Daily Republican., 1879-05-29
FIRST EDITION.
HONORING THE DEAD.

AnOrRDle DanIeh IA DaseS NV
ease se-Panegyrics Delivered by
rembers Of tho Bar-s;uiogies
" the Court.
,ast evening at FIVE O'Clock being set
RI by the court to receive the reso
ions passed by the New Castle County
upon the death of Hon. Daniel NJ.
es, the regular business was dis
Ised with:
WILLIAM G. wHITELBY's ADDRESS.
After silence had been secured, Mr..
hiteley addressed the court as fol
rs:
d is known to your Honors that the
In. Daniel M. Bates, a member OF
q Bar, and former Chancellor Of the
lte, died in the city of Richmond, in
State of Virginia, on Friday, the
h of March last.
At meeting Of the Bar Of this coun-
held in the United States Court
bm on Monday, March 3lst, certain
buttons were passed in reference
hhe death of Mr.. Bates, and by ap-
ntment by that meeting, five mem
4 of the Bar, Of whom Brother Bird
myself are here, were instructed
present those resolutions to this
6rt.
II is scarcely necessary before your
tonors and in this m,-the Forum,
shere he built up and established his
ltputation as lawyer, for me to speak
Ifhis legal ability or character.
They are known to the Court, they
known to the Bar, to the State and
1he profession every where in oul
n.
M. Bates studied under his father
IL 9 Hon. Martin w. Bates, of Dow
an. having been admitted in the
Inty of Ksnt in 1912, | found him,
In my first appearance as a visitor al
Court of Errors in June of that
r, arguing the case of Pritchett and
rk, a case rendered famous not only
The questions involved, but by the
hber and ability Of counsel then en-
led. His father, Hon. Martin M
|es, Hon. John M. Clayton, Hon
In Wales ct. al.
ie removed in 1850 to this county
Hing in Wilmington, where he sool
anne recognized as one among the
ders of our bar--ranking with anc
ng either associated with or opposed
wo of them who still survive-th'
BIS. James A. Bayard and Georg'
Rodney-or two of them who prece
him in death-your Honores prede
bor in the Chief Justiceship Of thi
prt, the Hon. Edward W. Gilpin an'
llia,n Horsey Rogers, Esq.
Phis position Mr.. Bates acquired an'
a not by any pre- eminent brlllancy
by what is commonly called ora
\, not by eloquence in its usual ac
Baton. His mind, though strong
Id not be called brilliant genius h
but genius for work and thorough
not genius for words, and if elo
BIT ever, it was the eloquence result
and flowing from the sincerity q
&convictions. Z Imagination and fame.
enpied no place in his addresses to
~, and before the Court it was b.
nc strength of the law and his luci
MID clear enunciation thereof that h
kapcee ded IN reaching Your llonore
1dgment.
SHe was an assiduous, untiring stu
1ht; both at the Bar and on the Bench
sre was nothing relating to the cas-
was arguing, or the case he was de
ing which he did not investigate
u use or explain away, as his jude
lnt dictated. His capability for Ion
ntinued work, considering his feebl
kysiaue, was wonder to his friends
written arguments and decision
monuments of his thoroughness
Whilst at the bar, he had place j
the leading cases in this Court an
equity, and his opinion of the cas-
always given the highest consider
bn by whoever might have been hi
league.
II his career while upon tAe Bench
ll only say that it was remarkabl
cessful and when compelled b
posed failing health to resign hi
lncellorship, after a service OF bu
years, an unmixed, regret from tn
ch, Bar and the people met the al
ncement.
private life also Mr.. Bates was
larkable man. He was the most eve
pered man | ever met. | scarcel
saw him rufiled in the conflict I
trial table. 1t is vouchsafed to te
b to pass through life So Quietl
yet exercise SO strong an intiuenc
n our fellows. may say that tt
tle beauty yet strength of his cha1
Pr was unsurpassed, and the Streal
bis life, | can compare onlyAo tn
le river that skirts our shores, quit
placid yet beautiful and strong.
Elch sirs, ID our appreciation of OF
brother. His place few of us ca
to fill We can all, however, as "
|esitatingly do, claim for him an
4 to him that great need of prals'
as lawyer, he was great: as cit
he was good ; as Christian he WI
ERE, fully deserving that hig
pc which Rome's greatest poet b
td on Caesar Augustus.
pustum ct tenacem pr0positi verum.'
r. Whlteley then read the resoll
which have been published i'll
nous issue of the REPUBLICAN,, al
|ed they be placed upon the mil
REMARKS RY LEVI c. BIRD, ESQ.
r. Bird in secondiDg the motto
T. "hteley spoke as follows:
18th submission to your Honors,
only at the last term of this Coul
resolutions of respect were pr
yea to your Honors announcing I'll
ia Of a loved and distiAguisle
hber of this Bar and now again SOC
the little space of time," anoth'
yet another still, have been take
us. Let US trust that this sue