The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 20, 1906, Page 6, Image 6
Col. R. E. Allison.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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