Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-01

Mir Day was an exemplincation ~ New England manhood and courage Hi had the virtues of the Puritan with fep of his faults. When you had conre-1tt with him you felt thzt yor had mel th traditional New EnFt3nder of every gen erati6n. You had met the man cf Con cord, and Bunker HfI and Torkturnf Heights You had met him at Lurfr Lane. and Cerre Cordo; you bad met hiu at Cold f5arbor and Appomattox; yo had met him even in Elan ier's Field anf in the glory of Chateau -hier-y. rher the Star and Stripes mingled with tn' tri-cofor of France and he Hon anf the eagle: and the ny rHovsd sids 1i side Call this rhetorical c.rtravaE1J're if you will but let me cite a slnsic rem i1iscence
 In 1883. when Mr. Day was a mem ber of the general assembly. at twenty seven. the Honorable Henry C. Dem ming Of Hartford. then a nneuber q congress. invited him to TashinEtnn aaf when he arrived he took hina to the CID ftol to meet Abraham Lincuin. SoT sir Lincoln. in those days. vas 3v-r-ruf with callers. callers from everyv'hcre clergymen called to tell him Low GCt wished him.to conduct the p'ar: laryrrl called 10 advise about 'the Ccnfflfu-ief as it is. and the Union as C vas. Elitori came to tell him how Co make beth rears and war. - He was bored Co -fis<th uifi callers. not only his inimifa5ie hurcf saved him from utter diFtrartion. fs.vcr- the less he greeted his rizitors cGrdiafI5 and, after few minutes' corversatipn. hs took the young lawyer by fhe hand and said. "Mr Day. come up 10 my h1ure I want you 10 meet Mrs. Lincoln ard fhs children
 With that strange insight Of hts hs pen. etrated the character of his rncst and knew that he stood in the presence oi one of the yeomanry Of New England
 Mir. Day was almost the lart cf fhf lawyers of the great Civil war period and ] cannot take leave of the subJcci without some mention of them
 When ] came 10 Norwich in war lime to great political demonstration. thers were. approximately. fifty lawyers ir
 New London county and one Of them Judge Day was one al the age Of f,ren- weight. but on the excursion steamer
 which brought me here. there was rfrn younger lawyer. the president of sho ciut
 which had chartered the boat. then called the. Ulysses" was trife belos medium height-of slender build. witk
 classic features and black hair. and
 beardless face. and glasses that riinf.
 ed in the sunlight brilliant in the courf
 room, magnetic on the platform. nftrac- tive on the street. he had all the Francs or Lne ordtors with a voice and rfr-ffra that charmed. and an eIoquknce that stir 7 red the multitude to actfon-that law ,. yer was T. M- Waller at twe1fy-four. then ' the youngest member of the New L5udoa } County Bar. VI
 But time has wrought It's changes and
 sixty years have mingled with the rileni yesterdays. That cheering throng hai E vanished and with it the three hundred ' more or less. on that excursion boat They have crossed the strange sroutier and somewhere. in some inlet Of shs sea n the ribs of the Ulysses dissolve in fh. : ebb and flow of the tide Today. cl r those fifty lawyers who prarfiSed here lr
 war time. he who was the vaunEcEt mem r Der. is all that is ieft. ard hs is cit s and white-haired now. n a little whlil
 you will be constrained Co say in rne'sn l. choly accents: '-The last of all the Rom n ans-fare you we'll"
 e ] commend these resolutions fo Q, e memory of Judge Day. with every feel r ing of respect. He has rescnad ht e journeys end.-'the wine Of life is drawn. e his sands are run, and fite turns fh Is hour-giass no more. Ills career Ia nnish 7. ed; his life is ended. his work e done r. ''the rest Is silence"
 Tn Court Heeords. f Judge Webb closed the memorial res IT sion with a few remarks and upon mo e ton of Judge Shields the resciuticrs an ie eulogies are to be incorporated in th
 court records