Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1914-12-10

DINA, and for eight years, from 1896
to 1903, Superior Court Judge of this
District. / have found in travelling
over the State that he made many
friends who keep green his memory.
He is a brilliant lawyer and advocate.
l recall several of his arguments be-
fore juries which in real e%loquence
and power stand out In my memory
as among the best I eve heard. He
is endowed with the Irish gift of hui
NOR which lights and Eliminates not
ouly his public speeches but his rri-
vate conversation. In many counties
of this State. as well as In his home
county, his love of justice and his
hatred of oppression, and the original
and brilliant I'M in which they
have been demonstrated have left a
lasting impression. Social, genial and
loyal to his associates, he has drawn
and held a multitude of friends. He
is the only surviving member of the
old Bar practicing in this county prior
to 1881. 1 trust that he may be long
spared for the delight of his brethren
and the good of the community.
Swift Galloway, a careful and &C
curate lawyer and model Solicitor, was
possessed OF extraordinary powers OF
~eloquence which often produced great
tAo oSAo I'll 0A1O duu ulD
goodness of heart are cherished by
those Of us who knew him. After leav-
ing the county he represented the
county of Greene in the House of Rep
resentatives. v e1f
Col. w. A. Allen came from Duplin
to Wayne shortly after the young men
l have mentioned began to practise.
He had been a practicing lawyer FOL
many years in Duplin where he had
made a great reputation as an able,
safe and learned lawyer. He was the
father of Hons. o. Fl. and William R.
Allen. He took a large part in public
affairs in his early life; served in the
General Assembly with much reputa-
ton as a wise legislator, and rendered
valuable services to his State. It was
always his ambition to go upon the
bench, and he would probably have
been elevated to that position but for
the fact that while a member of the
Legislature in the early '70s he in
troduced and secured the passage Of
a usury act which so grievously Of
Tended a number of the bankers of his
District that they secured his defeat
when he was a candidate for that
position. He. didn't live to appreciate
the honors conferred upon his sons,
but his wife and their mother lived
until both her sons were known, on
ored and respected throughout the
State.
Col. L. w. Humphrey, a native Of
Onslow, not engaged at the time in
active practice, but feeling his kinship
to the Bar, an able and accomplished
lawyer with strong bent towards bust
ness; with Hon. William A. Smith, of
Johnston, he built the hotel 10Y
known as the Kennon on East Centre
| Cfroof in Go1dGhnro Ho uYod tho frCf
to engage largely in erecting business
buildings in this city. He served as
president Of the A. & N. G. Railroad,
and I have heard it said, made one Of
the best presidents that corporation
has eve had. He was the father of
Earle A. Humphrey, at present a mem
Der of this Bar, County Attorney and
Solicitor of the County Court, and of
D. c.. Humphrey a member of this Sal
and City Attorney Of Goldsboro.
Nixon P. Clingman, not actively en-
gagged in practice, a man of fine liter
airy attachments and poetical taste,
whose numerous poems found many
admirers.
W. C. Munroe came from Greene to
this Bar in the early sos, after a sue
~cessful career there. He was a man
of unusual intellectually, of fine liter
airy taste and a learned, industrious
painstaking lawyer. He was the au-
thor of Munroe's Annotations, greatly
priced by the Bar of the State. He
represented the county in the session
Of 1895 of the General Assembly.
1 lave the most pleasant recollec-
lions Of the kindness of every one of
these gentlemen from the oldest to the
youngest. Their h%elpfulness n kindly
consideration for their younger breth-
ron hn0nf in rc an Affection that the
lapse of years has left undimned.
In conclusion let us trust that while
this building shall stand the lawyers
who practice here shall a a high
sense of their responsibility to their
clients and to the court, nay grow in
ability, learning and character, and
maintain the high standard established
bv the old time bar; that the officers
of the court may sustain the reputa-
ton ~bequeathed to them by their pre-
decessors; that the juries shall meas
ure up to b requirements of the
Statute, and alwys be men of good
moral character and of sufficient in
t%eligence to discharge properly the
great duties committed to them; that
the Judges who shall preside here
may be men who know the law, lovers
of justice endowed with great abilities,
of high character, who shall know
neither the person of the poor nor the
person of the rich, administering the
law in the spirit of humanity doing
justice in righteousness. May no in
nocent man ever be convicted within
these walls, and may no guilty man
escape.
Let us remember in the language
of the great Webster that "The chief
concern of man on earth Is justice"
Let us write over our portals the i'm
mortal words of Jefferson Equal
and exact Justice to all men,"
CfHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR
ROUND TRIP HOLIDAY FARES