Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-18
EULOGiES OF JACKSON
The Supreme Court Bar Hon ors the Mem
ory of the Dead Justice.
Secretary Olney's Eloquent Tribute
Resolutions Drawn Up by
the Committee.

At meeting of the members of the bar of
the Supreme Court Of the United States this
morning suitable and impressive resolutions
were adopted in memory Of the late Justice
Jackson. The exercises were held in the
Supreme Court chamber. which was we'll
filled with prominent members OF the bar,
as well as a considerable number Of ladies.
Secretary Olney, who was the Attorney
General during the time that Justice Jack
son was on the bench, presided at the meet
ing and delivered the principal eulogistic
address. 1t was just before the meeting of
the Supreme Court, and Mr.. Olney occupied
the seat of the Chief Justice. His address
was beautifully worded tribute to the
memory of a distinguished jurist. whose
long career was full of usefulness and dis
tinction His death so soon after his ap-
potntment to the highest court in the world
ended too soon what promised to be the
most brilliant portion Of his life work In
the course of his remarks Secretary Olney
said:
Judge Jackson. though of Virginia par
entage and graduate of the University of
Virginia, was. nevertheless, a thorough
Tennesseean. There he was born and &C.
quired the rudiments of knowledge; there
he studied law and began its practice, and
became leader of the bar; 1t was Tennes-
see that sent him to Washington as her
Senator; 1t was as her citizen that he be-
came judge of the circuit court of the
lHlleu SldteS. ana thence rose TO the nench
OF the Supreme Court; in Tennessee he made
his home, the abode Of wife and children
and the center of his affection, and 1t was
thither he returned to die after a long and
earisome and pathetic search for the
strength that was never to be regained
Tennessee boasts a long line of illustrious
public men, but cannot point to any one
among them that does her greater honor
She has indeed had sons whose lives were
fuller of incident and motion and dramatic
surprises. There was the Jackson of 1.-The
Hermitage" the Jackson who triumphed at
New Orleans, who hanged Arbuthnot. who
made Peggy O'Neil a character Of national
consequence, who removed the deposits
who fought with equal energy notification
and United States bank, and whose erect
commanding person. crowned with Its
on his lips, and in his grasp both the baton
of the political leader and the sword of the
soldier. forms one Of the most picturesque
figures on the whole canvas of modern his
tory. If such a life be phenomenal in its
power to fix the public gaze and fascinate
the popular imagination. that of Judge
jackson cannot be too much extolled as q
potent center of beneficent influence none
the less valuable and far-reaching in its ef-
fects because neither gllttering nor noisy
Judge Jackson's work as a public man
began in 1880 and continued until his death.
His senatorial career so impressed his col
leagues that his appointment as United
States circuit judge was due almost ss much
to their enthusiastic Endorsement as to the
Ominatfon OF democratic President. He
was the recipient of a similar compliment
when President Harrison distinguished the
closing days of his administration by NOM
mating him to the bench of the Supreme
Court Nothing. of course could have elic-
tied these tributes from political opponents
If they had not reposed absolute confidence
in the integrity of the MANN his capacity
to be an honest and upright judge-and 1 be-
lieve the man has yet to be found with the
hardihood to charge that Judge Jackson ever
decided cause through fear or favor or
otherwise than in accordance with his con-
victions Of what the law and the facts re-
Quired."
At the conclusion of Secretary Olney's ad-
dress resolutions were read by Mr.. ]. N
Dickinson. the chairman of the committee
appointed at a recent meeting of the bar
to draw up an expression of the feeling of
the members at the death Of Justice Jackson
The resolutions referred to the life and serv-
ices of the deceased jurist. and in fitting
words expressed the loss which the bar of
the United States sustained in his DEATH
There was embodied In the resolutions
letter which President Harrison wrote to
Justice Jackson at the time of the latter's
appointment to the Supreme Court, express
ing his high appreciation of Mr.. Jackson
as man and as lawyer.
Eloquent addresses were also made by Mr.
VIM. A. Maury, ex-assistant attorney gen.
eral, and Mr.. Underwood Of Wisconsin and
the meeting adjourned at noon, after adopt
ing the resolutions which were to be trans
mitted to the Supreme Court and preserved
in its records.