Evening journal., 1902-08-30


have been long upon the bench, yet l
have never forgotten that | have been
a member of the bar Nor have | ever
ceased to cherish its traditions. or tol
value your noble aspirations and high |
est efforts to maintain them. | ever
rejoice in your successes, and sharel
with you your grief. Therefore, my
heart impels me to rise among you
today and unite with you in paying
a just trihute to the memory of one
who was, in many respects, the recog-
nized leader and foremost member of
your body.
Suddenly and forever his strikingI
personality has vanished from our
midst. He is no longer a vivid reality.
Hereafter he will be but a memory. OF
all his intimate friends, now present.
perhaps have known him longest. We
were schooilboys together, half a CEN
tury ago. Ever since we had been
steadfast friends. Although we radi-
cally differed in many ways. and were
both, doubtless, OF a rather positive and
persistent inclination, yet in all those
fifty years Of intimacy we never had
quarrel, an angry word, or even a
shadow to mar in the least our love and
| llife-enduring friendship In the two or
three most important cases OF his life
he sought and received my counsel and
support
CAS- boy and man. brother, husband
and friend in private and professional
life. have known him well. No Della
ware man had more acQuaintances in
high or humble station. and was more
conspicuously known throughout the
Union. than he. And everywhere
have ever travelled he was known as a
genial and notable character. and uni
formly beloved. His name could not
be mentioned anywhere without evok-
ling countless anecdotes regarding his
original. personal episodes or his kind
ly nature and generous deeds. 1t truly
seemed that none knew him but to love
him.
''Time would fail us here to recount
a thousandth part Of the incidents
which illustrate either his career as a
lawyer or as a social companion. for
in both relations he was pre-eminent
in Delaware, in his line and in his
II generation. AS a gifted jury lawyer
he had no superior. If any equal, when
at his best. In his day he had re-
, peatedly met and vanquished the ablest
: men and foremost lawyers Of our bar
in both civil and criminal cases Of the
A greatest magnitude. In the noted Rey-
: bold case. in the United States Circuit
, Court here, he won from the jury
: against the ablest lawyers in Delaware
: the largest verdict ever obtained in
this State, excepting, | believe, that
in the famous Randel Canal Case
His numerous acquaintances, his as
! tute knowledge of human nature, his
robust and sagacious judgment, his
> consummate tactfulness, his intense
fervor Of voice manner, and his mag
netic personality; with his occasiona
sallies of overpOwering humor, all con
tributed to his professional success
For many years he probably receive,
the largest professional income at oui
bar. Those OF us who have known hin
, throughout his entire legal career, car
recall his amusing sometimes gro
tesQue and often illogical early efforts
But he was bound to win, and undaunt
5 ed by his immature knowledge Of eithe
/. law or logic, he, by sheer force OF hi
r native mentality and pluck, strod
s steadily onward until he finall.
Y achieved his conspicuous eminence a
I the bar OF his native State. All Of III
] remember his forensic displays OF late
r years, his careful preparation Of hi
examination Of witnesses, and occa
s sionally Those actual flashes Of geniu
{ by which he utterly blasted and over
e powered the hopes Of his opponent il
the case before the jury.
d His whole heart and soul wer
r concentrated and infused into his cases
2 1t went very hard with one Of his i'm
4 petuous nature to have an importan
q case decided against him by eithe
the court or jury. But outwardly h
bore it with manifest courage and self
control. Under such circumstances hi
4 respectful and even gentle submission
/. was uniformity as noteworthy as it wa
n commendable and endearing to bot
4 bench and bar. His death is a distinC
4 loss to both. and by each it viii Ion
be sincerely deplOred.
!, His was a unique personality
= both his professional and social lif'
: He was above all things a social beint
Il His robust frame, virile nature, eS
y uberant spirits and vivid enjoyment {
:. life made him the most attractive an
" delightful of comrades. AS sucl
q among young and old, he was every
1 where and at all times. facile princepi
Nature was in a prodigal moo
g when she gave him being sixty yeal
e. ago For he was truly a child Of ns
e ltrro-prodigal in his redulant vitalit,
ol prodigal in his pleasures, prodigal
his hospitality, and even
Il his generous benefactions,
n church and club, to young an
e old. He was a thoroughly emotioni
3 being, very sympathetic, with intens
[. attachments full Of strong impulse
r and impatient of restraint and metho
n cal methods. Consequently he some
times, necessarily, combined big mi:
# takes with large virtues. But thos
i who knew him best feel that the hal
3 piness he gave and the good he etrOv
\ to do fully condoned his faults.
THAT was a magnimOus and ennol
ling maxim Of the greet Latin race: d
= mOrtuls. nil nisi bonum, say nothin
d but good of the dead. for in a Christia
= land there is no place for person,
/ prejudice or ungenerous criticism bl
side the bier of the silent dead.
!, To-day i stand here to say for hii
It what / know he would have said fC
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