The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1875-01-14
SUPREME CoUeT, OCT. TERM, 1874, !
TUESDAY, Jan, II, 1875. I
A. w. LITTLE,
Secretary.

In open Court, Gen. FeatherstOn arose and
said:
"May it please the Court, am instructed
by meeting ofthe members ofthe bar, held in
this room on yesterday, to present to the
Court and ask that they be spread on it's
minutes, report and series Of resolutions
touching the life and character of the late
Fulton Anderson. The resolutions were then
read, and are as follows:
"ihe members Of the Bar, in attendance
upon the Supreme Court, have learned, with
profound sorrow, that their distinguished
tr;1nd and brother, Fulton Anderson, Esq,
after enduring four years Of unparalleled
affection, has closed his career on earth.
! This event, although its occurrence would
not nave been unexpected at any time dur
ing the period named, will be justly regard
ed as great calamity, not only by bis pro-
/ fessi0nal 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,
III the last quarter Of a century, will be re-
membered by his contemporaries, both of the
Bench and the Bar, not only by the effects
they produced at the time upon the minds
of hose who had the good fortune to hear
| them, but by the profound learning, irresis-
! table logic and almost unrivaled eloQuence
! which characterized them. Possessinga 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 thatquality of mind it is believed he
had few peers, andno superiors at the Bar OF
the State, or Of the South.
go all these intellectual gifts were added
a profound and constitutional love of truth
and justice. He was lifted entirely above
discrimination or envy. These ignoble pas
sions, he may, by his prominence have ex-
cited in less manly boS0ms. They had no
existence in his own. Strictly conscientious
IN his dealings with his tellow-men, com
manding their absolute confidence in his
honesty OF purpose and purity of character,
and carefully avoiding all cause Of offence to
any, 1t IS believed he mad not, and probably,
at no time Of lite had, an enemy on earth
But, able and distinguished as he was adj
mitted to be, by the common Judgment Of
his professional brethren, ia al the particu-
lars spoken OF, his career would have been Il
failure ii re had not, super8dd6d to all his
end Wment5, a testimonial drawn from his
faith and life to the truth OF the Christians
hope IN death; Tor it has been well said Gone
may live IS q c0HQuerer or q magistrate, but
he must die as q man" The bid of death
brings every human being to his pure indi-
vidualtY; to the intense contemplation of
that deepest and most solemnof al relations
the relation between the creature and the
creator. Here it Is, that ialne and renown
cannot assist US that All external things
must fail to aid US; that even friends, affec-
ton and human love and QeY0tedness cannot
succ0r US. This relation, the true tounda-
ton OF al duty, relation perceived and felt
by conscience, and confirmed by revelation,
our friend acknowledged. He reyered the
i Scriptures oftruth, 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 iaith, andhis triumph
over death.
1t IS meet and proper that the death OF
such man should be followed by tributes to
his character, and to his intellectual moral
worth Therefore be it
Resolred, That we are penetrated with
deep and sincere sorrow for the loss of our
!, departed brother, Fulton Anderson
, he8otUed, 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.
Res0fue3, That we will cherish with abid-
Ing affection and romorse, the memory of our