Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-31

David J. Brewer, Formerly of this Town.
 Appointed a Circuit Judge in Kansas
 Cfty-A Banquet i'm His Honor.
 Hon. David J. Brewer, formerly of New Haven. who followed the ''star of empire'' westward some years ago, has been crowned with honors in his chosen field of life. Judge Brewer graduated at Yale college in 1856 and several years after went to Leavenworth, Kansas, to practice law. His progress toward success and eminencs has been rapid and un- interrupted. his latest step upward being his recent appointment as United States circuit judge A reception was rendered Judge Brewer by the bar of Kansas City last Friday evening, which was said to be the most bril- liant affair of the kind ever held there. Over one hundred guests were in attsnda nee, among whom were the entire supreme bench of Kansas and many ex-members of the Supreme court of that State, together with 8 large number of the best known members of the bar of Kansas City.
 Ex-Judge McCrary of Kansas City made the opening speech of the evening, welcom- ing Judge Brewer in behalf of his brother lawyers. Among other things he said: Judge Brewer does not come among us as a strang- CT. His appointment to his present exalted office was no experiment. He had been tried and not found wanting. Applause. ] He had long filled and adorned seat upon the Supreme bench of our neighboring State of Kansas and he comes to us with we'll earned fame as jurist as well as what is even more important, high reputation among his fellow-citizens and neighbors as a man and 8 citizen. Renewed applause.
 In response Judge Brewer described his ideal of judge and went on: The time was when the citizens of Leavenworth and Kan gas City were rivals for commercial suprema- cy. Going still farther back I see the two great States of Kansas and Missouri facing each other in the field of strife. The oppos- ing lines of two civilizations met and grap- pied at this very point. Far be it from me to speak with any bitterness of those dark days Rather tonight joyonsly note the fact that the only strife between them is in the arts of peace, the development of their vast re- sources and in the strengthening of all those mighty forces which are making for free society and purer civ ilization. A pleasing incident took place at a recent meeting of the alumni of old Yale in which two members of my own class were the chief actors. The war had passed. Re- construction was slowly progressing; the bit- ter feelings had not all died away when our class had a reunion at Yale. Wager Swayne and Luke Finlay were lawyers, one from Ohio, the other from Tennessee. Each had served in the armies of his respec- tive section. At the alumni meet ing when hundreds upon hundreds were present from all parts of the land, sug- gestion was made that old Yale knew no dis tinction between her sons, whether living in the North or in the South, and on the inspira- tiou of the moment Swayne and Finlay locked arms, walked up the long aisle and standing upon the platform in the presence of the vast audience gave each ether the hand of fraternal greeting. That simple act, with the enthusiasm that it created, was pledge and prophecy that as for the sons of old Yale the bonds of union strained and bro ken through the long years of civil war were once again reunited and reunited forever.
 After Judge Brewer, other distinguished members of the Kansas bar and several prom inent citizens made speeches, all of them warmly congratulatory to the new judge New Haven may well be proud of such a son.