The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-01-21
A. w. LITTLE,
Secretary,
SUPREME Coz ct, OCT. TERM, 1874, !
TUESDAY, Jan, y, 1873.


SUPREME CoURT, OCT. TERM 1874,
TUESDAY, Jan, y, 1873.
In open Court, Gen. Featherston arose and
said
Nav it please the Court am instructed
bvameeting ofthe members ofthe bar held in
this room on yesterday, TO present to the
Court and ask that they be spread on its
minutes a report and a series OF resolutions
touching the life and character of the late
Fulton Anderson. The resolutions were then
read, and are as follows:
The members of the Bar, in attendance
upon the supreme Court, have learned, with
profound sorrow, that their distinguished
friend and brother, Fulton Anderson, Esq,
after enduring four years of unparalleled
afiction, has closed his career on earth.
This event, although its occurrence would
not have been unexpected at any time dur
ing the period named, Will be justly regard
ed as a great calamity, not only by his pro-
fessional brethren, but by the people Of the
whole State.
For more than thirty years past he has
stood at the front and abreast with the most
distinguished men, living and dead, who
have illustrated and adorned the jurispru-
dence of the commonwealth.
His arguments, oral and written, on many
of the most complex and important questions
which have come before the Supreme Court
in the last quarter of century, will be re-
membered by his cotemporaries both of the
Bench and the Bar, not only by the effects
they produced at the time upon the minds
of those who had the good fortune to hear
them, but by the profound learning, irresis-
table logic and almost unriYalled elOquence
which characterized them. Possessing mind
of admirable mould by nature, it had been
thoroughly cultivated both by classical and
legal studies. Probably there was not in the
State, member of the Bar whose reading
was more general or varied His resources,
too were always at his command. None of
Us who have heard him in debate, when the
subject and the adversary called into exer-
else all the powers of his mighty intellect,
can ever forget the cOnsummate skill with
which he marshalled his powers, whether
in the discussion Of questions Of law or of
fact
His powers of combination and generali-
cation were remarkable, not to say wonder
full. In that quality of mind it is believed he
had few peers, andnO superiOrs at the Bar of
the State, or of the South.
To all these intellectual gifts were added
a profound and constitutional love of truth
and justice. He was lifted entirely above
assimilation or envy. These ignoble pas
sions, he may, by his pre-eminence, have eX-
cited, in less manly bosoms. They had no
existence III MS own. ClFlCIIN CONSCIENTIOUS
in his dealings with his fellow-men, com
handing their absolute confidence in his
honesty of purpose and purity of character,
and carefully avoiding all cause Of offence to
any, it Is believed he had not. and probably
at time of life had, enemy on earth.
But, able and distinguished as he was adj
mitted to be, by the common Judgment of
his professional brethren, in all the particu-
lars spoken of his career would have been a
fail h, Ityi II
endowments, a testimonial drawn from his
faith and life to the truth of the Christians |
hope in death; for it has been well said cone !
may 1--we as a conquerer or a magistrate, but |
he must die as a man. The bed of death |
brings every human being to his pure indi- |
viduality; to the intense contemplation of |
that deepest and most solemn of all relations |
the relation between the creature and the |
creator. Here it is, that fame and renOwn |
cannot assist us that all external things |
must fail to aid us; that even friends. atfec- |
ton and human love and devOtedness cannot |
sUccor US. This relation, the true founda- |
ton Of all duty, relation perceived and felt |
by conscience, and confirmed by revelation. |
our friend acknowledged He revered the |
Scriptures of truth, honored the pure moral |
ity they teach and seized hold on the hopes of |
future life which they impart. His last ut
terances attested his faith and his triumph |
over death F"
1t Is meet and proper that the death Of 1
such a man should be followed by tributes to
his character, and to his intellectual and NOR
al worth. Therefore be it
Resolred, That we are penetrated with /
deep and sincere sorrow for the loss of our
departed brother, Fulton Anderson.
ReSolred, That in his death. not only the
Bench and Bar, but the whole people of the
state OF Mississippi, are called to mourn the
loss OF one OF their most useful and distin-
guished citizens
Resoiced, That we viii cherish with abid-
ing affection and reverence the memory of our
deceased friend, and that We tender our
aattectionate sympathy to his bereayed fam
lily.
Resolred, That the proceedings of this
m Getting be reported to the Supreme Court
with the request that they be spread upon
It's records and that the Secretary furnish
copy TO the family of the deceased and also
q copy for publication to the newspapers of
this city.
The further remarks Of Gen. Featherston.
accompanying the resolution are as follows
| most cordially endorse what is so truth
FULLY and appropriately expressed in the re-
port and resolutions Just read.
knew Mr.. Anderson well for several
years, As lawyer, a legislator and a politi
al DICTATOR. Often have | sat within these
walls and listened TO his able compact and
'oHCiAuI dIS uIItIiS before our late . II i0b !
court OF Errors and Appeals" As a LAWYER
II great learning in his profession, of Close
md assiduous application, and of rare men
al powers, well disciplined and fully matnr-
ID, he had but few equals, and perhaps no sn-
)erior within the Union. !
lie made his reputation too. and raised
himself into the front rank of his profession
Il a time when such men as Prentiss and
holt and Sharkey and Boyd and a lone line
II Others, of perhaps equal professional emf
renee, but who have passed from the STAGE
i human action, gave tone and character f.
he Bar OF Mississippi. To do 50 required
Intellect OF the highest order, and indefati-
able industry, stimulated bv laudabIe am.
'tlon 1t was Herculean task. and ono
veil calculated TO strike with dismav an
ave the man who was fully conscious IF b;s
WI superior mental endowments
ulton Anderson was equal to the omar
ency To stand the peer of those men in
ne legal profession, was a position of which
ny man might well have been proud
But he was not a mere LAWYER. As lao
'lator, he was vigilant, sagacious. conn.,
enslve and statesman-like Had he hen j
eturned to seat in the United States San
70, after his intellect matured, his reputa