Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-28
rAsLArE JUDGE BALDWIN.

On the 2lst inst, while the Supreme :
Court of Iowa was in session, at
Council Bluffs, resolutions of respect
o the memory of the late Judge Ca ]
eb Baldwin were passed and placed
n the records of that court. |,
The resolutions were reported by |
The following committee, to-wit: !
Judges G. G. Cole, Geo. G.. Wright,
Dan. II. Miller, Attorney General
Hon. b. j. Hall, o. p. Shi-
ras and S. Clinton. ~
Attorney Gen. McJunkin, Hon. l..
w. Ross, B. F. Montgomery and ex-
Senator Wright, and Chief Juctice
Day made appropriate remarks on
the occasion.
The following are the essential por-
tons Of ex-senator Wrighfs speech
which we reproduce on account OF
their interest to the general read
err:
Your Honors, he belonged to that
nobility of mankind in our great
State, who in times past, as hereafter, |
leaving in early life their homes in |
New England or elsewhere, PASS
through all the trials, vicisitudcs,
temptations, experiences, schooling
and conflicts of professional life in
the great west. His large heart ex-
banded as the broad prairie plains Of
this grand empire opened before him.
His practical common sense found
place for its proper exercise among
the plain matter of fact population
he here met. The liberal, hospitablc
people of his new and pleasant home,
had in him congenial spirit and a
most willing assistant in all the grand
work before them. A plain man him
self, by every incentive of his nature,
he respected the plain and simple
habits of the pioneers around him
was able to, and did, distinguish the
true from the false, worth from pre-
Itence and shams, and to lay, W ithout
effort, the foundation of the we'll de-
served popularity which he enjoyed
for years, secured, perhaps, to no 9TH
er man in the state. The conflicts of
actual life, the experiences of tho tri-
al table, the almost hand to hand con-
fict with friendly but earnest antag-
onist before judge or jury, the strug-
giles for success and supremacy found
in all classes, the enterprise, emula-
ton, activity, all obtaining as perhaps,
nowhere else on this continent. say
all these matters aided in training, rs
they did his compeers, this young
lawyer, just from his Alma Mater
(that nursery of great mem at Wash
ington, Pa, and making him the able
lawyer profound jurist, sagacious
statesman and cstimable christian
gentleman, whose death, friends, FAM
lily, the state and the nation this day
mourns. To the young lawyer, as to
the young man of any profession, the
west is indeed grand schoolhouse- -
its scenes and experiences the most
E efficient teachers.
Judge Baldwin made Iowa his
, home more than thirty years since
settling in Fairfield, in the county OF
! Jefferson, in 1916, where he remained
: until his removal to this metropoli!
of western Iowa, in 1859. We were
both mere boys when met him a
his first term, in 1S47. when Charles
}, Mason was judge. C. Hall, james
: w. Grimes, Henry w. Starr, Davii
Y Rorer, Stephen Whicher, Jane
Grant, Tom Davis and others, wer'
: the Nestors of the bar, and when W,
T. were just laying aside the laws ant
ordinances Of territorial existence
!. Among the modest, unassuming ant
: timidly bashful men ever knew. ant
especially SO for one of his noble ant
kingly presence and person, he never
is as / believe, struggled for prefermen
d and there was scarcely An Office. with
l. in the gift of the people or eXecutiy
d which he did not fill or might no
S, have had. A warm friend of our ed
10 ucational system, he was often con
= nected with and at the head of tn
t. boards having the management ant
l. control of common schools of his cit,
o and town. Anxious for the develop
n ment of the material resources of tn
Il state, he labored actively with thos,
s, who, in the early days organized oul
Y. state and county agricultural socie
n ties. He, more than once, too, as HI
It believed he could accomplish som,
Z good thereby. consented to serve a.
T. chief executive of his city, faithfully
Is giving his time to its growth and i'm
n proyement. He served also, as WI
h know, with singular devotion ant
i singlcness of purpose upon several o
the boards having under their care tn,
e humane, benevolent and educationa
n state institutions. To him too wa
n assigned the duty of presenting tn
= pleas of the state in the county of JEFF
l. ferson for term or more, being elect
n ed thereto by the people. 1t was hi
Is fortune also to succeed the now ju
n nior justice of this court upon tn,
n bench in the old third district--sooI
) after resigning which trust he remov
,f1 ed to his home here, where he resided
: in 1853, when elected to the highes,
O judicial tribunal of the state. with
j. Lowe and Stockton as his associates
h He remained there for four years
4 and voluntarily retired thercfrom
y but was soon thereafter appointed q
O S. Attorney for Iowa. which place h
q resigned as we know because Of hi
Il party and devotion to his politica
d convictions. Thus having laid aside
l. official cares he devoted himself as
n siduously to his profession, until HI
l. was appointed by the President ant
y confirmed by the Senate one of tho
= judges to adjudicate and determine
: claims under the Treaty of Washing
e ton, known as the Alabama clam:
4 Commission, which place he filled
e by the testimony Of all his associates
o and all who knew him at the capita
! City of the nation, with the most dis
@ tinguislied ability, and which place