Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-05
On motion of Major L. A. Gratz. MIR. J.

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W. Caldwell was elected secretary.
On Motion of Judge George Andrews the
following were appointed committee on
resolutions: Judge George Andrews, Judge
O. P. Temple, Major A. s Prosser, VIM.
M. Baxter, Thos A. r. Nelson, Judge Geo.
Brown.
While the committee were out
HON. JAS. M. MEEK,
of New Market, said it was his earnest de-
sire to be here and participate in this meet
ing. The bereavement is a sad one and speaks
to all who are In health to set their house in
order. The speaker was with Mr.. Maydard
last week on the way, in the Republican
State convention at Nashville, and on the
return, and never saw him looking bettsr.
When the speaker was told, on his way to
Knoxville Wednesday, that he was dead, he
Maynard from his (the speaker's) boyhood.
He was man, every inch of
him. The speakers experience is
that there never was time when Mr..
Maynard was not found in the right, when
ever his country, honor, or principle was at
stake. He was always at the right point.
Few men have achieved the fame he has.
When he put his foot down he invariably
believed he was right He achieved as
much honor and distinction as any man ever
sent to the nation halls of our
government, and especially did he stand up
for the honor and escutcheon of Tennessee.
We were just beginning to know of the
golden opinions won by him as Foreign
minister. He stood up for the cause of
right and justice wherever found. He was
friend to the missionary, as faithful and
true as to his own church at heme. The
speaker is glad that he belongs to Tennes-
see, and glad that his name will go into his
tory that way. We can point the young
to his life. Nnthing impure was ever at
tributed to him. He is glad to be here to
bear an humble share in testimony to his
goodness and greatness.
The committee having retired,
JUDGE GEORGE ANDREWS
prefaced the presentation of the report by
some remarks. Three thousand years ago,
says he, one said, ''Know ye that prince
in the house of Israel has fallen here to-day"
Nobody doubts. There is no fiction or senti-
mental feeling governing the action of this
meeting, but is reflection of genuine sum-
pathy and coincidence. Everybody loves
and honors the name of Horace Maynard.
His life is lesson to the young of the State
and nation. God has no place for the sloth-
will encounter strife and toll and when he
goes to his grave it can be said he has
fought and battled for the right. So it is
with Mr.. Maynard. He has finished
his course and is ready for
the grave. When one by one
we follow him, may the words said be
as warm and true as those spoken here to-
day.
Judge Andrews then read the following
resolutions, and Judge Meek moved their
adoption:
Resolved, That in the death of our broth
er, the Hon. Horace Maynard, the bar of
Knoxville and our Estate have sustained
great and irreparable loss, and that, as
members of the bar and as citizens, we
deeply deplore his death, and deeply SYM
pathize with his bereaved and affectionate
family.
Resolved, That in his past career in our
midst we recognize that of the cultured
scholar and the learned, able and honorable
lawyer, worthy in intellect, training and
moral excellence the emulation of our
ablest and best; and that as citizen and
man IN every phase of social and domestic
life, he has walked amongst us high ex-
ample of noble manhood.
Resolved, That in public life Horace
Maynard has shown himself before the
world statesman without fear and without
reproach, against whose pure integrity de-
traction nor enmity has ever dared in the
fercest contest to utter charge or whisper
an insinuation. His life has been lived in
the bright sunlight, and no citizen of Ten
nessee has ever blushed to hear his name or
listen to his words His lot cast in times of
| fierce political strife, he ever battled for the
| right, "as God gave him to see the right"
| and
'sNever sold the truth to serve the hour,
| Nor paltered with Eternal God for power"
Resolved, That the secretary cause cop
les of these resolutions to be published in
the papers of this city and furnished to the
relations of the deceased, and that they be
| spread upon the minutes of the various
State and Federal Courts sitting in Knox
| vile. And that the members of the bar at
tend the funeral in body.
| JUDGE o. P. TEMPLE
seconded the motion, saying he deemed it
not uniting to accompany the second with
a few remarks. When informed of
the death of Mr.. Maynard it fell
upon him like an electric shock
only two evenings before the speaker was in
consultation with him on important matters,
in connection with the University, as COM
| ulltse VI Tue DOdru Oh t16 DOdru OF trustees,
and never saw him in better health and
spirits and more agreeable. 1t has been the
speakers fortune to know Mr.. Maynard well
and for a long time. He came here young
scholar, without experience money, OF
friends He sprang to distinction as a
teacher, which survives to-day, and when
he entered the practice of the law, at once
took position beside the leading lawyers
| of Tennessee. There were
giants at the bar in those days, said the
speaker, mentioning the names of several
former Tennesseeans of distinction, such as
Spencer Jarnagin, Judge Alexander, Thos.
G. Lyon, Robert Hynds, Gray Garrett, Jno.
A. Mckinney, Robt. j. Mckinney, Thos.
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