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The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. upon the bench, among the members of the court, Judges Moncure, Bouldin, and Anderson, all three of whom have left us to appear before the Judge of all the earth. I may safely say that not alone in the history of this, but of all other countries, no purer or more upright men ever graced the judicial bench. . . . "Judge Anderson's characteristics as a judge have been aptly described in the admirable resolutions that have just been presented. In recalling him

seated upon that bench, I am reminded of the utterance of a great judge who said, ' Show me the right of a cause, and I will show you the law of the case.' If this is to be, as it certainly should be, the great search ofa judge; then I am sure that no one ever more faithfully performed his duty than Judge Francis T. Ander son. Not only was he possessed of an absorbing love of the right, but he was remarkably endowed by nature with the faculty of distinguishing between right and wrong, of draw ing the dividing line with distinctness along that dim border, upon which the right and wrong are so apt to mingle. But what was more, when he once HOWARD made up his mind as to the right, he was as firm as the rock of Gibraltar, With these great traits, and a sterling integrity above the breath of sus picion, he became a judge that all good men delighted to honor, and all bad men feared. . . . "It was not alone, however, as a jurist that his memory should be revered, but in all the relations of a citizen, and especially in his private relations, his example cannot be too highly honored. No one could look upon the manly beauty of that face without recognizing his benevolent nature shining through his countenance as through a window. And if it were permitted, as it was to me, to see the curtain withdrawn which sheltered the family circle from the gaze of the world, then indeed a

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just appreciation would be had of all that is lovely in a Christian husband and father. Such was the privilege of those who read the touching memorial which he penned of the companion of his life, which did no less honor to him than to his sainted wife."

The memorial adopted by the meeting of the bar of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, after giving a brief review of Judge Ander son's life, declares : — "Judge Anderson was the highest type of our profession. He was a Christian jurist, singularly fair and upright as a man. He had studied the hu man heart, and that law ' whose seat is the bosom of God, and whose voice is the harmony of the world.' His high charac ter gave him an instinctive sense of right and jus tice, and he thus wrought out from his own mind what the law of any par ticular case ought to be, and then his earnest de sire to do right generally enabled him to reach a proper conclusion; and whenever he came to a conclusion that he be lieved to be right, no C. BURKS. precedent, persuasion, or power could swerve him one iota from it. He would cheerfully have gone to the stake for a principle, or before he would have done aught that he believed to be wrong. "One of the most striking characteristics ofJudge Anderson was his love for his native State, Virginia. He loved her history, traditions, institutions, and customs. He was an ' Old Line ' Whig before the war, and, like most of that political party, was strongly attached to the Federal Union, as it then existed. But when Virginia took her position in the Southern Confederacy, he never hesitated to follow her fortunes, and in peace, as in war, she never had a more devoted or loyal son. He' believed the South was right in the principles for