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Title: South Carolina bench and bar
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Ulysses Robert, 1846-1917
Subjects: Judges Lawyers
Publisher: Columbia, S.C., The State company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ountedthe judges seat he began to unfold the dress, and was for sometime turning it about and trying in vain to get into it, to thegreat amusement of the bar and spectators. Before God, heexclaimed, some devil has sewed it up in front. 8 South Carolina Bench and Bar. Judge Burke was a man of great ability, and spoke and wrotewell. He was the author of a pamphlet against the CincinnatiSociety which excited great popular favor against the hereditaryfeatures of the society and produced a reformation in that respect.Just before the Judge died his physician told him that he wouldhave to tap him for the dropsy. Before God, then, said theJudge, my days are numbered, for nothing was ever tapped inthis house that lasted long. Judge Burke lived to a good old age, and was a Chancellor ofthe State at his death. He was in the habit of sitting in Congresswhilst he was a Judge of the State, which caused the passage ofthe law prohibiting a Judge leaving the State without permissionof the Legislature.
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iNo. )- JruuK A. 1. I.i .No. J- .ItOtiK iJAWKlN! No. 3—Judge Munro No 4 -.lii;i: II. I.. \V.\uni..\\vNo. 5—JnxiE WhitnkuNo. 6—Judge glovek MEMOIR OF JUDGE A. P. BUTLER. By Judge A. P. Aldrich, Great lawyers do not, generally, live in history unless theircontemporaries chronicle their performances. They are men ofthought and speech, who electrify an audience, give unweariedstudy and preparation to a case, make great arguments whichlive in the memories of those who hear them, and die with thegeneration. The triumph of success is their only reward. Thegreat labor, the constant thought, the day and night study thathelps them to produce the severe logic, the magnificent burst ofeloquence, the argument that convinces the mind and electrifiesthe jury and the audience, pass away with the occasion, and onlylive in the memories of those who heard them, and can be nomore reproduced. He could not do it himself, because the inspi-ration is gone; and no reporter can do it, because he could on

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