The Portland daily press., 1873-04-09

| $780,
what we call DEATHS brought home to us
| with much more than its usual force; ,or II E ls
| next to losing one from our own ihoNiuuei
| housahold and the "common place we
must all die suddenly transforms Hseii ih'o
| the acute consciousness 1 inue. u,0-"iiu
| coon. >" and we almost seem 10 staha upon
| the dark river brink listening LOT the "plash
efe os 30 Ian on.coming oar and expecting the
s,nmons ., onv from what the superstitious of the
raSt called the liking of Terrors" whose
rrealm is the grave" but whose arm is palsied
| by the sword of the spirit and whose crown
of terrors melts away before the eve of
Christian faith. For within the field of Faiths
vision
..There is no Death What seems so is transition,
This life of mortal breath
Is Tut suburb of the life ElysiaN,
Whose portal we call DEATH"
Still none of us has such dulled sensibilities
as not to be moved by sorrow and sadness at
the final departure of such friend, however
strongly our faith may assure us that it is He
"who doeth all things well' who "made and
loyeth alr' has called him to Himself. l knew
our late deceased brother more thoroughly
while he was laying deep the foundations of
his manhood's usefulness, than latterly. l
was daily witness of how rapidly assiduous
and methodical labor, undisturbed by any
bad habits, could develope his intellectual
faculties and as frequently was an admirer
of the purity and high purpose OF those youth
full years For although he possessed san
guine temperament, was actiue and az tmes
apparently somewhat impulsive, still his IN
stincts being right, however far he went they
took away from him the power to go IN the
wrong direction. And Notwithstanding he
was somewhat impulsve, he was never reck-
less nor ever rash, but opened as many of
"Argus's hundred eyes, before using any of
"Briareuss hundred hands" as any young
man of his warm blood well could. AL
though have known our friend less intimate.
ly latterly, until quite recently, still I have
seen him frequently enough in the social walks
of life and while he was in the discharge of
public and professional duties, to learn what
your resolutions and remarks so abundantly
confirm me in believing. that those lessons Of
wisdom so early practiced and acted upon
while preparing for the more stern and
rugged duties Of life had become his "heart's
lore" and the foundation stones of that char
acter which the winds and floods of the world,
beat they never so violently could in no de-
gree wash away.
"His conscience never firted with beautiful
ideals of goodness for his moral character
was not based upon arguments or opinions,
even, but upon convictions. And no one
whoever heard him speak concerning them
ever doubted on which side of the questions
of real rsform mis- influence was enlisted, for
his acts and his lips though speaking differ.
ent dialect, expressed the same sentiments
and bis moral digestion was never impaired
by his eating his own words.
To the outside world it may sometimes
seem that members of our profession when
paying their respects to the memory of their
decease brethren do more than act upon the
charitable maxim, "nil de mortuis nisi bonum,"
and eulogize them too highly. But human
nature generally as better than it seems,
and in relation to the really
good man it's nearness and not
''distance lends enchantment. In the felicit-
Gus language of another. ga sense of broth er-
hood may grow up between members of our
profession stronger and more enduring than
perhaps between members of any other pro-
fession. We get to know each other by heart.
In the study, contemplation and ripening
knowledge Of the law, of its principles and
relations, there is mystic power which takes
common possession Of the inner lte of the
initiated, which blends, assimilates and har-
monizes minds otherwise alien and irrecon-
cilable Hence it is that those who might
seem to have had little in common with this
our departed brother, were in sympathy, con-
fdence and regard very near to him, as
he was very near to us. We witnessed his
pToleSSlondl CROWN Will prloe, suareu HIS
achievements and by relation appropriated his
honors.'
This then is the true record which our
brother has left behind him. If he performed
no brilliant achievement which the obstrep-
erous world looking through the enchanting
medium of distance has chronicled as great
neither has he done anything to tarnish the
record of good life, or sully his memory ;
but he performed all his duties
public and private citizen with fidelity.
have heard with great satisfaction the eX-
pressions of high appreciation which this Bar
continues to entertain of the infexible integri-
ty of its members and am glad to know as
well from your words, that during these latter
days of ernbezzlements, defalcations and other
numerous evidences of corruption, this Bar
has not lowered its standard of honest worth,
but holds it in as high estimate now as when
its great representative shed the lustre of his
high character in the councils and depart
ments of the nation. And if 1 might presume
to add closing injunction to so old and hon.
ored an association I would say, especially to
the younger members,-stand fast to your in
tegrity-for it would seem as if the Bar as a
whole is among the last anchors that now
holds the institutions of the country to their
old moorings.
The Judge then ordered the proceedings to
be entered on the records and adjourned the
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