The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-30

had given him fellowship with those
who live the life of the spirit. The
experience Of four years Of war. Of
batrie-iine. had taught him to know
men and to love them, had given him
fellowship with those that tread pa
life. Fresh from the teachings OF q
man whom he described as among the
masters of him who seeks him.
self to master the Jurisprudence
and penetrated with the lofty oon-
ceptions of legal ethics illustrated in
the lives Of his own progenitors, he en-
tered upon the profession Of his own
touched to noblest issues the conduct
of his entire public career. Listen for
a minute to his creed:
"rhe great lawyers. whether Mt the
men who stood for great moral prin-
cfples and Impressed them int the
spirit If the law. The law, indeed. n
the public conscience. uttered ~ the
lie power. 1t deals with rights I'm
order 10 defend and preserve them.
IL deals with wrongs in order to re-
pair or prevent them. II ends In Jus
tice. and Justice means peace and
honor
Life Conformed 10 His Greed.
1t Is Daniels highest distinction that
conformed to his Hie Exalted creed Not
without insight did his great colleague.
Senator Root. of New York. pay to
his character this eloquent tribute:
ever nnewa he created nm nsmo.paere.
which lifted mp those about him to
the high plane of his own noble pur-
p0se.v
One more thing must be said OF
Daniel; despite his affluent eloquence
he was an indefatigable, a prodigious
worker. Too many men endowed with
gifts like his, facile and fluent speakers.
trust to their gift and neglect that
arduous toll, that profound study,
which can alone give to their utter
ances permanence and value. Into
slowed upon his cases before the courts
that detailed analysis and searching
investigation. which made him master
of all their complexities, and rendered
advocate or jurist. He prepared him.
self for his debates In the Senate with
the same scrupulous care, and with
the same deep and prolonged medita-
lions before that great body are doc
uments not for today only, but for all
time.
He did not speak on many sub
not an ineessant taiker. But upon any
topic which engaged his attention he
spoke copiously and well, and never
failed to show that he had thought
tlons involved. He liked large issues,
because they offered the widest OPP
portunity for speculation as to causes
and for visions of the future. This
reach of mind made him an American
in the largest sense, and showed clear
ly in that note of intense patriotism
which sounded so strongly In his for
NAL addresses"
Only such an assiduous worker as
Daniel could have found time in the
thick of a large and growing practice
for the composition of the two works,
which he added to the literature OF
his profession. The first of these on
the Law of Attachments Under the
Code of Virginia" published in 1869.
less than three years after his entrance
upon the practice, while little more
than a useful compilation met a gen.
uine professional need and has ever
since been constantly used as a stand
ard authority before the Virginia
courts. The second work. a mastery
treatise on Negotiable Instruments"
published in 1870, was the fruit of
eight years of arduous and unassisted
la Dor. Daniel went back In his studies
to the original authorities and the
records of the courts. pursuing his re-
searches in the great law libraries, not
of Virginia only, but of the other
States of the Union ais well. The work
is ranked by competent jurists among
the few great philosophic assertions