Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-04-24

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my COUNSEL Tor two wears. IL was dur
ing that time that | learned TO love the
man and TO appreciate his honor aud
integrity. Later | had the pleasure OF
being associated with him in the Senate
of Vermont, and it vas my double
pleasure TO be housed with him during
that session, occupying the same little
parlor during the evenings, and there !
sat at his feet aud learned lessons OF
wisdom and of manhood. To him more
than to any other man living do owe
any progress that | may have made.
He was my constant, consistent friend,
aud my acquaintance with many IF the
leading men of Vermont dates from the
introduction given by George \. Dale.
lie was the loftiest man aud the lowli-
est man that ever knew. Lofty in all
those aspirations which go for character
and for truth aud for honor aud integ-
rity. While looking up to the man |
learned to love him. Lowliest, because
he was the most approachable man |
ever knew. Even a child on the street
had no fear OF George n. Dale. That
great heart of his was always open; that
hand of his ready for the grasp; that
massive intelligence always framed the
kindliest words that could be spoken.
Gentlemen, | thank you for this privi-
lege of adding my tribute to the de-
parted. To me he was not brother in
the legal aspect, to me he was more like
u father"
The next speaker was J. W. Red
mond, Esq. lie said;
MAY it please your IIonors, ladies
and gentlemen. 1t is very fit aud proper
that We should meet ia this presence to
testify to the world as a profession, our
esteem of the memory OF George n.
Dale, our departed friend. OF him, as
members of this profession, we are
Justly proud. knew George y. Dale
when was a comparatively young
lawyer at the bar. have known him
intimately only perhaps for the past ten
years, but during that time | have
learned to admire him, yes, ! have
learned to love aud respect him.
"George n. Dale had, more than al
most any other man with whom | was
ever acquainted, subtle presence, a
certain Undesirable something which
can not better term than to say it was
moral impressyeness Il certain power
that some men have 10y virtue OF which
they impress you, even though you were
| in the dark in the same room in which
they We're. think you recognize what
| have reference to, a certain moral inn
pressiveuess. Moreover, my brothers,
it is not only fitting and proper that We
should be here, but it is good for us TO
| be here. 1t is good for us to be here,
TO pause and turn aside from the alb
sorbiug questions with which We are al
most enshrouded in our daily lives, and
to face some of the stirring realities
that come uponaus; TO realize that how
ever high our aspirations, however sin-
cere and earnest our endeavors may be,
they are fleeting, they are not abiding
and that the only thing that does abide
and the only thing that does last, is the
moral fiber of our being; that thing
which We have agreed to call character
1t is that in the memory of George \
| Dale which all who have ever known
him will remember. His forensic power
may be forgotten, but that will remain
among us for ever. He was an orator
he was a scholar in the best sense OF
the word, but the other quality was the
greater. ] remember well talk of an
hour which had with him once when
he discussed with me Demosthenes' ora.
ton as compared with some of Cicero's
orations, and the relative value of the
two. He had studied the classics. His
speech was modelled upon the best of all
literature. Among other things he vas
man; he was jurist, a profound
scholar who took broad views, and he
was man of magnificent power. We
as a bar feel proud of him for that
above all other things. He was a man
who hated wrong, but who admired
everything that was good lie was lib
eral in the truest and best sense of that
term. During the time that | knew
him, he had practically retired from the
active practice of the law. He had ceased
to engage in those battles in which we
are so much interested and in which we
of the younger portion of the bar do seem
to so rejoice, but he delighted to re-
hearse to me, as to others, his experience
when he was the wheel horse in the days
when he fought in the arena. He would
speak of those associates of his earlier
manhood, and of his more mature years
and he seemed always, as Moore has
said:
Like one who treads alone some banquet
hall dacartal