The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-22
WAS PROUD OF HIS STATE
Eulogies Upon Ex-Governor
Green Pronounced by Emf
nent Lawyers in the
Court Of Chaneery.
Special to the Jersey Citp Nears.

TRENTON, May %. 1895.-At the OPEN
| ing of the May term of the Court OF
Chancery yesterday. Attorney General
Stockton formally announced to the
| court the death of Vi~ce-Chancelsor
Robert S. Green. and moved that a COM
mittee be. appointed to draft suitable
resolutions. Chancellor McGil appointed
| William H. Corbin. Attorney General
| Stockton and George S. futile Of New
ark. AT noon the committee
that they. were ready to report, and sub
mitted the following resolutions, which
were read by Mr.. Corbin:-
Robert Stockton Green. Vice Chancel-
lor of New Jersey. departed this life at
his home in the city of Elizabeth, on the
9Th day of May, A. D. 1895. IN the sixty
fifth year of his age.
OF honorable and distinguished ances-
try, he was descended from New Jer-
sey soldiers and patriots of the Ameri-
can Revolution.
OF great experience in political affairs
he represented the State in the Congress
of the United States and held with cred
it divers officers under the State, being
the Governor from 1887 to 1890.
OF learning and ability in the law he
occupied a high position in the legal pro-
fession and was made presiding judge Of
the county in which he resided n
finally Vice Chancellor and Judge of the
Court of Errors and Appeals. While
holding these later offices ne was called
away from earth.
He was eminently fitted for the judi
cial Office by his great legal learning,
his calm temper and his honest desire
to do justice as well as by the large
views and the common sense which char
acterized him. and by the kindly deport-
ment which he always Shove towards
those having business with him.
PROUD OF HIS STATE.
He was possessed of a Judgment re-
markable for it's ~soundness and clear
ness, with an ability to grasp great ques-
lions of law and select the points at
issue from complicated facts, HIS loss
by his colleagues on the bench and The
bar OF the State.
He was proud OF the State and of its
history ana patriotic in his devotion to
the commonWeal.
He was jealous of the good name of
the State and its Institutions. and his
marked by the maintenance of the sim
plicity, dignity and efficiency for which
i Ine ga Hsghnfaihl o. .H ia's PROMOTED Sinee yes every ~
patriotic impulse, giving special encour-
agement to enterprises for the perpetual
llCu OIL the DiSDOly OF the state dIlQ Tie
oommemoration Of the services of its
soldiers and statesmen
He was the worthy son of worthy
forefathers, a good citizen, a noble Gov
ernor, a just Judge. a Christian man.
In recognition as we'll OF his eminent
judicial serSiee as of his noble char
this expression of our sorrow be record
ed in the minutes OF the court.
WILLIAM II; CGRBIN,
S. TUTIIE.
GENERAL STCCkTON'S ADDRESS.
After the reading Of the resolutions,
said it please your Honor, I am
not the fit person to eulogize or com
memorate. the life and services of our
lost friend. / was too near 10 Governor
Green; he was too near to me; we were
children together, grew up together AND
were together ali through his manhood.
except during the years when l was alb
sent from this country. When he was
Governor ! was closely associated with
him. During his career as an eminent
lawyer in New York, as we'll as in Jer-
sey City, l was constantly at his home
in Elizabeth. Although it has been well
| said in Scripture that from the abund-
| there are times and circumstances where
the tongue refuses to give utterance to
| words which we have used do not do
justice to, the excellence of the charac.
| friend. If I should select. however, one
| particular feature in his character that
| was more valuable, perhaps, than any
| would have been of little value, it was
| his courage, his indomitable courage un-,
| der all circumstances. He never failed
to show physical and moral courage in
Congress, as Governor, at, the bar in
| New Jersey and New York, or on the
| bench. 1t has been well said that with
out courage there is no virtue, for no
one will do what is right against temp
| tation or against force unless he has
| the courage of his convictions The
| ernor Green was.
aFear naught but God; hate naught but
sim"
life. He hated no one, There was no
creature that God created to which he
did not feel kindly; and there vas vas no no
do wrong. The stern doctrine of theol-
| ogy of which his early ancestors were
s Msrs fir saD DdGmauliE r. his Heart h ms sh Sounff ~
| every act Of his life, n gave him peace
| in his last hour.
Mr.. Tuttle also made q rev remarks
Chancellor McGill. in response to the
| announcement. said that in the death of
| Vice Chancellor Green the Court was
! minded, courageous conscientious. pains
| taking judge whose industry and sound
| The Court in the confidence of the peo-
ole. His even judicial temperament. his
personal attractions and his unquestion,
| him to his associates upon the bench
and also those who have had occasion
to practice before him.
| Tt is not the place here to refer to his
services to the State in other positions
he has occupied. History will record
them and characterize them as they
The Court directed the minutes 10 be
Court.