Hill and Stephens, has contributed to Methodism her George F. Pierce; to the Baptists their J. L. M. Curry and Nathaniel M. Crawford; to Presbyterians their Benjamin M. Palmer; to Episcopalians their Bishops Scott and Weed; while the State may well rejoice in a Church College like Mercer which, along with great names in the ministry, has contributed to political life. Hubbard of Texas, to education Noah K. Davis, now of the University of Virginia; and the State may equally rejoice in a Church College like Emory which, along with eminent clergymen and bishops in its own denomination, has contributed to statesmanship L. Q. C. Lamar. CENTENNIAL OF THE UNIVERSITY. These three institutions stand in generous rivalry, not in antagonism, for I believe that each realizes now, whatever it may have thought in the past, that the interest of one is the interest of all. I gladly join my voice and prayers and contributions for the utmost success of the great church movements now going on for the endowment of their colleges. I know that their suc cess would stimulate a deeper sense of the responsibility and duty of the State. And I feel assured that representatives of these church movements feel that a large policy of liberality on the part of the State to her own University would send a quickening impulse all through the ranks of generous men in these great denominations. For this reason I have faith that in the campaign which the friends of the University will inaugurate during its centennial year now just begun, in which an appeal will be made to its Alumni to testify to their personal love for their Alma Mater, and in which the State will be asked to make recognition of what the University in its first hundred years has done for the Commonwealth in furnishing its splendid sons for its bench and bar, its pulpit, its legislature, in Congress and Senate, in the fields of war and in the fields of peace, we shall be supported by the sympathy and cheered by the God-speed of the friends of church education over all the wide area peopled by the great-hearted and broad-minded men of Georgia. APPENDIX O. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MEMORIALS. To the Georgia Bar Association: Your Committee on Memorials beg to say that while the number of losses by death among your members since its last meeting has not been great in number, yet the four deceased members who have met death since your last annual meeting, namely: Honorable Clifford Anderson of Macon, ex-Governor W. Y. Atkinson of Newnan, Colonel Cary J. Thornton of Columbus, and S. N. Woodward, Esq., of Barnesville, represent not only a considerable loss to this Association, but to the immediate communities in which each of them resided, and to the State at large. Exact biographies of these gentlemen will not be written by your committee. Full memorials of each of them have been entered of record in the courts wherein each of them had largely performed his life-work, but this committee will rather content itself with endeavoring to place upon record simply an affectionate tribute to our deceased brethren. Honorable Clifford Anderson was your president during the term of 1886-87, and during his long life had been almost constantly in the full light of public observation. He had served a very large clientage with great credit to himself and with devotion and zeal, and had occupied offices of great dignity and importance, and stood high both in the councils of his State and of his political associates. His high-mindedness, his great learning, his strong convictions of and his devotion to principle, made his career a marked one, and at the close of his long life he passed away leaving behind him an enviable record and a name and reputation without a scar or blemish. Of the Honorable W. Y. Atkinson, it may be said that while an accomplished lawyer and a successful one, his talents were for and his tastes inclined to political fields rather than the courts of law. In the latter he attained a satisfactory degree of success, while in the other as a leader of his party, as legislator and as governor, much greater fame was reached by him than is often had by men who have scarcely come to the prime of life, and before that time he had imprinted upon the civil and political history of his State much that was forceful and wise and of benefit to his people. It seemed that his career had scarcely begun and that the future promised him still more when his untimely death occurred. Both these gentlemen were the architects of their own fortunes, and each wrung success, not by reason of inheritance or surroundings, from reluctant fate, but by persistent endeavor, and although each of them reached high station, yet, their lives were not untroubled, and each suffered and endured before death Of each of them this may be said: came. "He has done the work of a true man, Weep over him tears of woman, Stoop manliest brows above him." Messrs. Cary J. Thornton and S. N. Woodward moved not in so wide a circle, and were perhaps known to a smaller constituency, but they were none the less tried, trusted and worthy lawyers and citizens, and each filled his place with credit to himself, and contributed to the upbuilding of those things which are to be desired and to the making of good citizenship. It is not alone the officers and the leaders who stand in the full light of glory who make the greatness of a people and nation, but these things are made possible by the solid and worthy yeomanry and the earnest workers who stand out less prominent before the public gaze, but fight its battles, win its victories and make its best history. While not eminent, these two gentlemen impressed themselves forcibly upon and were prominent among the people to whom they were best known, and while their lives are closed and their records made up, and while it is not given to any man to be faultless, there is no dissenting voice, but the verdict is written, that in each of them the bar has lost a worthy member. his community a valuable citizen, and the State a good man. In the death of these four brethren, Messrs. Anderson and Thornton were almost landmarks, representing one generation, the members of which are passing rapidly away, and of whom but few now remain, while the other two are of a later generation; but that distinction has no effect, for each generation in Georgia has furnished citizens who have contributed, and each generation continues to furnish, those whose lives are devoted to the upbuilding of the Empire State, who illustrate her in her courts and in her government, and in each department of life, and have made and make her history a worthy and a brilliant one, and we can but regret the loss to the State of such men, even though we know that such a result is inevitable and the common fate of all mankind, but with that regret and with that knowledge, let us find some relief in remembering that though they may be "Under the storm and cloud to-day, And to-day the hard peril and pain- BOLLING WHITFIELD, Chairman. July 4th, 1900. APPENDIX P. THE LAW OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLE. ADDRESS BY WILLIAM WIRT HOWE OF NEW ORLEANS, LA., BEFORE THE GEORGIA BAR ASSOCIATION, JULY 5, 1900, WARM SPRINGS, GA. In undertaking to say something here concerning the law of primitive people, I am reminded of a remark I once heard made by your Chief Justice Bleckley, to the effect that among the important rights of the individual man was "the right not to be bored." In treating my theme, I must not forget this very sacred right, and must begin by a large process of elimination. We need not dwell, then, on the origin of man, or the many theories of ethnology respecting all the different races of the earth. Nor need we consider the customary law of all the different primitive peoples, interesting as such an inquiry might be. We may properly confine our attention briefly to what we call the Aryan race, from whom we are, most of us, descended; illustrating the subject, however, by examples from the social life of the Semitic people, and especially the Hebrews, many of whose juristic ideas were quite similar to those of what we call the Aryan, or Indo-European or Indo-Germanic race. And, in doing so, we may follow the modern historical methods, considering the development of law as a part of the evolution of humanity and hoping that our labor may not be in vain. For, as the bishop of Oxford says in his work on the English Constitution,-"The history of all institutions has a deep and an abiding interest to those who have the courage to work upon it. It presents in every branch a regularly developed series of causes and consequences and abounds in examples of that continuity of life, the realization of which is necessary to give the reader a personal hold on the past and a right judgment of |