পাতা:Reminiscences Speeches And Writings Of Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee Reminiscences pt. 1.pdf/১৪৪

উইকিসংকলন থেকে
এই পাতাটির মুদ্রণ সংশোধন করা প্রয়োজন।

Evenirs OF HIS LIFE. 127 constitute one of his chief qualifications for the high office to which he has been raised. In private life blameless, Dr. Banerjee is a rigid Hindoo of the most orthodox type, while his filial devotion to his only surviving parent, his aged mother, is very touching, as illustrating the simple and almost childlike character of the man. It is said that every day of his life his first act in the morning is to visit his mother with offerings of flowers and more costly gifts, and that both in going to and returning from the Court, he makes it a rule first to pay her his personal respects and to solicit her blessings. This beautiful trait, that is not uncommon in Hindoo character, we mention here simply to show that IDr. Banerjee's title to public respect and to the confidence of the Government is based not on his intellectual attainments alone, but on his high qualitics both as a lawyer and a man. We should like to make one other remark in connection with Dr. Banerjec's appointment. The present Viceroy has becn persistently charged with being actuated by an undue bias in favor of the Mahomedans as against the Hindoos. Unfounded accusations such as these carry their own refutation with them. But it may be well to point out that in the person of Dr. Banerjee Iard Dufferin has actually appointed a third Hindoo Judge to the bench of the Calcutta High Court, while no Mahomedan has ever yet been similarly honored. And yet it was quite within his discretion, as well as the clear right of his Excellency, to have nominated a Mahomedan gentleman of even less conspicuous qualifications than Dr. Banerjee; while had such a