Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-12
HoNoRs TO JUDGE SEYMOUR.

port by the Fairfield county bar are ye
 fully reported in Bridgeport papers espe
 la!ly Ill the Farmer, from whose repor. Y
 extract the speeches given below.
 The dinner was given at the Stearlil
 House, and some sixty members of
 Fairfield county bar and invited gues
 were present. Among the latter wer
 Gov Charles R. Ingersoil; U s. Circ,
 Judge Iewis B. Woodruff, If New Tor Chief Juttice elect, John D. Park, and ii
 Associate Justices of the Supreme Cour
 Judgea Carpenter, Foster and PheIp
 Judges Sanfor'l and Granger of the Sup HOT Court; John Hooker, Judicial Repor
 CT of the State; Revs F. W Maxcy an
 E r. Bishop: Sheriff Leeds, and Deput Sheriff Lewis.
 The bills of fare were elegantly prinse Every appropriate for il legal dinner) 6 parchment paper, and bore the Coat ( Arms of Connecticut and the followin inscription: Fairfield County Bar to tn Chief Justice, Hon. Origen 5. Seymou, January 29th, 1874"
 After prayer by the Rev. Mr. Maxcy tn company paid proper respect for nearl two hours to the splendid entertainme provided by the landlord of the Sterlin, House. Hon. James C. Loomis, who pre sided then made the opening speech il which he paid the following tribute to tn, retiring Chief Justice, and to his prede cessors in office:
 For the lifetime of a generation at least Judge Seymour has been star of the fiji st magnitude in the civil, political, judicia and, l may say say, religious constella. tlons, of the State. He has deservedly won for himself the highest need of praise and made name that will be not only honored in his day and generation, but so long as the public records endure.
 It has been my privilege to have been honored with the personal acquaintance and l believe friendship of eight of the predecessors of our Chief Justice in that high office-HosMER, DAGGETr, WILLIAMS. CHURCH, WAITE, SToRRs, HINMAN, Bur LER-glorious names They were all hlgh-minded, learned, impartial judges, uncorrupted-incorruptible! They have gone down to their graves crowned with honors, having transmitted the ermine of the judicial robes spotless and the emblem of purity and incorruptibility fell upon the shoulders of him, who now so grace fully wears it-it t0uched aothin0 less sloottess. He will soon transmit it to his stainless, to be borne by him through his judicial life unsoiled and then transmitted ill all it's purity to another, thence to descend from generation to gen eration, hope to the latest generation of men, without spot or blemish.
 It would afford me great pleasure to dwell for few moments, did time permit, upon the many virtues which embellish and adorn the privatc life of our Chief Justice; to speak of his devotion to the welfare and haPr1-- -ympath1es with the and affiicted-of his gentle manly department everywhere and on all his manly practice at the Bar-of his patience and suavity on the Bench-of his hospitality, his generosity, his integrity, his incorruptibility- time fails me. I can only say that in all the relations of private life, Judge Sey- mour has been and is the Christian Gen. tleman, acknowledged and appreciated as such, by all whe know him-most, by those who know him best.
 toast, ''Our Chief Justic. to which Judge Seymour responded as follows:
 I stand here tonight on the eve of sep aration from pursuits to which during 8 long life have been devoted. have en- loved my professional life at the bar and on the bench, and I do not and cannot look with indifference upon my approach ing separation from these duties. i, how ayer, make no quarrel with the constitu- tional provision under which my retire ment takes place. "The days of our age are three score years and ten;" when those years are accomplished, nature craves brief period of repose between, on the one hand, and the active duties of life and it's final close on the other. I sub- missively bow, therefore, to the law of the land, believing it to be in harmony with the law of nature, but at the same time cherish the memories of profes- sional life, and part from itwith fond re- grets, and l will occupy your time a few moments this evening i'll suggesting some particulars wherein the lawyers life among the varied pursuits of mankind is regarded by meas favored one.
 was admitted to the Bar in my native County of Litchfeld in 1926, and I at once found myself in possession of priv ilege which then thought might be pe- culiar to myself, but which I afterwards found was common to all young lawyers, to wit: the privilege of fellowship on free and easy terms with the elder brethren. we'll remember the pleasure of these as- sociations and the help I derived from them. It is pleasant to recall the names of the giants ill those days, when I was 8 stripling. Bacon, Miner, Huntington, Beers, Boardman, the Churches, Smith When found myself in snarl, and that happened to me semi-daily, I always found relief in the ready and cheerfully- given counsel of these venerable seniors It is truth familiar to us all that law yers, young and old, high and low, ricf and poor, associate together with grea freedom, not perhaps that we love one an other more than the medical faculty, bu our business brings us constantly into as sociation with our brethren, our labor are not isolated but performed in publi, and in each others company, whereby VI become thoroughly acquainted with eacl l other. No man can conduct compli cated cause in court without showing t. his brethren what manner of man he is If he has mind, industry, learning an' culture, he shows it; his temper and dis | position will show themselves If he Ina
 integrity and truthfulness in him, the
 will appear If, on the contrary, he is
 sham, everybody will see it.
 The practice of changing partners a
 associate counsel. brings lawyers into tn
 most intimate relations with each other
 It is amusing to notice gentlemen who a1
 opposed to each other in the morning, d
 most to personal altercation, in the a
 ternoon engaged as associates. and {
 once as familiar and intimate with eac
 other, as the Siamese twins. We become
 therefore, thoroughly acquainted wit
 each other and wear no masks Ill each otl
 er's society. In this connection, if tin
 allowed, I would like to describe the h,
 meetings of olden time which had a lii
 gering existence 50 years ago, but tho
 old-fashioned gatherings could not
 conducted on temperance principles ar