Skip Skip EULOGY ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF HENRY WINTER DAVIS, BY HON. JOHN A. J. CRESWELL, February 22, 1866. The death of Hon. Hen Winter Davis, for mlny years a distinguishedy Representative of one of the Baltimore congressional districts, created a deep sensation among those who had been associated with him in national legislation, and they deemed it fitting to pay to his memory unusual honors. They adopted resolutions expressive of their grief, and invited Hon. John A. J. Creswell, a Senator of the U.S. from the State of Maryland, to deliver an oration on his life and character, in the Hall of the HoRep, on the 22d of February, a day the recurrence of which ever gives increased warmth to patriotic emotions. The Hall of the House was filled by a distin uished audience to listen to the oration. Be ore 11 o’clock the galleries were crowded in every part. The flags above The SPEAKER’s desk were draped in black, and other insignia of mournin were exhibited. An excellent portrait of the late Hon. Henry Winter Davis was visible through the folds of the national banner above The SPEAKER’s chair. As on the occasion of the oration on President Lincoln by Hon. George Bancroft, the Marine band occupied the ante room of the reporters' gal lery and discoursed appropriate music. At 12 o’clock the Senators entered, and the Judges of the Supreme Court, receded by Chief Justice Chase. The Presient of the U.S. had been invited but was not present. The only members of the Cabinet present were Secretary Stanton and Secretary McCulloch. After prayer by the Chaplain, the DeclarIndep was read by Hon. Edward McPherson, Clerk of the House. After the reading of the Declaration, followed by the playing of a dirge by the band, Hon. SCHUYLER Coarsx, Speaker of the HoRep, rose and said: Ladies a Gentlemen: The duty has been devolved upon me of introducin to you the friend and ellow member, here,0 Henry Winter Davis, and I shall detain you but a moment from his address, to which you will listen with saddened interest. Thg world always appreciates and honors courage. The courage of Christianity, which sustained martyrs in the amphitheater, at the stake, and on the rack. The courage of patriotism, which inspired millions in our own land to realize the historic fable of Curtius, and to fill up with their own bodies, if need be, the awning chasm which imperiled the Republic. he courage of humanit, which is witnessed in the pest house and the hospital, at the death bed of the homeless and the prison cell of the convict. But there is a courage of statesmen, besides, and nobly was it illustrated by the statesman whose national services we commemorate today. Infiexibly hostile to oppression, whether of slaves on American soil or of republicans struggling in Mexico against monarchical invasion, aithful always to principle and libert, championing always the cause of the downtr den, fearless as he was eloquent in his avowals, he was mourned throughout a continent, and from the Patapsco to the Gulf the blessings of those who had been read to perish followed him to his tomb. It is fitting, therefore, though dying a private citizen, that the nation should render him such marked and unusual honors in this Hall, the scene of so many of his intellectual triumphs; and I have great pleasure in introducing to youas the orator of the day Hon. J. A. J. Creswell, his colleague in the 38th Congress, and now Senfrom the State of Maryland. Hon. J. A. J. Canswsu. then delivered the following GRATION My Conn men: On the 22d day of Febru ary, 1732, Go gave to the world the hi best type of humanity in the person of George Vashinton. Combining within himselfthe better quad ities of the soldier, sage, statesman, and patriot, alike brave, wise, discreet, and incorruptible, the common consent of mankind has awarded him the incomparable title of Father of his Country. Among all nations and in every clime the richest treasures of language have been exhausted in the effort to transmit to posterity a faithful record of his deeds. For him unfading laurels are secure, so long as letters shall survive and history shall continue to be the guide I and teacher of civilized men. The whole human race has become the self appointed guardian of his fame, and the name 0t Washington will be ever held, over all the earth, to he s nonymous with the highest perfection attainable in public or private life, and coeternal with that immortal love to which reason and revelation have together toiled to elevate human aspirations {be love of liberty, restrained and guarded by aw. But in the presence of the Omnipotent how insignificant is the proudest and the noblest of men! Even Washington, who alone of his kind could fill that comprehensive epitome of general Henry Lee, so often on our lips, “ 1st in war, 1st in peace, and 1st in the hearts of his countrymen, ” was allowed no exemption from the common lot of mortals. In the 68 h year of his age he, too, paid the debt of nature. The dread announcement of his demise sped over the land like u pestilence, hardening the very air with mourning, and carrying inexpress ible sorrow to every household and ever heart. The course of legislation was stoppe in mid career to give expression to the grief of congress, an by resolution, approved January 6, 1800, the 22d of February ot that year was devoted to national humiliation and lamentation. This is, then. as well a day of sorrow as a day of rejoicing. More recent calamities also remind us that death is universal king. Just ten da 3 ago our great historian pronounced in this partial judgment upon the earthly career of him who, as savior of his country, will be counted as the compeer of Washington. Scarce have the orator’s lingering tones been mellowed into silence; scarce has the glowing page, whereon his words were traced, lost the impress of his passing hand, yet we are again called into the reselce of the Inexorable to crown one more illustrious victim with sacrificial flowers. Having takenii his lifeless body, as beautiful as the dead Absa cm, and laid it in the tomb with be coming solemnity, we have assembled in the sight of the world to do deserved honor to the name and memory of Henry Winter Davis, a native of Annapolis, in the State of Maryland, but always proudly claiming to be no less than a citizen of the U.S.A. We have not convened in obedience to any formal custom, requiring us to assume an empty show of bereavement, in order that we may apear respectful to the departed. We who knew enry kiter Davis are not content to clothe ourselves in the outward garb of grief, and call the semblance of mourning a fitting tribute to the gifted orator and statesman, so suddenly snatched from our midst in the full glory of his mental and bodily strength. We would do more than “bear about the mockery of woe.” Prompted by a genuine affection, we desire to ignore all idle and merely conventional cere monies, and permit our stricken hearts to speak their spontaneous sorrow. Here, then, where he sat for 8 years as a Representative of the people; where friends have trooped about him, and admiring crowds have paid homage to his genius; where grave legislators have yielded themselves willing captives to his eloquence, and his wise counsel has molded, in no small degree, the law of a great nation, let us, in dealing with what he has left us, verify the saying of Bacon, “Death open eth the good fame and extinguishcth envy." Remembering that he was a man of like passions and equally fallible with ourselves, let us review his life in a spirit of generous candor, applaud what is good and try to profit by it; and if we find ought of ill, let us, so far as jus tice and truth will permit, cover it with the vail of charity and bury it out of sight forever. So may our survivors do for us. The subject of this address was born on the 16th of August, 1817. His father, Rev. Henry Lyon Davis, of the Protestant Episcopal chure, was resident of StJohn’s College at Annapolis, arylaud, all an im a and rector of StAnn’s parish. He was of imposing person and great dignity and force of character. e was, moreover, a man of genius, and of varied and profound learning eminently versed in mathematics and natural sciences, abouuding in classical lore, endowed with a vast memory, and gifted with a concise, clear, and graceful style; rich and fluent in conversation, but without the least pretension to Oratory and wholly incapable of extempore speaking. He was removed from the Presiency 0 StJohn’s by a board of Democratic trustees because of his Federal politics; and, years afterward, he gave his son his only les son in polities at the end of a letter, addressed to him when at Kenyon College, in this laconic sentence: “ My son, beware of the follies of Jacksonism." His mother wasJane Brown Winter, a woman of elegantaccomplishments and of great sweetness of disosition and purity of life. It might be truthful y said of her, that she was an exem plar for all who knew her. She had only 2 children, Henry Winter, and Jane who married Rev. Edward Syle. The education of Henry Winter began very early, at home under the care of his aunt, Eliz abeth Brown Winter, who entertained the most rigid and exacting opinions in regard to the training of children, but who was withal a noble woman. He once playfully said, “I could read before I was 4 years old, though much against m will.” When his father was removed from Stohn’s, he went to Wilmington, Dela ware, but some time elapsed before he became settled there. Meanwhile, Henry Winter remained with his aunt in Alexandria, Virginia. Ho afterward went to Wilmington, an was there instructed under his father’s supervision. In 1827 his father returned to Maryland and settled in Anne Arundel county. After reaching Anne Arundel, Henry Winter became so much devoted to out door life that he have small promise of scholarl proficiency. eaffected thes ortsman, and ecame a devoted disciple of imrod; accompanied always by one of his father’s slaves he roamed the country with ahuge old fowling piece on his shoulder, burning powder in abundance, but doing little damage otherwise. While here he saw much of slaves and slavery, and what he saw impressed him profoundly, and laid the foundation for those opinions which he so hero ically and constantly defended in all his after life. Referring to this period, he said long afterward, “M familiar associatiofiwith the slaves while a 0y gave me great insight into their feelings and views. They Spoke With freedom before a boy what they would have repressed before a man. They were far from indifferent to theircondition they feltwronged and sighed for freedom. They were attached to my father and loved me, yet they habitually Eokenof the day when God would deliver em He subsequent] went to Alexandria, and was sent to schoo at Howard, near the Theo logical Seminary, and from Howard he went to Kenyon College, in Ohio, in the fall of 1833. Kenyon was then in the 1st 'ear of the presidency of Bishop McIlvaine. of vast forests, broken only by occasional clearings, exceptin along the lines of the National road, and the Ohio river and its navigabletrib utaries. In this wilderness of nature, but garden of letters, he remained, at 1st in the mmar school, and then in the college, until he 6th of September, 1837: when at 20 years of age he took his degree and diploma, decorated with one of the honorary orations of his class, on the great day of commencement. His subject was “Scholastic Philose by.” At the end of the reshman year, a change in the college terms gave him a vacation of t ree menths. Instead of spending it in idleness, as he might have done, and as most boys would have one, he availed himself of this interval to pursue and complete the studies of the Sopho t was the center. more year, to which he had already given some attention in his spare moments. At the opening of the next session he passed the exami nation for the Junior class. ortunately I have his own testimony and opinion as to this exploit, and I give them in his own language: “Itwas apretty sharptrial ofresolutionanddo ed diligence, bntitsavedmoayear of college, andin u rated my owersof stud and mental culture into a habit. annerha s enab rd me to stay long enough to graduate. I 0 not recommend the example to those who are independentlysituated. for learning must fall like the rain in such gentle showersas to sinkin ifitis tobefruitful: whenpouredon the richest soil in torrents it not only ruus otf withoutstrengthening vegetation, but washesaway the soil itse." His college life was laborious and successful. The regular studies were roseented with dili gence, and from them he erived great profit, not merely in knowledge, but in what is ofvastly more account, the habit and power of mental labor. These studies were wroughtinto his mind and made part of the intel ectual substance by the vigorous collisions of the societies in which he delighted. For these mimic conflicts he prepared assiduously, not in writing, but always with a carefully deduced logical analysis and arrangement of the thoughts to be developed in the order of argument, With a brief note of any quotation, orimage, or illustration, on the margin at the appropriate place. From that brief he spoke. An this was his only method of preparation for all the great conflicts in which he took part in after life. He never wrote out his s eeches beforehand. Speaking of is feelings at the end of his college life, be sadly said: “ My father’sdeath had embittered the lastdaysof the year 1836 and ft me without a counselor. I knew something of books, nothingof me, andIwent forth liko Adam among the wild boss of the unknown wildernessof the world. My father had dedicatedmeto the ministry. but the day had gonewhen such dedicationsdetermined the lives of young men. Theologyiis a graveto in of historic and metaphysical investigation I delighted to pursue but for the miinistry I had no callin. I won d have beenidle if could, for I had no am ition, but I had no fortune and I could not be: or starve. All, who were acquainted with his tempera ment, can well imagine, whata loomy prospect the future presented to him, when its contem plation wrun from his stoical taciturnity that touching conessiou. The truth is, that from the time he entered college he was continually cramped for want of mone. The negroes ate everything that was proneed on the farm in Anne Arundel, a gastronomic feat, which they could easily accomplish, without ever having cause to complain of a surfeit. His aunt, herself in limited circumstances, by a careful husbandry of her means, managed to kec him at college. Ken yon was then a manna labor institution, and the boys were required to swee their own rooms, make their own beds an fires, bring their own water, black their own boots, if they ever were blacked and take an occasional turn atgrubbingin the fields or working on the roads. There was no royal road to learning known at Kenyon in those days. Through all this Henry Winter Davis passed, bearing his part man fully; and knowing how heavily he taxed the slender urso of his aunt, he denied himself with such rigor that he succeeded, incredible as it may appear, in bringing his total expenses, including boarding and tuition, within the sum of 80 dollars perannum. His father left an estate consisting only of some slaves, which were equally apportioned between himself and sister. Frequent aplications were made to purchase his slaves, but he never could be induced to sell them, although the proceeds would have enabled him to pursue his studies with ease and comfort. Ho rather sought and obtained a tutorship, and for 2 years he devoted to law and letters only the time he could rescue from its drudgery. In a letter, written in April, 1839, replying to the request of a relative who offered to purchase his slave Sallie, subject to the provisions of his father’s will, which manumitted her if she would go to Liberia, he said: “But if she is under my control, " (he did not know that she had been set to his share,) “I will not consult to the sale, though he wishes to purchase her subject to the will.” And so Sallie was not sol, and Henry Winter Davis, the tutor, toiled on and waited. He never would hold any of his slaves under his authority never would accept a cent of their wages, and tendered each and all of them a deed of absolute maiiiimission whenever the law would allow. Tell me, was that man sincere in his op position to slavery? How many of those who have since charged him with being selfish and reckless in his advocacy of emancipation would have shown equal devotion to principle? Not one; not onc. h‘l the man who works and suffers for his opinions’ sake places his own flesh and blood in pledge for his integrity. Notwithstanding his irksome and exacting duties he kept his eesteadily on the University of Virginia, an read, without assistance, a large part of its course. He delighted especially in the pungent pages of Tacitus and the glowing and brilliant ignified and elevated epic of the Decline and Fall of the Roman empire" These were favorites which never lost their charm for him. When recently on a visit at my house, he stated in conversation that he often exercised himself in translating from the fonner, and in transferring the thoughts of the latter into his own language, and lie contended that the task had dispelled the popular error that Gibbon's style is swollen and declainatory; for he alleged that every effort at condensation had proved a failure, and that at the end of his labors the page he had attempted to compress had always expanded to the eye, when relieved of the wh80 and stringent fetters in which the gigantic genius of Gibbon had bound it. About this time, the only period when doubts beset him, he was tempted by a very advanta geous offer to settle in iIississippi. He deter mined to accept, but some kind a spirit interposed to prevent the dispatch of the final letter, and he remainedin Alexandria. At last his 2nd mother as she was, sold some landnuann: dedicated the proceeds to his in I studies. He arrived at the University of irginia in October, 1839. From that moment he entered actively and unremittingly on his course of intellectual training. While a boy he had become familiar, underthe guidance of his father, with the classics of Addison, Johnson, Swift, Cowper, and Pope, and he now plunged into the domain of history. He had be n at Kenon to make flanking forays into the fields 0 historic investigation which la so invitingly on each side of the regular mare of his college course. As he acquired more information an confidence these forays became more extensive and profitable. It was then the transition period from the shallow though raceful pages of Gillies, Rollin, Rus sell, antiTytler, and the rabbinical agglomerations of Shuckford and Prideaux to the modern school of free, rofound, and laborious in vestigation, which as reared immortal mon uinents to its memory in the works of Hallam, Macaulay, Grote, Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, Niebuhr, Bunsen, Schlosser, Thiers, and their fellows. But of the last named none except Niebuhr's History of Rome, and Hallam’s Middle Ages, were accessible to him in the backwoods of Ohio. Cousin’s Course of the History of Modern Philosophy wasjust glittering in the horizon, and Gibbon shone alone as the morning star of the day of historic research, which he had heralded so long. The French Revolution he had seen only as presented in Burke’s brilliant vituperation and Scott’s Tory diatribe. A repuhlican picture of the republican revolution, the fountain of all that is now tolerable in Europe. had not then been presented on any authentic and comprehensive a e. p Hot only these. but all historical works of value, which the English, French, and German languages can furnish, with an immense amount of other intellectual pabulum, were eagerly thered, consumed with voracious appetite, and thoroughly digested. Sup lied at last with the required means he braceld himself for a systematiccurriculum of law, and pursued it with marked constancy and success. While at the university he also took up the German and French languages and mastered them, and be plerfected his scholarship in Latin and Greek. ntil his death he read all these languages with t facilit and accuracy, and he always kept EifGi eek estament lying on his table for easy reference. After a thorough course at the university Mr. Davis entered upon the practice of the law in Alexandria, Virginia. e began his profession withOutmuch to cheer him; but he was not the man to abandon a pursuit for lack of courage. His ability and industry attracted attention, and beforelon he had acaired a respectable prac tice, which thenceforilhprotecte him from all annoyances of a pecuniary nature. He toiled with unwearied assiduity, never appearing in the trial of a cause without the most elaborate and exhaustive preparation, and soon became known to his professional brethren as a valuable all and a formidable foe. His natural aptitu e for public affairs made itself manifest in due time, and some articles which he prepared on municipal and State polities gave imgreat reputation. Healso published a series of ne aper essays, wherein he dared to question the divinity of slavery; and these, though at the time thought to be not beyond the limits of free discussion, were cited againsthim long after as evidence that he was aieretic in proslavery Virginia and Maryland. On the 80th of October, 1845, he married Miss Constance T. Gardiner, daughter of will liam C. Gardiner, Esq., a most accomplished and charmin young lady, as beautiful and as fragile as a power. She lived to gladden his heart fo"r but a few years, and thenLike a lily drooing. She bowedher headand died." In 1850 he came to Baltimore, and immeditaly a high position, professional, social, and political, was awarde him. His forensic of arts at once commanded attention and enforced respect. The young men of most ability and promise gathered about him, and made him the center of their chosen circle. He became a prominent member of the Whi party, and was everywhere known as the brilliant orator and successful controvertist of the Scott campaign 0f1862. The Whig party, worn out by its many gallant but unsuccessful battles, was ultimately hered to its fathers, and Mr. Davis led off the American movement. He was elected successively to the 34th, 35th, and 36th conresses by the American party from the fourt district of Maryland. e supported with great ability and zeal Mr. Fillmore for the Presidency in 1856, and in 1 60 accepted John Bell as the candidate of his party, though he clearly divined and lainly announced that the great battle was really between Abraham Lincoln, as the representative of the national sentiment on the one hand, and secession and disunion in all their shades and bases on the other. To his seat in the 30 ighth congress he was elected by the Unconditional Union party. Since the adjournment of the 38th Congress he had been profoundly concerned in the momentous public questions now pressin for adjustment, and he did not fail on severa fitting occasions to giVe his views at length to the public. Nevertheless, hefre nently al uded to his earnest desire to retreat or awhile from the perplexing annoyances of public life. He had determined upon a long Visit to Europe in the coming spring, and had almost concluded the purchase of a delightful country seat. where he hoped to recruit his weary brain for years to come from the exhaustless riches of nature. When the 39th Congress met, and he read of his old companions in the work of legislation again gathering in their Halls and committee rooms, I think, for at least a day or two, he felt a longing to be among them. During the 2nd week of the session he a in entered this Hall, but only as a spectator. I‘he greeting he received, so general, spontaneous, and cordial, from gentlemen on both sides of the House, touched his heart most sensibly. The crowd that gathered about him was so great that the party was obliged to retire to one of the larger ante rooms for fear of interrupting the public business. A delightful interview among old friends was the reward. He was charme with his recetion, and mentioned it to me with intense satis action. Little did you, gentlemen then think that between you and abeloved friend the curtain that shrouds eternity was so soon to be interposed. His sickness was of about a week’s duration. Until the morning of the day preceding his death, his friends never doubted is recovery. Later in the do very unfavorable symptoms apeared, and all then realized his danger. In the evening his wife spoke to him of a visit, for one day, which he had projected to his old friend, Mrs. S. F. Du Pont, when he replied in the last words he ever uttered, “It shows the folly of making plans even for a day. ” He continued to fail rapidly in strength until 2 o’clock on the afternoon of Saturdn, th! 80th of December, when Henry Winter avis, in the 49th year of his age, apeared before his God. His death confirmed the opinion of Sir Thomas Browne, who declared, “ Mar shaling all the horrors of death and contem plating the extremities thereof, I find not anything therein able to daunt the courage of a man, much lessawell resolvedG fan.” He passed awa so quietly that no one knew the moment of is departure. His was"A death, like sleep: A gentlewaiting to immortal life." Mr. Davis left a widow, Mrs. Nancy Davis, a daughter of John B. Morris, Esq., of Balti more, and 2 little girls, who were the idols of his heart. He was married a 2nd time on the 26th of Janua, 1857. His nearest surviving collateral relation is Hon. David Davis, Associate Justice of the SCOTUS, who is his on y cousin german. To all these afflicted hearts may God be most gracious. Thus has the country lost one of the most able, eloquent, and fearless of its defenders. Called from this life at an age when most men are just beginning to command the respect and condence of their fellows, he has left, nevertheless, a fame as wide as our vast country. He died 19 years younger than Washington and 8 years ounger than Lincoln. At 48 years 0 a e Washington had not seen the lories of Yor town even in a vision, nor had lincoln dreamed of the presidential chair; and if they had died at that age they would have been coinparativel unknown in history. Doubtless God would have raised up other leaders, if they had been wantin, to conduct the great American column, which he has chosen to be the body guard of human rights and hopes, onward among the nations and the centuries; but in that event the 12th and 22d days of February would not hs, as they now are, held sacred in our calendar. Mr. Davis had gathered into his house the literary treasures of 4 languages, and had reveled in spirit with the wise men of the ages. He had conned his books asjealously as aininer peering for old, and had not left a anful of earth unwas ed. He had collected the purest ore of truth and the richest gems of thought, until he was able to crown himself with knowl edge. Blessed with a felicitous error of an alysis and a prodigious memory,0 ransacked history, ancient and modern, sacred and ro fane; science, pure, empirical, and metap ys ical; the arts, mechanical and liberal; the professions, law, divinity, and medicine; poetry and the miscellaniee of literature; and in all these great depts ofhum'in lore he moved as easily as most men do in their particular province. His habit was not only to read but to reread the best of his books frequently, and be was continually supplying himself with better editions of his favorites. In current, layfiil conversation with friends be quoted right and left, in brief and at length, from the classics, ancient and modern, and from the drama, tragic and comic. In his speeches, on the contrary he quoted but little, and only when he seemed to run upon a thought already exresseo by some one else with singular force and appositeness. He was the best scholar I ever met for his years and active life, and was surpassed by very few, excepting mere book worms. He has for many years been engaged in collecting extracts from newspapers, containing the leading facts and public documents of the day; but he never common placed from books. His thesaurus was his head. I have but little personal knowledge of Mr. Davis as a lawyer. It was never my good for tune to be associated with him in the trial of a cause; nor have I ever been present when he was so engaged. But at the time of his death be filled a i h position at the bar, and was chosen to lea against the most distinguished of his brethren. On public and constitutional questions, as distinguished from those involving only private rights, he was a host, and in the argument of the cases which grew out of the adoption of the new constitution of Maryland he won golden laurels, and drew extraordinary encomiums even from his opponents in that an litigation. He was thoroughly read in the decisions of the Federal courts, and especially in those declaring and defining constitutional principles. Possessed of a mind of remarkable power scope, and activit; with an immense und of precious information, ready to respond to any call he might. make upon it, however sudden; wielding a system of ogic formed in the sever est school, and tried by long practice; gifted with a rare command of language and an elo. quence well nigh superhuman; and withal graced with manners the most accomplished and refined, and a person unusually handsome graceful, and attractive, Mr. Davis entere public life with almost unparalleled personal advantages. Having boldly presente himself before the most rigorous tribunal in the world, he proved himself worthy of its favor and at tention. He soon rose to the front rank of debaters, and whenever he addressed the House all sides gave him is delighted audience. I shall not attempt a review of the to ice discussed in the 34th and 35th Congresses. The do was fast coming when contests for the Speakership and battles over appropriation bills, ay, even the fierce strug g e over Kansas, would sink into insignificance, and Mr. Davis, with that political irescienoc for which he wasmlways remarknliic, seemed to discern the 1st si of the coming storm. The winds had been hing sown, and now the whirlwind was to be reaped. The 36th Congress, which had 0 ened so inauspiciously, and which his vote ha saved from becominga perpetuated hedlam met for its 2nd session on the 3d of December, 1860, with the clouds of civilWar fast settling down upon the nation. In the hope that war might yet be averted, on the 4th day of the session, the celebrated committee of 33 was raised, with the lamented Corwin, of Ohio, as chairman, and Mr. Davis as the member from Maryland. When the committee reported, Mr. Davis sustained the majority report in an able speech, in which, after urgin every argument in favor of the report, he oldly proclaimed his own views, and the duties of his State and country. In his speech of 7th February, 1861, he said: "I do not wish to say one word which will exas perate the alread too much inflamed state of the public mind; but I will say that the Constitution of the U.S., and the laws madein pursuance thereof, min!bern/flrrflh and they whostandacross the path of that Worcement musteither destroythe power of the U.S., or it will destroythem.” For such utterances only a small part of the people of his State was on that day prepared. ‘educed by the wish, they Sllll believed that the Union could be reserved by fair and mu tual concessions. hey were on their knees Era 'ing for peace, ignorant that bloody war a already girded on his sword. His language was then deemed too harsh and unconciliatOry and 100s, Iamong the number, denounced him in unmeasured terms. Before the expiration.of 3 months events had demonstrated his Wisdom and our folly, and other paragraphs from that same speech became the fighting creed of the Union men of Maryland. He further said, on that occasion: "But. air. there is one State I can speakfor and that is the State of Maryland. Confident in the strength of this great Governmentto protect every ibnlteesrseinstg.s grateful for almost a centuryof unalloyed she has fomonted no agitation; she as done no act to disturb the public peace: she has reeosntegdreinss the consciousnessthat if there bewrongthe of the U.S. will remedyit; and thizt nono existswhich revolution would not aggra va a Mr. Speaker. I am here this day to speak and I say that do speak.for the peopleof Maryland. who are loyal to tie U.S.; and that when my judgment is contested, I accuracy. appealto the peoplefor its and I “ amreadytomaintainitbeforothem." In Maryland we are dull. and cannot comprehend the right of secession. We do not recognizetheright to may 0 a revolution by a vote. We do not recognize the rightolf Maryland to repeal the constitution of the U.S and if any convention there. lcpailoleeds. Buyndwehrtaatkeevteorianu authority t.eurned veorluwtiohnatienvMera and their authority will be resisted and defied in armsop thesoil of Maryland.in the nameandhythe authority of the Constitution of the U.S." In January, 1861, the ensi of the Republic while covering a mission 0 mercy, was fire on by traitors. In February JeffersonDavis said, at Stevenson, Alabama, “We will carry war where it is easy to advance, where food for the sword and torch await our armies in the densely populated cities." In March the 30 6th Congress, after vainly passing conciliatory resolutions by the score, among other things recommending the repeal of all personal liberty bills, declaring that there was no authority outside of the States where slavery was recognized to interfere With slaves or slavery therein and proposing by 2/3rds votes of both Houses an amendment of the Constitution prohibiting any future ameridment giving Congress power over slavery in the States, adjourned amid general terror and distress. Abraham Lincoln, having passed through the midst of his enemies, apeared at Washington in due time and delivere his inaugural, closing wi“th these memorable words: 1nyonrhands, mydissatisfiedfellow countrymen, and not in mine is the momentous issue of civilWar. Th“e Government will not ussai!you. You canhaveno conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no on thregisteredin heavento destroy the Government.while I shall have ghed mostsolemn oneto ‘preservc. protect and deen it. "I amlothto close. We are not enemies.but friends. We mustnot beenemies. Though passionmayhave strained. it must not break. our endsof affection. “Tho mystic chords of memory.stretching from everyhalt e fleld and patriot grave to every livin heart and hearth stoneall over this broadland. will yetsivellthe cliorus of the Union. When again touched. pssurply theywill be, by the betterangelsof our naure. Words which, if human hearts do not harden into stone, through the long ages yet to come, “ Will plead liko angels, trnmpet tongued.against The deop damnation of his taking 08'." The appeal was spurned; and in the face of its almost god !ike gentleness they, who already gloried in their anticipated saturnalia of blood, inhumanly and falsely stigmatized it asadeclaration ofwar. the long atientNorth, slow to anger, in its agony stil cried, “ My brother; oh, my brother!” It remained for that final, ineradicable infamy of Sumter to arouse the nation to arms! Atlast, to murder at one blow the hopes we had nursed so ten derly, they inipious y dragged in the dust the glorious symbol of our national life and majesty, heaping dishonor upon it, and like the s“neering devil at the crucifixion. crying out, Come and deliver thyself, " and then no man, with the heart of a man, who loved his country and feared his God, dared longer delay to prepare for that great struggle which was des tined to rock the earth. Poor Maryland ! cursed with slavery, doubly cursed with traitors! Mr. Davis had said that Maryland was loyal to the U.S., and had pledged himself to maintain that position before the people. The time soon came for him to redeem his ledge. On the morning of the 15th of April the president issued his proclamation calling a special session of Congress, which made an extra election necessary in may ryland. Before the sun of that day had gone down, this card was promulgated: To the Vote" of the 4th Congressional District gfflaruland: I hereby announce myself as a ate for the House of eDltStTllilllVCoSf the Tchairntdyi 7th Congress of the U.S.A. tipllo1no"t he basis of the unconditumal maintenance ike Should my fellow citizons of likem'eirs manifest their preference foradiffereutenndidato onthatbasis, it is not my purposeto embarrasslllf‘m April 15, 1861. H. WINTER DAVIS. But dark days were coming for Baltimore. A mob, systematically organized in comilicity with the rebelsat Richmond and lIarper' s Ferry, seized and kept in subjection an unsuspecting find unarmed poulation from the 19th to the 24th ofApril. b or 6 days murder and treason hold joint sway; and at the conclusion of their tragedy ofhorrid barbaritics, they gave the farce of holding an election for members of the House of Delegates. To show the spirit that moved Mr. Davis under this ordeal I cite from his letter, written on the 28th, to Hon. William H. Seward, the following: “I have beentryingto collectthopersonsappointed scatteredby the storm, and to compelthem to take their offices or to decline. "1 have sought men of undoubted courage and ca incity for the places vacated. 'Wo must showthescecssioniststhat we are not frightened but areresolvedto maintain the Government in the exerciseof all its functions in Mary “HWe have organizeda guard, whowill accompnn the officers and old the public buildings against a l the secessionistsinMaryland. “A great reaction has set in. If we now act promptly the day is ours and the State is safe.” These matters bein adjusted, he immediately took the field for congress on his platform against Mr. Henry May, conservative Union, and in the face of an opposition which few men have dared to encounter, he carried on, unre mittingly from that time until the election on the 13th of June, the most brilliant campaign against open traitors, doubters, and dodgers that unrivaled eloquence, courage, and activity could achieve. Everywhere, day and night, in sunshine and storm, in the market houses, at the street corners, and in the public halls his v“oice rang out clear, loud, an defiant for the unconditional maintenance” of the Union. He was defeated, but he sanctified the name of unconditional Union in the vocabulary of every true Marylander. He gathered but 6.000 votes out of 14,000, yet the result was a triumph which have him the real fruits of victory; and he exc aimed to a friend, with laudable pride, “With 6,000 of the workingmen of Bal timore on my side, won in such a contest, I defy them to take the State out of the Union.” Though not elected, he never ceased his efforts. With us it was a struggle for homes, hearths, and lives. He said at Brooklyn: "You seethe tersmoat iny sictolen. flivronnticoannfsruormv ivaeditshteaninctee;gitr itbyli of thenation; we in Maryland would live on theSideof a gulf, perpetually the pding to plunge into its depths. It is for us life and liberty: it is for you greatness, strength and prosperity.” Nothing iippalled him; nothing deterred him. He said at altimore, in 1861: “ The War Dept has been taught by themis fortune at Bull Run. which has broken no power nor any spirit. which bowed no State, nor made any heart falter.which wasfelt as ahuiniliation, that has brought forth wisdom." He also said, speaking of the rebels, and fore] {ellilng his own fate, if they succeeded in Marys an: “They have inaugurated an era of confiscations, proscriptions and exiles. Read their acts of greedy confiscation. their law of prescriptionsby the 1000s. Behold the flying exiles from the unfriendly soil of Virginia. Tennessee and Missouri." And so he worked on never nbating one jot of his uncompromising devotion to the Union, like a 2nd Peter the Hermit, preaching is cause, as he believed, truly represented by in signia as sacred as the Cross, and for which no sacrifice, not even death, was too great. But his crowning glory was his leadership of the emancipation movement. The rebels, not withstanding “My Maryland’s" bloody we! come at South Mountain and Antietam, claimed that she must belong to their coufederacy, because of the homogeneousness of her institutions. They contended that the fetters of slavery formed a chain that stretched across the Potomac, and held in bondage not only 87,000 slaves, but 600,000 white people also. Their constant theme was “ the deliverance” of Maryland. We resolved to break that last tie, and to take position uiiiilterably on the side of the Union and freedom, and thus to deal the final blow to the cause and support of rebellion. We organized our little band, almost ridiculous from its want of numbers, early in 1803. A Sibley tent would have held our whole army. Our enemies laughed us to scorn, and the politicians would not accept our he! on any terms, but denied us as earnestly as eter denied his Lord. Mr. Davis was our acknowl edged lender, and it was in the heat and fury of the contest which followed that our hearts were welded into permanent friendship. He was the platform maker, and he announced it in a few ines: “A hearty support of the entire policy of the national Administration. including immediateemancipation by constitutional means.” It was very short, butit covered all the ground. The campaign opened by the publication of an address, written by Mr. Davis to the people of Maryland, which, I venture to say, is unsur passed by any state paper published in this age of able state papers for the warmth and vigor of its diction, and the lucidity and conclusiveness of its argumentation. It is a pamphlet of 20 pages, glowing throughout with the unmistakable marks of his genius and patriotism, and closing with these words of stirring cheer: " We do notdoubt the result and expect freed from the tramincls which now bind her, to see Marylaa at no distant day. rapidlyhdvancipg in a courseo unexsmpled pm8p 0fll:)' whhlllelr Sister/rec States of the undividedand indictable Republic. Mr. Davis was ubiquitous. He was the life and soul of the whole contest. He arranged the order of battle, dictated the correspondence, wrote the important articles for the newspapers, and addressed all the concerted meetings. In short, neither his voice nor his pen rested in all the time of our travail. He would have no compromise; but rejected all overtures of the enem short of unconditional surrender. On the Lastern Shore he spoke with irresistible power at Elkton, Eastou, Salisbury, and Snow Hill, at each of the 3 last namedtowns with a crowd of wondering “American citizens of African descent” listenin to him from afar, and looking n n him as if they believed him to be the scrap Abdiel. His last appointment, in extreme southern Maryland, he lled on I‘h i day, after which, bidding me a cordial god speed, he descended from the stand, sprang into an open wagon awaiting him, traveled 80 miles through a raw night air, reached Cam bridge by daylight, and then crossed the Chess peake, 60 miles, in time to close the cam paign with one of his ringing speeches in Monument square, Baltimore, on Saturday night. In this, our 1st contest, we were completely victorious. But we had yet a weary way before us. The Legislature had then to pass a law calling a convention. That law had to be approved by a majority of the people. Members of the convention had then to be elected in all parts of the State, and the Constitution which they adopted had to be carried by a majority of the pular vote. He allowed himself no reprieve om labor until all this had been accomplished. And when the rest of us, worn out by this incessant toil, gladly sought rest, he went before the Court of Appeals to maintain everythin that had been done against all comers, and di so triumphantly. Let free Maryland never forget the debt of eternal gratitu e she owes to Henry Winter Davis. If oratory means the power of presenting thoughts by public and sustained speech to an audience in the manner best adapted to win a favorable decision of the question at issue, then Mr. Davis assuredly occupied the hiehest position as an orator. He always held his hearers in rapt attention until he closed, and then they lingered about to discuss with one another what they had heard. I have seen a promis cuous assembly, made up of friends and oppo nents, remain exposed to a.beatin rain for 2 hours rather than forego hearing im. Those who had heard him most frequently were always ready to make the greatest effort to hear him again. Even his bitterest enemies have been known to stand shivering on the street corners for a whole evening, charmed by his marvelous ton ue. His stump efforts never fell below his high standard. He never condescended to a mere attempt to amuse. He always spoke to instruct, to convince, and to persuade through the higher and better avenues to favor. I never heard him deliver a s eech that was not worthy of being printed an preserved. As a stump orator he was unapproach able, in in estimation, and I say that with a clear recollection of having heard, when a boy. that wonder of Yankee birth and southern development, 3. S. Prentiss. Mr. Davis’s ripe scholarship promptly tend ered to his thought the happiest illustrations and the most appropriate forms of expression. His brain had become a teeming cornucopia, whence flowed in exhaustless profusion the most beautiful flowers and the most substantial fruits; and yethe neverindulged in excess ive ornamentation. His taste was almost aus terely chaste. His style was perspicuous, energetic, concise, and withal highly elegant. He never loaded his sentences with meretri cious finery or high sounding, supernumerary words. When he did use the jewelry of rhet oric, he would quietly set a metaphor in his page or throw a comparison into his speech which would serve to light up with starth ng distinctness the colossal proortions of his argument. of humor he be none; but his with and sarcasm at times would litter like the brandished cimeterofSaladin, an, descending, would cut as keenly. The pathetic he never attempted; but when angered by a malicious assan t. his invective was consuming, and his epithets would wound like pellets of lead. Although gallant to the races of expression, he always compelled hisr etoric to actashand maid to his dialectics. Style may sometimes be an exotic; but when i‘ is, it is sure to partake more and more as years increase, of the peculiarities of the soil wherein it is nurtured. But the style of Mr. Davis was indigenous and strongly marked by his individuality. Although he doubtless admired and perhaps imitated the condensation and dignity of Gibbon, yet it is certain that he carefully avoided the monotonous stateliness, and the elaborate and ostentations art of that most erudite historian. I look in vain for his model in the skeptical Gibbon, the cynical Bolingbroke, or the gorgeous Burke. These were all to him intellectual giants; but giants of false belief and practice. Not even from Tacitus, upon whom he looked with the great est favor, could he have acquired his burning and impressive diction. l was a man offaith, and believed in Christ and his fellow man. His heart and mind were both; nourished into their full dimensions under the fostering influences of our free institutions; so that, being reared a freeman, he thought and spake as became a freeman. No other land could have produced such dauntless courage and such beroic devotion to honest conviction in a public man; and even our land has produced but few men ofhis stamp and ability. His implicit faith in God's eternal Justice and his grand moral courage imparted to him his ros elyting zeal, arid gave him that amazin, ind ling power which enabled him to light the fires of enthusiasm wherever he touched the public mind. To show his power in extemporaneous debate, as well as his determined patriotism, I milintroduce a passage from his speech of April 11, 1864, deliver e in the HoRep. You Will remember that the end of the rebellion hadnot then agpeared. Grant, With hisinvincible legions, ha not started to execute that greatest military movement of modern times, by which, after months of bloody persistence, hurlin themselves continually against what seemed the frowning front of destiny, they finally drove the enemy from his stron holds, may elfortune herself on tive, and, binding her to their standards, hel her there, until the surrender of every rebel in arms closed the war amid the exultant plaudits of men and angels. Our hopes had not then grown into victory, and we looked forward anxiously to the terrible march from the Ra pahannock to Richmond. Thinking that pertaps our stood appalled before the great. duty requtiirreing of it, and that the people might be diverted from their purpose to crush the rebellion, when they saw that it could only be accomplished at the cost of an ocean of human blood, a call was made on the floor of the American congress for a recognition of the southern confederacy. Speaking for the nation, Mr. Davis said: “ButMr. Speaker. if it be said that a time may ccoonmfeedweroanctyhe question of recognizin the southern Wll have to he answers, I admit it. When the people, exhausted by taxation, weary of sacrifices. drained of blood, be tbreal yieevdinbgy tthhaetir perualceeriss.tdhecluwdaeydto byundieomn, aagno ues in tosion the path to viotory, shall throw down thesiur bamrmiss before the advancing the; when vast chasms across every State shall makeit apparentto everycgh when too late to remedy it. that division from the outh is anarchy at the North. and that peaceWithoutunion is the endof lho republic: the the independenceof the South will be an accomplished fact and gentlemen may, without treason to the dead Repubic, rise in this migratory House wherever it may then be in America and declare themselves for recognising their masters at the South rather than “terminating them. Until that day in the numeofthe American nation; in the name 0 every house in the land where there is onedead for the holy cause: in the name of those who stand before us in the ranks of battle; in the nameof the liberty our ancestors have confidedto us. I devote to eternal exccrntion the name of him who shall propose to destroythis blessedland rather than its enemies. “But until that time arrive it is the Judgmentof the American peoplethereshall be no compromise: that ruin to ourselvesor ruin to the southern rebels are the only alternatives. It is only by resolutions of this kind that nations can rise a ove great dun gcrsand overcome them in crises like this. It was only byturning France into n camp resolved that Eurolic might exterminatebut should not subjugate her, that France is the leading empireof Europe to day. It is by such a resolvethat the American people, coercing a reluctant Government to draw the sword and stake the national existence on the integrity of the Republic, arenow anythingbut the frag mentsof a nation before the World.the scornand hi of every petty tyrant. It is because the people of the U.S., rising to the height of the occasion. dedicatedthis generation to the sword, and pourin out the blood of their children as of no account.an vowing before high Hen venthat there should be up end to this conflict but ruin absoluteor absolutetri nmph, thatwe now are what we are; that the banner of the Republic. still pending onward.floatsproudly in the face of the enemy; that vast regions are reducedto obedience to the laws and that n grpathoet in armedarmy now presses with steady stepinto the [ dark regionsof the rebellion. It is only by the ear nestand abiding resolution of the peo lethat.i vhat Henry Winter Davis I l ever shall beour fate. it shall begran as the American nation. worthyof that Republic which 1st trod l the path of empireand madeno peacebut under the banners of victory, that the American people Will 'in his convictions, an survive in history. And that will snycus. We shall succeed and not fail. I have an abiding confidence in the firmness.the patmnccatho enduranceof the American people; and having vowed to stand in history on be great:resolve to accept of nothing but Victoryor rain, victory is ours, And if With such mheitrme resolve we fall. We fall with honor and traps the name of liberty, committedto our keeping uptarnifled, to godown to future generations. The historian of our decline and fall.contemplatingthe ruins of the last great republic, and drawmg fromits fate lessonsof Wisdom on the waywardnessof mop shall drop a tear ushe recordswith sorrowthe vain heroismof that peoplewho dedicatedand sacrificed themsclves to t a cause of freedom and by their examplewill keepalive her worshipin the hearts of men till ha pier gorierations shall learn to walk in her paths cs, sir, if we must fall, lcteurlast hours bestained by no weukncm. f'we must fall. let us standamid they rushof lilo'rfllllllfl Republic and be buried in its ruins, so thut historymaytake notethat men lived in the middle of the 19th century worthy of n.betterfate, but chastisedby God for the sins of the ir forefathers.Let theruins of theRepublic remain to testify to the latest generations our greatness and our heroism. And let Liberty, crownlcss and childless, sit upon these ruins. (TYlDQaloud in a sad wail to the nations of the tvorld, I' nursed9nd hropght up children and they have rebelled against me. I Mr. Davis's most striking characteristics Were his devotion to principle and his indomitable courage. There never was a moment when he could be truthfully charged with trimming or insincerity. His views were always clearly avowed and fearlessly maintained. He hated slavery and he did not attempt to conceal it. He remembered the lessons of his youth, and his heart rebelled against the injustice of the system. His antipath was dee 1y grounded he can] not be dissuaded, nor frightened, nor driven from expressing it. He was not a great captain, nor a mighty ruler; he was only one of the people, but,nevertheless, a hero. Born underthe flag of a nation which claimed for its cardinal principle of government, that all men are created free, yet old in abject slavery 4 millions of human beings; which erected altars to the living God, yet e nied to creatures, formed in the image of God and charged with the custody of immortal souls the common rights of humanity; he declare that the hateful inconsistency should cease to defile the prayers of Christians and stultify the advocates of freedom. No dreamer was he, no mere theorist, but a worker, and a strong one, who did well the work committed to him. He entered upon his self imposed task when surrounded by slaves and slave owners. He stood face to face with the iniquitous superstition, and to their teeth defied its worshipers. To make proselytes he had to conquer prejudices, correct traditions, elevate duty above interest, and induce men, who had been the props and ists of slavery, to becomeits destroyers. hink you his work was easy? Count the long years of his unequal strife; gather from the winds, which scattered them, the curses of his foes; suffer under all the annoyances and insults which malice and falsehood can invent, and you will then understand how much of heart and hope, of courage and self relying zeal were required to make him what he was and to qualify him to do what he did. And what dii be? When the rough hand of war had stripped off the pretexts which enveloped the rebellion, and it became evident that slavery had struck at the life of the Republic, unmindful ofconsequences to himself, he, among the 1st, arraigned the real traitor and demanded the penalt of death. The denunciations that fell upon imlike a cloud wrapped him in a mantle of honor, and more truthfiilly than the great Roman orator he could have exclaimed, “Ego hoc animo semperfui. but invidiam oirtuie partam, gloriam non-invidiam putarem.” This man, so stern and inflexible in the execution of apurpose, so rigorous in his demands of other men in behalf of a principle, so indifferent to preferment, and all base objects of pursuit, had a monitor to whom he always gave an open our and a prompt assent. It was no demon like that which attended Socrates no witch like that invoked by Saul, no fiend like that to which Faust resigned himself. A vision of light and life and beauty flitted ever palpa hly before him, and wooed him to the perpetual service of the good and true. The memory of a pious and beloved mother permeated his whole moral being, and he t warm within him the tenderest affection. ear how he wrote of her: “My mother was a lady of graceful and simple manners, faire omplexien blue eyes and auburn hair. with a rich and exquisitevoice. that still thrills my memory with the echoof its vanished music. She washighly educated forberday, when Annapolis was the focus of intellect and fashion for Maryland and its fruits shone through her conversation, and colored nnd completed her naturnl eloquence whieh m'fnther used to saywould have made her an orator, ii it had not been thrown away on a woman. She was the incarnation of all that is Christian in life and hope. in charit and thought, ready for every good work. herself I e exampleof all shetaught." It was the force of her precept and example that formed the man, and supplied him with his shield and buckler. His private life was spotless. His habits were regular and abste mious, and his practice in close conformity with the E iscopal church, of which he was a member. e invariably attended divine service on Sunday, and confined himself for the remainder of the day to a course of religions reading. If from his father he drew a courage and a fierce determination before which his en emies fled in confusion; from his mother he inherited those milder qualities that won for him friends, as true and devoted as man ever possessed. Some have said he was hard and dictatorial. They had seen him only when a high resolve had hred his breast, and when the learn ofbattle had light edhis countenance. His friends saw deeper, and knew that beneath the exterior he assumed in his struggles with the world there beat a heart as pure and unsullied. as confiding and as gentle as ever sanctified the domestic circle, or made loved ones happy. His heart reminded me of a spring among the hills of the Susquehanna to which I often resorted in my youth; around a part of it we boys had built a stone wall to protect it from out rage, while on the side next home we left open a path, easily traveled by familiar feet, and leading straight to the sweet and perennial waters within. He lived to hear the salvos that announced, after more than 2 centuries of bondage, the redemption of his native State. He lived to vote for that grand act of enfranchisement that wiped from the cscutchcon of the nation the leprous stain of shiver; and to know that the Constitution of the U.S. no longer recognized and protected property in man. e lived to witness the triumph of his country in its des rate struggle with treason, and to be hold a 1its enemies, either wanderers like Cain over the earth, or supplicants for mercy at her feet. He lived to cute i the 1st glimpse of the comin glory of that new era of no ress that match ess valor had won throu ii t blood and carnage of1,000 batt e fields. He lived, through all the storm of war, to see, at last, America rejuvenated, rescued from the grasp of despotism, and rise victorious with her gliirments purified and her brow radiant with the nnsullied light of liberty. Helived togreet the return of “meek eyed peace, ” and then he gently laid his head upon her bosom and reathed out there his noble spirit. The sword may rust in its scabbard, and so let it; but free men with free thou lit and free speech will wage unceasing war until truth shall be enthroned and sit empress of the world. Would to God that he had been spared to complete a life of 3 score and ten years for the sake of his country and osterity. When I think of the good he would have accomplished had he survived for 20 years, I can say, in the language of Fisher Ames, “ My heart, pen etrated with the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I speak, and I could pour it out like water.” M $1.1P9ortals of his tomb we may bid fare wells. the mom cal anal. in the run Assurance that a blessed life awaits him beyond the rave. Serenely and trustfully he has passed from our sight and gone down into the dark waters. “So sinks the day starin the oceanbed. And yet anon repairs his droopinghead, nd tricks his beams and with new spangledore. lame: in the forehead of the morning sky.” From this Hall, where as ascholar, statesman, and orator, he shone so brightly, he has disappeared forever. Never again Will he, answering to the roll call from his desk, res end for his country and the rights of man. 0 more shall we hear his fervid eloquence in the day of imminent peril, invokin us, who hold the mighty power of eace an war, to dedicate ourselves, if need e, to the sword, but to accept no end of the conflict save that of absolute triumph for our country. He has gone to answer the great roll call above, where the “ brazen throat of war” is voiceless in the reseuce of the Prince of Peace. Let us ha itually turn to his recorded words and gather wisdom as from the testament of a departed sage and since we were witnesses of his tire less devotion to the cause of human freedom, let us direct that on the monument which loving hearts and willing hands will soon erect over his remains. there shall be deeply engraved the figure of a bursting shackle, as the emblem of the faith in which he lived and died. For the Christian, scholar, statesman, and orator, all good men are mourners; but what shall I say of that grief which none can share, the rief of sincere friendship? O l my friendl comforted by the belief that you, while living, deemed ine worthy to be your companion and loaded me with the roofs of your esteem, I shall fondly treasure, during my remaining years, the recollection of your smile and counsel. Lost to me is the strong arm whereon l have so often leaned; but in that path, which in time past we trod most {loy fully together, I shall continue, as God 5 all give me to seemy duty, with unfaltering, though perhaps with unskillfnl steps, right onward to the end. Admiring his brilliant intellect and varied acquirenicnls, his invincible courage and unswerving fortitude, glorying in his end works and fair renown, but more than a] loving the man I shall endeavor to assuage the bitterness of grief by aplying to him those words of proud, though tear ul, satisfaction, from which the faith ul Tacitus drew consolation for the loss of thatenoble Roman whom he delighted to honor: “ Quidquid exAgricola amaviinus, quid aid mlrati sumus.manetmansurnm ucest.in animis 0minum. in mternitatetemporum, amarerum." –