Address of Hon. ISAAC P. CHRISTIANCY:

May it please the Court:

I feel my incompetence, in the few words I have strength to utter or you the time to hear, adequately to express the deep sadness I have felt and feel, and which I have no doubt you also have felt and feel, for the death of our friend, Judge Campbell, and a still greater incompetency to give any adequate idea of the many excellent traits of mind and character which endeared him to us all, and I may safely say to all who personally knew him. All who thus knew him, but especially the Bar of the State, must feel his death as a great public loss. But you who so long sat with him, as one of your number, must feel it, not only as a public loss but as a great personal loss and affliction.

I do not go beyond your own feelings and sentiments in saying this, because I know from years of personal experience, that no man could occupy a place with him upon the same Bench, even for a single term, without high admiration for him as a Judge, and a strong personal attachment to him as an amiable, highly intellectual and pure minded man; whose principles of action towards his fellow men were such that, if the like principles of action had equal control over all other men, there would be little need of human laws, or of courts to administer them. These were the principles of conduct taught by Christ, the purest and best ever given to men, and which have done more to humanize, civilize and refine mankind than any other teachings or all of them combined. And few men, if any, of my acquaintance more nearly reached the high standard fixed by these teachings than Judge Campbell.

At the first organization of this Court in January, 1858, I went onto the Bench, as one of its members, with Judge Campbell, and remained there for seventeen years and two months, when I entered upon another sphere of action. He was, at the time of his death, the only one of the original Judges who remained continuously upon the Bench to that time. I am the last member (and in view of my infirmities of age) I may justly say, the remnant of that Court. But while I live I shall congratulate myself and be thankful that during my continuance there I had the good fortune to be associated with such able and pure minded men as Judge Manning, Judge Campbell, Judge Cooley and Judge Graves. And when I left that Court, at the end of February, 1875, I felt that I could never again become so strongly attached to any other three men. And time has shown me that I was not mistaken. The lat

ter two are still living, and it might be out of place for me to speak of them here as they well deserve. (Though the former of them is known and admired wherever English laws, or systems derived from it, are known; and the latter is well known to, and highly appreciated by the Bar and Bench of the Union, as an able and upright judge. But I must speak here only of the dead.) Perhaps I ought to express here some of what I deem the leading characteristics of Judge Campbell's mind. I will say first, generally, that he was a good classical scholar, and fully appreciated the Greek and Latin classics as well as the English classics, both poetry and prose, and was a general reader of the best literature of modern times; that he was especially familiar with the history and the laws of England, as well as those of the United States, and he had mastered the leading principles of most modern sciences.

But, coming now to the consideration of the peculiar characteristics of his mind, we at once encounter one apparent, but only an apparent difficulty.

Was he a genius? Certainly not, in the general, though quite narrow sense in which that term is often used, which implies that some special faculties or qualities of the mind have been abnormally developed and have produced special exhibitions of great brilliancy and momentary wonder and admiration. Judge Campbell's mind showed none of these temporary corruscations of brilliancy; but it was distingushed by the happy combination, simultaneous development and the harmonious, combined action of all his mental faculties, under the control of cool reason, which brought about great results. This is the genius of common sense, the highest form of human genius, and almost the only form which produces permanently useful results. The sudden rush of a picket line upon the enemy, or the desperate charge of a squad of cavalry, may, for the moment, be brilliant in the extreme, and excite the admiration of all beholders. But it is the serried ranks of infantry, the massing of batteries and the co-operation of all the arms of the service, that gain great battles, and decide the fate of nations. Judge Campbell had few of those sudden flashes or fragmentary outbursts, which distinguish erratic genius. His only single faculty which approached the abnormal was his wonderfully capacious and accurate memory, which enabled him to recall everything he had ever read or learned, to which perhaps I ought to add, a more than usual power of properly arranging the various items of knowledge which he acquired, so as to readily recall them when needed. His reasoning powers were strong, his judgment good, his love of

justice indomitable. He had great facility in writing, knowing when he commenced what he intended to say, and saying it in the plainest and simplest language, seldom having to go back to correct a word; and the first draft of his opinions generally went into the Reports without erasure or interlineation.

And yet no matter how much labor he had upon his hands, he never seemed to feel the pressure or to be in haste, and would stop and converse with the other Judges, or other persons having anything to say worth hearing, as pleasantly as if wholly at leisure. (This was also characteristic of Judge Cooley who wrote more than he did.) Judge Campbell was a living and speaking encyclopedia of the law; and as such a great assistance to his associates. But our friend, whom we all loved, has passed "that bourne whence no traveller returns" and however severely we may feel his loss, our reason teaches us that death is just as natural as birth and as certainly the result of infinite wisdom-if we could only see it.

We may, at least (I think), safely conclude that the God of the Universe, who knows all, while we know so little, and who governs all by His laws, will do right whatever man may do. And the hope is still left us that we may yet rejoin our friend in a better state of existence.

And yet when the sun of our lives begins to approach the western horizon, and one after another of the ties which bind us to life are sundered-when "Memory brings the light of other days around us," there looms up through the mists of the past, the once familiar face, and we seem to hear again the loved voice,

"When I remember all

The friends, so linked together,

I've seen around me fall,

Like leaves in wintry weather;

I feel like one

Who treads alone

Some banquet-hall deserted,

Whose lights are fled,

Whose garlands dead,

And all but he departed."

Such moments are often moments of deep sorrow and anguish. But, though we can see but a small part of the design of Infinite Wisdom, I persuade myself that I can see in this arrangement, in these operations and emotions of the mind, strong evidence of a benevolent design, to chasten and refine the mind and gradually

to wean us from an undue attachment to life, till we cease to look upon death as an enemy and begin to recognize it as a friend, a relief rather than a curse, which makes us willing, without horror, but with a sober cheerfulness and resignation to submit to the will of the Infinite.

Mr. S. L. KILBOURNE said, May it please the Court:

The bar of Ingham county and of the city of Lansing, to whose members Judge Campbell was for a long series of years a familiar figure, should not be silent during these ceremonies, and bid me speak for them.

My acquaintance with your late distinguished associate began, like that of my brother Marston, at the opening of the Law School of the University, and continued unbroken down to the day of his death. The favorable impression he then made on the boys and myself, long since deepened by the flight of years into profound esteem for the splendid abilities and spotless character of him who was one of Michigan's most illustrious citizens. We find it difficult to console ourselves for the loss of such a man at so early an age when compared with the years of many others of the world's great men. The last time I saw him was at a recent social gathering in this city, which your honors will recall, when it seemed as though his physical and mental faculties were in their happiest mood and fullest sway. His response before that company bubbled over with joy, and charmed all by its mirth, wit and wisdom. Little did we then dream that the cruel scythe was so near that should cut him off from us forever. His unexpected death is a blow from which we can scarcely recover, and to which we cannot reconcile ourselves; and yet it is possible that to him it was the happiest termination of his long, eventful and grand public life. During all his outgoing and incoming among us we shall not find one unkind just criticism of this man. He was one of the chiefest of that galaxy of great men who have made this Commonwealth conspicuous among the States of the nation as the seat of broad learning; one of the men whose labors have made the judicial history of Michigan the pride of our people.

I shall not undertake here to speak of the wealth of his powers; they are known to all men. He needs neither eulogy nor monument at our hands, and our words of praise can only wreathe the

en luring shaft he has reared for himself. His life work is ended; the book of his years is closed, and, though rich is the binding, this memorial gathering lovingly puts about it to-day, richer far are the contents of its luminous pages, from which not only this but coming generations will draw lessons of statesmanship, wisdom and purity.

As he sat in this Court the impressions of him which we will not forget are of the kindly judge who recognized the bar as an assistant to the Court, and whose encouraging look and patient attention invited the best effort of the pleader, that the truth and nothing but the truth might be brought to light in determining the contests between men. He was an inspiration for good to every man who appeared before him, as a judge; and his example in private life was no less an encouragement to all who met him to walk only in the way of well-doing.

But that life has closed, and as we who at this bar have seen him as he looked down on us from his now vacant chair beside you, so you who sit on the Bench he made illustrious, and those who shall follow you, will be in the gaze of that benign countenance as he looks on you from the canvas, inviting to painstaking labor that right may always prevail. There let him ever remain, as the artist has placed him, fit representative of the intelligence and the grandeur of Michigan's sturdy manhood, a type of the brightest and best of those of her sons whose lives have made glorious the history of this, his loved and beautiful Commonwealth.

Remarks of Mr. Justice MORSE:

The life and character of Judge Campbell has been well and eloquently described here to-day, by those who knew him best from youth to manhood and to ripened age.

And while the language of eulogy, in speaking of a dead friend, is often extravagant, it may well be said that in his case there can be no extravagance in portraying his virtues, for who can "paint the lily" or "throw a perfume on the violet."

The universal respect and love here manifested by the bar of this State is shared by all, in every walk of life, who knew him.

As a jurist his work is here in the records and opinions of this Court, where he has been a master spirit for more than thirty years. It will live as long as the State shall stand. His fame is not ours alone; it has passed beyond the boundaries of our State, and become the property of the Nation.