than respectful courtesy to those who seek your counsel, and kindly sympathy beyond the formal line of duty to them as your clients. To be consulted as oracles and looked up to from afar, is very pleasant, undoubtedly, to men of a certain character; but, in the end, they generally find themselves with a small congregation of worshippers, while around the more genial of their brethren there gather every year, fresh troops of friends. And, after all, what is human life, at its proudest, without human sympathies?

On your personal intercourse with your brethren must to a great extent depend the degree of satisfaction which will attend your labors, whatever be their course or your success. The antagonisms and the inevitable partisanship of the profession render it necessary for you to be ever on your guard, lest you trench upon the rights and feelings of your fellows. There can be no severer test, of both temper and manners, than the trial-table, and few are so happily endowed as to be superior always to its provocations and temptations. That the best of us profit, as we should, by its lessons of forbearance and self-restraint, it would be rash indeed to say; but when you shall have felt, as few escape, the mortification which is inseparable from the consciousness of having neglected them, you will understand how impossible it is for you to heed them too much. To the Courts before which you appear your first duty is deference and respect. There can be no two things more different than discourtesy and proper independence, in your dealings with them. A right-minded and right-hearted judge is always at a disadvantage in a collision with counsel. The very superiority of his position makes it doubly his duty and inclination to

forbear, and he hesitates to strike, lest the judge should be moved by the resentment of the man. I need not say how ungenerous it is to forget this and so forget yourselves. If you would have, with the Bench and with the Bar, the legitimate influence which is one of the most attractive of professional rewards, you must give as well as take. You must yield respect if you would receive respect. You must be courteous, considerate and liberal, if you would have courtesy, liberality and consideration. Above all, you must deserve confidence if you would enjoy it; and, believe me, no weight of intellect, no copiousness of learning, will commend you or your cause one-half so strongly as a life of stainless rectitude, of kindly offices, of manly frankness and of lofty purpose.

ADDRESS

AT THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF

CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY,

Delivered in the Senate Chamber, at Annapolis,

DECEMBER 10TH, 1872.

ROGER BROOKE TANEY.

REPORT AND ADDRESS OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE.

YOUR EXCELLENCY:

Y an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland passed at the Session of 1867, the sum of five thousand dollars was appropriated for "the building or erecting a suitable monument over the remains of the late Chief Justice ROGER B. TANEY, on some suitable site in the State House yard, or in the State House itself," and Messrs. G. Frederick Maddox, of St. Mary's county, Chas. E. Trail and Hugh McAleer, of Frederick county, James T. Earle, of Queen Anne's county, Henry Williams, of Calvert county, and George M. Gill and S. T. Wallis, of Baltimore city, were appointed a committee to carry into effect the provisions of the statute. Upon the organization of the committee, it was found to be their unanimous desire that the execution of the proposed work should be entrusted to the distinguished sculptor, Mr. William H. Rinehart, a native and citizen of Maryland, for many years a resident of Rome. The amount appropriated being wholly insufficient, not only