Excerpt from Remarks to the Bar of Philadelphia on the Occasion of the Deaths of Charles Chauncey and John Sergeant

It was an incident of the late meeting of the profession, upon the death of Mr. Sergeant, that Mr. Binney, who had been permitted by Providence to survive his two eminent cotemporaries, Mr. Chauncey and Mr. Sergeant, and who had been called upon to say something in commemoration of both successively, then took his final leave of the Bar of Philadelphia.

No proper report of Mr. Binney's remarks on the death of Mr. Chauncey was ever made, but it was known to some of the friends of Mr. Binney, that he had written out, so far as he could recall it, what he had said on that occasion, and had sent it to the daughters of Mr. Chauncey. Application was made to those ladies for permission to use the manuscript in their possession, for the purpose of putting in a more permanent form the last tribute paid to their father by his friend, and the request was most kindly granted.

The phonographic report of the remarks on the death of Mr. Sergeant was remarkably accurate, but the printed publication of it was disfigured by errors of the press.

Mr. Binney, having been solicited to allow his remarks on these two most interesting occasions to be printed together, has given his consent, and they are now printed in their present form, for the satisfaction of the friends of Mr. Binney, and his two eminent departed associates.

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