Year: 1866




An adjourned meeting of the Cumberland
Bar, to take appropriate action relative to the
resignation of Judge Ware, was held in the
U. S. District Court room, yesterday moniug
at half past ten o'clock, Hon. T. A. Deblois in
the chair. District Attorney Talbot, from the
committee appointed at former meeting,
presented the following resolutions which
were unanimously adopted:


Resolped, That the members of the Cumber-
land Bar, ask leave ON the occasion of the re-
trement of Judge Ware, from the bench oftb
District Court of the United States, to express
their high appreciation OF tbe important labors
and studies, by which, through his long career
of judicial service, the principles of maritime
equity and International law have been estab-
hshed, and the interests of commerce have been
secured and extended; and to signify their
pride and satisfaction i'll the just eminence,
which the pure style, the exhaustive learning
and logical candor of his published opinions
have gained for him among jurists throughout
the world.


ResotUed, That we eshall ever cherish in CRATE
full remembrance the patience, impartiality and
courtesy which have marked the official con-
duct of Judge Ware towards the members OF
the Bar, and the amiable frankness and digni-
fed simplicity which in his intercourse with us
individually have formed the basis of the
friendship and veneration in which he has long
been held; and that we tender to him our cor
dial wishes that he may find in the retirement
he has chosen, as the appropriate close of his
sprotracted labors that calm satisfaction, which
the retrospect of important service to his age
and to the world, faithfully performed, cannot
fail to give, and that peace of mind which flows
out of a pure and blameless life.


On motion, the District Attorney was re-
quested, in accordance with the established
practice to present the resolutions. AT elev-
en-, the hour assigned for the presentation,
! Judge Ware came in, and the Court was
formally opened. The District Attorney then
presented the resolutions, saying


May il please your Honor, the Cumberland
Bar have instructed me to present in their be-
half these resolutions. In presenting them |
perform q task at the same time sad and CRATE
ful. 1t is sad to be obliged to defer to that
judgment of yours, which has constrained Won
to terminate the pleasant official relations that
have so long subsisted between the Court and
the legal profession practichg in it, and to
feel that the bench which you are about to va
cate will be deprived of the confidence and
veneration your character has given it IN the
popular heart. But it is grateful to review
your long career as judge, only paralleled in
one or two instances in judiclai history, and
to remember how its foundation was iald In
thorough CLASSICAL historical and legal study,
how its progress has been signal marked with
the lighrs Of jurisprudence, and how it has
cuIminaled in the eninence which has crown
ed your prolonged labors. 1t is grateful to
know that you have arrived at that goal
which fifty divides labor from repose, with
natural vigor so little abated that those tastes
for intellectual investigation which have been
at the same time your employment and di-
version, have not lost their relish.


You took your seat upon the bench of this
court very early in the Independent existence
Of your State. Maine, by her seaboard posi-
tion and the enterprise and hardihood of her
people destined to become commercial and
maritime State, counts herself happy in hay-