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Law, its Imparlance aid Sublimity.
A VALEDICTORY ADDRESS,
DELIVERED BY
J. D. RUSS, OF UPSON CO.,
Before the Graduating Class of the Lump
kin Law Schools Athens , Ga. January
11 th, 1861.
Gentlemen of the Faculty.—Fel
low STUDENTS,
Ladies and Gentlemen :
There are some who affect to sneer at
the existence of such a thing as disintei
ested friendship ; who tell us that it is all
ian empty name ; a mere shadow that fol
-1 lows prosperity but quickly vanishes under
the frowns of adversity ; that itsmilesbut
to deceive, and then leaves its votaries to
weeping and despair. Such, however, I
trust, is not our experience, and Heaven
forbid that we should ever have cause to
come to any such conclusion. Cold must
he the heart, or unfortunate, indeed, the
late of that one who knows not what friend
ship, is ; miserable must he that man who
is thus cut loose from all the tender sym
pathies of life. ISuch people most usually
have become soured and imbittered by
■ someearly disappointment, and then, for the
i faithlessness and shortcomings of one, or
perhaps two, they, like the Black Dwarf,
judge all the rest of mankind by the same
measure. These should not he censured,
hut pitied rather. Too often, alas ! are
they deceived by the name ; of the spirit
of this noble virtue they kuow nothing.
Hopeful youth starts out upon life’s pil
| grimage and the “glittering prospect
| charms his eves.” No storms disturb the
s*ft balmy atmospheie ot his life; no
clouds of adversity daikons his sky : a
brilliant future seems spread out before
him : many profess friendship for him so
! long as success crowns his undertakings ;
hut when troubles fall upon him, when
j failure and disaster hover around him, then
! when those whom he thought to he his
I friends forsake him, in the bitterness of his
heart he exclaim- that friends!,ip in but an
< mpty name! He is hut mistaken in his
im n. Theiis is not the sort of attach-
ment which the wisest of men has taught
us to cultivate. The great Bacon, whose
name, iike some tall pyramid in the midst
‘ id a desert waste, rises majestically above
the surrounding desolation of Iris age, has
toUl u-j in glowing terms ot the value of
real Friendship; has told us of its pleasures
and advantages and how we should regard
and cherish it wherever met with in life’s
devious paths. It is a plant sometimes of
slow, and at others of more rapid develop
ment, according to the soil from which it
springs ; yet when full grown it expands
■nto a beautiful tree hearing fruit more
preeious than tlie golden apples of the far
feimd Hesperides. To the young it is of
ten a guide, affecting more with its “silva r
voi.-e and sober mien,” than all other pow
ers beside. Whilst to the old it is a staff
{•) suppoit the declining years of age with
>ll its w akness and infirmities. How ac
curately, vividly and philosophically has
Cicvro portrayed in living pictures the pow
ers of tiiis almost divine attribute of hu
man nature; —the actions and motives of
convivial spirits, linked togefhei by the
natural affinities of souls animated with
like objects, aims and purposes. Have we
not so found it to be ? Do we not, on
this day of our final departure feel that
friendship has in it something far more
substantial than a name—something that
will endure and hind us together, however
many miles or years may seperate us ?
and whatever future may betide us P Such
I am persuaded are the convictions of us
all. Then let us cherish this sentiment ;
let us endeavor to cultivate it as the most
precious flower iti the garden of our hearts.
It is said that the august [Senate of Rome
dedicated an altar to friendship for the re
spect they entertained for those sacred ties
that were found to exist between Tiberius
and Sejanus. Then, fellow students, let
us imitate this high example to some ex
tent ; let us rear in our affections an altar
that shall he as durable as life to the same
mythic goddess ; or to change the figure,
let us, though far away, cultivate that
friendship which has sprung tip amongst
us during our brief stay in this School of
Law ; and may it continue to grow stronger
and take root deeper and deeper,until, like
the ivy that twines its gentle tendrils’round
the giant oak, it shall become part of our
existence.
Passing on to another branch of this
parting address, I would ask your indul
gence while I offer you a few ideas on Law,
its Importance and Sublimity.
If we look abroad over the various fields
of nature, we see that all hei workings are
governed by laws. It. is in accordance
with certain laws that the different seasons
pay their annual visits to our planet.—
When gentle Spring—the ever-welcome
damsel —comes smiling to the hearts j
of men; when with her fragrant breath
she wakes the forest from its winter’s slum
ber and throws her mantle of green over
its leafiess branches, and fills its boughs
with nature’s songsters, all pouring forth
their notes of gladness, our hearts are filled
with gratitude and admiration for the sur
rounding beauty. A few months have
lolled away and she is gone, —leaving her
sister friend, Summer, as a guest. She
too is a welcome visitor, and as nearly re- i
sernhles her sister, that we scarce note the
change, save that the landscape is painted
with the growing corn or gemmed with the i
golden wheat. Then comes Autumn ; the;
fields begin to assume a yellow hue, and
his winds soon whiteD them with sDOwy
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cotton ; the trees are seen bending beneath
the golden clusters of fruit, and everything
seems to wear an air of plenty and content.
Gradually the forests assume a yellow and
purple tint, and we know that Winter is
near. Soon he comes, and with his shrill
blasts frightens away the merry warblers of
the forest to more pleasant climes. At his
bidding the neighboring woods are strip
ped of their beauty, and all nature is
clothed in lier most solemn dress. The
old fields with their dried herbage ; the
meadows that a few short months ago
seemed smiling with teeming plenty, hut
now carpetted with the bleaching grass, are
all that meet the eye. We see that these
changes are all regular and consistent with
each other, because they are all subject to!
certain invariable laws.
Should we borrow the wings of fancy
and soar away to the innumerable bodies
of vast illimitable space, and there note
the exact accuracy with which each body
revolves within its own respective sphere;
when we see the precise nicety of the mo
tions which prevail throughout the whole
solar system, marking the path of each
planet within its own orbit, yet causing
them all to move harmoniously around the
same common centre, we see at once the
importance and the power of the laws
which govern these different systems ; or
if one of them, even the least, were violated
these worlds would fiv off in confusion and
disorder would reign supreme. And now,
as we gaze in awe upon that vast empyrean
where hang suspended astral systems or
firmaments resembling our own, they will
gradually like light cloudlets under the in
fluence of the telescope, resolve themselves
under a greater power into stars, though
they perhaps appeared at first no larger
than the finest particles of dimond dust.—
And though the imagination may he left to
wander on, and on without limit or stay,
save that which is given by its inability to
grasp the unbounded, the same great truth
applies; these bodies all are , and must (>f
necessity be, subject to ce/ to in invariable
laws. Eveu the smallest star that twinkles
in the blue vault of Heaven is subject to
its control. Law is universal. It is the
governing principle in physical nature. It
mounts the whirlwind, rides in the furious
tornado, commands the slorm-god and lie
obeys, calms the ocean’s angry billows, is
seen in the lightning's lurid flash, directs
the swift thunderbolt, smiles through the
lovely rainho v as it gently spans the sky,
holds universal sway and waves its sceptre
in triumph over all the works of creation !
Philosophy teaches, and history confirms
tlu> great truth, th it fixed and certain laws
are no less essential to the harmony of the
Material Universe, than they are for the
exstenee and well-being of society ; and;
along the hanks of the stream of Time are
strewn the fallow glories and the momi
tiFT" —/* f Ui'pro'ia is worth oetween tit- I iiav<
garded this iiu.k. , • n *
learning and of art is a sad example to
demonstrate this fact. She had all the el
ements of greatness within her; and aiound
her classic name cluster all that is grand
and noble in history. It was here that
Homer sung ; his sublime poetry was first
heard along the shores of the xEgean ; then
mingling with the breezes which rippled
its waters, it was wafted with increasing
melody to the uttermost corners of the
earth to gladden the hearts of men_ And
the sacred Nine, proud ot the golden treas
ure, have handed it down through the dust
and gloom of centuries to succeeding gen
erations as a priceless heritage of genius
and poesy. Nor was the oratory of this
wonderful nation surpassed by its poetry.
Peal after peal of her eloquence went forth
from her forum, overturning thrones, shak
ing nations and leading forth armies flush
ed with hope and enthusiasm, to deadly
conflict on the field of battle to struggle
for greatness and renown. And though j
that eloquence which has thrilled the hearts
of millions and found in their breasts
echoes responsive to its sentiments, and
which to-day is unsurpassed in ancient, or
modern times could not save this ill-fated
country from ruin and decay, its wonderful
power is yet attested by all contemporane
ous history. Even at the period of which
I speak, when Greece was declining be
neath the tyranny and corruption of her
rulers, her oratory was the most powerful.
The eloquence of Demosthenes was, like
Jove’s thunderbolts, hurled forth against
his enemies and the enemies of his country
scattering terror and dismay far and wide I
among them, and at the same time inspir
ing his countrymen with hope, reviving:
their drooping spirits and urging them to
make a vigorous effort to sustain their in
dependence, until ultimately they resolved j
to rise, shake off their vile fettersand stand
forth in defence of their country, nobly to |
defend and preserve it, else die in the at
tempt. Destiny had ordered otherwise ;
had decreed this country’s fall ; hut she
tell not ingloriotisly, hut fell covered with
the mantle ot honor and tame. Her ex- i
ample is still remembered and now, after
the lapse of two thousand years, it is as,
heroic and the flame of her glory burns as j
brightly as it did when success and triumph
perched upon her standards on the plaius
of Marathon! It may be asked, why her
fall ? It is answered that her people for
got her laws ; ceased to be governed by the
precepts of Colors, Thales and Lycurgus
and the inevitable consequences lollovved.
‘"■lnter anna nlent teges!”
Rome once the haughty mistress of the j
world, proudly thought she would live and
reign forever.* In her own day her fame
was co-ex tensive with the hounds of the
inhabited world ; she had extended her vic
torious sceptre over all the Continent and 1
farther still. Her conquering legions had
scarcely, if ever, known defeat. She had
given birth to poets, philosophers, orators
and historians of whose memory history is
proud. Her legislators gave to her a code
of laws unsurpassed perhaps by any of the
Gentile nations that hud come before, and
many of which to this day stand as au
thority iu all civilized pars of the globe.
But in an evil hour she forgot the patriot
ism of her first Brutus, the inscriptions up
on the Ten Tables and disregarding those
laws which had carried her to the highest
point of national glory, stooped to take
part in the ambitious struggles of Caesar
and Pompey and fell a victim to her own
folly. Thus did the spirit of her greatness
depart from her. Nought but ruin and
decay now hang around her once splendid
palaces, and the former magnificence of
her temples- serve hut for the abodes of
hats and owls. The requiem of her na
tional glory has been sung by succeeding
centuries, and to day she stands a mourn
ful example of her folly and falsity to this
great truth. Th ■ same great truth is taught
in the history of God's chosen people, the
Jews.—lt was when the precepts of their
great Law-giver, Moses, were abandoned ,
that their downfall came.
It would he unnecessary and perhaps
unprofitable, to speak at any great length
of the state of society during the Middleor
Dark Ages of the world. It is sufficient
to say, that upon the downfall of the Ro
man Empire, the light of civilization was
extinguished, and learning, laws and the
fine arts were all buried in one common
grave. For centuries a dark pall of igno
rance and superstition overhung the world;
and even Christianity was shrouded in its
black folds. No laws were known except
the will of one man, selected perhaps for
iris daring and physical strength ; or, like
Saul because of his being a head and shoul
ders taller than anv in the nation. Actu
ated by a spirit of fanaticism and super
stition one million of men stood upon the
plains of* Europe to fight for—they knew
not what. Led on by the fiery zeal of Pe
ter the Hermit they marched on to battle,
and few ever returned from it. For hun
dreds of years not the least ray of light
could he discerned glimmering on the hori
zon of civilization. At length the dim
twinkling ot a star might he seen suspend
ed over France giving a* first an uncertain
light, hut gradually increasing in bright
ness until at length a whole nation emerg
ed trom its of darkness and was daz
zled with its brilliance. Such was the reign
of Charlemagne. The same may he said
of Alfred who gave to England her first
written code ot laws. From that day un
til the present time, the world husbeeu ad
vancing in civilization and the science of
the law ; and although 2nd, | f* c
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■ your li.st o' ;NTf]\Y p\o * ~ewed it with !
} ot\\ } • t 01 every obsta- ;
cle that ignorance or passion placed before I
them and have continued it until they have
arrived at the lofty summit of the Nine
teenth Century.
! Take one more example, bloody though
iit may be. The Empire of Charlemagne
I had continued to grow (with a few excep
tions) until the latter part of theeightcerith
century, when its people cast to the winds
their laws, unbridled the furious passions
of men, and France was plunged in the
Reign of Terror, and • lie pages of history
were crimsoned with the blood of humani
ty. No longer were heard the chimes of
the church bells mingling with the breezes
of the holy Babbaih morn ro summon the
people to the places of worship ; they were
drowned in the war and carnage of miir
derous war. Worshiping at the iev shrine
of Reason, they treated religion and its ho
ly missions with contempt, and over the
gates of the cemeteries was written in blaz
ing letters *‘D**ath is an Eternal Sleep.”—
Hanlon, Currier, li >b< spiere and Marat
“watered tlie fairest valleys of France with
the blood of her best citizens ;” .ill was an
archy and confusion, and in recording this
part of the life of a great nation, history
drops 5i tear of pity over the sufferings of
humanity. And when did France recover
from her sad condition and again renew In r
march in the progress of nations ? Never
until the standard of the law was again
erected and itst strong arm extended out to
support her did peace and prosperity smile
once more upon her people
Thus we see that all the works of na
ture are controlled by laws; that without
them nations fall a prey to anarchy and the
cruel passions of the mob. Imagine one of
the bodies of the Solar system leaving its
orbit and flying about iu wild confusion
among the worlds of space ; think for a
moment it our ovvu earth was to disregard
the law of its revolution what derangement
and confusion in the whole system would
ensue ! Precisely so with nati >ns. Should
they attempt to move one step in disregard
of all law, the direst confusion and anarchy
would prevail as history abundantly testi
fies. Such is the Importance of Law.
Its Sublimity, can only he measured by ,
its importance. Since the Dark Ages have J
passed away all civilized countries (perhaps j
with one or two exceptions) have had cer
tain known laws by which they have been
governed ; the grand result is, that civili- ;
zation, religion, the arts and sciences have
advanced with more rapid strides than at !
any former period ot the world’s history.— j
At its bidding, temples of religion, of lear- ;
ning and of art have sprung up all over the
lauds and the waste howling wilderness is
made to “blossom as the rose.” Our own ;
country is, or until recently has been, a
living example of the salutary influence of j
obedience to law. A little ©qf© than two
centuries ago the forests of America waved
lietore the winds in all their primeval gran
deur ; nought was heard to disturb their
solemn stillness, save the warvvhoop of the
savage, or the shrill scream of the no less
savage panther. The light canoe of the sav
age lazily floated on the blue waters of the
lakes, or rapidly skimmed the rolling wa
ters of the mighty Mississippi. At the ad
vancing steps of law and order, the Indi
an’s wigwam has disapai a*ed and its cull
ing snoke long siuce uied away in the blue
expanse of ether : and now, where once
stood the rude villages of the red man, rise
the graceful spires of rich and populous
cities. Along our coasts are narrowed in
the blue Atlantic, or the far off Pa?ifio, the
tall masts of vessels ready to bear to tlie
most distant parts of the globe the fruits
of American skill and industry. The belt
of forest which lav around the original
thirteen States has been felled and until
recently thirty-three coequal sovereignties
assembled by representations beneath tlie
wide dome of a great Republic. The steps
of the retreating savage have been followed
first, by law*, then by civilization, plowing
up the pasturage of the wild buffalo, har
nessing the waterfall to the wheels of man
ufacturing and mechanical industry ; their
advancing waves have surged up to the base
of the Rocky Mountains and over and be
yond they mingle with the waters of the
placid dreaming Pacific. The laws of our
country and our ready obedience to them,
have made it one of the first nations of the
earth. It seems from recent developments,
that, despite the teachings of philosophy
and the warnings of history, a portion of
the people of this Confederacy have resolv
ed blindly to trample under foot its laws.
Should they still persist in their madness,
they will soon have accomplished the des
truction of the noblest government ever
formed by man. History with its iron pen
and impartial tablets will assign to their
names the blackest infamy. Let southern
men take warning by their example. Let
them assemble around the altar of their
country, and there in the sight of Heaven
and before the w r oiid pledge themselves with
renewed ardor, to preserve inviolate and
untarnished for corning generations the
priceless heritage of freedom bequeathed to
them by a noble and illustrious ancestry.
We live in the resplendent light of the
nineteenth century. Laws, arts and learn
ing have attained to the highest state of
perfection ever known toman. Does Greece
boast of a Thucydides or Rome a Livy, we
of this age point to a Macaulay and a Ban
croft. Do they boast of a Demosthenes or
Cicero, we of this countiy reply that we
have a Clay, a Calhoun and a Webster.—
The rights of all are file broad
tile humblest citizen
>Mnd may come into thehalls of Jus
‘lice and have his rights meted out to him
upon a perfect equality with the richest ;
in a word “wherever there is a right there
is a remedy.” To the widow it is a hus
band and to the orphan a father ; protect
ing both wi ll a ready and loving hand.
Though the medium of law, wai has been
deprived of many of its cruelties ; and na
tions have adopted laws among themselves
which render it of less frequent occurrence.
May we not hope that the day is not far
distant when through the beneficent influ
ence o flaw, there will be a universal and
enduring peace among the nations of earth?
May the day arrive when its banners shall
he planted upon every hilltop to greet the
beams of the rising sun and kiss the pass
ing breezes that shall convey to man the
glad news of “peace on earth and good will
to men.” There is no good reason why
brothers, children of the same Common
Father and heirs to a common destiny,
should without the least just cause of an
ger or resentment meet upon the field ot
battle and engage in deadly conflict. Here
then is a field for the Christian and States
man ; let them go forth and plead for hu
manity in all the courts of the world ; let
them inculcate in rulers a purer sentiment 1
of morality ; one which will acknowledge I
law as the supreme arbiter in all national j
disputes. Let its impoi tance and obedi
ence to it he taught in the schoolroom, on
the forum and from the sacred desk, and j
then indeed the time may he not far away j
when all men may drink from the pure j
crystal streams flowing from the fountains ‘
of Peace which law and order secure.
Mutch, fellow students, are some of the
characteristics of the profession in which
we have embarked ; —the noblest of all
worldly pursuits. In it is wrapped up the j
accumulated wisdom of centuries. Among
the great names of earth none are more i
entitled to gratitude than thatof Coke, the !
incorruptible judge. His great mind ris- ,
ing superior to, and looking far beyond the }
ignorance of the age in which he lived, gave j
to succeding generations inexhaustible ,
treasures in a series of writings and decis- i
ions, fouuded the most of them upon jus- j
tice and reason. Coming to the Bench
when the science of the law was com para- !
tively in its infancy, he, by his untiring in- :
dustry and perseverance contributed more j
to the clothing it in the dignity which it
now wears than any other man who ever
lived. And, besides this, be did more to
watds establishing English liberty upon a
sure foundation than anv Englishman who
has lived before or since his time ; for the
mere acknowledgment of a right is worth
less unless there is a remedy and some
known meaus by which it may l>e enforced;
these he gave by his wise judgments, which -
he never allowed to be turned aside from
the channel of justice by the hope of re- <
ward or fear of those who were high iD
power. To Lord Mansfield not only Eng
land, bat the commercial world owesa debt
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of gratitude. In his day little was known
of commercial law ; there wero few, very
few laws applicable to commerce. To
Mansfield belongs *he honor of giving to
nations the fundamental principles gov
erning this great branch of business, which
like a golden chain binds together in ami
ty the nations of the world. The honor to
which he is entitled can only be estimated
by the important place that commerce
I ol Is in the affairs of nations ; but as this
6 a sul ject foreign to my purpose I has
ten on.
America is not destitute of the names of
great jurists ; and among them none occu
py a higher place or shine with a brighter
iustre than those of Marshal and Story.—
The latter did as much, perhaps more than
any American to make for the jurispru
dence of his country, a respet-table name,
and place it among the different systems of
the world. The decisions of both are to
day referred to in England and othercoun
-1 tries, and are regarded as authority of tin*
highest character. ‘When we take into
consideration the comparative infancy of
our country, and the prejudices entertain
ed against it by other countries on account
of the form ot its government, we will then
be better prepared to award to these great
men the meed of praise which they justly
merit. As Americans we should, and I b<-
lieve do cherish their memory with rever
ence. Crowding upou memory come the
; names of Wirt, Kent. Tucker, Lumpkin
: and others I might mention did time per
mit. They are “names that were not born
to die ;” and though revolution may conn*
1 j and shake the nations of the earth; though
the thrones of monarebs may crumble and
moulder in the dust ; though crowned
j heads may be laid low and governments
( convulsed and torn asunder, yet so long
jas the flight of centuries shall continue to
linger around the lofty pedestal of Time,
i these names will live aud the memory of
, them be cherished to the latest ages of pos
terity !
Fellow students, we are now abiut to
start out in the profession ot which 1 have
been speaking ; it is of our own choosing ;
let us resolve never to disgrace it ; and
though we may not expect to attain the
fame of a Coke, a Mansfield, a Story or our
own loved Chief, yet this should not deter
or discourage us from doing our duty.—
13 ut in order to arrive at any degree of suc
cess, we must be students persevering and
industrious remembering the motto of our
venerable and loved professor, “labor ipse
yoluptas” We must know the value of
time and improve every moment of it ;once
gone it is forever lost.. W -
siftticTsVill simply to gratify some
whim of our own. And we should moreo
ver remember that our life-boat is floating
down the rapid stream of Time ; and that
whether we sleep or wake, it moves on just
the same each moment nearing its destina
tion—the great (c an of Eternity. Nor
must we allo\v ourselves to be led away by
things of a vain and illusory nature. What
though the fascinating charms of politics
should beckon, or the gentle but deceitful
wooings of her voice call us on ; heed them
not. The political sea is one ot storms
and uncertainties ; and whenever we em
bark upon it, we must expect to be temp
est-tossed and pei haps dashed to pieces
upon the unseen breakers with which it a
bimnds. Kind fortune forbid, that any
member of the Lumpkin Law School
should, wky occupy the position of a bro
ken down politician. And if indolence with
her artful smiles and ready excuses should
invite us to banquet in her halls, never
consent ; the entrance to them is but the
portal to a dark and gloomy hall, filled
with blasted hopes, beggars bones, misery,
wretchedness and despair. lie who once
enters therein, must hastily retrace his
steps or he is forever lost. No fellow stu
dents, whatever future may betide us;
whether storm or sunshine shall settle over
life’s pathway, let us at least shun this en
chanted ground as we would the vallev of
the deadly upas.
On the other hand let a° but court the
law with diligence and perseverance, and
success in some degree I doubt not will
crown our efforts. H. hold on yonder sum
mit a splendid edifice ; its dome is gilded
with the gold n wisdom of ages ; see how
the sunlight of centuries glitter on it w ith
dazzling brightness; look at the exact pro
portion of all its parts, and at the unblem
ished whiteness of the marble—smoothly
hewn from the quarries of Justice—of
which it is built. If >ason stands at the
portals extending to us a cordial invitation
to come in and partake < f the delicacies of
a more than Epicurean feast. Coke and
Hale, and Mansfield and lUackstone, and
Marshal aud Story and a whole galaxy of
such names are there, and we 1 ave only’ to
go in to be crowned w ith the jewelled lus
tre of their f< ieudship, and then to dwell
with them on terms of intimacy and affec
tion. Is not such a future worth at least
one vigorous effort ? And though enemies
may hurl their darts at us so thick that
like those of the Persians at Thermopylae
they may darken our path, yet 1 covered by
the shield of integrity , and armed with
firmness, with “onward and upward’’ for
our watchwords, they r will fall harmless at
our feet and triumph will be ours.
Six months ago fellow students, twenty
five you rig hearts filled with hope and
bright anticipations, sat where now you sit
listening to the eloquent and parting words
of a loved classmate. Going forth as the
first graduateaof the Lumpkin Law School,
deeply impressed as I believe with the im
portance of their mission, and armed with
the great truths—legal and moral—which
were lucidly enunciated to them by learned