The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-12-15

than Cinlmerian darkness concerning it. Mr.
Evans crOss-eXamned the ebuliient and too-wil
ling gentleman with much fun and humOr and did
not let him escape until the excessive zeal vi the
witness had been made apparent. At the sum
ming up, he disposed vi the pretender To omuisci-
ence by quoting that passage OF scripture which
says III, therefore thine eye he single, thy whole
body shall he full vi light The text though
grossly perverted, was So iudicrous and at the
| same time opposite to the one-eyed Solomon in
its letter that IT was greeted with oil laugh
| ter by the entire audience, including bench, bar
| jury and bystanders. And il not much
mistaken, the jury rewarded the witty advo-
| cate with IA verdict in a doubtful case mainly
because OF the excellence OF the joke. So, doubt
| not, vi similar illustrations Will readily
occur to nay brethren Of the bar.
| Though Mr.. Evans left public life at an age, SO
early, that it might be counted the very begin
| ming oi his matured manhood; he had remained
| long enough To establish his tame and enroll his
name among the benefaetOrs oi his country and
| his fellow men His successful efforts in behalf
OF an improved Light House Service mas saved
| millions of property and thousands OF human
| lives. The innunerable light houses on our eX-
| tended coasts stand as monuments to mis- sound
Judgment and efficient public labors. Every light
that flashes from our shores Tar over the adjacent
waters, as well in calm, to warn the mari
| ner against shipwreck and death, and to guide
him in safety over the trackless wastes OF ocean,
| serves to make his name Iustrous and to inspire
| the emulation Of coming ages. But Tor the innate
| modesty of the man, he would long ago nave been
called to higher positions, more fruitful oil useful
| ness and fame. His country has need OF him to-
| day. What inestimable services he could render,
| if we could call him back to life, and reanimats
| him with the strength he possessed when he re-
| tired from public station, He could doubtless
find happy solution for the scientific problems,
| which have for their object the construction OF a
| navy worthy Of our people and our age. That
| great work remains unaccomplished and will so
| remain, until new leader shall be endowed with
| an intellect comprehensive and active, with an
| industry untiring and achieving, with a learn
| ing extended and varied, with a courage as
| persistent and indomitable and with public
| spirit as glowing and unselhsh, wrought
| cess for him. who rescued the night from darkness
| and redeemed the seas from the dominion OF their
most dreadful perls.
| But neither Love nor Friendship can call him
| back to earth. Death is alike Unsuitable and in
| exorable. No human power-not the sceptre-
| nor the sword-not boundless wealth the uni
| versal voce-not even the concurring labors and
prayers OF all our race-can kindle anew a single
| spark of extinguished life, much less, reanimate
| a body from which the soul has fed. We must
accept the irreversible final, and endeavor to
| soften the pangs OF separation. by showing that
the living will not fail to pay their debt Of graft
tude for the beneiactons of those, who have gone
| before.
Be comforted then, OH we that weep for Alex
| ander Evans The multitude, whose lives and
fortunes he has saved from shipwreck and rescued
| from destruction-his troops Of mourning friends
and the great host of those hereafter to be bene
fitted by his labors tender you their Just judgment
in words they would fain inscribe upon his tomb ::
Peace to his ashes, he hath served IN lnkind.''
| tribute, tho P Poe, Esq, an eminent
| lawyer of altimore, vino came from that
city to attend the meeting, delivered the
following eulogy:
| May it please your Honor: When a lawyer so
| gifted as Alexander Evans so full of varied and
extensive learning, simple in his tastes, so
domestic in his incinations, so free from worldly
| guile of such winning and benignant gracious
ness, of such gentle and unobtrusive moIesty and
of such absolute integrity, is called
ITO where
Beyond these voices, there is peace
the bench, which he enlightened from the vast
| storehouses of his knowledge, and the bar, which
he enriched by his rare accomplishments and en-
couraged by his example of fidelity to every trust,
should indeed esteem it no less privilege than a
duty, to place upon record an enduring memorial
OF his abilities, character and virtues.
The resolutions which have Just been presented
and the discriminating and most felicitous remarks
of the gentlemen who have spoken to them
Just and fitting recognition of his worthiness of
high praise and as the expression of the senti-
ment Of the bar, where his merits eloquent
advocate and learned, safe aud upright counsel :
Tor, we're conspicuously exhibited for more than
forty years. appropriately fill up the measure of
well earned eulogy.
There is no need, your Honor for further en-
comium, there is no necessity for additional ex
preston to the feelings of sorrow and affection.
Nothing that can say can give greater emphasis
to the appreciation by this community and this
bar of the public spirited citizen the sincere and
genial friend and the uncommonly endowed and
scholarly lawyer, whose death, in the fulness of
years, We have now met to mourn, as becomes the
survivors of such a combination of Intellectual
vigor scientific attachments and personal attrac-
put th. r,.,,o-v Of .b. 5.,,rh,t,, r.,o,;on,
confidence and aasction which for a number n +
years existed between Mr.. Evans and myself, the
profound respect which entertained for his fine
talents and the genuine admiration which his ex
traordinary requirements could not tail to inspire,
have brought me here to-day to participate with
his neighbors and daily associates in these i'm
nressi,,s ,roceed;n,,s and m mite ,vit, tbsn in
doin. an bonor 70 bis na,no on,1 tama
win +b. ovoon,ion Of sbort s.r,,ioa ~ tbr.o
months in tho Ieyi,,oture Of 1ss7 Mr. Evans,
political career NAV be said to have practically
Terminated thirty five wears ayo Attain ave when
most man ,f our rros.ssion arc enyayad in a hard
STRUGGLE ,or s,r,Ie recogni,ion he had 40 tr in,
nresSea III. neonla ot this DISTRICT with the foroe
IF he ani,itias that no was s,aots,
az THAR renreser,,tive in Con,,rass and dnri,y
tho civ euccess,ve Of bis tho uonse
of REPRESENTATIVES. he won n rank fornarlia,,,nt
ary CAPACITY. scientific knowledge and powe, IS a
Legislator which made him the acknowledged peer
Of any ofhis teIIow members Of that most exactpy
ot Legislative bodies
There is Iivinr in washington todav a ysntIs.
man win, after an tntimate knowIedys or arI the
eminent men who since 1s5o have sat in the
uouss of REPRESENTATIVES. does NOT basit,ts tn sv
that as a ready and fnrcib,e dabater Mr. Evans
WAC the canal of the hast of them
fy,miny bac. from Conyress wben but thirty
five wears or aya with n we'll established ranut,
,ion f,- obiIitv and LEARNING and ,nrnino a,v,v
from the distractnp aIurements of poltica strife
he was ylad tn resume his residence AMONGST the
manila who had bon,red and trusted him and
tbenceforth in the ouiet practice of his chosen
profession. to pursue. amidst the indescribabls
measures of private life the even tenor of his way
adding nv constant study to the already vast
stores nj his information upon subiects whose