Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-29
JUDoE SAMUEL MrLLIGAN.
Meeting and Resolutions OF the Washing.
ton Bar.

ton Bar.
We clip the following from the Washing
ton Chronicle of Tuesday:
At meeting of the bar of the United
States Court of Claims, held at the court
room in the Capitol, on the occasion of the
death of the Hon. Samuel Milligan, one of
the Judges of the court the Hon. Joseph
Casey, was called to the chair, and Colonel
Archibald Hopkins, clerk of the court, was
appointed secretary.
On motion of Mr.. Assistant Attorney
General Goforth a committee of three was
appointed to draft resolutions expressive
of the sense of the meeting.
The chair appointed as such committee
Assistant Attorney General Goforth, Il. NJ.
Corwine, and james w. Denver.
The committee reported the following
resolutions, which were adopted:
ReSohed, That the members of this bar
have heard with deep and unfeigned sor-
row of the death of the Hon. Samuel
Milligan, one Of the judges of the Court of
Claims that the purity and excellence of
his character as man, the fidelity and
ability with which he discharged the duties
of his high station, and the kindness and
urbanity always displayed in his official
and personal intercourse will cause us long
to cherish andlrespect his memory.
Resolved, That we offer to the court our
sympathy in the loss it has sustained, and
to the afflicted family our coincidence in
their great bereavement.
ResoLUcd, That the proceedings of this
meeting be presented to the courts, with a
request that they be spread upon the
minutes.
Re8oIved, That copy of these proceed
ings be sent by the secretary to the family
of the deceased.
Resolved, That the mem bers of the bar
of this court will attend the funeral in a
body.
Hon. Joseph Casey, in seconding the
motion addessed the court as followsl
| MAY 1T PLEASE THE COURT: L should
best express the sorrow and grief that ops
pres my own heart and mind by silence.
In the presence of a a great affiiction like
this man should md mute. When a
man like Judge Milligan, in the full Wig
or of manhood, occupying high and honor
able station, and in the midst of his useful
ness is stricken down, it behooves us to
pause. We pause in the midst of our Ia
| bors, anXieties, and contentious to con-
| template the vanity, uncertainty and
shortness of life. In the death of Judge
| Milligan this court as well as the bar,
have sustained a great loss. In the dis
bcharge of hislhigh duties he brought a
mind well stored with legal principles,
patient and diligent research, intense love
of justice, close analysis, and pure and
| simple diction in announcing his opinions.
| Though his was not what would be termed
a brilliant mind, yet it was in all its char
acteristics eminently judicial one. Few
men had more decided opinions or firmer
convictions, yet none was more free from
passion or rejudice, and at the same time
none could have been more amiable and
kind in enforcing and maintaining them.
The removal of such man and judge from
such station is at the same time private
| grief and public loss.
We, therefore, as members of this bar,
desire to mingle our grief with that of this
| court and his afflicted family in this SOL
emp and sad bereavement. The best con-
| ISOLATION left to us is to know that Judge
| Milligan died as he had lived, a sincere
| Christian.
AT the conclusion of Judge Casey's re-
marks Chief Justice Drake on behalf of the
court, responded as follows:
The members of the court unite with the
| bar in deploring the loss which the court
has sustained by the death of our brother
Milligan, and cordially respond to the re-
| quest to enter upon the records of the court
the resolutions adopted by the bar on this
| occasion.
For nearly five years ana half Judge
NIilligan participated in the labors of the
court, having taken his seat on this bench
on the sd of September, 1868. Throughout
that period he bore himself with singular
| amlablllty and courtesy, and brought to
| the discharge of his duties such dispassion-
ateness, patience, and righteousness, com.
! bined with exact legal learning and sound
logical acumen, as made him an example
worthy of imitation by all who fill judic-
ial stations. He was called to this bench,
without his solicitation, from that of the
| Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee,
where he was held in high respect FOR his
unblemshed reputation, his uniform ur-
banity, his firm adherence to the line of
duty, his judicial purity and ability and
his consistent Christian character.
The proceedings of the bar, together with
the remarks Of Judge Casey and the re-
spouse of the court, will be spread at large
upon the record of the court; and in respect
for the memory of the deceased the court
will now be adjourned.