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TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT 
 
 OF 
 
 THE BAR OF CHICAGO 
 
 TO 'JAEEE MEMORY OF 
 
 HON. GEORGE MAN1ERRE, 
 
 Funeral, Addresses, Resolutions, &c., 
 
 ALSO, THE 
 
 FUNERAL DISCOURSE OF REV. DR. PATTERSON. 
 
 J\fos soimus quia lex hona est , model quis ea 
 uiatur legitime ” 
 
TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT 
 
 OF 
 
 THE BAR OF CHICAGO 
 
 TO r I’HK MEMORY OF 
 
 HON. GEORGE MANIERRE, 
 
 Funeral, Addresses, Resolutions, &c., 
 
 ALSO, THE 
 
 FUNERAL DISCOURSE OF REV. R. W. PATTERSON. 
 
 JVos soimus quia, lex bona est, modo quis ea 
 utatur legitime ” 
 
 CHICAGO :X 
 
 DUNLOP, SEWELL & SPALDING, PRINTERS, 40 CLARK STREET. 
 

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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Perhaps no event has ever happened that has 
 caused a more profound and universal sensation of 
 sorrow throughout the City of Chicago than the 
 death of the late Hon. George Maxierre. He died 
 on Thursday night, the 21st day of May, 1863, at 
 twenty-three minutes before Twelve o’clock, in the 
 forty-sixth year of his age, at his residence in 
 Chicago. 
 
 As the news of his decease extended from mouth 
 to mouth, on the following morning, and it was an- 
 nounced in all the city newspapers, there was a gen- 
 eral feeling of depression experienced among all 
 classes of the population. The Courts, upon assem- 
 bling for business at the usual hours, all adjourned 
 out of respect to his memory, and the meeting of 
 the Chicago Bar, which was announced to take place 
 in the Law Library that afternoon, was the largest 
 meeting of that kind ever witnessed in Chicago since 
 its existence. 
 
 The Hon. John M. Wilson was called to the Chair, 
 and A. C. Coventry was appointed Secretary. On 
 motion of Mr. Hoyne, a Committee on Resolutions 
 was appointed, and on motion of Joseph Knox, Esq., 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 a Committee on Arrangements was also appointed. 
 Both Committees were instructed to report at an 
 adjourned meeting, which, pursuant to the order of 
 adjournment, took place on the following day, (Sat- 
 urday,) the 23d day of May, in the “ Circuit Court 
 Room ,” in which the deceased had so long presided 
 as Judge of that Court. 
 
 On this day of the adjourned meeting, the attend- 
 ance of Members of the Bar was unprecedented as 
 to the number who attended. But beside this, there 
 were present a large concourse of citizens who seemed 
 yielding to some common impulse, and came volun- 
 tarily, answering to the death summons which had 
 called together the brethren of deceased on this mel- 
 ancholy occasion. And the general tone of sadness 
 which characterized the meeting was such as could 
 only be manifested in the presence of a great public 
 calamity. All felt the weight of a common bereave- 
 ment in the loss of him whom they had so long 
 known as the upright judge and the eminent citizen. 
 The Court House had been draped in mourning at 
 the first intelligence of his death, and also all the 
 public offices in that building. And now the Court 
 Room itself, and the Judge’s Chair on the Bench or 
 Platform, were all suitably hung in black and white, 
 while the National Flag behind the great chair, 
 which, in his administration of the office, had been, 
 indeed, so often recognized as the “ Seat of Justice,” 
 appeared gracefully festooned with all the tokens of 
 this general sorrow. 
 
 Upon this occasion Mr. Hoyne, the friend of his 
 boyhood, and the life-long associate of deceased, read 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 the resolutions from the Committee which appear in 
 the proceedings, and these were followed by a num- 
 ber of the most affecting and eloquent addresses, 
 made by the most eminent members of the profes- 
 sion in the city, all which are published in this 
 pamphlet, in pursuance of a resolution then adopted. 
 Hon. Van H. Higgins reported from the Committee 
 of Arrangements that the Bar should attend the 
 funeral next day, in a body, suitably escorted, and 
 wear the usual badges of mourning. Twelve pall- 
 bearers were appointed among the family friends of 
 deceased, besides twenty-four members of the Bar as 
 an escort of honor to the hearse at the funeral. The 
 funeral took place on Sunday, the 24th day of May, 
 from the 2d Presbyterian Church, on Wabash Ave- 
 nue. The body was escorted from the residence of 
 deceased to the church, amid the tolling of the city 
 bells. And the Common Council of Chicago, headed 
 by the Mayor, also attended in a body, in pursuance 
 of a resolution adopted commemorating the virtues 
 of deceased, and properly expressive of the sympathy 
 they felt with the general grief. 
 
 At the church the exercises were conducted by 
 Rev. Dr. Patterson, who delivered a very appropriate, 
 earnest and eloquent discourse, in which he beauti- 
 fully eulogized the character of the departed. The 
 remains were then taken and attended in procession 
 by the Bar, the Common Council and the body of 
 the citizens walking behind the hearse through the 
 city to Division street, and the interment of the 
 body took place in Graceland Cemetery. 
 
RESOLUTIONS AND REMARKS. 
 
 Tiios. Hoyne, Esq., Chairman of the Committee 
 on resolutions, reported from the Committee the fol- 
 lowing Resolutions : 
 
 Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God, in His wisdom, to remove 
 from among us the Honorable George Manierre, Judge of the Seventh 
 Judicial Circuit of the State of Illinois, in the prime of his years, and 
 in the midst of his usefulness ; and, 
 
 Whereas, It is eminently fitting that the Bar of Chicago, by whom 
 the lamented deceased was so much loved and honored, should express 
 their profound sorrow at this afflicting dispensation, by a series of ap- 
 propriate resolutions, be it therefore 
 
 Resolved, That in the death of Judge Manierre, the State of Illinois 
 has lost a citizen as noble and true-hearted as any who lives in her 
 broad expanse — the seat of Justice a Judge worthy of all confidence and 
 respect — and the Bar, and a large and sorrowing circle of relatives and 
 friends, a member of their society whose exalted personal character did 
 him and them more honor than even the high station which he so 
 worthily filled. 
 
 Resolved, That in the untimely death of Judge Manierre, the Bar, 
 and the whole community, have lost an officer unsurpassed in the pos- 
 session of jJI those sterling qualities of head and heart, which beautify 
 and adorn the judicial office — a profound and accurate lawyer, a just, 
 faithful and laborious judge, and a kind, urbane and courteous gentleman. 
 
 Resolved, That the Bar, while feeling it impossible by any proceed- 
 ing of theirs, on this melancholy occasion, to staunch the arteries of 
 love now bleeding, yet feel impelled by every consideration of regard 
 and duty, to tender to the afflicted widow and family of the deceased, 
 this respectful token of their sincere and heartfelt sympathy with them, 
 in this, the hour of their terrible affliction. 
 
REMARKS OF MR. HOYNE. 
 
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 Resolved, That the Chairman of this meeting do appoint one mem- 
 ber of the Bar to present these resolutions to the Supreme Court of the 
 State now in session, and to each of the Courts in this City, with the 
 request of the Bar that they may be spread upon their records. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary of this meeting do forward a copy of 
 these resolutions to the widow and family of the deceased. And that 
 the same be published in the city papers, and also in a newspaper pub- 
 lished at Waukegan, in Lake County. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further tribute of respect to the memory of the 
 distinguished dead, the whole proceedings of this meeting be published 
 in pamphlet form. And that the Bar, in a body, do accompany his 
 remains to their last resting place, and do wear the usual badge of 
 mourning for thirty days. 
 
 Mr. Hoyne, after reading the resolutions, then said 
 that, since the adjournment of the meeting on yester- 
 day, he had, in connection with Judge Wilson, with the 
 consent of the family of our deceased brother, taken 
 steps to secure the painting of a portrait of Judge 
 Maxierre, by an artist of this city, to be placed in 
 the Law Library as a further testimony of the res- 
 pect in which his memory is held by this bar. 
 
 And now, Mr. President, I feel the proper moment 
 has arrived, when, if I can sufficiently control my 
 emotions, I, more than all others, should discharge 
 a duty to my life-long friend in the expression of my 
 feelings on such an occasion as this. And yet it seems 
 difficult, if not impossible. My faculties seem paralyzed 
 in the presence of this bereavement, as if a great calam- 
 ity had befallen me, oppressing all the powers of body 
 
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 EEMAEKS OF ME. HOYNE. 
 
 as well as soul and speech. How can I ever realize 
 that the intimate friend and associate — the more than 
 a brother for over thirty years — is dead ? I will not, 
 therefore, attempt the performance of a duty which 
 must so far fall short of the justice that is due to 
 his memory. Perhaps, for the present, I may trust 
 myself to speak of some one or two evidences in his 
 life — of talents and mental attainments, which, to 
 those who only knew him as the Judge, would little 
 dream he had ever possessed or cultivated. 
 
 In the years 1833 and 1834, when it was my good 
 fortune to form those close and intimate relations of 
 friendship, which have always continued without a 
 single interruption, Geoege Manieeee, then about 17 
 years of age, was a contributor of many articles of 
 great literary merit to such papers as the u New York 
 Mirror ,” then controlled by George P. Morris, and 
 to which such writers as Irving, Willis and Bryant 
 were constant contributors. Many of his efforts in 
 prose, as well as in poetry, were frequently copied in 
 other leading periodicals and newspapers of that day. 
 He was also a member of “ The New York Literary 
 Association,” of which, also, such names as Horace 
 Greeley, Hon. Judge Daley, now of the Common 
 Pleas Court of New York ; Hon. Elijah Ward and 
 Hon. William B. Maclay, Member of the National 
 Congress, and many others distinguished in the po- 
 litical and professional departments of life, constituted 
 
REMARKS OF MR. HOYXE. 
 
 9 
 
 
 the roll of membership. Before leaving the city of 
 New York, in the winter of 1834, Judge Maxierre 
 attended the 4th or 5th Anniversary Supper, at which 
 all the persons above named, and who are still living, 
 were present. It is, was, ever will be, one among 
 the happiest recollections of our mutual boyhood, 
 that, upon that occasion, we had sat together, and 
 could frequently talk over the incidents of that fes- 
 tival night. 
 
 Sir, we know that we have lost in George Ma- 
 xierre a profound jurist, an exemplary citizen, and 
 an upright judge. The whole community is deploring 
 tbis loss in common with the bar. There are com- 
 paratively few, however, that know the talents for a 
 long time exercised, and the influence wielded by him 
 as a profound thinker on political subjects, and a 
 vigorous writer. For years, one of the first journals 
 published in this city was enriched by contributions 
 from his pen, among the files of which, the best po- 
 litical articles ever written in this city will be found. 
 He had studied deeply all eminent American writers 
 on Government ; had an extensive reading, as well as 
 ardent love of general history ; was well versed in the 
 principles of social science and political economy ; 
 with a naturally comprehensive mind, never satisfied 
 with the glitter of a subject, unless the real value 
 of the ore was to be found beneath ; and all this illus- 
 trated by a clear and forcible style, made his articles 
 
 
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 10 REMARKS OF MR. HOYXE. 
 
 models of excellence in political writing for informa- 
 tion, influence, and popular effect. 
 
 When I look up at this drapery of woe, his judi- 
 cial seat and this Court House, all draped in mourning, 
 I only think that what is now local might have been 
 felt by the whole nation, for whose service nature 
 had fitted him — had he not ever entertained an un- 
 conquerable repugnance to what may be regarded by 
 some as the minutiae of politics. For, in my estimate 
 of him and his qualities, he was a great man as well 
 as good citizen , equal to the highest achievements of 
 amoition, but despising the arts of those in our mod- 
 ern days, who, in climbing to power, sacrifice their 
 self-respect, and trample on the securities of public 
 virtue, making the end sanctify every means of suc- 
 cess. This he regarded too much for him, as a man, 
 ever to surrender. 
 
 Among the early settlers of Chicago, the deceased 
 will be ever remembered, not so much for the career 
 of usefulness during the past twenty-eight years 
 which he honorably achieved, as for the scrupulous 
 fidelity that distinguished his discharge of all the 
 trusts committed to him. 
 
 In 1835, entering the office of Spring & Goodrich, 
 to pursue his law studies, which he had commenced 
 in the city of New York, in the office of the emin- 
 ent Counsellor, Judge Brinckerhoff, where I succeed- 
 ed him at the same desk he had occupied before his 
 
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REMARKS OF MR. HOYNE. 
 
 11 
 
 removal to Chicago ; lie then became Deputy Clerk 
 of the Circuit Court in which he so recently pre- 
 sided as the Judge. He became noted for his accu- 
 racy and despatch of the business of the Court, and 
 nearly all the early records of this Court will be 
 found in his hand-writing. 
 
 After his admission to the Bar in 1841, he, in 
 1844, became the Law Officer of the city. He soon 
 after this, under a Committee of the Common Coun- 
 cil, digested and revised the first Charter of the city 
 passed in 1837, and all other acts, then loosely scat- 
 tered, and inadequate to the wants of a rapidly in- 
 creasing population, into One Act. He also revised 
 and digested all the ordinances, the whole being 
 published and bound in a single volume, and consti- 
 tuting the basis of all the subsequent improvements 
 which the city has since, from its rapid growth, re- 
 quired. 
 
 He consented to fill one term as an Alderman of 
 the city, to promote some beneficial legislation with 
 respect to the schools and other interests of the city. 
 He was elected the School Commissioner of the County 
 in the year 1843, which he filled* for eight years, and 
 succeeded in retrieving that fund from the low con- 
 dition to which it had been reduced by improvident 
 loans and negligent management during the rage of 
 speculation in the years 1836 and 1837, and the pe- 
 riod of insolvency which succeeded. He was after- 
 
 
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 REMARKS OF MR. HOYXE. 
 
 wards appointed tlie Master in Chancery of the 
 County, by the Hon. Hugh T. Dickey, then Judge 
 of the Circuit Court, which office he filed up to the 
 time of his own election as Judge of the same Court 
 in 1855, from which high position, in the ripest pe- 
 riod of his usefulness, he has been removed by death. 
 
 Croesus, in the midst of his riches, asked the Athe- 
 nian Philosopher if he had ever known a happier man 
 than himself. Solon replied by citing several instances 
 among the dead, and told him “ not to grow inso- 
 lent upon present enjoyments, or to admire any 
 man’s happiness that might yet, in course of time, 
 suffer change.” He only to whom Divinity contin- 
 ued happiness unto the end, the Greeks called happy. 
 
 So in this instance, as we sadly retrace this record 
 of a life well spent unto the end, we feel the weight 
 of our grief relieved by discovering in every act of 
 life that consciousness of rectitude and absorbing 
 devotion to duty, that, whether in public employment 
 or in private life, seems to have regulated all his 
 employments. 
 
 In a brief retrospect of a career like this, no 
 painful doubts arise that truth may not justify the 
 tribute of eulogy which sorrowing friends are ever 
 anxious to render unto the memory of one well be- 
 loved. 
 
 The eulogy of Judge Manierre is upon the records 
 of that court which he adorned so long. It is in the 
 

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 REMARKS OF MR. HOYNE. 
 
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 memories of those witnesses now present, who knew 
 him as the upright Judge and the great Magistrate. 
 Mere words will not suffice to render all the meaning 
 of this character to the world outside the bar of his 
 court. The nearest interpretation of such a character, 
 will perhaps be found in the language of Lord Camp- 
 bell, applied to Chief Justice Holt : 
 
 “ He may be considered as having a genius for 
 Magistracy as much as Milton had for Poetry, or 
 Wilkie for Painting. He ever reasoned logically, 
 and appeared instinctively acquainted with all the 
 feelings of the human heart, and versed by experi- 
 ence in all the ways of mankind. He had a passion 
 for Justice, by which he was constantly actuated. 
 To it he sacrificed literary relaxation, and every- 
 thing for tasks the most dull and revolting.” 
 
 To this picture of one of England’s most highly- 
 gifted judges, may be added of Judge Manierre, 
 that in addition to other sacrifices which he made 
 to his “ passion for Justice,” he also sacrificed his 
 life a victim to the confinement he endured, and the 
 labors he performed. He illustrated what Bacon says 
 of men of great place — u That they are strangers to 
 themselves, and wdiile they are in the puzzle of busi- 
 ness, they have no time to attend to their health, 
 either of body or mind.” Or, according to Seneca, 
 “ Heath presses heavily upon him, who, well known 
 to all others, dies unknown to himself.” 
 
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 REMARKS OF MR* HOYNE. 
 
 The very ]ast words uttered by our beloved Judge, 
 while life was fast ebbing, and the sweat of death 
 was upon his brow,, each word costing an additional 
 pang of suffering, were the words of a judgment en- 
 tered in behalf of some waiting suitor at his bar, 
 while those of us beside that bed of death could hear 
 distinctly the words, “ Plaintiff,” — “ Defendant,” pro- 
 nounced, and some of the figures enumerated as the 
 result, yet could not catch from his difficult breathing 
 the whole of that final sentence, the last pronounced 
 by him on earth, and also the last of his utterances, 
 for, a few moments after, there also was the “last of 
 earth,” as it closes forever upon our poor mortality. 
 
 But, Mr. President, I must close. I have too much 
 upon my mind. I may say too much for this occa- 
 sion, when so many other of our brethren wish to 
 speak, yet, as my feelings are now, I must say too 
 little. 
 
 Again, I repeat, there can be no painful doubts 
 arise to cloud the horizon upon the setting of such a 
 life as his. The retrospect is clear and pleasant. 
 
 His career upon earth has ended, but his acts re- 
 main subject to review and criticism. All his motives 
 and conduct challenge the scrutiny of his brethren 
 and the world. A just judge, he has left a reputa- 
 tion for unsullied integrity. A good citizen, he bene- 
 fitted the State. A true friend, he was always faithful; 
 and a profound lawyer, his knowledge was used to 
 
REMARKS OF MR. HOYNE. 
 
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 benefit and elevate his profession. A sound politician, 
 he never descended to use the arts of the demagogue ; 
 and a lover of his country, he respected her constitu- 
 tion and laws, though he doubted the wisdom of 
 some of the institutions which those laws and consti- 
 tution permitted. His whole life is an example, and 
 his whole career an instructive lesson, to be pondered 
 upon with profit, and commended for example. 
 
 But, Mr. Chairman, it would ill become me to 
 close this imperfect tribute to his memory without 
 gratefully recalling the fact, that, in an intimate friend- 
 ship of over thirty years, our relations continued un- 
 interrupted to the last. The sound judgment and wise 
 counsel upon which I ever leaned, proved to me in 
 my efforts for success, that he could be implicitly 
 trusted. As a lamp to my feet and a guide by the 
 way was his wisdom in direction, counsel, and en- 
 couragement. 
 
 His offers of well-timed assistance, as well as his 
 solicitation, brought me to the city in 1837, which I 
 would have again abandoned had not the same kind- 
 ness and counsel prevailed by friendly remonstrance 
 against it. I commenced the study of a profession 
 which, to one without friends or means to aid him, 
 was indeed difficult, most difficult ; almost hopeless 
 of acquirement, still more so of success. An orphan 
 in early boyhood, without home or kindred, I found 
 sympathy in George Maxierre ; the same kind Prov. 
 
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 REMARKS OF MR. GEO. C. BATES. 
 
 idence that had decreed my orphanage by depriving 
 me of the natural guardianship of parents or near 
 kindred, decreed also that their place should be sup- 
 plied in this associate of my youth — the faithful 
 counsellor of mature years, and the tried friend of 
 my life. 
 
 “ He was a man, take him for all in all — 
 
 I shall ne’er look upon his like again.” 
 
 REMARKS BY MR. GEO. C. BATES. 
 
 Mr. Chairman : — 
 
 The overwhelming calamity that has 
 befallen our Bar and community, and which has sum- 
 moned this meeting to-day, will justify on my part a 
 departure from that appropriate silence which on all 
 previous occasions of this character I have felt bound 
 to exhibit. For although now past the period of 
 middle life, yet my connection as a member of this 
 Bar is so recent that my appropriate duty has been 
 that of a listener rather than a speaker of the char- 
 acter of our deceased brethren, who have gone one 
 after the other, with such mournful rapidity and suc- 
 cession to their graves during the last eighteen months. 
 
REMARKS OF MR. GEO. C. BATES. 
 
 17 
 
 Yet, sir, when I look around on this Bar and remem- 
 ber where I am, associations and memories come back 
 to me so painful and so sad, that I must speak or the 
 agonies of my heart will break its life strings. Al- 
 though the seal is hardly dry on that parchment which 
 admitted me to share with you, sir, the responsibilities 
 and labors, the honors and emoluments of a member of 
 the Bar of Chicago; yet my first association and con- 
 nection with it goes back to a period when amongst its 
 then members, there is now no living brother left on 
 earth save our noble Justice Caton. 
 
 In the month of May, 1834, having just completed 
 my professional studies, and looking then for some spot 
 wdiere to cast my lines, I came to Chicago in company 
 with a friend, afterwards my brother-in-law, Robert A. 
 Kinzie, and made all my arrangements to permanently 
 settle here for life. For nearly a month I rambled over 
 these then gorgeous prairies decked in all their vernal 
 glories and beauties, and made myself intimately ac- 
 quainted with all its scanty population, and especially 
 with the young men who had just commenced to per- 
 form the duties of our noble and laborious profession. 
 Of the seven hundred white people then the pioneers of 
 Chicago, scarcely here and there one yet remains, while 
 of the ambitious and earnest young men then constitu-. 
 ting its Bar, no single living man is here to greet or to 
 join with me in the sad duties of this most mournful 
 day. I have looked in vain through the wide extent 
 
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 REMARKS OF MR. GEO. C. BATES. 
 
 of this great and growing city for their offices, their 
 homes, and their former haunts ; but have found them, 
 one and all, save the accomplished Justice Caton, asleep 
 in that sacred church-yard, where many of the sad 
 hours of my lonely life are spent in silent communion 
 with their memories — Richard Hamilton, Giles Spring 
 and Jame§ H. Collins, all of whom were here then to 
 give me a true western welcome, and to take me by the 
 hand, and extend to me their generous hospitality as a 
 young brother of the Bar, now lie quiet in the suburbs 
 of your thriving city ; and of the thousands and tens 
 of thousands of its earnest and active citizens, few or 
 none know of their past lives, or of the genial virtues 
 and noble traits that characterized them. From 1834 
 to 1852, each succeeding summer brought me here, 
 where family kindred, professional engagements, and 
 boundless and lieart-felt western hospitality induced me 
 to spend my summer vacations ; and as year after 
 year passed away, and Chicago thrived and increased 
 to the admiration of its own people, and the aston- 
 ishment of all the other cities of the North-West, 
 and as the area of the Bar was enlarged, link by 
 link, I was admitted an honorary member of the 
 brotherhood, and Justin Butterfield, James H. Col- 
 lins, Lisle Smith, George Meeker, Pat. Ballingall, 
 Daniel McElroy, and others who are, thank Heaven, 
 here to-day, burnished anew on each returning visit 
 the golden chain of professional friendship, love and 
 
REMARKS OF MR. GEO. C. BATES. 
 
 19 
 
 truth. How I can summon them back to-day in 
 memory and in imagination, and recall the terse and 
 sententious sarcasms of Butterfield, the logical dispu- 
 tations of Collins, the lofty and Ciceronian eloquence 
 of Lisle Smith, the classic and polished intellectual 
 shafts of George Meeker, the sparkling brilliancy and 
 diamond wit of poor Ballingall, and the earnest and 
 melting tones of noble, true-hearted McElroy. They 
 are not here to-day, sir, but have preceded, by months, 
 and days, and years, Manierre, whose character they 
 respected, whose quiet and gentle and winning man- 
 ners, and whose patient culture of the mind, they 
 realized and admired long ere the world knew the 
 value of the man, or the scope and power of that 
 intellect and judgment which have just been so pre- 
 maturely quenched in an untimely grave. In the , 
 summer of 1835, I first met him whose death we 
 this day deplore, and whose funeral oration can be 
 mutely, but most eloquently pronounced by the silent 
 objects that surround us. That bench on which you 
 sit, this hall itself, and these mournful habiliments of 
 the grave seem to sympathize as they stand around 
 like so many majestic mourners ; and all of them, in 
 language that we can all read and understand, tell 
 us we shall know him no more on earth. From the 
 very first moment that he came here, he took his 
 position as a staid, candid, industrious, careful stu- 
 dent, who, while always avoiding all efforts to at- 
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20 REMARKS OF MR. GEO. C. BATES. 
 
 tract unduly the attention of his neighbors and ac- 
 quaintances, was yet daily and hourly burnishing 
 and brightening; that character and armor which he 
 was to wear through life; and which shone brighter 
 and clearer down to the very moment when disease 
 summoned him from this sacred temple dedicated to 
 justice on earth, to that higher and holier temple 
 “ not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Of 
 his official life and his gradual ascent from the hum- 
 blest position at the Bar to the loftiest and noblest 
 official promotion that a true lawyer can desire, it 
 behooves me not to speak. His early companion, 
 his life-long friend, he who was with him in the first 
 budding of youthful hopes, and “ on whose fond 
 breast his parting sun reclined,” has said all that 
 true friendship, correct and classic taste may dictate; 
 or the eloquence of the heart may utter. On coming 
 to the Bar, or soon thereafter, lie became associated 
 with Meeker, and from that period down to 1852, 
 when I left my peninsula home, on the other side 
 of Lake Michigan, to try my fortunes on the shores 
 of the gentle and beautiful Pacific, their office was 
 always, during my sojourn in Chicago, my place of 
 business, my temporary lounging spot: my legal and 
 fraternal home ; and with each succeeding year I was 
 drawn closer and closer to him. And although our 
 tastes and pursuits, and habits were as divided as 
 the poles, yet my admiration, my confidence, and my 
 
REMARKS OF MR. GEO. C. BATES. 
 
 21 
 
 respect and regard for him ripened more and more. 
 Many and many a summer eve, have Meeker, Ma- 
 xierre and myself, in years long gone, sat in the 
 softened twilight or mellowed tones of the harvest 
 moon in that cheerful and home-like office, and dis- 
 cussed our varied plans, pursuits, hopes and expecta- 
 tions, now ended and dissipated forever. For Meek- 
 er’s were long since extinguished in darkness. Ma- 
 xterre has gone to his premature grave, and I, sir, 
 desolate and homeless, stand here, almost a stranger 
 in these places once so familiar, so dear to me. 
 
 I knew George Manierre thoroughly and inti- 
 mately, and a nobler or a truer man I never knew. 
 Of simple and unaffected manners, his character was 
 marked with every lineament of manliness, integrity 
 and honor. Elevation to the Bench only developed 
 and exposed to the public eyes the purity, the noble- 
 ness, and the intellectual power of the quiet and 
 modest young practitioner at the Bar. He was a 
 candid, impartial and righteous judge, and his nature 
 and organization was such that he could have been 
 none other. Shrinking from no responsibility, fear- 
 less in the performance of every duty, seeking always 
 to do right, and fearing nothing so much as to do 
 wrong, he was literally U justum et tenacem propositi 
 vi/rumr Death has now set her seal to his charac- 
 ter, making it unchangeable forever ; and I am sure 
 that when his brethren of the Bar shall inscribe an 
 
REMARKS OF MR. ANTHONY. 
 
 fy-ao 
 
 22 
 
 appropriate epitaph on his monument, it will he — 
 that as an upright judge, a successful lawyer, and a 
 courteous gentleman, he was without fear and with- 
 out reproach. 
 
 REMARKS OF ELLIOTT ANTHONY. 
 
 Mr. Chairman: — 
 
 It is with considerable diffidence that 
 I undertake to follow the able gentlemen who have 
 already addressed this meeting on this occasion ; but, 
 sir, as a younger member of the Bar, I desire to add 
 my tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased. 
 In the year 1852, when I first came West to seek 
 
 I my fortunes, upon going aboard of a steamboat on 
 Lake Michigan, I chanced to encounter, for the first 
 time, Judge Manierre. I was at that time on my 
 way to the city of Milwaukee. It was in the fall 
 of the year, and but few passengers were aboard, 
 and I fell into conversation with him and learned 
 he was a member of the Bar of the city of Chicago. 
 Upon informing him of my business, and that I was 
 
 I in search of a place to settle and engage in ]3ractice, 
 
 I he conversed with me in regard to the city of Chi- 
 
 cago, and advised me to come and locate here. 
 
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 REMARKS OF MR. ANTHONY. 23 
 
 After I had been to Milwaukee and stayed a few 
 days, I came here. I met Judge Manierre on the 
 street. He took me cordially by the hand, opened 
 the door of his office to me, and invited me to oc- 
 cupy it until I could secure one of my own, gave to 
 me his counsel and advice, and also the use of his 
 library. The first year of my residence here, I was 
 accustomed to go to him for advice on all matters. 
 That year I had occasion, I recollect, to file in the 
 courts a declaration, which involved the construction 
 of our special bail act, and which is now the well- 
 known case against Fergus, found in the 14th 111. 
 Reports. That declaration, although drafted and put 
 upon the files of the court by me, was revised and 
 amended by Judge Manierre, and the corrections 
 are in his hand-writing. 
 
 I speak of these things, sir," not so much to recall 
 events interwoven with my own history, as to exalt 
 the memory of one whose every act and thought to- 
 wards his brethren of the profession, was character- 
 ized by cordiality and kindness. 
 
 Judge Manierre, as has been said, was not only 
 a man of large and liberal views, but his sympathies 
 were on the side of humanity everywhere. In the 
 year 1854, it was my fortune to be associated with 
 him in the trial of a fugitive slave case, which at 
 that time excited considerable attention, and I well 
 recollect the magnificent and noble speech that he 
 

 24 REMAKES OF MR. ANTHONY. 
 
 made on that occasion. His interest in politics was 
 always guided by ideas of the most exalted patriot- 
 ism, and his belief in the mission of this great Re- 
 public remained unshaken to the last. 
 
 He treated with courtesy and respect all who en- 
 tertained views upon political subjects different from 
 his own ; but he abhorred time-servers and traitors. 
 But it is as a judge, and in the administration of 
 Justice, that he commanded the most universal re- 
 spect ; and no lawyer can stand up here to-day, and 
 say that he ever lost a case before him through any 
 partiality, prejudice, or by any rulings of his which 
 were not made fairly and conscientiously, and in the 
 strict discharge of his duty. The life and character of 
 such a man gives permanency and durability to society, 
 and when such a man falls it is like striking a blow at 
 the pillars of the Republic. His influence and example 
 is not to be calculated by dollars and cents, but his 
 services as a pure and upright judge, and a good 
 citizen, will endure long after his mortal remains 
 have crumbled into dust. As lawyers, we may well 
 cherish his memory, for I believe that no man ever 
 exerted a better influence upon the profession than he. 
 
 We all know what a great interest he took in the 
 founding and endowing of our Law Library, and I 
 may truly say, that there was nothing which tended 
 to the welfare and elevation of our profession but 
 what received his hearty endorsement and support. 
 
REMARKS OF MR. SPAFFORD. 
 
 25 
 
 It is most appropriate then that his worth as a man, 
 a citizen, a lawyer, and judge, should he remembered, 
 and his eulogy pronounced by those who have shared 
 his counsels and been honored by his acquaintance. 
 
 The standard of his life was the conscientious dis- 
 charge of every duty . 
 
 REMARKS OF H. G. SPAFFORD. 
 
 Mr. Chairman: — 
 
 It was a very fit suggestion made 
 yesterday, that this adjourned meeting should be held 
 in this room. That vacant chair, sir, helps us to re- 
 alize that Judge Manierre is dead ! There is not ’ 
 much to be said on an occasion of this character, 
 though I doubt if the event which has called us to- 
 gether has been absent from the minds of any of 
 those present since it was first announced. It is a 
 most mournful event ! — one exciting regrets so deep 
 and touching that there are those in this room who 
 feel pierced to the heart by it ; — who, if they were 
 called upon here to speak with reference to it to- 
 day, could not, for sorrow, utter a word. Sir, one 
 who has left such marks behind him, was no ordin- 
 ary man. 
 
If'Olf 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. SP AFFORD. 
 
 But the scene is not one altogether of sorrow. It 
 has another aspect. There are features connected 
 with it which light it up, and make it radiant with 
 joy. It is a sublime thing to go down to the grave 
 as Judge Manierre has gone, — a faithful, pure and 
 upright man. It is a glorious thing to lie in that 
 grave. It is not a slight achievement to fulfill con- 
 scientiously the duties of forty-six years, to li\e 
 truly, to live nobly, to live as a man should live, 
 sir, in the high performance of every honorable duty, 
 and if we hang up on these pillars our tokens of 
 sorrow, they are for ourselves and not for him. He 
 might, had he lived longer, have gathered round his 
 name other praises, and secured to himself something 
 more of earthly honor and success, but he could 
 never have gone down leaving a purer reputation, 
 or amid truer or more universal expressions of regret. 
 
 He fulfilled the duties he owed to the world, — I 
 rejoice we may rise to a greater hight, and say that 
 Judge Maxierre was prepared to die. I saw one 
 who was called to his bedside at six o clock of the 
 morning he died,— the Pastor of the Church he had 
 been accustomed to attend. His mind at the inter- 
 view was clear, providentially clear. He knew why 
 Dr. Patterson came to see him then. He was inter- 
 rogated as to his opinions regarding the one matter 
 then of importance, and his answers were satisfac- 
 tory , — not coldly satisfactory, but from the heart, 
 
REMARKS OF MR. HAWLEY. 
 
 27 
 
 declaring that he knew he was about to die — that 
 he was prepared to die — that he had put his trust 
 in One mighty to save. His wife, who stood by, 
 wishing to preclude all possibility of misunderstand- 
 ing, again stated the one essential point of Christian 
 belief, and asked if he wished to be understood as 
 assenting to that. His very words were, “Yes, I 
 do.” We may believe, sir, that Judge Manierre 
 was prepared to die. 
 
 REMARKS OF C. M. HAWLEY. 
 
 Mr. Chairman : — 
 
 I cannot express the deep emotions 
 of my heart on this most painful occasion ! Judge 
 Manierre was no ordinary man, and he belonged to 
 no particular society of individuals, but to all classes 
 in our community. He was, in a peculiar sense, the 
 People’s friend and favorite. The poor, as well as 
 the rich, the humble and lowly in our midst, as well 
 as the most honored and influential, shared his espe- 
 cial regard ; and in return they loved him as a wise, 
 benevolent and just man. Not only as a .Bar, do 
 we mourn over his untimely grave, but as a city, as 
 a county and State, we have lost one of the most 
 4 
 

 REMARKS OF MR. HAWLEY. 
 
 worthy, generous and noble — one of the most phil- 
 anthropic and patriotic of all our citizens. From all 
 directions, and from almost every bosom, comes the 
 heavy sigh of sorrow and mourning. For my own 
 part, I can say that I truly loved him. I loved the 
 principles he cherished, and the great and good qual- 
 ities of his character as exemplified in his life. Not 
 only was he the upright judge, but the man of in- 
 flexible principle. On all occasions and in every 
 place his duty called him to act, he manifested a sa- 
 cred regard for truth, justice and humanity. My learn- 
 ed brother Hoyne, in his most eloquent and touching 
 remarks, has said that he was a politician. So he 
 was, but in no mean sense. He was not a partizan 
 politician. In this, as well as in all other spheres of 
 his usefulness, he squared his life and conformed his 
 acts to a rigid adherence to the right. To no part 
 of his life do I refer with more pleasure and profit 
 than to his generous love of humanity. Here his 
 whole being seemed luminous with blessings. His 
 charities did not come grudgingly, as from a base, 
 selfish purpose, but from the fullness of a great heart 
 and an unbounded benevolence. The poor and friend- 
 less in our city will always cherish his memory as 
 among the most liberal of their benefactors. Not 
 only so, but we find that his helping hand was ex- 
 tended to all who were in want, in whatsoever con- 
 dition of life they were in. Among the many evi- 
 
REMARKS OF MR. HAWLEY. 
 
 29 
 
 dences of Ms benevolence and kindness, allow me to 
 relate a circumstance in his history that came under 
 my own observation. Nearly five years ago, in the 
 month of February, and at a most inclement time, 
 thirteen fugitive slaves, on their way from bondage 
 to British liberty, with their little children, arrived 
 in this city. For four weeks, in mid- winter, with 
 scanty food and clothing, had they pursued their 
 way, by night marches, for six hundred miles. These 
 poor affrighted and flying men and women with their 
 little ones, had no money and no friends, and were 
 in a strange land, while upon their blood-stained 
 track ^ere the slave-hunters, with chains and fetters 
 for their limbs and the curse of slavery for their 
 souls. To stay here was to surrender themselves into 
 their cruel hands, for the Slave Act was against 
 them. To go forward without assistance, they could 
 not, for their feet were bleeding and sore, and their 
 energies exhausted. Under these circumstances Judge 
 Manierre, while sitting in that chair now draped in 
 mourning, and while engaged in the discharge of his 
 judicial duties, was approached by a friend, who 
 briefly related to him the facts we have mentioned, 
 and while doing so, his eyes moistened and the big 
 tears came rolling down his face, and he put his 
 hand into his pocket and handed out fifty dollars, 
 saying, “ I give this with all my heart, and if you 
 want as much more, call and you shall have it.” 
 
30 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. HAWLEY. 
 
 This was only a single instance of a thousand simi- 
 lar to it in the history of his life. This noble deed 
 was not from the mere impulse of the moment, but 
 the legitimate fruit of his well settled principles. 
 How beautiful and grand does human conduct like 
 this appear ! There is no act that elevates one so 
 high — to such an eminent and commanding position 
 as that which proceeds from principles of right and 
 justice. It is then that Mercy speaks in gentle tones 
 to a suffering world, and opens wide the door of 
 hope and salvation. And how worthy, too, of imi- 
 tation are these examples of our distinguished brother, 
 and in no way can we honor his memory more than 
 by doing as near as we can as he did. 
 
 But in no department of his distinguished career 
 of usefulness did his eminent talents as a jurist shine, 
 and his noble qualities of head and heart light up 
 with more brilliancy, than while engaged in the trial 
 of causes as a judge. On no occasion did he allow 
 his equilibrium to be disturbed. This Bar, and es- 
 pecially the younger members of it, will ever hold 
 his memory in profound respect. To the inexpe- 
 rienced, and to the less skilled in the arts of prac- 
 tice and the science of the law, he was ever equally 
 attentive and courteous as to those who were most 
 learned. It was this that gave him so much power 
 over, and so endeared him to the profession, and 
 called forth the highest esteem and affection from 
 
EEMAEKS OF ME. AEXOLD. 
 
 31 
 
 every member. These exalted qualities have made 
 him one of the brightest stars in that constellation 
 that now shines in the heavens of the deeds and 
 purposes of those who have gone from our ranks to 
 the realms of immortality. Let us, then, look away 
 from his body, that now lies silent in death, to his 
 more glorious and happy abode with the Saviour of 
 the world, and then we, too, may hope to be blest 
 by sharing with him the riches of his joys. 
 
 In looking around upon my brethren, I see that 
 all hearts are swelling with emotions of grief, and 
 many, doubtless, desire to give expression to their 
 high appreciation of our departed friend ; and I hope 
 this occasion may be prolonged, so that all may have 
 ample time so to do. 
 
 REMARKS OF ISAAC N. ARNOLD. 
 
 Me. Chaiemax : 
 
 The man who has lived the life of Judge 
 Maxieeee, and the man who has died the death of 
 Judge Maxieeee, is a fortunate and happy man. I 
 have known him since 1837. Therfe are those here 
 to-day who have known him from a still earlier pe- 
 riod, and yet not one, from those who have known 
 
32 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. ARNOLD. 
 
 him from early youth down to his honored grave, 
 there lives not a man who can say of him that there 
 is a spot, a blemish, a stain, upon his private, or 
 professional, or judicial character. The man who has 
 lived such a life, and can go down to the grave with 
 such a record, is to be envied. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, as a member of this Bar, I have 
 often gathered with you and the older members to 
 do honor to the many distinguished judges and mem- 
 bers of the Bar who have honored the judicial annals 
 of the State. With your and our departed brother, 
 I have gathered at these meetings. I remember when 
 we have been called together to pay respect to Judge 
 Pope, to Judge Thomas, to Judge Spring, to Judge 
 and Gov. Ford, and I do no injustice to the memory 
 of either of these distinguished men, when I say to- 
 day, in the hearing of some who knew them all, that 
 no better man, no greater man as a judge, among 
 these or others has ever fallen than Judge Manierre. 
 
 He was, sir, peculiarly adapted for the honorable 
 position of Judge. Free from excitability and nerv- 
 ousness ; possessing that equitable temperament which 
 enabled him to hold the scales of Justice with per- 
 fect impartiality. Practicing with him as a lawyer, 
 and in his Court, I never yet have ever heard any 
 disappointed litigant or disappointed member of the 
 Bar, who failed to succeed before him, I have never 
 heard any question the entire impartiality and fair- 
 
REMARKS OF MR. ALLEN. 
 
 33 
 
 ness of Judge Manierre. I think it is the universal 
 testimony of all, that personal regard or prejudice, 
 that party preference or opposition were things that 
 he, as a judge, was utterly blind to. He has. indeed, 
 left a most perfect record. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, I see very appropriately, the flag 
 of our Country to-day draped in mourning for his 
 death. It is most proper. There was no purer pa- 
 triot or more ardent lover of his Country than Judge 
 Manierre, and he loved his Country, not only its 
 Constitution, but, as we all know, his whole heart 
 was devoted to those great principles of human lib- 
 erty that make that Country so dear to us all. 
 
 REMARKS OF NATHAN ALLEN. 
 
 Mr. Chairman : — 
 
 No man now living as a member of 
 this Bar first heard my voice in these Courts. I am 
 the oldest practitioner in the County of Cook. No 
 man is my senior. 
 
 I look around upon the habiliments of mourning, 
 and I rejoice, although it is a season of sadness, yet 
 I rejoice that one member of this Bar has fallen that 
 
34 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. ALLEN. 
 
 has a standard of the perfect man. Sir, there is no 
 discount in the death of Judge Manierre. It is no 
 ordinary death that he died. It is no ordinary occa- 
 sion upon which we have met. 
 
 I have seen the rise and progress of this city, of 
 this Bar, and of this Judiciary. I know them all, 
 though I am a stranger comparatively to many of 
 them. My history is short ; my walks in life have 
 been circumscribed and to a great extent humble. 
 Others younger than me have flitted by and taken 
 position far in advance, but that it was their privi- 
 lege to do, I being the laggard. 
 
 What I rise for particularly, is to say that it does 
 my heart good, yes, I feel it is an honor to the pro- 
 fession, when called upon in the providence of God 
 to pay a just tribute to the merits of such a man as 
 Judge Manierre. 
 
 Permit me to say to the young men here, strive 
 with all your might, from this hour, to live as he 
 lived, so that when you leave your history and come 
 upon your deathbed, you may die as he died ; and 
 let these memorials around us tell that an upright 
 and faithful practitioner of the Bar has fallen. 
 
REMARKS OF ROBERT HERVEY. 
 
 Me. Chairman : — 
 
 Although much has been said that 
 was well deserved, and many eloquent tributes to the 
 memory of our departed friend have been paid by 
 those who knew him best and loved him most, I feel 
 that I cannot permit this occasion to pass without 
 adding my hearty concurrence in every word that 
 has been uttered, and expressing my sincere and 
 heartfelt personal sorrow at the irreparable loss which 
 the Bench and Bar are now, in the Providence of 
 God, called upon to deplore. 
 
 Sir, these resolutions which have been presented for 
 the adoption of this meeting are no empty sounds, 
 nor the embodiment of mere words of course ; — 
 they are the simple, earnest, honest truth, nothing 
 more, nothing less, as every one who knew the 
 lamented deceased well knows. He was all that these 
 resolutions claim for him. As a judge, unsurpassed 
 in the possession of all those sterling qualities of 
 head and heart which beautify and adorn the judi- 
 cial office; a profound and accurate lawyer, prompt, 
 just, pains-taking, and laborious in the discharge of 
 his onerous and important duties, the name of George 
 Manierre will be remembered as that of a model 
 judge when not one particle of his mortal body can 
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 36 REMARKS OF MR. HERVEY. 
 
 be distinguished from the dust with which it shall 
 have been commingled. 
 
 " But these public attributes were not all his glories. 
 He was a good citizen, estimable in all the relations 
 of private life, an honest, earnest, fearless man, and 
 above all, at all times, in all places, and under all 
 circumstances — sometimes of a trying character- — he 
 was essentially and entirely the urbane, kind, and 
 courteous gentleman. 
 
 Sir, the change wrought by the touch of Death is 
 fearful to contemplate ! The many friends who have 
 gone from among us in years gone by, and whose 
 departures from time to time have been the subject 
 of this kind of affectionate remembrance, though years 
 have passed, stand now no further from us than he 
 whom we have so lately lost. The narrow line 
 over which we may be as suddenly summoned, and 
 which divides the living from the dead, is all that 
 now separates us : He now stands amidst the silent 
 shadows of those who have gone before, and mutely 
 claims this token of remembrance at our hands. 
 
 But a few short weeks ago Judge Majstierre was 
 in this very room, engaged in the discharge of his 
 official duties, to all appearance well and happy as 
 he ever was, exchanging those kindjy courtesies with 
 those around him in which none excelled more than 
 he. Little did he think, sir, on the last day he oc- 
 cupied that now vacant chair, that even then the 
 
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 REMARKS OF MR. HERVEY. 
 
 37 
 
 bow of the Destroyer was bent, that even then his 
 footsteps were treading on the dark threshold of the 
 unseen world ; and little did we, who on that day saw 
 him, imagine that we were then gazing on that well 
 known countenance for the last time ; that within a 
 few short weeks those flashing eyes would be dimmed 
 forever, that pleasant voice would be hushed to be 
 heard no more, and all that earth would contain of 
 that well-remembered form would be but cold and 
 silent dust. 
 
 But so it was; and this last fearful instance of 
 mortality, which has almost paralyzed our hearts, is 
 but another startling token of the frailty of the ten- 
 ure by which we hold our mortal life. And as I 
 look upon this vast assembly of my brethren around 
 me, and feel that no created being can tell who of 
 us, whether speaker or listener, shall next be stricken 
 down : on whose coflin-lid, of all here present, the 
 dull and hollow sounds of the falling earth, and the 
 fearful words, “ Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” shall next 
 strike on the ears and hearts of the survivors like a 
 knell, am I not justified in saying that this is, indeed, 
 a speaking warning, and that from the reft dwelling- 
 place of the soul of our departed brother and friend, 
 there issues yet a living voice crying out in tones 
 not to be disregarded by us who remain behind, 
 “ Prepare and be ye ready, for ye know not when 
 your hour cometh.” 
 

 38 REMARKS OF MR. HERVEY. 
 
 Mr. Chairman : Although a man in the prime of 
 life, Judge Manierre might well be regarded as one 
 of the old inhabitants of this young city. From lit- 
 tle more than a village he has grown up with it, 
 and has seen it grow up to its present imposing and 
 magnificent proportions, and to its substantial im- 
 provement he personally contributed in no small 
 degree. 
 
 Alas, alas ! the large circle of the older inhabitants, 
 with whose persons and characters we have long 
 been familiar, is rapidly contracting ; one by one, 
 and with alarming frequency, they are dropping out. 
 We miss their well-known faces and forms in our 
 daily walks. They no longer fight life’s battle along 
 with us, nor tread the rough paths of the world by 
 our side. The places which once knew them, know 
 them now no more forever ; but the world moves on 
 in its resistless course, the noisy hum of business still 
 strikes upon the ear, the living fall into the places 
 and obliterate the foot-prints of the dead, and all 
 that remains in this world of ours of those who are 
 gone, may perhaps be summed up in a green mound 
 or a sculptured stone, 
 
 “ Eyes of affection that fail 
 With wakefulness and tears,” 
 
 and an aching heart here and there which has been 
 left behind to mourn. 
 
REMARKS OF MR. YAM BUREM. 
 
 39 
 
 Time will not permit any more extended remarks, 
 and I hasten to a close. I quit the subject with re- 
 gret. The character of our lamented friend is a 
 theme on which I would fain linger, but this much 
 in closing I feel I may say, in the language of one 
 of the resolutions, That in the • death of Judge Ma- 
 nierre, the State of Illinois has lost a citizen as 
 noble and true-hearted as any who lives in her broad 
 expanse ; the Seat of Justice a judge worthy of all 
 confidence and respect, and the Bar and a large and 
 sorrowing circle of relatives and friends a member of 
 their society, whose exalted personal character did 
 him and them more honor than even the high sta- 
 tion which he so worthily filled. 
 
 Good man, true friend — just, courteous, laborious 
 judge, we shall miss thee, we shall miss thee. Who 
 can fill thy vacant place? Farewell! Farewell! 
 
 REMARKS OF JUDGE VAN BUREN. 
 
 Judge Van Buren moved that the resolutions of 
 the Committee on Resolutions be adopted, and said : 
 
 I cannot allow this occasion to pass without pay- 
 ing my feeble tribute to the memory of the deceased. 
 It was my fortune, soon after I became a resident of 
 

 40 REMARKS OF MR. VAN BUREN. 
 
 this city, to make his acquaintance in the discharge 
 ■ of my professional duties, and I may say that since 
 that time, in his judicial capacity, I knew him well. 
 
 Sir, he was no ordinary man. As a judge he was 
 laborious in the discharge of his duties. He was 
 taithful, just and upright in his intercourse with the 
 members of the Bar. There was a uniform urbanity 
 that has embalmed his memory in the heart of 
 every member of the Bar, which they will ever cher- 
 ish. He lias achieved a judicial reputation which 
 may be justly envied. As a man and a citizen, he 
 was without blemish. Just, kind, amiable, forbear- 
 ing, and courteous to all, and it is no wonder that 
 these habiliments of mourning that drape this room 
 are emblematical of the sadness that pervades every 
 one. It is but just that his memory should be cher- 
 ished; and, sir, who knows whom the angel of Heath 
 will be commissioned to take from us next? We 
 have within the last few years had many an admo- 
 nition. The angel of Heath has taken from us one 
 and another, and they have most always been shining 
 marks, distinguished members of the profession, and 
 we cannot, if we would, fail to heed the admonition 
 which tells us, in tones that cannot be mistaken, 
 that “it is not all of life to live, nor all of death 
 to die.” God grant that you and I, and all of us, 
 may profit by these admonitions, and as we strive 
 I to build up a reputation here that will survive the 
 
REMARKS OF MR. THOMPSON. 
 
 41 
 
 grave, we do not fail that hope of a glorious immor- 
 tality which is the best and highest good that any 
 of us can aspire to. 
 
 REMARKS OF JOHN H. THOMPSON. 
 
 Mr. Chairman : 
 
 I do not rise to speak of Judge Ma- 
 nierre as a lawyer, for there are those here who 
 learned his worth in the sharp ordeal of legal prac- 
 tice long before I knew him. Nor do I propose to 
 speak of him as a judge, for we all know him as a 
 judge. We all know how bland and courteous were 
 his manners, how untiring his patience, and how faith- 
 ful he was in the discharge of every duty of his 
 high office ; and it would be the merest work of su- 
 pererogation for me to speak of him as a citizen in 
 this city where he has lived from his own boyhood,, 
 and from the city’s very infancy, where he lias held, 
 so many offices of trust and responsibility, and where,, 
 during nearly thirty years, he has been so generally 
 known and so universally respected and honored- 
 Hut I knew him more intimately than perhaps any 
 other of the younger members of the Bar. I have 
 been indebted to him for many, many acts $>f kind- 
 

 42 REMARKS OF MR. THOMPSON. 
 
 ness, and I cannot forbear bringing one grateful leaf 
 to place in the garland we weave for him to-day. 
 
 It is now nearly nine years ago that I entered the 
 office of Judge Manierre, and from that day to this 
 I have known him well. I have been entrusted with 
 many matters of his business, and I have seen him 
 in connection with the little details and vexations of 
 business, and under circumstances that furnish a 
 severer test of a man’s true character than the per- 
 formance of the duties of high office. It is only jus- 
 tice to say, what it is perhaps needless to say where he 
 is so well known, that during all these years I never 
 heard from his lips one hasty or unkind or ungener- 
 ous word ; that I never saw a single act that was 
 not honorable to him as a man. What we all know 
 him to have been in his public duties, just, upright, 
 and conscientious, he was in every transaction and 
 in every relation of private life. No man, either liv- 
 ing or dead, could ever say that he was wronged by 
 him in any business affair, that he ever took advan- 
 tage of a legal right that operated as a hardship 
 upon another; and, while he was just to all, his 
 bounties were large and free, and no child of misfor- 
 tune ever appealed to his sympathy or aid in vain. 
 
 Something has been said of the laborious life of 
 Judge Manierre. We all know how faithfully he 
 sat in this Court-Room, day after day, and month 
 after month, and the records of the Circuit Court 
 
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 REMARKS OF MR. THOMPSON. 43 
 
 show an astonishing amount of business performed by 
 him. Out of about 22,000 cases disposed of since its 
 organization, thirty years ago, about 17,000 have 
 been disposed of by Judge Manierre in little less 
 than eight years. And whatever he did was the 
 price of labor. His mind never leaped to results by 
 intuition. The only path he knew was the steep and 
 rugged path of thought and study. He was never 
 satisfied with anything short of “the whole learning 
 of the law.” If ever there was one who could say 
 with truth, “ The cause that I knew not, I searched 
 out,” it was Judge Manierre. Some idea of the 
 severity of his labors may be formed from the fact, 
 probably known to some members of the Bar, that 
 he was accustomed to regard the terms of his Court 
 in Lake County and the criminal business of his 
 Court as a sort of recreation. Not that he neglected 
 this part of his duties, for he never undertook any- 
 thing which he did not perform in the most thor- 
 ough manner, but he found in going to Waukegan 
 a little change of scene, and the criminal law is so 
 simple compared with the difficult questions continu- 
 ally arising in the other branches of the law, that 
 Judge Manierre found in this way almost the only 
 recreation he indulged in. 
 
 Some have spoken of the fairness and impartiality 
 of Judge Manierre. I have never thought that in 
 our county a judge is ever consciously partial or un- 
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44 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. THOMPSON. 
 
 fair in tlie discharge of his duties. But it would be 
 strange if prejudices, likes and dislikes did not some- 
 times, without the suspicion of the judge, cloud the 
 mind and prevent a fair consideration of evidence 
 and arguments. I think there never was another 
 judge who so carefully and conscientiously as Judge 
 Manierre guarded his mind against any influence or 
 prejudice which could swerve for a hair’s breadth the 
 even scales of Justice. If any harsh words spoken 
 by counsel in the excitement of the trial, or the ex- 
 asperation of defeat came to his ears, I know how 
 quick he was to find some excuse for them, and how 
 careful he was that anything of the kind should 
 never affect him unless it was to make him more 
 scrupulously fair and just. 
 
 And this reminds me how kindly were all his feel- 
 ings towards the Members of the Bar. He was al- 
 ways quick to appreciate merit, he was always slow 
 to censure. We all know how constant was his pres- 
 ence whenever members of the Bar met to speak of 
 a departed brother ; how ready he was to speak of 
 the good, how eager to palliate and excuse the errors 
 and weaknesses of the erring. His own life was so 
 pure and irreproachable that he, if anyone, might 
 assume to sit in judgment upon others, but he was 
 always first to cover with the mantle of his broad 
 charity every error and frailty, while words of com- 
 mendation sprang from his great heart for whatever 
 

 REMARKS OF MR. BONNEY. 
 
 45 
 
 was good and noble in a brother. A true and more 
 faithful friend never lived. 
 
 There were many such beautiful features of his 
 character, but to recall them only deepens the sense 
 of our loss. It is hard to feel that we shall never 
 see him again in that vacant seat, never again feel 
 the cordial grasp of his hand, never again catch the 
 genial smile, never again hear the kindly words ! 
 Alas ! “ The wine of life is drawn !” The light is 
 faded 
 
 “ That ne’er can shine again 
 On life’s dull stream.” 
 
 But it is something to remember that he has left 
 an example and a memory that will be a precious 
 treasure to his friends, and that will forever hallow 
 this Court-Boom and dignify and ennoble the admin- 
 istration of Justice. 
 
 REMARKS OF CHARLES C. BONNEY. 
 
 Mr. Chairman : — 
 
 It is fit, indeed, that the beloved ban- 
 ner of the Bepublic be wreathed with the emblems 
 of mourning above that vacant chair. More loyal 
 
REMARKS OF MR. BONNEY. 
 
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 citizen never sat beneath its folds ; more upright 
 judge never administered the sovereignty of which it 
 is the honored emblem. It is becoming for us to 
 testify, thus publicly and tenderly, our regard for 
 the character, and our regret at the decease, of 
 George Manierre. Publicly, that the community 
 may know how the members of the great profession 
 appreciate and esteem the more excellent of the fra- 
 ternity — tenderly, in justice to a judge who never, 
 knowingly, wounded the feelings of even the un- 
 worthiest advocate that came before him. 
 
 The secret of his success as a judge is to be found 
 in his loyalty to the law . He seemed, like Coke, to 
 believe in the law as “that divine science, the study 
 of which is calculated to elevate the mind above the 
 common affairs of men.” His aim was, as I have 
 heard his own lips express it, “to do justice accord- 
 ing to law” He seemed to feel that when he came 
 here into this temple of Justice, and went up into 
 that sacred seat, the personal prejudices and opin- 
 ions which, as a man, he necessarily entertained, 
 ought to be left behind. He seemed to realize that 
 when counsel came before him to advocate or defend 
 the rights committed to their charge, they invoked 
 no merely personal opinion, and appealed to no 
 merely individual notion of justice ; but that they 
 sought through him the wiser judgment of the law, 
 in the name of that better conscience of the ages 
 
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 which pervades, and is, indeed, the foundation of 
 that wonderful achievement of civilization, combining 
 the chief merits of both the civil and the common 
 law, American Jurisprudence. And Judge Manierre 
 always treated the Bar with the respect which is its 
 due. He listened without petulance, discourtesy, or 
 controversy, to every lawyer who came before him. 
 
 But perhaps nothing endeared him to the Bar 
 more than his conduct when he himself had fallen 
 into error, or committed some mistake. With hon- 
 orable frankness, and dignified courtesy, he acknowl- 
 edged the one and corrected the other. Every law- 
 yer who knew him for any length of time, must have 
 noticed and admired this trait of his character. Here 
 he gave us evidence that he comprehended how sub- 
 lime a thing it is to be a great lawyer — how often 
 one may learn from the humblest, how easily the 
 most eminent may err, and how patient, and earn- 
 est, and pains-taking a judge ought to be. 
 
 I share in all the sorrow which has been expressed 
 by others ; but our grief may well be tempered by 
 the consolation that he has gone home with so many 
 honors, leaving behind him for our instruction a char- 
 acter in which so many virtues are exemplified. The 
 dark shadow of the valley of death melts softly away 
 into the white splendor of Immortality. The sincere 
 sorrow which fills every heart and moistens every 
 eye, is lightened by the conviction, common to us 
 
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 REMARKS OF MR. MILLER. 
 
 all, that in onr time a juster man made perfect hath 
 not been welcomed to the Celestial Gardens that lie 
 on the other side of the grave. 
 
 REMARKS OF H. G. MILLER. 
 
 Mr. Chairman : 
 
 The day is advancing to its close, but 
 I cannot, sir, suffer this occasion to pass without add- 
 ing a word to what has been already so appropri- 
 ately said commemorative of the virtues of him who 
 has been removed from among us. 
 
 These emblems of mourning, these sad countenan- 
 ces, express more impressively than any human lan- 
 guage can express, our estimate of this public calam- 
 ity, and to us individually sad bereavement. If one 
 ignorant of this painful event, but still familiar with 
 this Bar and of our estimate of him whose loss we 
 mourn, should suddenly appear in our midst, he 
 would scarcely need any further announcement than 
 these indications of our sorrow, that that pure and 
 excellent man, that just and upright judge, George 
 Manierre, was no more. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, I believe I am expressing the con- 
 
REMARKS OF MR. MILLER. 
 
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 viction of all who hear me, when I say that since 
 courts of Justice were established in Chicago, the 
 death of no one has occasioned a deeper sadness 
 among the members of our profession than the one 
 we now deplore. 
 
 Judge Manierre possessed qualifications of rare 
 excellence for the judicial position which he so long 
 and so ably filled. A man of strong and decided 
 political convictions, he never became a partisan, and 
 in the decision of those questions which assumed the 
 form of political controversies, he was as ready to 
 give judgment against as in favor of those with whom 
 he was politically associated. No one ever intimated 
 that he was less acceptable as a judge to those who 
 differed from him than to those who agreed with 
 him in his political views. He was always kind, 
 patient, and forbearing, during the most severe and 
 protracted legal controversies, and the excited man- 
 ner, and sometime rudeness of counsel, never moved 
 him from his propriety. 
 
 He was attentive and patient in the hearing of 
 cases, and always afforded every facility for the full- 
 est argument. I heard him remark but a few months 
 ago, that he never attempted to abridge the discus- 
 sion of a legal question, and never listened to an 
 argument even from the humblest member of the 
 profession without profit. His manner in the Court- 
 Room and out of it was as kind and gentle as that 
 
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 REMARKS OF MR. MILLER. 
 
 of a child, and we all not only respected but loved 
 him. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, it is hard, it is impossible to real- 
 ize that he will never resume that seat again ; but, 
 alas, alas ! it is too true, Judge Manierre’s Court 
 has closed for ever. He will always live in our 
 memories, and the mention of his name will always 
 excite that lively affection which now moves our 
 hearts. 
 

 
 FUNERAL DISCOURSE. 
 
 At the funeral services held in the 2d Presbyterian 
 Church, on Sunday, the 24th of May, the Pev’d 
 P. W, Pattekson, D.D., after citing the following 
 passages of Scripture — 
 
 Psalm 39: 4, 5—7—10—12, 13, 
 
 Psalm 103 : 8 — 18, 
 
 Romans, 8: IS— 28, 
 
 delivered the following Discourse : — 
 
 We must not, like the wicked of old, indulge the thought 
 that God is altogether such an one as any of us. We 
 must not infer from what we would do, that He must needs 
 do the same. For His ways are above ours as far as the 
 heavens are higher than the earth. The very providence 
 which we should be least willing to order, may be the one 
 which He will first bring to pass. Where we should make 
 the skies bright and the heavens serene, there He hangs 
 out clouds, and commands the angry storm to appear. 
 We choose for ourselves what seem smooth and luminous 
 paths : His way is in the sea, and His paths are not known. 
 If the necessity were laid upon us of selecting for any given 
 year or month a defined number of our fellow-men to be 
 consigned speedily to the house appointed for all the living, 
 we should doubtless name first many whom God calls last, 
 and some whom He refuses to spare for their acknowledged 
 social and public worth, we should be slow indeed to strike 
 from their positions of honor and usefulness. 
 
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 The history of God’s dispensation towards human society, 
 is a history of successive waves and billows on the surface 
 of a great deep, which the longest lines of our thought and 
 wisdom cannot sound. And yet, are there not obvious moral 
 ends that could not, as far as we can see, be so well reached 
 without this very mysteriousness of God’s methods of ad- 
 ministration, which so often mocks our philosophy and bids 
 defiance to our speculative reason ? 
 
 When it is once known that we are, as a race, so prone 
 to pride and self-sufficiency, and that we need a peculiar 
 style of moral discipline, it becomes apparent that God may 
 deal most wisely and benevolently with us in the studied 
 concealment of His plans and grounds of action, where He 
 most completely hides His counsels from us. 
 
 How else could our Maker more effectually rebuke our 
 self-confidence, than by covering our boasted wisdom with 
 utter darkness, and obliging us to wait for the solution of 
 the inscrutible problems which His providence sets before 
 us, until He shall choose to give us the key, on a higher 
 stage of thought and knowledge ? The mystery of our trials 
 is a great humbling power, which could not be spared from 
 among the appointed means of our salutary chastisement in 
 this world of probation. The sovereignty of God must be 
 pressed home upon our hearts by our sufferings in the 
 night, to bring us down to our fit position of reverent sub- 
 mission and self-renunciation before the dread majesty of 
 heaven and earth. And therefore He is continually veiling 
 Himself in clouds and darkness, that we may be taught 
 how immeasurable is the distance between Him and our- 
 selves, and may take our places in that low valley where 
 all true spiritual exaltation begins. 
 
 We learn, also, how to exercise the purest faith when 
 
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 we can not walk by sight if we would. God hides Himself 
 behind mysterious and frowning providences, that we may 
 believe His Word, and rest upon His known attributes, when 
 faith has no outw T ard props or auxiliaries. 
 
 So Abraham believed God, when he was sorely tried by 
 an apparently unreasonable and arbitrary command ; and by 
 his obedience, proved himself w T orthy to be called the father 
 of the faithful. So the Patriarch Job believed, when he 
 could see no light on either hand, but could simply say, 
 “ Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.” W e never 
 know beyond all peradventure, that our faith is genuine, 
 until it has been severely tested in seasons of trial and 
 darkness. And faith, by a great law, grows most rapidly 
 in the night. It may be only cheerful acquiescence in 
 divine dispensations that meet our selfish wishes, which we 
 esteem faith, when we think, in days of prosperity, that 
 we shall never doubt our heavenly Father’s wisdom and 
 goodness. It is a greater triumph of spiritual confidence, 
 by which we rise to the point of blessing the fatherly hand 
 that crosses our wills and best judgment without a word of 
 explanation. Our hearts grow strong under such discipline, 
 and the seeds of light are sown in the soil of faith thus 
 invigorated and purified. 
 
 Is it not well for us, too, in respect to the development 
 and culture of an unselfish and obedient spirit, that God 
 so often clothes his providences with clouds? If He were 
 accustomed to spare the virtuous and useful members of 
 society, and cut down the comparatively unworthy, by a 
 clear temporal discrimination in favor of the good and against 
 the evil and the useless, the motives for outward obedience 
 to his precepts would become too largely mingled with 
 earthly considerations, and it would become difficult for any 
 
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 of us to lead a pure and beneficent life for virtue’s sake 
 and the Lord’s sake. But God so administers his provi- 
 dence that we cannot be sure of any large temporal re- 
 ward for our performance of required duties, or of any un- 
 usual safeguard against the ills of life or the arrows of 
 death, however excellent our characters or seemingly im- 
 portant our presence and agency as benefactors in society. 
 He, therefore, who would act a dutiful part towards his 
 maker or his fellow-creatures, must be stimulated by mo- 
 tives far superior to the hope of temporal comfort and se- 
 curity. He who would be a good and faithful servant 
 must go forward in the path of obedience, not knowing 
 through what thorns or into what perils his fidelity may 
 conduct him ; ordering his steps by principle and conscience, 
 and the fear of the Lord, when worldly minds would 
 say, “ It is vain to serve God, and what profit shall we 
 have if we pray unto him ?” Is it not well for us that God 
 so conceals His purposes from us, in respect to our future 
 lives, that, in ordinary circumstances, we can neither pre- 
 dict their long continuance nor their speedy close, however 
 carefully we may study the past methods of Divine Provi- 
 dence in dealing with men in their various classes and re- 
 lations ? The mystery of the shifting scenes that make up 
 human history, preclude us from drawing any certain con- 
 clusions as to the individuals who are to pass out of the 
 world at an early day or in remoter years. Thus God 
 would keep us all under the influence of the great thought, 
 that any one of us may quickly enter the shadows of 
 that night in which no man can work ; that we may be 
 excited to watchful diligence in performing every day the 
 task of present duty. And yet he does not break the cour- 
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 their course, by distinctly foreshadowing the rapid approach 
 of the dread summons that is to hurry them away from 
 their enterprises and toils. Thus may we all have the heart 
 to work on, without either presumptuous elation or over- 
 bearing apprehension and alarm. 
 
 It is proper that we should consider the 'particular 
 features of afflictive providences, that we may derive from 
 them the special as well as the general lessons which they 
 are fitted to teach and impress. 
 
 We are not to brood over our trials with complaining or 
 desponding hearts. But, should we not so far dwell upon 
 their forms and bearings as to apprehend, in some good 
 measure, their relative severity as strokes of providential 
 chastisement ? Does not God mean that we shall feel our- 
 selves to be sorely smitten, when His hand is laid heavily 
 upon us ? Does He not desire that we should appreciate 
 our loss, when He takes away our comforts, or breaks down 
 our strongest earthly props? Would He have us receive, 
 without sensibility, the rod of His providential correction ? 
 Is it not, in this relation, right and wise that we should 
 review, with a generous estimation, the virtues and public 
 and private worth of the friend w T ho is torn from the cir- 
 cle of those who loved him, and withdrawn from all the 
 spheres of his earthly usefulness, and that w r e should mourn 
 for the bereavement and the loss we are called to bear? 
 
 Without a reasonable indulgence of our thoughtful grief 
 on such an occasion, we cannot duly lay to heart the warn- 
 ing and admonition which our affliction is designed to ad- 
 minister. We need to see and realize what manner of 
 breach it is that God has made among us, to be suitably 
 awakened by the solemn appeal which it makes to every 
 understanding and conscience. 
 
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 And may we not draw both instruction and consolation 
 from a personal history and memory which God has caused 
 to be left as a legacy to surviving friends, as if to com- 
 pensate, in part, for the great sorrow which he has sent ? 
 
 We are assembled to-day under the impulse of a com- 
 mon sympathy and grief, such as a whole community seldom 
 feels with emotions so kindred and so deep. Who is not 
 a sincere mourner here ? How many thousands in this city 
 recognize the event that has brought us together as a per- 
 sonal affliction, as well as a public calamity ? 
 
 It will not be expected that I should, on this occasion, 
 present anything like a connected biographical notice of our 
 deceased friend and honored fellow-citizen, or that I should 
 attempt to offer any adequate tribute to his memory. Such 
 a service belongs to other hands and to another time. But 
 it will be appropriate that I should briefly indicate a few 
 of the leading facts and traits in the life and character of 
 the good and noble man who has fallen. 
 
 Judge Manierre was born in New London, Conn., in 
 the year of our Lord 1817. Thence he removed, in his 
 early youth, to the city of New York. Though never en- 
 joying the advantages of a classical or collegiate education, 
 he speedily developed a fine literary taste, and an aptitude 
 for those legal studies and investigations which laid the 
 foundation for his professional distinction and success. He 
 became a resident of this city some twenty-eight years ago. 
 By his industry, energy, and excellence of character, he 
 arose rapidly from the position of a clerk, not only to a repu- 
 table standing at the Bar, but to a place on the Bench, where 
 his rare discrimination, sound judgment, legal learning, and 
 incorruptible integrity, procured for him a reputation as a 
 perspicacious, just and reliable Judge, such as few have ac- 
 
OF REV. R. W. PATTERSON, D.D. 
 
 57 
 
 quired at so early an age. He served the public well and 
 faithfully in several different capacities ; but in no relation did 
 his sterling qualities of mind and heart appear so conspicuously 
 as in the discharge of his judicial duties, to which he devoted 
 his powers with a conscientious fidelity, and a laborious 
 assiduity that ultimately proved too much for his physical 
 energies, and cut short his honorable and useful career in the 
 midst of his years. How his work is done. He has de- 
 parted full of honors, leaving only friends behind him ; 
 regretted by all ; lamented by every one who knew his 
 private or public worth. 
 
 There must have been some peculiar points of excellence 
 in the character of a man so universally respected, so warmly 
 esteemed, and so unfeignedly trusted. What were some of 
 those traits which gave him the high distinction which he 
 was enabled to achieve ? 
 
 His intellectual abilities , though not of the class that most 
 arrest the attention of the multitude, were of a high order, as 
 to critical discernment, accurate discrimination, logical power, 
 penetrating insight, comprehension of thought, and soundness 
 of judgment. His professional learning was the result of his 
 great industry and wide research, and is believed to have 
 compared well with that of his most distinguished associates 
 and brethren. But his highest characteristics appeared in the 
 moral department. In point of personal purity and un- 
 swerving integrity , both in private and official relations, he 
 was an acknowledged and admired example of singular ex- 
 cellence. Without a vice, or an offensive habit, he was a 
 thoroughly just man, who had a profound regard for the 
 rights of every member of human society. His sympathy 
 with the suffering and the unfortunate was sincere and deep, 
 but it never over-mastered his sense of justice, and his rever- 
 
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 ence for the majesty of the law. His regard for the welfare of 
 society was manifested in his generosity and public spirit, and 
 the scrupulous manner in which he guarded every interest, 
 whether educational, legal, or political, that was committed to 
 his care. His fervent 'patriotism and love of liberty will be 
 remembered and honored when the noise of present strifes, 
 and the din of. war shall have died upon all our ears, and 
 when the names of demagogues and mere partisans shall be 
 recalled only to be scorned. For who has been a truer sup- 
 porter of our noble government, in its day of peril and 
 calamity, or a more unflinching advocate of freedom for all 
 classes, than George Manierre? To him the associations 
 of party, and early political commitments, were nothing in 
 competition with the safety of his country, and the rights 
 of men. His humanity always triumphed over his preju- 
 dices, and he could never see why any portion of his fellow- 
 creatures should be shut out from participation in the great, 
 upward movement of our Christian civilization and social 
 progress. 
 
 In the domestic relations , his kindness of heart, and ex- 
 cellence of personal character, made him, as a husband, a 
 father, a guide and example, such a head as few families have 
 known. By his death, the whole community has suffered a 
 sore bereavement ; but the great and irreparable breach has 
 been made in his quiet home, where his presence and influ- 
 ence were so long the daily light and joy of the happy circle. 
 
 But was Judge Manierre an illustration of what morality, 
 integrity, and an equable and generous nature can do for a 
 man without religion ? In his youthful thinking, he was, in- 
 deed, inclined to give heed to skeptical counsels. But many 
 years have passed since a great change gradually came over 
 his views and feelings touching this momentous subject. At 
 
OF KEY. E. W. PATTEKSON, D.D. 
 
 59 
 
 different times he has spoken to me, as his pastor, of this im- 
 portant change ; expressing, on one occasion his hope that the 
 obstacles to his open profession of Christ, would ere long be 
 removed. His deep conviction in regard to the importance of 
 Christian faith, and of preparation for eternity, was sometimes 
 touchingly evinced in his addresses to criminals, when he was 
 called to pronounce the sentence of death against them. It 
 appeared, also, in his regular attendance on the services of 
 the sanctuary, not once only, but twice every Sabbath day, 
 and his very frequent presence at the weekly meetings for 
 prayer and conference ; and more especially in his close and 
 serious attention to the Word as it was spoken, and his sub- 
 sequent expressions of interest in the truths to which he had 
 listened. It came out, too, in a practical form, in the concern 
 which he manifested at home regarding the religious instruc- 
 tion of his children, whom he desired to see growing up as 
 Christians. After such indications of abiding interest in the 
 system of revealed truth, it could not fail to afford unspeaka- 
 ble joy to his family and to myself, when, on the morning 
 before his death, while yet in the full possession of his mental 
 faculties, he declared to me that he had been looking forward 
 to that solemn hour, and that he fully trusted in the grace and 
 merits of the Lord Jesus Christ for acceptance with his 
 Heaveny Father. On being asked if he clearly understood 
 and heartily accepted what was said to him in regard to the 
 way of salvation, he answered distinctly that he understood 
 and believed all, and that he rested on Christ alone. 
 
 Thus has passed away not only an upright but a Chris- 
 tian man, who would no doubt have been generally known 
 as such had he lived many months longer. 
 
 The memory of such a man is blessed. His was an ex- 
 ample to be followed at almost all points. He has shown 
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 FUNERAL DISCOURSE 
 
 to the members of his profession how one may be conscien- 
 cious and upright as a counsellor and advocate ; how noble 
 an attribute moral integrity is, and how far moral purity 
 and religious faith transcend all merely adventitious distinc- 
 tions. May I say at this point, that this affecting Providence 
 is but one among many recent admonitions from God to 
 the legal profession here represented, to make it the chief 
 business of life, not so much to excel in learning, eloquence 
 or professional skill, as to become benefactors to society 
 and the country, and exemplars of moral goodness and re- 
 ligious faith and principle. Death is abroad with hi$ re- 
 morseless scythe, sparing neither talents, honors, nor official 
 rank. And happy is he who learns so to walk in private 
 and public relations, that his memory and influence and 
 works will live after him, to bless the generations that are 
 to follow. Why should not men of all professions openly 
 acknowledge the value of the Gospel, and make the labors 
 and enterprises of this life only preparatory to those of a 
 higher and more glorious life hereafter? We are all mortal ; 
 we are all to find or miss the chief end of our creation 
 as heirs of immortality. And is it not a strange infatua- 
 tion that leads any of us to chase after the glare of 
 temporal distinction or the glittering dust of wealth, to the 
 neglect of that crown of righteousness which the Lord, the 
 righteous Judge, shall give to the believing saint at His glo- 
 rious appearing ? 
 
 Men of thought, men of business, men of pleasure, friends, 
 neighbors, fellow-citizens and fellow-Christians, contemplate 
 this manly and honored form, now cold in the long sleep of 
 death, and listen to the voice that now says, with extraor- 
 dinary emphasis, Work while it is day; Prepare to meet 
 your God ; Be ye also ready. 
 
OF KEY. R. W. PATTERSON, D.D. 
 
 61 
 
 There is consolation for the hearts that are so previously 
 stricken by this dispensation of our Divine Father. What 
 a memory and example are left by the departed one to his 
 family and friends, to be cherished and followed ! What a 
 blessed testimony have you in his dying faith, to assure you 
 that he has attained to the true and everlasting exaltation 
 of the heavenly world, and that you may hope for a blessed 
 re-union in due time ! And is it not for the support and 
 comfort of such mourners, that the Lord has promised to 
 be the widow’s Helper, and a Father to the fatherless ? This 
 world has no balm for the healing of such wounds ; but 
 there is an adequate balm in Gilead, and a gracious and 
 all-powerful Physician there. And 
 
 ‘‘There is a home for weary souls, 
 
 By sin and sorrow driven,” 
 
 — a home where no storms arise and no cords of love are 
 broken. Weeping may continue for the night, but joy cometh 
 in the morning. 
 
 We who have been accustomed to assemble in this place, 
 will look full often with sadness and grief at the vacant 
 seat, that has been hitherto so uniformly filled by an atten- 
 tive and serious hearer of the Word. May this great loss 
 and chastisement stir us up to new prayerfulness and devo- 
 tion, and to becoming diligence in the great work we are 
 called to perform for Christ and eternity. 
 
 Thus one seat after another is vacated in obedience to 
 those Providential calls which no one may disobey : and 
 soon all our places will be taken by those who are to come 
 after us. Who of us will leave behind the sweet savor of 
 good deeds and a life of Christian faith and love. Who 
 will die a death becoming a righteous person, and receive 
 a victor’s crown ? 
 
Funeral Arrangements and Procession, 
 
 The mortal remains of Judge Manierre were attended, 
 after the religious ceremonies at the Second Presby- 
 terian Church, on Sunday, the 24th of May, in the 
 order following : 
 
 1. — OFFICIATING- CLERGYMAN, 
 
 REV. DR. PATTERSON AND ATTENDING PHYSICIANS IN CARRIAGES. 
 
 3. — THE MEMBERS OF THB BAR,, 
 
 ON FOOT, AND PRECEDING THE HEARSE. 
 
 3.— ALL OFFICERS OF THE VARIOUS COURTS. 
 
 4.— THE HEARSE, 
 
 ATTENDED BY TWELVE PALLBEARERS, CONSISTING OF 
 
 THOMAS HOYNE, 
 HUGH T. DICKEY, 
 THOMAS DRUMMOND, 
 VAN H. HIGGINS, 
 MARK SKINNER, 
 JOHN WENTWORTH, 
 
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 L. C. P. FREER, 
 JOHN M. WILSON, 
 GRANT GOODRICH, 
 I. N. ARNOLD, 
 
 W. H. BROWN, 
 
 ELI B. WILLIAMS. 
 
 £5. — ALSO ATTENDED BY ESCORT OF HONOR 
 
 ON THE PART OF THE CHICAGO BAR, AS FOLLOWS, 
 
 BUCKNER S. MORRIS, 
 CORYDON BECKWITH, 
 
 H. F. WAITE, 
 
 E. S. WILLIAMS, 
 
 JOSEPH A BRADWELL,- 
 WILLIAM K. MCALLISTER, 
 
 JOSEPH A. KNOX, 
 
 S. W. FULLER, 
 
 CHA’S HITCHCOCK, 
 EDWARD MARTIN, 
 ALONZO HUNTINGTON, 
 H. G. MILLER, 
 
 6. — FAMILY OF DECEASED. 
 
 V.— THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL. 
 
 Hon. S. A. Goodwin, assisted by Elliott Anthony and Ezra B. McCagg, 
 were appointed, on the part of the Bar, to take charge of the execution of 
 the above arrangements. 
 
 The following named members of the profession were appointed by the 
 Chairman of the Bar Meeting to present the Resolutions to the various Courts : 
 
 SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS, - - - - S. W. FULLER, 
 
 SUPERIOR COURT, - W. STEELE, 
 
 CIRCUIT COURT, B. F. AYER, 
 
 U. S. CIRCUIT COURT, C. BECKWITH, 
 
 RECORDER’S COURT, H. F. WAITE, 
 
 COUNTY COURT, S. B. PERRY. 
 
 The Committee on Resolutions, to whom was entrusted the publication of 
 the proceedings, is — 
 
 THOMAS HOYNE, JOSEPH KNOX, 
 
 ROBERT HERVEY, SANFORD B. PERRY, 
 
 GEORGE C. BATES, CHARLES B. HOSMER, 
 
 D. A. WINSTON.