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burned much oil looking for legal technicalities to defeat the right.

"Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice to which we are all subject. We may bite our chains, if we will; but we shall be made to know ourselves and be taught that man is born to be governed by law; and he that will substitute will in the place of it is an enemy to God."

In his great speech on "Law Reform," Lord Brougham said:

"It was the boast of Augustus- it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost-that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say, that he found the law dear and left it cheap; found it a sealed book, left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the twoedged sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence."

Those are words-burning, eloquent words, that should be the "pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night" to guide the footsteps of every lover of law and the rights of man.

I want to thank you all, lawyers and laymen, again for coming here this morning. I appreciate more than I can say your cordial congratulations.

MR. JOHN W. MATSON

Your Pike County friends would like very much to say a few words to you, Judge Dyer.

One of the speakers referred to the fact that when

you began the practice of law your principal library was Blackstone and Kent. But you had a greater library, that we in your homeland know of. It was the library that comes from the inspiration of men like yourself, who study and know the people, with a heart that scintillates around the goal.

I have been requested on this occasion to tell you that from the County of Pike (and we concede nothing to be greater than our own County) comes to you today the sentiment that you yourself have always radiated among its people-the people who know you; the people who love you.

No one who has ever appealed to you has failed to receive the response of that humanity that is inherent in great minds and great beings. Show to me a man who is honored and respected always in his homeland, and I will point out to you one of the greatest men who lives.

Such a man we knew Judge Dyer to be in Pike County, his homeland. We recount his many good deeds, extended to everyone who has ever appealed to him at any time of his career. Whatever may be the need, they turn at once to Judge Dyer, knowing well that he will aid and help them if it be within his power to do so. He has been a consoler to many. Not long ago an old negro died in Pike County, whom the Judge used to know. When the Judge came home the wife of this darkey met him, and with grief and weeping told him of her loss. With his usual disposition to make others happy, he said to her, "Don't grieve; stop crying. That good old husband of yours is in a better land than this." Maria said, "Judge, I knows him better than you do.

I hope that

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LOVING CUP PRESENTED BY FRIENDS FROM PIKE COUNTY, MISSOURI

to be true, but all I can say about him is that I hope he am where I fear he ain't."

We did not feel that we could come here today without leaving with you some memento, some token, of our love; something that would be handed down to future generations, that would recall the noble deeds and acts you have done; something that we hope you will cherish, for out of it, in it and around it is the unbounded love and admiration we have for you.

Without taking more time, I will say, in the language of Thomas Moore, this cup is like the vase that has once been filled with roses-"You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang around it still."

Please accept this cup with the love of the people of Pike County.

Judge Dyer: Mr. Matson, the people of Pike County never loved me half as well as I loved them. It was there my wife was born; it was there I was married, and it was there my children were born. The day will never be too long, nor the night too dark, for me to respond, as best I can, to the demands and wishes of that people.

I thank you; I thank you.

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This is the one hundred and ninth anniversary of the birth of one of the wisest, gentlest, sweetest and most lovable characters that ever blessed the world Abraham Lincoln. In honor of his In honor of his memory, and the noble deeds wrought by him, the Court will now adjourn until ten o'clock tomorrow morning. Adjourn the Court, Mr. McCune.

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