The daily gazette., 1883-06-27

dehee, NO prevent failure of Justice.
There is no profession among men requif-
ing greater moral courage, devotion to
principle, and often demanding defiance
and resistance to the rich, powerful and
overbearing, :, consideration and for.
bearance to the poor and helpless, and
often championship and protection to those
prescribed BY society, than that of the law.
1 cannot stay to ask which cause Is best.
Yet this is so 70 me because opprest.
There are many rewards not Legitimate.
and successes which are guilty, when earned
at the cost OF the perversion and false inter-
probation of the laws. And such offences
take Q deeper hue and are less venial in
those whose occupation is to obtain knowl-
edge Of the Law; for they sin against light
Therefore, whether you are to have share
in the execution or the great trust of judi
cial power, or remain in the ranks of your
professions, counselling and representing
your fellow-citizens In their personal and
private affairs, or whether you accept public
service as alaw maker As well as practitioner,
or as q magistrate-see that the laws are
faithfully executed, your responsibilities
will be found more numerous and varied,
and colleetiyely heavier than those of any
other calling among men. ..
4 Great, for good or evil, are the opportuni-
| ties for members Of the legal profession,
| greater In n Republic than . Monarchy, and
| especiall under q, written constitution Of
| goYerpments the paramount law Of the land,
power 70 the Ruler, and the mandate of
obedience and duty to the citizen.
neIstrength. of our system of government
is that 1t provides for its own reformation
|, and amendment, and In institutine and pro-
| noting legal reforms lies an Important part
| Of professional duty and responsibility. Re-
| forms must neither be, too sudden and
sweeping, nor Rrudging nor too long de-
early reformations are amicable arrange
ments with friend in power; late reforma-
tiohb are terms imposed upon a conquere d
enehiy; early determinations are made In cool
blood; late reformations are mare in a state
Of inflammation"
"Temperate reform is permanent because
| it has q principle OF growth"
| We live IN era of marvellous invention,
| and the sober facts heretofore the secrets Of
nature, but which are now being rapidly
unfolded I'd the minds of living generations,
\ sdrpass ifi their reality the widest dreaus
Of imagination or romantic fiction, By
these discoveries new conditions are imposed
on mankind; greater intellectual activity,
and a.boundless theatre for Its exercise lie
before rs and part pdssu our responsi.
bilities multiply and march beside Us in the
| Journey of life. aI aslt+
sAs the tax upon vitality is increased,
medical ekill and discovery keep pace with
1t, and despite the wear and tear and drain
| upon the nerves and brain Of men, created
| by the demands of modern civilization, the
average duration of human life, thanks to
| sanitary science, anssthetics, reduced medi-
| cation and rational hygiene, has been
lengthenedg 1ui-i ',ij. j.lnnHf 'i1 s..
land as thy days so shall thy strength be,
and we may rest secure in the faith that the
hearts and minds Of our countrymen will be
| fitted for their task, and with brOader views
| and increased wisdom we shall be able 10
cope successfully with the mighty in-fowine
| tide Of new and manifold duties and occu.
pations. 20
The nature of mankind has not changed
since the lark first sang
| ''-''- To the uncuEst Adam,
but manifests itself variously under the de-
mands of habit and the times in which we
| live; but there is a law Of nature founded
on the general nature of human beings and
not on the temporary and accidental situa-
tiOns In which they may be placed. This is
| the law OF which Hooker Buhlimely said,
"Her seat is the bosom of God, her. voice
the harmony of the world, and all things in
| Heaven and earth do her homage, the very
very least as feeling her care, and the
| greatest as not exempted from her power. .
i In such contemplation bring To clost
| this imperfect and fragmentary invoca tior
to comprehension of some of the responsi
bilities of the profession whose especia
duty 1t is to assist In maintaining a govern
| n ent of laws over this great family of Re.
| publican States, with their vast and varied
| population, ard the great mass of the best
| interests of humanity committed. to our
charge, and to adiure you to gird up your
loins for the struggle and prepare for a
true understanding of the duties that await
| you.
False lights will be hung out to mislead
| you, the lures of personal ambition the
| prejqdices and heats of political partisansbip
i may heset your path and warp your judg-
ment, but, consulting your individual con-
science and independent manhood, keeI
| ever in your minds the true character of the
government under which we live, and to
which alone your fealty as q citizen is due
And again borrow the words of that great
lawyer, Benjamin r. Curtis; "This is not Q
government of men. 1t is government o.
laws, and the laws are required by the peopli
to be in conformity with their will declared
by the Constitution, Our loyalty Is due II
that will. Our obedience is due to those
laws. and he who would induce submission
to other laws, springiDg from sources o.
power not originating IN the people, but II
casual events, and in the mere will of thI
occupants of places of power, does not ex
hort US 10 loyalty, but to a desertioh o
trust" 1a~.
! When a debt is general and universal 1
rests lightly on individuals and is apt to re
!. main undischarged. In this way spppos
It may be accounted for that the plain o
Runnymede, the Council Meadow, once tn
scene of one of the greatest triumphs O
EBiberty over Arbitrary Power, is still un
marked by any memorial shaft or monu
ment. More than century ago an inscrip
aon. was prepared by thei poet Akenside
hoping like poor Tmrod of South Carolina
that ..z-5..-.. 49,.
Somewhere waiting for its birth A--
The shaft lies in the stone,
and with his words I bring this address t
an end.
4-.k.B# This is the place
Where England's ancient Barons clad in arm
And stern in conquest, from their tyrant Kin
lThen rendered tameJ did challenge and seeuI
The charter of thy freedom. Pass not on
Till thou hast blest their memory and paid
Those thanks which God appointed the n
dfSpublic virtue And if chance thy home
Salute thee with Fathers honored name,
Go, call thy sons; instruct them what a debt
l. \ They owe their ancestors; and make them swea
7 To pay it, by transmitting down entire
|. THOSE sacred rights TO which themselves wer
born" -
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