Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Life and Character of Hon. Wm; Gaston: An Eulogy, Delivered by Appointment of the Officers and Members of the Fayetteville Bar, on Monday, November 11, 1844
Whatever restraints delicacy may impose among the living, no one is so stern as to condemn the child who lavishes upon the remains of a deceased parentevery mark of kindness, and commemorates with ar dent gratitude his many virtues. And who but a few short months since was the acknowledged Father of the North Carolina Bar? The memory of each of us answers the question. And I say with honest pride, and a gush of correspondent affection, that a mong no class of men are the ties of professional re lationship more warmly felt, or more scrupulously acted upon, than among the Bar of North Carolina. It is a worthy and kind hearted family, in which a lively common sympathy prevails - where the most candid acknowledgments of superior worth are ever accorded - where right is most heartily commended, and compassion is ever alive for error - where the hand of kindness is extended to raise up. The fallen, and the mantle of Charity unostentatiously cast over the faults of frailty. Can such a family suffer the loss of such a head without dropping a tear? Or with.
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