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[From Charleston News, 10th inst.]
A TRIBUTE TO JUDGE WARDLAW

On the opening OF the United
States Circuit Court, yesterday
District Attorney Corbin, in making
a motion for adjournment in re-
spect to the memory of the late
Judge Wardlaw, spoke as follows
May 1t please the Court - 1t be
comes my duty to announce the sac
intelligence that comes to us by tel
egraph, that Hon. David L: Ward
law is dead, that he died at his resi-
dence in Abheville on Yesterday.
A distinguished lawyer and ju
rist, o son of the State has. passed
away. and it seems to- me proper
as on all similar occasions, that We
should suspend our lahors for tht
day out of respect to his memory
It has not been my good fortune tt
know Judge Wardlaw personally
and I cannot, therefore, speak O
him with the bias of persona
friendship or use the language O.
eulogy springing from that relation
II only know him through the bril-
liant record he has made az a law.
yer and Judge in the Jurisprudence
of the State. With that record
am somewhat familiar. and. from
that record I Judge of him. II
diacloses a clear and masterly mind
a thorough, painstaking and accn.
rate lawyer, and an upright and
lust Judge. His. name and his la
bors are a rich legaevto the State
But this is not the time or occasion
to indulge in extended enlogy, anc
J can now but move your honor tc
adjourn the court out Of respect tc
the memory of the deceased.
Ex-Chancellor Lesesne, in sec
onding the motion. said
Man 1t please the COurt-Tt is wifi
no ordinary emotions that Z rise tt
second the motion of the United
States attorney. 1t was nv priv
lege to enjoy intimate relations
with the late Judge Wardlaw du
ring many years. The law reports
of the State, as has been intimated
contain enduring memorials of hii
HIGH intellect, and Of his learning
az a iurist. But to appreciate hin
fullv it was necessary to know hin
we'll in the private walks of life
And viewing him as the elegan'
gentleman and scholar, the hearty
friend and the bright and genia
companion. as we'll as the accom-
rlished Judge, he was indeed
citizen Of whom any State nigh
he Justly proud. But, sir, this il
not the occasion for doing homo
fullv and fttingly 10 his memory
and I must content mvself with
simply seconding the motion befor'
the court 49,. ....
In granting the. motion Judg'
Bryan said: '''-
Ny Brethren Of the Bar - Tn
granting of the motion which ha
been 80 appropriately made by Mr.
Corhin, the attorney of the govern
ment. and so touchingly SECONDED
by Chancellor Lesesne, is eminent
" due to the distinguished judg
and gentleman. who has in a rip
and revered old age been gathere'
to his fathers. Of stainless integ
rity. of learning curious, exact am
large, of manners firm and courte
Gus, he was a strong. pillar in ou
political and social fabric. He wa
t trulya worthy companion of tina
elevated and incormptible magis
tracy who for generations, willis
iealously upholding and enfarcint
the law, were the faithful guardian
of the rights and liberties OF tn
people. BY his private virtues h
ennobled his high office and CAV
) dignity to. his great functidt
E9ualIy, gentlemen, as a tribute t
3 s|the man and the magistrate, tn
: court discharges sad but gratefl
, duty in ordering the adjournmel
you have asked for,