the 29th ult
Mr.. Ryans speech at the presentation.
was one Of the most eloquent enlogies
ever pronounced in our State. Did our
space permit, we should be glad to print
the speech in full, instead of the follow
ing extract:
No one who knew Judge Dunn, and loved
him, can look upon this canvas without emo
ton. 1t is the very man himself, as he was in
life some years ago. There Is the massive
gravity OF feature, not wholly suppressing
strong sense of humor, which tells well the
resoute character he had, bordering perhaps
on obstinacy but if so, the obstinacy of just
and true mind. There is the broad inte,lI
gence, perhaps never brilliant, but also never
dormant, and always equal to every problem
Of life. There shines the sense OF justice, the
untainted conscience of the man, which in all
its vicissitudes kept his life unspottcd of the
world. You see, too, a tas>t expression, in re-
pose, of the deep tenderness of affection. that
charity of feeling and of life, which made him
of all the men | have known III the State
the most beloved of those who knew him well.
There is the grand simplicity OF strength, the
undeveloped greatness of our friend, OF which
he himself perhaps was not conscious, which
Others perhaps did not always appreciate, but
which lifted him high above all pretence and
affectalion, made his whole character thorough
" true and genuine ; and W hch, whatever he
had to do left behind n residuary ability which
was never exhausted in life. There is the faith
| ful portrait, in massive simplicity, OF firm,
able, intelligent, upright, generous, faithful,
Christian gentleman. 1t will speak better for
! speaketh.
| Of Judge Dunn himself aside from his por-
| trait, / do not now propose to speak. When,
| last term, presented the resolutions of the
| bar TO this court, | had the honor to give my
| views of his life and character. They are too
| fresh for repetition. / have now, perhaps,
| best honored this occasion, perhaps best shown
my appreciation of the worth of his life and
| its lessons, by the views which the occasion
! suggested 10 me, of the relations of the living
and the dead. 1t is not every death that sug-
gests such thoughts to Us. The gravity Of our
reflections is perhaps the highest evidence OF
| our regard for the dead. And it is well for us
all to remember that he has preceded us only
| a little, to place where, as our hearts follow
| him, his reyerts To us and to our work in the
! place which knows him no more i; that death
| is only the separation of those who will meet
| again, scyering no sympathy, cancelllng no
| love that he is still bound to Us, as we to ann,
| by the undymg owe which God gave us, be
! cause He made us immortal.
And now, may it please your Honors, it only
| remains for me that, in the name OF Mrs.
| Catherine Dunn Dewey, | formally present
| this portrait Of Judge Dunn to the Court, to
be hung upon the walls Of this Court room, a
| fitting monument of the first Chief Justice of
| Wisconsin and to move you for your accept
| ance and order accordingly.