Litchfield enquirer., 1881-09-01

he has left his hafk on tfie jurispfuder,ce of the state The fame of the best lawyer ordi- narily goes with him into his coffin hut I cannot doubt that this service of his rendered to law reform will make his name, and fame abide in honor WhenIthe hvesr of the rest of us shall be as watch in the night that IS past.
 His public life was most fortunate in all things save one. He was elected to the bench of the superior court in 1655 by unanimity, if remem- Der right He was dropped from 1t at the end of his first term in 1868. Though less parti- ever sat there, his political enemies thought to censure him for his political opinions. When the great lawyer, BerrYer, were brought to revoidtioa| |of 1880, slieE leaders of taie French bar &bk their places heside hiln in the crimi- ual d0cksR The pfesident of thee reques- ted them to retire, as '''thst was no place for advocates in their official robes, they replied: ''The bench of the accused is so honored to- day that we thought to do ourselves honor by taking our placespn it "s Asshere in that case so here in this, the better part of the whole bar of our state gathered with and around their accused and fallen chief Having said this, hasten to add that the accused was not long insputting to shame bis acchsers; for in betteesdayS aafit that. too, after no long wait ing, the state lighted in an exemplary manner the wrong done to it's great magistrate and raised him to the highest rank of the supreme bench by promotion altogether exceptional, and better than all, with the general consent of the whole bench, the whole bar and the whole people of the state. Time, though of- ten slow in it's retributions, revenges now and then with indignant haste the bigotries of meB and sooner 0r laterapopulagityAr runs after him who deserves it, though he runs not after it.
 nos1 VI c,vre1 heoA Ahop that shall not leave the best part unsaid? The loss of official sfanky by ~4ine whom the office honofs Anots he the office eIcarries with it al- ways, to greater or less degree, loss of per- sonal rank and consideration sometimesi al- most an eclipse. In the case of our deceased friend. the loss by constitutional limitation of the highest judicial office in the state seemed to take nothing from his honors, nothing from the proper estimate of the ,mapy as also it took nothing from hisactivities andusefulDess. He continued up to to the time of his last sickness tosdischagge great variety of the. most impor;; tant public trusts, ministerial, judicial and legislative, old age came upon him, to be sdre, yet not dry and barren, but green and fruitful as an olive tree in autumn bending with the laborT Of the olive I Nhat'r honor, love, obedience, troop of friends" waited on his closing'years! How dear he was to the hearts not merely of the bench. and bar, but of the people of state, and he fell at last, just as he would have wished to fall, in harness and in the thick of affairs. sE,+1gyF~4<
 AS afriend of the deceased and Ia fellow with him in the profession he so much honor- ed | offer here these poorg words of tribute which have no merit but their sincerity, to the memory of an elder brother whom we all loved with one heart and mind, and a patriarch whom we all revered.
 And now, in conclusion, this half lcentury of just and useful life-work done, this race of honor run and won,r not without sweat and toil, we commend, with one accord and 8 common love, grief and homage, we con- mend this christian sleeper to the hospitable bosom of our common mother till the day break and the shadows flee away and Jso, in the saintly language of the saintly Fuller, ''we leave our good judge to receive just re- ward of his integrity from the judge of judges at the great assize of the world"
 When Governor Hubbard had finished ad- dresses were made by other members of the bar and at their conclusion the resolutions were passed unanimously. .........