Memorial of Ambrose Spencer, Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York (Volume 3); Consisting of Proceedings of Public Bodies

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1849 Excerpt: ... MEETING OF THE BAR. At a meeting of the Members of the Bar of the county of Albany, held at the Mayor's Court Room in the city of Albany, on the 15th day of March, 1848, Teunis Van Vechten was called to the chair, and Amasa J. Parker appointed secretary. On motion of Mr. Taber, a committee was appointed to prepare resolutions expressive of the sentiments of the meeting. The chair appointed Messrs. Taber, Gansevoort, Wheaton, R. W. Peckham and J. Lansing. Mr. Taber, as chairman of said committee, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the shafts of death, which within a brief space past, have stricken down so many of the great and good of our land, clothing the nation in mourning, have approached us with appalling nearness, in the decease of Chief Justice Ambrose Spencer, one whose greatest usefulness and honors have been achieved in our city, who was personally known to us all, and endeared to many of us by the ties of private friendship, and whom we unite with the entire community to honor and revere, as an ardent lover of truth and justice, a firm and faithful friend, a preeminently patriotic and useful citizen, a distinguished statesman, a bright ornament of the legal profession, and a wise, enlightened and upright judge. Resolved, That the gratitude of the present generation and of posterity, is due to the court of which the deceased was a distinguished member, for maturing the jurisprudence of this state, and exalting it to an eminence unsurpassed by that of any of our sister states or foreign nations; for transmitting the judicial ermine to their successors pure and unspotted, and impressing upon this community, by the wisdom and uprightness of their decisions, an habitual and abiding confidence in the admin...