The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-19
REMARKABLE TRIBUTE
TO MEMORY OF CONNECTICUIvS GREATEST JURIST.
Judge Baldwin Says Chief Justice ElIs- worth Produced One of America's casion the Reading of n Paper by
 Arthur shipman, of Hartford Before
Inc New Haven Historical Society.

It seems that Connecticut is just waking to the fact that she has pro- duced one of the greatest jurists of America. According to the views put forth last evening at gathering of the New Haven Colony Historical society, Oliver Ellsworth, chief justice of the United States under President Wash ington, and framer of the statute re- vered as the Judicial Act" produced in this instrument one of the three his toric documents of the United States.
 Referring to this document last night, 1 Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, president of the International Bar association, said that ito the lawyers and judges of this country this judicial act stands higher i in their estimation than the Declaration of Independence. In it's applied practi- cal statemanship on a different subject it has been since a hundred years and more the one authority by which the courts of the United States have been manned and officered and equipped to the present time.
 | "The Judicial Act' is one of our three historic documents Virginia has the honor of having produced the Declaration, Massachusetts that of the "Ordinance of 1S7S,'' out of which sprang the constitutions of the country; but to Connecticut belongs this peculiar glory as a result of an act of her great est statesman.
 The occasion which gave birth to this remarkable utterance was the reading of paper before the Histori- cal society on John Marshall and Oliver Ellsworth" by Arthur Shipman, of Hartford. MT. Shipman gave an in cisive summing up of the great states Elan's life, describing him as a tower in Washington's administration, and whether as a member of Washington's cabinet, or when he sat in the constitu- tional convention, whether as envoy to the court of Napoleon, or as minister to England, he maintained in great and characteristic manner the dignity of his country and his native state. The address, which contained also testi- monial to Chief Justice Marshall, dwelt principally upon the work of this, hls forerunner and contained comparisons of the two men that showed one to be no less a national figure than the other Judge Baldwin said last night that nothing like true justice has been done to the memory of Ellsworth, and it Is remarkable that Connecticut is but now awakening to right estimate of her great son.
 Among the relics of Chief Justice Ellsworth shown last evening in the hall of the Historical society were an autograph letter written to Ellsworth by General Washington, photograph, piece of Gobelin tapestry presented to him by Napoleon Bonaparte, and a picture of the old house at Windsor which was the home of Ellsworth while in England These relics and others are the heirlooms in the family of Mrs. Porter, wife of Professor Frank C. Por- ter, of Yale university, who lives at 266 Bradley street. in this city
 Justice David J. Brewer, of the United States supreme court, who for several days past has been featuring at Yale on the duties of citizenship. lent his presence to this gathering, which last night took a long step to- ward redeeming the historic figure Of Connecticut's judge and statesman.