The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-28
JUSTICE LAMAR BURIED.
AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE BY THE
MACON BAR.

Church-A Long List of Honorary
Psll-besrers.
MACON, GA, Jan. 97.-The funeral cere
monies Of the late L. Q. c. Lamar COM
menced this morning at $50 O'clock, when
public meeting was held at he opera
house, and eulogies were delivered by some
of the most prominent members of the bar
in the state.
The procession from the house to the
Methodist church commenced at 1850
o'clock. DR.. Gambler, president OF Emory
College, where the dead jurist graduated,
delivered the funeral sermon.
Chief Justice Fuller and the associate
Justices were present at the service.
Thousands Of people gathered along the
route taken by the funeral cortege and at
the church it was impossible TO get within
fifty yards Of the doors. All the church
bells were kept tolling during the ceremo-
MES The interment took place about q 80
O'Clock and afterward Chief Justice Fuller
AID the Washington party left for home.
At $3.50 O'Clock this morning a public
meeting under the auspices of the Georgia
Bar Association was held They then re-
paired in a body to the Mulberry Street
Methodist church, where the funeral exer-
order by the chairman, Hon. George w.
Gustin. Resolutions from the bar association
were first reported by the chairman from
the committee appointed for that purpose,
Hon. R. w. Patterson and euiogies were
delivered by the following distinguished
gentlemen: Hon. A. j. Miller Of the Macon
bar, Attorney General Joseph M. Terrell,
j. A. Blount, Jr., of the Macon bar, a
r. Lawton, Jr., of Savannah, Judge
Charles L. Bartlett of Bibb county superior
court, Judge Emory Speer of the United
States court and Hon. r. W. Patterson of
the Macon bar. When the Solling bells an
nounced that the procession bad stal ted for
the church the following resolutions Of re-
spect introduced by Hon. r. ". Patterson,
were adopted by a rising vote, aud the
meeting ad djourHed;
WHEREAS, The state OF Georgia gave to the
republic Hon. L. Q. q. Lamar, who, weary and
heavy laden with all the honors whicn the re
public could bestow, has sunk to sleep upon his
mothers bosom; and
WHEREAS, 1t was IN Macon that he donned
the livery of law. for which the sovereign state
substituted the tOEa of the Senate whence me
passed into the cabinet OF a President only to
eme ge clad ia the ermne Of tho most august
OF earths tribunals; and
WHERE'S, Each mantle that he wore he laid
aside stainless as q Shining robe which ones
again in Macon he assumed as he took hls place
amid the bar of that eternal court whose Judge
is God, whose records are histories Of ell
worlds, of all systems, and whose jurisdiction
ID coeXtensiYe with the universaiss ssrealm of law;
ReSoIUed, That it Is meet for the bar of Ma
con and OF Georgia to pay tribute to the most
distinguished brother, and lay the roses
gathered from the garden Of youth upon the
coffin of the mighty dead ere yet the grave was
opened to receive it.
Resolved That in the death of Judge Lamar,
the republic mCurns its wiSest statesman the
bench its sagest counselor and America an
orator who. through the stormiest epoch Of
our country's history, by the matchless power
OF eloquence moved contending sections in com
mon homage OF Charles Sumner and Jefferson
Davis.
Resolved, That no man has better tvpified
the south than this great Georgian, brave in
battle, pure in private life, fearless but gener-
GUS foe, friend beneath whose silken glove OF
courtesy was ever felt the ir grip of honor;
and above and beyond all things patriot who
loved his country with to the warm idolatry OF
his race.
RESOLVED, That to this son Of genius and pat
rIotism it was vouchsafed that his eioauence
shall be his eternal eulogist since his magnid-
cent oratory shall stand as the Appian way over
which the banished cohorts of the confederacy
marched back into the heart of the republic
and that no record of his public achievements is
appropriate here, since in the advance
ment of his country his statesman
ship has written his own eternal
epitsph. So long it shall be rem embered
that there was secession and south, his name
shall inger lovingly upon the lips of those who.
love their country better than themselves and
in the ceaseless history of a reunited republic
his bright career will typify fraternity and
peace as surely as the God-made mosaic Of the
rainbow shall continue to give the glad tidings
of the passage of the storm.
Resolved, That we extend to the family of
the distinguished dead, not the formal condo
lence of courtesy but the sympathy of mutual
grlef, at the loss OF one in whose genius the
thought OF his generation found expression,
and in whose heart all his people owned the
common heritage Of love.
GOING TO THE CHURCH..
The funeral cortege left the residence Of
Capt. Virgin in Vinevllle between the
hours OF II and - o'clock and proceeded TO
the Mulberry Street church. 1t was under
the escort of Marshal j. w. Wright of the
United States supreme court, with Capt.
John l.. Hardeman, Capt. o. T. Kenan,
and Matt L. Freeman and Minter VIM
berly as aids. In the procession of mourn
ers were Chief Justice Fuller of the
United States supreme court with Asso-
oiate Justices Brown, Blatchford and
Brewer. The following acted as pail bear
ciate Justices T. J. Simmons and Samuel
Lumpkin, United States District Judges W.
7. Newman and Emory Speer, Hon,
Stephen Clay, president Of the state Senate:
Hon. J. N. Terrell, attorney general of
Georgia; Hon. Charles L. Bartlett. Judge
OF the superior court; Hon. 8. b. Price
mayor of Macon; DIR. Edward A. Lew
ellyn.
THE OTHER PALL-BEARERs.
The other pall-bearers we're: Hon. A. o.
Bacon and Washington Dessau from the
Macon bar, Aldermen r. Fl. Smith and
Samuel Pearson from the cohucil,
w. r. Rogers and E. s. Wilson from the
board OF trade, r. H. Plant and T. d. Ting
ley from the city at large. A delegation
appointed by President Dessau of the
state bar association acted as hon
orary pallsbearers as follows:
Hoke Smith, Logan F. Bleckley, T. j. Sim
mons. Samuel Lumpkin, NJ. H. Blandford,
r. +. Lyon, Clifford Anderson, s. X. At
kinson, Pope Barrow, G. L. Bartlett,
r. L. Berner, Wiley B. Bur
nett, F. H. Galloway, T. j. Chap
pel, A. J. Cobb, c. P. Crawford, J. b.
Cummings, r. g. duBgnon, g. N. Feather
stone, L. r. Garrard, Dupont Guerry, n J.
Hammond. z. ID. Harrison, Arthur Hood,
Henry jackson, J. F. Gordon, X. w. Mar
tin. John Peabody, Robert Whitfield, G. A.
Mercer, j. r. Lamar, W. II. Hammond, J.
w. Park, M. p. Reese, w. II. Fleming,
John w. Aiken.
BEAUTIFUL FLORAL TRIBUTES.
The altar Of the church was covered with
floral tributes, conspicuous among which
was the handsome Offering from tho local
bar. The altar railing was draped In mourn
ing, as was also the arch and walls Of the
church. After the oortege had entered the
church the services were opened by
prayer from DR.. Gambler, and the choir
sang as an oifertory. zone Sweet Solemn