The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-07
ADDRESSES YESTERDAY
MEMOIR AND TRIBUTE TO LATE
DIR. JOHN MANNING.
Mr.. TILlETT ON NEED OF A LAW JOURNAL
Mr.. Benefits Address. The Boat Race an
Ecting One. With the Fisher
men. Recent Ar.
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The North Carolina Bar Association
had another interesting session this
morning. Mr.. Walter ii. Neal. of Lau-
rinburg, read an able and scholarly
memoir OF the late DIR. John Manning
prepared by DIR. Kemp Z. Battle, who
knew the work of DIR. Manning so well
from intimate personal observation at
the University. Mr. III. a. London, of
DIR. Maming's memory.
The standing committees were an
nounced by the chairman, and much
business of one sort or another was
transacted.
Tonight Charles w. Tillett. of the
Charlotte bar, one of the States most
eloquent lawyers, made a fine speech on
the necessity of establishing Il law
journal. Col. w. A. Henderson, OF
Tennessee, also made brilliant address.
Mr.. X. Il. Bennett. of Wadesboro, was
to have spoken at the morning session,
but being mavoidably detained at home
sent his manuscript to be read.
MIR. BENEFITS SPEECH.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Bar
Association of North Carolina
The first law book written in England
was entitled THE Mirror of Justices. :
Lord Coke spoke of its authority and
antiquity in high terms and that most
of it was written before the conquest.
Mr.. Reeves. author of the History of
the English Law, speaks of it as Il
curious and in some degree authentic
tract. 1t was compiled by Horne. who
was an alderman of the city of London.
During the trial of Mr.. Belknap be-
fore the Senate of the United States
upon articles of impeachment, Judge
Jeremiah Black. of counsel for the ac-
cused, said Alfred the Great hanged
sixty-nine judges during his reign for
refusing the writ Of habeas corpus !
wrote Judge Black for the authority sup
porting this statement He was then
in England attending horse race and
a court on circuit and never answered
Mathew III. Carpenter was associated
in Belknap's defence and | leaned -
him for the information. Word came
that it might be found in Forsythe's
Life of Hortensius. whom you all re-
member as the most successful winner
of fees at the Roman Bar. and by anctil
er circumstance his friendship for Cato.
to whom he lent his wife three years.
/ bought the book and went carefully
over every line of it without finding
warrant for Judge Blacks statement.
| REQUIRED to Mr.. Carpenter. who was
full of cxpedients and gave further
references without result. but finally
said he supposed Judge Black thought
the refusal of the writ of habeas corpus
ought to have been punished with death,
and Alfred the Great was the man to
inhict the punishment.
A new edition of The Mirror of JUS
tees appeared few years ago. |
read it.
In it is given with every detail the
names Of sixty odd judges whom Alfred
the Great fetched to the gallows for re-
fusing the writ Of habeas corpus. The
English people have attained so COM
pete civilization that an extraordinary
story like this Il might call it a bluetish
story here) is not current and uncontra-
dicted until it passes the scrutiny of
painstaking and carefully trained investi-
gators in pursuit of truth. CA state of
felicity not yet yonchsafed to u.s. The
truth was brought to light. the names Of
the penaized judges We're not to be
found among those who served as judges
in King Alfred's reign.
Edward Gibbon. in his History of the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
says Of Justinian, by whose order the
Civil Jurisprudence of Rome. The Code.
the Pandects and the Institutes. 'wise
or fortunate is the prince who connects
his own reputation with the honor and
The defence Of their founder is the first
cause which in every age has exercised
the zeal and industry of the civilian"
Professor Gardiner, in the history of
Oliver Cromwell says the decline of the
protector power may well bear date from
the time he provoked the united OPPOSE
ton of the Bar Of England. have in
dulged III this preface to amuse. per-
chance to instruct you. We are respon-
sihe manifestations. If You prefer of
an ancient and honorable profession
which exercises weighty influence in
shaping the public affairs of this coun-
try.
Charles Lamb. whom, with the poets
Gray and Cowper we reckon as the
princes among letter writer's. by reason
of his fathers profession and his birth
in the Temple, saw much of the lawyers
of his day. He describes the old
Benchers of the Inner Temple in an
essay as dainty as words can make it,
and as charming as the touch of wind
upon Eolan harpstrings. Read it
brethren Hear him say of Coventry.
Ills person was quadrate: his step
massy and clephantine; his face square
as the lions: his gait peremptory and
pathfnding." In those days / saw
Gods as 'old men covered with a mantle
walking upon the EARTH / find it hard
to tear away from what charming
writers have said and come down to my
own small powers Of persuasion
Lord MacAulay said of his own prod-
gious memory that it interfered perhaps
with the individuality of his own
thought. He had stored away so much