The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-11

ment of the government found the laws
OF the republic and the widespread and
various rights and interests by them con-
trolled moving in such harmony as the
heavenly bodies display when the music
of the spheres is said to be heard.
Roger b. fancy of Maryland put on
Marshall's robes and walked in his foot
steps. Learned, upright. conscientious,
Christian Jurlst, rs the heavens grew
dark and the storm of sectional fratri-
cidal war broke with all its fury upon the
land, he was misunderstood by some, &c
sailed, maligned, sIandered, traduced by
others because he was faithful to the con-
stitution as it was written and adopted by
| the states.
After twenty-eight years OF pure, illus
trious service, his brave benienant soul
found peace and rest in a world beyond
the reach of malice or party rage.
1t will be seen that the terms served by
Marshall and Taney, both southern law
yers and, at the same time, thoroughly
national jurists, embrace continuous
period of sixty-two years of history under
the constitution. The terms served by
all the other chief Justices from the be-
ginning of the gOvernment-seven in
number-aggregate thirty-one wears, and
their abors are in the same disproportiOn
in extent and in importance to the work
performed by the great jurists from Vir-
ginia and Maryland
nlustrious names in the legal profession
shine from every quarter in the American
armament, but in uphoiding the honor,
the dignity, the courtesy, the utility, the
power and the glory OF the law it has been
given to the genius, the states and the
people of the South to lead the way and 10
secure an amplitude of fame bevond the
reach of envy or reversal. May the bonds
Of the law-administered in the spirit of
justice, liberty and equality for all the
states of the American union-hold 1t
together in everlasting peace and may the
broad, catholic fraternity OF the American
bar and bench contribute more and more
as the years move on to the harmonious
and atfectionate relations of the American
people; TO their complete unity in heart,
mind and purpose as they 90 forward TO a
common destiny, all at home In the house
their fathers built; under the flag, waving
evermore in the future as an emblem of
love and good will toward menl
When the loud applause which sue
ceeded the speech had died away motion
was made extending to Senator Voorhees,
the thanks of the bar association of South
Carolina for his address, and requesting
his permission to allow the association to
have it published. Both were unani-
mously carried
About an U-shaped table in the banquet
room of the Charleston hotel, laden with
costly cut glass and handsome flowers,
whose sweet fragrance filled the air, the
members of the South Carolina bar asso-
citation assembled after the Grafton OF Sem
ator Voorhees, at the Freundschafts bund
hall to enjoy the annual banquet given by
the association.
Major S. Prioleau Hamilton of Chester
presided over the banquet. At his left sat
Senator NJ. G. Butler, while to his right
was Senator Voorhees,.
After the spbstantials had been disposed
OF the president announced as the first
regular toast, "Our honored guest; we
welcome him to South Carolina and
Charleston, and through him send most
cordial greeting to the bar OF Indiana"
Senator Voorhees,, in responding, said
/ can contribute but little to what L have
already said this evening. The compli-
ment which has been paid to the bar of
Indiana is well deserved.
1t is a pleasure to me to visit one of her
elder sisters, whose fame and judicial his
tory is widely known. / will add to this
one other thought. / think it is good for
the different states to meet together and
interchange their views. 1t would be bet
ter for more Indianians to come to South
Carolina so that there might be, so to
speak, union of states and a union of
feeling.
There is not a shadowv cause of differ
ence between us. What conduces to pros
perity here conduces TO prosperity in In
diana as well. We have the same interest
at stake. The lesson Of the past is van
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1t destroys all provincialism and neigh
borhood prejudices.
My fellow citizens 1 thank you for the
honor you have paid me, and can sincere
ly say that | am happy that l came to
South Carolina on this occasion.