The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-24

1t to the court and the jury, in a marvel
ouS4y rev words, as to win the case, If
/ We're to be won at all. Here he took
his place in very high class of intel
lectual men, He became a slater. De-
mosthenes was a slater. Lord Chatham
was slater. Patrick Henry, his pupil,
although an ocean rolled between them,
was slater. William II. Crawford was
a slater. Whenever, by the exercise Of
a rare combination of Intellectual forces,
statement and logic are so merged the one
INTO the other as to be no longer distin-
guishable, the Hastings from the superla-
uVely rapid revolution of the one wheel
on which they move are the very consum-
nation of even emotional eloquence. One
or two of us belong legitmately to
generation which must be forever memoir
able among English-Speaking peoples, as
having produced a phenomenal example
of the professional court room slater. Be
ginning his career as notary public under
by the results of civil war disastrous, but
none the less righteous upon his side OF
IT'D across the Atlantic-a full-orbed blaz,
ing, intellectual luminary-to the very
summit of the common law bar of Great
Britain. From John A. Campbell himself
very. very, very great lawyer, came an
before the supreme court of the
scarce twenty minutes presenting
his case when one of Judge Camp
BELLS associates. touching him upon The
shoulder, whispered, why, Campbell
your little man has actually stated the
Otnef size out OF the court r00mi And,
at the banquet given to him by his profess
sional brethren in London upon his re-
tirement, distinguished Judge, having
referred to his realization of high honor
in being placed upon a committee to well
come Joseph Storey to England, where,
for many years, his name had been a
household word in Lineoln's Inn, and his
authority of the highest in all the courts,
pointing to Benjaman, exclaimed, But
a greater than Story is here!
May it please your honors, in seeking
illuS tinnq nf the al bo
teristics of our dead brother, my thought
will not be halted in his generation; nor
yet IN this court, once 50 familiar with
body. 1t enters the studio of the master
of madlaeval art, who, overwhelmed with
professional engagements, rapidly dashes
off his study" and hands it to his pupils
to be by them transferred, in fitting colors
to the enduring canvass Their work &C,
eompiished, with single glance of his
own eye, and few touches of his own
brush, he gives to the picture it's immor.
tai life as a masterpiece. Who, that
knew Gen. Lawton in the meridian of his
career can question that, from the points
OF view which / have attempted to indl
cate, he was, at this bar. the master?
Mr.. Charlton's address was one of those
finished, elegant and eloquent panegyrics
for which he is famous, and was greatly
enjoyed by those who heard it, and he was
most highly compimented upon his effort.
The remarks of Mr.. Barrow were interest
Judge Norwood called over the names of
the members of the bar when he first
came to Savannah to begin practice in
l843, The city had then about Is, 600 inhabi-
tantS, and while the bar was a small one,
and yet he said it numbered a galaxy of
lawyers of eminent ability with anyone of
whom could Nave been intrusted the most
intricate and most important case. He
named among them John Mcpherson Ber-
rien, Judge VIM. Law, Francis S. Bar
tow, Thomas E. Lloyd, John r. Owens,
Henry Williams, Judge Harden, the elder
uncle of Judge VIM. D. Harden, Gen.
Henry r. Jackson, Robert M Charlton,
Julian Hartridge and Judge Fleming as
judge of the superior court who was re-
garded by many as the greatest nisi prius
Judge Georgia has ever known.
Judge Falligant closed the speaking in
an elegant and finished address, which
added much to the interest of the occa
sion. The report of the committee and
resolutions we're adopted unanimously
after which MIR. ]. r. Saussy, in a few
remarks offered another resolution, which
was also adopted. This resolution was
to the effect that the committee be re.
quested to submit the same report to this
supreme court of the state when the dock.
ct of the eastern judicial circuit there is
reached, as the action of the Savannah
bar, so that the supreme court might
adopt that action.
The report of the committee and resolu.
tons will be spread upon the minutes OF
the superior court after which note will
be made of the fact that court adjourned
fol the day in honor to Gen. Lawton's
memory.