Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-28
TRIBUTES TO LAMAR.
Hoeting of the Georgia Bar Association
Resolutions of Respect.
fBy telegraph 20 the Dispatch.l

MAcoy, Ga. January 27.-At $3.50 o'clock
this morning public meeting under the
auspices OF the Georgia Bar Associhti0n
was held. The meeting was called to or
der by the Chairman. Hon. George w.
Gustin. Resolutions from .he bar assocla-
ton were first reported by the chairman
of tho committee appointed for that pur-
nose. Hon. II. W. Patterson. and eulogies
yoro delivered by the following dlstin-
guished gentlemen; Hon. \. j. Miller. of
the Macon bar; Attorney General Joseph
NJ. Terrell. j. B. Blount. Jr., OF the Macon
bar: A. X. Lawton. Jr.. of Savannah ;
Judge Charles L. Bartlett. OF the Bibb
Superior Court; Judge Emory Speer, OF
the United States Court, and Hon. Il. W.
Patterson. of the Macon bar.
When the tolling bells announced that
the funeral procession had started TOR the
church. TO which the members Of the asso-
citation later proceeded III a body. the toll
loving resolutions Of respect, introduced
bv Hon. II. ". Patterson. were adopted by
"A rising vote. and the meeting adjourned
Whereas. The State of Georgia gave to
the republic Hon. l.. q. c. Lamar, who,
weary and heayy-laden with all the honors
which the republic could bestow, has sunk
to sleep upon his mothers bosom; and
whereas it was in Macon that ho donned
| the livery of the law. for which
q sovereign tNlttt eubFAlAuAth NV
toca of the Senate, whence he passed
into the Cabinet Of q President, only TO
emerge clad III the ermine of the most au-
| gust of earth's tribunals; and whereas
each mantle that he wore he laid aside
| stainless as the shining robe which once
| again IN Macon he assumed as he took his
place amid the bar OF that Eternal Court
whose Judge IL God, whose records are the
| histories Of all the worlds. of oil the sys-
tens, and whose jurisdiction is co-exten-
sive with the universal realm OF law
| therefore be II
{" Resolred, That 1t is meet for the bar OF
| Macon and OF Georgia to pay tribute 10
| their most distinguished brother and Law
roses gathered from the garden Of youth
upon the coffin of the mighty dead, ere
vet the grave Is opened to receive IT.
Res0.Uei, That in the death of Judge
| Lamar the republic mOurns Its wlsesI
statesman, the bench lis sagest counsellor,
and America al orator who, through the
stormiest epoch of our cOuntry's history,
| by the matchless power of his eloquence,
moved cOnterdlng sections TO common
| homage OF Charles Sumner and Jefferson
| DAVIS.
Rssclrcd, That no man has better tvpl-
! fed the South than this great Georgian
! brave IN battle, pure In private life, fear
| less but generous foe. a friend beneath
whose sllken glove of courtesy was ever
| felt the iron grip of honor; and above and
| beyond all things a patriot who loved his
| country with the warm idolatry of his
race.
| Resolrei, That TO this son of genius
and patriotism ii was vOuchsafed that his
| eloouence should be his eternal eulOgist.
| since his magnificent oratory shall stand
| as the Appian Way over which the ban
| ished cohorts of the Confederacv marched
back INTO the heart OF the republic, and
that no record of his public achieve.
mcnts is appropriate here, since II
| the advancement of MS country his
craftsmanship has Its best epltaph
| So long as 1t shall be remembered
that there was a secession and South
his name shall linger lovingly upon the
| lips of those who love their country better
| than themselves; and IN the history of Q
| reunited republic his bright career will
typlfy fraternity and peace "a surely as the
| God.nade mosaic of the rainbow shall con.
time to give the glad tidings of the passage
| of storm.
"Reso red. That we extend TO the family
of the distinguished dead not the forma
coincidence of courtesy. but the sympathy
Of a mutual grief at the loss of one in whose
| genius the thought of his generation found
| expression. and in whose heart his people
owned common heritage of love-"