Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-06-21

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of few men who have been teachers
in any department Of learning OF
science, and that is, ! never knew
nor heard of one Of his students
who disliked him. | have known
hundreds who were here with me,
and before, and after my time, but 1
never knew one who did not love
him-neYer knew one who did not
have the most profound respect for
his ability; none that ever com
planned of az act of injustice, or
that ever questioned his pre-emiHent
fitness for mis- position. How ike
he was to the picture of the ideal
Knight
.'who reverenced lis conscience as his
king
Whose glory was redressing humaa wrong
Who spake no SANDER. nc. nor listened 10
who loved one only, and who elase to
her;
How modest, kindly, all accomplished. wise
With what sublime repression Of himself.
And in what limits, and how tCndeIiy.
Not sWayiBg TO this faction. or 70 that:
Not making his high place the iawless
/ perch
| or winged ambition, nor vantage ground
For pleasure; but thro' all this tract Of
Wearing the white hower Of biameiess
Iife."
/ find wanting, also, the tail and
venerable form of our old Professor
of Equity Jurisprudence, tine Hon.
Nathan Green, Sr. As he was IN
stature above the height of ordinary
men, so, intellectually, he lowered
n - Il
aboR0 the sea. As his distinguished
associate was first among common
law lawyers, he was first among
equity lawyers. Both as a Judge
and as a professor, he did more for
this branch of Jurisprudence than
any man in the State. In fact he
may be said to be the father Of Equi-
ty Jurisprudence in Tennessee. He
was in this State what HardWick
and Thurlow were in England, and
he was even greater than they, for
he possessed not only all of their
learning, but in addition, the accu-
mulated learning of generations of
distinguished lawyers since their
time.
OF the eighty students who were
then associated with me | see the
faces of but one or two now; they
are nearly all gone. Some Of them
are distinguished members of the
profession, both upon the bench and
at the bar, scattered through the
different States OF the South and
West some of them fell by the
hand of death early in life, before
they had fully tested their strength
in the struggle for professional sue
cess. Others OF them lived until
those days "when every day brought
forth a chance, and every chance
brought out noble knight" They
gave their lives to illuminate the
brightest page in the worlds histo-
ry and to swell that river Of blood
that ran sick to the sea. HattOn,
the brave, the gallant and the glOri-
Gus Hatton. The knight without
fear and without reproach-the
statesman, lawyer, and soldier,
found his grave upon the field of
glory. And Kit Williams, the
knightliest knight of ali the land,
the. foremost lawyer of his age in
the State; so gentle, so modest as
pure as a pure woman he fell lead
ing his legions, like a thuhderbolt.
into the very jaws of death. The
last time saw him was but few
moments before the hurting shaft
of death found the brightest mark,
on the bloody field of Shiloh. Not
far from him, and nearly at the same
time, fell that genial, generous,
noble-hearted lawyer, gentleman
and soldier, John Daley. He had
Just come from his homo in the far
West, leading his battalion of brave
Arkansians to defend the soil Of his
native State; scarcely had he cross-
ed the South border ere his COM
rades bore him Off on their shields,
and gave him sepulture in the bo-
som OF his beloved Tennessee. On
the same field fell Charley Whit
more, the youngest OF them a. !:
generous, impulsive, brave to rash
ness, the booming cannon and the
shrieking shells sung the dirge over
the grave of his mothers darling.
Would to God that some
"PharaOh's darkness with folds as dense as
Which hid the HOhest from the peoples
Ere the great death would shroud this sin
from ALL
Newton Mitchell fell far from his
/ friends and his home in a distant
land by the ruthless hand OF an as
sassin.
And must not forget our dear,
kind, old landlady, Mrs. Douglass,
whom we loved so well, and who
took such a motherly interest In US
all, she has gone to make her home
| in distant land.
There are other forms and faces,
hanging upon the walls of my mem
~, as vivid and lifehke as though ii
were yesterday they stood before
me, in ali the freshness and Yigor OF
] young manhood, full of hope, ener-
gy and zeal, and as confident of 9
bright and brilliant future as YOU
\ are to-day. / know that my vounp
brothers will excuse me for indulg,
ing those memories, for [ lock back
to them with the same fond recollec.
tiOns that you now do TO the day:
when you were boys, and INDUCED
your tirst dreams of the mysterie,
Of life.s
Who OF you does not renem.
Der { with tenderness the asso
Citations of the days when you were
boys at school. There was the old
schoOlmaster, who seemed to voul
youthful imaginations, to belong tC
the race of giants; an awe, very
much encouraged by the fact, thai
he kept a large, ebony ruler slway.
on his desk, or a S'bit of birch tree
just large enough to hold a shilfa;
nest" How softly he always walk,
ed about the room without the
slightest percussion in his tread
The day You lifted the lid of youi
desk, pretending to be very busily
engaged with your books and pa
pers, but just TO steal q short read
ing of the Scottish Chiefs or tn,
Hungarian Brothers, you Femcm
bered, when you looked up anC
found the old master looking dOwr
with q smile anything but "child
like and bland" that the ancienti
taught that the avenging gods werl
always shod with wool After re
oeiving your first Lesson in anatomy
in which the action of the fiexor an,
| extensor muscles were severely de
monstrated, you go for sympath'
and consolation, 10 sit beside tn
boy whom you had seen but a few
days before demonstrate the prob
lem that old Prex could not keel
his thumbs in the armlets Of hi
vest, while undergoing the impalin.
process on a crooked pin. The
there was the assistant teacher. tia
natty, nice young man, who came i
every morning with his hair combet
in comic sections and defFerentiate
in the middle, according TO the rule
of integral calculus, by reduein
quantities to their elements. II
always kept his eyes open durin
prayers, because boys needed watch
/ ing as well as praying for. What
J toast he was among the grown u