Daily globe., 1879-06-28

JOHN B. SANBoRN,
GEO. L. OT1s,
GEO. B. YOUNG,
HARVEY OFFICER.
Committee.
Allow mo to present to you an engcOssed copy
of the address with the compliments of the bar
of the State giaE
am also commissioned to move His Honor
Jndg Nelson on behalf of the bar, to allow the
address to be entered upon the records of the
court, which motion now make, and ask that
it may be granted.
Ex-oov. DAVIS REMARKS.
Judge Dillon:-The bar of this State re-
ceived the announcement of your resignation
with expressions of regret more touchingly
eulogistic than words can here express with
due regard to the formality of this proceeding.
Men Of sensibility will not say in his pres
ence concerning a person who is the object of
their affection, nor can such person hear
without embarrassment those words which
fully ratify the feeling which prompts them.
History, even though it speaks with the voice
of friendship. does not say and cannot say to
him all that absence and the future will require
opportunity of this sad moment of parting, of
this moment which gathers up into the heart
the full. sense of the fact that we are to stand
before you as judge no more-to ca use you
to feel how great is our esteem for you, how
great our deprivation is.
1t SO happened that we urged your appoint-
rnent as circuit judge many years ago. OF the
many eminent names which were under con-
sideration for that nomination your own was
preferred by us-not for any personal reasons,
because few of us then enjoyed your acquaint-
ance. We had, however, become familiarized
with your judicial character by fre-
quent application in our courts
Of your decisions as a Judge of the
RI r CC1Uo o,11 n 1o1 IN
our preference by them. We tonnd in them
lea ming always more than sufficient for the
case; intellectual vigor to which that learning
was an armor, not an incumbrance; mental in
dependence creative in it's character; judicial
conscience which dealt with the ard not
with its consequences.
With these our prepossessions you came tt
US. and there is not member of this bar ii
whom they have not passed into conviction:
which "re adorned and made forever beautiful
by an abiding love and esteem for those
personal traits which experience only car
teach and which absence cannot destroy o.
even dim.
The resolution which you have taken. Will,
it grieves, docs not impair US. There are limi
tations to all endeayor and ambition, ane
surely the administration of the laws of sever
commonwealths which hold six millions O.
people, which present diverse institutions
codes which though perhaps analogous are We
so different as to perplex, where civilization
and empire are so visibly 0verspreading re
gion where Terminus has not yet set up hi
| landmark, where legal system must be ere
ated in few years which will survive whe1
| the erasing finger of time has made illegibl
the DEGREES which establish it-surely these ar
boundaries which circumscribe the creates
caLacity and resolution.
1t was for you and not for us to say wher
you should pause. It is our gain and You
| IL a., - IL I, l,o
done. It will not pass away. It will endur
| in precedents, guiding human concerns when a.
| recollection is lost.
It is then to you to speak of act of you
! judicial career which has benefited this Stat
and is appreciated by our people more perhar
than has been siguifed to you. II
financial catastrophe of 1873 afflicted us deel
ly. 1t left our future unsecured. Our gre;
railway system, which had been proficient an
partially continued towards the British posse
sions. was paralyzed at the moment when con
munication seemed very near. The land graz
depended upon the completion of the ente
prise, and it was not easy to see how this cou
orous interests and in the debility of bankrul
corporate ms. But in this court the exparei,
and administrative forces of the system of la
here administered was fully proved. TT
settlement of private right was made i
strumeutal to the public good, and bo
private right and public good were profted ar
increased. The road was built; the lands we
. earned; the frontier was advanced, AMI Il
homes of thousands stand to-day where '
feared the wilderness would be unbroken f
manv years. BY this this court has earn:
what courts seldom receive-the gratitude of
people for judicial act.
Our regret at your retirement from this ben
, would be greatly increased were we not assur,
that the new field of usefulness to which yt
= | hoe offnr ~
what you would necessarily have been contin u
to contribute to had you remained in yo
t present office.
1t has become apparent that our system
3 laws some time ago arrived at that stage
t completely and contradiction of precede
1 which demands reformation and secol
/ growth. The time, which we can all remel
i ber, has passed when an authority in poi
e when exhumed by housing industry was XII
of fetch before which judges bowed and O
4 posing counsel were dumb. Principle, SO 10
e suffocated beneath the mass of cases, has be
' com PEELED to rise and to remit them to th'
8 auxiliary places This, a time like tho
: when the great civilians were ordered
Justinian to formulate the immense mass
b the Roman law; when commerce and exten
l. ing empire eompell. d Mansfield to project
a a continuous judicial travail of thirty ye,
IS tie commercial cole Of all English speak,
it people; when the failing feudal abuses. vicio
= IN tnelr lasG extremity, cOmpelled ~ AXu'
Is sean to remodel the lawof France. The
J. works were done by judges. The work soon
rs be done in our day must principally be do
by judges. We hope and expect that in yo
y new vocation you will continue to contrib,
,e powerfully to that great result which is d
e. tined to cendense and make more certain a
If symmetrical our cumbrous jurisprudence
,e Nothing more remains for me to say exec
7e to assure you of our abiding ,eem, affect
N and respect and to hope that in all stations
rs which you may be called, your way of life n
1t be made pleasant by honor, love and troops
to friends and by the gladstone light Of jurisp
lt dence.
of DISTRICT ATTORNEY BILLsoN.
to The address to which you have listen
~ Judge Dillon, portrays only in subdued COLI
-. -. sure, the sentir rnent, not too strongly
st, pressed by the word sorrow, with which
I'M bar Of Minnesota have contemplated y
Or Withdrawal from the judicia' Office. So lc
on SO rich aud SO varied has been your e1
g rience as minister of justice; SO unremitt
has been your industry; 80 ardent and ex'
* siye your devotion to the law; 30 high b
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