viii ADDRESSES ON RETIREMENCIOF HON. SAMUEL TREAT.
during his long judicial career, singleout one to commend. And yet, gentle-
men, you will pardon me, I trust, if in this day and hour I refer to that which
to my mind is in the present exigency the most essential qualification of a
judge, and which my Brother TREAT, during his 30 years of service, has
manifested in the fullest degree. It is that of gloriousloyalty to his convic-
tions; it is that of uplifting his judicial life above every voice of popular
clamor, indifferent whether it says yea or nay, but looking only to the single
question of, "What is my judicial duty?" And in this day when popular
clamor is sweeping over the land, and burying many a weaker man, it is an
exceeding comfort to look upon one who, at the close of 30 years of judicial
life, can truly aiiirm, "There never has been a question which I have faced or
decided with reference to the applause or the condemnation of any man, or
set of men. " [Applause.] But, gentlemen, I will not trespass upon your
time. While Judge TREAT’S otlicial life is ended, and while, ere the silver
cord has begun to loosen, or the golden bowl to shatter, he has returned to
the people of these United States the sacred trust committed to his care, and
which for 30 years he has held with pu1·e and unstained hand, we all hope
that he will remain in this city and state which he has honored during these
many years, and that he will give to us all the benefit of his advice and of his
example, and I know I shall but voice the sentiment of every true man in
this city, and of every true man in the state, when I say to him, in the words
of Horace to Caesar Augustus: V
"S¤rus in coelum redeas, diuque
L etus intersis populo Quirini.”
The following letter, from Judge KREKEL, was then read: i
KANSAS C1TY, March 3d.
John W. N oblc and David P. Dyer, 00mmitt68—GENTLEMENZ Your kind
invitation to be present on the occasion of the Hon. SAMUEL TREAT retiring
and the Hon. Amos M. THAYER assuming the duties of judge of _the United
States court at St. Louis has been received. Unavoidably detained, I will
not forego the pleasure of speaking a kind word to and of my friend. It was
my good fortune on assuming the duties of my otiice to be introduced to them
by my friend Judge TREAT. Our intercourse has uniformly been pleasant,
and I profited largely from his experience. I have freely consulted him
on all occasions, and have implicit confidence in his knowledge of the law,
and, what is more, expounding it in the interest of justice. The people of
the United States are largely indebted to Judge TREAT for aiding in the
settlement of questions in admiralty and commercial law. Coming from the
past to the future, I congratulate our friend, Judge THAYER, as a co-laborer.
` It is a consolation that in the loss of an old, we gain in Judge THAYER a new,
friend, who, no doubt, will in every way show himself worthy of the high
trust reposed in him. May the occasion of the meeting of the judge and the
members of the bar be a pleasant one is the simere wish of your friend.
KREKEL.
Addresses then followed by Hon. Gov. T. C. REYNoLDs, Gen. Joni:
W. NOBLE, CHESTER H. KRUM, Col. D. P. DYER, Mr. HENRY Hmon-
coox, and Mr. D. P. BASHAW, District Attorney. _