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Col. R. E. Allison. i Beautiful Tributes to Memory of the Lamented Nestor of the Lancaster Bar, Delivered in Open Court by his Late Associates. The resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Col. It. E. Allison submitted in open court last Monday afternoon by Mr. Ernest Moore in behalf of the bar of Lancaster were published in full in Wednesday's issue of The News. In presenting the resolutions Mr. Moore said: mk. moore's remarks : Tn nresentintT these resolutions ? J 0 -to the court, it is fit and pro per that some further expression should be given to the feeling of the Lancaster Har upon the death of its oldest member. While we realize that nothing we can now say can serve to ap pease the dead nor render his sleep more peaceful or profound, that 110 praise nor flattery can reach his ear now dull and cold in death ; yet we may still appropriately give voice to some par; of our feeling,in the hope that it may serve as inspiration to nobler and better lives on the part of those whom he has leit behind. For more than the allotted three score years and ten, our now departed friend was among the busy scenes ot lite, and for more than half a century he was daily and successfully engaged in the practice of the high profession which he had chosen as his life work. In the pursuit of that calling, it will be ungrudgingly conceded, he displayed exceptional ability and zeal in the service of his clients. If there was one trait of character for which he was especially noted, it was that of untiring zeal and laborious etlort in the interest of those by whom his services were sought.The cause of his client was espouseu wiiii an e irnestness and fidelity which made that interest paramount to every other con sideration, save only that higher law whose seat is in the bosom ol God and whose voice is" the harmony of the world. With might and main he fought the battle ot his employer, often with scant prospect of other reward than the inner consciousness of a duty faithfully performed. Those who met him daily in the conflicts of the forum can best testify to the force and power, the skill, the labor and the learning which he brought to bear in the discharge of t lie duties of the advocate, and there are none who can boast of a victory attained against him by reason of any lack on his part of devoted work and service in the interest of his client. Not merely as an advocate in the administration of the law but also as a law-maker in the state halls of legislation did he nArlnrm flio full moocn-a nt |/V1 . Vt HIV U? ? I1ICH11II V \J | IIJD duties as a man and a citizen. Indeed, it may be said with peculiar truth that no call to duty, either in private or in public life, was ever made upon him, to which he did not faithfully and efficiently respond. Nor did he ever neglect his duty to that higher nature which shall Jive forever, and his service to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe was no mere outward form but a true and genuiue worship. He realized the great truth that the ways of Providence to man are inscrutable; that, while phih sophers may argue as they please and rationalists may reach far other conclusions, yet there still remains the truth that the mysterious power, which neither of these can explain, has from the beginning of time ruled the destinies of mankind. As the head of a family he was a notable exemplar of the kind and devoted husband and father, and by precept, admonition and example, he pointed the true way of life and with tender affection he smoothed its path lor those dependent upon him. , "To wake a happy fireside chime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life." Notwithstanding his high character and his great services, it is not to be doubted that our tieceased friend, like all others who fearlessly discharge the duties of life, had his enemies and detractors. "No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. NVhat king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?" But the shafts of malice and of enmity fell harmless against the truth and purity of his life ; and "his days went down like an evening sun in a cloudless au tumn^skv." He sought the esteem and confidence of his fellowmen; and what he valued most his waning years brought him in ever increasing abundance. He was a man of unsullied purity in private life and of indexible integrity in the discharge of public duty; and these are better titles to remembrance than can oe oestowecl uy hign place or great power. The loss of such a man creates a sensible nap in the community in which he lived, and one which is especially notable to the view of his brethren of the bar of Lancaster. Let us heed the voice which comes to us all in the death of the oldest of our nu ruber. "To our ^rave* we walk In the thick loot prints ol departed men." Let us remember that the time ; is last approaching when we,too, must pass away from these earth' ly scenes; and let us reflect how jvain are personal strifes and partisan contests, in which we daily engage, in view of the I great assize before which we | must all soon app-ar. Let us seek fresh bonds of brotherhood ; in the cherished memories of j those who have gone before us and let us profit by the exam pie of him whose loss we now | deplore. H KM VRKS 15 V vtli wvr ri' Mr. 11. E. W vlie, who second ed the resolutions, addressed the court as follows: May please your Honor: Having known the deceased all my life, and having been intimately associated with him for a quarter of a century, I desire to second the resolutions offered ? and I do so not as a mere matter of form, but in obedience to the promptings of my heart. Some years ago, in this same court house, in speaking to reso lutions similar to those offered, Mr. Allison gave utterance to a noble sentiment in these words: "This is a sad duty, but it is one that ourChristian civilization requires us to perform. To show becoming respect for the memory of one, who has lived an jn honored life and passed away, is not only fa high duty of good citizenship, but is the highest evidence of an advanced culture. In the midst of the many exactions upon our time and at ten " tion, we are too ready to forget " our obligations and prone to neglect this sacred duty." And k inclosing his remarks on that' me occasion he said: 44But if we are'^j true to ourselves we will endeavor not only to profit by the exam n'e sot us bv our deceased broth r ? ? er, but we will be reminded by his death of our own mortality, and induced to make prepara- __ tion tor the great day of final | account which surely awaits us. j Let us remember that while iui I the midst of life we are in death, and that we must follow our brother to the tomb," Robert Erasmus Allison was born in York county ('hen York' district) about three miles from Iliekory (jrove, on his father's | plantation, on the 20 January, j 1830, and died at his residence in this to a-11, on Saturday Sept. 1st l'JOG, at G:10 p. m. in the seventy seventh year ot his ape. His funeral services, were held next day in the Methodist church, at a time when he was accustomed to be in his place, at the Sunday school service, and in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing friends and neighbors. It was a calm, beautiful Sunday afternoon, emblem of that eternal day ot rest, when all that was mortal of him was laid away as j the (iod of day was about to sink beneath the western horizon. The grand parents of tha deceased were Robert Allison and Sarah Turner, both of English descent,who after their raatriage removed from Pennsylvania to I South Carolina. Dr. Robert Tur j ner Allison, the lather ot R. E, Allison, was a child of this mar-1 riage. Dr. Allison was a graduate of the South Carolina College in the class of 1821. Four years i later he graduated in medicine at Lexington, Ky. He practiced ! his profession lor a number of ! years?then devoted the remain j der of his life to the superintendency of his plantation and to merchandising, Like his son, our 'lamented friend, he was of a retiring disposition, but always took an interest in public affairs He was elected to the Legislature p% I in 1833, and in 1860 he was ^ one of the members of the Se- R cession Convention from York U county. He was a good citizen | ' and during the course of hisl long lite, fighty-four years, he to 1 raw I enjoyed the full confidence of his fellow men, both as a citizen ; and as a representative of the people. He united with thel'res- v ! byterian church in early life, con : and lor more than lorty years, I before bis death, was a ruling elder. His wife was Martha Clin ton Allison. She w?h a saintly ton woman and of great assistance toher husband in raising a tarn- l,e ily of seven children, all of whom ? " i were devoted Christians. Mr. K. E. 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