The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-01-09
MEMORIAL MEETING
ADDRESSES BY VI. J. JONES, ESQ.,,
EX-GOV. JAS. B. GR00ME AND
nJ6I. C. THACKERY, ESQ.
Eloquent Tributes of the Bench
and Bar to the Life, Character
and Public Services of the Late
John a. j. CreSWeii-

was fully attcSted by the teeling tTibu'c
paid to his memory at the meeting he'll
in the Circuit Court room on Tuesda
last.
At the meeting If the members of til
Bar held on Thursday, the 24Ch inst
and at which VIM. j. Jones, Esq, wa
called to preside, the chair Designate
Messrs. X. G. Thaekery, Clinton Nc
Cullough, John 5. Writ. Geo. y. Blak
and George w. Cruikshank to repor
suitable resolutions.
In court on Tuesday at o'clock JuGg
Stump presiding VIM. j. jones, Esq.
formally announced the death of hi
deceased brother. and at his request tn,
following resolutions were read by Geo
A. Blake, ESD:
WHEREAS, His fellow members o
the Cecil County Bar desire TO pay tri
butte to the memory of john 4. j. Ores
we'll, who has recently answered the
final summons that comes, sooner OF
later to all men, and to place their est
mate upon his character and career
therefore by the Bar of Cecil county, il
is ResoLccd.
LIST, That the death OF John A. }
Creswell involves not only a loss to the
Bar of which he was recognized and
und,sputed ornament. but also, cal
amity 70 the State of Maryland, in whose
Affairs he had been for more than gen.
Grafton prominent aud Influential factor
and to the nation in whose government
he had played CONSPICUOUS and import.
ant part.
End. That his career WAS ever dis
tinguishing honor to the county which
gave him birth and to the State of which
it is part.
Bird. That the lives and careers OF
such men deserve and comm lud honor
in their communities, and form type
for the exemplars OF the age they have
lived in. aud an honor to be monument
tally observed by those whom coming
generations shall call to take up tho
nantes slipping from their shoulders
4th. That the career of our lamented
brother is legacy of duty well done, OF
houors modes,ly borne, of citizenship
nobly exempliiied in the iort;tude with
which he endured ITS trials, and the
humility with which he wore its laurels,
9Th. That Cecil county is justly
proud of his career, aud Mary land JUST
fed in q tear for his memory.
9Th. That the Cecil Bar will ever re.
member John A. j. Creswell as one
who left no duty undone, no purpose
unfulfilled, no cause Gnvindicated in
which he had his own or his client S
interests in charge. His diligence is a
mentor for his successors, and his faith
fulness, fearlessnesS and eluquence, a
model for those who, like him, would
seek to be vigilaut in onset, resoiute III
endeavor, earnest, tlreless, conscientious
every where and always.
TJh. That the Bar extends to the
stricken family of cur departed brother
the assurance of warmest sympathy and
sincerest coincidence and that it attG nd
his funeral in body.
Sth. That copy OF these resolutions
be presented to the Circuit Court ioI
Cecil county at its next session, for such
action as the Judges thereof may deem
appropriate, and that copy be furnished
to the local newspapers tor publication
Upon concluding the reading of the
resolutions, VIM. J. Jones' Esq, now
the senior member of the E!kton Bar
delivered the following
ADi'i'h''
Mr.. Creswell came to Elktoa III the
Autumn of 1913, handsome, upheaded
yonng man, just completing his tween
tieth year, wearing the honors OF MS
class at Dickinson College, to enter the
law office of Col. john &. GrOOme, al
office which might we'll have been Cal
led the Elkton Law School. HIS intel
EgeEce, and his frank, hearty manner
made HIM at once iaVorlte among the
young people.
In the summer OF 1857, a very large
Mass Temperance Meeting was held II
grove near Elk'on on the fouFtn o.
July, and hr. Cres"eIi wa" seIecteu aH
the orator of the day. The feature Of
his Grafton was the marked originality
with which lie treated the wei. worn
SUBJECTS o! patriotism ahd temperance
L remember distinctly the lorce ant
pathos which he threw INTO MS quota
ton from Mrs. Hemans Landing o
The Pilgrims" especially the last Int
of one OF the StanZas,
They sought a Faiths pure shrine
MANY of the representative men OF tn,
county were present at tina: meeting
and there was general recognition o
the fact that here was the promise OF
man of far more than ordinary ability.
This bore its natural fruit III the next
Summer. when, though only a littlt
over twenty one years of age he wa
nominated bv the Wing party in Ceci
ms one of its Candidates for the COnsti
the aGSFp ~ eno n" III
I,Gh was ea, ,a !" Gtvo snd r,reI
s w LA a r con "I Rslerrirg to thi
eleeeu c"nu'ra,s s.ssip T tho "a com
+a"t 'I he ' nn"ted ' With fine effect from
nI ss wIq Ind xi GGm %sy Taek On our back
At least wei d,s Ti'% , n%IS; on Dur ts'N f.
l mention these little s,, incidents nj IT, e
past, leaving to others to speak &c, of : Mr. r
CreSwelTs later aeai'vsm , out, oue Ca" n
not deprive myself OF the pleasure '', {, o.
referring to the Grafton delivered D.
him while he was a S'r"tor ron iron
Maryland, in the Goa Ere's OF ne I nlted
i Winter y. Davis. was present ia t..
Hall Of The House of Represen ta5ives Oh
the whole of this great Grafton, for it va
a great Grafton; as severely classical, a
il written by Creek orato:, as full .
tender patLos as the lament of Davi'
over his dead son Absalcm, Ten day
| before, Bancroft the i : - de
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