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IN MEMORIAM.

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Honorable David Lewis Wardlaw, late
one of the Associate Justices, OF tne
!. Court of Appeals of South Carolina.
=; The office Of Judge, in South Carroll
na, has always been regarded with
respect and consideration. Great and
good men have, at all times, performed
its duties and worn'its honors. II duty
be attended by responsibility dignity
be- attached to station and power-the
iuidicial authority to coerce and to re-
strain, to counsel, and to command the
Legislative and Executive Departments
Of the government, to interpret the legis-
lative will, and its great function to dis
pense Justice, constitute it an office OF
the CHEST dignity and the greatest re-
sponsibility.
t!Selected, with rare. exceptions, from
members Of the bar, who, for talents,
learning and integrity had established
regulations which mere official station
can never bestow, the judges have en-
nobled their great Office, and invested it
With q reverence which no excellence OF
the law itself could ever have inspired.
Upon no department of the govern
ment, upon no institution Of the State,
can natriot fix his gaze with o pride
hT& jlst GWah sas epniplaeency more,
pardonable, than an elevated, wise and
pure judiciary !, .
oThe, long and illustrious roll Of her
Judges enshrines no name that dedicated
to his great office a finer intellect, avast-
er knowledge, q nobler fidelity to his
high trust, than that Of David Lewis
Wardlaw. !. r. i... :. viz -.
The profession Of the law was the pas
sion Of hisyoath-thein heinspiration;odfs ! his
tlife. Upon its altars shelaid the" hom-
age Of his geniis and the fruits Of bis
toll. y!4iIGV as9shu3 a =
That a memorial Of one who consecra-
ted to thejudicid Office che aflaepoe OF
great INTELLECT, theg treasures OF vast
Ilearnipg,, tie ,1aboTrs Of long life, should
Pc Inscribed On the journals Of the high
ese eqlrg ,jMicatpEe, 1ise tribute .as
becoming 1 and i graceful, as It is appropqrii:.
ate and jllstif IIy!DyJL >,
David Lewis Wardlaw, was born IN
the village ofeAbbeYill9 in the State Of
I3f"sjI of MafsRs5 5RRHho DHHIihone DJHhHIihii one thousand
seyehliuni1fe ednhd mme5-niues
His ancestors were Scotch-1rish, and
we're distinguished by the love Of liberty,
appreciation Of sducatiop,So aecorum OF
! liza, andA deepJdigious sentiment which
so distinctly characterize these stout
champions of the freedom Of conscience,
In eighteen hundred and ten he be-
came a student at the academy at w IL
lineton, of that grand master of a gram
mar school, the Rev, Moses Waddeli the
7 Eplrreecepttor Re &c tt of Calhoun, Crawford; Nc
Dufie, Pettigru, Legare, and others,
who, in after life, cast such lustre on the
annals of their country, - :,
|gf In eighteen updredsan fourteen he
was entered for the Junior class Of the
South Carolina College, and in eighteen
hundred and sixteen, in the seventeenth
year Of his age, he was graduated with
the first honor rIof his class. In eighteen
hundred and twenty he was admitted to
the bar, and Immediately became the
partner of Patrick Noble, who after
wards was tie Governor of the State.
= In eighteen hundred and. twenty-six
he was elected representative, in the
Legislature by his native district, o1
which he continued the representative
with the exception Of the session o.
eighteen hundred and thirty, until hi;
election as one of the circuit judges.
In eighteen hundred and thirty-slx
he was elected speaker Of the House o.
Representatives, and continued to pre-
side over the House until he ceased tt
be member. r. e
In December, eighteen hundred ane
forty-one, he was elected one Of the CIR
cult Judges, and in eighteen hundred ane
Isixty-fve an associate justice of tht
Court Of Appeals, having several year
previously declined seat in that court
he held the office of associate justice
until the Court of Appeals was abolish
ed in Eighteen hundred and sixty-eight
He was a aimelnber of the convention o
tffe State StiitteHii in eighteen hundred and fifty
two,' and of the convention Of eighteel
hundred and sixty, and of the conyen
ton of eighteen hundred and sixty'fye
and Of the last, he was president. II.
was trustee Of the South Carolina Col
lege from eighteen hundred and thirty
six to eighteen hundred and sixty-eight
In earl y youth, Judge Wardlaw ex
hibited that power of concentration o
:. the mlnd-that fondness of knowledge
/ that aptitude to acquire-that patien
studiousness which gave him excellenc
in his studies, and distinction in hi
classes in the primary schools, the acad
envy and the college and enabled hin
to obtain that opulence Of information
which he. displayed in the higher posi-
, tions Of life. . -.
When he. was graduated, his acquire
ments in the languages, the sciences, ant
in nolite and GENERAL literature, were O