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Title: Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase
Delivered by William M. Evarts before the Alumni of
Dartmouth College, at Hanover

Author: William M. Evarts

Release Date: September 3, 2006 [EBook #19165]

Language: English

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EULOGY

ON

CHIEF-JUSTICE CHASE,

DELIVERED BY

WILLIAM M. EVARTS,

BEFORE THE

ALUMNI OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, AT HANOVER, JUNE 24, 1874.

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
549 AND 551 BROADWAY.
1874.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
D. APPLETON & CO.,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

EULOGY

ON

CHIEF-JUSTICE CHASE.

MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, THE ALUMNI OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: When, not
many weeks since, the committee of your association did me the honor to
invite me to present, in an address to the assembled graduates of the
college, a commemoration of the life, the labors, and the fame of the
very eminent man and greatly honored scholar of your discipline, lawyer,
orator, senator, minister, magistrate, whom living a whole nation
admired and revered, whom dead a whole nation laments, I felt that
neither a just sense of public duty nor the obligations of personal
affection would permit me to decline the task. Yielding, perhaps too
readily, to the persuasions of your committee that somewhat close
professional and public association with the Chief-Justice in the later
years of his life, and the intimate enjoyment of his personal
friendship, might excuse my want of that binding tie of fellowship in a
commemoration, in which the venerated college does dutiful honor to a
son, and the assembled alumni crown with their affection the memory of a
brother, I dismissed also, upon the same persuasion, all anxious
solicitudes, which otherwise