The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-20

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 judicial style. and those he wrote in the first half of his judicial life of nearly seventeen years will take rank with any he ever wrote, or that any judge of any time ever wrote in all the realm of Amer lean or English jurisprudence.
 There Is another thoughts In forming the ultimate judgment as to Judge Mc- Clellans judicial life and work. the en- vironment must be consideredi and 1t must be remembered that naturally. the bar of the state measured him in com parison with his two great predecessors, Chief Justices Brickell and Stone. That he lost nothing by the comparison with them, is the highest praise that men can give. Differing as each did from the oth- CT in physical qualities, in style of com position, in habit of thought, 1t would be difficult to say what Eank they hold in respect of each other. It is perhaps a subject upon which men would differ, &C., cording to the constitution of their minds It is safe to say that all would unite in designating them as "the great trium- virate' of our judicial history.
 And 1t is remarkable how these great names revolve around each other. In 1S5s after three days of balloting, in the legis- lature. Judge Stone defeated Judge Brickell by only two votes, the totals be- ing 61 and 59, for place on the supreme bench. Judge Stone later, after an ab- sence from the court, succeeded Judge Brickell, and was in turn succeeded by him as chief justice, while Judge McClel- Ian was the associate and successor of both. When the additions that they made to the jurisprudence of the state and the English-speaking world are properly esti- mated. what state or country can over match them?
 All of us feel a sense of personal loss and sorrow that these great men abide no more with us, and that Chief Justice Me Clellan was taken away in the prime and vlgor of early manhood. Who can esti- mate what a record he would have made and what further service he would have done the state, had a kind Providence permitted him to live out his natural ex- pectancy? He has done well his part His memory will long be green in the hearts of the lawyers of Alabama.
 MT. Latady's Paper.
 A. Latady read the following paper:
 "Thomas Nicholas Mcclellan, chief jus. tlce of the supreme court of Alabama, late of blessed hope, now of happy mem ory, was the youngest son of Thomas Joyce Mcclellan, a native of Tennessee Thomas N Mcclellan died on Saturday, the 10th day of February 1906, in his 5sd year, to the great grief and regret of the entire state of Alabama, as being man who had neither offended mems minds nor satated them. The goodness of his disposition. and the stability of mind. had engendered confidence among all ranks, nor did he live to disappoint them.
 Tn body he was strong and erect, of almost heroic height, his limbs gracefully put together, his gait being majestic. His face was Napoleonic. his eountenance composed, and the motion of his eyes ather more steady than powerful, yet withal their stiffness and dreaminess there were not lacking the gleam of an ethereal fire, suggesting that their still ness was but the rest of infinite notion His forehead was the type of serenity, his mouth the mold of firmness.
 And yet when these outworks were penetrated, and he was approached with due and seasonable discourse, he was found to be most gentle and of easy ac- cess, SO that he seemed quite another man in conversation than his aspect promised, and altogether one who might easily get himself a reputation at vari- ance with his appearance.
 "A mind he had in desires and affee- tions strong and active, but in judgment very serene, as appears by the vgor and yet ease with which he delivered himself in his speeches and writings; in truth we may say of him in this behalf what Tacilus saith of Mucianus: 'Omnium quas dlxerat scriberatque arte quodom perfec- tor he perfected everything he said and wrote with grace peculiar to himself. And no man decided more correctly, or spoke or wrote more clearly. There was nothing embarrassed, nothing involved about him. In will and ambitions he was
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