The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-23
GARLAND ON BLACK.
We have las, recelyed a pa mphle,

Me have Jdst Teccived pa mphiet con tanning report ot the proceedings of the Bench and Ear of the United States Supreme Court, in memory of the late Jeremiah 5. Black. The following re. marks, full of strength and good sense. were made by Senator A. H. Garland, ot arkansaW
 We are called upon 10 pay a last tribute ;o ! grea, man. given 10 his country and his lace by our profession. Ills career has been so marked and so very promi- neai. and so continuous for over ;hlr;y years, httle that Is new can be sad oi hm, lt,ie that Is fresh To the country can no~ be sold of hun. Probably |, Y not Il, that here and ,n this presence Il life sketch of him should be gwen. but. more properly, something of the place he filled. the impressions he made, and the lessons he lneulcated Tn his long. la botiou>. and useful life AS d lawyer, for As such we now are to speak of him, IS such we now sorrow and mourn over hls loss.
 l, is now just twenty-,hree years since l first saw ludge Black. He was the first attorney ever heard al ,he bar of ,his court, He was opposed and followed by ,hc gifted Judah r. BenJ amin. in one of those California land cases that came in numbers to the court about tha, time This contest WAS sigh, worth beholding feast ;o erIoy by one then scarcely on the threshold oi his profession. Judge Black was then m the ylgor of his physl- cal manhood, m tte very meridian of his intellect. He was then the attQrney- general of the United States. andl very soon thereafter the secretary of sta:e. That he hlled these two exalted positions. at Il tune most critical and perilous 10 the country. well and to the full measure and standard of ability, in its broadcst sense. Is too we'll known 10 be stated al length here
 Some ten years after hearing him the first time heard him fer the second time, Tn the Blyew case, from Kentucky, reported IT I5'h Wallace. That effor, was the mes, combination of law, logie, rhetoric. and eloquenee have ever list eped to When II was finished very i able attorney of the court, sitting near by, asked me aha, thought of Il, 10 which replied tha, had come all the way from my home to look after little business here. at considerable sacrifice. bu, having heard this argumen, was more than compensa,ed.
 This court, however, has ofen wit. messed such displays by him. Promi- nent in mos, of the leading cases here for i the past twenty years and more, effous of this sor; with him were not rare or ex- ceptional.
 Before he came 10 figure a, the capital of the nation. he had won solid aAd en- during fame al the bar of his own state. and on the bench honored and adorned by such lawyer as Gibson. His de cision in the celebrated Sharpless case, cI Penn. Rep, involving great constitu- tional questions, arising upon the power of corporations in respect Of taxation will be read and cred as long as the law lives in our country. No book written upon these questions, or pretending fairly 10 discuss ,heE, can fail to deai much with ,hIs case: !, runs through the commentaries published since it's deci- sion. as Coggs v. Bernard does in dis- cussions on bailmen,s, or Calder Y. Bu.l in the matter Of ex pos; f1cto laws.
 His resources were wonderful, aimos, boundless, his reading vast, his memory prodigious, his versatility extraordinary Cicero, in one place quoting from De mos,henes, that action is the chief ex cellency in speaking. interprets acton 10 mean delivery: in another place he refers 10 it as enunciation: bu, Quin,illlan, in quoting the same, makes il mean pro- nuncia,ion. looks. voice, gesture, ihe whole movement of the man speaking Tn either and all of the interpretation: Mir. Black had this frs,, this second, this third escelleacy. He no, only became his client, bu, his clients cause: he was wrapped up and lost in II; he moved and acted in Il. So grea; was his earnest ness and power of assertion, l have fancied could see the convictions ot judges giving away reluctantly before him and surrendering 10 him as he spoke.
 Some assert tha: as a rule a gre4.