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Essex Court (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 1.51
A noble life. Address delivered at Tappahannock, Essex county, Va., July 17, 1899, presenting to Essex Court a portrait of Judge William Brockenbrough. by John P. McGUIRE. Ladies and Gentlemen: A Virginian in a Virginia assembly is always among friends; but for myself, and here in this county of Essex, as a wanderer returned to his home again, I stand among you and respectfully salute you all. In the far dawn of human history, the blind old bard of Chios, with mental vision doubly clear, surveyed the course of human life, and this true picture drew: Like leaves on trees, the race of men are found, Some green in youth, some withering on the ground. So generations in their course decay; These come to life, and others pass away. Countless as the leaves of the forest or the sands along the shore are the men who, in ages gone, have run their restless course on this round world, even as the busy ants run to and fro upon their hillock home. Brief parts the actors pla
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.51
posely betray General McClellan and his army to defeat in the Seven Days Battles before Richmond. McClure (page 207) is one; Holland (page 53, et seq.) is another; and John Codman Ropes declares it, in his Story of the Civil War, Part II (page 16), and reaffirms his belief on more than one other page. McClellan, in his celebrated dispatch after his retreat, reproached Stanton with this atrocious crime, and so worded the dispatch that he imputed the same guilt to Lincoln. McClure, in his Lincoln, etc. (page 202), and Nicolay and Hay, in their Abraham Lincoln (pages 441, 442 and 451), deplore that McClellan should have believed Lincoln capable of it, both conceding to McClellan the most exalted character, ability and patriotism. See McClure's Lincoln, etc. (page 208), and Nicolay and Hay's Abraham Lincoln (Volume VI, page 189, et seq.) This letter will also appear in the Richmond Dispatch, as did that of the 14th January last. Charles L. C. Minor. 1002 McCulloh St., Baltimore.
St. Peter (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.51
an's heart toward the creator. The tinkle of the widow's mite, as it fell into the treasury, gave the key-note to the sacrificial song of the ages: and after two thousand years, the nameless widow means for us,—All for God. Wheresoever the gospel of faith and love has been and shall be preached, a little deed that a woman did has been and shall be told for a memorial of her; so for faith and devotion the name of Mary of Bethany shall forever stand. Thus stands St. John for love; St. Peter for repentance unto good works; St. Paul for lion-like courage and holy zeal. Aeneas, with old Anchises on his back, stands for filial piety; Curtius for self-sacrifice; Lucretia for purity; Horatius for courage; Cato, noblest Roman of them all, stands for stern integrity. These illustrate that ancient story and tell us why man's memory endures. Here in a newer land and a later age, the name of a great Virginian stands for the qualities that mark a grand character, and by these he w
Essex County (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.51
y, Va., July 17, 1899, presenting to Essex Court a portrait of Judge William Brockenbrough. by John P. McGUIRE. Ladies and Gentlemen: A Virginian in a Virginia assembly is always among friends; but for myself, and here in this county of Essex, as a wanderer returned to his home again, I stand among you and respectfully salute you all. In the far dawn of human history, the blind old bard of Chios, with mental vision doubly clear, surveyed the course of human life, and this true pictnor where honor is justly due—knowing that the generation so paying its debt of honor to those that have gone is guiding in paths of honor generations yet unborn. For that reason rejoicing thus to aid the work of founding here, in our county of Essex, and for our State of Virginia, this ennobling memorial institution, and praying that your children may prove worthy to guard your precious things—to this Court I present this portrait; to bench and to bar, to counting house and farm, to pew and
Dallas (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.51
th the music, goes to make the great swelling anthem that lifts man's heart toward the creator. The tinkle of the widow's mite, as it fell into the treasury, gave the key-note to the sacrificial song of the ages: and after two thousand years, the nameless widow means for us,—All for God. Wheresoever the gospel of faith and love has been and shall be preached, a little deed that a woman did has been and shall be told for a memorial of her; so for faith and devotion the name of Mary of Bethany shall forever stand. Thus stands St. John for love; St. Peter for repentance unto good works; St. Paul for lion-like courage and holy zeal. Aeneas, with old Anchises on his back, stands for filial piety; Curtius for self-sacrifice; Lucretia for purity; Horatius for courage; Cato, noblest Roman of them all, stands for stern integrity. These illustrate that ancient story and tell us why man's memory endures. Here in a newer land and a later age, the name of a great Virginian stands
Tappahannock (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.51
A noble life. Address delivered at Tappahannock, Essex county, Va., July 17, 1899, presenting to Essex Court a portrait of Judge William Brockenbrough. by John P. McGUIRE. Ladies and Gentlemen: A Virginian in a Virginia assembly is always among friends; but for myself, and here in this county of Essex, as a wanderer returned to his home again, I stand among you and respectfully salute you all. In the far dawn of human history, the blind old bard of Chios, with mental vision dple are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: yonder where the solemn cedars wave, and here where the spire points to heaven, lie the ashes of generations right dear to me; familiar to my childhood are the faces here depicted; to this town of Tappahannock I owe the peaceful ending of an honored father's long labor of love; in the act I now perform, I pay reverent honor to a noble woman, who, once familiar to your eyes, was, as I think, dear to your hearts, and who, when the shadows fell around
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.51
due—knowing that the generation so paying its debt of honor to those that have gone is guiding in paths of honor generations yet unborn. For that reason rejoicing thus to aid the work of founding here, in our county of Essex, and for our State of Virginia, this ennobling memorial institution, and praying that your children may prove worthy to guard your precious things—to this Court I present this portrait; to bench and to bar, to counting house and farm, to pew and to pulpit, to youth and t, fully verifies the above charge. Nicolay and Hay's Abraham Lincoln, and General Benjamin F. Butler's autobiography (the title is Butler's Book), alike concede the fictitious pretense of a State that was counted as casting the vote of the State of Virginia in the electoral college, and similar farces were played in the case of others of the rebel States, just as foreseen by Wade and Henry Winter Davis. This accounts for the much boasted majority recorded by the electoral college in Lincoln's
Israel (Israel) (search for this): chapter 1.51
rn this greatest of all the virtues—greatest of all, for By the gods, it is not in the power of painting or of sculpture To fashion ought so divine as the fair form of truth. The creatures of their art may please the eye, But her sweet nature captivates the soul. Have justice and mercy marked his career? Great is the office of the judge. Divine is that justice which with equal balance weighs each man's merit and to each his true desert assigns. Worthy of all honor is he who, like Israel's great judge can call all men to witness that of none has he taken aught, of none has he received any gift to blind his eyes therewith. Yet The marshal's truncheon nor the judge's robe, Become them with one-half so good a grace As mercy does. Justice is The attribute to awe and majesty. But earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Noble is the heart in which they both reside. Worthy of all reverence, the character in which these virtues shine
Cleveland (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.51
s great struggle for re-election in 1864. See also pages 282 to 292, et seq. See Morse's Lincoln, Vol. I, page 193. None will deny that Greeley ardently hated slavery and loved the Union, and was unsurpassed for purity and patriotism. Dr. J. G. Holland's Life of Lincoln (page 469, et seq.), shows Fremont, Wendell Phillips, Fred Douglas and Greeley as leaders in the very nearly successful effort to defeat Lincoln's second election. The call for the convention for that purpose, held in Cleveland, May 31, 1864, said that the public liberty was in danger; that its object was to arouse the people and bring them to realize that, while we are saturating Southern soil with the best blood of the country in the name of liberty, we have really parted with it at home. McClure's Lincoln, etc., conceding the hostile attitude towards Lincoln of the leading members of the cabinet, says (page 54): Outside of the cabinet the leaders were equally discordant, and quite as distrustful of the a
Benjamin Wade (search for this): chapter 1.51
t provoked the bitterest censure from a very great number of the most distinguished of his co-workers in his great achievements, among whom may be named Greeley, Thad. Stevens, Sumner, Trumbull, Zach. Chandler, Fred. Douglas, Beecher, Fremont, Ben. Wade, Winter Davis and Wendell Phillips, while the most bitter and contemptuous and persistent of all Lincoln's critics were Chase, his Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice, and Stanton, known ever Ziace as his great War Secretary. This lettitude towards Lincoln of the leading members of the cabinet, says (page 54): Outside of the cabinet the leaders were equally discordant, and quite as distrustful of the ability of Lincoln to fill his great office. Sumner, Trumbull, Chandler, Wade, Winter Davis, and the men to whom the nation then turned as the great representative men of the new political power, did not conceal their distrust of Lincoln, and he had little support from them at any time during his administration. Dr. Hol
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