Year: 1859

TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM


TALBOTT, ESQ.


COURT OF APPEALS OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
March I, 1859.


please the Court, | do not announce to you the
death OF our esteemed brother, William A. Talbot
Esq.-you have for some days known this profession
al loss and shared the sad regret which il has cansad
put IL Is the melancholy pleasure of the judicial and
forensic brotherhood to bestow upon those of the
membership, whose abilities or virtues have ennobled
the profession or preserved its high character
untarnished recorded bonors," when the final fate
OF man closes their career. rise to ask the ususI
mark OF respect to the memory of our valued friend
Dy the adjournment of this court for the dav, with
the suitable entries upon its official minutes


Each member of this Court enioved both per
sonal and official acquaintance with Mr. Talbott
which would make delineaIion of his character
unnecessary with view to authenticate a claim of
the bar Tor Official respect. You knew him well:
he enjoyed your appreciation and felt its homo r.
As his merits were real, his friends disdain the
least exaggeratlon of eulogy. This highest tribu.
nal ot the State Is known to fame by the profes
slonai ability OF the eminent men who have served
upon Its Bench or at its Bar. The Chases
buchanan, and Dorsey, Dulany, Martin Pipckney
Mason, Harper, Winder, Writ and Taney are
names of national celebrity, which challenge com
parison IN Judicial and forensic accomplishment
and force


Standing upon the stage they trod with tradition
of their towering abilities, yet undimned there is
no disposition to obtrude into this galaxy lesser
llSnt' IroNluence ulu Not endOw as of these
our brother, recently deceased. "for one star differ
eth from another in glory" But though his men
tai power and legal attanments would Justify no
comparison with such professional celebrities vet
his native intellect, professional skill and know
ledge were sufficient to class him among the select
few OF large brotherhood, and Justify the sincere
respect and excite the competition of the ablest
HIS mind was penetrating in its insight clear b v
method, and methOdical BY clearness copsiderate
IN It's judgment, cautious yet resolute and daring
Its composition filled him for the consultation and
trial table in their peculiarities in commercial
city. A clear and ready apprehension of principles,
prompt and accurate memory, elastic aptitude in
expedents all acting upon 0bservant knon ledge
OF men and things, and all vivifed by
that zeal which Incorporates the clients inter-
ests INTO the very heart the practitioner as they
were MS own, can alone guide the helm in such a
sWoHen and eddylng stream. And then, when even
dehDerauon mas some play, the involved equities of
the numerous and conflicting interests which over
lay each transaction of magnitude, and inter-com-
plcate themselves, so often make the professional
task almost puzzle to human discrimination and
analysis Then it is that method classifies, INSIGHT
detects, knowledge of life unkennels fraud lurking
in vouminous and fair seeming accounts and with
tOisome preparation master the fluent facility by
which uries of impatient and listess men are forced
to comprehend the involved transactions of wears
to audit with justice the rights of litigants.-
Wisely and honestly to advise men maddened
by losses or infuriated by hope, tossed
by temptation or envenomed by passion
and all exaggerated in their excitements by the
crowded theatre which they move, is the daily
duty of the professional practitioner who is sue
cessful in large city. Consider the requirements
which such an avocation implies, and at once is