Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-30
The Late Judge BIackman.

HOmOrS 10 HIS Memory by the Bar As
 sOciatf0n-ERemarks by Governor In-
 gersOIT and Others.
 Yesterday afternoon at o'clock special meeting of the New Haven County Bar Asso- citation was held in the Superior Court room
 to take action upon the death of the late Judge
 Alfred BIaekman
 Hon. Charles Ives called the meeting to or-
 der. He referred in feeling manner to the
 death of Judge BlHckman, which, he said, had
 cast shadow of gloom over the association.
 Hon. Henry B. Harrison then introduced
 the following resolutions
 Haven county to testify in an appropriate and
 earnest manner our high respect for the abilities the
 which distinguished in an eminent deeree our late
 associate and friend, Alfred BiacEman. e' '~N remain permanently recorded among the names of
 those lawyers highest in professional rank who have Resolved That we hereby tender to his widow and
 the other members of hts family the expression of profound sympathy with them in their afitction. Resolved, That the Superior Court is hereby
 quested to enter these resolutions upon its records
 Resolved, That the clerk of said court fig hereby
 BlackmAn.
 Ex Governor Ingersoll, in rising to respond
 to the resolutions said There are a few of us here and when I look around it seems very sad to see how few to whom this blow is not peculiarly oppressive. It breaks the very last l link that separated us from the old bar of this | town. l mean you, MT. Chairman, and oth- CTS, and I, who were mere spectators for awhile of their work. Than the deceased none was more active. Alfred Blackman was conspicuous for he deserved it. I can recall no man who had less of the love of that con- | spicuousness that came from notoriety. Sham l loosened his feather shafts of irony. He was l faithful and ardent. His intellectual qualities I,se I,z | frame, lighted by his cheerful countenance.
 They were cultivated by reading and re- hection. His mind was rich in common law | and sense He was rarely sagacious man. His perception of human motives was instinctive, and his power of making himself in accord with the varied humors of the men he addressed was magnetic. Much of it was owing to his rare aptness of language. We who knew him | can recollect his sturdy phrases; those he
 used to call the good old Saxon language ! He was 8 student of the English language \ In the midst of his practice he had 8 fancy to have Worcester's dictionary on his table, He was happy, not to refer to it, but to read ! it as others read other volumes. He was al ways the same in the outside walks as in the | inside. It was my good fortune when be- l gan practice to have an office near him. This
 led to close friendship, which lasted until
 his death. The shade of life's evening was | over him for 8 long time. but it imparted no | gloom to his life. The same bright intellect,
 the same cheerful disposition, the same buoy | ant spirit, the same brave soul that can come | only from an upright conscience were still ! his. He has gathered the ''drapery of his couch about him" and has died the death, as
 he has lived the life, of good and faithful servant.
 Hon. s. W. Kellogg, of Waterbury, said that | the news of the death of Judge Blackman had
 brought to his recollection host of memories. The speaker recalled when many years ago Judge Blackman opened law office at sey- mour and was for a long time resident of the Naugatuck Valley. The name of Judge Black | man in that valley was better known than any
 other practitioner in this county. At that time | Governor Baldwin, Hon. R. I Ingersou and
 his brother and Dennis Kimberly were the
 four giants of the bar. They ranked high | above all Next came another rank and in
 can't express the high esteem had for him | or his high qualities. He never forgot that he Il was a gentleman and never forgot to be a l gentleman to his opponent I certainly, for | one, second the resolutions heartily. | State Attorney Doolittle thought the occa-
 sion ought not to pass without 8 reference to II the debt the deceased paid to his profession \ in the Senate in 1942. There he assisted in
 the elevation of Chief Justice Hinman, one of
 the highest of judges to the bench. The de-
 ceased detested every form of meanness and | discovered it intuitively. He had great fond | ness for exactness of statement. If witness did not express the truth he rarely left the stand without being compelled to tell it. He belonged to a generation that has left us | None has been his superior in his discussion | of facts before jury. This was due to his | intelligence, fairness, courtesy, kindness and | love and his hatred of shams and all kinds of | meanness.
 l George E. Watrous said Alfred Blackman
 was not only great lawyer and skillful ad- | vocate, but he was good man. His was one | of the tenderest hearts that ever animated a | human bosom. Those who did not know him | intimately were not aware of these facts. While the speaker was sick Alfred Blackman I drove morning after morning to his door to inquire if he were able to ride out. and when l he was convalescent took him to drive. This | gave the deceased more pleasure than even it l did the patient. This quality none of the bar | despises, and all, he hoped, deemed it more worthy in this weak and sinful world than | these bright and glistening talents which be- | longed to the deceased. In the death of Alfred Blsckman all have suffered loss. The consciousness that he was once present among them will be daily refreshing and constant blessing.
 After brief remarks by Charles H. Fowler the resolutions were put and carried. On motion of General Kellogg the court was requested to adjourn to this afternoon, so that the bar may attend the funeral in a body,
 which will be held at the late residence of the deceased this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The request to Judge Hovey was cheerfuIIy complied with.