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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Memorial Addresses on the Life and
+Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia), by Various
+
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+Title: Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia)
+       Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate,
+       Fifty-Second Congress, First Session
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: October 8, 2005 [EBook #16822]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMORIAL ADDRESSES ON THE ***
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+Produced by Barbara Tozier, Sigal Alon and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
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+[Illustration: Hon. W.H.F. Lee.]
+
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+
+
+MEMORIAL ADDRESSES
+
+ON THE
+
+LIFE AND CHARACTER
+
+OF
+
+WILLIAM H.F. LEE,
+
+(A REPRESENTATIVE FROM VIRGINIA.)
+
+
+DELIVERED IN THE
+
+HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND IN THE SENATE,
+
+FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF CONGRESS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WASHINGTON:
+GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
+1892
+
+
+
+
+     _Resolved by the House of Representatives_ (_the Senate
+     concurring_), That there be printed of the eulogies delivered in
+     Congress upon the Hon. W.H.F. LEE, late a Representative from the
+     State of Virginia, eight thousand copies, of which number two
+     thousand copies shall be delivered to the Senators and
+     Representatives of the State of Virginia, which shall include fifty
+     copies to be bound in full morocco, to be delivered to the family
+     of the deceased, and of those remaining two thousand shall be for
+     the use of the Senate and four thousand for the use of the House of
+     Representatives; and the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to
+     have engraved and printed a portrait of the said W.H.F. LEE to
+     accompany the said eulogies.
+
+     Agreed to in the House of Representatives March 23, 1892.
+
+     Agreed to in the Senate March 22, 1892.
+
+
+
+
+PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
+
+
+ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH.
+
+DECEMBER 23, 1891.
+
+Mr. MEREDITH, of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, I rise to make the painful
+announcement to the House of the death of Hon. WILLIAM H.F. LEE, a
+Representative in the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses of the United
+States and a Representative-elect to the Fifty-second Congress.
+
+He died at his home, in Fairfax County, Va., on the 15th day of October
+last, after a lingering illness. Later in the session I shall ask this
+House to fix a day when his colleagues and friends can do justice to his
+memory and express their appreciation of his high character.
+
+It is only meet and fitting on this occasion that I should say that in
+the death of Gen. LEE the State of Virginia has lost the services of one
+of her most chivalrous and noble sons, and the district he so well
+represented a faithful guardian of the interests of all its people.
+
+I send to the desk and ask the adoption of these resolutions:
+
+The Clerk read as follows:
+
+     _Resolved_, That the House has heard with deep regret and profound
+     sorrow of the death of Hon. W.H.F. LEE, a Representative from the
+     State of Virginia.
+
+     _Resolved_, That the Clerk be directed to communicate a copy of
+     these resolutions to the Senate.
+
+     _Resolved_, That as a further mark of respect the House do now
+     adjourn.
+
+The resolutions were unanimously agreed to.
+
+And accordingly (at 12 o'clock and 37 minutes p.m.) the House adjourned
+until Tuesday, the 5th day of January next.
+
+
+
+
+EULOGIES.
+
+
+FEBRUARY 6, 1892.
+
+The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the special order.
+
+The Clerk read as follows:
+
+     _Resolved_, That Saturday, February 6, beginning at 1 o'clock
+     afternoon, be set apart for paying tribute to the memory of Hon.
+     WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE, late a member of the House of
+     Representatives from the Eighth district of the State of Virginia.
+
+Mr. MEREDITH. Mr. Speaker, I offer the resolutions which I send to the
+desk.
+
+The resolutions were read, as follows:
+
+     _Resolved_, That the business of the House be now suspended, that
+     opportunity be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. WILLIAM
+     HENRY FITZHUGH LEE, late a Representative from the State of
+     Virginia.
+
+     _Resolved_, As a further mark of respect to the memory of the
+     deceased, and in recognition of his eminent ability and
+     distinguished public services, that the House, at the conclusion of
+     these memorial proceedings, shall stand adjourned.
+
+     _Resolved_, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the
+     Senate.
+
+The resolutions were adopted.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. MEREDITH, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: This day having been set apart for the purpose of paying a
+last tribute to the memory of one who so lately was a loved and honored
+member of this House, I shall, in the brief remarks which I propose to
+make, attempt nothing but a plain and truthful narrative of some of the
+characteristics and public services of a Christian gentleman, who in my
+judgment measured fully up to that standard which makes man the noblest
+work of God.
+
+On the 15th day of October, 1891, at Ravensworth, his beautiful home in
+Fairfax County, Va., surrounded by those loved ones whose constant care
+and tender nursing had done all that human power could do to stay the
+hand of the fell Destroyer, all that was mortal of Hon. WILLIAM HENRY
+FITZHUGH LEE passed from this earth, and his noble spirit returned to
+the God who gave it.
+
+If the earnest supplications to Almighty God, offered by the good people
+of his native State upon their bended knees night and morning, during
+the period of his lingering illness, could have availed, he would have
+been restored to health and usefulness, and these melancholy proceedings
+postponed for many a long year.
+
+The great sorrow which made the heart of Virginia heavy and bowed in
+grief the heads of her true sons and daughters when the sad intelligence
+of his death was flashed over the electric wires was more genuinely
+spontaneous than were the loud lamentations of the Roman populace (so
+graphically described by Tacitus) when they beheld the widow of
+Germanicus, with her weeping children entering the gates of the imperial
+city. Nor was this sorrow confined to those of his own political faith.
+Men of all parties vied with each other in their expressions of regret
+at his death and in their sympathy for his bereaved family.
+
+The blameless life he had led, his high character, his gentle and
+unassuming manners, won for him not only the respect but the admiration
+of all with whom he came in contact.
+
+As gentle as a child and as tender as a woman, with the courage of a
+hero and a faith that never faltered, he proved himself a worthy
+descendant of that race of famous men from whom he sprang, and most
+worthily bore a name which will be honored as long as a liberty-loving
+people shall find a dwelling place upon the earth.
+
+WILLIAM H.F. LEE was the son of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and was born at
+Arlington, on the 31st day of May, 1837.
+
+He was educated at Harvard, where he ranked not only as a good scholar,
+but on account of his splendid size and strength became quite famous in
+athletics, being "stroke oar" of the University Rowing Club.
+
+His great ambition was to follow the profession of his father and to go
+to West Point; but having had an older brother there, that fact was
+considered in those days an insuperable obstacle. While still at
+Harvard, completing his education, he was, through the interest taken in
+him by Gen. Winfield Scott, who made the request as a special and
+personal favor to himself, appointed in 1857 a second lieutenant in the
+Sixth Regiment, United States Infantry, and inaugurated his military
+career by taking a detachment of troops to Texas by sea and then by land
+up the country to San Antonio.
+
+In 1858 he accompanied his regiment, under the command of Col. Albert
+Sidney Johnston, in the expedition to Utah against the Mormons, taking
+an active part in that campaign, marching from Fort Leavenworth to Salt
+Lake City, and then, when the troubles were quelled there, traveling on
+foot to Fort Benicia, Cal. While on the Pacific coast he received a
+letter from his father, written January 1, 1859, in which he said:
+
+     I can not express the gratification I felt in meeting Col. May in
+     New York, and at the encomiums he passed upon your soldiership,
+     zeal, and devotion to your duty. But I was more pleased at the
+     report of your conduct. I always thought and said there was stuff
+     in you for a good soldier, and I trust you will prove it.
+
+Resigning his commission in the Army, he came home to be married to his
+cousin, a Miss Wickham, and settled down as a farmer at the "White
+House" (where Washington met Martha Custis and was married), a large
+estate on the Pamunkey River, left him by his maternal grandfather, G.W.
+Park Custis, of Arlington.
+
+When that irrepressible conflict of 1861 was upon us, and Virginia
+called upon her sons to defend her soil, he, sharing the faith of his
+fathers, in the belief that his allegiance was due to his State, quickly
+raised a company of cavalry, and was attached to the Army of Northern
+Virginia. Serving in every grade successively from captain to
+major-general of cavalry, he led his regiment in the famous raid around
+McClellan's army, and was an active participant in all those brilliant
+achievements which made the cavalry service so proficient.
+
+In that terrific fight which occurred at Brandy Station, in June, 1863,
+he was most severely wounded, and taken to the residence of Gen. William
+C. Wickham, in Hanover County, where he was made a prisoner by a raiding
+party, and was carried off, at the expense of great personal suffering,
+to Fort Monroe. From the latter place he was conveyed to Fort Lafayette,
+where he was confined until March, 1864, and treated with great
+severity, being held, with Capt. R.H. Tyler, of the Eighth Virginia
+Regiment, under sentence of death, as hostages for two Federal officers
+who were prisoners in Richmond, and whom it was thought would be
+executed for some retaliatory measure.
+
+Exchanged in the spring of 1864, he returned, to find his young wife and
+children dead, his beautiful home burned to the ground, his whole estate
+devastated and laid waste by the ruthless hand of war; and yet almost
+his first act on reaching Richmond was to go to Libby Prison, visit the
+two Federal officers for whom he had been held as hostage, and who, like
+himself, had been under apprehension of being hung, and shake hands with
+and congratulate them.
+
+Immediately joining his command, he led his division in every engagement
+from the Rapidan to Appomattox, where, with his father, the greatest
+soldier of modern times, he surrendered to the inevitable.
+
+In a letter written by one of the most brilliant cavalry generals of the
+late war, in speaking of Gen. W.H.F. LEE, he uses this language:
+
+     He was a zealous, conscientious, brave, and intelligent soldier,
+     who fully discharged all of his duties. He was one of those safe,
+     sound, judicious officers, and you always felt when you sent
+     instructions to him that they were going to be obeyed promptly and
+     to the letter.
+
+What greater tribute could be paid a soldier?
+
+Having been married to one of the most accomplished ladies in Virginia,
+Miss Bolling, of Petersburg (who, with two sons, survives him) he
+removed in 1874 to Ravensworth, and was the next year elected to the
+senate of Virginia, where he made an honorable record.
+
+He was elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, and served
+his State with that fidelity which had characterized his every act
+through life--faithful, conscientious, and painstaking--ever alert to
+the interests of his constituents and seeking only how he could serve
+them.
+
+He was again reëlected to the Fifty-second Congress, and though by the
+will of Divine Providence he was not permitted to take his seat, he will
+ever be held in grateful remembrance by his late constituents, and when
+the long roll of Virginia's noble and heroic dead is called, the name of
+WILLIAM H. FITZHUGH LEE will be mourned by his mother Commonwealth as
+one of her noblest and truest sons.
+
+In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I shall read, as the most fitting tribute I
+have seen, an editorial from the Alexandria Gazette written the day
+after the death of Gen. LEE:
+
+     Gen. WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE, second son of Gen. Robert Edward
+     Lee, is dead. The bells here tolled late yesterday evening. A few
+     hours before the general had crossed over the river and was at rest
+     under his roof tree at Ravensworth, the southern sun lighted his
+     deathbed and the autumn breeze sang his requiem. Afterlife's fitful
+     fever he sleeps well. He was sick a long time, and as his disease
+     was incurable, death was a relief. No more pain for him now, but
+     the long and peaceful sleep of the just. His sorrowing family were
+     at his bedside, but he told them not good-bye, preferring to greet
+     them when they shall rejoin him in a better world. His death is
+     regretted by all the many who knew him; the more so by those who
+     knew him well.
+
+     Gen. LEE, like his father, was naturally quiet and retiring, and in
+     his intercourse with others, when right and principle were not
+     involved, invariably acted in accordance with the rule of _noblesse
+     oblige_, but when they were involved he was as firm in support of
+     his convictions as any other man could be. He stood foursquare to
+     all the winds that blow, but always with the propriety that
+     characterizes the perfect gentleman. He did his duty to his God,
+     his family, his State, and his country, and did it well, and
+     executed faithfully all the trusts committed to him in both
+     military and civil life. He liked the old manners and customs of
+     Virginia, but tried to conform to the new order of things with
+     becoming grace, and did so with no audible complaint and no useless
+     repinings. He served his State efficiently in her senate and in the
+     national Congress, and in the Confederate army he filled, by
+     merited promotion, every position from captain up to major-general
+     of cavalry. It was different once, but Virginia can ill-afford to
+     part with such a man now, and in his death, as in that of his
+     illustrious father, she has lost a true and gallant son, who when
+     not on duty was as gentle as a woman. Her fame has been increased
+     by having had such a son. May she have many more; like him.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. EDMUNDS, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: It is not my purpose to attempt any extended remarks upon
+the life and character of Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE, late a Representative
+from the Eighth Congressional district of Virginia, yet I can not permit
+this occasion to pass and my hand and heart to fail to pay my humble
+tribute to his memory. Gen. LEE's life had been spent after manhood in
+arms or as a tiller of the soil. In early life he saw military service
+as lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment, United States Infantry, and was
+with Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston in the expedition in 1858 against the
+Mormons.
+
+Resigning from the Army, he returned to his native State of Virginia and
+engaged in the pursuit of agriculture. Early in the late civil struggle
+he raised a cavalry company, and rose from the position of company
+commander to that of major-general, and followed the cause in which he
+had enlisted until the end at Appomattox. There two great military
+chieftains met, and one, his illustrious father, gave up to the other
+his sword and the mutilated remnant of an army which had fought with the
+utmost bravery and fortitude under a leader of unsurpassed skill and
+fidelity.
+
+Gen. LEE, after the struggle had ended, resuming his citizenship in
+peace, returned to his farm and occupation of agriculture.
+
+He was elected by his people from his senatorial district to the
+legislature. He served one term in the senate of Virginia and declined a
+renomination. He was afterwards elected from the Eighth Congressional
+district of his State to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses and
+again returned by his constituency to the present Congress; but the hand
+of death interposed, and he did not live to again take his seat in this
+legislative hall.
+
+The name of Lee, Mr. Speaker, has been an illustrious one in Virginia.
+No one can with safety challenge the assertion that that old
+Commonwealth has furnished, from the time of the Revolution, as many
+great men, in peace and in war, as any of the States of our Union. When
+the foundations of this great Republic were laid and constitutional
+principles evolved, whether the sword of the warrior or the mind and
+philosophy of the statesman were needed, you will find the marks and
+handiwork of some son of that State.
+
+Among those great men the ancestry of Gen. LEE were conspicuous. He
+inherited from his great father a disposition that was frank, manly, and
+chivalrous. Although with these distinguished surroundings, Gen. LEE had
+no undue pride, reserve, or self-assertion. His nature, on the contrary,
+was eminently amiable, generous, and sympathetic, and at the same time
+he was dignified, manly, brave, and ever courteous.
+
+Identified with the agricultural interests of his State, at one time
+president of the State society, and himself a practical and successful
+farmer and proud of his occupation, he mingled freely and congenially
+with that great class of our citizens upon whose shoulders repose in
+great measure the preservation and safety of the institutions of our
+common country. While he was especially devoted to the interests of the
+farmer, he was essentially a patriot, and loved his State and all its
+diverse interests with an enthusiastic devotion and yearned for her
+prosperity.
+
+He was a faithful, able, and vigilant Representative, and had in the
+greatest degree the confidence of his constituents and the people of his
+entire State. No one who ever knew him could fail to implicitly trust
+him. His State has lost a pure and noble son; the country a wise,
+conservative, and faithful Representative. We who knew him here can
+recall his manly robust form, his genial kindly face, his frank
+accessible address, his unfailing gentleness of manner, his cheerful
+friendly voice, as he walked along the aisles of this Hall.
+
+A man of his character and bearing could but wield an influence for good
+wherever his presence was.
+
+In a republic, where the people are the state, the advice, the
+suggestions, and the example of a citizen so high-minded and
+incorruptible are of great value not only in the councils of the nation,
+but in the everyday walks and details of life, in his beautiful rural
+home, surrounded by and mingling with his country people; and it was
+ever the pleasure and practice of Gen. LEE to associate freely and
+unrestrainedly with the great body of the people. His generous and noble
+heart had a sympathetic touch with them and their struggles, their
+callings, their work.
+
+But he has passed from us under the decree of the great Master to the
+great hereafter, leaving the record of a life of singular purity,
+directness of purpose, and freedom from guile; the record of a character
+unblurred, untarnished, unshadowed by the least stain; the record of a
+man high, noble, honorable, faithful to all the duties and relations of
+life.
+
+Mr. Speaker, Virginia, one of the oldest of the Commonwealths, within
+whose borders lie the remains of many great names, and the energies and
+reserved forces of whose people in times gone by have risen to great
+heights, receives to her bosom her dead son and bows with sincere grief
+over his grave; for to her, whether her hand wore the mailed gauntlet
+or followed the gentler pursuits of peace, he had ever been faithful,
+loyal, and true.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. TUCKER, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: I shall leave to others the task of portraying the life of
+Gen. LEE in its diversified pursuits, and shall content myself with the
+effort of giving to the House my conception of some of the
+characteristics of our deceased friend which made him throughout his
+life, wherever placed, a conspicuous actor in private and public
+affairs.
+
+In the early period of Virginia's history lived William Randolph, of
+Turkey Island (a plantation some 15 or 20 miles from the city of
+Richmond, near the scene of the terrific battle of Malvern Hill). He was
+the ancestor of all of that name in Virginia, and from him was descended
+in direct line Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and Robert E. Lee; the
+last-named the father of our departed friend. How could _he_ have
+manifested in his life less patriotism, justice, and courage with such
+exemplars of these virtues ever before him?
+
+His mother, as is well known, was a descendant from the wife of Gen.
+Washington by her prior marriage with John Parke Custis. Sprung from
+such a lineage; trained in a school where the amenities of life as well
+as "the humanities" were taught in their highest excellence, he
+practiced from his earliest childhood a scrupulous regard for the rights
+and feelings of others, and an indulgence to all faults except his own.
+
+With a self-control and equipoise which were never disturbed under the
+most trying circumstances, and a graciousness of manner which broke
+down all barriers, giving to the humblest as well as to the highest the
+assurance of his friendly consideration, and a mind well disciplined by
+education in the highest schools, it was impossible that he could have
+been other than a man of mark and influence in his State.
+
+It is not claiming too much to say that Gen. LEE was the natural product
+of the civilization existing in Virginia during his boyhood and early
+manhood, which, alas, except here and there in certain localities, is
+fast passing away. The home, not the club, was its center; the family,
+not each "new-hatched, unfledged comrade," its unit. The father was the
+_head_ of the family, not the joint tenant with the wife of a house nor
+the tenant at will of his wife. The wife and the mother was the queen of
+the household, not merely a housekeeper for a husband and the family.
+Obedience to those in authority was the first lesson exacted of the boy.
+Inculcated with tenderness, it was enforced with severity, if need be,
+until the word of the father or the expressed wish of the mother carried
+with it the force of law as completely as the decree of a court or the
+mandate of a king.
+
+Reverence for superiors in age and deference to all, rather than
+arrogant self-assertion, was magnified as a cardinal virtue, not as
+teaching humility and enforcing a lack of proper self-respect, but
+rather to exalt high ideals and stimulate an admiration for "the true,
+the beautiful, and the good."
+
+Fidelity to truth, the maintenance of personal honor, deference for the
+opinions and feelings of others, without abating one's own or
+aggressively thrusting them on others; a kindliness of manner to
+dependents, a knightly courtesy to all, but with special and tender
+regard in thought, word, and action toward woman, were in turn patiently
+taught in all the lessons of the fireside and at the family altar, and
+earnestly insisted upon in the formation of the character of a true
+gentleman. "Any man will be polite to a beautiful young woman, but it
+takes a gentleman to show the same respect to a homely old woman" was
+the stinging rebuke of a father to his son who failed to remove his hat
+in passing a forlorn old woman on the public highway.
+
+The old-field school, the private tutor, the high school, whose
+excellence in Virginia I can not praise too much, the college, the
+university, led the young mind by easy stages to its full intellectual
+maturity.
+
+Nowhere was the principle "_Sana mens in sano corpore_" more
+scrupulously taught than in Virginia. The rod and stream, the gun, the
+"hounds and horns," the chase, with the music of the pack, the bounding
+steed, all lent their ready aid in developing the physical manhood of
+the boy. In the pure atmosphere of his country home, amid its broad
+fields and virgin forests, contracted houses in narrow streets had no
+charms for him. To join the chase was the first promotion to which the
+boy looked as evidencing his permanent release from the nursery. The gun
+and dog became his constant companions, while "Old Betsey," his father's
+trusted double-barreled gun of many years' usage, standing in the
+sitting-room corner or hanging on stag-horns or dog-wood forks on the
+side of the wall, was the eloquent subject of nightly rehearsals of her
+prowess and power in the annual deer hunt "over the mountains." Skill in
+horsemanship was essential, and breaking colts was naturally followed by
+broken limbs; but manhood found a race of trained horsemen, both
+graceful and skillful in the saddle, unexcelled, I dare venture to
+assert, by any civilized people. A child of nature, the Virginia boy
+communed with her as his mother, and from her purest depths drew the
+richest inspirations. To him no mountains were so blue as hers, no
+streams so clear, no forests so enchanting, no homes so sweet.
+
+    While others hailed in distant skies the glories of the Union
+    He only saw the mountain bird stoop o'er his Old Dominion.
+
+How vividly the picture comes to me now (never to be effaced) of a
+learned professor in one of Virginia's highest schools, himself
+three-score years and ten, a soldier of two wars, as he led the way
+through a quiet Virginia town on horseback, followed by two sons,
+distinguished ministers of the gospel, and they in turn by a younger son
+and the grandson of the leader, with a goodly train of friends, amid the
+blasts of horns and baying of hounds, who followed, eager for the chase
+among the beautiful hills which surrounded the town of Lexington, even
+as the mountains stand "round about Jerusalem."
+
+Religion--the duty of man to his Creator, not sectarianism--was
+scrupulously taught, and Sunday morning found the family alive in
+preparations for attending religious service at Zion or Trinity, as it
+might happen to be the first or the fourth Sunday of the month. From
+this duty none were exempt from the least to the greatest. The pastor
+was the friend on whom all troubles both temporal and spiritual were
+cast, and his visits were long remembered and talked of in the life of
+each family. Deference to his wishes and reverence for his character
+were well-nigh universal.
+
+    A man he was to all the country dear,
+    And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
+    Remote from towns he ran his godly race,
+    Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place.
+
+    Unskillful he to fawn, or seek for power,
+    By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour;
+    Far other aims his heart had learned to prize,
+    More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
+
+Such was the atmosphere in which our deceased friend was reared. He was
+a trustee in the venerable institution of Washington and Lee University
+at Lexington, Va., founded by Gen. Washington, and presided over by Gen.
+Robert E. Lee during the last years of his life; he was faithful to the
+trust, and ever watchful of the best interests of the school. The loss
+sustained by this institution in his death has been most fittingly
+expressed in the appended minute of the faculty of the university,
+adopted on the 19th of October, 1891:
+
+     At a meeting of the faculty of Washington and Lee University, held
+     October 19, 1891, the following minute was adopted:
+
+     Upon the announcement of the death of Gen. W.H.F. LEE the faculty
+     of Washington and Lee University unite in sorrowful sympathy with
+     his family, bereaved of husband, father, and brother; with the
+     Commonwealth in the loss of a patriotic citizen; and with the board
+     of trustees of this university, of which he was an esteemed member.
+
+     He was graduated at Harvard for the life of a civilian, but took a
+     commission in the United States Army as lieutenant, and served with
+     fidelity to duty under Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston in the Utah
+     expedition of 1858.
+
+     At its close he resigned and returned to his country home, where he
+     continued to live until 1861, when he entered the Confederate army,
+     and, rising by rapid promotion to the rank of major-general of
+     cavalry, closed his efficient and faithful military career in 1865,
+     when he again returned to country life, and died at the seat of his
+     ancestors, at Ravensworth, in Fairfax County.
+
+     In the mean time his private life was interrupted by the voice of
+     his people, which called him to their service in the senate of
+     Virginia and for three terms as their Representative in Congress,
+     two of which he completed, and left the vacancy in the third by his
+     untimely death.
+
+     Truth, honor, and courage to do good and to resist evil, sincerity
+     in all relations and fidelity to all duty, were heirlooms of his
+     race and lineage, which he kept and left untarnished to his
+     posterity.
+
+     With a mind strong and vigorous, a judgment sound and well-poised,
+     a calm and self-contained temper, which impelled him to the right
+     and restrained him from the wrong, and a moral sense which guided
+     and controlled his purposes and his actions along the path of
+     absolute rectitude, he lived a life adorned by noble virtues and
+     filled with noble deeds. Gentle but firm, decided, and fixed in his
+     convictions, but respectful and deferential to those of others, he
+     was a model of all the splendid qualities which make up the
+     character of a courteous and Christian gentleman.
+
+     In addition to all these natural gifts his convictions led him to
+     the profession and practice of a simple and genuine faith in the
+     religion of Christ.
+
+     After an honorable military and civil career, in the peace of God
+     and in charity with his fellow-men, this worthy son of an
+     illustrious family died the death of the righteous and in the hope
+     of immortality through Him in whom he believed and trusted.
+
+     The faculty therefore declare--
+
+     That they have heard of the death of Gen. LEE with deep sorrow, and
+     mourn it as a calamity to his family, his friends, his country, and
+     to this university.
+
+     That they tender to his family these expressions of their
+     affectionate esteem for him as a personal friend as well as for his
+     service as a public man, and their sincere sympathy with them in
+     their peculiar and irreparable bereavement.
+
+     A copy. Teste:
+
+     JNO. L. CAMPBELL,
+     _Clerk of the Faculty_.
+
+An intimate association with Gen. LEE in the Fifty-first Congress and as
+members of the board of trustees of Washington and Lee University at
+Lexington, Va., and in private life, enabled me to form a just estimate
+of his character and of those personal qualities of head and heart that
+made him beloved by all who really knew him. While they have been well
+expressed in the foregoing minute, I may add from my own observations a
+brief summary of his noble character. His mind was eminently practical,
+and arrived at its conclusions more from an unerring instinct of justice
+and common sense than through the exacting processes of logic. His
+judgment was rarely at fault, for his intellect was not swerved by
+passion or prejudice, but was held in perfect equipoise to receive the
+truth on both sides of every question. His deference to the opinions of
+others and his caution in seeking the views of those on whose discretion
+he relied suggested to some who did not know him that he was hesitating
+in temperament. This was not true. He sought all the light possible on
+every subject patiently and earnestly, and when he arrived at his
+conclusion no man adhered to it more tenaciously or enforced it more
+earnestly.
+
+As a speaker, Gen. LEE possessed many of the attributes of the orator, a
+gift inherited from his grandfather, Light-Horse Harry Lee. He was
+graceful in delivery, persuasive in manner, and forcible in argument.
+
+His diction was pure, unpretentious, and simple. His speeches were
+often embellished with references to ancient and modern history and
+mythology with which he seemed to be very familiar.
+
+Dutifulness, I believe, was the most prominent trait of his character.
+It was the star by which his life was guided. Once persuaded that a
+certain measure or a certain line of policy was right, and he was
+unflinchingly firm in its support. No burden was too heavy, no privation
+too severe, if only they were borne along the path of duty.
+
+He exemplified in his life the noble utterance of his distinguished
+father: "Duty is the sublimest word in the English language."
+
+In politics he was a Democrat, but not a partisan, and he firmly
+believed that the supremacy of his party was necessary for the good of
+the country and the welfare of the people. His patriotism was exalted,
+and his faith in the ultimate triumph of the right never wavered.
+
+His manly appearance, his gracious but dignified manner, his courtly
+bearing and pleasing conversation marked him as a gentleman of the "old
+school," as one of nature's noblemen.
+
+Any sketch of Gen. LEE would indeed be imperfect that failed to mention
+his love for little children, and his friends will never fail to recall
+the tender interest he always manifested in the children of their
+families, especially in the youngest.
+
+His life, Mr. Speaker, was a truly noble one. It was on the highest
+plane. His character had no spot or blemish upon it that sweet charity
+would now consign to oblivion, but it was robust, well-rounded, and
+symmetrical, open as day. His ambition was not to attain but to deserve
+the praise of the good, and that higher benediction, to be pronounced by
+the final Judge of the world: "Well done, good and faithful servant;
+enter thou into the joys of thy Lord."
+
+He was an earnest believer in the Christian faith. The abstruse
+doctrines of the church formed no part of his creed. His faith was in
+the Christ the Saviour of mankind; a faith which illumined his pathway
+in life, lightening his burdens, exalting his nature, and which
+sustained him without fear when he met the last enemy of the race as he
+walked through "the valley of the shadow of death." It was the faith of
+a little child--
+
+                           An assured belief
+    That the procession of our fate, howe'er
+    Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being
+    Of infinite benevolence and power,
+    Whose everlasting purposes embrace
+    All accidents, converting them to good.
+
+His funeral and burial, Mr. Speaker, will never be forgotten by those
+who witnessed it. The autumn sun was fast sinking behind the bright
+curtain of the west, bathing "the mellow autumn fields" of Old Virginia
+with its purple hues. Untrumpeted by official authority, scores of
+friends from city, town, village, farm, and cabin gathered at
+Ravensworth to pay the last sad honor to their beloved friend. White and
+colored, rich and poor, high and low, soldiers, citizens, and statesmen,
+all were there.
+
+His body was borne from the house to the ivy-clad family graveyard by
+the sturdy yeomanry of the neighborhood. In the presence of that vast
+throng, with uncovered heads, his comrades, who had followed him on many
+a hard-fought battlefield, performed the last sad rites, and with their
+own hands filled his grave and planted upon it the "immortelles" of
+their affection and devotion. Faces that never blanched amid the storm
+of battle paled; hearts that never quailed in the presence of an enemy
+broke in the presence of the last enemy of us all, and the silent,
+pitiless tear which fell from the eye was hidden by the lengthening
+shadows of the evening, which were fast gathering round the scene.
+
+    Beloved friend, farewell and hail!
+      Removed from sight, yet not afar,
+    Still through this earthly twilight veil
+      Thou beamest down, a friendly star.
+
+    The prophet's blessing comes to thee,
+      The crown he holds to view is thine;
+    Forever more thy memory
+      In heaven and in our hearts shall shine.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. O'FERRALL, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: These occasions of tribute-offering in this Hall never fail
+to impress me with extreme sadness, increase my awe and reverence of Him
+who holds in the hollow of His hand every moment we live and every
+breath we draw, and teach me the lesson of our mortality.
+
+These scenes have become very familiar to me, and their frequency
+reminds me with terrible force that--
+
+    All that lives must die,
+    Passing through nature to eternity.
+
+Most naturally am I more than usually touched and pained by the death of
+him which now hangs its somber drapery around the walls of our hearts
+and casts its pall over this Chamber. It is a death within the
+representative circle of which I am a member. It is the death of a
+colleague, a friend, whose presence in that circle always brought
+sunshine and never shadow.
+
+Tributes to his memory, clothed in language of beauty and breathing
+with love and burning with pathos, have already been paid, and others
+will follow; and now, while I can not hope to charm with the tongue of
+eloquence or touch the soul with the figures of rhetoric, I come with my
+tribute.
+
+It will be plain and unadorned, but it will at least have the merit of
+sincerity, and, like the widow's mite, be all that I can give.
+
+WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE, of Virginia, is no more.
+
+How the name of Lee, whenever uttered, wherever chivalry has erected her
+altar, sends a thrill like an electric current through every fiber of
+the manly man.
+
+How the name of Virginia has been upon every tongue since Queen
+Elizabeth, nearly three centuries ago, gave that name to that section
+around which to-day historic memories linger and traditions and glories
+cluster as thick "as the stars in the crown of night," the section where
+Christopher Newport and his devoted followers "builded an altar unto the
+Lord and in the savage wilderness" deposited the germ of this mighty
+nation, "and where God blessed them as He blessed Noah and his sons,
+saying unto them, 'The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon
+every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that
+moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your
+hand are they delivered.'"
+
+Virginia! The land of legends and lays--the land where the cradle of
+republican liberty was rocked, and where, in 1765, the first denial was
+heard of the right of the British Parliament to levy taxes upon the
+Colonies which kindled the fire of patriotic fervor and led to the
+ever-living, soul-inspiring words of her Henry and the raising up of her
+Jefferson to heights of imperishable fame and her Washington to the
+pinnacle of everlasting renown.
+
+Virginia! The land of battlefields and battle gore, colonial relics and
+Revolutionary monuments, spotless fame and unsullied honor; the land of
+patriot soldiers and heroes, and of a Yorktown, where the tyrant's head
+was bruised and the glorious strife ended which struck from our fathers
+the fetters and gave to them and their posterity a country gleaming in
+the golden sunlight of republican liberty, and throwing wide open her
+gates to the oppressed of every clime.
+
+Virginia! The land of mountains, upon whose summits and in whose gorges
+the spirit of freedom roams unfettered and unconquerable; the land of
+valleys, which are hung like alcoved aisles with scenes of heroism and
+pictures of daring, self-sacrifice, and devotion to principle; the land
+of rivers and rivulets, which reflect like mirrors the fields upon which
+her blood has been poured out like water upon the ground; the land of
+zephyrs and breezes, and where the storm king sometimes dwells, gently
+murmuring or in thunder tones proclaiming her glories and her fame; the
+land of blue beautiful skies, radiant with the virtues of her daughters
+and bespangled with the deeds of her sons; the land of memorials of the
+past, that inspire the Virginia youth, whether born in poverty or in
+riches, reared in the cottage humble or in the mansion stately, with a
+patriotism that knows not section and yet a State love that knows not
+bounds.
+
+It was in this land that Richard Henry Lee, the fire and splendor of
+whose eloquence burned like a hot iron into the soul of tyranny, and
+Francis Lightfoot Lee, both of them signers of the Declaration of
+Independence, were born; it was in this land that Arthur Lee, through
+whose instrumentality the Colonies secured the friendship and support of
+France, and "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, whose legion following his plume,
+struck the enemy in the bivouac, on the march, in the lurid glare of
+battle, on the flank, and in the front like a thunderbolt from the
+skies, were born. It was in this land that Robert Edward Lee, whose
+services on the fields of Mexico decked his brow with the warrior's
+laurel, and whose leadership of the Confederate armies in the
+unfortunate strife between the States made his name immortal, and whose
+virtues shine with the brilliancy of a polished diamond, wreath his
+character in moral grandeur, and draw pæans and praises from friend and
+foe and from every clime where exalted manhood and a spotless life find
+devotees, was born; and it was in this land that WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH
+LEE, whose memory we are here to perpetuate, was born--all, all of the
+same lineage and blood.
+
+What a line of illustrious and distinguished men of one name for one
+State to produce. What a line of illustrious men to spring from the old
+cavalier family that under the reign of Charles I settled in the county
+of Northumberland, between the waters of the Rappahannock and Potomac,
+since glorified by the pen of the historian and the lyre of the poet.
+
+WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE! How sweet does that name sound to me. What
+recollections does it awaken. How quickly do I find my heart throbbing;
+how rapidly my blood rushes through its channels.
+
+Less than a twelvemonth ago he sat in yon seat or moved hither and
+thither about this Hall and along these passageways, pausing here and
+there to speak a pleasant word or exchange a friendly greeting. His tall
+and commanding person, his open, frank, and benevolent face and courtly
+bearing marked him among the membership of this House, and would have
+marked him in any assemblage, whether in the glittering splendor of
+royalty or in the plain dignity of our republican institutions. To see
+him once was to remember him forever. His image is as distinct before me
+this moment as if he stood in the flesh with his eye beaming forth the
+goodness of his nature and his hand outstretched, as was his wont, to
+receive mine.
+
+Mr. Speaker, his illustrious father, when the shadows of Appomattox
+closed round him, when the darkness of defeat enveloped him, when his
+soul was rent and torn and his mind was filled with anguish and his
+ragged and tired and worn veterans, reduced to a mere thin skirmish
+line, the remnant of an army that had shed unfading luster upon the
+American arms and the American soldier, gathered with tear-moistened
+cheeks about him to bid him farewell and receive his blessing, gave
+utterance to a sentiment just quoted by my colleague [Mr. TUCKER], a
+sentiment as grand and noble as was ever written upon any Roman tablet
+or carved upon any column of enduring marble that was ever reared in the
+flood light of glory:
+
+    Duty is the sublimest word in our language.
+
+Yes, Mr. Speaker, thus spoke Robert Edward Lee, the soldier, hero,
+Christian, and philanthropist: and when we come to study the life and
+character of WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE we are impressed with the fact
+that he took duty as his talismanic word, that it was the star that
+guided him, and that he followed it as faithfully as the "wise men"
+followed the Star from "the East" to Jerusalem and thence to Bethlehem.
+
+We believe that in his youth, on the heights of Arlington, where his
+eyes first opened upon the light, he learned at his father's knee and by
+his father's daily walk and conversation the great lesson of duty which
+steered his course and pointed out his pathway in life.
+
+He was born, as has been said, on the 31st day of May, 1837. In 1857 he
+was appointed a second lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment of United States
+Infantry, and served in 1858 in the then far West under Albert Sidney
+Johnston, whose fame Shiloh echoes and reëchoes along the banks of the
+Tennessee. In 1859 he resigned his commission in the Army and returned
+to Virginia and located on his estate in the county of New Kent. In
+1861, when the Southern tocsin sounded and Virginia's voice was heard
+calling for troops, he raised a cavalry company and joined the Army of
+Northern Virginia. He rose gradually from captain to major-general of
+cavalry; was wounded in the terrific engagement between the Confederate
+and Federal cavalry at Brandy Station on the 9th day of June, 1863; was
+captured at Hanover Court-House, and was confined at Fort Monroe and
+Fort Lafayette until March, 1864, when he was exchanged, and repaired to
+his command, and served until the flag which he loved was furled forever
+at Appomattox.
+
+From that time forward he cultivated his large estate with much care,
+serving one term in the senate of his State, declining a renomination.
+In 1886 he was elected to the Fiftieth Congress from the Eighth
+Congressional district of Virginia, and again in 1888 to the Fifty-first
+Congress, and still again in 1890 to the present Congress.
+
+It was my privilege and pleasure to form his acquaintance in the army
+and to watch his flashing blade amid the carnage of battle, observe his
+cool courage and intrepid bearing and the love and confidence of his men
+upon more than one sanguinary field. He was as calm when the leaden hail
+was rattling and as cool when the shells were shrieking and bursting as
+he was upon this floor. He was a leader, not a follower of his men; if
+they went into the jaws of death, he was at their head. He fared as his
+men fared; if their haversacks were empty, his was empty; if they laid
+down in the mud, he laid there too; if they sweltered in the summer heat
+or shivered in the winter blast, he sweltered or shivered too; and thus
+it was he kindled in the breasts of his men intense love for himself and
+secured their implicit confidence in his leadership.
+
+The promotions he received, rising from a captain to a major-general,
+speak in terms stronger than any words of mine of his courage and valor
+and his qualities as a soldier and military chieftain.
+
+As a civilian, pursuing the quiet walks of rural life and devoting
+himself to agriculture, the noblest of all arts, he was honored by all
+the people and drew to him his neighbors, binding them with the steely
+bands of constant friendship. His word was as good as his bond, and the
+dusky son of toil as well as the intelligent tenant on his wide
+possessions relied upon it with absolute faith; and the most beautiful
+tribute that could be paid to his memory was the deep sorrow which
+manifested itself in a meeting after his death of those whose brawny
+muscle had held the plow-handles and whose toil had made the corn and
+the wheat grow on his rich and fertile fields.
+
+In politics he was a Democrat, and he was as pure in the political arena
+as in private life. He scorned the ways of the demagogue and the
+timeserver, and believed that "men should be what they seem." In the
+councils of his State and in the councils of the nation he was found at
+all times in full accord with the principles and policy of his party.
+
+As a Representative he was as true to his constituents as any subject to
+his sovereign, laboring in season and out of season to serve them, and
+even when his strong frame began to weaken and the germs of disease had
+been planted in his system he disregarded the warning calls for rest
+and continued to bend all his energies in the discharge of his trust,
+and I but speak the truth when I say that he fell a martyr to duty.
+
+But, Mr. Speaker, while he was grand as a soldier, pure as a man,
+exalted as a citizen, and faithful as a Representative, it was in the
+home circle, as husband and father, and not on the battlefield, in civil
+life, or in the halls of legislation, that the beauty and loveliness of
+his character drew a halo around him.
+
+He loved home, and it had a charm for him which neither pleasures,
+honors, nor fame could pluck from his bosom. Blessed by the
+companionship of one worthy of all adoration, and who presided like a
+queen over his household, entering into all his joys, sharing all his
+sorrows, and encouraging all his aspirations, he loved the breezes that
+kissed her cheeks, the birds that made sweet music to her ear, the
+rivulets that gently murmured her name, the flowers that shed their
+fragrance in her bowers, and the stately oaks under which the children
+of their union had prattled and the pebbled walks upon which they had
+played and gamboled.
+
+Yes, he loved home, and in its sacred circle his presence was like a
+sunbeam, brightening every face and warming every heart. He was all
+patience, gentleness, kindness, and love, and if there ever was a home
+which was a fit emblem of heaven it was Ravensworth, the home of this
+distinguished man.
+
+Mr. Speaker, he is gone. He lives now only in memory. In October last,
+when the frosts were blighting and the leaves were falling and the
+autumnal winds were sighing, after patient waiting for the fatal hour it
+came, and God's finger touched him, and the brave soldier, honored
+citizen, faithful Representative, devoted husband, and affectionate
+father was dead.
+
+He passed away quietly, strong in Christian faith and in the hope of a
+blissful eternity.
+
+WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE! His State mourns his death. Within the bosom
+of her soil he rests--peacefully rests. In his ancestral land near by
+Arlington, historic, revered Arlington, the scene of his childhood and
+early manhood, he sleeps--sleeps the sleep that knows no waking.
+
+    Earth, that all too soon hath bound him,
+      Gently wrap his clay!
+    Linger lovingly around him,
+      Light of dying day!
+
+And Virginia--
+
+                Bending lowly,
+    Still a ceaseless vigil holy
+    Keep above his dust.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. WISE, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: In accordance with a beautiful and impressive custom we put
+aside for to-day our legislative duties to pay a tribute of respect to
+the memory of Hon. WILLIAM H.F. LEE, of Virginia. In November, 1890, he
+was elected to serve as a member of this Congress from the Eighth
+district of that State, receiving in that action of his devoted
+constituents a merited indorsement of his conduct and services as their
+Representative for the two preceding terms. But when the day of our
+assembling arrived my colleague was not present to answer to the call of
+his name. He had passed over the river and was resting under the shade
+of the trees on the other side. He was beloved and honored by all the
+people of Virginia, and the announcement of his death, which occurred on
+the 15th day of October, 1891, was received everywhere within her
+borders with expressions of the deepest sorrow. He was born at
+Arlington, on the Virginia heights, opposite this beautiful city, on the
+31st day of May, 1837, and at the time of his death was in the
+fifty-fifth year of his age.
+
+In 1857, when he was pursuing his studies in the University of Harvard,
+in preparation for the active and serious duties of life, he received
+from the then President of the United States the appointment of brevet
+second lieutenant in the Sixth Infantry. At that time the spirit of
+resistance to the authority of the National Government was being
+exhibited to such an extent in Utah as to call for measures of
+repression. Assassinations and outrages of all kinds were common, and
+the officers of the United States were powerless either to prevent or
+punish their commission.
+
+When Mr. Buchanan became President the resolution was formed that the
+insubordination and conflict of authority existing in that Territory
+should cease, and the necessary executive and judicial officers having
+been appointed for the enforcement of the laws of the United States and
+the preservation of the public peace, it was determined to send a
+detachment of the Army to protect them against violence and to assist
+them as a posse comitatus, when necessary, in the performance of their
+duties. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston became the commander of this
+military force, and Lieut. LEE had his first experience of the service
+in this expedition. As the occasion does not call for a recital of the
+events of that period, I will content myself with the remark that he was
+then, as on every occasion in after years, faithful to the obligations
+of duty. His term of service in the Army was of short duration, and from
+that fact we may infer that he was not enamored with the life of a
+soldier in time of peace.
+
+In 1859 he resigned his commission, and soon thereafter was married to
+Miss Wickham, the daughter of a family distinguished in the annals of
+Virginia. They went to reside at the White House, on the Pamunkey River,
+in the county of New Kent. It was at this old historic country home that
+the marriage of George Washington with the Widow Custis was celebrated.
+It descended to Gen. LEE from his mother, who was the great-granddaughter
+of Washington's wife.
+
+Here he devoted himself to the tillage of the soil and became engrossed
+with the pursuits of a plain and unostentatious farmer. His condition
+and surroundings at this time were such as to invite contentment and
+encourage the cultivation of those pure and lofty sentiments for which
+he was ever distinguished.
+
+Being in the flower and strength of his young manhood and blessed with
+affluence and the love of an accomplished wife, there seemed wanting
+nothing to make his home an earthly paradise.
+
+But the course of this peaceful and happy life was not to run thus
+smoothly to the end. Dark and threatening clouds of war soon lowered
+upon our land, and the political conflicts and antagonisms, which had
+grown in intensity and bitterness with the flight of years, ripened into
+civil war in 1861. The crisis then arrived when the appeal to arms was
+inevitable, and with it the necessity that all men should decide whether
+allegiance was first due to the State or General Government. There were
+honest differences of opinion on this question, which had existed from
+the very foundation of the Republic.
+
+He was connected by blood with a long line of illustrious men, who had
+borne a conspicuous part in the events which led to the declaration of
+American independence and the establishment of this constitutional
+Government. It was Richard Henry Lee who offered in the Continental
+Congress, in June, 1776, that stirring resolution which proclaimed to
+the world "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be,
+free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance
+to the British Crown; and that all political connection between them and
+Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
+
+It was his own grandfather, known in history as "Light-Horse Harry Lee,"
+who, in the long struggle which followed this bold declaration, struck
+such sturdy blows for the liberties and rights of his countrymen as
+caused him to receive the special commendation of George Washington, of
+whom in turn he uttered those memorable words: "First in war, first in
+peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Bearing a name thus
+associated with all the glorious achievements of the past, it was but
+natural that he should have felt an ardent attachment to the Union. But
+he was a son of Virginia, "where American liberty raised its first voice
+and where its youth was nurtured and sustained."
+
+There the doctrine of the sovereignty of the State was accepted as the
+true interpretation of the Constitution almost without division of
+sentiment. Her people held that allegiance was first due to their State,
+and while all deplored the necessity for, few, if any, doubted as to the
+right of separation. When in April, 1861, a convention representing her
+people passed the ordinance of secession, he felt no hesitation in
+adopting his course. He resolved at once to consecrate himself and his
+sword to the sacred duty of defending her homes and firesides.
+
+Having raised a company of cavalry, he was made its captain, and was
+rapidly promoted from rank to rank until he reached that of
+major-general. Soon after his entry into the Confederate service he
+became associated with the command of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, and
+participated thereafter in nearly all the movements of that fearless and
+dashing leader, whom the brave Gen. Sedgwick, of the United States Army,
+pronounced "the best cavalry officer ever foaled in North America." On
+June 3, 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee, the father of my deceased colleague,
+assumed the command of the Army of Northern Virginia three days after
+the retiracy of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, caused by a wound received in
+the battle of Seven Pines.
+
+The plans of the Federal commander for the capture of the capital of the
+Southern Confederacy had been well chosen. His army, according to his
+own report, numbered 156,000, of whom 115,000 were ready for duty as
+fighting men. All the vast resources of his Government were being
+employed to enable him to prosecute his campaign with efficiency and
+vigor. His troops had been furnished with artillery and small arms of
+the most approved description and best pattern. They had abundance of
+ammunition of the finest quality and ample supplies of food and
+clothing. Gen. McDowell, then at Fredericksburg with 40,000 men, and
+Gens. Banks and Frémont in the valley of Virginia, were expected to
+coöperate in the movement. A line of fire was slowly but steadily being
+drawn around Richmond. These plans, as I have said, had been well
+conceived and were being executed with great precision and skill.
+
+To oppose this formidable advance there were less than 100,000 fighting
+men in Virginia, and they were greatly inferior to the enemy in both
+equipments and supplies. Gen. Johnston, penetrating the designs of his
+adversary, commenced operations to prevent their accomplishment. The
+bloody and stubbornly contested battle of Seven Pines was fought in part
+execution of his plans. When Gen. Robert E. Lee succeeded to the
+command it was apparent that some decisive blow must be struck to save
+the Southern capital from a state of siege. Surveying the whole field
+with a keen and practiced eye, he saw that the left wing of the Union
+army, which had been thrown across the Chickahominy and advanced to
+within four or five miles of Richmond, occupied a strong and almost
+impregnable position. An attack upon the center promised no better
+results.
+
+Under these circumstances he turned his attention to the right wing,
+and, in order to obtain the fullest and most accurate information
+concerning McClellan's position and defenses on that portion of his
+line, ordered Gen. Stuart to make a reconnoissance in the direction of
+Old Church and Cold Harbor. With 1,500 picked men that pink of Southern
+chivalry immediately undertook the execution of the orders of the
+commanding general. This daring exploit was popularly known as "Stuart's
+ride around McClellan." It is a fact that he did pass entirely around
+the Union army, and, building a bridge across the Chickahominy,
+reëntered the Confederate lines in safety. In this perilous expedition
+he was assisted by his bravest and best officers, among whom were Gens.
+WILLIAM H.F. LEE, and his cousin, the dashing Fitz Lee.
+
+More was accomplished than had been anticipated, and it was ascertained
+that the right and rear of McClellan were unprotected by works of any
+strength. In consequence of the information thus obtained the decision
+was formed to make the attack in that direction, and on the 26th of
+June, 1862, began that series of splendid battles which culminated in
+the retreat of McClellan's army to Harrisons Landing, on the James
+River, and the deliverance of Richmond from danger. On the 9th of June,
+1863, there occurred near Brandy Station, in the county of Culpeper,
+Va., one of the most extensive and stubborn cavalry fights of the whole
+war. Two divisions of Federal cavalry, commanded by Gens. Buford and
+Gregg, and supported by two brigades of "picked infantry," fell upon
+Stuart with such suddenness and fierceness that the attack was almost
+crowned with victory. Nothing saved him from defeat, if not from greater
+calamity, but his own coolness and that of his lieutenants, coupled with
+the indomitable pluck and intrepidity of his troopers.
+
+In this engagement that brave Georgian Gen. Young, formerly a member of
+this House, by a splendid charge with sabers, without carbine or pistol,
+repulsed a dangerous and gallant assault on the rear, while Gen. WILLIAM
+H.F. LEE, with equal courage and dash, protected the left of the
+Confederate position. In this encounter Gen. LEE received a severe
+wound, which necessitated his retirement from the field. He was carried
+to Hickory Hill, in Hanover County, the home of Gen. Wickham, a near
+relative of his wife, and here he was captured and placed in solitary
+confinement in Fort Monroe as a hostage, certain officers of the United
+States being then held under sentence of death in Libby Prison in
+retaliation for the execution of certain Confederate officers in the
+West.
+
+Gen. Custis Lee, being then a young unmarried man, on the staff of the
+Confederate President, met, under special flag of truce, representatives
+of the Government at Washington, and begged to be permitted to take the
+place of Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE, giving as a reason for the proposed
+exchange his desire to save from punishment the innocent wife and
+children of his wounded brother. The offer was declined, and he was told
+that the burdens of war must fall where chance or fortune placed them.
+
+In this incident we have a beautiful and touching illustration of the
+strength and warmth of brotherly love and of the knightly bearing of the
+Lees of Virginia. While thus detained as a prisoner of war, racked with
+physical suffering and those mental tortures which a sensitive and
+high-strung man must feel under such circumstances, there came the sad
+tidings of the death of his loved wife and two children; and thus was
+added another, the most poignant of all the griefs with which he had
+been afflicted. His old Virginia home, associated with so many sacred
+memories, had been reduced to ashes, and now there remained of the once
+happy family which formerly occupied it only the captive father. This
+weight of woe would seem too much for human endurance, but he bore it
+with the fortitude of a Christian soldier. He was exchanged in the
+spring of 1864, and returning to his division, led it in all the
+engagements, from the Rapidan to the Appomattox, where the curtain fell
+upon the stirring and bloody scenes in which he had been such an active
+participant.
+
+As a soldier he was always calm, cool, and self-possessed. Those who
+have had experience in the ranks know that the bravest and best soldiers
+will falter and hesitate when they are without confidence in the
+ability, judgment, and foresight of their leader. The soldiers who were
+ranged under the standard of Lee, believing that their noble commander
+was equal to all emergencies, followed him with unwavering trust, and
+their survivors testify to the affection in which a spirit so gentle and
+yet so brave was held.
+
+No higher eulogy can be pronounced upon any man than to say of him that
+which can be truly alleged of Gen. LEE, that he was an honored and
+trusted leader in that splendid Army of Northern Virginia, which only
+failed where success was impossible. They challenged the respect and
+admiration of the world, and of their great captain it has been said
+that "a country which has given birth to men like him and those who
+followed him may look the chivalry of Europe in the face without shame,
+for the fatherlands of Sidney and Bayard never produced a nobler
+soldier, gentleman, and Christian than Robert E. Lee."
+
+These meager details of our civil war have not been given with the
+purpose of reviving unpleasant memories or of perpetuating sectional
+animosities. They have been related because they constitute an important
+part of the story of the life of him whom we mourn.
+
+On both sides were displayed the highest qualities of the military
+leader, and illustrated as never before the pluck, endurance, and dash
+of the American soldier. They were Americans all, and, without
+distinction of sections, we can claim part of the honor of their
+achievements and partake in the pride of their great names. We have
+furnished to the world the indubitable proof that these States united
+are invincible. When, at Appomattox, our arms were stacked and banners
+furled we returned to our homes with no divided allegiance.
+
+We believe that in the safety of the Union is the safety of the States.
+And we rejoice that "the gorgeous ensign of the Republic is still full
+high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original luster,
+not a stripe polluted or erased, not a single star obscured, bearing for
+its motto no such miserable interrogatory as 'What is all this worth?'
+Nor those other words of delusion and folly, 'Liberty first and Union
+afterwards,' but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living
+light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and
+over the land and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other
+sentiment, dear to every true American heart, 'Liberty and Union, now
+and forever, one and inseparable.'"
+
+But while entertaining these sentiments, we can not, we will not, forget
+our glorious dead. The brave men against whom we fought neither expect
+nor desire such unnatural conduct. Whether the cause for which they died
+was just or not it would be idle to discuss. It is enough for us to know
+that--
+
+    They were slain for us,
+    And their blood flowed out in a rain for us--
+    Red, rich, and pure, on the plain for us;
+    And years may go,
+    But our tears shall flow
+    O'er the dead who have died in vain for us.
+
+After the cessation of hostilities Gen. LEE resumed the occupations of a
+farmer on the old plantation which he had left in 1861. The implements
+of warfare were exchanged for those of the husbandman, and following the
+plow on the furrows he commenced the work of repairing the losses he had
+sustained. In 1868 he married Miss Mary Tabb Bolling, the daughter of
+Col. George W. Bolling, of Petersburg, and they continued their residence
+at the White House until 1874, when they removed to Ravensworth, in the
+county of Fairfax, where he died.
+
+He was an able and faithful Representative, and always devoted to the
+interests of his constituents. As a fitting eulogy to his worth it may
+be truly said that it was his disposition to follow the line of duty to
+the end. The conscientious performance of every trust confided to him
+was the watchword of his life. In his conduct as a legislator he was
+never ruled by faction or interest, but the promotion of the public good
+was the motive of all his actions. While exhibiting none of the showy
+and sparkling qualities of the orator, he was distinguished for the
+possession of good judgment and strong practical common sense. He was a
+man of calm and even temperament, and was seldom, if ever, controlled by
+prejudices or swayed by passion. Those who were associated with him here
+remember his dignified and courteous bearing. No words of bitterness or
+reproach ever escaped his lips, and he never forgot what was due to
+others as well as to himself.
+
+I never heard him speak an unkind word of another, and while reserved,
+and to a certain extent formal, in his demeanor, he was a man of
+infinite sweetness of disposition:
+
+    And thus he bore without abuse,
+    The grand old name of gentleman.
+
+Both in his public and private life he furnished an example worthy of
+the emulation of all who love the true nobility of humanity. We will
+draw aside the curtain only for a passing glance at the domestic circle,
+of which his beautiful and lovely wife was at once the pride and the
+ornament. Surrounded by this devoted helpmeet and two manly sons, there
+was not a happier home in old Virginia. Warmed by the love of his big
+and generous heart, it was the abode of contentment and peace. The dread
+messenger was never more unwelcome than when he entered the portals of
+Ravensworth and made vacant forever the chair of the husband and the
+father.
+
+We can say nothing to assuage the poignant grief of the widow and
+children, but our hearts are filled with the fervent prayer that
+Heaven's choicest blessings may be showered upon them.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. HERBERT, OF ALABAMA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: In this brief tribute to the memory of Gen. WILLIAM H.F.
+LEE I should be unworthy of the friendship which it was my privilege to
+claim did I indulge in anything else than the language of soberness and
+truth. In him there was no manner of affectation; he pretended to be
+nothing but such as he was, and it is certain that if he had been giving
+directions to his biographer he would have laid down the rule announced
+by Thomas Carlyle, in his review of the life of Lockhart, that the
+biographer in the treatment of his subject "should have the fear of God
+before his eyes and no other fear whatever."
+
+Froude, as biographer, claims subsequently to have applied to the life
+of Carlyle his own rule; and all the world knows that in the portrayal
+of Carlyle's faults of character the biographer left many a sting in the
+hearts of those who had loved the great man while he lived and who felt
+that the failings on which the historian had dwelt ought to have been
+interred with his bones. The biographer who shall perform faithfully the
+task of writing the life of "ROONEY" LEE will not paint him as a genius
+like Carlyle; but, sir, if there was any single feature in the character
+of our friend that, laid bare to the world even by the bold hand of an
+Anthony Froude, would cause the faintest blush to tinge the cheek of
+family or friends, I, who knew him well, do not know what it was.
+
+It is true, sir, that it was not my fortune to be thrown in contact with
+him in the earlier years of his life. I did not know him when his
+character was being shaped and molded by the generous and refining
+influences which surrounded him from his cradle to his manhood.
+
+My personal acquaintance with him may be said to have begun only when he
+had taken his seat by my side in this Hall. But his fame had come before
+him. A representative of the most distinguished family in America, he
+had been, by this circumstance alone, conspicuous from his birth; and
+yet he came among us with not a spot upon his name.
+
+During the civil war, from a subordinate position rising rapidly to high
+command and always in the bright light that surrounded him as a son of
+the most illustrious general of modern times, he bore himself as a
+soldier without reproach. Neither in civil life nor in war had calumny
+assaulted him. Such a man, entering here upon a new career, attracted
+attention the moment he came into this Hall.
+
+It soon appeared to those who watched him closely that he was singularly
+modest. This modesty was not diffidence. He was at all times
+self-poised. On this floor, addressing himself to a public question just
+as in a private conversation among his friends, he always had the easy,
+unpretentious manner of the thoroughbred gentleman, but his modesty was
+easily apparent in an utter lack of self-assertion. He never put himself
+forward except when duty prompted, and then he did nothing for display;
+never a word did he speak for himself, but only for his cause.
+
+He made indeed no pretensions to oratory; he had never been trained in
+its arts; but his mind was broad and highly cultured, he had a vast fund
+of vigorous common sense, and he expressed himself readily and
+pointedly. With these faculties he would in time have taken rank as a
+strong debater.
+
+While broadly patriotic, he had at the same time a high sense of
+obligation to his immediate constituency, and he was patient to a
+remarkable degree. His district, you will remember, Mr. Speaker, lay
+just beyond the Potomac.
+
+It was an easy matter for his constituents to come to the Capitol, and
+naturally many of them sought office at his hands. I sat near him in the
+Fifty-first Congress. Often have I known him to be carded out a dozen
+times a day; and if he ever expressed himself to me as worried by these
+interruptions he never failed to show by what he said that his annoyance
+arose not so much from the importunities of his friends as from his
+inability to serve them.
+
+In address he was remarkably pleasing. Indeed, his manner was so genial,
+so pleasant, so hearty and sincere, that the memory of his kindly
+greeting will not be forgotten until the whole generation of his friends
+shall pass away. Who is there among his associates on this floor that
+will ever cease to remember him as, morning after morning in the
+springtime, he came into this Hall, bringing from his home a basket of
+roses to distribute among his friends? He was not seeking popularity.
+Such a thought had not occurred to him, nor did it enter into the mind
+of anyone here. He simply loved his friends, and he loved flowers just
+as he loved all things beautiful and true.
+
+Such a man could not but be, as Gen. LEE was, a model brother, husband,
+and father. In all his life nothing was more lovely and beautiful than
+his family relations.
+
+He had about him none of the arts of the demagogue; he was always true
+to himself, and therefore never false to any man. His whole walk and
+conversation illustrated that he was the worthy son of his noble father;
+that from his youth up he had profited by the precepts and example of
+that illustrious chieftain, who declared, in those memorable words
+already quoted by my eloquent friend [Mr. Tucker], that duty was the
+sublimest word in the English language. And, Mr. Speaker, let me say
+that the idea conveyed by this word duty, as taught by the father and
+practiced by the son, was far higher than that ideal, lofty though it
+was, expounded by philosophers like Plato and Cicero. With the Lees duty
+meant Christian duty.
+
+With all these characteristics Gen. LEE could not but grow and continue
+to grow as he did in power and influence in a body like this; and had he
+been spared for that long career in this Hall hoped for by his friends
+he would have risen to eminence as a legislator.
+
+But this was not to be. He has passed away from us forever.
+
+When such a man dies out from among us, let critics cavil as they may
+about time wasted in memorial addresses. We should do violence to our
+own feelings did we not pause to honor his memory; we should do wrong to
+the American people, whose heritage they are, did we not spread before
+them the lessons of his life, that the whole country may venerate his
+virtues and the youth of the land may emulate his example.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. HERMANN, OF OREGON.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: Of all picturesque spots on the face of the earth there is
+perhaps none that can rival in scenic beauty Mount Arlington, in the
+State of Virginia. Shaded by the primeval forest to the rear, and in
+front beautified by the gently sloping lawn, decorated by variegated
+flowers and artistically trimmed shrubbery, with the dark-green waters
+of the Potomac ebbing and flowing not far away and in full view the
+mighty nation's splendid capital city, stands the stately old mansion,
+with its classic columns, where nearly fifty-five years ago was born
+our departed friend and colleague, and one of the beloved
+Representatives of the people of Virginia--Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE. Born
+in Virginia, he remained a Virginian continuously to the hour of his
+death.
+
+Inheriting the martial genius of his eminent ancestry, he early aspired
+to a career in the military service of his country, and at the
+comparatively early age of twenty we find him bidding adieu to his
+college studies at Harvard and uniting with the Army in its expedition
+to Utah in 1858, where he first experienced the fatigues and hardships
+incident to the life of the soldier in the long march over the arid
+plains and through the mountain canyons into the Mormon territory. The
+prospect of inaction, with a long period in garrison, proved a
+disappointment to so ambitious a spirit, and he resigned his commission
+and returned to the domestic welcome of his Virginia farm.
+
+Soon, however, the indication of a long peace proved delusive, and the
+scene shifted. This time it was decreed that he should behold the
+terrible conflict in which one portion of his unhappy country was to
+engage in deadly array with another portion. Obeying what he conceived
+to be the mandate of his State, he followed the impulse of his feelings
+and the example of his kindred and his friends, and periled all in that
+belief. He participated at once, and most actively, in some of the most
+sanguinary engagements of the civil war. Wounded at one place, taken
+prisoner at another, then exchanged, and again in the van of battle, we
+find him following the forlorn hope until the close of the struggle at
+Appomattox, when he again returned to the old farm.
+
+He possessed the undivided confidence of his constituents. He was
+regarded by them, as he was so long observed by us in our intimate
+associations with him in this Hall, and especially in the committee
+rooms, as an intelligent and conscientious legislator, a laborious
+servant of the people, a courtly gentleman, a generous and devoted
+companion. Loyal as he was to his political convictions, he was yet the
+most considerate and the most conservative in his relations with those
+who radically differed with him. He admired frankness; he despised
+duplicity. While he was obedient to the reasonable edicts of caucus and
+party organization, we recall occasions when he was prompt to rise above
+the partisan. He was as broad-gauge and comprehensive in the study and
+performance of his duty toward all parts and all interests of his
+reunited country as he was anxious for the obliteration of sectional
+animosity and sincere and generous of heart in his social obligations to
+all of his fellow-men.
+
+The most touching remembrance we bear of Gen. LEE's goodness of heart
+has reference to his custom in springtime of bringing to this Hall from
+his farm great quantities of lovely roses, and having them distributed
+to his associates of both political parties on this floor with his
+compliments. Here we have a practical illustration that flowers are the
+interpreters of man's best feelings. In oriental lands the language of
+flowers was early studied and made expressive. As Percival says:
+
+    Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers,
+    On its leaves a mystic language bears.
+
+With Gen. LEE they bore tidings of good will to partisan friend and
+partisan foe alike. They bespoke in mute eloquence the expansive heart
+of one "that loved his fellow-men." Little, however, did he think at the
+time that these beautiful roses were especially speaking to him as
+emblems of a near immortality. Awakening from their sleep of winter,
+they were also harbingers of a brighter day to him and of the bloom of
+a glorious resurrection. The Germans have a saying that "he who loves
+flowers loves God." If this be applied to Gen. LEE, we have the blessed
+assurance that he has approached close to the celestial throne.
+
+Gen. LEE belonged to one of the most historic families of America.
+Looking back to the early settlement and the pioneer struggles of the
+peninsula and then through the plantation and colonial period of entire
+Virginia, we everywhere discover the genius, the dauntless courage, the
+independence, and the resolute patriotism of the Lees. It has been well
+said, sir, that Virginia is the mother of Presidents; and this is true.
+A momentary reflection does not suffice to demonstrate the various
+causes which combined to bestow upon the Old Dominion this prominence. A
+mature study, however, will serve a double purpose. It will teach us not
+only how Virginia more than any other State became the nursery for
+Presidents and statesmen, but how at the same time were given character
+and fame to its distinguished family--the Lees.
+
+The permanency and prosperity of states and political bodies are as much
+due to the character of their superstructures as are the strength and
+stability of the material edifice to the foundation upon which it rests.
+The Argonauts of Virginia united in a remarkable degree the pride and
+culture and learning and loyalty of the Cavaliers with the conviction of
+purpose and martial courage and discipline of the followers of Cromwell.
+First came the heroic vanguard--the men like Capt. John Smith--who
+blazed the way through the forests of the James, the York, the
+Chickahominy, and Pamunkey. Then followed the refined, enthusiastic, and
+chivalric gentlemen of the polished court of Charles I, with many of the
+clergy, who brought with them their intense loyalty to the Crown, as
+well as to the episcopal government and Anglican ritual. Among these,
+too, were the proselyted royalists; old and honorable families after the
+defeat of Charles, seeking exile in the far distant yet faithful
+Virginia. Then came those who triumphed at Naseby, and overthrew the
+kingly office and maintained the constitution of the realm and the
+integrity of Magna Charta and the Petition of Rights.
+
+The necessity for self-defense and the maintenance of order originated
+self-government and the assertion of individual right, and these united
+the widely variant elements of the community in a loyal union. It was
+the amalgamation of such spirits in Virginia in 1676 which demanded the
+right of personal liberty, of universal suffrage, and of representation;
+and here was fought the prelude of that great drama one hundred years
+later, when a Virginian, in the name of a whole nation, penned the
+immortal words which proclaimed to all the world the "inalienable right
+to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Here were the Lees, the
+Patrick Henrys, the Randolphs, the Jeffersons, the Madisons, and the
+Masons of Virginia; and here, to close the drama with freedom's
+triumphant army, was the most illustrious of them all--George
+Washington. It was from such an ancestry our late colleague was
+descended, and it was from such teachings and such examples he imbibed
+his zealous convictions of right and his sturdy regard for the exalted
+prerogatives of a free people.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. WASHINGTON, OF TENNESSEE.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: On the 15th of last October death again invaded the ranks
+of this House. The mysterious messenger laid the summons of his cold
+silent hand upon one who had immeasurably endeared himself to all whose
+good fortune it had been to know him. To-day we pause amid the rush of a
+nation's public business to mourn the country's loss and to pay a just
+tribute to the noble dead. When such a man as our late colleague, Gen.
+WILLIAM H.F. LEE, is taken from our midst, a void is made which can
+nevermore be filled. It is not his visible presence or his tangible body
+that we shall so much miss. It is the magnetism of a pure mind, the
+silent, potent influence of a spotless character, the power of a great,
+good, and noble soul to elevate and dignify all with whom it came in
+contact that will prove our irreparable loss. No man ever associated
+with Gen. LEE without feeling the better for it. To have been with him
+made you feel like one who had drawn a long deep inspiration of pure
+fresh air into his lungs after breathing the stifling atmosphere of a
+close room. His thoughts, his conversation, his ideas diffused about him
+a sound and healthy morality, that was as natural to him as its delicate
+odor is to the rose. Modest and gentle as a woman; sympathetic as a
+child; guileless as the day; a logical, well-trained, accurate mind; a
+horror of injustice; absolutely devoid of resentment; a benignant
+countenance, and a splendid physique, made him indeed a man among men.
+
+Sir, I believe not only in early training, but in the force of early
+surroundings and family traditions. Sprung from an illustrious line of
+statesmen and patriots, who had left their impress on every page of the
+history, civil and military, of this country from the colonial days to
+the present; born on those beautiful heights overlooking this city at
+Arlington, where the house was filled with the sanctified relics and the
+very atmosphere he breathed in childhood was pregnant with the
+traditions and precepts of "the Father of his Country;" his mother being
+the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted son of the
+immortal Washington; his father that world-renowned military commander,
+the self-poised, calm, patient, dignified, glorious Gen. Robert E. Lee,
+it would be unnatural not to expect to find the impress of all these on
+the heart and mind and character and life of Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE.
+
+To some my words of eulogy may appear fulsome; but having known him in
+public and in private, at home by his own fireside, as well as abroad on
+the active field of life, I know that my poor words can but fail to do
+full justice to his true worth. With him the performance of duty was
+accompanied by no harsh word or cynical expression; on the contrary, his
+calmness and uniform sweetness of manner were almost poetical. I recall
+a notable instance in the Fiftieth Congress, when, pressing under the
+most trying circumstances the passage of a bill for the relief of the
+Episcopal high school near Alexandria, he was temperate and patient.
+Standing on the Republican side of this Hall, among those who questioned
+him, his words fell softly and evenly as snowflakes on the turbulent
+House, which finally by an almost unanimous vote passed his bill.
+
+He shrank from publicity; therefore he never spoke on this floor unless
+it was necessary to push a measure intrusted to his charge; then he
+always acquitted himself with credit. In the committee and among his
+colleagues his influence was irresistible, because his judgment and
+integrity were above dispute.
+
+With him a public office was a public trust, which he accepted and
+administered for his State and his constituents without regard to race,
+color, or party affiliation. Many times have I seen him, when coming in
+from his country home in the morning, met at the depot by a dozen or
+more of his constituents, claiming his attention to their private
+matters with the Departments of the Government.
+
+The patience and tender care with which he heard and looked after each
+were paternal and pathetic. His love for little children was intense and
+beautiful. Nothing made him happier than to fill some little fellow's
+hands and pockets with candies and fruits, claiming only in return a shy
+caress. In his home is where his perfectly balanced Christian character
+shone in its brightest light. As father and husband he was indeed a
+model man.
+
+I shall attempt no extended biographical sketch; that has already been
+well done by others. Yet I can not refrain from saying that in every
+stage of his career Gen. LEE did his whole duty, actuated entirely and
+solely by the loftiest motives.
+
+A graduate of Harvard at twenty, he was appointed a second lieutenant in
+the regular Army. Often I have heard him tell of the wearisome march
+across the plains to California with his regiment, long in advance of
+civilization and railroads, when most of that journey through the desert
+was made perilous by roving bands of hostile Indians. Retiring from the
+Army, he married and settled at the historic White House, in lower
+Virginia. There he was the typical Southern country gentleman of
+refinement and culture, taking an active interest in agriculture and the
+public affairs of his community. When the war between the States
+summoned Virginia's sons to her defense he again became a soldier.
+
+Throughout the struggle he discharged every duty and was equal to every
+responsibility placed upon him. His soldiers loved and trusted him as a
+father, for they knew he would sacrifice no life for empty glory. The
+saddest chapter in all his life was when--a prisoner of war at Fort
+Monroe, lying desperately wounded, with the threat of a retaliatory
+death-sentence suspended over his head, in hourly expectation of its
+execution--he heard of the fatal illness of his wife and two little
+children but a few miles away. Earnestly his friends begged that he
+might be allowed to go and say the last farewell to them on earth. A
+devoted brother came, like Damon of old, and offered himself to die in
+"Rooney's" place. War, inexorable war, always stern and cruel, could not
+accept the substituted sacrifice, and while the sick wounded soldier,
+under sentence of death, lay, himself almost dying, in the dungeon of
+the Fort, his wife and children "passed over the river to rest under the
+trees" and wait there his coming. Yet no word of reproach ever passed
+his gentle lips. He accepted it all as the fortune of war.
+
+In all the walks of life--as a student at college, as an officer in the
+regular Army, as a planter on the Pamunkey, as a leader of cavalry in
+the civil war, as a farmer struggling with the chaos and confusion that
+beset him under the new order of things following the abolition of
+slavery, as president of the Virginia Agricultural Society, as State
+senator, and as a member of Congress--Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE met every
+requirement, was equal to every emergency, and left a name for honor,
+truth, and virtue which should be a blessed heritage and the inspiration
+for a nobler and loftier life to all those who shall succeed him.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. HENDERSON, OF ILLINOIS.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: It is not my purpose at this time to make any extended
+remarks upon the life and public services of the late Gen. WILLIAM H.F.
+LEE. Other gentlemen of the House, more intimately acquainted with Gen.
+LEE in his lifetime, are better prepared to do justice to his memory
+than I am. But having enjoyed a very pleasant acquaintance with the
+deceased during his four years' service as a member of this body, I
+desire to express the great respect which I entertained for him as a
+gentleman of high character and of noble, manly qualities. Descended
+from one of the most highly honored families in the State in which he
+had his birth, he was liberally educated, and at an early age entered
+the Army as a second lieutenant and served as such until 1859, when he
+resigned his commission and returned to the peaceful pursuits of civil
+life. In 1861 he followed his illustrious father, and entered the
+service of the Confederate States as a captain of cavalry. That he was a
+brave and gallant soldier there can be no doubt, for his military
+history shows that he rose step by step from the rank of a captain to
+that of a major-general of cavalry. In 1865 he surrendered with his
+father at Appomattox, and renewed his allegiance and devotion, as I am
+glad to believe, to the Government of the United States.
+
+I can but wish, Mr. Speaker, that such honored names as those of Gen.
+WILLIAM H.F. LEE and his distinguished father had never been led into
+rebellion against the Government of their country. But they felt it to
+be their duty to follow the fortunes of their State, and let us to-day,
+while mourning the departure of our deceased friend, rejoice that the
+surrender at Appomattox has been followed by a restored Union, and that
+our reunited, undivided country is now one of the strongest, most
+powerful, and prosperous of all the nations of the earth.
+
+As a Representative in this body, while he was not inclined to
+participate actively in the discussion of public and political
+questions, still Gen. LEE took great interest in all that pertained to
+the public welfare, and especially in that which, in his judgment, was
+in the interest of his immediate constituents. He was an able, faithful,
+and efficient Representative as well as a noble, manly man, and in all
+my intercourse with men I never met a more genial, warm-hearted,
+pleasant gentleman than the distinguished citizen to whose memory we pay
+tribute to-day. I well remember his kindly greetings, and I am sure all
+of us who knew Gen. LEE deeply regret his loss as a member of this body,
+to which he was for a third time elected by his confiding constituents,
+and extend to his sorrowing bereaved family our warm heartfelt
+sympathies.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. CHIPMAN, OF MICHIGAN.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: I have not been in the habit of speaking upon occasions of
+this kind, but it is one of the joys of my life, a very great joy
+indeed, to feel that I had a place in the heart of the gentleman whom we
+are now commemorating. I knew him very well, and in many respects I
+regarded him as one of the most fortunate men whom it was ever my
+pleasure to know. While many men here are struggling for fame, while
+many of them will leave the struggle heartsick, weary, defeated, he had
+that power, that charm, so precious and so lovely, of attaching men to
+him by the ties of affection. Little children loved him.
+
+There was a benignancy, a sweetness of demeanor, which attracted them to
+him, and while his name may not be sounded in the trump of fame, yet the
+subtile power of his gentleness and goodness has permeated many lives,
+will shape many destinies, and will have a force in the history of the
+world greater than that which will be exerted by many who will succeed
+him here. He was a soldier, yet he was gentle and kind. He was a
+descendant of a long line of honored ancestry, yet he did not believe
+that mere wealth was necessary either to respectability or to greatness.
+He was a farmer and loved the soil. He looked upon the ripened grain as
+the flower of human hope and as a minister to human needs. He loved the
+breath of cattle, and he regarded the occupation of an agriculturist as
+the noblest and the best in which a man could be engaged. He was a true
+son of the soil--hearty, simple, gentle, true.
+
+But, sir, the particulars of his career, both public and private, have
+been recounted by those who knew him well; have been recounted with
+great force, with great eloquence and propriety. There is, however, one
+part of that career to which I wish to refer. He was engaged in the
+memorable struggle which convulsed this nation from center to
+circumference and which fastened the gaze of the civilized world. I wish
+upon this occasion to say emphatically, that wherever we may have stood
+in that struggle, whatever was good and great in any man participating
+on either side of it is a precious heritage to the entire American
+people to-day. We proved that, North, South, East, West, we had not
+degenerated in the qualities which make a nation great.
+
+Grant and Lee, Sherman, Sheridan, and the two Johnstons have gone from
+us forever, and every day the green sward of peace, the flowers of
+affection, are placed above the grave of some hero of the blue or the
+gray. But I love to think that above these graves stands the Genius of
+American freedom, serene and grand, and bids the world behold how brave
+the sons of the Republic were in the past; how united they are in one
+purpose and one destiny in the present; how certain they are to be a
+people noted for reasonable liberty, for perfect union, and for
+sufficient material power to be formidable and just alike to the other
+nations of the earth.
+
+And so, sir, I come and lay the flowers of my Northern home upon the
+bier of this son of Virginia, this good citizen, this patriot, this man
+who, I am proud to believe, held even me in his affection. And when
+gentlemen here speak of the terror and the mystery of death, I tell them
+that to such a man death has no terrors, and that to the good man it has
+no mystery; for in that illimitable hereafter, which must be populated
+by all the sons of men, it must be, it will be, well with all of us.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. WILSON, OF WEST VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: The House has already heard from his friend and successor
+the story of Gen. LEE's life. I shall not, therefore, repeat it even in
+briefest outline. Enough for me to say that he was one in a long lineage
+of noted men, who by some innate force and virtue had stood forth in
+three generations as leaders of their fellow-men; that he was the son of
+the greatest of all who have borne the name, and that in early manhood
+he exhibited the soldierly instincts and the soldierly capacity that
+seemed to be historically associated with it.
+
+With such a lineage and with such a history he came to this House, and I
+believe I can offer no higher tribute to his memory to-day than to say
+that in all his associations with us here he was the embodiment of
+gentleness and modesty. Indeed, Mr. Speaker, as I now recall Gen. LEE,
+and explore with aching heart the memory of a close and cordial
+friendship with him, I can say with confidence that in the blending of
+these rare traits I have never known his equal. They were a part of his
+nature, not more illustrated in business and social intercourse with
+fellow-members than in his relations with the page who did him service
+and who learned to regard himself in some way as the special friend and
+associate of Gen. LEE.
+
+Many of us doubtless can recall the evident pride of the little fellow
+who occasionally placed upon our desks the roses which his kindly patron
+brought by the basketful in the spring mornings from his Virginia home
+to brighten the sittings of the House. And this gentleness and modesty
+were the more attractive because they were the adornment of a sincere
+and manly character. How much came to him as the rich legacy of
+ancestral blood and how much was wrought into his nature by the training
+of his youth it is idle to speculate. In both respects he was lifted far
+above the common lot of men. Of his mother it is said by those who knew
+her well that she was one of the most accomplished and at the same time
+most domestic, sensible, and practical of women. Of his father's
+influence and teaching, to say nothing of his lofty example, we have the
+striking proofs, if any were needed, in letters that have been
+published. Let me cull but an occasional expression from these
+unaffected outpourings of the heart of Robert E. Lee toward the son he
+loved so well. "My precious Roon," as he was wont to call him.
+
+When the boy was not yet ten years of age he closes a playful letter,
+adapted to such tender years, with these earnest words:
+
+     Be true, kind, and generous, and pray earnestly to God to enable
+     you to keep His commandments and to walk in the same all the days
+     of your life.
+
+A year later, writing from the ship _Massachusetts_, off Lobos, to his
+two sons, a letter full of interest to boys, he urges them to diligence
+in study:
+
+     I shall not feel my long separation from you if I find that my
+     absence has been of no injury to you, and that you have both grown
+     in goodness and knowledge as well as in stature; but how I shall
+     suffer on my return if the reverse has occurred. You enter into all
+     my thoughts, into all my prayers, and on you in part will depend
+     whether I shall be happy or miserable, as you know how much I love
+     you.
+
+Ten years later, when the son had become a lieutenant in the Army, he
+admonishes him:
+
+     I hope you will always be distinguished for your avoidance of the
+     universal bane whisky and every immorality. Nor need you fear to be
+     ruled out of the society that indulges in it, for you will acquire
+     their esteem and respect, as all venerate, if they do not practice,
+     virtue. I hope you will make many friends, as you will be thrown
+     with those who deserve this feeling. But indiscriminate intimacies
+     you will find annoying and entangling, and they can be avoided by
+     politeness and civility. When I think of your youth, impulsiveness,
+     and many temptations, your distance from me, and the ease (and even
+     innocence) with which you might commence an erroneous course, my
+     heart quails within me and my whole frame and being tremble at the
+     possible results. May Almighty God have you in His holy keeping. To
+     His merciful providence I commit you, and I will rely upon Him and
+     the efficacy of the prayers that will be daily and hourly offered
+     up by those who love you.
+
+A year or two later, on New Year's Day, 1859, he writes:
+
+     I always thought there was stuff in you for a good soldier and I
+     trust you will prove it. I can not express the gratification I
+     felt, in meeting Col. May in New York, at the encomium he passed
+     upon your soldiership, your zeal, and your devotion to your duty.
+     But I was more pleased at the report of your conduct; that went
+     more to my heart and was of infinite comfort to me. Hold on to your
+     purity and virtue; they will proudly sustain you in all trials and
+     difficulties and cheer you in every calamity.
+
+So, too, when the young lieutenant had married and settled down a
+typical Virginian farmer upon the estate left him by his grandfather
+Custis, the well-known "White House" on the Pamunkey, the home of Martha
+Washington:
+
+     I am glad to hear that your mechanics are all paid off and that you
+     have managed your funds so well as to have enough for your
+     purposes. As you have commenced, I hope you will continue never to
+     exceed your means. It will save you much anxiety and mortification
+     and enable you to maintain your independence of character and
+     feeling. It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than
+     to make our means conform to our wishes. In fact, we want but
+     little. Our happiness depends upon our independence, the success of
+     our operations, prosperity of our plans, health, contentment, and
+     the esteem of our friends, all of which, my dear son, I hope you
+     may enjoy to the full.
+
+With such counsels, glowing with a father's love and enforced by the
+constant example of a father's life, it is no wonder that the son grew
+into the manliness, the gentleness and modesty, the charitableness of
+judgment, the unconspicuous and patient devotion to duty, and the
+personal lovableness of Gen. LEE.
+
+Mr. Speaker, I might say much more from the promptings of a strong and
+unfeigned affection and from a sense of the public merits of our late
+colleague, but where there are so many to speak, it is not necessary for
+one to attempt a catalogue of his private virtues and of his public
+services.
+
+Perhaps I may fitly add a word in closing as to Gen. LEE's military
+career. From a captain of volunteer cavalry he rose on his own merits at
+the age of twenty-six to the rank of major-general. I have not searched
+the annals of war to recite his military history, for it is not the
+soldier that I have been commemorating, but I may recall a testimony not
+improper to be placed on record here to-day. I happened to be in company
+with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston about the time that Gen. LEE was first
+nominated for Congress. The old commander, who, as all know, was not
+given to effusive speech, expressed to me his hearty gratification at
+the event, and in doing so his high estimate of Gen. LEE as a man and of
+his ability as a soldier. His praise was strong and unstinted, and no
+one will question its sincerity. Mr. Speaker, what more need I add than
+to say that in all the acts and relations of life, as son and soldier,
+as husband and father, as private citizen and as Representative of the
+people, as friend and as Christian, our departed colleague left a memory
+we may well cherish and an example we may well follow.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. CUMMINGS, OF NEW YORK.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: Great as is our country, its history is comparatively
+brief. Though brief, it is exceedingly instructive. So far as there can
+be an outcome in ever-recurring events, it is the outcome of a
+tremendous social and political struggle. Sir, it hardly suits the
+occasion to refer to the origin of this struggle or to trace its
+progress, but the effort for popular government is discernible through
+many centuries. As we come nearer to our time it becomes more
+intelligent and determined. Our great Declaration was its best
+pronunciamento. Our written Constitution was its most concise
+expression. The events that produced them founded a normal school for
+patriotism. In it was perfected a new departure. Fealty to lord and king
+was supplanted by fealty to human rights. Proclaimed in the council
+chamber, these rights had to be won in the field. Yorktown completed our
+first endeavor at nation-making; we graduated masters at Appomattox. The
+first proclaimed the prowess of the Confederation, the second testified
+to the strength of the Union. Both astonished the world. Both transpired
+in Virginia.
+
+Conspicuous in this analogue of our history were the Lees of Virginia.
+They have a lineage too illustrious for praise. Its escutcheons are too
+bright for adornment. It reaches back for centuries loyal to honor and
+to truth. Him we mourn to-day was a gifted scion of that great name. His
+highest distinction was won in Confederate arms.
+
+Thank God, I can now speak of our civil war with satisfaction and not
+with reluctance. I allude to it with a satisfaction akin to that one
+feels in gazing upon a plain fertilized by an inundation. Flowers spring
+up, birds sing, and golden grain nods in the sunlight. But our civil war
+was more like an upheaval than like a deluge. It shook every timber in
+the grand structure with which we had surprised the world. Other
+governments have fallen of their own weight; our matchless edifice could
+not be shattered by an explosion.
+
+Both contestants stood guard over the popular principle and would not
+let it be mined. They were instructed in the same school and by the same
+teacher. Local privilege was as strong with the one as with the other.
+The dispute was whether the Union should endure the strain of the race
+and slavery issue. The long and vexing argument was adjourned to the
+battlefield. In no other respect was our system even threatened. This
+close connection at the root made the angry divergence begin to
+assimilate at the very outset.
+
+So kindred was it, that when Grant met his heroic opponent at Appomattox
+he says that he fell into such a reunion with him that he had twice to
+be reminded of the occasion that brought them together. He then
+conformed to it, and treated those who surrendered not as conquered, but
+as reclaimed. Lincoln went further. He found a Confederate legislature
+ready-made to his hand, and promptly permitted it to repair the
+situation. In thus mingling the gray with the blue he was neither
+color-blind nor purblind. He knew what he was doing. He desired to
+blend them, as emblematic of a more perfect Union. Possibly the
+Confederate legislature suited his purpose best.
+
+After this testimonial it looks to me something like treason to that
+great name to try to exclude Confederate worth from the annals of the
+strife or from the glory of its grand consummation. Neither act nor
+actor can be profitably spared.
+
+Mr. Speaker, the other day in this very Hall I laid a chaplet on the
+bier of a dead comrade. To-day I am trying to commemorate the virtues of
+a Confederate colleague. Both died while members of this House. That
+both were my countrymen warms my heart. As my countrymen I can make no
+invidious distinction. If living neither would permit it, and he is more
+reckless than I who would profane the memory of either.
+
+Mr. Speaker, I have said that I could speak of the civil war with
+satisfaction and not with reluctance. The occasion prompted me to say
+so. The occasion requires that, as a Union soldier, I should state my
+reasons. We learn from experience, and war is the toughest kind of
+experience. When it raised its horrid front and began its work of
+seeming devastation, we shrank back from its terrible promise. The world
+looked to see us dismembered; but the great Republic, like a daring
+cruiser, emerged from the tempest sound from keel to truck. Not a brace
+swung loose, not a plank was sprung, no spar was shivered. Within there
+had to be readjustment. Aloft the Stars and Stripes rose and fell in
+graceful recognition of the trial. The thunder of her broadsides
+proclaimed the value of this object-lesson in nation-making.
+
+We had learned a juster appreciation of ourselves as a whole people, and
+if this were all, it was worth the tuition. But we had besides garnered
+into our storehouse of knowledge vast consignments for the use of
+liberal economic government. We had infused into our laws, our language,
+and our institutions new vigor for conquest and for human enlightenment.
+Venality, that dogs great efforts, undoubtedly there was. But the high
+tide of the conflict showed no mercenary taint. On both sides it was
+urged from the highest motives of patriotism and of honor and in defense
+of the popular principle. That principle with us means local
+self-government and representative union. The rebel yell was because
+they thought local government in peril. The Federal huzza was for
+representative union. Together they were cheering the same deeply
+embedded sentiment.
+
+Those who would study the phenomenon must remember that where opinions
+approximate on parallel lines, but from some interest or sentiment
+refuse to coalesce, the passions are liable to ignite. Fusion then takes
+place in a terrible heat. The heat must be sufficient to remove the
+obstacles that the mass may become unified. We have as a result a firmly
+established representative union of local self-governments. The cooling
+and finishing process has left no flaw. Sir, what sort of a soldier must
+he be who is not proud of having been tempered in such a trial? If after
+the unmatched tournament this is not the spirit of victor and
+vanquished, then the lights of chivalry are burnt out and magnanimity is
+no more.
+
+Mr. Speaker, I know of no greater praise of a life than to say it was
+one of honest endeavor. Whatever faculties comprise it, this is the
+scope of human duty. When to this is added a conscience adequate to all
+the suggestions of a great and busy career, the sum of human excellence
+has been reached All this I believe in my soul can be truthfully said of
+"ROONEY" LEE. "Rooney" was his father's term of endearment, which all
+who knew him, without distinction of age, race, or sex, delighted to
+apply to him when absent. When present, it was always "general." A
+thorough soldier, there was an idyllic strain in his nature. He was
+essentially rural in his tastes. He loved the wheat fields and tobacco
+plantations of his native State. Its very air seemed to inspire him.
+
+The Blue Ridge was to him the perfection of natural beauty. He was warm
+in his friendships and true to his kinships. Always dignified, there was
+a heartiness in his greetings that was irresistible. He was as broad as
+his acres. Riding or driving over his vast estate or in its vicinity,
+his cheerful halloo rang in the ears of those who had not seen him, and
+the cheery swing of his hat, though paid to all, was a cherished
+compliment. If the spirit of mortal be proud, it was not his spirit.
+Courteous, sympathetic, unobtrusive, patriotic, knightly, and
+beneficent, he was a part of the soil of Virginia itself. He had the
+loving hospitality that would take all into the march of progress. How
+much of these qualities was innate, how much he drew from his high
+lineage, how much from the teachings of his illustrious father, can
+never be known, but he blended them in a halo that will not soon fade
+from his memory.
+
+Sir, others have spoken of the incidents of his life and of his unabated
+fidelity to its claims. I can not add to his record. I have met him in
+battle array; I have embraced him with a soldier's warmth. We entered
+Congress together; we have fought here side by side. It has fallen to my
+lot to eulogize him. This I will venture: It would mar the catalogue of
+bright names of which America is so proud if his were omitted from the
+roll.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. COWLES, OF NORTH CAROLINA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: Truly "in the midst of life we are in death." There is
+scarcely one of the associates and colleagues of Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE
+who knew him here and up to the closing days of the late Congress who
+would have been deterred by the thought of personal risk from exchanging
+the chances of life or death with him for a few months; and yet, in so
+short a time the dread summoner, who soon or late is to call us all, has
+taken him from this life into that which fadeth not, neither does it
+die.
+
+    The hand of the reaper
+      Takes the ears that are hoary,
+    But the voice of the weeper
+      Wails manhood in glory.
+    The autumn winds rushing
+      Waft the leaves that are searest,
+    But our flower was in flushing
+      When blighting was nearest.
+
+Yes, death, the unsolved and unsolvable mystery, has enveloped him, and
+he has passed from our view never more to be seen and known of men on
+this earth. But yesterday the living, moving, brave, sympathetic,
+generous friend, and now, alas, but a memory--and yet a memory dear to
+all who knew and appreciated his noble attributes of heart and mind; a
+memory which has left its impress upon his fellow-men for nobility of
+character; a memory which can not wholly fade, but must influence for
+good not only his own immediate posterity, but all those who may come
+after him.
+
+My acquaintance with Gen. LEE began in the early part of the war between
+the States. It was upon a night march, as we rode with the advance guard
+of the army, where we might expect at any moment a hostile volley. He
+related to me in a low impressive tone of voice an experience which had
+occurred to him when his command by reason of surprise had met with some
+disaster. What impressed me most at the time was that, although others
+must have been to some extent culpable, he took all the blame upon
+himself, and had not a word of complaint for either officer or man who
+served under him.
+
+This trait of magnanimity, such a splendid companion to personal
+courage, I found afterwards to be characteristic of the man.
+
+Though springing from a long line of heroic and patriotic ancestors, he
+had not a particle of pretentious pride, but to all men, privates in the
+ranks as well as officers, so that they were but brave and good
+soldiers, he always found "time enough for courtesy." He never tried to
+appropriate another man's laurels, but he possessed in a high degree
+that quality of courage which is so well described by Emerson:
+
+    Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
+    To mean devices for a sordid end.
+    Courage, an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,
+    By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.
+    Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,
+    Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.
+    Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,
+    By which those great in war are great in love.
+    The spring of all brave acts is seated here,
+    As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
+
+In his friendship he was gentle and tender as one who is full of love
+and human sympathy. You might have thought him better fitted for the
+paths of peace, and yet upon the battlefield he was brave as the
+bravest. Whenever and wherever duty called him his personal safety was
+by him never considered. Often have I seen him in the thickest of the
+fight, by his presence and personal direction cheering and encouraging
+both officers and men. Though the son of the general in chief of the
+army, he took no favor by it.
+
+He never took advantage of his rank to keep to the rear and send his
+regiments in. You could always measure his estimate of you by the manner
+in which he met you. The soul of candor, his heart shone in his eye, and
+placing a high estimate upon manhood, he loved all in whom he recognized
+it. For about two years during the latter part of the war I served in
+his command, and had every opportunity to observe and know him.
+
+My acquaintance with him here was but a revival of old memories. I
+always loved him as one who--
+
+    Spake no slander; no, nor listened to it.
+           *       *       *       *       *
+     Who reverenced his conscience as his king.
+
+Who, if he committed an error or wronged any man, was swift to redress
+it; never laying his blame at another man's door. Who excelled in all
+the virtues which go to make up a beautiful private life in all the
+essentials of faithful friendship and truthful character; who lived--
+
+                   Thro' all this tract of years,
+    Wearing the white flower of a blameless life.
+
+Think for a moment how much better and happier every one would be if all
+men were earnestly to strive to live up to this high standard and how
+much of pain would be spared the world. He was one of the most faithful
+members upon this floor; faithful to the public interest, and whenever
+any proposition was under consideration which specially concerned his
+own people, they always had in him an able advocate and strong defender.
+
+He is gone! sincere Christian, loving husband and father, trusted
+friend. The life that was given him has been taken away. The widow and
+the orphan mourn, and their grief is our grief; but a merciful Father
+has given him more than he has taken away, and this strength and comfort
+through the tender mercy of our Saviour is theirs--
+
+     I am the resurrection, and the life, he that believeth in me,
+     though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and
+     believeth in me shall never die.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. BRECKINRIDGE, OF KENTUCKY.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: I never had the pleasure of Gen. LEE's acquaintance, so far
+as I could recall, until he entered this House as a Representative of
+the district which lies just across the river; but there were many
+things in common between us which soon caused a kindliness of feeling
+much warmer than the frequency of our association would indicate. It
+happened that we were almost of the same age, born within a few weeks of
+each other, and that on all great questions of the day we were
+singularly alike in our opinions, and, if I may use such an expression,
+even in our prejudices.
+
+Amid all the trials of life we two found we had adhered to simple
+beliefs of those Southern homes in which we were the reared; that no
+advance in civilization, no pretense of progress, had ever obscured our
+views as to the olden beliefs and the simpler truths which had been
+inwrought into our being by the venerable fathers and beloved mothers
+with whom we had been blessed. The substratum of our beliefs was
+precisely the same. And we found that we were not ashamed of that
+substratum, that we were not given to apologizing for adhering to
+so-called "obsolete" traditions or to creeds "that were passing out of
+fashion."
+
+We also found that on the political questions of the day we were
+similarly in accord. We believed in the same political principles. And
+so it was a very rare occurrence that when the roll was called in this
+House we were not found voting, even on what seemed to be trivial
+matters, upon the same side. It was not strange that with these
+coincidences of belief and with our having both served in the
+Confederate army and the local accident of the nearness of our seats
+which threw us together, there grew up a regard greater than was
+indicated by our association outside of this Hall.
+
+If I were to select in my acquaintance him who, as much as any other,
+deserved the title, I would say of Gen. LEE that he was a gentleman. All
+that had concurred in producing him was of the best. The blood which
+gave him life, the soil out of which he grew, the kindly influences
+which always surrounded him, the molding powers to which he had been
+subjected--all were of the noblest. A son of such houses, reared at such
+knees, influenced by such powers, he passed early under the influences
+of Harvard. Later he took his young experience as a soldier under Albert
+Sidney Johnston. He began his civil life in a delicious home, with the
+love of an exquisite young wife. And in the Confederate service he was
+associated with the best and the bravest volunteers of the Old Dominion
+herself.
+
+It was not strange that the product of such influences should be a
+gentleman. All that was courageous, all that was loyal to truth, all
+that was courteous to those with whom he came in contact, all that was
+gentle and kindly was not only the heritage which he received with his
+name and his blood, but it was developed by all the environments which
+he was so fortunate as to have surround him. If I were to select a
+character of which it might be said that it was round, without angles,
+even without salient points, it would be his--not because he was weak,
+but because the calmness, the serenity, and the magnificence (if I may
+use a word that seems to be hyperbolic) of the equipoise of his
+qualities made each of them seem less important than it would have
+seemed if other qualities had been less.
+
+It would not be extravagant to apply to him the paraphrase of the
+apostolic description of a Christian gentleman--loving without
+dissimulation; abhorring the evil; cleaving to the honorable; preferring
+to confer honor rather than to receive it; earnest in the work of life,
+and careful of time and opportunity to labor; hopeful of all good;
+patient in tribulation; forbearing to resent trespass; charitable in
+thought and word, as in deed; given to hospitality; at peace with his
+own conscience and with God.
+
+We live, Mr. Speaker, in a heroic age. I constantly hear of this being
+an age of materialism, of the worship of the "almighty dollar." I
+challenge all the past, in all the endeavors of man, to reach a higher
+level, to equal the heroism of the age in which we have been called to
+perform our part--the devotion to duty, the readiness to make
+sacrifices, the willingness to give all for the truth which have marked
+our generation--the era in which we have to act our part.
+
+This simple, kindly, unaffected, modest gentleman; this man, with his
+sweet calm smile, who met us every day, passing in and out with a
+certain reticence of modesty, was himself but the type of the age in
+which he lived and of the people from whom he sprang. All modest as he
+was, he had given up everything at the call of duty. All simple and
+kindly as he seemed to be, he had at the head of charging squadrons
+captured cannon, and with more heroic endurance had lain without
+complaint in the cell of solitary confinement. He carried about with him
+in the simple modesty of his everyday life the heart that at a moment's
+notice was ready to still its beating at the call of duty; and with the
+same simplicity, with the same freedom from ostentation, with the same
+delicious smile, he would have walked into the jaws of death if it had
+become him as a gentleman to do so.
+
+To live in such an age, to be associated with such men--and, thank God,
+they are not uncommon amongst us--the bar at which I practice, the
+tables at which I sit in the kindliness of social intercourse, the men
+with whom I have been blessed enough to be called into contact, the very
+strangers who call on business at my house, rank among them men just
+like unto him. I say to live in such an age, to be associated with such
+men, to play a part, however obscure, in such drama, make life worth the
+living; make the hereafter nobler for him who has been so blessed.
+
+Mr. Speaker, to-day, in the midst of this the ending of the nineteenth
+century, we who will soon pass away, we who are but the remnants of a
+generation of war, can proudly hand over to those who shall come after
+us the example of lives that in war feared nothing but God, in peace
+strove for nothing but the good of the people.
+
+
+
+
+PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE.
+
+
+EULOGIES.
+
+MARCH 4, 1892.
+
+The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate resolutions from
+the House of Representatives, which will be read.
+
+The resolutions were read, as follows:
+
+     IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, _February 6, 1892._
+
+     _Resolved_, That the business of the House be now suspended, that
+     opportunity be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. WILLIAM
+     HENRY FITZHUGH LEE, late a Representative from the State of
+     Virginia.
+
+     _Resolved_, As a further mark of respect to the memory of the
+     deceased, and in recognition of his eminent abilities as a
+     distinguished public servant, that the House, at the conclusion of
+     these memorial proceedings, shall stand adjourned.
+
+     _Resolved_, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the
+     Senate.
+
+Mr. BARBOUR. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which I send to the
+desk.
+
+The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolutions will be read.
+
+The resolutions were read, as follows:
+
+     _Resolved_, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the
+     announcement of the death of Hon. WILLIAM H.F. LEE, late a
+     Representative from the State of Virginia.
+
+     _Resolved_, That the business of the Senate be now suspended, in
+     order that fitting tribute may be paid to his memory.
+
+     _Resolved_, That as an additional mark of respect the Senate shall,
+     at the conclusion of these ceremonies, adjourn.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. BARBOUR, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. PRESIDENT: The resolutions just read were passed by the House of
+Representatives on the 6th day of February last in respect to the memory
+of WILLIAM H.F. LEE, deceased, late a member of that body from the
+Eighth Congressional district of Virginia.
+
+Before asking the Senate to adopt the resolutions it is incumbent upon
+me, as one of the Senators from Virginia, as it is in harmony with my
+own personal feelings, to submit some remarks in explanation of their
+purpose and object; a sad and mournful duty to be performed on my part.
+
+Gen. LEE was my immediate successor in the House of Representatives, and
+served with ability and efficiency in both the Fiftieth and Fifty-first
+Congresses. He was reëlected to the present Congress, but his career was
+arrested by that higher and supreme Power to which we must all yield,
+and on the 15th of October, 1891, he departed this life at his home in
+the county of Fairfax, and in the midst of his family and friends.
+
+I do not consider it necessary in this presence or on this occasion to
+go into much detail touching the life and character of the deceased.
+
+The full and eloquent tributes paid to his memory in the House of
+Representatives show the high appreciation in which he was held by his
+associates in that body, and express in far more fitting terms than I
+could employ their estimate of his character, services, and virtues.
+
+Gen. LEE came from a distinguished lineage. Two of the family signed our
+Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence, and another was
+Attorney-General under Gen. Washington.
+
+On the paternal side he could refer to his distinguished grandfather,
+Gen. Henry Lee, of the Revolutionary army, who was known as Light-Horse
+Harry, the commandant of Lee's Legion, so conspicuous in the annals of
+that period. His maternal grandfather was the late G.W. Parke Custis, of
+Arlington, the stepson of Gen. Washington, and familiarly called in his
+day the child of Mount Vernon.
+
+His father, Gen. R.E. Lee, the chief military figure on his side in the
+late civil war, was too well known for comment at my hands. It is the
+boast of some of the old baronial families of England that their
+ancestors rode with William the Conqueror at Hastings. To a certain
+extent the pride of ancestry is an ennobling sentiment, and Virginians
+must be pardoned when tempted to refer to the illustrious names which
+their State in the past has furnished to the nation. The name of Lee has
+been a household word in Virginia for three generations of men. In the
+death of Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE the State has lost one of her truest and
+worthiest sons and the Federal Government a faithful and patriotic
+Representative.
+
+Although acquainted personally with Gen. LEE for many years, it was only
+within a year or two before his death that I had the opportunity to
+appreciate fully the high personal qualities of the man and to
+understand the real nobility of his nature. The more I saw of him the
+higher became my respect and admiration. He grew upon me with closer
+contact and more intimate association.
+
+I was greatly impressed with his invariable courtesy of manner and great
+amiability and kindness of heart, to which was added a knightly bearing
+and cordiality of greeting which, combined, made Gen. LEE with all
+classes of society an imposing and attractive figure.
+
+He has gone to his last resting place, mourned by his family and friends
+and lamented by an extensive acquaintance throughout the country. He had
+filled the measure of his duties in every respect, and was entitled, as
+he passed from the stage of action, to the plaudit, "Well done, good and
+faithful servant."
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. PASCO, OF FLORIDA.
+
+
+Mr. PRESIDENT: My acquaintance with WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE commenced
+in the summer of 1854, when we met at Cambridge as members of the new
+freshman class at Harvard College. He was just then entering his
+eighteenth year, was well grown for his age, tall, vigorous, and robust,
+open and frank in his address, kind and genial in his manners. He
+entered upon his college life with many advantages in his favor. The
+name of Lee was already upon the rolls of the university, for other
+representatives of different branches of the family had entered and
+graduated in the years gone by and had left pleasant memories behind
+them. His distinguished lineage made him a welcome guest in the older
+families of the University city, and of Boston, its near neighbor, who
+felt a just pride in the historic and traditional associations connected
+with the earlier history of the country, and many of the influential
+members of the class belonged to such families.
+
+He was rather older than the average age of his classmates, and his life
+had been spent amid surroundings that had enabled him to see a good deal
+of society and the world, so that he brought with him into his college
+life a more matured mind and a greater insight than the student usually
+possesses at the threshold of his career. He had enjoyed excellent
+advantages in preparing for the entering examinations, and was well
+grounded in the languages as well as mathematics, so that he entered the
+class well fitted for the course of study to be pursued. Thus, from the
+first, he was prominent in the university, and soon became popular among
+his classmates, and his prominence and popularity were maintained during
+his stay among us.
+
+This was due not to superior distinction in any particular study or in
+any one feature of college life, but rather to his general standing and
+characteristics. He kept pace with his classmates in the recitation
+room, not so much by hard and continuous study as by his quick
+comprehension and ready grasp of the subject in hand and the general
+fund of knowledge at his command. He was of a friendly and companionable
+nature, and there were abundant opportunities in a large class to
+develop this disposition, cultivate social intercourse, and strengthen
+the bonds of good fellowship. He had been accustomed to an outdoor life
+in his Virginia home, and his manly training had given him an athletic
+frame which required constant and vigorous exercise. This he sought in
+active sports on the football ground and in the class and college boat
+clubs, where he was welcomed as a valuable auxiliary.
+
+In a large university--and Harvard had gained that rank even as far back
+as those days--there are various fields of action, and other honors are
+recognized than those marked on the catalogue or contained in the
+degrees. The graduate who excels in mathematics, the languages, the arts
+and sciences, is decked with the highest honor on commencement day, but
+there are unwritten honors given by general consent of classmates to
+those who have developed a superiority in any mental or physical
+excellence. When in after life the members of a class meet on some
+public college anniversary or gather together at a reunion and the
+memories and traditions of college life are talked over anew, the merits
+of those who excelled in pleasant companionship, in kindly bearing, in
+generous conduct towards their associates, in outdoor games and sports
+requiring strength and dexterity, are pleasant subjects to dwell upon,
+even if the possessors failed to stand among the highest upon the roll
+of scholarship.
+
+Thus it was that LEE established himself among his associates during the
+three years that he remained among us, and though he contented himself
+with a medium standing in scholarship and exhibited no ambition to gain
+a high rank upon the college rolls, he won the regard and confidence and
+respect of all his classmates and held a warm place in the hearts of
+those with whom he was most intimate.
+
+Towards the close of our junior year, in the early part of 1857, upon
+the recommendation of Gen. Winfield Scott, he received a commission as
+second lieutenant in the Army, and was assigned to the Sixth Regiment of
+Infantry, which was ordered into active service on the Western frontier,
+and took part in the expedition to Utah which was commanded by Col.
+Albert Sidney Johnston. LEE accepted this appointment, closed his
+connection with the college, and our paths in life diverged for more
+than thirty years.
+
+In 1887 we both became members of the Fiftieth Congress. I well remember
+his coming to me, with kindly face and outstretched hand, on the first
+day of our session in December, as I sat in my seat in this Chamber,
+expressing pleasure at meeting me after so many years of separation and
+satisfaction that we were to have opportunities of renewing the
+acquaintance and friendship of our early days. Though the exacting
+duties of Congressional life gave me fewer opportunities of associating
+with him than I could have wished, yet I saw much of him during the
+years we spent here together, and I shall always remember those
+occasions with satisfaction. Sometimes it was only a word in passing, a
+shake of the hand, a brief conference on public business, but whether
+the interview was brief or prolonged his manner and conduct were always
+kind and friendly and sincere.
+
+While we were together in Congress he often referred to our college life
+and its associations, and remembered them with evident satisfaction. He
+became a member of the Harvard Club here in Washington, and I recall a
+pleasant evening when he was one of the after-dinner speakers there. In
+the summer of 1888 he went to Cambridge, to revisit the old scenes and
+once more meet his friends and associates of the olden time. He attended
+the commencement exercises and spoke pleasantly at the class supper. His
+classmates who then met him will long cherish the remembrance of that
+last visit, his hearty greetings, his cordial manners, the interest he
+manifested.
+
+The renewal of our acquaintance soon satisfied me that the experience of
+life had strengthened and developed all that was good and noble and
+manly in the young student. The same warmth and cordiality which had
+endeared him to his classmates won the regard and affection of his
+associates here. The same general ability and rotundity of character
+which had made him prominent in the little world of college life made
+him useful and influential in various lines of duty in the wide field of
+Congressional legislation.
+
+During the intervening years the manly bearing, the physical
+superiority, the nobility of spirit which had characterized him in the
+earlier days had made him a leader among men when the storm of war raged
+over the land. Brief as were the days of the unacknowledged Southern
+Confederacy, his name was enrolled in bright letters upon the pages of
+its history, and his brave deeds will in future days be chronicled in
+song and story by those who admire true courage and recognize all that
+was gallant and noble and heroic in the lives of all those who fought on
+both sides of our great struggle as worthy of preservation and
+commemoration.
+
+When LEE first left college his military duties, as has been already
+stated, carried him to the far West, and he there saw some rough
+service. The Utah expedition was a training school for soldiers and
+generals, and many who afterwards gained renown and fame, under the
+different standards were there associated together in a common duty.
+Besides the leader and commander, Col. Johnston, were Robert E. Lee,
+Hardee, Thomas, Kirby Smith, Palmer, Stoneman, Fitz Lee, and Hood. When
+the Army first entered upon this service there was a small cloud of war
+in the horizon, but it soon cleared away, and the company to which LEE
+was attached was assigned to a dull and monotonous routine of garrison
+life. This possessed no attractions for the young lieutenant, and there
+were other influences drawing him towards his native State. He resigned
+his commission, returned to Virginia, and settled at the White House, in
+New Kent County, where George Washington had married the widow Custis.
+
+The plantation had descended to her son, George Washington Parke Custis,
+and from him through LEE's mother to the grandson. He soon established
+his cousin, Miss Wickham, as queen of this historic home, and he was
+here with his little family amid these surroundings, with everything to
+make life attractive, when Virginia and her sister States of the South
+passed their ordinances of secession and sent delegates to Montgomery to
+unite in the attempt to form a Southern Confederacy. LEE never doubted
+that allegiance was due first to his State, and when war followed he
+drew his sword in defense of Virginia.
+
+As long as the strife continued he avoided no danger, he shunned no
+peril, he feared no adversary.
+
+Now with a company, now a squadron, now a regiment, now a brigade, now a
+division of cavalry behind him, he went upon the march, formed the line
+of battle, or rode into the enemy's lines. Whatever duty was assigned to
+him, he entered upon its discharge with energy and vigor. In the varying
+fortunes of war he was wounded, captured, held as a hostage; but the day
+of recovery and exchange came, and he once more headed the brave
+followers who loved and honored and trusted him, and during the last
+year of the struggle he again shared their hardships and privations and
+dangers. But the end came at last, the issue was settled, the
+arbitrament of war was decided adversely, and he sheathed his sword and
+returned to the place where his home had been.
+
+The year 1865 marked a low ebb in the fortunes of the Southern people,
+and perhaps it may not be unprofitable to dwell briefly upon their
+conduct when under the shadow of defeat and disaster. The distinguished
+father of him to whose memory we are this day paying tribute went from
+the head of a great army to train the new generation of young men of the
+South in the halls of a university to usefulness in the various walks of
+citizenship. The students who enjoyed the privilege of sitting at the
+feet of this grand college president there learned lessons of
+patriotism. They were advised to build up the places left waste and
+desolate, and to look hopefully forward to a reunited country and a more
+prosperous future.
+
+Whatever public disappointment or private grief or loss he suffered was
+buried in his own breast. He advised his countrymen that the great
+questions which had long divided the country, and upon which opinions
+had been so diverse that legislative debate and administrative action
+had failed in finding a solution, had been finally settled by the sword,
+and that henceforth their duty was to the Union restored and
+indissoluble.
+
+With so illustrious an example the immediate restoration of peace and
+good order all over the South is not to be wondered at. The annals of
+all nations may be searched in vain for a parallel. It is an easy task
+for men who have accomplished all they desired to lay down their arms
+and return to their homes and resume their former avocations.
+
+The Southern soldier did all this after failure and defeat. The cause
+was lost; his efforts availed nothing. The homes of many were in ashes;
+sorrow was in every household; many were stripped of their all. The
+labor system of the country was destroyed; commerce was dead. Many had
+not seed to plant their lands. The workshop, the manufactory, the
+shipyard were silent as the grave. The arts of peace seemed to have
+perished. The soldiers were disbanded without the means of reaching
+their homes, and the few survivors of those who went forth with bright
+hopes, proud and confident in their strength, returned one by one weary
+and footsore and disheartened.
+
+The history of other nations would have suggested to the historian that
+the result must be open riots and secret assassinations, a reign of
+violence and terror, years of turbulence and lawlessness, before society
+would settle down to its former condition. But how different was the
+result. The parole upon which the soldier was released was in no
+instance violated. The situation was accepted without a murmur or
+complaint. The laws were obeyed. The terms imposed were acceded to. Soon
+the busy hum of industry was heard through the land. The arts of peace
+were revived. Agriculture and trade once again flourished, and our fair
+country began to bloom again into something like its old-time beauty and
+prosperity.
+
+There were few Southern soldiers who returned to a greater desolation
+than did our late associate, Gen. LEE. Fate seemed to have done its
+worst. The beloved wife and the two dear children who had made his home
+at the "White House" a paradise had died in 1863, while he was held as a
+prisoner and a hostage at Fort Lafayette and Fort Monroe. The place had
+been occupied by Union troops; the mansion, with all its surroundings,
+had been destroyed by fire, and, as has been well said by another, there
+was "not a blade of grass left to mark the culture of more than a
+hundred years." Had he been an ordinary man he would have sunk with the
+load of sorrow and trouble which weighed him down. But he had a brave
+heart, which defeat and affliction and disaster with united effort could
+not conquer.
+
+With the same noble spirit which had actuated his father, the elder Lee,
+he threw aside his discouragement and took up the duties of life and
+citizenship anew. He had made himself famous as a soldier; he now began
+in earnest to cultivate the arts of peace. It was no easy task, for the
+era of reconstruction immediately succeeded the war, and only those who
+were actually under its ban can realize the burdens and hardships it
+entailed upon an unfortunate people emerging from a disastrous
+conflict.
+
+He rebuilt and reëstablished his home at the White House plantation. He
+was married November 27, 1867, to Miss Mary Tabb, daughter of Hon.
+George W. Bolling, of Petersburg. In 1874 the family removed to
+Ravensworth, in Fairfax County.
+
+At both these places he cultivated his broad acres and interested
+himself in all matters relating to agricultural progress and
+development. He advanced and promoted these interests as president of
+the Virginia State Agricultural Society. He represented his county for a
+term in the State senate, but declined a reëlection, and returned to his
+plantation and the enjoyment of home life. After a few years of quiet he
+was called, in 1886, to a new field of activity by neighbors and
+political friends, who desired his services at the national capital, and
+he became the Representative from the Alexandria district in the
+Fiftieth Congress, and he was in his third term, when, on the 15th day
+of October, 1891, the hand of death removed him from his career of
+usefulness. For weeks his strong constitution and vigorous frame had
+resisted disease in his Ravensworth home. All that kindness and skill
+could suggest was done in his behalf, but skill and kindness were of no
+avail, and he bade adieu to home and family, companions and associates,
+earthly duties and surroundings, and entered upon his eternal rest. His
+mortal life was closed.
+
+I well remember a day spent in his company nearly four years ago, and
+its occurrences gave me an opportunity to witness the regard in which he
+was held by those among whom he had lived and to whom he was best known.
+It was on Decoration Day, in a section of country where he had seen
+service as a soldier, not far from where he had lived in his early
+childhood. He was the orator of the occasion. Many of his old
+companions in arms and members of their families were among his
+audience, and they listened eagerly as he made appropriate reference to
+the departed comrades who slept under the little hillocks near by them,
+bright and fragrant with the flowers of early summer, which the loving
+hands of woman and childhood had heaped upon them. As he descended from
+the platform he was surrounded by old and young, who thronged about him
+to shake his hand or give expression to a friendly greeting. Admiration
+and affection were expressed upon their countenances for the brave man
+before them, whose gallant deeds had been told at every fireside in the
+country around, and who was loved and honored because, in addition to
+his own merits and virtues, he represented the great leader whose name
+was the embodiment of a precious memory.
+
+I have portrayed WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE as a student, a soldier, a
+planter, a public man representing his people in the State legislature
+and the National Congress.
+
+Some have united in paying tribute to his memory because they were born
+and reared in the State which gave him birth, some because they shared
+with him the hardships and dangers of his military career, some because
+they were associated with him in Congressional life and committee work.
+But while I take a great pride in all that he accomplished in the after
+years, it is more pleasant to me to recollect him as the student, for in
+that relation I was first drawn into companionship with him; it was
+during that period of our lives that I first learned to regard him, and
+my tribute is to my classmate and friend of auld lang syne. May he rest
+in peace in the bosom of the honored State he loved so well and served
+so faithfully.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. STEWART, OF NEVADA.
+
+
+Mr. PRESIDENT: The biography of WILLIAM H.F. LEE has been furnished by
+his colleagues and associates. I do not propose to dwell upon the
+details of his public or private career, or that of his distinguished
+ancestors, who acted so conspicuous a part in the history of the
+American Colonies and in the trying times of the Revolution by which our
+independence was gained.
+
+I had the good fortune to form the acquaintance of Gen. LEE and his
+estimable wife at the beginning of the Fiftieth Congress. I was strongly
+impressed with his noble presence, and his genial, modest, and dignified
+bearing. He seemed to me an ideal specimen of true American manhood. His
+wife was a lady whose appearance at once attracted attention and whose
+qualities of head and heart charmed and delighted friends and
+associates. He was a devoted husband. His tender and gentle bearing
+toward his wife were natural and unaffected. The daily life and conduct
+of both were a conspicuous example of the benign influence of a husband
+and wife who love, honor, and respect each other.
+
+My impressions of him were so favorable and agreeable as to create a
+desire on my part to cultivate his acquaintance and know more of his
+character. We met frequently, and discussed freely the social and
+political topics which engaged the attention of members of Congress at
+the national capital. He was modest and unobtrusive in the expression of
+his opinions; but as I knew him better I was profoundly impressed with
+the scope and breadth of his information.
+
+His judgment of men and measures was as free from local prejudice and
+partisan bias as any man's I ever met. He was induced by his generous
+nature to attribute good rather than unworthy motives to those with whom
+he differed. He was honest, true, and unsuspicious. On all occasions he
+expressed attachment to the Union of the States, and manifested a
+patriotic devotion to the Constitution as the charter of our liberties.
+
+He was a brave soldier, and fought on the losing side in a war that
+convulsed the continent and astonished the civilized world; and as a
+brave soldier he accepted without reservation the verdict of the war. It
+is to be regretted that his heroic services were not on the side of the
+Union, but the conditions which placed him in hostility to the flag of
+the United States are forever removed. Every cause which produced that
+terrible conflict was eradicated and obliterated in carnage and blood.
+The horrors of that fratricidal war are now history. The glorious
+results achieved are being realized in the abolition of slavery; in the
+Union of the States restored, strengthened, and cemented; in the
+respect, confidence, and just estimation of the people of all the
+sections for each other, and in the establishment beyond question of the
+capacity of the citizens of the Republic to dare and to do in great
+emergencies what to all the world seemed impossible.
+
+To-day the virtue, the patriotism, and the renown of the fathers of the
+Revolution and the founders of our free institutions are the common
+heritage of all the people, both North and South. The gallant and daring
+exploits of Legion Harry or Light-Horse Harry Lee, the grandsire of the
+deceased, inspire the same admiration and respect in the sons of the
+North as in the sons of the South. It is most gratifying that the
+descendants of the comrades in war and associates in council who gained
+the independence and established the Government of the United States
+are again united in stronger bonds of interest, good fellowship, and
+respect than ever before existed.
+
+Generations to come will enjoy not only the fruits of the Revolutionary
+struggle and the establishment of constitutional liberty, but they will
+be blessed with liberty that knows no slavery and with a Union forever
+indivisible, and they will contemplate with no partisan feeling the
+sacrifices which were necessary to secure such results. The type of
+manly virtue of which our deceased friend was a conspicuous example is
+one of the best fruits of free institutions. His death in the prime of
+his manhood and in the days of his usefulness was a great loss to the
+country and a bereavement to his family for which there is no earthly
+compensation. But he has left for them in his good name, his
+unimpeachable character, and his many virtues an inheritance more
+valuable than gold.
+
+He has gone where all must soon follow. The wealth of his example is an
+inspiration to the living to emulate his virtues, enjoy a conscience
+void of offense, and leave to surviving relatives the inheritance of an
+honored name. Such an ambition is worthy of an American citizen, and the
+value to humanity of such a life as that of Gen. LEE can hardly be
+overestimated.
+
+Why should death be regarded as a calamity? It is the inevitable fate of
+all the living. May it not be a part of life? The hope of immortality is
+the greatest boon conferred upon the living. On an occasion like this
+words will not soothe the grief of those who are near and dear to the
+deceased. Their consolation must be in the hope of reunion beyond the
+grave.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. COLQUITT, OF GEORGIA.
+
+
+Mr. PRESIDENT: It is a difficult and delicate task to draw with justice
+and propriety the character of a public man. Fulsome panegyrics have
+often been pronounced upon the character of the dead either out of
+flattery to the deceased or to gratify the ambitious desires of the
+living.
+
+In paying a tribute to WILLIAM H.F. LEE I am not influenced by any such
+questionable views. To do honor to his memory I need only say what
+justice and truth dictate. There is little danger, in speaking of him,
+of committing the offense of exaggerated eulogy. There is more danger of
+doing the injustice of understatement in commemorating a character so
+rounded and symmetrical.
+
+As a son, Gen. LEE's filial piety was so marked as to make him an
+example worthy of all imitation by the youth of his country. In every
+post of honor or trust to which he was called--and they were many and
+exalted ones--he met his engagements with such fidelity and courage as
+never to incur censure and seldom provoke criticism.
+
+His bearing as a private citizen was of such dignity and benevolence as
+to secure the love, while it evoked the admiration, of all who knew him.
+
+His character was made up of blended chivalry and courtesy and adorned
+with the mild luster of a religious faith.
+
+He was frank and open, plain and sincere, speaking only what he thought
+without reserve, and promising only what he designed to perform.
+
+As he was plain and sincere, so he was firm and steady in his purposes;
+courteous and affable, he was not influenced by servile compliance to
+his company, approving or condemning as might be most agreeable to them.
+He was a man of courage and constancy, qualities which, after all, are
+the ornaments and defense of a man.
+
+He had in the highest degree the air, manners, and address of a man of
+quality; politeness with ease, dignity without pride, and firmness
+without the least alloy of roughness. He loved refined society, but he
+had great respect and sympathy for those who had been reared in simple
+habits and the toils of life.
+
+He possessed an even and equal temper of mind. Those who best knew him
+can testify of him what has often been asserted of his great father,
+that they never heard an acrimonious speech fall from his lips; that his
+whole temper was so controlled by justice and generosity that he was
+never known to disparage with an envious breath the fame of another or
+to withhold due praise of another's worth.
+
+Mr. President, the friends of Gen. LEE do not claim for him brilliant
+talents and the gifts of genius. It is doubtless a beneficent ordination
+of Providence that the best interests of society are not solely
+dependent on what in common parlance is called genius. Fortunately for
+the good of mankind, great gifts and powers of mind are not
+indispensable to our happiness or to a safe and salutary development of
+social conditions.
+
+Patient industry and impregnable virtue are the essential cardinal
+qualities that make the man, in the vast majority of cases, worthy of
+love and honor, and which conserve the best interests of the world.
+
+That man who in his career and relations to society has gone on from day
+to day and from trust to trust, never disappointing but always realizing
+every just expectation, it seems to me is the character who deserves of
+his fellow-men the highest meed of praise, and gives in his person and
+example the surest guaranty that the world will be all the better for
+his agency in shaping its affairs.
+
+The friends of Gen. LEE enjoy the perfect assurance that in every walk
+of life, on every occasion when duty called him, his responses were ever
+marked by a dignified and intelligent performance of the tasks assigned
+him.
+
+What higher honor can we ask for him than this: that weighty as were the
+responsibilities that devolved upon him by inheritance and high as the
+expectations which were the natural implications of this inheritance, he
+fully and nobly met them. Much as was expected of him, he more than
+realized the claims and obligations of a noble lineage. His
+fellow-citizens and his contemporaries regard his career as an honor and
+his companionship as a delight and a resource that adds poignancy to
+their grief in the loss of so loved and valued a friend.
+
+I might refer to the incidents of his military career to illustrate his
+courage and fidelity, but it may not be considered appropriate to the
+time and the occasion. It is cheering, however, to believe that in this
+exalted body there is not to be found that spirit of truculent
+uncharitableness which refuses any credit to an honorable adversary.
+
+Time, which touches all things with mellowing hand, has softened the
+recollections of past contests, and they who looked upon him as a foe
+now only remember the glory of the fight, and would join hands with us
+to weave the garland of his fame.
+
+Securely may the friends and admirers of this noble character rest in
+the belief that his name for generations to come will be enrolled in the
+glorious list of worthies that has for all time made the name of
+Virginia illustrious and among the foremost of all the commonwealths of
+the ages past.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. BUTLER, OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
+
+
+It was my good fortune, Mr. President, to know Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE
+with the intimacy of personal friendship for more than a quarter of a
+century, and I can pass no higher encomium upon him than by saying he
+had all the qualities that constitute a true gentleman, a gentleman in
+the highest and best sense. He inherited from a very illustrious and
+distinguished ancestry a prestige rarely enjoyed in this country, and
+yet he was as unpretending, unaffected, and modest as the humblest man.
+His self-contained dignity of character never deserted him. His placid,
+well-balanced, well-poised equanimity always sustained him.
+
+It would be extravagant to say he inherited the commanding abilities of
+his illustrious father, but it would be entirely within the line of a
+just criticism to affirm that he did inherit many of the highest
+characteristics and qualities of that great man. In personal demeanor,
+in that suave, gracious, considerate, self-respecting, and respectful
+bearing which give assurance of the perfect gentleman he very much
+resembled his father. He was always approachable and cordial, and yet I
+doubt if any man ever attempted an improper liberty or ventured undue
+familiarity with him. His high character and affability of manner
+protected him against such relations.
+
+In the late civil war we served side by side in the same cavalry corps
+in the same army almost continuously from the beginning to the end. I
+therefore had the best opportunities of forming a correct estimate of
+him as a soldier and man, and it is within the bounds of just judgment
+to place him among the most distinguished in that brilliant array of
+American soldiers and men of that eventful period.
+
+I recall with vivid recollection my first association with him at
+Ashland, Va., in June, 1861, where he was stationed as a young captain
+of cavalry at a school of instruction. Thence he rose by regular
+gradations to major-general of division, resigning his sword with that
+rank.
+
+Gen. LEE never aspired to be what is sometimes called a "dashing"
+soldier. He was quite content with the serious, earnest, steady
+performance of his duties. It would be no compliment to say that a son
+of Robert E. Lee and grandson of "Light-Horse" Harry Lee had courage.
+Such a quality is a necessary ingredient of such a man's character. But
+his courage was not of that frothy, noisy kind so often paraded to
+attract attention. In battle he was as steady, firm, and immovable as
+any soldier who ever wielded a sword or placed a squadron in the field.
+In his relations to his subordinates he was the perfection of military
+propriety, always considerate and kindly, but firm and impartial in the
+enforcement of discipline.
+
+Towards his equals and superiors in rank he bore himself with a knightly
+chivalry that at once commanded respect and confidence. How could he
+have been otherwise, descended from such a noble sire, with such an
+example of courtly dignity and untarnished manhood?
+
+After the close of hostilities, having discharged his whole duty as he
+understood it with fidelity and courage, he retired to his native State,
+to his farm, and there, by the same quiet, honorable, manly course of
+conduct devoted himself to the duties of civil life, establishing by his
+example a standard of citizenship worthy the great Republic to which he
+renewed his allegiance.
+
+The people of the Commonwealth of Virginia could not and did not permit
+a man of his exalted character, sound intellectual qualities, and safe,
+conservative judgment to remain in private life. His services and
+example were too valuable to the public, and he was called into the
+public service, first as senator in the State legislature, later into
+the lower House of Congress.
+
+There, as elsewhere, he soon took rank among the wisest and safest
+legislators in the body pursuing the even, modest tenor of his way with
+that faithful regard for his duty to his constituents and his country
+that characterized every relation and position of his life.
+
+Those of us, Mr. President, who were favored with his acquaintance
+recall with a respect bordering on reverence his commanding figure as he
+came in this Chamber, his courtly presence, his gentle bearing,
+persuasive conversation, amiable, respectful manners. The consciousness
+that we shall never see him again is a sad and depressing reflection,
+and a mournful reminder that it is only a question of time--how long
+mortal man can not foretell--when those of us who survive him must obey
+a similar summons, and disappear, as he has done, from the scenes of
+life forever.
+
+In paying tributes of respect and affection to departed friends I know
+how hard it is to impose restraint upon our partiality for them and how
+strong the temptation to indulge in expressions of exaggerated eulogy.
+Knowing Gen. LEE as I did, I can say of him with absolute sincerity and
+truth that he was as free from the small and petty faults of our nature
+as any man I have ever known. In his private relations he was literally
+without guile or deceit. Straightforward, honorable, just in all his
+dealings, he was a model citizen and faithful friend.
+
+In his public life he proved himself equal to every station. Zealous,
+attentive, conscientious, untiring, he met every responsibility with
+fidelity and confidence. He never disappointed a friend, betrayed a
+trust, or took unfair advantage of an opponent. In a word, Mr.
+President, he lived a perfect gentleman, discharged faithfully every
+duty of life, and died honored and beloved by his friends.
+
+Others have spoken of the life and character of this distinguished man
+more in detail, more eloquently, with more finished oratory, but I yield
+to none in the sincerity of my humble tribute to his memory.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. DOLPH, OF OREGON.
+
+
+Mr. PRESIDENT: The echoes of the voices of those who pronounced eulogies
+upon the life and character of the late distinguished Senator from
+Kansas have hardly died away in this Chamber, and we have again laid
+business aside to pay our tributes to the memory of a late honored
+member of the House of Representatives and a distinguished son of
+Virginia.
+
+These sorrowful occasions, which are deprecated by some as involving a
+loss of the time of the Senate and needless expense to the Government, I
+can not think are unprofitable to us or to the country. Surely in the
+mad rush and hurry of business we may be permitted to halt long enough
+to take notice of the invasion of our ranks by death and to voice our
+esteem for a departed member. The death of an eminent member of the
+Senate or of the House is not only a loss to his immediate constituency,
+but to the whole country, and, in accordance with a long and honored
+usage, demands from his former associates formal and appropriate action.
+
+After such an hour spent in the contemplation of the common end of all
+that live, in introspection and retrospection, who of us does not again
+take up the burdens of life with renewed resolutions to redouble our
+energies to faithfully discharge every public and private duty.
+
+My acquaintance with Mr. LEE was not intimate. I frequently met him
+socially, but he did not belong to the party with which I am affiliated,
+and no fortuitous circumstance occurred to bring us together in the
+discharge of public duties. The incidents of his life, his public
+services, and his domestic relations have been fittingly alluded to by
+others, and it only remains for me to cast an evergreen upon his grave,
+to add my poor tribute to his memory, and give expression to the
+emotions awakened by the occasion and the exercises of the hour. Coming
+from a long line of distinguished ancestors, serving with marked
+distinction in the Confederate army until the cause he championed was
+hopelessly lost, honored by the people of his State by election to high
+civil positions, in which he did credit to himself and honored them with
+a rounded character and well-developed manhood, at once the incarnation
+of gentleness, tenderness, and courage, it is not to be wondered at that
+sorrow for his death hung over his State like a funeral pall, and all
+parties vied with each other in giving expression to the universal sense
+of private and public loss.
+
+He was the son of a distinguished sire, who in life was the idol of the
+people of Virginia; but he was held in the highest esteem by the people
+of his State not so much on account of his illustrious father as on
+account of his own ability and worth. His public services and his
+blameless life, touching, tender, and beautiful, won the tributes to his
+memory pronounced by his colleagues at the other end of this Capitol.
+Fortunate, indeed, is the man who can win such admiration from his
+associates.
+
+What higher eulogy can be pronounced on any man than that in every
+station, public and private, he was true to himself and faithful to the
+people and was equal to the duties of his station? Not every man can
+become great; genius is the gift of the few, but goodness and fidelity
+to duty are within the reach of all. He has gone the way of all the
+living. He has found the level of the grave. Our words of eulogy can not
+reach him there.
+
+    Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust,
+    Or flatt'ry soothe the dull, cold ear of death?
+
+Solomon, summing up this question, said:
+
+     For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any
+     thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them
+     is forgotten.
+
+     Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished;
+     neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is
+     done under the sun.
+
+To human reason the death of him we mourn was untimely. He was born May
+31, 1837, and died October 15, 1891. He was therefore in the prime of
+manhood, and apparently had many years of useful life before him. But
+death sometimes strangely selects his victims. No season, no station, no
+age is exempt from his fatal shafts. When death comes to the aged as the
+end of a fully completed life we regard it as natural. But when death
+comes to the young, the gifted, and the promising, we with our finite
+vision look upon it as sad and mysterious. We are constantly reminded
+that--
+
+    The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
+      And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
+    Await alike the inevitable hour.
+      The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
+
+It is creditable to our humanity that at the grave animosities are
+buried, and those who speak of the dead remember their virtues and pass
+over their frailties.
+
+     Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are
+     extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping
+     sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.
+
+     The reconciling grave swallows distinction first that made us foes;
+     there all lie down in peace together.
+
+To the grave, "the world's sweet inn from pain and wearisome turmoil,"
+we are all hastening. Earth's highest station and meanest place ends in
+the common receptacle to which we shall all be taken. Dark and gloomy
+indeed would be the grave without a hope in a personal immortality, a
+belief that the soul survives the body, and that to this immortal part
+the tomb is the gate to heaven. When one feels like Theodore Parker when
+he said:
+
+     When this stiffened body goes down to the tomb, sad, silent, and
+     remorseless, I feel there is no death for the man. That clod which
+     yonder dust shall cover is not my brother. The dust goes to its
+     place; man to his own. It is then I feel my immortality. I look
+     through the grave into heaven. I ask no miracle, no proof, no
+     reasoning for me; I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality. I am
+     conscious of eternal life.
+
+Or like Byron when he wrote:
+
+     I feel my immortality oversweep all pains, all tears, all time, all
+     fears, and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep into my ears
+     this truth--thou livest forever!
+
+Death loses its terrors and the grave becomes a welcome goal for weary
+and buffeted mariners on life's stormy sea--the gate to endless life.
+
+By these oft-repeated scenes in this Chamber; by the frequent visits of
+the stern messenger to both Houses of Congress to summon a member from
+his field of labor here to the bar of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe
+above; by the constant changes going on around us in obedience to the
+inevitable law of nature, by which death everywhere succeeds to life,
+we are reminded that we shall not long continue as we now are. It is
+possible that as we are startled by the announcement of the death of an
+associate we mentally ask ourselves, Who will be called next?
+
+    So live, that when thy summons comes to join
+    The innumerable caravan which moves
+    To that mysterious realm where each shall take
+    His chamber in the silent halls of death,
+    Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night,
+    Scourged to his dungeon; but sustained and soothed
+    By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
+    Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
+    About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. DANIEL, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. PRESIDENT: The late Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE was conspicuously
+connected with the public affairs of his State for more than thirty
+years. He was deservedly honored, loved, and trusted by the people. For
+two terms he represented the Eighth district of Virginia in Congress and
+he was elected for a third term, but when Congress met in December last
+his chair was vacant. Surrounded by his beloved family and bemoaned by
+all who knew him he peacefully breathed his last at Ravensworth, his
+home, in Fairfax County, on the 15th day of October, 1891.
+
+Thus, Mr. President, disappears one singularly endowed with the
+qualities that win the confidence and affections of mankind. His noble,
+honest face, beaming with intelligence and benevolence, was a true index
+to his nature. Strength of character and sweetness of disposition made
+him a man of mark and influence in all the relations of society. His
+life was full of noble uses. Respect for the rights and tenderness for
+the feelings of others stamped his conduct on every occasion. He
+fulfilled Sidney's definition of a gentleman, "high thoughts seated in a
+heart of courtesy," and I know of no better legacy that a father could
+leave his household or a patriot leave his country than such a record as
+he has left to attest his virtues.
+
+I will not penetrate the sanctity of the home bereaved by his death. The
+fond and noble wife and the sons who miss the husband and father, who
+was representative to them of life's dearest boons, have in his memory
+whatever earth can give them of consolation, and they learned from none
+more than from him to look above in sorrow and affliction.
+
+As a Representative in Congress Gen. LEE was diligent in the service of
+his constituents and in behalf of policies which commended themselves to
+his favor. He seldom spoke, but it was not because he could not speak
+well and forcibly. He was not noted as the peculiar champion of any of
+the great measures before Congress, but it was not because he did not
+comprehend them nor take great interest in them, and I doubt if there be
+many Representatives who have had a more wholesome or further-reaching
+influence.
+
+His fine character and engaging manner made friends for him and for his
+people. His excellent judgment had great weight in council, his
+political ideas were eminently liberal, and his tact and attention
+reached results where perhaps more aggressive qualities would have been
+ineffectual. On one occasion that I recall he was urging the passage of
+the bill to pay for use and occupation of the Theological Seminary near
+Alexandria during the war. He became the mark, in doing so, of inquiry
+and badinage, and some one, meaning to disparage the claim by
+intimation that the clerical professors of the institution had been
+enemies of the Government, called out to him, "How did they pray?" He
+answered instantly, "For all sinners." His ready pleasantry put
+everybody in good humor and the bill was passed.
+
+Gen. LEE was a representative man in a larger sense than that of
+official designation. He was a representative country gentleman, and the
+flavor of his native soil was in his character. He was born in the
+country, at beautiful Arlington, with the woods and fields and streams
+and mountain vistas around him. He lived in the country all his life,
+and died in the country, at his home in Fairfax County, an owner of
+land, loving the land; his home, a fine old country seat of colonial
+pattern, the scene of domestic peace and love and hospitality; his
+voice, that of the good people of his vicinage; his life, daily tasks,
+intermingled with daily studies and contemplation; his aims, those of
+the patriot and Christian, his country, God, and truth.
+
+Gen. LEE was a representative American of broad gauge and vision. Many
+of us--and I have felt myself amongst them--are quite provincial. We
+know our own neighborhoods and their people, and we grow slowly into
+knowledge of other sections and their people. Local caste, prejudice,
+interest, and bias warp us and minify our usefulness. Gen. LEE was not
+of this kind. There was no sectionalism in his caste, no bigotry in his
+creeds. His strong local attachments, natural to a true nature, neither
+dwarfed his opinions, soured his reflections, nor darkened his vision.
+His was a ripe mind and his a generous nature. He understood men,
+because he understood mankind. He had respect for all men, because he
+respected manhood. He dealt considerately and justly with all men of all
+races, creeds, opinions, and aspirations, because he respected men and
+because he had a good man's sympathy, with the hopes of his race, his
+country, and humanity.
+
+I would not speak of him as a brilliant man. He was more. He was a wise
+and good and true man. Gen. LEE was a representative of our racial
+history. The story of his family began when his remote ancestor rode
+with the Norman knights at Hastings. Another led a company of English
+volunteers with Coeur de Lion on the third crusade to the Holy Land,
+and was made the Earl of Litchfield. Still another was that Richard Lee
+who, intense loyalist as he was, became a commissioner from Virginia and
+urged Charles II to fly for refuge to the Old Dominion when his throne
+was trembling under him. Quarrel and fight as we may and as our fathers
+did before us, the continuity of race achievement is unbroken.
+
+The growth of race ascendency and the expanse of race domination are
+unceasing. The picture is unique and the nation one, however the theater
+enlarges, however the scenes shift, however the actors differ in the
+drama. Gen. LEE was a representative democrat or republican, for I use
+the words in their generic sense. His grandfather was that young
+American Capt. Henry Lee, the ardent youth of nineteen, who at the head
+of his company of Virginia horse reported to Washington for duty when
+the first army of Continentals were ranging themselves upon the plains
+of Boston. He was the first to break the record of his line for loyalty
+to the Crown of England in espousing the cause of American independence,
+the first to draw his sword for the new king proclaimed at
+Philadelphia--the sovereign people.
+
+As "Light-Horse Harry" Lee he goes down to history and renown;
+distinguished in general orders of the army and in promotion from
+Congress for one exploit, and for another with the thanks of Congress
+and a gold medal. In statesmanship as in soldiership, he was the friend
+and follower of Washington. In the Virginia legislature, when the
+resolutions of 1798 were debated, he took sides against them, and in his
+speech you may find nearly all the arguments which are used in favor of
+the Federal construction of the Constitution. When Washington died he
+was a member of Congress, and pronounced upon him the memorable words,
+"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his
+fellow-citizens." He was one of those virile men who could write, speak,
+and fight.
+
+When Gen. Winfield Scott led the American Army to Mexico there rode by
+his side Capt. Robert E. Lee, the son of Henry Lee, an officer of
+engineers upon his staff. He was four times brevetted for gallant
+conduct and came back famous. When Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston led the
+Utah expedition in 1858 there marched on foot in his columns Lieut.
+WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE, the son of Robert E. Lee. He was not a
+soldier by education, but by instinct. A graduate of Harvard College and
+the stroke oar of his class, he was well prepared for military life, and
+the third of his line to bear arms for the United States. But no war
+ensued; the canker of a long peace was settling on military aspirations.
+
+Lieut. LEE resigned, married, and settled on his farm, the White House,
+on the Pamunkey. With the prattle of little children around his knees
+and pastoral scenes before him, his prospects were those of domestic
+tranquillity and joy.
+
+What a rush was there to the standards when war broke out in 1861!
+Americans acted like Americans. They divided in conviction. They did not
+differ as to the method of dealing with conviction. To divide was the
+propulsion of conditions, to fight the law of blood. Not one of the Lees
+had provoked war, but not one stood back. The whole family of Lees
+became representative soldiers of their people; Gen. Robert E. Lee
+commanded the greatest of the Southern armies and his brother became an
+admiral of the Southern navy. His sons and nephews were soldiers and
+sailors.
+
+The nephew of Northern identity kept place with the North. The more
+numerous class of Southern identity kept place with the South; the boy,
+a private in the ranks or cadet on shipboard, the young men leading
+companies and regiments and winning brigades and divisions, the sire and
+chief commanding all. Their names are interwoven with war's dread story
+and splendid deed. Not one had any reproach; not one struck a blow below
+the belt. The woman, the child, the captive found a fortress in the hand
+of Lee, the foeman met his peer. The history of two continents and many
+centuries was written over again on fields of blood.
+
+WILLIAM H.F. LEE raised a company of cavalry at the beginning of the war
+and surrendered as a major-general of cavalry at Appomattox. He fought
+his way to his rank and suffered all of war's vicissitudes save death.
+His men believed in him and followed him. He was wounded; he was twice a
+prisoner; he was held as a hostage in solitary confinement with death
+impending. His wife and his children died while he lay wounded and in
+prison. Whatever man may suffer he suffered to the uttermost. Amongst
+his first acts when he emerged from prison was to visit, shake hands
+with and congratulate the Federal officer for whom he had been held as
+hostage. He was a representative Christian, void of vindictiveness and
+uncomplaining; he made no outcry of pain; he sealed his lips to
+reproach.
+
+I knew him well, respected him profoundly, and loved him dearly. I have
+often heard him speak at gatherings of old soldiers and on a variety of
+occasions; sometimes those of turbulence. I have marveled at his
+self-poise and reserved power. Never once did I hear him say ill of any
+man, nor allude to his own sufferings or deeds, nor utter words of
+bitterness. He took his lot as it came to him, as a man who does the
+best he can and leaves the rest to the Disposer of events. His
+conscience and his human sympathy, like his soldiership, were instincts,
+and his Christian creed was the sum of his intuitions. Gen. LEE was a
+representative of the times in which he lived, eccentric in no opinion,
+even-tempered, wise, cautious, prudent, steadfast, and gentle; he sought
+to be useful rather than to shine. He took deep and active interest in
+all that concerned his State.
+
+As a State senator he could be relied upon to support liberal and
+progressive measures; as president of the State Agricultural Society he
+did much to excite interest and develop improvements; as a trustee or
+visitor to educational institutions he rendered valuable practical
+service to the cause of popular enlightenment. In political life he had
+sharp contests; friend was surprised and opponent discouraged when
+emergency brought forth the reserve forces of his character and ability.
+If modesty cloaked his powers in retirement, opposition elicited them;
+and the fluency, tact, and ability with which he discussed issues and
+met exigencies were remarkable in one whose experiences of early life
+had separated him from civil pursuits and training.
+
+If I have spoken of Gen. LEE's ancestral distinctions, it was not
+because either he or his people have ever presumed upon them. On the
+contrary, no people whom I have ever known have rested less of claim
+upon their antecedents or less sought to substitute reminiscences for
+achievements. The independent, honest, and simple Republicans and
+Democrats of our country justly despise a pretender who boasts the
+shadow of a name; but that of which the individual may not boast becomes
+his country's pride; and I count it great glory to our country that its
+institutions have nourished and the highest characteristic of our race
+that it has produced successive generations of men who preserve the
+continuity of sterling virtues. I count also as the star of hope for
+this grand Republic that a distinguished soldier of a lost cause becomes
+the beloved statesman of the cause that won, and finds around him the
+old-time comrades and old-time foes, all his friends and each other's
+friends united in the service of our common country.
+
+No nobler words have been spoken of the late Gen. LEE than by soldiers
+who fought against him, and I respond to them with honor and praise. The
+production of men who may maintain the rights their fathers won, and
+ever grow in liberal thought, noble character, and worthy achievement is
+the highest mission of republican institutions. From Hastings, A.D.
+1066, to Boston in 1776, the name of Lee was blended with the glories of
+our fatherland. But from Boston to Appomattox it grew the more
+illustrious with grander opportunities. Victorious through a track of
+eight hundred years to the 9th of April, 1865, it has been still more
+victorious since--rising to the height of harder trials and sterner
+tasks and grander duties than those of leading embattled lines. The
+glorious nation of which he was a type and the glorious band of which he
+was the son come forth from ruin and desolation on one side, moved by
+gracious institutions and magnanimous sentiments upon the other, taking
+their place in the reunited columns of parted friendship, cementing anew
+by adaptive virtues the broken ties, marching again with the mutual
+magnanimities of companionship at the head of column.
+
+If a race that has won liberty and made it a birthright lets it slip
+away through hands of weakness or deeds of folly, and if the self-made
+man of to-day loses the vantage ground of his life work with his
+fleeting breath, the careers of nations would be brief, the story of
+liberty would be a nurse's tale, and the careers of individuals would be
+vanity of vanities. The prepotent blood that made an empire of an
+insignificant island and stamped its language and its laws upon it made
+also here the most splendid Republic of the earth out of a savage
+wilderness and assimilated to itself all tributaries. That Republic
+delegates its unfinished tasks to a posterity that will lift higher the
+monuments of its greatness and strengthen the foundations of its
+endurance; and in the lives of Gen. LEE and those of his worthy
+compatriots of all sections who unite as friends the moment conditions
+cease that made them foes, I see exemplified the noblest qualities of
+our kind and read the auguries of prolonged peace, progress, happiness,
+and stability.
+
+
+The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the resolutions
+submitted by the Senator from Virginia.
+
+The resolutions were agreed to unanimously, and under the last
+resolution the Senate (at 4 o'clock and 20 minutes p.m.) adjourned until
+Monday, March 7, 1892, at 12 o'clock m.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Memorial Addresses on the Life and
+Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia), by Various
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+Title: Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia)
+       Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate,
+              Fifty-Second Congress, First Session
+
+Author: Various
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+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 513px;">
+<img src="images/image1.png" width="513" height="587" alt="Hon. W.H.F. Lee." title="Hon. W.H.F. Lee." />
+</div>
+
+<h2>MEMORIAL ADDRESSES</h2>
+
+<h5>ON THE</h5>
+
+<h3>LIFE AND CHARACTER</h3>
+
+<h5>OF</h5>
+
+<h1>WILLIAM H. F. LEE,</h1>
+
+<h4>(A REPRESENTATIVE FROM VIRGINIA.)</h4>
+
+<h5>DELIVERED IN THE</h5>
+
+<h4><span class="smcap">House of Representatives and in the Senate</span>,</h4>
+
+<h5>FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION.<br /><br /><br /></h5>
+
+<h5>PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF CONGRESS.<br /><br /><br /></h5>
+
+<h5>WASHINGTON: <br />
+GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. <br />
+1892
+</h5>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<table summary="This table helps format the book's table of contents">
+<tr><td><a href="#PROCEEDINGS_IN_THE_HOUSE_OF_REPRESENTATIVES"><b>Proceedings in The House Of Representatives.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Meredith_of_Virginia"><b>Address of Mr. Meredith, of Virginia.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Edmunds_of_Virginia"><b>Address of Mr. Edmunds, of Virginia.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Tucker_of_Virginia"><b>Address of Mr. Tucker, of Virginia.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_OFerrall_of_Virginia"><b>Address of Mr. O'Ferrall, of Virginia.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Wise_of_Virginia"><b>Address of Mr. Wise, of Virginia.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Herbert_of_Alabama"><b>Address of Mr. Herbert, of Alabama.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Hermann_of_Oregon"><b>Address of Mr. Hermann, of Oregon.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Washington_of_Tennessee"><b>Address of Mr. Washington, of Tennessee.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Henderson_of_Illinois"><b>Address of Mr. Henderson, of Illinois.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Chipman_of_Michigan"><b>Address of Mr. Chipman, of Michigan.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Wilson_of_West_Virginia"><b>Address of Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Cummings_of_New_York"><b>Address of Mr. Cummings, of New York.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Cowles_of_North_Carolina"><b>Address of Mr. Cowles, of North Carolina.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Breckinridge_of_Kentucky"><b>Address of Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#PROCEEDINGS_IN_THE_SENATE"><b><br />Proceedings in The Senate.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Barbour_of_Virginia"><b>Address of Mr. Barbour, of Virginia.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Pasco_of_Florida"><b>Address of Mr. Pasco, of Florida.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Stewart_of_Nevada"><b>Address of Mr. Stewart, of Nevada.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Colquitt_of_Georgia"><b>Address of Mr. Colquitt, of Georgia.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Butler_of_South_Carolina"><b>Address of Mr. Butler, of South Carolina.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Dolph_of_Oregon"><b>Address of Mr. Dolph, of Oregon.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#Address_of_Mr_Daniel_of_Virginia"><b>Address of Mr. Daniel, of Virginia.</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+</table>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[2]<a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a></span></p>
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Resolved by the House of Representatives</i> (<i>the Senate concurring</i>), That there be
+printed of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the Hon. <span class="smcap">W.H.F. Lee</span>, late a
+Representative from the State of Virginia, eight thousand copies, of which number
+two thousand copies shall be delivered to the Senators and Representatives of the
+State of Virginia, which shall include fifty copies to be bound in full morocco, to be
+delivered to the family of the deceased, and of those remaining two thousand shall
+be for the use of the Senate and four thousand for the use of the House of Representatives;
+and the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to have engraved and printed a
+portrait of the said <span class="smcap">W.H.F. Lee</span> to accompany the said eulogies.</p>
+
+<p>Agreed to in the House of Representatives March 23, 1892.</p>
+
+<p>Agreed to in the Senate March 22, 1892.</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[3]<a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="PROCEEDINGS_IN_THE_HOUSE_OF_REPRESENTATIVES" id="PROCEEDINGS_IN_THE_HOUSE_OF_REPRESENTATIVES"></a>PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.</h2>
+
+
+<h3>ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH.</h3>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">December</span> 23, 1891.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Meredith</span>, of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, I rise to make
+the painful announcement to the House of the death of Hon.
+<span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span>, a Representative in the Fiftieth and
+Fifty-first Congresses of the United States and a Representative-elect
+to the Fifty-second Congress.</p>
+
+<p>He died at his home, in Fairfax County, Va., on the 15th day
+of October last, after a lingering illness. Later in the session
+I shall ask this House to fix a day when his colleagues and
+friends can do justice to his memory and express their appreciation
+of his high character.</p>
+
+<p>It is only meet and fitting on this occasion that I should say
+that in the death of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> the State of Virginia has lost
+the services of one of her most chivalrous and noble sons, and
+the district he so well represented a faithful guardian of the
+interests of all its people.</p>
+
+<p>I send to the desk and ask the adoption of these resolutions:</p><p><span class='pagenum'>[4]<a name="Page_4" id="Page_4"></a></span></p>
+
+<p>The Clerk read as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Resolved</i>, That the House has heard with deep regret and profound sorrow of the
+death of Hon. <span class="smcap">W.H.F. Lee</span>, a Representative from the State of Virginia.</p>
+
+<p><i>Resolved</i>, That the Clerk be directed to communicate a copy of these resolutions to
+the Senate.</p>
+
+<p><i>Resolved</i>, That as a further mark of respect the House do now adjourn.</p></div>
+
+<p>The resolutions were unanimously agreed to.</p>
+
+<p>And accordingly (at 12 o'clock and 37 minutes p.m.) the
+House adjourned until Tuesday, the 5th day of January next.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[5]<a name="Page_5" id="Page_5"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="EULOGIES" id="EULOGIES"></a>EULOGIES.</h2>
+
+
+<p class="right5">
+<span class="smcap">February</span> 6, 1892.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>The <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>. The Clerk will report the special order.</p>
+
+<p>The Clerk read as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Resolved</i>, That Saturday, February 6, beginning at 1 o'clock afternoon, be set apart
+for paying tribute to the memory of Hon. <span class="smcap">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</span>, late a
+member of the House of Representatives from the Eighth district of the State of Virginia.</p></div>
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Meredith</span>. Mr. Speaker, I offer the resolutions which
+I send to the desk.</p>
+
+<p>The resolutions were read, as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Resolved</i>, That the business of the House be now suspended, that opportunity be
+given for tributes to the memory of Hon. <span class="smcap">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</span>, late a
+Representative from the State of Virginia.</p>
+
+<p><i>Resolved</i>, As a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, and in recognition
+of his eminent ability and distinguished public services, that the House, at the
+conclusion of these memorial proceedings, shall stand adjourned.</p>
+
+<p><i>Resolved</i>, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate.</p></div>
+
+<p>The resolutions were adopted.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[6]<a name="Page_6" id="Page_6"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Meredith_of_Virginia" id="Address_of_Mr_Meredith_of_Virginia"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Meredith, of Virginia</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: This day having been set apart for the purpose
+of paying a last tribute to the memory of one who so lately
+was a loved and honored member of this House, I shall, in the
+brief remarks which I propose to make, attempt nothing but a
+plain and truthful narrative of some of the characteristics and
+public services of a Christian gentleman, who in my judgment
+measured fully up to that standard which makes man the
+noblest work of God.</p>
+
+<p>On the 15th day of October, 1891, at Ravensworth, his beautiful
+home in Fairfax County, Va., surrounded by those loved
+ones whose constant care and tender nursing had done all that
+human power could do to stay the hand of the fell Destroyer,
+all that was mortal of Hon. <span class="smcap">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</span>
+passed from this earth, and his noble spirit returned to the God
+who gave it.</p>
+
+<p>If the earnest supplications to Almighty God, offered by the
+good people of his native State upon their bended knees night
+and morning, during the period of his lingering illness, could
+have availed, he would have been restored to health and usefulness,
+and these melancholy proceedings postponed for many
+a long year.</p>
+
+<p>The great sorrow which made the heart of Virginia heavy
+and bowed in grief the heads of her true sons and daughters
+when the sad intelligence of his death was flashed over the electric
+wires was more genuinely spontaneous than were the loud
+lamentations of the Roman populace (so graphically described
+<span class='pagenum'>[7]<a name="Page_7" id="Page_7"></a></span>by Tacitus) when they beheld the widow of Germanicus, with
+her weeping children entering the gates of the imperial city.
+Nor was this sorrow confined to those of his own political
+faith. Men of all parties vied with each other in their expressions
+of regret at his death and in their sympathy for his
+bereaved family.</p>
+
+<p>The blameless life he had led, his high character, his gentle
+and unassuming manners, won for him not only the respect but
+the admiration of all with whom he came in contact.</p>
+
+<p>As gentle as a child and as tender as a woman, with the
+courage of a hero and a faith that never faltered, he proved
+himself a worthy descendant of that race of famous men from
+whom he sprang, and most worthily bore a name which will
+be honored as long as a liberty-loving people shall find a dwelling
+place upon the earth.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span> was the son of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and
+was born at Arlington, on the 31st day of May, 1837.</p>
+
+<p>He was educated at Harvard, where he ranked not only as a
+good scholar, but on account of his splendid size and strength
+became quite famous in athletics, being "stroke oar" of the
+University Rowing Club.</p>
+
+<p>His great ambition was to follow the profession of his father
+and to go to West Point; but having had an older brother there,
+that fact was considered in those days an insuperable obstacle.
+While still at Harvard, completing his education, he was,
+through the interest taken in him by Gen. Winfield Scott, who
+made the request as a special and personal favor to himself,
+appointed in 1857 a second lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment,
+United States Infantry, and inaugurated his military career by
+taking a detachment of troops to Texas by sea and then by land
+up the country to San Antonio.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[8]<a name="Page_8" id="Page_8"></a></span>In 1858 he accompanied his regiment, under the command of
+Col. Albert Sidney Johnston, in the expedition to Utah against
+the Mormons, taking an active part in that campaign, marching
+from Fort Leavenworth to Salt Lake City, and then, when the
+troubles were quelled there, traveling on foot to Fort Benicia,
+Cal. While on the Pacific coast he received a letter from his
+father, written January 1, 1859, in which he said:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I can not express the gratification I felt in meeting Col. May in New York, and at
+the encomiums he passed upon your soldiership, zeal, and devotion to your duty. But I
+was more pleased at the report of your conduct. I always thought and said there was
+stuff in you for a good soldier, and I trust you will prove it.</p></div>
+
+<p>Resigning his commission in the Army, he came home to be
+married to his cousin, a Miss Wickham, and settled down as a
+farmer at the "White House" (where Washington met Martha
+Custis and was married), a large estate on the Pamunkey River,
+left him by his maternal grandfather, G.W. Park Custis, of
+Arlington.</p>
+
+<p>When that irrepressible conflict of 1861 was upon us, and Virginia
+called upon her sons to defend her soil, he, sharing the
+faith of his fathers, in the belief that his allegiance was due to
+his State, quickly raised a company of cavalry, and was attached
+to the Army of Northern Virginia. Serving in every grade successively
+from captain to major-general of cavalry, he led his
+regiment in the famous raid around McClellan's army, and was
+an active participant in all those brilliant achievements which
+made the cavalry service so proficient.</p>
+
+<p>In that terrific fight which occurred at Brandy Station, in June,
+1863, he was most severely wounded, and taken to the residence
+of Gen. William C. Wickham, in Hanover County, where he was
+made a prisoner by a raiding party, and was carried off, at the
+expense of great personal suffering, to Fort Monroe. From the
+latter place he was conveyed to Fort Lafayette, where he was
+<span class='pagenum'>[9]<a name="Page_9" id="Page_9"></a></span>confined until March, 1864, and treated with great severity, being
+held, with Capt. R.H. Tyler, of the Eighth Virginia Regiment,
+under sentence of death, as hostages for two Federal officers who
+were prisoners in Richmond, and whom it was thought would
+be executed for some retaliatory measure.</p>
+
+<p>Exchanged in the spring of 1864, he returned, to find his young
+wife and children dead, his beautiful home burned to the ground,
+his whole estate devastated and laid waste by the ruthless hand
+of war; and yet almost his first act on reaching Richmond was
+to go to Libby Prison, visit the two Federal officers for whom
+he had been held as hostage, and who, like himself, had been
+under apprehension of being hung, and shake hands with and
+congratulate them.</p>
+
+<p>Immediately joining his command, he led his division in
+every engagement from the Rapidan to Appomattox, where,
+with his father, the greatest soldier of modern times, he surrendered
+to the inevitable.</p>
+
+<p>In a letter written by one of the most brilliant cavalry generals
+of the late war, in speaking of Gen. <span class="smcap">W.H.F. Lee</span>, he
+uses this language:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>He was a zealous, conscientious, brave, and intelligent soldier, who fully discharged
+all of his duties. He was one of those safe, sound, judicious officers, and you always
+felt when you sent instructions to him that they were going to be obeyed promptly and
+to the letter.</p></div>
+
+<p>What greater tribute could be paid a soldier?</p>
+
+<p>Having been married to one of the most accomplished ladies
+in Virginia, Miss Bolling, of Petersburg (who, with two sons,
+survives him) he removed in 1874 to Ravensworth, and was
+the next year elected to the senate of Virginia, where he made
+an honorable record.</p>
+
+<p>He was elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, and
+served his State with that fidelity which had characterized his
+<span class='pagenum'>[10]<a name="Page_10" id="Page_10"></a></span>every act through life&mdash;faithful, conscientious, and painstaking&mdash;ever
+alert to the interests of his constituents and seeking
+only how he could serve them.</p>
+
+<p>He was again re&euml;lected to the Fifty-second Congress, and
+though by the will of Divine Providence he was not permitted
+to take his seat, he will ever be held in grateful remembrance
+by his late constituents, and when the long roll of Virginia's
+noble and heroic dead is called, the name of <span class="smcap">William H. Fitzhugh
+Lee</span> will be mourned by his mother Commonwealth as
+one of her noblest and truest sons.</p>
+
+<p>In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I shall read, as the most fitting
+tribute I have seen, an editorial from the Alexandria Gazette
+written the day after the death of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Gen. <span class="smcap">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</span>, second son of Gen. Robert Edward Lee, is
+dead. The bells here tolled late yesterday evening. A few hours before the general
+had crossed over the river and was at rest under his roof tree at Ravensworth, the
+southern sun lighted his deathbed and the autumn breeze sang his requiem. Afterlife's
+fitful fever he sleeps well. He was sick a long time, and as his disease was incurable,
+death was a relief. No more pain for him now, but the long and peaceful sleep of the
+just. His sorrowing family were at his bedside, but he told them not good-bye, preferring
+to greet them when they shall rejoin him in a better world. His death is regretted
+by all the many who knew him; the more so by those who knew him well.</p>
+
+<p>Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>, like his father, was naturally quiet and retiring, and in his intercourse
+with others, when right and principle were not involved, invariably acted in accordance
+with the rule of <i>noblesse oblige</i>, but when they were involved he was as firm in support
+of his convictions as any other man could be. He stood foursquare to all the
+winds that blow, but always with the propriety that characterizes the perfect gentleman.
+He did his duty to his God, his family, his State, and his country, and did it well, and
+executed faithfully all the trusts committed to him in both military and civil life. He
+liked the old manners and customs of Virginia, but tried to conform to the new order
+of things with becoming grace, and did so with no audible complaint and no useless
+repinings. He served his State efficiently in her senate and in the national Congress,
+and in the Confederate army he filled, by merited promotion, every position from captain
+up to major-general of cavalry. It was different once, but Virginia can ill-afford
+to part with such a man now, and in his death, as in that of his illustrious father, she
+has lost a true and gallant son, who when not on duty was as gentle as a woman.
+Her fame has been increased by having had such a son. May she have many more;
+like him.</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[11]<a name="Page_11" id="Page_11"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Edmunds_of_Virginia" id="Address_of_Mr_Edmunds_of_Virginia"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Edmunds, of Virginia</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: It is not my purpose to attempt any extended
+remarks upon the life and character of Gen. <span class="smcap">William H.F.
+Lee</span>, late a Representative from the Eighth Congressional district
+of Virginia, yet I can not permit this occasion to pass and
+my hand and heart to fail to pay my humble tribute to his
+memory. Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>'s life had been spent after manhood in
+arms or as a tiller of the soil. In early life he saw military
+service as lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment, United States Infantry,
+and was with Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston in the expedition
+in 1858 against the Mormons.</p>
+
+<p>Resigning from the Army, he returned to his native State of
+Virginia and engaged in the pursuit of agriculture. Early in
+the late civil struggle he raised a cavalry company, and rose
+from the position of company commander to that of major-general,
+and followed the cause in which he had enlisted until
+the end at Appomattox. There two great military chieftains
+met, and one, his illustrious father, gave up to the other his
+sword and the mutilated remnant of an army which had fought
+with the utmost bravery and fortitude under a leader of unsurpassed
+skill and fidelity.</p>
+
+<p>Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>, after the struggle had ended, resuming his citizenship
+in peace, returned to his farm and occupation of agriculture.</p>
+
+<p>He was elected by his people from his senatorial district
+to the legislature. He served one term in the senate of Virginia
+and declined a renomination. He was afterwards elected
+from the Eighth Congressional district of his State to the Fiftieth
+<span class='pagenum'>[12]<a name="Page_12" id="Page_12"></a></span>and Fifty-first Congresses and again returned by his
+constituency to the present Congress; but the hand of death
+interposed, and he did not live to again take his seat in this
+legislative hall.</p>
+
+<p>The name of Lee, Mr. Speaker, has been an illustrious one
+in Virginia. No one can with safety challenge the assertion
+that that old Commonwealth has furnished, from the time of
+the Revolution, as many great men, in peace and in war, as
+any of the States of our Union. When the foundations of this
+great Republic were laid and constitutional principles evolved,
+whether the sword of the warrior or the mind and philosophy
+of the statesman were needed, you will find the marks and
+handiwork of some son of that State.</p>
+
+<p>Among those great men the ancestry of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> were conspicuous.
+He inherited from his great father a disposition
+that was frank, manly, and chivalrous. Although with these
+distinguished surroundings, Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> had no undue pride,
+reserve, or self-assertion. His nature, on the contrary, was
+eminently amiable, generous, and sympathetic, and at the same
+time he was dignified, manly, brave, and ever courteous.</p>
+
+<p>Identified with the agricultural interests of his State, at one
+time president of the State society, and himself a practical and
+successful farmer and proud of his occupation, he mingled
+freely and congenially with that great class of our citizens upon
+whose shoulders repose in great measure the preservation and
+safety of the institutions of our common country. While he
+was especially devoted to the interests of the farmer, he was
+essentially a patriot, and loved his State and all its diverse
+interests with an enthusiastic devotion and yearned for her
+prosperity.</p>
+
+<p>He was a faithful, able, and vigilant Representative, and had
+<span class='pagenum'>[13]<a name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></a></span>in the greatest degree the confidence of his constituents and
+the people of his entire State. No one who ever knew him
+could fail to implicitly trust him. His State has lost a pure
+and noble son; the country a wise, conservative, and faithful
+Representative. We who knew him here can recall his manly
+robust form, his genial kindly face, his frank accessible address,
+his unfailing gentleness of manner, his cheerful friendly
+voice, as he walked along the aisles of this Hall.</p>
+
+<p>A man of his character and bearing could but wield an influence
+for good wherever his presence was.</p>
+
+<p>In a republic, where the people are the state, the advice, the
+suggestions, and the example of a citizen so high-minded and
+incorruptible are of great value not only in the councils of
+the nation, but in the everyday walks and details of life, in his
+beautiful rural home, surrounded by and mingling with his
+country people; and it was ever the pleasure and practice of
+Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> to associate freely and unrestrainedly with the great
+body of the people. His generous and noble heart had a sympathetic
+touch with them and their struggles, their callings,
+their work.</p>
+
+<p>But he has passed from us under the decree of the great
+Master to the great hereafter, leaving the record of a life of
+singular purity, directness of purpose, and freedom from guile;
+the record of a character unblurred, untarnished, unshadowed
+by the least stain; the record of a man high, noble, honorable,
+faithful to all the duties and relations of life.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Speaker, Virginia, one of the oldest of the Commonwealths,
+within whose borders lie the remains of many great
+names, and the energies and reserved forces of whose people in
+times gone by have risen to great heights, receives to her
+bosom her dead son and bows with sincere grief over his
+<span class='pagenum'>[14]<a name="Page_14" id="Page_14"></a></span>grave; for to her, whether her hand wore the mailed gauntlet
+or followed the gentler pursuits of peace, he had ever been
+faithful, loyal, and true.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Tucker_of_Virginia" id="Address_of_Mr_Tucker_of_Virginia"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Tucker, of Virginia.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: I shall leave to others the task of portraying
+the life of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> in its diversified pursuits, and shall content
+myself with the effort of giving to the House my conception of
+some of the characteristics of our deceased friend which made
+him throughout his life, wherever placed, a conspicuous actor
+in private and public affairs.</p>
+
+<p>In the early period of Virginia's history lived William Randolph,
+of Turkey Island (a plantation some 15 or 20 miles
+from the city of Richmond, near the scene of the terrific
+battle of Malvern Hill). He was the ancestor of all of that
+name in Virginia, and from him was descended in direct line
+Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and Robert E. Lee; the last-named
+the father of our departed friend. How could <i>he</i> have
+manifested in his life less patriotism, justice, and courage with
+such exemplars of these virtues ever before him?</p>
+
+<p>His mother, as is well known, was a descendant from the
+wife of Gen. Washington by her prior marriage with John
+Parke Custis. Sprung from such a lineage; trained in a
+school where the amenities of life as well as "the humanities"
+were taught in their highest excellence, he practiced from his
+earliest childhood a scrupulous regard for the rights and feelings
+of others, and an indulgence to all faults except his own.</p>
+
+<p>With a self-control and equipoise which were never disturbed
+under the most trying circumstances, and a graciousness
+<span class='pagenum'>[15]<a name="Page_15" id="Page_15"></a></span>of manner which broke down all barriers, giving to the
+humblest as well as to the highest the assurance of his friendly
+consideration, and a mind well disciplined by education in the
+highest schools, it was impossible that he could have been
+other than a man of mark and influence in his State.</p>
+
+<p>It is not claiming too much to say that Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was the
+natural product of the civilization existing in Virginia during
+his boyhood and early manhood, which, alas, except here and
+there in certain localities, is fast passing away. The home,
+not the club, was its center; the family, not each "new-hatched,
+unfledged comrade," its unit. The father was the <i>head</i> of the
+family, not the joint tenant with the wife of a house nor the
+tenant at will of his wife. The wife and the mother was the
+queen of the household, not merely a housekeeper for a husband
+and the family. Obedience to those in authority was the
+first lesson exacted of the boy. Inculcated with tenderness, it
+was enforced with severity, if need be, until the word of the
+father or the expressed wish of the mother carried with it the
+force of law as completely as the decree of a court or the
+mandate of a king.</p>
+
+<p>Reverence for superiors in age and deference to all, rather
+than arrogant self-assertion, was magnified as a cardinal virtue,
+not as teaching humility and enforcing a lack of proper self-respect,
+but rather to exalt high ideals and stimulate an admiration
+for "the true, the beautiful, and the good."</p>
+
+<p>Fidelity to truth, the maintenance of personal honor, deference
+for the opinions and feelings of others, without abating
+one's own or aggressively thrusting them on others; a kindliness
+of manner to dependents, a knightly courtesy to all, but
+with special and tender regard in thought, word, and action
+toward woman, were in turn patiently taught in all the lessons
+<span class='pagenum'>[16]<a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"></a></span>of the fireside and at the family altar, and earnestly insisted
+upon in the formation of the character of a true gentleman.
+"Any man will be polite to a beautiful young woman, but it
+takes a gentleman to show the same respect to a homely old
+woman" was the stinging rebuke of a father to his son who
+failed to remove his hat in passing a forlorn old woman on the
+public highway.</p>
+
+<p>The old-field school, the private tutor, the high school, whose
+excellence in Virginia I can not praise too much, the college,
+the university, led the young mind by easy stages to its full
+intellectual maturity.</p>
+
+<p>Nowhere was the principle "<i>Sana mens in sano corpore</i>"
+more scrupulously taught than in Virginia. The rod and
+stream, the gun, the "hounds and horns," the chase, with the
+music of the pack, the bounding steed, all lent their ready aid
+in developing the physical manhood of the boy. In the pure
+atmosphere of his country home, amid its broad fields and virgin
+forests, contracted houses in narrow streets had no charms
+for him. To join the chase was the first promotion to which
+the boy looked as evidencing his permanent release from the
+nursery. The gun and dog became his constant companions,
+while "Old Betsey," his father's trusted double-barreled gun
+of many years' usage, standing in the sitting-room corner or
+hanging on stag-horns or dog-wood forks on the side of the
+wall, was the eloquent subject of nightly rehearsals of her
+prowess and power in the annual deer hunt "over the mountains."
+Skill in horsemanship was essential, and breaking
+colts was naturally followed by broken limbs; but manhood
+found a race of trained horsemen, both graceful and skillful in
+the saddle, unexcelled, I dare venture to assert, by any civilized
+people. A child of nature, the Virginia boy communed with
+<span class='pagenum'>[17]<a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"></a></span>her as his mother, and from her purest depths drew the richest
+inspirations. To him no mountains were so blue as hers, no
+streams so clear, no forests so enchanting, no homes so sweet.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">While others hailed in distant skies the glories of the Union<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He only saw the mountain bird stoop o'er his Old Dominion.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>How vividly the picture comes to me now (never to be
+effaced) of a learned professor in one of Virginia's highest
+schools, himself three-score years and ten, a soldier of two wars,
+as he led the way through a quiet Virginia town on horseback,
+followed by two sons, distinguished ministers of the gospel, and
+they in turn by a younger son and the grandson of the leader,
+with a goodly train of friends, amid the blasts of horns and
+baying of hounds, who followed, eager for the chase among
+the beautiful hills which surrounded the town of Lexington,
+even as the mountains stand "round about Jerusalem."</p>
+
+<p>Religion&mdash;the duty of man to his Creator, not sectarianism&mdash;was
+scrupulously taught, and Sunday morning found the family
+alive in preparations for attending religious service at Zion or
+Trinity, as it might happen to be the first or the fourth Sunday
+of the month. From this duty none were exempt from the
+least to the greatest. The pastor was the friend on whom all
+troubles both temporal and spiritual were cast, and his visits
+were long remembered and talked of in the life of each family.
+Deference to his wishes and reverence for his character were
+well-nigh universal.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A man he was to all the country dear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And passing rich with forty pounds a year;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Remote from towns he ran his godly race,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Unskillful he to fawn, or seek for power,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Far other aims his heart had learned to prize,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[18]<a name="Page_18" id="Page_18"></a></span>Such was the atmosphere in which our deceased friend was
+reared. He was a trustee in the venerable institution of Washington
+and Lee University at Lexington, Va., founded by Gen.
+Washington, and presided over by Gen. Robert E. Lee during
+the last years of his life; he was faithful to the trust, and ever
+watchful of the best interests of the school. The loss sustained
+by this institution in his death has been most fittingly expressed
+in the appended minute of the faculty of the university, adopted
+on the 19th of October, 1891:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>At a meeting of the faculty of Washington and Lee University, held October 19,
+1891, the following minute was adopted:</p>
+
+<p>Upon the announcement of the death of Gen. <span class="smcap">W.H.F. Lee</span> the faculty of Washington
+and Lee University unite in sorrowful sympathy with his family, bereaved of husband,
+father, and brother; with the Commonwealth in the loss of a patriotic citizen;
+and with the board of trustees of this university, of which he was an esteemed member.</p>
+
+<p>He was graduated at Harvard for the life of a civilian, but took a commission in the
+United States Army as lieutenant, and served with fidelity to duty under Gen. Albert
+Sidney Johnston in the Utah expedition of 1858.</p>
+
+<p>At its close he resigned and returned to his country home, where he continued to live
+until 1861, when he entered the Confederate army, and, rising by rapid promotion to
+the rank of major-general of cavalry, closed his efficient and faithful military career in
+1865, when he again returned to country life, and died at the seat of his ancestors, at
+Ravensworth, in Fairfax County.</p>
+
+<p>In the mean time his private life was interrupted by the voice of his people, which
+called him to their service in the senate of Virginia and for three terms as their Representative
+in Congress, two of which he completed, and left the vacancy in the third
+by his untimely death.</p>
+
+<p>Truth, honor, and courage to do good and to resist evil, sincerity in all relations
+and fidelity to all duty, were heirlooms of his race and lineage, which he kept and left
+untarnished to his posterity.</p>
+
+<p>With a mind strong and vigorous, a judgment sound and well-poised, a calm and
+self-contained temper, which impelled him to the right and restrained him from the
+wrong, and a moral sense which guided and controlled his purposes and his actions
+along the path of absolute rectitude, he lived a life adorned by noble virtues and filled
+with noble deeds. Gentle but firm, decided, and fixed in his convictions, but respectful
+and deferential to those of others, he was a model of all the splendid qualities
+which make up the character of a courteous and Christian gentleman.</p>
+
+<p>In addition to all these natural gifts his convictions led him to the profession and
+practice of a simple and genuine faith in the religion of Christ.</p>
+
+<p>After an honorable military and civil career, in the peace of God and in charity with
+<span class='pagenum'>[19]<a name="Page_19" id="Page_19"></a></span>his fellow-men, this worthy son of an illustrious family died the death of the righteous
+and in the hope of immortality through Him in whom he believed and trusted.</p>
+
+<p>The faculty therefore declare&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>That they have heard of the death of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> with deep sorrow, and mourn it as a
+calamity to his family, his friends, his country, and to this university.</p>
+
+<p>That they tender to his family these expressions of their affectionate esteem for him
+as a personal friend as well as for his service as a public man, and their sincere sympathy
+with them in their peculiar and irreparable bereavement.</p>
+
+<p>A copy. Teste:</p></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap right7">Jno. L. Campbell,</span><br />
+<span class="right5"><i>Clerk of the Faculty</i>.</span>
+</p>
+
+<p>An intimate association with Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> in the Fifty-first Congress
+and as members of the board of trustees of Washington
+and Lee University at Lexington, Va., and in private life,
+enabled me to form a just estimate of his character and of those
+personal qualities of head and heart that made him beloved by
+all who really knew him. While they have been well expressed
+in the foregoing minute, I may add from my own observations
+a brief summary of his noble character. His mind was eminently
+practical, and arrived at its conclusions more from an
+unerring instinct of justice and common sense than through
+the exacting processes of logic. His judgment was rarely at
+fault, for his intellect was not swerved by passion or prejudice,
+but was held in perfect equipoise to receive the truth on both
+sides of every question. His deference to the opinions of others
+and his caution in seeking the views of those on whose discretion
+he relied suggested to some who did not know him that
+he was hesitating in temperament. This was not true. He
+sought all the light possible on every subject patiently and earnestly,
+and when he arrived at his conclusion no man adhered
+to it more tenaciously or enforced it more earnestly.</p>
+
+<p>As a speaker, Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> possessed many of the attributes of
+the orator, a gift inherited from his grandfather, Light-Horse
+Harry Lee. He was graceful in delivery, persuasive in manner,
+and forcible in argument.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[20]<a name="Page_20" id="Page_20"></a></span>His diction was pure, unpretentious, and simple. His
+speeches were often embellished with references to ancient and
+modern history and mythology with which he seemed to be
+very familiar.</p>
+
+<p>Dutifulness, I believe, was the most prominent trait of his
+character. It was the star by which his life was guided. Once
+persuaded that a certain measure or a certain line of policy was
+right, and he was unflinchingly firm in its support. No burden
+was too heavy, no privation too severe, if only they were borne
+along the path of duty.</p>
+
+<p>He exemplified in his life the noble utterance of his distinguished
+father: "Duty is the sublimest word in the English
+language."</p>
+
+<p>In politics he was a Democrat, but not a partisan, and he
+firmly believed that the supremacy of his party was necessary
+for the good of the country and the welfare of the people. His
+patriotism was exalted, and his faith in the ultimate triumph
+of the right never wavered.</p>
+
+<p>His manly appearance, his gracious but dignified manner, his
+courtly bearing and pleasing conversation marked him as a gentleman
+of the "old school," as one of nature's noblemen.</p>
+
+<p>Any sketch of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> would indeed be imperfect that failed
+to mention his love for little children, and his friends will never
+fail to recall the tender interest he always manifested in the children
+of their families, especially in the youngest.</p>
+
+<p>His life, Mr. Speaker, was a truly noble one. It was on the
+highest plane. His character had no spot or blemish upon it
+that sweet charity would now consign to oblivion, but it was
+robust, well-rounded, and symmetrical, open as day. His ambition
+was not to attain but to deserve the praise of the good, and
+that higher benediction, to be pronounced by the final Judge of
+<span class='pagenum'>[21]<a name="Page_21" id="Page_21"></a></span>the world: "Well done, good and faithful servant; enter thou
+into the joys of thy Lord."</p>
+
+<p>He was an earnest believer in the Christian faith. The abstruse
+doctrines of the church formed no part of his creed. His
+faith was in the Christ the Saviour of mankind; a faith which
+illumined his pathway in life, lightening his burdens, exalting
+his nature, and which sustained him without fear when he met
+the last enemy of the race as he walked through "the valley of
+the shadow of death." It was the faith of a little child&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">An assured belief<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That the procession of our fate, howe'er<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of infinite benevolence and power,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose everlasting purposes embrace<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All accidents, converting them to good.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>His funeral and burial, Mr. Speaker, will never be forgotten
+by those who witnessed it. The autumn sun was fast sinking
+behind the bright curtain of the west, bathing "the mellow autumn
+fields" of Old Virginia with its purple hues. Untrumpeted
+by official authority, scores of friends from city, town, village,
+farm, and cabin gathered at Ravensworth to pay the last
+sad honor to their beloved friend. White and colored, rich and
+poor, high and low, soldiers, citizens, and statesmen, all were
+there.</p>
+
+<p>His body was borne from the house to the ivy-clad family
+graveyard by the sturdy yeomanry of the neighborhood. In
+the presence of that vast throng, with uncovered heads, his
+comrades, who had followed him on many a hard-fought battlefield,
+performed the last sad rites, and with their own hands
+filled his grave and planted upon it the "immortelles" of their
+affection and devotion. Faces that never blanched amid the
+storm of battle paled; hearts that never quailed in the presence
+<span class='pagenum'>[22]<a name="Page_22" id="Page_22"></a></span>of an enemy broke in the presence of the last enemy of us all,
+and the silent, pitiless tear which fell from the eye was hidden
+by the lengthening shadows of the evening, which were fast
+gathering round the scene.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Beloved friend, farewell and hail!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Removed from sight, yet not afar,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Still through this earthly twilight veil<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Thou beamest down, a friendly star.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The prophet's blessing comes to thee,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The crown he holds to view is thine;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Forever more thy memory<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">In heaven and in our hearts shall shine.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_OFerrall_of_Virginia" id="Address_of_Mr_OFerrall_of_Virginia"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. O'Ferrall, of Virginia</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: These occasions of tribute-offering in this
+Hall never fail to impress me with extreme sadness, increase
+my awe and reverence of Him who holds in the hollow of His
+hand every moment we live and every breath we draw, and
+teach me the lesson of our mortality.</p>
+
+<p>These scenes have become very familiar to me, and their
+frequency reminds me with terrible force that&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">All that lives must die,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Passing through nature to eternity.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Most naturally am I more than usually touched and pained
+by the death of him which now hangs its somber drapery
+around the walls of our hearts and casts its pall over this Chamber.
+It is a death within the representative circle of which I
+am a member. It is the death of a colleague, a friend, whose
+presence in that circle always brought sunshine and never
+shadow.</p>
+
+<p>Tributes to his memory, clothed in language of beauty and
+<span class='pagenum'>[23]<a name="Page_23" id="Page_23"></a></span>breathing with love and burning with pathos, have already
+been paid, and others will follow; and now, while I can not
+hope to charm with the tongue of eloquence or touch the soul
+with the figures of rhetoric, I come with my tribute.</p>
+
+<p>It will be plain and unadorned, but it will at least have the
+merit of sincerity, and, like the widow's mite, be all that I can
+give.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</span>, of Virginia, is no more.</p>
+
+<p>How the name of Lee, whenever uttered, wherever chivalry
+has erected her altar, sends a thrill like an electric current
+through every fiber of the manly man.</p>
+
+<p>How the name of Virginia has been upon every tongue since
+Queen Elizabeth, nearly three centuries ago, gave that name
+to that section around which to-day historic memories linger
+and traditions and glories cluster as thick "as the stars in the
+crown of night," the section where Christopher Newport and
+his devoted followers "builded an altar unto the Lord and in
+the savage wilderness" deposited the germ of this mighty nation,
+"and where God blessed them as He blessed Noah and his
+sons, saying unto them, 'The fear of you and the dread of you
+shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl
+of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all
+the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.'"</p>
+
+<p>Virginia! The land of legends and lays&mdash;the land where the
+cradle of republican liberty was rocked, and where, in 1765, the
+first denial was heard of the right of the British Parliament to
+levy taxes upon the Colonies which kindled the fire of patriotic
+fervor and led to the ever-living, soul-inspiring words of her
+Henry and the raising up of her Jefferson to heights of imperishable
+fame and her Washington to the pinnacle of everlasting
+renown.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[24]<a name="Page_24" id="Page_24"></a></span>Virginia! The land of battlefields and battle gore, colonial
+relics and Revolutionary monuments, spotless fame and unsullied
+honor; the land of patriot soldiers and heroes, and of a
+Yorktown, where the tyrant's head was bruised and the glorious
+strife ended which struck from our fathers the fetters and gave
+to them and their posterity a country gleaming in the golden
+sunlight of republican liberty, and throwing wide open her
+gates to the oppressed of every clime.</p>
+
+<p>Virginia! The land of mountains, upon whose summits and
+in whose gorges the spirit of freedom roams unfettered and
+unconquerable; the land of valleys, which are hung like
+alcoved aisles with scenes of heroism and pictures of daring,
+self-sacrifice, and devotion to principle; the land of rivers and
+rivulets, which reflect like mirrors the fields upon which her
+blood has been poured out like water upon the ground; the
+land of zephyrs and breezes, and where the storm king sometimes
+dwells, gently murmuring or in thunder tones proclaiming
+her glories and her fame; the land of blue beautiful skies,
+radiant with the virtues of her daughters and bespangled with
+the deeds of her sons; the land of memorials of the past, that
+inspire the Virginia youth, whether born in poverty or in
+riches, reared in the cottage humble or in the mansion stately,
+with a patriotism that knows not section and yet a State love
+that knows not bounds.</p>
+
+<p>It was in this land that Richard Henry Lee, the fire and
+splendor of whose eloquence burned like a hot iron into the
+soul of tyranny, and Francis Lightfoot Lee, both of them
+signers of the Declaration of Independence, were born; it was
+in this land that Arthur Lee, through whose instrumentality
+the Colonies secured the friendship and support of France, and
+"Light-Horse Harry" Lee, whose legion following his plume,
+<span class='pagenum'>[25]<a name="Page_25" id="Page_25"></a></span>struck the enemy in the bivouac, on the march, in the lurid
+glare of battle, on the flank, and in the front like a thunderbolt
+from the skies, were born. It was in this land that Robert
+Edward Lee, whose services on the fields of Mexico decked
+his brow with the warrior's laurel, and whose leadership of
+the Confederate armies in the unfortunate strife between the
+States made his name immortal, and whose virtues shine with
+the brilliancy of a polished diamond, wreath his character
+in moral grandeur, and draw p&aelig;ans and praises from friend
+and foe and from every clime where exalted manhood and a
+spotless life find devotees, was born; and it was in this land
+that <span class="smcap">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</span>, whose memory we are
+here to perpetuate, was born&mdash;all, all of the same lineage and
+blood.</p>
+
+<p>What a line of illustrious and distinguished men of one
+name for one State to produce. What a line of illustrious
+men to spring from the old cavalier family that under the
+reign of Charles I settled in the county of Northumberland,
+between the waters of the Rappahannock and Potomac, since
+glorified by the pen of the historian and the lyre of the poet.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</span>! How sweet does that
+name sound to me. What recollections does it awaken. How
+quickly do I find my heart throbbing; how rapidly my blood
+rushes through its channels.</p>
+
+<p>Less than a twelvemonth ago he sat in yon seat or moved
+hither and thither about this Hall and along these passageways,
+pausing here and there to speak a pleasant word or exchange
+a friendly greeting. His tall and commanding person,
+his open, frank, and benevolent face and courtly bearing
+marked him among the membership of this House, and would
+have marked him in any assemblage, whether in the glittering
+<span class='pagenum'>[26]<a name="Page_26" id="Page_26"></a></span>splendor of royalty or in the plain dignity of our republican
+institutions. To see him once was to remember him forever.
+His image is as distinct before me this moment as if
+he stood in the flesh with his eye beaming forth the goodness
+of his nature and his hand outstretched, as was his wont, to
+receive mine.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Speaker, his illustrious father, when the shadows of
+Appomattox closed round him, when the darkness of defeat
+enveloped him, when his soul was rent and torn and his mind
+was filled with anguish and his ragged and tired and worn veterans,
+reduced to a mere thin skirmish line, the remnant of an
+army that had shed unfading luster upon the American arms
+and the American soldier, gathered with tear-moistened cheeks
+about him to bid him farewell and receive his blessing, gave
+utterance to a sentiment just quoted by my colleague [Mr.
+<span class="smcap">Tucker</span>], a sentiment as grand and noble as was ever written
+upon any Roman tablet or carved upon any column of enduring
+marble that was ever reared in the flood light of glory:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Duty is the sublimest word in our language.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Yes, Mr. Speaker, thus spoke Robert Edward Lee, the soldier,
+hero, Christian, and philanthropist: and when we come to study
+the life and character of <span class="smcap">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</span> we
+are impressed with the fact that he took duty as his talismanic
+word, that it was the star that guided him, and that he followed
+it as faithfully as the "wise men" followed the Star from "the
+East" to Jerusalem and thence to Bethlehem.</p>
+
+<p>We believe that in his youth, on the heights of Arlington,
+where his eyes first opened upon the light, he learned at his
+father's knee and by his father's daily walk and conversation
+the great lesson of duty which steered his course and pointed
+out his pathway in life.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[27]<a name="Page_27" id="Page_27"></a></span>He was born, as has been said, on the 31st day of May, 1837.
+In 1857 he was appointed a second lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment
+of United States Infantry, and served in 1858 in the then
+far West under Albert Sidney Johnston, whose fame Shiloh
+echoes and re&euml;choes along the banks of the Tennessee. In
+1859 he resigned his commission in the Army and returned to
+Virginia and located on his estate in the county of New
+Kent. In 1861, when the Southern tocsin sounded and Virginia's
+voice was heard calling for troops, he raised a cavalry
+company and joined the Army of Northern Virginia. He rose
+gradually from captain to major-general of cavalry; was wounded
+in the terrific engagement between the Confederate and Federal
+cavalry at Brandy Station on the 9th day of June, 1863; was
+captured at Hanover Court-House, and was confined at Fort
+Monroe and Fort Lafayette until March, 1864, when he was
+exchanged, and repaired to his command, and served until the
+flag which he loved was furled forever at Appomattox.</p>
+
+<p>From that time forward he cultivated his large estate with
+much care, serving one term in the senate of his State, declining
+a renomination. In 1886 he was elected to the Fiftieth
+Congress from the Eighth Congressional district of Virginia,
+and again in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress, and still again
+in 1890 to the present Congress.</p>
+
+<p>It was my privilege and pleasure to form his acquaintance in
+the army and to watch his flashing blade amid the carnage of
+battle, observe his cool courage and intrepid bearing and the
+love and confidence of his men upon more than one sanguinary
+field. He was as calm when the leaden hail was rattling and
+as cool when the shells were shrieking and bursting as he was
+upon this floor. He was a leader, not a follower of his men;
+if they went into the jaws of death, he was at their head. He
+<span class='pagenum'>[28]<a name="Page_28" id="Page_28"></a></span>fared as his men fared; if their haversacks were empty, his
+was empty; if they laid down in the mud, he laid there too; if
+they sweltered in the summer heat or shivered in the winter
+blast, he sweltered or shivered too; and thus it was he kindled
+in the breasts of his men intense love for himself and secured
+their implicit confidence in his leadership.</p>
+
+<p>The promotions he received, rising from a captain to a major-general,
+speak in terms stronger than any words of mine of his
+courage and valor and his qualities as a soldier and military
+chieftain.</p>
+
+<p>As a civilian, pursuing the quiet walks of rural life and
+devoting himself to agriculture, the noblest of all arts, he was
+honored by all the people and drew to him his neighbors, binding
+them with the steely bands of constant friendship. His
+word was as good as his bond, and the dusky son of toil as well
+as the intelligent tenant on his wide possessions relied upon it
+with absolute faith; and the most beautiful tribute that could
+be paid to his memory was the deep sorrow which manifested
+itself in a meeting after his death of those whose brawny muscle
+had held the plow-handles and whose toil had made the corn
+and the wheat grow on his rich and fertile fields.</p>
+
+<p>In politics he was a Democrat, and he was as pure in the
+political arena as in private life. He scorned the ways of the
+demagogue and the timeserver, and believed that "men should
+be what they seem." In the councils of his State and in the
+councils of the nation he was found at all times in full accord
+with the principles and policy of his party.</p>
+
+<p>As a Representative he was as true to his constituents as any
+subject to his sovereign, laboring in season and out of season
+to serve them, and even when his strong frame began to weaken
+and the germs of disease had been planted in his system he disregarded
+<span class='pagenum'>[29]<a name="Page_29" id="Page_29"></a></span>the warning calls for rest and continued to bend all
+his energies in the discharge of his trust, and I but speak the
+truth when I say that he fell a martyr to duty.</p>
+
+<p>But, Mr. Speaker, while he was grand as a soldier, pure as a
+man, exalted as a citizen, and faithful as a Representative, it
+was in the home circle, as husband and father, and not on the
+battlefield, in civil life, or in the halls of legislation, that the
+beauty and loveliness of his character drew a halo around
+him.</p>
+
+<p>He loved home, and it had a charm for him which neither
+pleasures, honors, nor fame could pluck from his bosom.
+Blessed by the companionship of one worthy of all adoration,
+and who presided like a queen over his household, entering
+into all his joys, sharing all his sorrows, and encouraging all
+his aspirations, he loved the breezes that kissed her cheeks, the
+birds that made sweet music to her ear, the rivulets that gently
+murmured her name, the flowers that shed their fragrance in
+her bowers, and the stately oaks under which the children of
+their union had prattled and the pebbled walks upon which
+they had played and gamboled.</p>
+
+<p>Yes, he loved home, and in its sacred circle his presence was
+like a sunbeam, brightening every face and warming every
+heart. He was all patience, gentleness, kindness, and love, and
+if there ever was a home which was a fit emblem of heaven it
+was Ravensworth, the home of this distinguished man.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Speaker, he is gone. He lives now only in memory.
+In October last, when the frosts were blighting and the leaves
+were falling and the autumnal winds were sighing, after patient
+waiting for the fatal hour it came, and God's finger touched
+him, and the brave soldier, honored citizen, faithful Representative,
+devoted husband, and affectionate father was dead.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[30]<a name="Page_30" id="Page_30"></a></span>He passed away quietly, strong in Christian faith and in the
+hope of a blissful eternity.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</span>! His State mourns his
+death. Within the bosom of her soil he rests&mdash;peacefully
+rests. In his ancestral land near by Arlington, historic, revered
+Arlington, the scene of his childhood and early manhood, he
+sleeps&mdash;sleeps the sleep that knows no waking.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Earth, that all too soon hath bound him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Gently wrap his clay!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Linger lovingly around him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Light of dying day!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>And Virginia&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4">Bending lowly,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Still a ceaseless vigil holy<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Keep above his dust.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Wise_of_Virginia" id="Address_of_Mr_Wise_of_Virginia"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Wise, of Virginia</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: In accordance with a beautiful and impressive
+custom we put aside for to-day our legislative duties to pay a
+tribute of respect to the memory of Hon. <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span>,
+of Virginia. In November, 1890, he was elected to serve as a
+member of this Congress from the Eighth district of that State,
+receiving in that action of his devoted constituents a merited
+indorsement of his conduct and services as their Representative
+for the two preceding terms. But when the day of our assembling
+arrived my colleague was not present to answer to the call
+of his name. He had passed over the river and was resting under
+the shade of the trees on the other side. He was beloved and
+honored by all the people of Virginia, and the announcement
+of his death, which occurred on the 15th day of October, 1891,
+was received everywhere within her borders with expressions of
+<span class='pagenum'>[31]<a name="Page_31" id="Page_31"></a></span>the deepest sorrow. He was born at Arlington, on the Virginia
+heights, opposite this beautiful city, on the 31st day of May,
+1837, and at the time of his death was in the fifty-fifth year of
+his age.</p>
+
+<p>In 1857, when he was pursuing his studies in the University
+of Harvard, in preparation for the active and serious duties of
+life, he received from the then President of the United States
+the appointment of brevet second lieutenant in the Sixth Infantry.
+At that time the spirit of resistance to the authority of the
+National Government was being exhibited to such an extent in
+Utah as to call for measures of repression. Assassinations and
+outrages of all kinds were common, and the officers of the United
+States were powerless either to prevent or punish their commission.</p>
+
+<p>When Mr. Buchanan became President the resolution was
+formed that the insubordination and conflict of authority existing
+in that Territory should cease, and the necessary executive and
+judicial officers having been appointed for the enforcement of the
+laws of the United States and the preservation of the public peace,
+it was determined to send a detachment of the Army to protect
+them against violence and to assist them as a posse comitatus,
+when necessary, in the performance of their duties. Gen. Albert
+Sidney Johnston became the commander of this military force,
+and Lieut. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> had his first experience of the service in this
+expedition. As the occasion does not call for a recital of the
+events of that period, I will content myself with the remark that
+he was then, as on every occasion in after years, faithful to the
+obligations of duty. His term of service in the Army was of
+short duration, and from that fact we may infer that he was not
+enamored with the life of a soldier in time of peace.</p>
+
+<p>In 1859 he resigned his commission, and soon thereafter was
+<span class='pagenum'>[32]<a name="Page_32" id="Page_32"></a></span>married to Miss Wickham, the daughter of a family distinguished
+in the annals of Virginia. They went to reside at the White
+House, on the Pamunkey River, in the county of New Kent.
+It was at this old historic country home that the marriage of
+George Washington with the Widow Custis was celebrated. It
+descended to Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> from his mother, who was the great-granddaughter
+of Washington's wife.</p>
+
+<p>Here he devoted himself to the tillage of the soil and became
+engrossed with the pursuits of a plain and unostentatious
+farmer. His condition and surroundings at this time were
+such as to invite contentment and encourage the cultivation
+of those pure and lofty sentiments for which he was ever distinguished.</p>
+
+<p>Being in the flower and strength of his young manhood and
+blessed with affluence and the love of an accomplished wife,
+there seemed wanting nothing to make his home an earthly
+paradise.</p>
+
+<p>But the course of this peaceful and happy life was not to run
+thus smoothly to the end. Dark and threatening clouds of war
+soon lowered upon our land, and the political conflicts and antagonisms,
+which had grown in intensity and bitterness with
+the flight of years, ripened into civil war in 1861. The crisis
+then arrived when the appeal to arms was inevitable, and with
+it the necessity that all men should decide whether allegiance
+was first due to the State or General Government. There were
+honest differences of opinion on this question, which had existed
+from the very foundation of the Republic.</p>
+
+<p>He was connected by blood with a long line of illustrious
+men, who had borne a conspicuous part in the events which
+led to the declaration of American independence and the establishment
+of this constitutional Government. It was Richard<span class='pagenum'>[33]<a name="Page_33" id="Page_33"></a></span>
+Henry Lee who offered in the Continental Congress, in June,
+1776, that stirring resolution which proclaimed to the world
+"that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free
+and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance
+to the British Crown; and that all political connection
+between them and Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally
+dissolved."</p>
+
+<p>It was his own grandfather, known in history as "Light-Horse
+Harry Lee," who, in the long struggle which followed this
+bold declaration, struck such sturdy blows for the liberties and
+rights of his countrymen as caused him to receive the special
+commendation of George Washington, of whom in turn he
+uttered those memorable words: "First in war, first in peace,
+and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Bearing a name
+thus associated with all the glorious achievements of the past, it
+was but natural that he should have felt an ardent attachment
+to the Union. But he was a son of Virginia, "where American
+liberty raised its first voice and where its youth was
+nurtured and sustained."</p>
+
+<p>There the doctrine of the sovereignty of the State was accepted
+as the true interpretation of the Constitution almost
+without division of sentiment. Her people held that allegiance
+was first due to their State, and while all deplored the
+necessity for, few, if any, doubted as to the right of separation.
+When in April, 1861, a convention representing her people
+passed the ordinance of secession, he felt no hesitation in adopting
+his course. He resolved at once to consecrate himself and
+his sword to the sacred duty of defending her homes and firesides.</p>
+
+<p>Having raised a company of cavalry, he was made its captain,
+and was rapidly promoted from rank to rank until he reached
+<span class='pagenum'>[34]<a name="Page_34" id="Page_34"></a></span>that of major-general. Soon after his entry into the Confederate
+service he became associated with the command of Gen. J.E.B.
+Stuart, and participated thereafter in nearly all the movements
+of that fearless and dashing leader, whom the brave Gen.
+Sedgwick, of the United States Army, pronounced "the best
+cavalry officer ever foaled in North America." On June 3,
+1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee, the father of my deceased colleague,
+assumed the command of the Army of Northern Virginia three
+days after the retiracy of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, caused by a
+wound received in the battle of Seven Pines.</p>
+
+<p>The plans of the Federal commander for the capture of the
+capital of the Southern Confederacy had been well chosen. His
+army, according to his own report, numbered 156,000, of whom
+115,000 were ready for duty as fighting men. All the vast resources
+of his Government were being employed to enable him
+to prosecute his campaign with efficiency and vigor. His
+troops had been furnished with artillery and small arms of the
+most approved description and best pattern. They had abundance
+of ammunition of the finest quality and ample supplies
+of food and clothing. Gen. McDowell, then at Fredericksburg
+with 40,000 men, and Gens. Banks and Fr&eacute;mont in the valley
+of Virginia, were expected to co&ouml;perate in the movement. A
+line of fire was slowly but steadily being drawn around Richmond.
+These plans, as I have said, had been well conceived
+and were being executed with great precision and skill.</p>
+
+<p>To oppose this formidable advance there were less than 100,000
+fighting men in Virginia, and they were greatly inferior to the
+enemy in both equipments and supplies. Gen. Johnston, penetrating
+the designs of his adversary, commenced operations to
+prevent their accomplishment. The bloody and stubbornly
+contested battle of Seven Pines was fought in part execution
+<span class='pagenum'>[35]<a name="Page_35" id="Page_35"></a></span>of his plans. When Gen. Robert E. Lee succeeded to the command
+it was apparent that some decisive blow must be struck
+to save the Southern capital from a state of siege. Surveying
+the whole field with a keen and practiced eye, he saw that the
+left wing of the Union army, which had been thrown across the
+Chickahominy and advanced to within four or five miles of Richmond,
+occupied a strong and almost impregnable position. An
+attack upon the center promised no better results.</p>
+
+<p>Under these circumstances he turned his attention to the
+right wing, and, in order to obtain the fullest and most accurate
+information concerning McClellan's position and defenses on
+that portion of his line, ordered Gen. Stuart to make a reconnoissance
+in the direction of Old Church and Cold Harbor.
+With 1,500 picked men that pink of Southern chivalry immediately
+undertook the execution of the orders of the commanding
+general. This daring exploit was popularly known as
+"Stuart's ride around McClellan." It is a fact that he did
+pass entirely around the Union army, and, building a bridge
+across the Chickahominy, re&euml;ntered the Confederate lines in
+safety. In this perilous expedition he was assisted by his bravest
+and best officers, among whom were Gens. <span class="smcap">William H.F.
+Lee</span>, and his cousin, the dashing Fitz Lee.</p>
+
+<p>More was accomplished than had been anticipated, and it was
+ascertained that the right and rear of McClellan were unprotected
+by works of any strength. In consequence of the information
+thus obtained the decision was formed to make the
+attack in that direction, and on the 26th of June, 1862, began
+that series of splendid battles which culminated in the retreat
+of McClellan's army to Harrisons Landing, on the James
+River, and the deliverance of Richmond from danger. On the
+9th of June, 1863, there occurred near Brandy Station, in the
+<span class='pagenum'>[36]<a name="Page_36" id="Page_36"></a></span>county of Culpeper, Va., one of the most extensive and stubborn
+cavalry fights of the whole war. Two divisions of Federal
+cavalry, commanded by Gens. Buford and Gregg, and supported
+by two brigades of "picked infantry," fell upon Stuart
+with such suddenness and fierceness that the attack was
+almost crowned with victory. Nothing saved him from defeat,
+if not from greater calamity, but his own coolness and that of
+his lieutenants, coupled with the indomitable pluck and intrepidity
+of his troopers.</p>
+
+<p>In this engagement that brave Georgian Gen. Young, formerly
+a member of this House, by a splendid charge with
+sabers, without carbine or pistol, repulsed a dangerous and
+gallant assault on the rear, while Gen. <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span>,
+with equal courage and dash, protected the left of the Confederate
+position. In this encounter Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> received a severe
+wound, which necessitated his retirement from the field. He
+was carried to Hickory Hill, in Hanover County, the home of
+Gen. Wickham, a near relative of his wife, and here he was
+captured and placed in solitary confinement in Fort Monroe
+as a hostage, certain officers of the United States being then
+held under sentence of death in Libby Prison in retaliation
+for the execution of certain Confederate officers in the West.</p>
+
+<p>Gen. Custis Lee, being then a young unmarried man, on the
+staff of the Confederate President, met, under special flag of
+truce, representatives of the Government at Washington, and
+begged to be permitted to take the place of Gen. <span class="smcap">William H.F.
+Lee</span>, giving as a reason for the proposed exchange his
+desire to save from punishment the innocent wife and children
+of his wounded brother. The offer was declined, and he was
+told that the burdens of war must fall where chance or fortune
+placed them.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[37]<a name="Page_37" id="Page_37"></a></span>In this incident we have a beautiful and touching illustration
+of the strength and warmth of brotherly love and of the
+knightly bearing of the Lees of Virginia. While thus detained
+as a prisoner of war, racked with physical suffering
+and those mental tortures which a sensitive and high-strung
+man must feel under such circumstances, there came the sad
+tidings of the death of his loved wife and two children; and
+thus was added another, the most poignant of all the griefs
+with which he had been afflicted. His old Virginia home,
+associated with so many sacred memories, had been reduced to
+ashes, and now there remained of the once happy family which
+formerly occupied it only the captive father. This weight of
+woe would seem too much for human endurance, but he bore
+it with the fortitude of a Christian soldier. He was exchanged
+in the spring of 1864, and returning to his division, led it in
+all the engagements, from the Rapidan to the Appomattox,
+where the curtain fell upon the stirring and bloody scenes in
+which he had been such an active participant.</p>
+
+<p>As a soldier he was always calm, cool, and self-possessed.
+Those who have had experience in the ranks know that the
+bravest and best soldiers will falter and hesitate when they are
+without confidence in the ability, judgment, and foresight of
+their leader. The soldiers who were ranged under the standard
+of Lee, believing that their noble commander was equal
+to all emergencies, followed him with unwavering trust, and
+their survivors testify to the affection in which a spirit so gentle
+and yet so brave was held.</p>
+
+<p>No higher eulogy can be pronounced upon any man than to
+say of him that which can be truly alleged of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>, that
+he was an honored and trusted leader in that splendid Army of
+Northern Virginia, which only failed where success was impossible.<span class='pagenum'>[38]<a name="Page_38" id="Page_38"></a></span>
+They challenged the respect and admiration of the
+world, and of their great captain it has been said that "a country
+which has given birth to men like him and those who followed
+him may look the chivalry of Europe in the face without
+shame, for the fatherlands of Sidney and Bayard never
+produced a nobler soldier, gentleman, and Christian than
+Robert E. Lee."</p>
+
+<p>These meager details of our civil war have not been given
+with the purpose of reviving unpleasant memories or of perpetuating
+sectional animosities. They have been related because
+they constitute an important part of the story of the life
+of him whom we mourn.</p>
+
+<p>On both sides were displayed the highest qualities of the
+military leader, and illustrated as never before the pluck, endurance,
+and dash of the American soldier. They were Americans
+all, and, without distinction of sections, we can claim
+part of the honor of their achievements and partake in the
+pride of their great names. We have furnished to the world
+the indubitable proof that these States united are invincible.
+When, at Appomattox, our arms were stacked and banners
+furled we returned to our homes with no divided allegiance.</p>
+
+<p>We believe that in the safety of the Union is the safety of the
+States. And we rejoice that "the gorgeous ensign of the Republic
+is still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming
+in their original luster, not a stripe polluted or erased, not a
+single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory
+as 'What is all this worth?' Nor those other words
+of delusion and folly, 'Liberty first and Union afterwards,' but
+everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing
+on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the
+land and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other
+<span class='pagenum'>[39]<a name="Page_39" id="Page_39"></a></span>sentiment, dear to every true American heart, 'Liberty and
+Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.'"</p>
+
+<p>But while entertaining these sentiments, we can not, we will
+not, forget our glorious dead. The brave men against whom
+we fought neither expect nor desire such unnatural conduct.
+Whether the cause for which they died was just or not it would
+be idle to discuss. It is enough for us to know that&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">They were slain for us,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And their blood flowed out in a rain for us&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Red, rich, and pure, on the plain for us;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And years may go,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But our tears shall flow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O'er the dead who have died in vain for us.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>After the cessation of hostilities Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> resumed the occupations
+of a farmer on the old plantation which he had left in
+1861. The implements of warfare were exchanged for those of
+the husbandman, and following the plow on the furrows he commenced
+the work of repairing the losses he had sustained. In
+1868 he married Miss Mary Tabb Bolling, the daughter of Col.
+George W. Bolling, of Petersburg, and they continued their residence
+at the White House until 1874, when they removed to
+Ravensworth, in the county of Fairfax, where he died.</p>
+
+<p>He was an able and faithful Representative, and always devoted
+to the interests of his constituents. As a fitting eulogy to
+his worth it may be truly said that it was his disposition to
+follow the line of duty to the end. The conscientious performance
+of every trust confided to him was the watchword of his
+life. In his conduct as a legislator he was never ruled by faction
+or interest, but the promotion of the public good was the motive
+of all his actions. While exhibiting none of the showy and
+sparkling qualities of the orator, he was distinguished for the
+possession of good judgment and strong practical common sense.<span class='pagenum'>[40]<a name="Page_40" id="Page_40"></a></span>
+He was a man of calm and even temperament, and was seldom,
+if ever, controlled by prejudices or swayed by passion. Those
+who were associated with him here remember his dignified and
+courteous bearing. No words of bitterness or reproach ever
+escaped his lips, and he never forgot what was due to others as
+well as to himself.</p>
+
+<p>I never heard him speak an unkind word of another, and
+while reserved, and to a certain extent formal, in his demeanor,
+he was a man of infinite sweetness of disposition:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And thus he bore without abuse,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The grand old name of gentleman.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Both in his public and private life he furnished an example
+worthy of the emulation of all who love the true nobility of
+humanity. We will draw aside the curtain only for a passing
+glance at the domestic circle, of which his beautiful and lovely
+wife was at once the pride and the ornament. Surrounded by
+this devoted helpmeet and two manly sons, there was not a
+happier home in old Virginia. Warmed by the love of his big
+and generous heart, it was the abode of contentment and peace.
+The dread messenger was never more unwelcome than when he
+entered the portals of Ravensworth and made vacant forever the
+chair of the husband and the father.</p>
+
+<p>We can say nothing to assuage the poignant grief of the widow
+and children, but our hearts are filled with the fervent prayer
+that Heaven's choicest blessings may be showered upon them.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[41]<a name="Page_41" id="Page_41"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Herbert_of_Alabama" id="Address_of_Mr_Herbert_of_Alabama"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Herbert, of Alabama</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: In this brief tribute to the memory of Gen.
+<span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span> I should be unworthy of the friendship
+which it was my privilege to claim did I indulge in anything
+else than the language of soberness and truth. In him there was
+no manner of affectation; he pretended to be nothing but such
+as he was, and it is certain that if he had been giving directions
+to his biographer he would have laid down the rule announced
+by Thomas Carlyle, in his review of the life of Lockhart,
+that the biographer in the treatment of his subject "should
+have the fear of God before his eyes and no other fear whatever."</p>
+
+<p>Froude, as biographer, claims subsequently to have applied
+to the life of Carlyle his own rule; and all the world knows
+that in the portrayal of Carlyle's faults of character the biographer
+left many a sting in the hearts of those who had loved
+the great man while he lived and who felt that the failings on
+which the historian had dwelt ought to have been interred with
+his bones. The biographer who shall perform faithfully the
+task of writing the life of <span class="smcap">"Rooney" Lee</span> will not paint him
+as a genius like Carlyle; but, sir, if there was any single
+feature in the character of our friend that, laid bare to the world
+even by the bold hand of an Anthony Froude, would cause the
+faintest blush to tinge the cheek of family or friends, I, who
+knew him well, do not know what it was.</p>
+
+<p>It is true, sir, that it was not my fortune to be thrown in
+contact with him in the earlier years of his life. I did not
+know him when his character was being shaped and molded
+<span class='pagenum'>[42]<a name="Page_42" id="Page_42"></a></span>by the generous and refining influences which surrounded him
+from his cradle to his manhood.</p>
+
+<p>My personal acquaintance with him may be said to have
+begun only when he had taken his seat by my side in this Hall.
+But his fame had come before him. A representative of the
+most distinguished family in America, he had been, by this
+circumstance alone, conspicuous from his birth; and yet he
+came among us with not a spot upon his name.</p>
+
+<p>During the civil war, from a subordinate position rising rapidly
+to high command and always in the bright light that
+surrounded him as a son of the most illustrious general of
+modern times, he bore himself as a soldier without reproach.
+Neither in civil life nor in war had calumny assaulted him.
+Such a man, entering here upon a new career, attracted attention
+the moment he came into this Hall.</p>
+
+<p>It soon appeared to those who watched him closely that he
+was singularly modest. This modesty was not diffidence. He
+was at all times self-poised. On this floor, addressing himself
+to a public question just as in a private conversation among
+his friends, he always had the easy, unpretentious manner of
+the thoroughbred gentleman, but his modesty was easily apparent
+in an utter lack of self-assertion. He never put himself
+forward except when duty prompted, and then he did nothing
+for display; never a word did he speak for himself, but only
+for his cause.</p>
+
+<p>He made indeed no pretensions to oratory; he had never
+been trained in its arts; but his mind was broad and highly
+cultured, he had a vast fund of vigorous common sense, and he
+expressed himself readily and pointedly. With these faculties
+he would in time have taken rank as a strong debater.</p>
+
+<p>While broadly patriotic, he had at the same time a high
+<span class='pagenum'>[43]<a name="Page_43" id="Page_43"></a></span>sense of obligation to his immediate constituency, and he was
+patient to a remarkable degree. His district, you will remember,
+Mr. Speaker, lay just beyond the Potomac.</p>
+
+<p>It was an easy matter for his constituents to come to the
+Capitol, and naturally many of them sought office at his hands.
+I sat near him in the Fifty-first Congress. Often have I known
+him to be carded out a dozen times a day; and if he ever
+expressed himself to me as worried by these interruptions he
+never failed to show by what he said that his annoyance arose
+not so much from the importunities of his friends as from his
+inability to serve them.</p>
+
+<p>In address he was remarkably pleasing. Indeed, his manner
+was so genial, so pleasant, so hearty and sincere, that the memory
+of his kindly greeting will not be forgotten until the whole
+generation of his friends shall pass away. Who is there among
+his associates on this floor that will ever cease to remember
+him as, morning after morning in the springtime, he came into
+this Hall, bringing from his home a basket of roses to distribute
+among his friends? He was not seeking popularity. Such a
+thought had not occurred to him, nor did it enter into the mind
+of anyone here. He simply loved his friends, and he loved
+flowers just as he loved all things beautiful and true.</p>
+
+<p>Such a man could not but be, as Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was, a model
+brother, husband, and father. In all his life nothing was more
+lovely and beautiful than his family relations.</p>
+
+<p>He had about him none of the arts of the demagogue; he
+was always true to himself, and therefore never false to any man.
+His whole walk and conversation illustrated that he was the
+worthy son of his noble father; that from his youth up he had
+profited by the precepts and example of that illustrious chieftain,
+who declared, in those memorable words already quoted by my
+<span class='pagenum'>[44]<a name="Page_44" id="Page_44"></a></span>eloquent friend [Mr. Tucker], that duty was the sublimest word
+in the English language. And, Mr. Speaker, let me say that
+the idea conveyed by this word duty, as taught by the father
+and practiced by the son, was far higher than that ideal, lofty
+though it was, expounded by philosophers like Plato and
+Cicero. With the Lees duty meant Christian duty.</p>
+
+<p>With all these characteristics Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> could not but grow
+and continue to grow as he did in power and influence in a body
+like this; and had he been spared for that long career in this
+Hall hoped for by his friends he would have risen to eminence
+as a legislator.</p>
+
+<p>But this was not to be. He has passed away from us forever.</p>
+
+<p>When such a man dies out from among us, let critics cavil as
+they may about time wasted in memorial addresses. We should
+do violence to our own feelings did we not pause to honor his
+memory; we should do wrong to the American people, whose
+heritage they are, did we not spread before them the lessons of
+his life, that the whole country may venerate his virtues and
+the youth of the land may emulate his example.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Hermann_of_Oregon" id="Address_of_Mr_Hermann_of_Oregon"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Hermann, of Oregon</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: Of all picturesque spots on the face of the earth
+there is perhaps none that can rival in scenic beauty Mount
+Arlington, in the State of Virginia. Shaded by the primeval
+forest to the rear, and in front beautified by the gently sloping
+lawn, decorated by variegated flowers and artistically trimmed
+shrubbery, with the dark-green waters of the Potomac ebbing and
+flowing not far away and in full view the mighty nation's
+splendid capital city, stands the stately old mansion, with its
+<span class='pagenum'>[45]<a name="Page_45" id="Page_45"></a></span>classic columns, where nearly fifty-five years ago was born our
+departed friend and colleague, and one of the beloved Representatives
+of the people of Virginia&mdash;Gen. <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span>.
+Born in Virginia, he remained a Virginian continuously to the
+hour of his death.</p>
+
+<p>Inheriting the martial genius of his eminent ancestry, he
+early aspired to a career in the military service of his country,
+and at the comparatively early age of twenty we find him bidding
+adieu to his college studies at Harvard and uniting with
+the Army in its expedition to Utah in 1858, where he first experienced
+the fatigues and hardships incident to the life of the
+soldier in the long march over the arid plains and through the
+mountain canyons into the Mormon territory. The prospect of
+inaction, with a long period in garrison, proved a disappointment
+to so ambitious a spirit, and he resigned his commission
+and returned to the domestic welcome of his Virginia farm.</p>
+
+<p>Soon, however, the indication of a long peace proved delusive,
+and the scene shifted. This time it was decreed that he
+should behold the terrible conflict in which one portion of his
+unhappy country was to engage in deadly array with another
+portion. Obeying what he conceived to be the mandate of his
+State, he followed the impulse of his feelings and the example
+of his kindred and his friends, and periled all in that belief.
+He participated at once, and most actively, in some of the most
+sanguinary engagements of the civil war. Wounded at one
+place, taken prisoner at another, then exchanged, and again in
+the van of battle, we find him following the forlorn hope until
+the close of the struggle at Appomattox, when he again returned
+to the old farm.</p>
+
+<p>He possessed the undivided confidence of his constituents.
+He was regarded by them, as he was so long observed by us
+<span class='pagenum'>[46]<a name="Page_46" id="Page_46"></a></span>in our intimate associations with him in this Hall, and especially
+in the committee rooms, as an intelligent and conscientious
+legislator, a laborious servant of the people, a courtly gentleman,
+a generous and devoted companion. Loyal as he was
+to his political convictions, he was yet the most considerate
+and the most conservative in his relations with those who radically
+differed with him. He admired frankness; he despised
+duplicity. While he was obedient to the reasonable edicts of
+caucus and party organization, we recall occasions when he was
+prompt to rise above the partisan. He was as broad-gauge and
+comprehensive in the study and performance of his duty toward
+all parts and all interests of his reunited country as he was
+anxious for the obliteration of sectional animosity and sincere
+and generous of heart in his social obligations to all of his
+fellow-men.</p>
+
+<p>The most touching remembrance we bear of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>'s
+goodness of heart has reference to his custom in springtime of
+bringing to this Hall from his farm great quantities of lovely
+roses, and having them distributed to his associates of both
+political parties on this floor with his compliments. Here we
+have a practical illustration that flowers are the interpreters of
+man's best feelings. In oriental lands the language of flowers
+was early studied and made expressive. As Percival says:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On its leaves a mystic language bears.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>With Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> they bore tidings of good will to partisan
+friend and partisan foe alike. They bespoke in mute eloquence
+the expansive heart of one "that loved his fellow-men." Little,
+however, did he think at the time that these beautiful roses
+were especially speaking to him as emblems of a near immortality.
+Awakening from their sleep of winter, they were also
+<span class='pagenum'>[47]<a name="Page_47" id="Page_47"></a></span>harbingers of a brighter day to him and of the bloom of a glorious
+resurrection. The Germans have a saying that "he who
+loves flowers loves God." If this be applied to Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>, we
+have the blessed assurance that he has approached close to the
+celestial throne.</p>
+
+<p>Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> belonged to one of the most historic families of
+America. Looking back to the early settlement and the pioneer
+struggles of the peninsula and then through the plantation
+and colonial period of entire Virginia, we everywhere discover
+the genius, the dauntless courage, the independence, and the
+resolute patriotism of the Lees. It has been well said, sir, that
+Virginia is the mother of Presidents; and this is true. A
+momentary reflection does not suffice to demonstrate the various
+causes which combined to bestow upon the Old Dominion this
+prominence. A mature study, however, will serve a double
+purpose. It will teach us not only how Virginia more than
+any other State became the nursery for Presidents and statesmen,
+but how at the same time were given character and fame
+to its distinguished family&mdash;the Lees.</p>
+
+<p>The permanency and prosperity of states and political bodies
+are as much due to the character of their superstructures as
+are the strength and stability of the material edifice to the
+foundation upon which it rests. The Argonauts of Virginia
+united in a remarkable degree the pride and culture and learning
+and loyalty of the Cavaliers with the conviction of purpose
+and martial courage and discipline of the followers of Cromwell.
+First came the heroic vanguard&mdash;the men like Capt. John
+Smith&mdash;who blazed the way through the forests of the James,
+the York, the Chickahominy, and Pamunkey. Then followed
+the refined, enthusiastic, and chivalric gentlemen of the polished
+court of Charles I, with many of the clergy, who brought with
+<span class='pagenum'>[48]<a name="Page_48" id="Page_48"></a></span>them their intense loyalty to the Crown, as well as to the episcopal
+government and Anglican ritual. Among these, too,
+were the proselyted royalists; old and honorable families after
+the defeat of Charles, seeking exile in the far distant yet faithful
+Virginia. Then came those who triumphed at Naseby, and
+overthrew the kingly office and maintained the constitution of
+the realm and the integrity of Magna Charta and the Petition
+of Rights.</p>
+
+<p>The necessity for self-defense and the maintenance of order
+originated self-government and the assertion of individual right,
+and these united the widely variant elements of the community
+in a loyal union. It was the amalgamation of such spirits in
+Virginia in 1676 which demanded the right of personal liberty,
+of universal suffrage, and of representation; and here was fought
+the prelude of that great drama one hundred years later, when
+a Virginian, in the name of a whole nation, penned the immortal
+words which proclaimed to all the world the "inalienable
+right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Here were
+the Lees, the Patrick Henrys, the Randolphs, the Jeffersons, the
+Madisons, and the Masons of Virginia; and here, to close the
+drama with freedom's triumphant army, was the most illustrious
+of them all&mdash;George Washington. It was from such an
+ancestry our late colleague was descended, and it was from such
+teachings and such examples he imbibed his zealous convictions
+of right and his sturdy regard for the exalted prerogatives of a
+free people.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[49]<a name="Page_49" id="Page_49"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Washington_of_Tennessee" id="Address_of_Mr_Washington_of_Tennessee"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Washington, of Tennessee</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: On the 15th of last October death again invaded
+the ranks of this House. The mysterious messenger laid
+the summons of his cold silent hand upon one who had immeasurably
+endeared himself to all whose good fortune it had
+been to know him. To-day we pause amid the rush of a nation's
+public business to mourn the country's loss and to pay a just
+tribute to the noble dead. When such a man as our late colleague,
+Gen. <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span>, is taken from our midst, a void
+is made which can nevermore be filled. It is not his visible presence
+or his tangible body that we shall so much miss. It is the
+magnetism of a pure mind, the silent, potent influence of a spotless
+character, the power of a great, good, and noble soul to elevate
+and dignify all with whom it came in contact that will
+prove our irreparable loss. No man ever associated with Gen.
+<span class="smcap">Lee</span> without feeling the better for it. To have been with him
+made you feel like one who had drawn a long deep inspiration
+of pure fresh air into his lungs after breathing the stifling atmosphere
+of a close room. His thoughts, his conversation, his
+ideas diffused about him a sound and healthy morality, that was
+as natural to him as its delicate odor is to the rose. Modest and
+gentle as a woman; sympathetic as a child; guileless as the
+day; a logical, well-trained, accurate mind; a horror of injustice;
+absolutely devoid of resentment; a benignant countenance, and
+a splendid physique, made him indeed a man among men.</p>
+
+<p>Sir, I believe not only in early training, but in the force of
+early surroundings and family traditions. Sprung from an illustrious
+line of statesmen and patriots, who had left their impress
+<span class='pagenum'>[50]<a name="Page_50" id="Page_50"></a></span>on every page of the history, civil and military, of this country
+from the colonial days to the present; born on those beautiful
+heights overlooking this city at Arlington, where the house was
+filled with the sanctified relics and the very atmosphere he
+breathed in childhood was pregnant with the traditions and
+precepts of "the Father of his Country;" his mother being the
+daughter of George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted son
+of the immortal Washington; his father that world-renowned
+military commander, the self-poised, calm, patient, dignified,
+glorious Gen. Robert E. Lee, it would be unnatural not to expect
+to find the impress of all these on the heart and mind and
+character and life of Gen. <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span>.</p>
+
+<p>To some my words of eulogy may appear fulsome; but having
+known him in public and in private, at home by his own fireside,
+as well as abroad on the active field of life, I know that my poor
+words can but fail to do full justice to his true worth. With
+him the performance of duty was accompanied by no harsh
+word or cynical expression; on the contrary, his calmness and
+uniform sweetness of manner were almost poetical. I recall a
+notable instance in the Fiftieth Congress, when, pressing under
+the most trying circumstances the passage of a bill for the relief
+of the Episcopal high school near Alexandria, he was temperate
+and patient. Standing on the Republican side of this Hall,
+among those who questioned him, his words fell softly and
+evenly as snowflakes on the turbulent House, which finally by
+an almost unanimous vote passed his bill.</p>
+
+<p>He shrank from publicity; therefore he never spoke on this
+floor unless it was necessary to push a measure intrusted to his
+charge; then he always acquitted himself with credit. In the
+committee and among his colleagues his influence was irresistible,
+because his judgment and integrity were above dispute.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[51]<a name="Page_51" id="Page_51"></a></span>With him a public office was a public trust, which he accepted
+and administered for his State and his constituents without regard
+to race, color, or party affiliation. Many times have I seen
+him, when coming in from his country home in the morning,
+met at the depot by a dozen or more of his constituents, claiming
+his attention to their private matters with the Departments
+of the Government.</p>
+
+<p>The patience and tender care with which he heard and looked
+after each were paternal and pathetic. His love for little children
+was intense and beautiful. Nothing made him happier
+than to fill some little fellow's hands and pockets with candies
+and fruits, claiming only in return a shy caress. In his home
+is where his perfectly balanced Christian character shone in its
+brightest light. As father and husband he was indeed a model
+man.</p>
+
+<p>I shall attempt no extended biographical sketch; that has
+already been well done by others. Yet I can not refrain from
+saying that in every stage of his career Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> did his whole
+duty, actuated entirely and solely by the loftiest motives.</p>
+
+<p>A graduate of Harvard at twenty, he was appointed a second
+lieutenant in the regular Army. Often I have heard him tell
+of the wearisome march across the plains to California with his
+regiment, long in advance of civilization and railroads, when
+most of that journey through the desert was made perilous by
+roving bands of hostile Indians. Retiring from the Army, he
+married and settled at the historic White House, in lower Virginia.
+There he was the typical Southern country gentleman of
+refinement and culture, taking an active interest in agriculture
+and the public affairs of his community. When the war between
+the States summoned Virginia's sons to her defense he
+again became a soldier.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[52]<a name="Page_52" id="Page_52"></a></span>Throughout the struggle he discharged every duty and was
+equal to every responsibility placed upon him. His soldiers
+loved and trusted him as a father, for they knew he would
+sacrifice no life for empty glory. The saddest chapter in all his
+life was when&mdash;a prisoner of war at Fort Monroe, lying desperately
+wounded, with the threat of a retaliatory death-sentence
+suspended over his head, in hourly expectation of its execution&mdash;he
+heard of the fatal illness of his wife and two little
+children but a few miles away. Earnestly his friends begged
+that he might be allowed to go and say the last farewell to them
+on earth. A devoted brother came, like Damon of old, and
+offered himself to die in "Rooney's" place. War, inexorable
+war, always stern and cruel, could not accept the substituted
+sacrifice, and while the sick wounded soldier, under sentence
+of death, lay, himself almost dying, in the dungeon of the Fort,
+his wife and children "passed over the river to rest under
+the trees" and wait there his coming. Yet no word of reproach
+ever passed his gentle lips. He accepted it all as the
+fortune of war.</p>
+
+<p>In all the walks of life&mdash;as a student at college, as an officer
+in the regular Army, as a planter on the Pamunkey, as a leader
+of cavalry in the civil war, as a farmer struggling with the
+chaos and confusion that beset him under the new order of
+things following the abolition of slavery, as president of the
+Virginia Agricultural Society, as State senator, and as a member
+of Congress&mdash;Gen. <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span> met every requirement,
+was equal to every emergency, and left a name for honor,
+truth, and virtue which should be a blessed heritage and the
+inspiration for a nobler and loftier life to all those who shall
+succeed him.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[53]<a name="Page_53" id="Page_53"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Henderson_of_Illinois" id="Address_of_Mr_Henderson_of_Illinois"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Henderson, of Illinois</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: It is not my purpose at this time to make any
+extended remarks upon the life and public services of the late
+Gen. <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span>. Other gentlemen of the House,
+more intimately acquainted with Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> in his lifetime, are
+better prepared to do justice to his memory than I am. But
+having enjoyed a very pleasant acquaintance with the deceased
+during his four years' service as a member of this body, I desire
+to express the great respect which I entertained for him as a
+gentleman of high character and of noble, manly qualities.
+Descended from one of the most highly honored families in the
+State in which he had his birth, he was liberally educated, and
+at an early age entered the Army as a second lieutenant and
+served as such until 1859, when he resigned his commission
+and returned to the peaceful pursuits of civil life. In 1861 he
+followed his illustrious father, and entered the service of the
+Confederate States as a captain of cavalry. That he was a
+brave and gallant soldier there can be no doubt, for his military
+history shows that he rose step by step from the rank of a
+captain to that of a major-general of cavalry. In 1865 he surrendered
+with his father at Appomattox, and renewed his allegiance
+and devotion, as I am glad to believe, to the Government
+of the United States.</p>
+
+<p>I can but wish, Mr. Speaker, that such honored names as
+those of Gen. <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span> and his distinguished father
+had never been led into rebellion against the Government of
+their country. But they felt it to be their duty to follow the
+fortunes of their State, and let us to-day, while mourning the
+<span class='pagenum'>[54]<a name="Page_54" id="Page_54"></a></span>departure of our deceased friend, rejoice that the surrender at
+Appomattox has been followed by a restored Union, and that
+our reunited, undivided country is now one of the strongest,
+most powerful, and prosperous of all the nations of the earth.</p>
+
+<p>As a Representative in this body, while he was not inclined
+to participate actively in the discussion of public and political
+questions, still Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> took great interest in all that pertained
+to the public welfare, and especially in that which, in his judgment,
+was in the interest of his immediate constituents. He
+was an able, faithful, and efficient Representative as well as a
+noble, manly man, and in all my intercourse with men I never
+met a more genial, warm-hearted, pleasant gentleman than the
+distinguished citizen to whose memory we pay tribute to-day.
+I well remember his kindly greetings, and I am sure all of us
+who knew Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> deeply regret his loss as a member of this
+body, to which he was for a third time elected by his confiding
+constituents, and extend to his sorrowing bereaved family our
+warm heartfelt sympathies.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Chipman_of_Michigan" id="Address_of_Mr_Chipman_of_Michigan"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Chipman, of Michigan</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: I have not been in the habit of speaking
+upon occasions of this kind, but it is one of the joys of my life,
+a very great joy indeed, to feel that I had a place in the heart
+of the gentleman whom we are now commemorating. I knew
+him very well, and in many respects I regarded him as one of
+the most fortunate men whom it was ever my pleasure to know.
+While many men here are struggling for fame, while many of
+them will leave the struggle heartsick, weary, defeated, he
+had that power, that charm, so precious and so lovely, of attaching
+<span class='pagenum'>[55]<a name="Page_55" id="Page_55"></a></span>men to him by the ties of affection. Little children
+loved him.</p>
+
+<p>There was a benignancy, a sweetness of demeanor, which
+attracted them to him, and while his name may not be
+sounded in the trump of fame, yet the subtile power of his gentleness
+and goodness has permeated many lives, will shape
+many destinies, and will have a force in the history of the
+world greater than that which will be exerted by many who
+will succeed him here. He was a soldier, yet he was gentle
+and kind. He was a descendant of a long line of honored ancestry,
+yet he did not believe that mere wealth was necessary
+either to respectability or to greatness. He was a farmer and
+loved the soil. He looked upon the ripened grain as the
+flower of human hope and as a minister to human needs. He
+loved the breath of cattle, and he regarded the occupation of
+an agriculturist as the noblest and the best in which a man
+could be engaged. He was a true son of the soil&mdash;hearty, simple,
+gentle, true.</p>
+
+<p>But, sir, the particulars of his career, both public and private,
+have been recounted by those who knew him well; have
+been recounted with great force, with great eloquence and
+propriety. There is, however, one part of that career to which
+I wish to refer. He was engaged in the memorable struggle
+which convulsed this nation from center to circumference and
+which fastened the gaze of the civilized world. I wish upon
+this occasion to say emphatically, that wherever we may have
+stood in that struggle, whatever was good and great in any
+man participating on either side of it is a precious heritage to
+the entire American people to-day. We proved that, North,
+South, East, West, we had not degenerated in the qualities
+which make a nation great.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[56]<a name="Page_56" id="Page_56"></a></span>Grant and Lee, Sherman, Sheridan, and the two Johnstons
+have gone from us forever, and every day the green sward of
+peace, the flowers of affection, are placed above the grave of
+some hero of the blue or the gray. But I love to think that
+above these graves stands the Genius of American freedom,
+serene and grand, and bids the world behold how brave the
+sons of the Republic were in the past; how united they are in
+one purpose and one destiny in the present; how certain they
+are to be a people noted for reasonable liberty, for perfect
+union, and for sufficient material power to be formidable and
+just alike to the other nations of the earth.</p>
+
+<p>And so, sir, I come and lay the flowers of my Northern
+home upon the bier of this son of Virginia, this good citizen,
+this patriot, this man who, I am proud to believe, held even
+me in his affection. And when gentlemen here speak of the
+terror and the mystery of death, I tell them that to such a man
+death has no terrors, and that to the good man it has no
+mystery; for in that illimitable hereafter, which must be populated
+by all the sons of men, it must be, it will be, well with
+all of us.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Wilson_of_West_Virginia" id="Address_of_Mr_Wilson_of_West_Virginia"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: The House has already heard from his friend
+and successor the story of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>'s life. I shall not, therefore,
+repeat it even in briefest outline. Enough for me to say
+that he was one in a long lineage of noted men, who by some
+innate force and virtue had stood forth in three generations as
+leaders of their fellow-men; that he was the son of the greatest
+of all who have borne the name, and that in early manhood
+<span class='pagenum'>[57]<a name="Page_57" id="Page_57"></a></span>he exhibited the soldierly instincts and the soldierly capacity
+that seemed to be historically associated with it.</p>
+
+<p>With such a lineage and with such a history he came to this
+House, and I believe I can offer no higher tribute to his memory
+to-day than to say that in all his associations with us here
+he was the embodiment of gentleness and modesty. Indeed,
+Mr. Speaker, as I now recall Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>, and explore with aching
+heart the memory of a close and cordial friendship with
+him, I can say with confidence that in the blending of these
+rare traits I have never known his equal. They were a part
+of his nature, not more illustrated in business and social intercourse
+with fellow-members than in his relations with the page
+who did him service and who learned to regard himself in some
+way as the special friend and associate of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Many of us doubtless can recall the evident pride of the
+little fellow who occasionally placed upon our desks the roses
+which his kindly patron brought by the basketful in the spring
+mornings from his Virginia home to brighten the sittings of
+the House. And this gentleness and modesty were the more
+attractive because they were the adornment of a sincere and
+manly character. How much came to him as the rich legacy
+of ancestral blood and how much was wrought into his nature
+by the training of his youth it is idle to speculate. In both
+respects he was lifted far above the common lot of men. Of
+his mother it is said by those who knew her well that she was
+one of the most accomplished and at the same time most
+domestic, sensible, and practical of women. Of his father's
+influence and teaching, to say nothing of his lofty example,
+we have the striking proofs, if any were needed, in letters that
+have been published. Let me cull but an occasional expression
+from these unaffected outpourings of the heart of Robert E.<span class='pagenum'>[58]<a name="Page_58" id="Page_58"></a></span>
+Lee toward the son he loved so well. "My precious Roon," as
+he was wont to call him.</p>
+
+<p>When the boy was not yet ten years of age he closes a playful
+letter, adapted to such tender years, with these earnest words:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Be true, kind, and generous, and pray earnestly to God to enable you to keep His
+commandments and to walk in the same all the days of your life.</p></div>
+
+<p>A year later, writing from the ship <i>Massachusetts</i>, off Lobos,
+to his two sons, a letter full of interest to boys, he urges them
+to diligence in study:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I shall not feel my long separation from you if I find that my absence has been of
+no injury to you, and that you have both grown in goodness and knowledge as well as
+in stature; but how I shall suffer on my return if the reverse has occurred. You enter
+into all my thoughts, into all my prayers, and on you in part will depend whether I
+shall be happy or miserable, as you know how much I love you.</p></div>
+
+<p>Ten years later, when the son had become a lieutenant in the
+Army, he admonishes him:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I hope you will always be distinguished for your avoidance of the universal bane
+whisky and every immorality. Nor need you fear to be ruled out of the society that
+indulges in it, for you will acquire their esteem and respect, as all venerate, if they do
+not practice, virtue. I hope you will make many friends, as you will be thrown with
+those who deserve this feeling. But indiscriminate intimacies you will find annoying
+and entangling, and they can be avoided by politeness and civility. When I think of
+your youth, impulsiveness, and many temptations, your distance from me, and the ease
+(and even innocence) with which you might commence an erroneous course, my heart
+quails within me and my whole frame and being tremble at the possible results. May
+Almighty God have you in His holy keeping. To His merciful providence I commit
+you, and I will rely upon Him and the efficacy of the prayers that will be daily and
+hourly offered up by those who love you.</p></div>
+
+<p>A year or two later, on New Year's Day, 1859, he writes:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I always thought there was stuff in you for a good soldier and I trust you will prove
+it. I can not express the gratification I felt, in meeting Col. May in New York, at the
+encomium he passed upon your soldiership, your zeal, and your devotion to your duty.
+But I was more pleased at the report of your conduct; that went more to my heart and
+was of infinite comfort to me. Hold on to your purity and virtue; they will proudly
+sustain you in all trials and difficulties and cheer you in every calamity.</p></div>
+
+<p>So, too, when the young lieutenant had married and settled
+down a typical Virginian farmer upon the estate left him by
+<span class='pagenum'>[59]<a name="Page_59" id="Page_59"></a></span>his grandfather Custis, the well-known "White House" on
+the Pamunkey, the home of Martha Washington:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I am glad to hear that your mechanics are all paid off and that you have managed
+your funds so well as to have enough for your purposes. As you have commenced, I
+hope you will continue never to exceed your means. It will save you much anxiety
+and mortification and enable you to maintain your independence of character and feeling.
+It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means
+conform to our wishes. In fact, we want but little. Our happiness depends upon our
+independence, the success of our operations, prosperity of our plans, health, contentment,
+and the esteem of our friends, all of which, my dear son, I hope you may enjoy to the
+full.</p></div>
+
+<p>With such counsels, glowing with a father's love and enforced
+by the constant example of a father's life, it is no wonder that
+the son grew into the manliness, the gentleness and modesty,
+the charitableness of judgment, the unconspicuous and patient
+devotion to duty, and the personal lovableness of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Speaker, I might say much more from the promptings
+of a strong and unfeigned affection and from a sense of the public
+merits of our late colleague, but where there are so many to
+speak, it is not necessary for one to attempt a catalogue of his
+private virtues and of his public services.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps I may fitly add a word in closing as to Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>'s
+military career. From a captain of volunteer cavalry he rose
+on his own merits at the age of twenty-six to the rank of major-general.
+I have not searched the annals of war to recite his
+military history, for it is not the soldier that I have been commemorating,
+but I may recall a testimony not improper to be
+placed on record here to-day. I happened to be in company with
+Gen. Joseph E. Johnston about the time that Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was first
+nominated for Congress. The old commander, who, as all
+know, was not given to effusive speech, expressed to me his
+hearty gratification at the event, and in doing so his high estimate
+of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> as a man and of his ability as a soldier. His
+<span class='pagenum'>[60]<a name="Page_60" id="Page_60"></a></span>praise was strong and unstinted, and no one will question its
+sincerity. Mr. Speaker, what more need I add than to say that
+in all the acts and relations of life, as son and soldier, as husband
+and father, as private citizen and as Representative of the
+people, as friend and as Christian, our departed colleague left a
+memory we may well cherish and an example we may well
+follow.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Cummings_of_New_York" id="Address_of_Mr_Cummings_of_New_York"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Cummings, of New York</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: Great as is our country, its history is comparatively
+brief. Though brief, it is exceedingly instructive.
+So far as there can be an outcome in ever-recurring events, it
+is the outcome of a tremendous social and political struggle.
+Sir, it hardly suits the occasion to refer to the origin of this
+struggle or to trace its progress, but the effort for popular government
+is discernible through many centuries. As we come
+nearer to our time it becomes more intelligent and determined.
+Our great Declaration was its best pronunciamento. Our written
+Constitution was its most concise expression. The events
+that produced them founded a normal school for patriotism.
+In it was perfected a new departure. Fealty to lord and king
+was supplanted by fealty to human rights. Proclaimed in
+the council chamber, these rights had to be won in the field.
+Yorktown completed our first endeavor at nation-making;
+we graduated masters at Appomattox. The first proclaimed
+the prowess of the Confederation, the second testified to the
+strength of the Union. Both astonished the world. Both
+transpired in Virginia.</p>
+
+<p>Conspicuous in this analogue of our history were the Lees of
+Virginia. They have a lineage too illustrious for praise. Its
+<span class='pagenum'>[61]<a name="Page_61" id="Page_61"></a></span>escutcheons are too bright for adornment. It reaches back for
+centuries loyal to honor and to truth. Him we mourn to-day
+was a gifted scion of that great name. His highest distinction
+was won in Confederate arms.</p>
+
+<p>Thank God, I can now speak of our civil war with satisfaction
+and not with reluctance. I allude to it with a satisfaction
+akin to that one feels in gazing upon a plain fertilized by an
+inundation. Flowers spring up, birds sing, and golden grain
+nods in the sunlight. But our civil war was more like an
+upheaval than like a deluge. It shook every timber in the
+grand structure with which we had surprised the world. Other
+governments have fallen of their own weight; our matchless
+edifice could not be shattered by an explosion.</p>
+
+<p>Both contestants stood guard over the popular principle and
+would not let it be mined. They were instructed in the same
+school and by the same teacher. Local privilege was as strong
+with the one as with the other. The dispute was whether the
+Union should endure the strain of the race and slavery issue.
+The long and vexing argument was adjourned to the battlefield.
+In no other respect was our system even threatened. This
+close connection at the root made the angry divergence begin
+to assimilate at the very outset.</p>
+
+<p>So kindred was it, that when Grant met his heroic opponent
+at Appomattox he says that he fell into such a reunion with
+him that he had twice to be reminded of the occasion that
+brought them together. He then conformed to it, and treated
+those who surrendered not as conquered, but as reclaimed.
+Lincoln went further. He found a Confederate legislature
+ready-made to his hand, and promptly permitted it to repair
+the situation. In thus mingling the gray with the blue he
+was neither color-blind nor purblind. He knew what he was
+<span class='pagenum'>[62]<a name="Page_62" id="Page_62"></a></span>doing. He desired to blend them, as emblematic of a more
+perfect Union. Possibly the Confederate legislature suited his
+purpose best.</p>
+
+<p>After this testimonial it looks to me something like treason
+to that great name to try to exclude Confederate worth from
+the annals of the strife or from the glory of its grand consummation.
+Neither act nor actor can be profitably spared.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Speaker, the other day in this very Hall I laid a chaplet
+on the bier of a dead comrade. To-day I am trying to commemorate
+the virtues of a Confederate colleague. Both died
+while members of this House. That both were my countrymen
+warms my heart. As my countrymen I can make no
+invidious distinction. If living neither would permit it, and
+he is more reckless than I who would profane the memory of
+either.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Speaker, I have said that I could speak of the civil
+war with satisfaction and not with reluctance. The occasion
+prompted me to say so. The occasion requires that, as a Union
+soldier, I should state my reasons. We learn from experience,
+and war is the toughest kind of experience. When it raised
+its horrid front and began its work of seeming devastation, we
+shrank back from its terrible promise. The world looked to
+see us dismembered; but the great Republic, like a daring
+cruiser, emerged from the tempest sound from keel to truck.
+Not a brace swung loose, not a plank was sprung, no spar was
+shivered. Within there had to be readjustment. Aloft the
+Stars and Stripes rose and fell in graceful recognition of the
+trial. The thunder of her broadsides proclaimed the value of
+this object-lesson in nation-making.</p>
+
+<p>We had learned a juster appreciation of ourselves as a whole
+people, and if this were all, it was worth the tuition. But we
+<span class='pagenum'>[63]<a name="Page_63" id="Page_63"></a></span>had besides garnered into our storehouse of knowledge vast
+consignments for the use of liberal economic government. We
+had infused into our laws, our language, and our institutions
+new vigor for conquest and for human enlightenment. Venality,
+that dogs great efforts, undoubtedly there was. But the high
+tide of the conflict showed no mercenary taint. On both sides
+it was urged from the highest motives of patriotism and of
+honor and in defense of the popular principle. That principle
+with us means local self-government and representative
+union. The rebel yell was because they thought local government
+in peril. The Federal huzza was for representative
+union. Together they were cheering the same deeply embedded
+sentiment.</p>
+
+<p>Those who would study the phenomenon must remember
+that where opinions approximate on parallel lines, but from
+some interest or sentiment refuse to coalesce, the passions are
+liable to ignite. Fusion then takes place in a terrible heat.
+The heat must be sufficient to remove the obstacles that the
+mass may become unified. We have as a result a firmly established
+representative union of local self-governments. The
+cooling and finishing process has left no flaw. Sir, what sort
+of a soldier must he be who is not proud of having been tempered
+in such a trial? If after the unmatched tournament this
+is not the spirit of victor and vanquished, then the lights of
+chivalry are burnt out and magnanimity is no more.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Speaker, I know of no greater praise of a life than to
+say it was one of honest endeavor. Whatever faculties comprise
+it, this is the scope of human duty. When to this is added
+a conscience adequate to all the suggestions of a great and busy
+career, the sum of human excellence has been reached All
+this I believe in my soul can be truthfully said of <span class="smcap">"Rooney"</span><span class='pagenum'>[64]<a name="Page_64" id="Page_64"></a></span>
+<span class="smcap">Lee</span>. "Rooney" was his father's term of endearment, which
+all who knew him, without distinction of age, race, or sex, delighted
+to apply to him when absent. When present, it was
+always "general." A thorough soldier, there was an idyllic
+strain in his nature. He was essentially rural in his tastes.
+He loved the wheat fields and tobacco plantations of his native
+State. Its very air seemed to inspire him.</p>
+
+<p>The Blue Ridge was to him the perfection of natural beauty.
+He was warm in his friendships and true to his kinships. Always
+dignified, there was a heartiness in his greetings that was
+irresistible. He was as broad as his acres. Riding or driving
+over his vast estate or in its vicinity, his cheerful halloo rang
+in the ears of those who had not seen him, and the cheery swing
+of his hat, though paid to all, was a cherished compliment. If
+the spirit of mortal be proud, it was not his spirit. Courteous,
+sympathetic, unobtrusive, patriotic, knightly, and beneficent,
+he was a part of the soil of Virginia itself. He had the loving
+hospitality that would take all into the march of progress. How
+much of these qualities was innate, how much he drew from his
+high lineage, how much from the teachings of his illustrious
+father, can never be known, but he blended them in a halo that
+will not soon fade from his memory.</p>
+
+<p>Sir, others have spoken of the incidents of his life and of his
+unabated fidelity to its claims. I can not add to his record. I
+have met him in battle array; I have embraced him with a soldier's
+warmth. We entered Congress together; we have fought
+here side by side. It has fallen to my lot to eulogize him. This
+I will venture: It would mar the catalogue of bright names of
+which America is so proud if his were omitted from the roll.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[65]<a name="Page_65" id="Page_65"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Cowles_of_North_Carolina" id="Address_of_Mr_Cowles_of_North_Carolina"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Cowles, of North Carolina</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: Truly "in the midst of life we are in death."
+There is scarcely one of the associates and colleagues of Gen.
+<span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span> who knew him here and up to the closing
+days of the late Congress who would have been deterred by the
+thought of personal risk from exchanging the chances of life or
+death with him for a few months; and yet, in so short a time
+the dread summoner, who soon or late is to call us all, has taken
+him from this life into that which fadeth not, neither does it die.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The hand of the reaper<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Takes the ears that are hoary,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But the voice of the weeper<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Wails manhood in glory.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The autumn winds rushing<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Waft the leaves that are searest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But our flower was in flushing<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">When blighting was nearest.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Yes, death, the unsolved and unsolvable mystery, has enveloped
+him, and he has passed from our view never more to be
+seen and known of men on this earth. But yesterday the living,
+moving, brave, sympathetic, generous friend, and now, alas,
+but a memory&mdash;and yet a memory dear to all who knew and
+appreciated his noble attributes of heart and mind; a memory
+which has left its impress upon his fellow-men for nobility of
+character; a memory which can not wholly fade, but must influence
+for good not only his own immediate posterity, but all
+those who may come after him.</p>
+
+<p>My acquaintance with Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> began in the early part of
+the war between the States. It was upon a night march, as we
+rode with the advance guard of the army, where we might expect
+<span class='pagenum'>[66]<a name="Page_66" id="Page_66"></a></span>at any moment a hostile volley. He related to me in a low
+impressive tone of voice an experience which had occurred to
+him when his command by reason of surprise had met with
+some disaster. What impressed me most at the time was that,
+although others must have been to some extent culpable, he
+took all the blame upon himself, and had not a word of complaint
+for either officer or man who served under him.</p>
+
+<p>This trait of magnanimity, such a splendid companion to
+personal courage, I found afterwards to be characteristic of the
+man.</p>
+
+<p>Though springing from a long line of heroic and patriotic
+ancestors, he had not a particle of pretentious pride, but to all
+men, privates in the ranks as well as officers, so that they were
+but brave and good soldiers, he always found "time enough for
+courtesy." He never tried to appropriate another man's laurels,
+but he possessed in a high degree that quality of courage
+which is so well described by Emerson:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To mean devices for a sordid end.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Courage, an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By which those great in war are great in love.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The spring of all brave acts is seated here,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>In his friendship he was gentle and tender as one who is full
+of love and human sympathy. You might have thought him
+better fitted for the paths of peace, and yet upon the battlefield
+he was brave as the bravest. Whenever and wherever duty
+called him his personal safety was by him never considered.
+Often have I seen him in the thickest of the fight, by his presence
+<span class='pagenum'>[67]<a name="Page_67" id="Page_67"></a></span>and personal direction cheering and encouraging both
+officers and men. Though the son of the general in chief of
+the army, he took no favor by it.</p>
+
+<p>He never took advantage of his rank to keep to the rear and
+send his regiments in. You could always measure his estimate
+of you by the manner in which he met you. The soul of candor,
+his heart shone in his eye, and placing a high estimate
+upon manhood, he loved all in whom he recognized it. For
+about two years during the latter part of the war I served in his
+command, and had every opportunity to observe and know him.</p>
+
+<p>My acquaintance with him here was but a revival of old
+memories. I always loved him as one who&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Spake no slander; no, nor listened to it.</span>
+<hr style='width: 15em; margin-left: 0em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;' />
+<span class="i0">Who reverenced his conscience as his king.</span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Who, if he committed an error or wronged any man, was swift
+to redress it; never laying his blame at another man's door.
+Who excelled in all the virtues which go to make up a beautiful
+private life in all the essentials of faithful friendship and
+truthful character; who lived&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6">Thro' all this tract of years,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wearing the white flower of a blameless life.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Think for a moment how much better and happier every one
+would be if all men were earnestly to strive to live up to this
+high standard and how much of pain would be spared the
+world. He was one of the most faithful members upon this
+floor; faithful to the public interest, and whenever any proposition
+was under consideration which specially concerned his
+own people, they always had in him an able advocate and
+strong defender.</p>
+
+<p>He is gone! sincere Christian, loving husband and father,
+<span class='pagenum'>[68]<a name="Page_68" id="Page_68"></a></span>trusted friend. The life that was given him has been taken
+away. The widow and the orphan mourn, and their grief is
+our grief; but a merciful Father has given him more than he
+has taken away, and this strength and comfort through the
+tender mercy of our Saviour is theirs&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I am the resurrection, and the life, he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
+yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Breckinridge_of_Kentucky" id="Address_of_Mr_Breckinridge_of_Kentucky"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Speaker</span>: I never had the pleasure of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>'s
+acquaintance, so far as I could recall, until he entered this
+House as a Representative of the district which lies just across
+the river; but there were many things in common between us
+which soon caused a kindliness of feeling much warmer
+than the frequency of our association would indicate. It happened
+that we were almost of the same age, born within a few
+weeks of each other, and that on all great questions of the day
+we were singularly alike in our opinions, and, if I may use such
+an expression, even in our prejudices.</p>
+
+<p>Amid all the trials of life we two found we had adhered to
+simple beliefs of those Southern homes in which we were the
+reared; that no advance in civilization, no pretense of progress,
+had ever obscured our views as to the olden beliefs and the
+simpler truths which had been inwrought into our being by
+the venerable fathers and beloved mothers with whom we had
+been blessed. The substratum of our beliefs was precisely the
+same. And we found that we were not ashamed of that substratum,
+that we were not given to apologizing for adhering to
+so-called "obsolete" traditions or to creeds "that were passing
+out of fashion."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[69]<a name="Page_69" id="Page_69"></a></span>We also found that on the political questions of the day we
+were similarly in accord. We believed in the same political
+principles. And so it was a very rare occurrence that when
+the roll was called in this House we were not found voting,
+even on what seemed to be trivial matters, upon the same side.
+It was not strange that with these coincidences of belief and
+with our having both served in the Confederate army and the
+local accident of the nearness of our seats which threw us
+together, there grew up a regard greater than was indicated by
+our association outside of this Hall.</p>
+
+<p>If I were to select in my acquaintance him who, as much as
+any other, deserved the title, I would say of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> that he
+was a gentleman. All that had concurred in producing him
+was of the best. The blood which gave him life, the soil out
+of which he grew, the kindly influences which always surrounded
+him, the molding powers to which he had been subjected&mdash;all
+were of the noblest. A son of such houses, reared
+at such knees, influenced by such powers, he passed early under
+the influences of Harvard. Later he took his young experience
+as a soldier under Albert Sidney Johnston. He began
+his civil life in a delicious home, with the love of an exquisite
+young wife. And in the Confederate service he was associated
+with the best and the bravest volunteers of the Old Dominion
+herself.</p>
+
+<p>It was not strange that the product of such influences should
+be a gentleman. All that was courageous, all that was loyal
+to truth, all that was courteous to those with whom he came
+in contact, all that was gentle and kindly was not only the
+heritage which he received with his name and his blood, but
+it was developed by all the environments which he was so
+fortunate as to have surround him. If I were to select a character
+<span class='pagenum'>[70]<a name="Page_70" id="Page_70"></a></span>of which it might be said that it was round, without angles,
+even without salient points, it would be his&mdash;not because
+he was weak, but because the calmness, the serenity, and the
+magnificence (if I may use a word that seems to be hyperbolic)
+of the equipoise of his qualities made each of them seem less
+important than it would have seemed if other qualities had
+been less.</p>
+
+<p>It would not be extravagant to apply to him the paraphrase
+of the apostolic description of a Christian gentleman&mdash;loving
+without dissimulation; abhorring the evil; cleaving to the
+honorable; preferring to confer honor rather than to receive it;
+earnest in the work of life, and careful of time and opportunity
+to labor; hopeful of all good; patient in tribulation; forbearing
+to resent trespass; charitable in thought and word, as in deed;
+given to hospitality; at peace with his own conscience and with
+God.</p>
+
+<p>We live, Mr. Speaker, in a heroic age. I constantly hear
+of this being an age of materialism, of the worship of the
+"almighty dollar." I challenge all the past, in all the endeavors
+of man, to reach a higher level, to equal the heroism
+of the age in which we have been called to perform our part&mdash;the
+devotion to duty, the readiness to make sacrifices, the willingness
+to give all for the truth which have marked our generation&mdash;the
+era in which we have to act our part.</p>
+
+<p>This simple, kindly, unaffected, modest gentleman; this
+man, with his sweet calm smile, who met us every day, passing
+in and out with a certain reticence of modesty, was himself
+but the type of the age in which he lived and of the people
+from whom he sprang. All modest as he was, he had
+given up everything at the call of duty. All simple and
+kindly as he seemed to be, he had at the head of charging
+<span class='pagenum'>[71]<a name="Page_71" id="Page_71"></a></span>squadrons captured cannon, and with more heroic endurance
+had lain without complaint in the cell of solitary confinement.
+He carried about with him in the simple modesty of his everyday
+life the heart that at a moment's notice was ready to still
+its beating at the call of duty; and with the same simplicity,
+with the same freedom from ostentation, with the same delicious
+smile, he would have walked into the jaws of death if it
+had become him as a gentleman to do so.</p>
+
+<p>To live in such an age, to be associated with such men&mdash;and,
+thank God, they are not uncommon amongst us&mdash;the bar at
+which I practice, the tables at which I sit in the kindliness of
+social intercourse, the men with whom I have been blessed
+enough to be called into contact, the very strangers who call
+on business at my house, rank among them men just like unto
+him. I say to live in such an age, to be associated with such
+men, to play a part, however obscure, in such drama, make
+life worth the living; make the hereafter nobler for him who
+has been so blessed.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Speaker, to-day, in the midst of this the ending of the
+nineteenth century, we who will soon pass away, we who are
+but the remnants of a generation of war, can proudly hand over
+to those who shall come after us the example of lives that in
+war feared nothing but God, in peace strove for nothing but
+the good of the people.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[72]<a name="Page_72" id="Page_72"></a></span></p><p><span class='pagenum'>[73]<a name="Page_73" id="Page_73"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="PROCEEDINGS_IN_THE_SENATE" id="PROCEEDINGS_IN_THE_SENATE"></a>PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE.</h2>
+
+
+<h2>EULOGIES.</h2>
+
+<p class="right5">
+<span class="smcap">March</span> 4, 1892.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>The <span class="smcap">Vice-President</span>. The Chair lays before the Senate
+resolutions from the House of Representatives, which will be
+read.</p>
+
+<p>The resolutions were read, as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">In the House of Representatives</span>, <i>February 6, 1892.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Resolved</i>, That the business of the House be now suspended, that opportunity be
+given for tributes to the memory of Hon. <span class="smcap">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</span>, late a
+Representative from the State of Virginia.</p>
+
+<p><i>Resolved</i>, As a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, and in recognition
+of his eminent abilities as a distinguished public servant, that the House, at the
+conclusion of these memorial proceedings, shall stand adjourned.</p>
+
+<p><i>Resolved</i>, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate.</p></div>
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Barbour</span>. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which I
+send to the desk.</p>
+
+<p>The <span class="smcap">Vice-president</span>. The resolutions will be read.</p>
+
+<p>The resolutions were read, as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Resolved</i>, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the announcement of the
+death of Hon. <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span>, late a Representative from the State of Virginia.</p>
+
+<p><i>Resolved</i>, That the business of the Senate be now suspended, in order that fitting
+tribute may be paid to his memory.</p>
+
+<p><i>Resolved</i>, That as an additional mark of respect the Senate shall, at the conclusion
+of these ceremonies, adjourn.</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[74]<a name="Page_74" id="Page_74"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Barbour_of_Virginia" id="Address_of_Mr_Barbour_of_Virginia"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Barbour, of Virginia</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">President</span>: The resolutions just read were passed by the
+House of Representatives on the 6th day of February last in
+respect to the memory of <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span>, deceased, late
+a member of that body from the Eighth Congressional district
+of Virginia.</p>
+
+<p>Before asking the Senate to adopt the resolutions it is incumbent
+upon me, as one of the Senators from Virginia, as it is in
+harmony with my own personal feelings, to submit some remarks
+in explanation of their purpose and object; a sad and
+mournful duty to be performed on my part.</p>
+
+<p>Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was my immediate successor in the House of Representatives,
+and served with ability and efficiency in both the
+Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses. He was re&euml;lected to the
+present Congress, but his career was arrested by that higher
+and supreme Power to which we must all yield, and on the 15th
+of October, 1891, he departed this life at his home in the county
+of Fairfax, and in the midst of his family and friends.</p>
+
+<p>I do not consider it necessary in this presence or on this occasion
+to go into much detail touching the life and character of
+the deceased.</p>
+
+<p>The full and eloquent tributes paid to his memory in the
+House of Representatives show the high appreciation in which
+he was held by his associates in that body, and express in far
+more fitting terms than I could employ their estimate of his
+character, services, and virtues.</p>
+
+<p>Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> came from a distinguished lineage. Two of the
+family signed our Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence,
+<span class='pagenum'>[75]<a name="Page_75" id="Page_75"></a></span>and another was Attorney-General under Gen. Washington.</p>
+
+<p>On the paternal side he could refer to his distinguished grandfather,
+Gen. Henry Lee, of the Revolutionary army, who was
+known as Light-Horse Harry, the commandant of Lee's Legion,
+so conspicuous in the annals of that period. His maternal
+grandfather was the late G.W. Parke Custis, of Arlington, the
+stepson of Gen. Washington, and familiarly called in his day
+the child of Mount Vernon.</p>
+
+<p>His father, Gen. R.E. Lee, the chief military figure on his
+side in the late civil war, was too well known for comment at
+my hands. It is the boast of some of the old baronial families
+of England that their ancestors rode with William the Conqueror
+at Hastings. To a certain extent the pride of ancestry
+is an ennobling sentiment, and Virginians must be pardoned
+when tempted to refer to the illustrious names which their
+State in the past has furnished to the nation. The name of Lee
+has been a household word in Virginia for three generations of
+men. In the death of Gen. <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span> the State has
+lost one of her truest and worthiest sons and the Federal Government
+a faithful and patriotic Representative.</p>
+
+<p>Although acquainted personally with Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> for many
+years, it was only within a year or two before his death that I
+had the opportunity to appreciate fully the high personal qualities
+of the man and to understand the real nobility of his
+nature. The more I saw of him the higher became my respect
+and admiration. He grew upon me with closer contact and
+more intimate association.</p>
+
+<p>I was greatly impressed with his invariable courtesy of manner
+and great amiability and kindness of heart, to which was
+added a knightly bearing and cordiality of greeting which,
+<span class='pagenum'>[76]<a name="Page_76" id="Page_76"></a></span>combined, made Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> with all classes of society an imposing
+and attractive figure.</p>
+
+<p>He has gone to his last resting place, mourned by his family
+and friends and lamented by an extensive acquaintance throughout
+the country. He had filled the measure of his duties in
+every respect, and was entitled, as he passed from the stage of
+action, to the plaudit, "Well done, good and faithful servant."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Pasco_of_Florida" id="Address_of_Mr_Pasco_of_Florida"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Pasco, of Florida</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">President</span>: My acquaintance with <span class="smcap">William Henry
+Fitzhugh Lee</span> commenced in the summer of 1854, when we
+met at Cambridge as members of the new freshman class at
+Harvard College. He was just then entering his eighteenth
+year, was well grown for his age, tall, vigorous, and robust,
+open and frank in his address, kind and genial in his manners.
+He entered upon his college life with many advantages in his
+favor. The name of Lee was already upon the rolls of the
+university, for other representatives of different branches of the
+family had entered and graduated in the years gone by and had
+left pleasant memories behind them. His distinguished lineage
+made him a welcome guest in the older families of the
+University city, and of Boston, its near neighbor, who felt a
+just pride in the historic and traditional associations connected
+with the earlier history of the country, and many of the influential
+members of the class belonged to such families.</p>
+
+<p>He was rather older than the average age of his classmates,
+and his life had been spent amid surroundings that had enabled
+him to see a good deal of society and the world, so that he
+brought with him into his college life a more matured mind
+<span class='pagenum'>[77]<a name="Page_77" id="Page_77"></a></span>and a greater insight than the student usually possesses at the
+threshold of his career. He had enjoyed excellent advantages
+in preparing for the entering examinations, and was well
+grounded in the languages as well as mathematics, so that he
+entered the class well fitted for the course of study to be pursued.
+Thus, from the first, he was prominent in the university,
+and soon became popular among his classmates, and his
+prominence and popularity were maintained during his stay
+among us.</p>
+
+<p>This was due not to superior distinction in any particular
+study or in any one feature of college life, but rather to his
+general standing and characteristics. He kept pace with his
+classmates in the recitation room, not so much by hard and
+continuous study as by his quick comprehension and ready
+grasp of the subject in hand and the general fund of knowledge
+at his command. He was of a friendly and companionable
+nature, and there were abundant opportunities in a large
+class to develop this disposition, cultivate social intercourse,
+and strengthen the bonds of good fellowship. He had been
+accustomed to an outdoor life in his Virginia home, and his
+manly training had given him an athletic frame which required
+constant and vigorous exercise. This he sought in active sports
+on the football ground and in the class and college boat clubs,
+where he was welcomed as a valuable auxiliary.</p>
+
+<p>In a large university&mdash;and Harvard had gained that rank even
+as far back as those days&mdash;there are various fields of action,
+and other honors are recognized than those marked on the catalogue
+or contained in the degrees. The graduate who excels
+in mathematics, the languages, the arts and sciences, is decked
+with the highest honor on commencement day, but there are
+unwritten honors given by general consent of classmates to
+<span class='pagenum'>[78]<a name="Page_78" id="Page_78"></a></span>those who have developed a superiority in any mental or physical
+excellence. When in after life the members of a class
+meet on some public college anniversary or gather together at
+a reunion and the memories and traditions of college life are
+talked over anew, the merits of those who excelled in pleasant
+companionship, in kindly bearing, in generous conduct towards
+their associates, in outdoor games and sports requiring strength
+and dexterity, are pleasant subjects to dwell upon, even if the
+possessors failed to stand among the highest upon the roll of
+scholarship.</p>
+
+<p>Thus it was that <span class="smcap">Lee</span> established himself among his associates
+during the three years that he remained among us, and
+though he contented himself with a medium standing in scholarship
+and exhibited no ambition to gain a high rank upon the
+college rolls, he won the regard and confidence and respect of
+all his classmates and held a warm place in the hearts of those
+with whom he was most intimate.</p>
+
+<p>Towards the close of our junior year, in the early part of
+1857, upon the recommendation of Gen. Winfield Scott, he
+received a commission as second lieutenant in the Army, and
+was assigned to the Sixth Regiment of Infantry, which was
+ordered into active service on the Western frontier, and took
+part in the expedition to Utah which was commanded by Col.
+Albert Sidney Johnston. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> accepted this appointment,
+closed his connection with the college, and our paths in life
+diverged for more than thirty years.</p>
+
+<p>In 1887 we both became members of the Fiftieth Congress.
+I well remember his coming to me, with kindly face and outstretched
+hand, on the first day of our session in December, as I
+sat in my seat in this Chamber, expressing pleasure at meeting
+me after so many years of separation and satisfaction that we
+<span class='pagenum'>[79]<a name="Page_79" id="Page_79"></a></span>were to have opportunities of renewing the acquaintance and
+friendship of our early days. Though the exacting duties of
+Congressional life gave me fewer opportunities of associating
+with him than I could have wished, yet I saw much of him during
+the years we spent here together, and I shall always remember
+those occasions with satisfaction. Sometimes it was only a
+word in passing, a shake of the hand, a brief conference on public
+business, but whether the interview was brief or prolonged
+his manner and conduct were always kind and friendly and
+sincere.</p>
+
+<p>While we were together in Congress he often referred to our
+college life and its associations, and remembered them with evident
+satisfaction. He became a member of the Harvard Club
+here in Washington, and I recall a pleasant evening when he
+was one of the after-dinner speakers there. In the summer of
+1888 he went to Cambridge, to revisit the old scenes and once
+more meet his friends and associates of the olden time. He
+attended the commencement exercises and spoke pleasantly at
+the class supper. His classmates who then met him will long
+cherish the remembrance of that last visit, his hearty greetings,
+his cordial manners, the interest he manifested.</p>
+
+<p>The renewal of our acquaintance soon satisfied me that the
+experience of life had strengthened and developed all that was
+good and noble and manly in the young student. The same
+warmth and cordiality which had endeared him to his classmates
+won the regard and affection of his associates here. The
+same general ability and rotundity of character which had made
+him prominent in the little world of college life made him useful
+and influential in various lines of duty in the wide field of
+Congressional legislation.</p>
+
+<p>During the intervening years the manly bearing, the physical
+<span class='pagenum'>[80]<a name="Page_80" id="Page_80"></a></span>superiority, the nobility of spirit which had characterized
+him in the earlier days had made him a leader among men
+when the storm of war raged over the land. Brief as were the
+days of the unacknowledged Southern Confederacy, his name
+was enrolled in bright letters upon the pages of its history,
+and his brave deeds will in future days be chronicled in song
+and story by those who admire true courage and recognize all
+that was gallant and noble and heroic in the lives of all those
+who fought on both sides of our great struggle as worthy of
+preservation and commemoration.</p>
+
+<p>When <span class="smcap">Lee</span> first left college his military duties, as has been
+already stated, carried him to the far West, and he there saw
+some rough service. The Utah expedition was a training
+school for soldiers and generals, and many who afterwards
+gained renown and fame, under the different standards were
+there associated together in a common duty. Besides the leader
+and commander, Col. Johnston, were Robert E. Lee, Hardee,
+Thomas, Kirby Smith, Palmer, Stoneman, Fitz Lee, and Hood.
+When the Army first entered upon this service there was a small
+cloud of war in the horizon, but it soon cleared away, and the
+company to which <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was attached was assigned to a dull and
+monotonous routine of garrison life. This possessed no attractions
+for the young lieutenant, and there were other influences
+drawing him towards his native State. He resigned his commission,
+returned to Virginia, and settled at the White House,
+in New Kent County, where George Washington had married
+the widow Custis.</p>
+
+<p>The plantation had descended to her son, George Washington
+Parke Custis, and from him through <span class="smcap">Lee</span>'s mother to the
+grandson. He soon established his cousin, Miss Wickham, as
+queen of this historic home, and he was here with his little
+<span class='pagenum'>[81]<a name="Page_81" id="Page_81"></a></span>family amid these surroundings, with everything to make life
+attractive, when Virginia and her sister States of the South
+passed their ordinances of secession and sent delegates to
+Montgomery to unite in the attempt to form a Southern Confederacy.
+<span class="smcap">Lee</span> never doubted that allegiance was due first to
+his State, and when war followed he drew his sword in defense
+of Virginia.</p>
+
+<p>As long as the strife continued he avoided no danger, he
+shunned no peril, he feared no adversary.</p>
+
+<p>Now with a company, now a squadron, now a regiment, now
+a brigade, now a division of cavalry behind him, he went upon
+the march, formed the line of battle, or rode into the enemy's
+lines. Whatever duty was assigned to him, he entered upon its
+discharge with energy and vigor. In the varying fortunes of
+war he was wounded, captured, held as a hostage; but the day
+of recovery and exchange came, and he once more headed the
+brave followers who loved and honored and trusted him, and
+during the last year of the struggle he again shared their
+hardships and privations and dangers. But the end came at
+last, the issue was settled, the arbitrament of war was decided
+adversely, and he sheathed his sword and returned to the place
+where his home had been.</p>
+
+<p>The year 1865 marked a low ebb in the fortunes of the
+Southern people, and perhaps it may not be unprofitable to
+dwell briefly upon their conduct when under the shadow of
+defeat and disaster. The distinguished father of him to whose
+memory we are this day paying tribute went from the head of
+a great army to train the new generation of young men of the
+South in the halls of a university to usefulness in the various
+walks of citizenship. The students who enjoyed the privilege
+of sitting at the feet of this grand college president there
+<span class='pagenum'>[82]<a name="Page_82" id="Page_82"></a></span>learned lessons of patriotism. They were advised to build up
+the places left waste and desolate, and to look hopefully forward
+to a reunited country and a more prosperous future.</p>
+
+<p>Whatever public disappointment or private grief or loss he
+suffered was buried in his own breast. He advised his countrymen
+that the great questions which had long divided the
+country, and upon which opinions had been so diverse that
+legislative debate and administrative action had failed in finding
+a solution, had been finally settled by the sword, and that
+henceforth their duty was to the Union restored and indissoluble.</p>
+
+<p>With so illustrious an example the immediate restoration of
+peace and good order all over the South is not to be wondered
+at. The annals of all nations may be searched in vain for a
+parallel. It is an easy task for men who have accomplished all
+they desired to lay down their arms and return to their homes
+and resume their former avocations.</p>
+
+<p>The Southern soldier did all this after failure and defeat.
+The cause was lost; his efforts availed nothing. The homes
+of many were in ashes; sorrow was in every household; many
+were stripped of their all. The labor system of the country
+was destroyed; commerce was dead. Many had not seed to
+plant their lands. The workshop, the manufactory, the shipyard
+were silent as the grave. The arts of peace seemed to
+have perished. The soldiers were disbanded without the means
+of reaching their homes, and the few survivors of those who
+went forth with bright hopes, proud and confident in their
+strength, returned one by one weary and footsore and disheartened.</p>
+
+<p>The history of other nations would have suggested to the
+historian that the result must be open riots and secret assassinations,
+<span class='pagenum'>[83]<a name="Page_83" id="Page_83"></a></span>a reign of violence and terror, years of turbulence
+and lawlessness, before society would settle down to its former
+condition. But how different was the result. The parole upon
+which the soldier was released was in no instance violated.
+The situation was accepted without a murmur or complaint.
+The laws were obeyed. The terms imposed were acceded to.
+Soon the busy hum of industry was heard through the land.
+The arts of peace were revived. Agriculture and trade once
+again flourished, and our fair country began to bloom again
+into something like its old-time beauty and prosperity.</p>
+
+<p>There were few Southern soldiers who returned to a greater
+desolation than did our late associate, Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>. Fate seemed
+to have done its worst. The beloved wife and the two dear
+children who had made his home at the "White House" a
+paradise had died in 1863, while he was held as a prisoner and
+a hostage at Fort Lafayette and Fort Monroe. The place
+had been occupied by Union troops; the mansion, with all its
+surroundings, had been destroyed by fire, and, as has been well
+said by another, there was "not a blade of grass left to mark
+the culture of more than a hundred years." Had he been an
+ordinary man he would have sunk with the load of sorrow and
+trouble which weighed him down. But he had a brave heart,
+which defeat and affliction and disaster with united effort could
+not conquer.</p>
+
+<p>With the same noble spirit which had actuated his father,
+the elder Lee, he threw aside his discouragement and took up
+the duties of life and citizenship anew. He had made himself
+famous as a soldier; he now began in earnest to cultivate the
+arts of peace. It was no easy task, for the era of reconstruction
+immediately succeeded the war, and only those who were
+actually under its ban can realize the burdens and hardships it
+<span class='pagenum'>[84]<a name="Page_84" id="Page_84"></a></span>entailed upon an unfortunate people emerging from a disastrous
+conflict.</p>
+
+<p>He rebuilt and re&euml;stablished his home at the White House
+plantation. He was married November 27, 1867, to Miss Mary
+Tabb, daughter of Hon. George W. Bolling, of Petersburg.
+In 1874 the family removed to Ravensworth, in Fairfax County.</p>
+
+<p>At both these places he cultivated his broad acres and interested
+himself in all matters relating to agricultural progress
+and development. He advanced and promoted these interests
+as president of the Virginia State Agricultural Society. He
+represented his county for a term in the State senate, but declined
+a re&euml;lection, and returned to his plantation and the enjoyment
+of home life. After a few years of quiet he was called, in 1886,
+to a new field of activity by neighbors and political friends,
+who desired his services at the national capital, and he became
+the Representative from the Alexandria district in the Fiftieth
+Congress, and he was in his third term, when, on the 15th day
+of October, 1891, the hand of death removed him from his
+career of usefulness. For weeks his strong constitution and
+vigorous frame had resisted disease in his Ravensworth home.
+All that kindness and skill could suggest was done in his
+behalf, but skill and kindness were of no avail, and he bade
+adieu to home and family, companions and associates, earthly
+duties and surroundings, and entered upon his eternal rest.
+His mortal life was closed.</p>
+
+<p>I well remember a day spent in his company nearly four
+years ago, and its occurrences gave me an opportunity to witness
+the regard in which he was held by those among whom he
+had lived and to whom he was best known. It was on Decoration
+Day, in a section of country where he had seen service
+as a soldier, not far from where he had lived in his early childhood.<span class='pagenum'>[85]<a name="Page_85" id="Page_85"></a></span>
+He was the orator of the occasion. Many of his old
+companions in arms and members of their families were among
+his audience, and they listened eagerly as he made appropriate
+reference to the departed comrades who slept under the little
+hillocks near by them, bright and fragrant with the flowers of
+early summer, which the loving hands of woman and childhood
+had heaped upon them. As he descended from the platform
+he was surrounded by old and young, who thronged about him
+to shake his hand or give expression to a friendly greeting.
+Admiration and affection were expressed upon their countenances
+for the brave man before them, whose gallant deeds had
+been told at every fireside in the country around, and who was
+loved and honored because, in addition to his own merits and
+virtues, he represented the great leader whose name was the
+embodiment of a precious memory.</p>
+
+<p>I have portrayed <span class="smcap">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</span> as a
+student, a soldier, a planter, a public man representing his
+people in the State legislature and the National Congress.</p>
+
+<p>Some have united in paying tribute to his memory because
+they were born and reared in the State which gave him birth,
+some because they shared with him the hardships and dangers
+of his military career, some because they were associated with
+him in Congressional life and committee work. But while I
+take a great pride in all that he accomplished in the after
+years, it is more pleasant to me to recollect him as the student,
+for in that relation I was first drawn into companionship with
+him; it was during that period of our lives that I first learned
+to regard him, and my tribute is to my classmate and friend
+of auld lang syne. May he rest in peace in the bosom of the
+honored State he loved so well and served so faithfully.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[86]<a name="Page_86" id="Page_86"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Stewart_of_Nevada" id="Address_of_Mr_Stewart_of_Nevada"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Stewart, of Nevada</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">President</span>: The biography of <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span> has
+been furnished by his colleagues and associates. I do not propose
+to dwell upon the details of his public or private career,
+or that of his distinguished ancestors, who acted so conspicuous
+a part in the history of the American Colonies and in the trying
+times of the Revolution by which our independence was gained.</p>
+
+<p>I had the good fortune to form the acquaintance of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>
+and his estimable wife at the beginning of the Fiftieth Congress.
+I was strongly impressed with his noble presence, and his
+genial, modest, and dignified bearing. He seemed to me an
+ideal specimen of true American manhood. His wife was a
+lady whose appearance at once attracted attention and whose
+qualities of head and heart charmed and delighted friends and
+associates. He was a devoted husband. His tender and gentle
+bearing toward his wife were natural and unaffected. The
+daily life and conduct of both were a conspicuous example of
+the benign influence of a husband and wife who love, honor,
+and respect each other.</p>
+
+<p>My impressions of him were so favorable and agreeable as to
+create a desire on my part to cultivate his acquaintance and
+know more of his character. We met frequently, and discussed
+freely the social and political topics which engaged the
+attention of members of Congress at the national capital. He
+was modest and unobtrusive in the expression of his opinions;
+but as I knew him better I was profoundly impressed with the
+scope and breadth of his information.</p>
+
+<p>His judgment of men and measures was as free from local
+<span class='pagenum'>[87]<a name="Page_87" id="Page_87"></a></span>prejudice and partisan bias as any man's I ever met. He was
+induced by his generous nature to attribute good rather than
+unworthy motives to those with whom he differed. He was
+honest, true, and unsuspicious. On all occasions he expressed
+attachment to the Union of the States, and manifested a patriotic
+devotion to the Constitution as the charter of our liberties.</p>
+
+<p>He was a brave soldier, and fought on the losing side in a
+war that convulsed the continent and astonished the civilized
+world; and as a brave soldier he accepted without reservation
+the verdict of the war. It is to be regretted that his heroic
+services were not on the side of the Union, but the conditions
+which placed him in hostility to the flag of the United States
+are forever removed. Every cause which produced that terrible
+conflict was eradicated and obliterated in carnage and
+blood. The horrors of that fratricidal war are now history.
+The glorious results achieved are being realized in the abolition
+of slavery; in the Union of the States restored, strengthened,
+and cemented; in the respect, confidence, and just estimation
+of the people of all the sections for each other, and in
+the establishment beyond question of the capacity of the citizens
+of the Republic to dare and to do in great emergencies what to
+all the world seemed impossible.</p>
+
+<p>To-day the virtue, the patriotism, and the renown of the
+fathers of the Revolution and the founders of our free institutions
+are the common heritage of all the people, both North
+and South. The gallant and daring exploits of Legion Harry
+or Light-Horse Harry Lee, the grandsire of the deceased, inspire
+the same admiration and respect in the sons of the North
+as in the sons of the South. It is most gratifying that the descendants
+of the comrades in war and associates in council
+who gained the independence and established the Government
+<span class='pagenum'>[88]<a name="Page_88" id="Page_88"></a></span>of the United States are again united in stronger bonds of interest,
+good fellowship, and respect than ever before existed.</p>
+
+<p>Generations to come will enjoy not only the fruits of the Revolutionary
+struggle and the establishment of constitutional liberty,
+but they will be blessed with liberty that knows no slavery
+and with a Union forever indivisible, and they will contemplate
+with no partisan feeling the sacrifices which were necessary to
+secure such results. The type of manly virtue of which our deceased
+friend was a conspicuous example is one of the best fruits
+of free institutions. His death in the prime of his manhood and
+in the days of his usefulness was a great loss to the country and
+a bereavement to his family for which there is no earthly compensation.
+But he has left for them in his good name, his unimpeachable
+character, and his many virtues an inheritance
+more valuable than gold.</p>
+
+<p>He has gone where all must soon follow. The wealth of his
+example is an inspiration to the living to emulate his virtues,
+enjoy a conscience void of offense, and leave to surviving relatives
+the inheritance of an honored name. Such an ambition
+is worthy of an American citizen, and the value to humanity
+of such a life as that of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> can hardly be overestimated.</p>
+
+<p>Why should death be regarded as a calamity? It is the inevitable
+fate of all the living. May it not be a part of life?
+The hope of immortality is the greatest boon conferred upon
+the living. On an occasion like this words will not soothe the
+grief of those who are near and dear to the deceased. Their
+consolation must be in the hope of reunion beyond the grave.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[89]<a name="Page_89" id="Page_89"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Colquitt_of_Georgia" id="Address_of_Mr_Colquitt_of_Georgia"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Colquitt, of Georgia</span>.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">President</span>: It is a difficult and delicate task to draw with
+justice and propriety the character of a public man. Fulsome
+panegyrics have often been pronounced upon the character of
+the dead either out of flattery to the deceased or to gratify the
+ambitious desires of the living.</p>
+
+<p>In paying a tribute to <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span> I am not influenced
+by any such questionable views. To do honor to his
+memory I need only say what justice and truth dictate. There
+is little danger, in speaking of him, of committing the offense
+of exaggerated eulogy. There is more danger of doing the
+injustice of understatement in commemorating a character so
+rounded and symmetrical.</p>
+
+<p>As a son, Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>'s filial piety was so marked as to make
+him an example worthy of all imitation by the youth of his
+country. In every post of honor or trust to which he was called&mdash;and
+they were many and exalted ones&mdash;he met his engagements
+with such fidelity and courage as never to incur censure
+and seldom provoke criticism.</p>
+
+<p>His bearing as a private citizen was of such dignity and benevolence
+as to secure the love, while it evoked the admiration,
+of all who knew him.</p>
+
+<p>His character was made up of blended chivalry and courtesy
+and adorned with the mild luster of a religious faith.</p>
+
+<p>He was frank and open, plain and sincere, speaking only
+what he thought without reserve, and promising only what he
+designed to perform.</p>
+
+<p>As he was plain and sincere, so he was firm and steady in
+his purposes; courteous and affable, he was not influenced by
+<span class='pagenum'>[90]<a name="Page_90" id="Page_90"></a></span>servile compliance to his company, approving or condemning
+as might be most agreeable to them. He was a man of courage
+and constancy, qualities which, after all, are the ornaments and
+defense of a man.</p>
+
+<p>He had in the highest degree the air, manners, and address
+of a man of quality; politeness with ease, dignity without
+pride, and firmness without the least alloy of roughness. He
+loved refined society, but he had great respect and sympathy for
+those who had been reared in simple habits and the toils of life.</p>
+
+<p>He possessed an even and equal temper of mind. Those
+who best knew him can testify of him what has often been
+asserted of his great father, that they never heard an acrimonious
+speech fall from his lips; that his whole temper was so
+controlled by justice and generosity that he was never known
+to disparage with an envious breath the fame of another or to
+withhold due praise of another's worth.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. President, the friends of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> do not claim for him
+brilliant talents and the gifts of genius. It is doubtless a
+beneficent ordination of Providence that the best interests of
+society are not solely dependent on what in common parlance
+is called genius. Fortunately for the good of mankind, great
+gifts and powers of mind are not indispensable to our happiness
+or to a safe and salutary development of social conditions.</p>
+
+<p>Patient industry and impregnable virtue are the essential
+cardinal qualities that make the man, in the vast majority of
+cases, worthy of love and honor, and which conserve the best
+interests of the world.</p>
+
+<p>That man who in his career and relations to society has gone
+on from day to day and from trust to trust, never disappointing
+but always realizing every just expectation, it seems to me is
+the character who deserves of his fellow-men the highest meed
+<span class='pagenum'>[91]<a name="Page_91" id="Page_91"></a></span>of praise, and gives in his person and example the surest guaranty
+that the world will be all the better for his agency in
+shaping its affairs.</p>
+
+<p>The friends of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> enjoy the perfect assurance that in
+every walk of life, on every occasion when duty called him,
+his responses were ever marked by a dignified and intelligent
+performance of the tasks assigned him.</p>
+
+<p>What higher honor can we ask for him than this: that weighty
+as were the responsibilities that devolved upon him by inheritance
+and high as the expectations which were the natural implications
+of this inheritance, he fully and nobly met them.
+Much as was expected of him, he more than realized the claims
+and obligations of a noble lineage. His fellow-citizens and his
+contemporaries regard his career as an honor and his companionship
+as a delight and a resource that adds poignancy to their
+grief in the loss of so loved and valued a friend.</p>
+
+<p>I might refer to the incidents of his military career to illustrate
+his courage and fidelity, but it may not be considered appropriate
+to the time and the occasion. It is cheering, however,
+to believe that in this exalted body there is not to be found
+that spirit of truculent uncharitableness which refuses any credit
+to an honorable adversary.</p>
+
+<p>Time, which touches all things with mellowing hand, has
+softened the recollections of past contests, and they who looked
+upon him as a foe now only remember the glory of the fight,
+and would join hands with us to weave the garland of his fame.</p>
+
+<p>Securely may the friends and admirers of this noble character
+rest in the belief that his name for generations to come will be
+enrolled in the glorious list of worthies that has for all time
+made the name of Virginia illustrious and among the foremost
+of all the commonwealths of the ages past.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[92]<a name="Page_92" id="Page_92"></a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Butler_of_South_Carolina" id="Address_of_Mr_Butler_of_South_Carolina"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Butler, of South Carolina.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>It was my good fortune, Mr. President, to know Gen. <span class="smcap">William
+H.F. Lee</span> with the intimacy of personal friendship for more
+than a quarter of a century, and I can pass no higher encomium
+upon him than by saying he had all the qualities that constitute
+a true gentleman, a gentleman in the highest and best
+sense. He inherited from a very illustrious and distinguished
+ancestry a prestige rarely enjoyed in this country, and yet he
+was as unpretending, unaffected, and modest as the humblest
+man. His self-contained dignity of character never deserted
+him. His placid, well-balanced, well-poised equanimity always
+sustained him.</p>
+
+<p>It would be extravagant to say he inherited the commanding
+abilities of his illustrious father, but it would be entirely
+within the line of a just criticism to affirm that he did inherit
+many of the highest characteristics and qualities of that great
+man. In personal demeanor, in that suave, gracious, considerate,
+self-respecting, and respectful bearing which give assurance
+of the perfect gentleman he very much resembled his
+father. He was always approachable and cordial, and yet I
+doubt if any man ever attempted an improper liberty or ventured
+undue familiarity with him. His high character and
+affability of manner protected him against such relations.</p>
+
+<p>In the late civil war we served side by side in the same cavalry
+corps in the same army almost continuously from the
+beginning to the end. I therefore had the best opportunities
+of forming a correct estimate of him as a soldier and man, and
+it is within the bounds of just judgment to place him among
+<span class='pagenum'>[93]<a name="Page_93" id="Page_93"></a></span>the most distinguished in that brilliant array of American soldiers
+and men of that eventful period.</p>
+
+<p>I recall with vivid recollection my first association with him
+at Ashland, Va., in June, 1861, where he was stationed as a
+young captain of cavalry at a school of instruction. Thence he
+rose by regular gradations to major-general of division, resigning
+his sword with that rank.</p>
+
+<p>Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> never aspired to be what is sometimes called a
+"dashing" soldier. He was quite content with the serious,
+earnest, steady performance of his duties. It would be no compliment
+to say that a son of Robert E. Lee and grandson of
+"Light-Horse" Harry Lee had courage. Such a quality is a
+necessary ingredient of such a man's character. But his courage
+was not of that frothy, noisy kind so often paraded to attract
+attention. In battle he was as steady, firm, and immovable as
+any soldier who ever wielded a sword or placed a squadron in
+the field. In his relations to his subordinates he was the perfection
+of military propriety, always considerate and kindly,
+but firm and impartial in the enforcement of discipline.</p>
+
+<p>Towards his equals and superiors in rank he bore himself
+with a knightly chivalry that at once commanded respect and
+confidence. How could he have been otherwise, descended
+from such a noble sire, with such an example of courtly dignity
+and untarnished manhood?</p>
+
+<p>After the close of hostilities, having discharged his whole
+duty as he understood it with fidelity and courage, he retired
+to his native State, to his farm, and there, by the same quiet,
+honorable, manly course of conduct devoted himself to the
+duties of civil life, establishing by his example a standard of
+citizenship worthy the great Republic to which he renewed his
+allegiance.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[94]<a name="Page_94" id="Page_94"></a></span>The people of the Commonwealth of Virginia could not and
+did not permit a man of his exalted character, sound intellectual
+qualities, and safe, conservative judgment to remain in private
+life. His services and example were too valuable to the public,
+and he was called into the public service, first as senator in the
+State legislature, later into the lower House of Congress.</p>
+
+<p>There, as elsewhere, he soon took rank among the wisest
+and safest legislators in the body pursuing the even, modest
+tenor of his way with that faithful regard for his duty to his
+constituents and his country that characterized every relation
+and position of his life.</p>
+
+<p>Those of us, Mr. President, who were favored with his
+acquaintance recall with a respect bordering on reverence his
+commanding figure as he came in this Chamber, his courtly
+presence, his gentle bearing, persuasive conversation, amiable,
+respectful manners. The consciousness that we shall never see
+him again is a sad and depressing reflection, and a mournful
+reminder that it is only a question of time&mdash;how long mortal
+man can not foretell&mdash;when those of us who survive him must
+obey a similar summons, and disappear, as he has done, from
+the scenes of life forever.</p>
+
+<p>In paying tributes of respect and affection to departed friends
+I know how hard it is to impose restraint upon our partiality
+for them and how strong the temptation to indulge in expressions
+of exaggerated eulogy. Knowing Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> as I did, I
+can say of him with absolute sincerity and truth that he was as
+free from the small and petty faults of our nature as any man I
+have ever known. In his private relations he was literally
+without guile or deceit. Straightforward, honorable, just in all
+his dealings, he was a model citizen and faithful friend.</p>
+
+<p>In his public life he proved himself equal to every station.<span class='pagenum'>[95]<a name="Page_95" id="Page_95"></a></span>
+Zealous, attentive, conscientious, untiring, he met every responsibility
+with fidelity and confidence. He never disappointed
+a friend, betrayed a trust, or took unfair advantage of
+an opponent. In a word, Mr. President, he lived a perfect
+gentleman, discharged faithfully every duty of life, and died
+honored and beloved by his friends.</p>
+
+<p>Others have spoken of the life and character of this distinguished
+man more in detail, more eloquently, with more finished
+oratory, but I yield to none in the sincerity of my humble
+tribute to his memory.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Dolph_of_Oregon" id="Address_of_Mr_Dolph_of_Oregon"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Dolph, of Oregon.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">President</span>: The echoes of the voices of those who
+pronounced eulogies upon the life and character of the late
+distinguished Senator from Kansas have hardly died away in
+this Chamber, and we have again laid business aside to pay our
+tributes to the memory of a late honored member of the House
+of Representatives and a distinguished son of Virginia.</p>
+
+<p>These sorrowful occasions, which are deprecated by some
+as involving a loss of the time of the Senate and needless
+expense to the Government, I can not think are unprofitable to
+us or to the country. Surely in the mad rush and hurry of
+business we may be permitted to halt long enough to take
+notice of the invasion of our ranks by death and to voice our
+esteem for a departed member. The death of an eminent member
+of the Senate or of the House is not only a loss to his
+immediate constituency, but to the whole country, and, in
+accordance with a long and honored usage, demands from his
+former associates formal and appropriate action.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[96]<a name="Page_96" id="Page_96"></a></span>After such an hour spent in the contemplation of the common
+end of all that live, in introspection and retrospection,
+who of us does not again take up the burdens of life with
+renewed resolutions to redouble our energies to faithfully
+discharge every public and private duty.</p>
+
+<p>My acquaintance with Mr. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was not intimate. I frequently
+met him socially, but he did not belong to the party
+with which I am affiliated, and no fortuitous circumstance occurred
+to bring us together in the discharge of public duties.
+The incidents of his life, his public services, and his domestic
+relations have been fittingly alluded to by others, and it only
+remains for me to cast an evergreen upon his grave, to add my
+poor tribute to his memory, and give expression to the emotions
+awakened by the occasion and the exercises of the hour.
+Coming from a long line of distinguished ancestors, serving
+with marked distinction in the Confederate army until the
+cause he championed was hopelessly lost, honored by the people
+of his State by election to high civil positions, in which he
+did credit to himself and honored them with a rounded character
+and well-developed manhood, at once the incarnation of
+gentleness, tenderness, and courage, it is not to be wondered
+at that sorrow for his death hung over his State like a funeral
+pall, and all parties vied with each other in giving expression
+to the universal sense of private and public loss.</p>
+
+<p>He was the son of a distinguished sire, who in life was the
+idol of the people of Virginia; but he was held in the highest
+esteem by the people of his State not so much on account of
+his illustrious father as on account of his own ability and
+worth. His public services and his blameless life, touching,
+tender, and beautiful, won the tributes to his memory pronounced
+by his colleagues at the other end of this Capitol.<span class='pagenum'>[97]<a name="Page_97" id="Page_97"></a></span>
+Fortunate, indeed, is the man who can win such admiration
+from his associates.</p>
+
+<p>What higher eulogy can be pronounced on any man than
+that in every station, public and private, he was true to himself
+and faithful to the people and was equal to the duties of
+his station? Not every man can become great; genius is the
+gift of the few, but goodness and fidelity to duty are within
+the reach of all. He has gone the way of all the living. He
+has found the level of the grave. Our words of eulogy can
+not reach him there.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or flatt'ry soothe the dull, cold ear of death?<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Solomon, summing up this question, said:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither
+have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.</p>
+
+<p>Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they
+any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.</p></div>
+
+<p>To human reason the death of him we mourn was untimely.
+He was born May 31, 1837, and died October 15, 1891. He
+was therefore in the prime of manhood, and apparently had
+many years of useful life before him. But death sometimes
+strangely selects his victims. No season, no station, no age is
+exempt from his fatal shafts. When death comes to the aged
+as the end of a fully completed life we regard it as natural.
+But when death comes to the young, the gifted, and the promising,
+we with our finite vision look upon it as sad and mysterious.
+We are constantly reminded that&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Await alike the inevitable hour.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The paths of glory lead but to the grave.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[98]<a name="Page_98" id="Page_98"></a></span>It is creditable to our humanity that at the grave animosities
+are buried, and those who speak of the dead remember their
+virtues and pass over their frailties.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred
+is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace
+over the funeral urn.</p>
+
+<p>The reconciling grave swallows distinction first that made us foes; there all lie
+down in peace together.</p></div>
+
+<p>To the grave, "the world's sweet inn from pain and wearisome
+turmoil," we are all hastening. Earth's highest station
+and meanest place ends in the common receptacle to which we
+shall all be taken. Dark and gloomy indeed would be the
+grave without a hope in a personal immortality, a belief that
+the soul survives the body, and that to this immortal part the
+tomb is the gate to heaven. When one feels like Theodore
+Parker when he said:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>When this stiffened body goes down to the tomb, sad, silent, and remorseless, I feel
+there is no death for the man. That clod which yonder dust shall cover is not my
+brother. The dust goes to its place; man to his own. It is then I feel my immortality.
+I look through the grave into heaven. I ask no miracle, no proof, no reasoning
+for me; I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality. I am conscious of eternal
+life.</p></div>
+
+<p>Or like Byron when he wrote:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I feel my immortality oversweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and peal,
+like the eternal thunders of the deep into my ears this truth&mdash;thou livest forever!</p></div>
+
+<p>Death loses its terrors and the grave becomes a welcome goal
+for weary and buffeted mariners on life's stormy sea&mdash;the gate
+to endless life.</p>
+
+<p>By these oft-repeated scenes in this Chamber; by the frequent
+visits of the stern messenger to both Houses of Congress
+to summon a member from his field of labor here to the bar
+of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe above; by the constant
+changes going on around us in obedience to the inevitable law
+<span class='pagenum'>[99]<a name="Page_99" id="Page_99"></a></span>of nature, by which death everywhere succeeds to life, we are
+reminded that we shall not long continue as we now are. It is
+possible that as we are startled by the announcement of the
+death of an associate we mentally ask ourselves, Who will be
+called next?</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">So live, that when thy summons comes to join<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The innumerable caravan which moves<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To that mysterious realm where each shall take<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His chamber in the silent halls of death,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Scourged to his dungeon; but sustained and soothed<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Address_of_Mr_Daniel_of_Virginia" id="Address_of_Mr_Daniel_of_Virginia"></a><span class="smcap">Address of Mr. Daniel, of Virginia.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">President</span>: The late Gen. <span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span> was conspicuously
+connected with the public affairs of his State for more
+than thirty years. He was deservedly honored, loved, and
+trusted by the people. For two terms he represented the Eighth
+district of Virginia in Congress and he was elected for a third
+term, but when Congress met in December last his chair was
+vacant. Surrounded by his beloved family and bemoaned by
+all who knew him he peacefully breathed his last at Ravensworth,
+his home, in Fairfax County, on the 15th day of October,
+1891.</p>
+
+<p>Thus, Mr. President, disappears one singularly endowed with
+the qualities that win the confidence and affections of mankind.
+His noble, honest face, beaming with intelligence and
+benevolence, was a true index to his nature. Strength of character
+and sweetness of disposition made him a man of mark
+<span class='pagenum'>[100]<a name="Page_100" id="Page_100"></a></span>and influence in all the relations of society. His life was full
+of noble uses. Respect for the rights and tenderness for the
+feelings of others stamped his conduct on every occasion. He
+fulfilled Sidney's definition of a gentleman, "high thoughts
+seated in a heart of courtesy," and I know of no better legacy
+that a father could leave his household or a patriot leave his
+country than such a record as he has left to attest his virtues.</p>
+
+<p>I will not penetrate the sanctity of the home bereaved by
+his death. The fond and noble wife and the sons who miss
+the husband and father, who was representative to them of
+life's dearest boons, have in his memory whatever earth can
+give them of consolation, and they learned from none more
+than from him to look above in sorrow and affliction.</p>
+
+<p>As a Representative in Congress Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was diligent in
+the service of his constituents and in behalf of policies which
+commended themselves to his favor. He seldom spoke, but it
+was not because he could not speak well and forcibly. He was
+not noted as the peculiar champion of any of the great measures
+before Congress, but it was not because he did not comprehend
+them nor take great interest in them, and I doubt if there be
+many Representatives who have had a more wholesome or further-reaching
+influence.</p>
+
+<p>His fine character and engaging manner made friends for him
+and for his people. His excellent judgment had great weight
+in council, his political ideas were eminently liberal, and his
+tact and attention reached results where perhaps more aggressive
+qualities would have been ineffectual. On one occasion
+that I recall he was urging the passage of the bill to pay for
+use and occupation of the Theological Seminary near Alexandria
+during the war. He became the mark, in doing so, of
+inquiry and badinage, and some one, meaning to disparage the
+<span class='pagenum'>[101]<a name="Page_101" id="Page_101"></a></span>claim by intimation that the clerical professors of the institution
+had been enemies of the Government, called out to him,
+"How did they pray?" He answered instantly, "For all sinners."
+His ready pleasantry put everybody in good humor
+and the bill was passed.</p>
+
+<p>Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was a representative man in a larger sense than
+that of official designation. He was a representative country
+gentleman, and the flavor of his native soil was in his character.
+He was born in the country, at beautiful Arlington, with the
+woods and fields and streams and mountain vistas around him.
+He lived in the country all his life, and died in the country, at
+his home in Fairfax County, an owner of land, loving the land;
+his home, a fine old country seat of colonial pattern, the scene
+of domestic peace and love and hospitality; his voice, that of
+the good people of his vicinage; his life, daily tasks, intermingled
+with daily studies and contemplation; his aims, those of
+the patriot and Christian, his country, God, and truth.</p>
+
+<p>Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was a representative American of broad gauge and
+vision. Many of us&mdash;and I have felt myself amongst them&mdash;are
+quite provincial. We know our own neighborhoods and their
+people, and we grow slowly into knowledge of other sections
+and their people. Local caste, prejudice, interest, and bias warp
+us and minify our usefulness. Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was not of this kind.
+There was no sectionalism in his caste, no bigotry in his creeds.
+His strong local attachments, natural to a true nature, neither
+dwarfed his opinions, soured his reflections, nor darkened his
+vision. His was a ripe mind and his a generous nature. He
+understood men, because he understood mankind. He had respect
+for all men, because he respected manhood. He dealt considerately
+and justly with all men of all races, creeds, opinions,
+and aspirations, because he respected men and because he had a
+<span class='pagenum'>[102]<a name="Page_102" id="Page_102"></a></span>good man's sympathy, with the hopes of his race, his country,
+and humanity.</p>
+
+<p>I would not speak of him as a brilliant man. He was more.
+He was a wise and good and true man. Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was a representative
+of our racial history. The story of his family began
+when his remote ancestor rode with the Norman knights at
+Hastings. Another led a company of English volunteers with
+C&oelig;ur de Lion on the third crusade to the Holy Land, and was
+made the Earl of Litchfield. Still another was that Richard
+Lee who, intense loyalist as he was, became a commissioner
+from Virginia and urged Charles II to fly for refuge to the Old
+Dominion when his throne was trembling under him. Quarrel
+and fight as we may and as our fathers did before us, the continuity
+of race achievement is unbroken.</p>
+
+<p>The growth of race ascendency and the expanse of race domination
+are unceasing. The picture is unique and the nation one,
+however the theater enlarges, however the scenes shift, however
+the actors differ in the drama. Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was a representative
+democrat or republican, for I use the words in their generic
+sense. His grandfather was that young American Capt. Henry
+Lee, the ardent youth of nineteen, who at the head of his company
+of Virginia horse reported to Washington for duty when
+the first army of Continentals were ranging themselves upon
+the plains of Boston. He was the first to break the record of
+his line for loyalty to the Crown of England in espousing the
+cause of American independence, the first to draw his sword
+for the new king proclaimed at Philadelphia&mdash;the sovereign
+people.</p>
+
+<p>As "Light-Horse Harry" Lee he goes down to history and
+renown; distinguished in general orders of the army and in
+promotion from Congress for one exploit, and for another with
+<span class='pagenum'>[103]<a name="Page_103" id="Page_103"></a></span>the thanks of Congress and a gold medal. In statesmanship as
+in soldiership, he was the friend and follower of Washington.
+In the Virginia legislature, when the resolutions of 1798 were
+debated, he took sides against them, and in his speech you may
+find nearly all the arguments which are used in favor of the
+Federal construction of the Constitution. When Washington
+died he was a member of Congress, and pronounced upon him
+the memorable words, "First in war, first in peace, and first in
+the hearts of his fellow-citizens." He was one of those virile
+men who could write, speak, and fight.</p>
+
+<p>When Gen. Winfield Scott led the American Army to Mexico
+there rode by his side Capt. Robert E. Lee, the son of
+Henry Lee, an officer of engineers upon his staff. He was four
+times brevetted for gallant conduct and came back famous.
+When Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston led the Utah expedition in
+1858 there marched on foot in his columns Lieut. <span class="smcap">William
+Henry Fitzhugh Lee</span>, the son of Robert E. Lee. He was
+not a soldier by education, but by instinct. A graduate of
+Harvard College and the stroke oar of his class, he was well
+prepared for military life, and the third of his line to bear arms
+for the United States. But no war ensued; the canker of a long
+peace was settling on military aspirations.</p>
+
+<p>Lieut. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> resigned, married, and settled on his farm, the
+White House, on the Pamunkey. With the prattle of little
+children around his knees and pastoral scenes before him, his
+prospects were those of domestic tranquillity and joy.</p>
+
+<p>What a rush was there to the standards when war broke out in
+1861! Americans acted like Americans. They divided in conviction.
+They did not differ as to the method of dealing with
+conviction. To divide was the propulsion of conditions, to fight
+the law of blood. Not one of the Lees had provoked war, but
+<span class='pagenum'>[104]<a name="Page_104" id="Page_104"></a></span>not one stood back. The whole family of Lees became representative
+soldiers of their people; Gen. Robert E. Lee commanded
+the greatest of the Southern armies and his brother
+became an admiral of the Southern navy. His sons and
+nephews were soldiers and sailors.</p>
+
+<p>The nephew of Northern identity kept place with the North.
+The more numerous class of Southern identity kept place with
+the South; the boy, a private in the ranks or cadet on shipboard,
+the young men leading companies and regiments and
+winning brigades and divisions, the sire and chief commanding
+all. Their names are interwoven with war's dread story and
+splendid deed. Not one had any reproach; not one struck a
+blow below the belt. The woman, the child, the captive found
+a fortress in the hand of Lee, the foeman met his peer. The
+history of two continents and many centuries was written over
+again on fields of blood.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">William H.F. Lee</span> raised a company of cavalry at the beginning
+of the war and surrendered as a major-general of cavalry at
+Appomattox. He fought his way to his rank and suffered all
+of war's vicissitudes save death. His men believed in him and
+followed him. He was wounded; he was twice a prisoner; he
+was held as a hostage in solitary confinement with death impending.
+His wife and his children died while he lay wounded
+and in prison. Whatever man may suffer he suffered to the
+uttermost. Amongst his first acts when he emerged from
+prison was to visit, shake hands with and congratulate the
+Federal officer for whom he had been held as hostage. He was
+a representative Christian, void of vindictiveness and uncomplaining;
+he made no outcry of pain; he sealed his lips to
+reproach.</p>
+
+<p>I knew him well, respected him profoundly, and loved him
+<span class='pagenum'>[105]<a name="Page_105" id="Page_105"></a></span>dearly. I have often heard him speak at gatherings of old
+soldiers and on a variety of occasions; sometimes those of turbulence.
+I have marveled at his self-poise and reserved
+power. Never once did I hear him say ill of any man, nor
+allude to his own sufferings or deeds, nor utter words of bitterness.
+He took his lot as it came to him, as a man who does
+the best he can and leaves the rest to the Disposer of events.
+His conscience and his human sympathy, like his soldiership,
+were instincts, and his Christian creed was the sum of his
+intuitions. Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> was a representative of the times in
+which he lived, eccentric in no opinion, even-tempered, wise,
+cautious, prudent, steadfast, and gentle; he sought to be useful
+rather than to shine. He took deep and active interest in all
+that concerned his State.</p>
+
+<p>As a State senator he could be relied upon to support liberal
+and progressive measures; as president of the State Agricultural
+Society he did much to excite interest and develop improvements;
+as a trustee or visitor to educational institutions he
+rendered valuable practical service to the cause of popular
+enlightenment. In political life he had sharp contests; friend
+was surprised and opponent discouraged when emergency
+brought forth the reserve forces of his character and ability.
+If modesty cloaked his powers in retirement, opposition elicited
+them; and the fluency, tact, and ability with which he
+discussed issues and met exigencies were remarkable in one
+whose experiences of early life had separated him from civil
+pursuits and training.</p>
+
+<p>If I have spoken of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>'s ancestral distinctions, it was
+not because either he or his people have ever presumed upon
+them. On the contrary, no people whom I have ever known
+have rested less of claim upon their antecedents or less sought
+<span class='pagenum'>[106]<a name="Page_106" id="Page_106"></a></span>to substitute reminiscences for achievements. The independent,
+honest, and simple Republicans and Democrats of our country
+justly despise a pretender who boasts the shadow of a name;
+but that of which the individual may not boast becomes his
+country's pride; and I count it great glory to our country that
+its institutions have nourished and the highest characteristic
+of our race that it has produced successive generations of men
+who preserve the continuity of sterling virtues. I count also
+as the star of hope for this grand Republic that a distinguished
+soldier of a lost cause becomes the beloved statesman
+of the cause that won, and finds around him the old-time
+comrades and old-time foes, all his friends and each other's
+friends united in the service of our common country.</p>
+
+<p>No nobler words have been spoken of the late Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> than
+by soldiers who fought against him, and I respond to them with
+honor and praise. The production of men who may maintain
+the rights their fathers won, and ever grow in liberal thought,
+noble character, and worthy achievement is the highest mission
+of republican institutions. From Hastings, A.D. 1066, to
+Boston in 1776, the name of Lee was blended with the glories
+of our fatherland. But from Boston to Appomattox it grew
+the more illustrious with grander opportunities. Victorious
+through a track of eight hundred years to the 9th of April, 1865,
+it has been still more victorious since&mdash;rising to the height of
+harder trials and sterner tasks and grander duties than those of
+leading embattled lines. The glorious nation of which he was
+a type and the glorious band of which he was the son come
+forth from ruin and desolation on one side, moved by gracious
+institutions and magnanimous sentiments upon the other, taking
+their place in the reunited columns of parted friendship,
+cementing anew by adaptive virtues the broken ties, marching
+<span class='pagenum'>[107]<a name="Page_107" id="Page_107"></a></span>again with the mutual magnanimities of companionship at the
+head of column.</p>
+
+<p>If a race that has won liberty and made it a birthright lets it
+slip away through hands of weakness or deeds of folly, and if
+the self-made man of to-day loses the vantage ground of his
+life work with his fleeting breath, the careers of nations would
+be brief, the story of liberty would be a nurse's tale, and the
+careers of individuals would be vanity of vanities. The prepotent
+blood that made an empire of an insignificant island
+and stamped its language and its laws upon it made also here
+the most splendid Republic of the earth out of a savage wilderness
+and assimilated to itself all tributaries. That Republic
+delegates its unfinished tasks to a posterity that will lift higher
+the monuments of its greatness and strengthen the foundations
+of its endurance; and in the lives of Gen. <span class="smcap">Lee</span> and those of his
+worthy compatriots of all sections who unite as friends the
+moment conditions cease that made them foes, I see exemplified
+the noblest qualities of our kind and read the auguries of
+prolonged peace, progress, happiness, and stability.</p>
+
+
+<p>The <span class="smcap">Vice-President</span>. The question is on agreeing to the
+resolutions submitted by the Senator from Virginia.</p>
+
+<p>The resolutions were agreed to unanimously, and under the
+last resolution the Senate (at 4 o'clock and 20 minutes p.m.)
+adjourned until Monday, March 7, 1892, at 12 o'clock m.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Memorial Addresses on the Life and
+Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia), by Various
+
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+
+Title: Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia)
+       Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate,
+       Fifty-Second Congress, First Session
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: October 8, 2005 [EBook #16822]
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+Language: English
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+Character set encoding: ASCII
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMORIAL ADDRESSES ON THE ***
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+Produced by Barbara Tozier, Sigal Alon and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
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+[Illustration: Hon. W.H.F. Lee.]
+
+
+
+
+MEMORIAL ADDRESSES
+
+ON THE
+
+LIFE AND CHARACTER
+
+OF
+
+WILLIAM H.F. LEE,
+
+(A REPRESENTATIVE FROM VIRGINIA.)
+
+
+DELIVERED IN THE
+
+HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND IN THE SENATE,
+
+FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF CONGRESS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WASHINGTON:
+GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
+1892
+
+
+
+
+     _Resolved by the House of Representatives_ (_the Senate
+     concurring_), That there be printed of the eulogies delivered in
+     Congress upon the Hon. W.H.F. LEE, late a Representative from the
+     State of Virginia, eight thousand copies, of which number two
+     thousand copies shall be delivered to the Senators and
+     Representatives of the State of Virginia, which shall include fifty
+     copies to be bound in full morocco, to be delivered to the family
+     of the deceased, and of those remaining two thousand shall be for
+     the use of the Senate and four thousand for the use of the House of
+     Representatives; and the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to
+     have engraved and printed a portrait of the said W.H.F. LEE to
+     accompany the said eulogies.
+
+     Agreed to in the House of Representatives March 23, 1892.
+
+     Agreed to in the Senate March 22, 1892.
+
+
+
+
+PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
+
+
+ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH.
+
+DECEMBER 23, 1891.
+
+Mr. MEREDITH, of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, I rise to make the painful
+announcement to the House of the death of Hon. WILLIAM H.F. LEE, a
+Representative in the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses of the United
+States and a Representative-elect to the Fifty-second Congress.
+
+He died at his home, in Fairfax County, Va., on the 15th day of October
+last, after a lingering illness. Later in the session I shall ask this
+House to fix a day when his colleagues and friends can do justice to his
+memory and express their appreciation of his high character.
+
+It is only meet and fitting on this occasion that I should say that in
+the death of Gen. LEE the State of Virginia has lost the services of one
+of her most chivalrous and noble sons, and the district he so well
+represented a faithful guardian of the interests of all its people.
+
+I send to the desk and ask the adoption of these resolutions:
+
+The Clerk read as follows:
+
+     _Resolved_, That the House has heard with deep regret and profound
+     sorrow of the death of Hon. W.H.F. LEE, a Representative from the
+     State of Virginia.
+
+     _Resolved_, That the Clerk be directed to communicate a copy of
+     these resolutions to the Senate.
+
+     _Resolved_, That as a further mark of respect the House do now
+     adjourn.
+
+The resolutions were unanimously agreed to.
+
+And accordingly (at 12 o'clock and 37 minutes p.m.) the House adjourned
+until Tuesday, the 5th day of January next.
+
+
+
+
+EULOGIES.
+
+
+FEBRUARY 6, 1892.
+
+The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the special order.
+
+The Clerk read as follows:
+
+     _Resolved_, That Saturday, February 6, beginning at 1 o'clock
+     afternoon, be set apart for paying tribute to the memory of Hon.
+     WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE, late a member of the House of
+     Representatives from the Eighth district of the State of Virginia.
+
+Mr. MEREDITH. Mr. Speaker, I offer the resolutions which I send to the
+desk.
+
+The resolutions were read, as follows:
+
+     _Resolved_, That the business of the House be now suspended, that
+     opportunity be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. WILLIAM
+     HENRY FITZHUGH LEE, late a Representative from the State of
+     Virginia.
+
+     _Resolved_, As a further mark of respect to the memory of the
+     deceased, and in recognition of his eminent ability and
+     distinguished public services, that the House, at the conclusion of
+     these memorial proceedings, shall stand adjourned.
+
+     _Resolved_, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the
+     Senate.
+
+The resolutions were adopted.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. MEREDITH, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: This day having been set apart for the purpose of paying a
+last tribute to the memory of one who so lately was a loved and honored
+member of this House, I shall, in the brief remarks which I propose to
+make, attempt nothing but a plain and truthful narrative of some of the
+characteristics and public services of a Christian gentleman, who in my
+judgment measured fully up to that standard which makes man the noblest
+work of God.
+
+On the 15th day of October, 1891, at Ravensworth, his beautiful home in
+Fairfax County, Va., surrounded by those loved ones whose constant care
+and tender nursing had done all that human power could do to stay the
+hand of the fell Destroyer, all that was mortal of Hon. WILLIAM HENRY
+FITZHUGH LEE passed from this earth, and his noble spirit returned to
+the God who gave it.
+
+If the earnest supplications to Almighty God, offered by the good people
+of his native State upon their bended knees night and morning, during
+the period of his lingering illness, could have availed, he would have
+been restored to health and usefulness, and these melancholy proceedings
+postponed for many a long year.
+
+The great sorrow which made the heart of Virginia heavy and bowed in
+grief the heads of her true sons and daughters when the sad intelligence
+of his death was flashed over the electric wires was more genuinely
+spontaneous than were the loud lamentations of the Roman populace (so
+graphically described by Tacitus) when they beheld the widow of
+Germanicus, with her weeping children entering the gates of the imperial
+city. Nor was this sorrow confined to those of his own political faith.
+Men of all parties vied with each other in their expressions of regret
+at his death and in their sympathy for his bereaved family.
+
+The blameless life he had led, his high character, his gentle and
+unassuming manners, won for him not only the respect but the admiration
+of all with whom he came in contact.
+
+As gentle as a child and as tender as a woman, with the courage of a
+hero and a faith that never faltered, he proved himself a worthy
+descendant of that race of famous men from whom he sprang, and most
+worthily bore a name which will be honored as long as a liberty-loving
+people shall find a dwelling place upon the earth.
+
+WILLIAM H.F. LEE was the son of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and was born at
+Arlington, on the 31st day of May, 1837.
+
+He was educated at Harvard, where he ranked not only as a good scholar,
+but on account of his splendid size and strength became quite famous in
+athletics, being "stroke oar" of the University Rowing Club.
+
+His great ambition was to follow the profession of his father and to go
+to West Point; but having had an older brother there, that fact was
+considered in those days an insuperable obstacle. While still at
+Harvard, completing his education, he was, through the interest taken in
+him by Gen. Winfield Scott, who made the request as a special and
+personal favor to himself, appointed in 1857 a second lieutenant in the
+Sixth Regiment, United States Infantry, and inaugurated his military
+career by taking a detachment of troops to Texas by sea and then by land
+up the country to San Antonio.
+
+In 1858 he accompanied his regiment, under the command of Col. Albert
+Sidney Johnston, in the expedition to Utah against the Mormons, taking
+an active part in that campaign, marching from Fort Leavenworth to Salt
+Lake City, and then, when the troubles were quelled there, traveling on
+foot to Fort Benicia, Cal. While on the Pacific coast he received a
+letter from his father, written January 1, 1859, in which he said:
+
+     I can not express the gratification I felt in meeting Col. May in
+     New York, and at the encomiums he passed upon your soldiership,
+     zeal, and devotion to your duty. But I was more pleased at the
+     report of your conduct. I always thought and said there was stuff
+     in you for a good soldier, and I trust you will prove it.
+
+Resigning his commission in the Army, he came home to be married to his
+cousin, a Miss Wickham, and settled down as a farmer at the "White
+House" (where Washington met Martha Custis and was married), a large
+estate on the Pamunkey River, left him by his maternal grandfather, G.W.
+Park Custis, of Arlington.
+
+When that irrepressible conflict of 1861 was upon us, and Virginia
+called upon her sons to defend her soil, he, sharing the faith of his
+fathers, in the belief that his allegiance was due to his State, quickly
+raised a company of cavalry, and was attached to the Army of Northern
+Virginia. Serving in every grade successively from captain to
+major-general of cavalry, he led his regiment in the famous raid around
+McClellan's army, and was an active participant in all those brilliant
+achievements which made the cavalry service so proficient.
+
+In that terrific fight which occurred at Brandy Station, in June, 1863,
+he was most severely wounded, and taken to the residence of Gen. William
+C. Wickham, in Hanover County, where he was made a prisoner by a raiding
+party, and was carried off, at the expense of great personal suffering,
+to Fort Monroe. From the latter place he was conveyed to Fort Lafayette,
+where he was confined until March, 1864, and treated with great
+severity, being held, with Capt. R.H. Tyler, of the Eighth Virginia
+Regiment, under sentence of death, as hostages for two Federal officers
+who were prisoners in Richmond, and whom it was thought would be
+executed for some retaliatory measure.
+
+Exchanged in the spring of 1864, he returned, to find his young wife and
+children dead, his beautiful home burned to the ground, his whole estate
+devastated and laid waste by the ruthless hand of war; and yet almost
+his first act on reaching Richmond was to go to Libby Prison, visit the
+two Federal officers for whom he had been held as hostage, and who, like
+himself, had been under apprehension of being hung, and shake hands with
+and congratulate them.
+
+Immediately joining his command, he led his division in every engagement
+from the Rapidan to Appomattox, where, with his father, the greatest
+soldier of modern times, he surrendered to the inevitable.
+
+In a letter written by one of the most brilliant cavalry generals of the
+late war, in speaking of Gen. W.H.F. LEE, he uses this language:
+
+     He was a zealous, conscientious, brave, and intelligent soldier,
+     who fully discharged all of his duties. He was one of those safe,
+     sound, judicious officers, and you always felt when you sent
+     instructions to him that they were going to be obeyed promptly and
+     to the letter.
+
+What greater tribute could be paid a soldier?
+
+Having been married to one of the most accomplished ladies in Virginia,
+Miss Bolling, of Petersburg (who, with two sons, survives him) he
+removed in 1874 to Ravensworth, and was the next year elected to the
+senate of Virginia, where he made an honorable record.
+
+He was elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, and served
+his State with that fidelity which had characterized his every act
+through life--faithful, conscientious, and painstaking--ever alert to
+the interests of his constituents and seeking only how he could serve
+them.
+
+He was again reelected to the Fifty-second Congress, and though by the
+will of Divine Providence he was not permitted to take his seat, he will
+ever be held in grateful remembrance by his late constituents, and when
+the long roll of Virginia's noble and heroic dead is called, the name of
+WILLIAM H. FITZHUGH LEE will be mourned by his mother Commonwealth as
+one of her noblest and truest sons.
+
+In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I shall read, as the most fitting tribute I
+have seen, an editorial from the Alexandria Gazette written the day
+after the death of Gen. LEE:
+
+     Gen. WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE, second son of Gen. Robert Edward
+     Lee, is dead. The bells here tolled late yesterday evening. A few
+     hours before the general had crossed over the river and was at rest
+     under his roof tree at Ravensworth, the southern sun lighted his
+     deathbed and the autumn breeze sang his requiem. Afterlife's fitful
+     fever he sleeps well. He was sick a long time, and as his disease
+     was incurable, death was a relief. No more pain for him now, but
+     the long and peaceful sleep of the just. His sorrowing family were
+     at his bedside, but he told them not good-bye, preferring to greet
+     them when they shall rejoin him in a better world. His death is
+     regretted by all the many who knew him; the more so by those who
+     knew him well.
+
+     Gen. LEE, like his father, was naturally quiet and retiring, and in
+     his intercourse with others, when right and principle were not
+     involved, invariably acted in accordance with the rule of _noblesse
+     oblige_, but when they were involved he was as firm in support of
+     his convictions as any other man could be. He stood foursquare to
+     all the winds that blow, but always with the propriety that
+     characterizes the perfect gentleman. He did his duty to his God,
+     his family, his State, and his country, and did it well, and
+     executed faithfully all the trusts committed to him in both
+     military and civil life. He liked the old manners and customs of
+     Virginia, but tried to conform to the new order of things with
+     becoming grace, and did so with no audible complaint and no useless
+     repinings. He served his State efficiently in her senate and in the
+     national Congress, and in the Confederate army he filled, by
+     merited promotion, every position from captain up to major-general
+     of cavalry. It was different once, but Virginia can ill-afford to
+     part with such a man now, and in his death, as in that of his
+     illustrious father, she has lost a true and gallant son, who when
+     not on duty was as gentle as a woman. Her fame has been increased
+     by having had such a son. May she have many more; like him.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. EDMUNDS, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: It is not my purpose to attempt any extended remarks upon
+the life and character of Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE, late a Representative
+from the Eighth Congressional district of Virginia, yet I can not permit
+this occasion to pass and my hand and heart to fail to pay my humble
+tribute to his memory. Gen. LEE's life had been spent after manhood in
+arms or as a tiller of the soil. In early life he saw military service
+as lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment, United States Infantry, and was
+with Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston in the expedition in 1858 against the
+Mormons.
+
+Resigning from the Army, he returned to his native State of Virginia and
+engaged in the pursuit of agriculture. Early in the late civil struggle
+he raised a cavalry company, and rose from the position of company
+commander to that of major-general, and followed the cause in which he
+had enlisted until the end at Appomattox. There two great military
+chieftains met, and one, his illustrious father, gave up to the other
+his sword and the mutilated remnant of an army which had fought with the
+utmost bravery and fortitude under a leader of unsurpassed skill and
+fidelity.
+
+Gen. LEE, after the struggle had ended, resuming his citizenship in
+peace, returned to his farm and occupation of agriculture.
+
+He was elected by his people from his senatorial district to the
+legislature. He served one term in the senate of Virginia and declined a
+renomination. He was afterwards elected from the Eighth Congressional
+district of his State to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses and
+again returned by his constituency to the present Congress; but the hand
+of death interposed, and he did not live to again take his seat in this
+legislative hall.
+
+The name of Lee, Mr. Speaker, has been an illustrious one in Virginia.
+No one can with safety challenge the assertion that that old
+Commonwealth has furnished, from the time of the Revolution, as many
+great men, in peace and in war, as any of the States of our Union. When
+the foundations of this great Republic were laid and constitutional
+principles evolved, whether the sword of the warrior or the mind and
+philosophy of the statesman were needed, you will find the marks and
+handiwork of some son of that State.
+
+Among those great men the ancestry of Gen. LEE were conspicuous. He
+inherited from his great father a disposition that was frank, manly, and
+chivalrous. Although with these distinguished surroundings, Gen. LEE had
+no undue pride, reserve, or self-assertion. His nature, on the contrary,
+was eminently amiable, generous, and sympathetic, and at the same time
+he was dignified, manly, brave, and ever courteous.
+
+Identified with the agricultural interests of his State, at one time
+president of the State society, and himself a practical and successful
+farmer and proud of his occupation, he mingled freely and congenially
+with that great class of our citizens upon whose shoulders repose in
+great measure the preservation and safety of the institutions of our
+common country. While he was especially devoted to the interests of the
+farmer, he was essentially a patriot, and loved his State and all its
+diverse interests with an enthusiastic devotion and yearned for her
+prosperity.
+
+He was a faithful, able, and vigilant Representative, and had in the
+greatest degree the confidence of his constituents and the people of his
+entire State. No one who ever knew him could fail to implicitly trust
+him. His State has lost a pure and noble son; the country a wise,
+conservative, and faithful Representative. We who knew him here can
+recall his manly robust form, his genial kindly face, his frank
+accessible address, his unfailing gentleness of manner, his cheerful
+friendly voice, as he walked along the aisles of this Hall.
+
+A man of his character and bearing could but wield an influence for good
+wherever his presence was.
+
+In a republic, where the people are the state, the advice, the
+suggestions, and the example of a citizen so high-minded and
+incorruptible are of great value not only in the councils of the nation,
+but in the everyday walks and details of life, in his beautiful rural
+home, surrounded by and mingling with his country people; and it was
+ever the pleasure and practice of Gen. LEE to associate freely and
+unrestrainedly with the great body of the people. His generous and noble
+heart had a sympathetic touch with them and their struggles, their
+callings, their work.
+
+But he has passed from us under the decree of the great Master to the
+great hereafter, leaving the record of a life of singular purity,
+directness of purpose, and freedom from guile; the record of a character
+unblurred, untarnished, unshadowed by the least stain; the record of a
+man high, noble, honorable, faithful to all the duties and relations of
+life.
+
+Mr. Speaker, Virginia, one of the oldest of the Commonwealths, within
+whose borders lie the remains of many great names, and the energies and
+reserved forces of whose people in times gone by have risen to great
+heights, receives to her bosom her dead son and bows with sincere grief
+over his grave; for to her, whether her hand wore the mailed gauntlet
+or followed the gentler pursuits of peace, he had ever been faithful,
+loyal, and true.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. TUCKER, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: I shall leave to others the task of portraying the life of
+Gen. LEE in its diversified pursuits, and shall content myself with the
+effort of giving to the House my conception of some of the
+characteristics of our deceased friend which made him throughout his
+life, wherever placed, a conspicuous actor in private and public
+affairs.
+
+In the early period of Virginia's history lived William Randolph, of
+Turkey Island (a plantation some 15 or 20 miles from the city of
+Richmond, near the scene of the terrific battle of Malvern Hill). He was
+the ancestor of all of that name in Virginia, and from him was descended
+in direct line Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and Robert E. Lee; the
+last-named the father of our departed friend. How could _he_ have
+manifested in his life less patriotism, justice, and courage with such
+exemplars of these virtues ever before him?
+
+His mother, as is well known, was a descendant from the wife of Gen.
+Washington by her prior marriage with John Parke Custis. Sprung from
+such a lineage; trained in a school where the amenities of life as well
+as "the humanities" were taught in their highest excellence, he
+practiced from his earliest childhood a scrupulous regard for the rights
+and feelings of others, and an indulgence to all faults except his own.
+
+With a self-control and equipoise which were never disturbed under the
+most trying circumstances, and a graciousness of manner which broke
+down all barriers, giving to the humblest as well as to the highest the
+assurance of his friendly consideration, and a mind well disciplined by
+education in the highest schools, it was impossible that he could have
+been other than a man of mark and influence in his State.
+
+It is not claiming too much to say that Gen. LEE was the natural product
+of the civilization existing in Virginia during his boyhood and early
+manhood, which, alas, except here and there in certain localities, is
+fast passing away. The home, not the club, was its center; the family,
+not each "new-hatched, unfledged comrade," its unit. The father was the
+_head_ of the family, not the joint tenant with the wife of a house nor
+the tenant at will of his wife. The wife and the mother was the queen of
+the household, not merely a housekeeper for a husband and the family.
+Obedience to those in authority was the first lesson exacted of the boy.
+Inculcated with tenderness, it was enforced with severity, if need be,
+until the word of the father or the expressed wish of the mother carried
+with it the force of law as completely as the decree of a court or the
+mandate of a king.
+
+Reverence for superiors in age and deference to all, rather than
+arrogant self-assertion, was magnified as a cardinal virtue, not as
+teaching humility and enforcing a lack of proper self-respect, but
+rather to exalt high ideals and stimulate an admiration for "the true,
+the beautiful, and the good."
+
+Fidelity to truth, the maintenance of personal honor, deference for the
+opinions and feelings of others, without abating one's own or
+aggressively thrusting them on others; a kindliness of manner to
+dependents, a knightly courtesy to all, but with special and tender
+regard in thought, word, and action toward woman, were in turn patiently
+taught in all the lessons of the fireside and at the family altar, and
+earnestly insisted upon in the formation of the character of a true
+gentleman. "Any man will be polite to a beautiful young woman, but it
+takes a gentleman to show the same respect to a homely old woman" was
+the stinging rebuke of a father to his son who failed to remove his hat
+in passing a forlorn old woman on the public highway.
+
+The old-field school, the private tutor, the high school, whose
+excellence in Virginia I can not praise too much, the college, the
+university, led the young mind by easy stages to its full intellectual
+maturity.
+
+Nowhere was the principle "_Sana mens in sano corpore_" more
+scrupulously taught than in Virginia. The rod and stream, the gun, the
+"hounds and horns," the chase, with the music of the pack, the bounding
+steed, all lent their ready aid in developing the physical manhood of
+the boy. In the pure atmosphere of his country home, amid its broad
+fields and virgin forests, contracted houses in narrow streets had no
+charms for him. To join the chase was the first promotion to which the
+boy looked as evidencing his permanent release from the nursery. The gun
+and dog became his constant companions, while "Old Betsey," his father's
+trusted double-barreled gun of many years' usage, standing in the
+sitting-room corner or hanging on stag-horns or dog-wood forks on the
+side of the wall, was the eloquent subject of nightly rehearsals of her
+prowess and power in the annual deer hunt "over the mountains." Skill in
+horsemanship was essential, and breaking colts was naturally followed by
+broken limbs; but manhood found a race of trained horsemen, both
+graceful and skillful in the saddle, unexcelled, I dare venture to
+assert, by any civilized people. A child of nature, the Virginia boy
+communed with her as his mother, and from her purest depths drew the
+richest inspirations. To him no mountains were so blue as hers, no
+streams so clear, no forests so enchanting, no homes so sweet.
+
+    While others hailed in distant skies the glories of the Union
+    He only saw the mountain bird stoop o'er his Old Dominion.
+
+How vividly the picture comes to me now (never to be effaced) of a
+learned professor in one of Virginia's highest schools, himself
+three-score years and ten, a soldier of two wars, as he led the way
+through a quiet Virginia town on horseback, followed by two sons,
+distinguished ministers of the gospel, and they in turn by a younger son
+and the grandson of the leader, with a goodly train of friends, amid the
+blasts of horns and baying of hounds, who followed, eager for the chase
+among the beautiful hills which surrounded the town of Lexington, even
+as the mountains stand "round about Jerusalem."
+
+Religion--the duty of man to his Creator, not sectarianism--was
+scrupulously taught, and Sunday morning found the family alive in
+preparations for attending religious service at Zion or Trinity, as it
+might happen to be the first or the fourth Sunday of the month. From
+this duty none were exempt from the least to the greatest. The pastor
+was the friend on whom all troubles both temporal and spiritual were
+cast, and his visits were long remembered and talked of in the life of
+each family. Deference to his wishes and reverence for his character
+were well-nigh universal.
+
+    A man he was to all the country dear,
+    And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
+    Remote from towns he ran his godly race,
+    Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place.
+
+    Unskillful he to fawn, or seek for power,
+    By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour;
+    Far other aims his heart had learned to prize,
+    More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
+
+Such was the atmosphere in which our deceased friend was reared. He was
+a trustee in the venerable institution of Washington and Lee University
+at Lexington, Va., founded by Gen. Washington, and presided over by Gen.
+Robert E. Lee during the last years of his life; he was faithful to the
+trust, and ever watchful of the best interests of the school. The loss
+sustained by this institution in his death has been most fittingly
+expressed in the appended minute of the faculty of the university,
+adopted on the 19th of October, 1891:
+
+     At a meeting of the faculty of Washington and Lee University, held
+     October 19, 1891, the following minute was adopted:
+
+     Upon the announcement of the death of Gen. W.H.F. LEE the faculty
+     of Washington and Lee University unite in sorrowful sympathy with
+     his family, bereaved of husband, father, and brother; with the
+     Commonwealth in the loss of a patriotic citizen; and with the board
+     of trustees of this university, of which he was an esteemed member.
+
+     He was graduated at Harvard for the life of a civilian, but took a
+     commission in the United States Army as lieutenant, and served with
+     fidelity to duty under Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston in the Utah
+     expedition of 1858.
+
+     At its close he resigned and returned to his country home, where he
+     continued to live until 1861, when he entered the Confederate army,
+     and, rising by rapid promotion to the rank of major-general of
+     cavalry, closed his efficient and faithful military career in 1865,
+     when he again returned to country life, and died at the seat of his
+     ancestors, at Ravensworth, in Fairfax County.
+
+     In the mean time his private life was interrupted by the voice of
+     his people, which called him to their service in the senate of
+     Virginia and for three terms as their Representative in Congress,
+     two of which he completed, and left the vacancy in the third by his
+     untimely death.
+
+     Truth, honor, and courage to do good and to resist evil, sincerity
+     in all relations and fidelity to all duty, were heirlooms of his
+     race and lineage, which he kept and left untarnished to his
+     posterity.
+
+     With a mind strong and vigorous, a judgment sound and well-poised,
+     a calm and self-contained temper, which impelled him to the right
+     and restrained him from the wrong, and a moral sense which guided
+     and controlled his purposes and his actions along the path of
+     absolute rectitude, he lived a life adorned by noble virtues and
+     filled with noble deeds. Gentle but firm, decided, and fixed in his
+     convictions, but respectful and deferential to those of others, he
+     was a model of all the splendid qualities which make up the
+     character of a courteous and Christian gentleman.
+
+     In addition to all these natural gifts his convictions led him to
+     the profession and practice of a simple and genuine faith in the
+     religion of Christ.
+
+     After an honorable military and civil career, in the peace of God
+     and in charity with his fellow-men, this worthy son of an
+     illustrious family died the death of the righteous and in the hope
+     of immortality through Him in whom he believed and trusted.
+
+     The faculty therefore declare--
+
+     That they have heard of the death of Gen. LEE with deep sorrow, and
+     mourn it as a calamity to his family, his friends, his country, and
+     to this university.
+
+     That they tender to his family these expressions of their
+     affectionate esteem for him as a personal friend as well as for his
+     service as a public man, and their sincere sympathy with them in
+     their peculiar and irreparable bereavement.
+
+     A copy. Teste:
+
+     JNO. L. CAMPBELL,
+     _Clerk of the Faculty_.
+
+An intimate association with Gen. LEE in the Fifty-first Congress and as
+members of the board of trustees of Washington and Lee University at
+Lexington, Va., and in private life, enabled me to form a just estimate
+of his character and of those personal qualities of head and heart that
+made him beloved by all who really knew him. While they have been well
+expressed in the foregoing minute, I may add from my own observations a
+brief summary of his noble character. His mind was eminently practical,
+and arrived at its conclusions more from an unerring instinct of justice
+and common sense than through the exacting processes of logic. His
+judgment was rarely at fault, for his intellect was not swerved by
+passion or prejudice, but was held in perfect equipoise to receive the
+truth on both sides of every question. His deference to the opinions of
+others and his caution in seeking the views of those on whose discretion
+he relied suggested to some who did not know him that he was hesitating
+in temperament. This was not true. He sought all the light possible on
+every subject patiently and earnestly, and when he arrived at his
+conclusion no man adhered to it more tenaciously or enforced it more
+earnestly.
+
+As a speaker, Gen. LEE possessed many of the attributes of the orator, a
+gift inherited from his grandfather, Light-Horse Harry Lee. He was
+graceful in delivery, persuasive in manner, and forcible in argument.
+
+His diction was pure, unpretentious, and simple. His speeches were
+often embellished with references to ancient and modern history and
+mythology with which he seemed to be very familiar.
+
+Dutifulness, I believe, was the most prominent trait of his character.
+It was the star by which his life was guided. Once persuaded that a
+certain measure or a certain line of policy was right, and he was
+unflinchingly firm in its support. No burden was too heavy, no privation
+too severe, if only they were borne along the path of duty.
+
+He exemplified in his life the noble utterance of his distinguished
+father: "Duty is the sublimest word in the English language."
+
+In politics he was a Democrat, but not a partisan, and he firmly
+believed that the supremacy of his party was necessary for the good of
+the country and the welfare of the people. His patriotism was exalted,
+and his faith in the ultimate triumph of the right never wavered.
+
+His manly appearance, his gracious but dignified manner, his courtly
+bearing and pleasing conversation marked him as a gentleman of the "old
+school," as one of nature's noblemen.
+
+Any sketch of Gen. LEE would indeed be imperfect that failed to mention
+his love for little children, and his friends will never fail to recall
+the tender interest he always manifested in the children of their
+families, especially in the youngest.
+
+His life, Mr. Speaker, was a truly noble one. It was on the highest
+plane. His character had no spot or blemish upon it that sweet charity
+would now consign to oblivion, but it was robust, well-rounded, and
+symmetrical, open as day. His ambition was not to attain but to deserve
+the praise of the good, and that higher benediction, to be pronounced by
+the final Judge of the world: "Well done, good and faithful servant;
+enter thou into the joys of thy Lord."
+
+He was an earnest believer in the Christian faith. The abstruse
+doctrines of the church formed no part of his creed. His faith was in
+the Christ the Saviour of mankind; a faith which illumined his pathway
+in life, lightening his burdens, exalting his nature, and which
+sustained him without fear when he met the last enemy of the race as he
+walked through "the valley of the shadow of death." It was the faith of
+a little child--
+
+                           An assured belief
+    That the procession of our fate, howe'er
+    Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being
+    Of infinite benevolence and power,
+    Whose everlasting purposes embrace
+    All accidents, converting them to good.
+
+His funeral and burial, Mr. Speaker, will never be forgotten by those
+who witnessed it. The autumn sun was fast sinking behind the bright
+curtain of the west, bathing "the mellow autumn fields" of Old Virginia
+with its purple hues. Untrumpeted by official authority, scores of
+friends from city, town, village, farm, and cabin gathered at
+Ravensworth to pay the last sad honor to their beloved friend. White and
+colored, rich and poor, high and low, soldiers, citizens, and statesmen,
+all were there.
+
+His body was borne from the house to the ivy-clad family graveyard by
+the sturdy yeomanry of the neighborhood. In the presence of that vast
+throng, with uncovered heads, his comrades, who had followed him on many
+a hard-fought battlefield, performed the last sad rites, and with their
+own hands filled his grave and planted upon it the "immortelles" of
+their affection and devotion. Faces that never blanched amid the storm
+of battle paled; hearts that never quailed in the presence of an enemy
+broke in the presence of the last enemy of us all, and the silent,
+pitiless tear which fell from the eye was hidden by the lengthening
+shadows of the evening, which were fast gathering round the scene.
+
+    Beloved friend, farewell and hail!
+      Removed from sight, yet not afar,
+    Still through this earthly twilight veil
+      Thou beamest down, a friendly star.
+
+    The prophet's blessing comes to thee,
+      The crown he holds to view is thine;
+    Forever more thy memory
+      In heaven and in our hearts shall shine.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. O'FERRALL, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: These occasions of tribute-offering in this Hall never fail
+to impress me with extreme sadness, increase my awe and reverence of Him
+who holds in the hollow of His hand every moment we live and every
+breath we draw, and teach me the lesson of our mortality.
+
+These scenes have become very familiar to me, and their frequency
+reminds me with terrible force that--
+
+    All that lives must die,
+    Passing through nature to eternity.
+
+Most naturally am I more than usually touched and pained by the death of
+him which now hangs its somber drapery around the walls of our hearts
+and casts its pall over this Chamber. It is a death within the
+representative circle of which I am a member. It is the death of a
+colleague, a friend, whose presence in that circle always brought
+sunshine and never shadow.
+
+Tributes to his memory, clothed in language of beauty and breathing
+with love and burning with pathos, have already been paid, and others
+will follow; and now, while I can not hope to charm with the tongue of
+eloquence or touch the soul with the figures of rhetoric, I come with my
+tribute.
+
+It will be plain and unadorned, but it will at least have the merit of
+sincerity, and, like the widow's mite, be all that I can give.
+
+WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE, of Virginia, is no more.
+
+How the name of Lee, whenever uttered, wherever chivalry has erected her
+altar, sends a thrill like an electric current through every fiber of
+the manly man.
+
+How the name of Virginia has been upon every tongue since Queen
+Elizabeth, nearly three centuries ago, gave that name to that section
+around which to-day historic memories linger and traditions and glories
+cluster as thick "as the stars in the crown of night," the section where
+Christopher Newport and his devoted followers "builded an altar unto the
+Lord and in the savage wilderness" deposited the germ of this mighty
+nation, "and where God blessed them as He blessed Noah and his sons,
+saying unto them, 'The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon
+every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that
+moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your
+hand are they delivered.'"
+
+Virginia! The land of legends and lays--the land where the cradle of
+republican liberty was rocked, and where, in 1765, the first denial was
+heard of the right of the British Parliament to levy taxes upon the
+Colonies which kindled the fire of patriotic fervor and led to the
+ever-living, soul-inspiring words of her Henry and the raising up of her
+Jefferson to heights of imperishable fame and her Washington to the
+pinnacle of everlasting renown.
+
+Virginia! The land of battlefields and battle gore, colonial relics and
+Revolutionary monuments, spotless fame and unsullied honor; the land of
+patriot soldiers and heroes, and of a Yorktown, where the tyrant's head
+was bruised and the glorious strife ended which struck from our fathers
+the fetters and gave to them and their posterity a country gleaming in
+the golden sunlight of republican liberty, and throwing wide open her
+gates to the oppressed of every clime.
+
+Virginia! The land of mountains, upon whose summits and in whose gorges
+the spirit of freedom roams unfettered and unconquerable; the land of
+valleys, which are hung like alcoved aisles with scenes of heroism and
+pictures of daring, self-sacrifice, and devotion to principle; the land
+of rivers and rivulets, which reflect like mirrors the fields upon which
+her blood has been poured out like water upon the ground; the land of
+zephyrs and breezes, and where the storm king sometimes dwells, gently
+murmuring or in thunder tones proclaiming her glories and her fame; the
+land of blue beautiful skies, radiant with the virtues of her daughters
+and bespangled with the deeds of her sons; the land of memorials of the
+past, that inspire the Virginia youth, whether born in poverty or in
+riches, reared in the cottage humble or in the mansion stately, with a
+patriotism that knows not section and yet a State love that knows not
+bounds.
+
+It was in this land that Richard Henry Lee, the fire and splendor of
+whose eloquence burned like a hot iron into the soul of tyranny, and
+Francis Lightfoot Lee, both of them signers of the Declaration of
+Independence, were born; it was in this land that Arthur Lee, through
+whose instrumentality the Colonies secured the friendship and support of
+France, and "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, whose legion following his plume,
+struck the enemy in the bivouac, on the march, in the lurid glare of
+battle, on the flank, and in the front like a thunderbolt from the
+skies, were born. It was in this land that Robert Edward Lee, whose
+services on the fields of Mexico decked his brow with the warrior's
+laurel, and whose leadership of the Confederate armies in the
+unfortunate strife between the States made his name immortal, and whose
+virtues shine with the brilliancy of a polished diamond, wreath his
+character in moral grandeur, and draw paeans and praises from friend and
+foe and from every clime where exalted manhood and a spotless life find
+devotees, was born; and it was in this land that WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH
+LEE, whose memory we are here to perpetuate, was born--all, all of the
+same lineage and blood.
+
+What a line of illustrious and distinguished men of one name for one
+State to produce. What a line of illustrious men to spring from the old
+cavalier family that under the reign of Charles I settled in the county
+of Northumberland, between the waters of the Rappahannock and Potomac,
+since glorified by the pen of the historian and the lyre of the poet.
+
+WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE! How sweet does that name sound to me. What
+recollections does it awaken. How quickly do I find my heart throbbing;
+how rapidly my blood rushes through its channels.
+
+Less than a twelvemonth ago he sat in yon seat or moved hither and
+thither about this Hall and along these passageways, pausing here and
+there to speak a pleasant word or exchange a friendly greeting. His tall
+and commanding person, his open, frank, and benevolent face and courtly
+bearing marked him among the membership of this House, and would have
+marked him in any assemblage, whether in the glittering splendor of
+royalty or in the plain dignity of our republican institutions. To see
+him once was to remember him forever. His image is as distinct before me
+this moment as if he stood in the flesh with his eye beaming forth the
+goodness of his nature and his hand outstretched, as was his wont, to
+receive mine.
+
+Mr. Speaker, his illustrious father, when the shadows of Appomattox
+closed round him, when the darkness of defeat enveloped him, when his
+soul was rent and torn and his mind was filled with anguish and his
+ragged and tired and worn veterans, reduced to a mere thin skirmish
+line, the remnant of an army that had shed unfading luster upon the
+American arms and the American soldier, gathered with tear-moistened
+cheeks about him to bid him farewell and receive his blessing, gave
+utterance to a sentiment just quoted by my colleague [Mr. TUCKER], a
+sentiment as grand and noble as was ever written upon any Roman tablet
+or carved upon any column of enduring marble that was ever reared in the
+flood light of glory:
+
+    Duty is the sublimest word in our language.
+
+Yes, Mr. Speaker, thus spoke Robert Edward Lee, the soldier, hero,
+Christian, and philanthropist: and when we come to study the life and
+character of WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE we are impressed with the fact
+that he took duty as his talismanic word, that it was the star that
+guided him, and that he followed it as faithfully as the "wise men"
+followed the Star from "the East" to Jerusalem and thence to Bethlehem.
+
+We believe that in his youth, on the heights of Arlington, where his
+eyes first opened upon the light, he learned at his father's knee and by
+his father's daily walk and conversation the great lesson of duty which
+steered his course and pointed out his pathway in life.
+
+He was born, as has been said, on the 31st day of May, 1837. In 1857 he
+was appointed a second lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment of United States
+Infantry, and served in 1858 in the then far West under Albert Sidney
+Johnston, whose fame Shiloh echoes and reechoes along the banks of the
+Tennessee. In 1859 he resigned his commission in the Army and returned
+to Virginia and located on his estate in the county of New Kent. In
+1861, when the Southern tocsin sounded and Virginia's voice was heard
+calling for troops, he raised a cavalry company and joined the Army of
+Northern Virginia. He rose gradually from captain to major-general of
+cavalry; was wounded in the terrific engagement between the Confederate
+and Federal cavalry at Brandy Station on the 9th day of June, 1863; was
+captured at Hanover Court-House, and was confined at Fort Monroe and
+Fort Lafayette until March, 1864, when he was exchanged, and repaired to
+his command, and served until the flag which he loved was furled forever
+at Appomattox.
+
+From that time forward he cultivated his large estate with much care,
+serving one term in the senate of his State, declining a renomination.
+In 1886 he was elected to the Fiftieth Congress from the Eighth
+Congressional district of Virginia, and again in 1888 to the Fifty-first
+Congress, and still again in 1890 to the present Congress.
+
+It was my privilege and pleasure to form his acquaintance in the army
+and to watch his flashing blade amid the carnage of battle, observe his
+cool courage and intrepid bearing and the love and confidence of his men
+upon more than one sanguinary field. He was as calm when the leaden hail
+was rattling and as cool when the shells were shrieking and bursting as
+he was upon this floor. He was a leader, not a follower of his men; if
+they went into the jaws of death, he was at their head. He fared as his
+men fared; if their haversacks were empty, his was empty; if they laid
+down in the mud, he laid there too; if they sweltered in the summer heat
+or shivered in the winter blast, he sweltered or shivered too; and thus
+it was he kindled in the breasts of his men intense love for himself and
+secured their implicit confidence in his leadership.
+
+The promotions he received, rising from a captain to a major-general,
+speak in terms stronger than any words of mine of his courage and valor
+and his qualities as a soldier and military chieftain.
+
+As a civilian, pursuing the quiet walks of rural life and devoting
+himself to agriculture, the noblest of all arts, he was honored by all
+the people and drew to him his neighbors, binding them with the steely
+bands of constant friendship. His word was as good as his bond, and the
+dusky son of toil as well as the intelligent tenant on his wide
+possessions relied upon it with absolute faith; and the most beautiful
+tribute that could be paid to his memory was the deep sorrow which
+manifested itself in a meeting after his death of those whose brawny
+muscle had held the plow-handles and whose toil had made the corn and
+the wheat grow on his rich and fertile fields.
+
+In politics he was a Democrat, and he was as pure in the political arena
+as in private life. He scorned the ways of the demagogue and the
+timeserver, and believed that "men should be what they seem." In the
+councils of his State and in the councils of the nation he was found at
+all times in full accord with the principles and policy of his party.
+
+As a Representative he was as true to his constituents as any subject to
+his sovereign, laboring in season and out of season to serve them, and
+even when his strong frame began to weaken and the germs of disease had
+been planted in his system he disregarded the warning calls for rest
+and continued to bend all his energies in the discharge of his trust,
+and I but speak the truth when I say that he fell a martyr to duty.
+
+But, Mr. Speaker, while he was grand as a soldier, pure as a man,
+exalted as a citizen, and faithful as a Representative, it was in the
+home circle, as husband and father, and not on the battlefield, in civil
+life, or in the halls of legislation, that the beauty and loveliness of
+his character drew a halo around him.
+
+He loved home, and it had a charm for him which neither pleasures,
+honors, nor fame could pluck from his bosom. Blessed by the
+companionship of one worthy of all adoration, and who presided like a
+queen over his household, entering into all his joys, sharing all his
+sorrows, and encouraging all his aspirations, he loved the breezes that
+kissed her cheeks, the birds that made sweet music to her ear, the
+rivulets that gently murmured her name, the flowers that shed their
+fragrance in her bowers, and the stately oaks under which the children
+of their union had prattled and the pebbled walks upon which they had
+played and gamboled.
+
+Yes, he loved home, and in its sacred circle his presence was like a
+sunbeam, brightening every face and warming every heart. He was all
+patience, gentleness, kindness, and love, and if there ever was a home
+which was a fit emblem of heaven it was Ravensworth, the home of this
+distinguished man.
+
+Mr. Speaker, he is gone. He lives now only in memory. In October last,
+when the frosts were blighting and the leaves were falling and the
+autumnal winds were sighing, after patient waiting for the fatal hour it
+came, and God's finger touched him, and the brave soldier, honored
+citizen, faithful Representative, devoted husband, and affectionate
+father was dead.
+
+He passed away quietly, strong in Christian faith and in the hope of a
+blissful eternity.
+
+WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE! His State mourns his death. Within the bosom
+of her soil he rests--peacefully rests. In his ancestral land near by
+Arlington, historic, revered Arlington, the scene of his childhood and
+early manhood, he sleeps--sleeps the sleep that knows no waking.
+
+    Earth, that all too soon hath bound him,
+      Gently wrap his clay!
+    Linger lovingly around him,
+      Light of dying day!
+
+And Virginia--
+
+                Bending lowly,
+    Still a ceaseless vigil holy
+    Keep above his dust.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. WISE, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: In accordance with a beautiful and impressive custom we put
+aside for to-day our legislative duties to pay a tribute of respect to
+the memory of Hon. WILLIAM H.F. LEE, of Virginia. In November, 1890, he
+was elected to serve as a member of this Congress from the Eighth
+district of that State, receiving in that action of his devoted
+constituents a merited indorsement of his conduct and services as their
+Representative for the two preceding terms. But when the day of our
+assembling arrived my colleague was not present to answer to the call of
+his name. He had passed over the river and was resting under the shade
+of the trees on the other side. He was beloved and honored by all the
+people of Virginia, and the announcement of his death, which occurred on
+the 15th day of October, 1891, was received everywhere within her
+borders with expressions of the deepest sorrow. He was born at
+Arlington, on the Virginia heights, opposite this beautiful city, on the
+31st day of May, 1837, and at the time of his death was in the
+fifty-fifth year of his age.
+
+In 1857, when he was pursuing his studies in the University of Harvard,
+in preparation for the active and serious duties of life, he received
+from the then President of the United States the appointment of brevet
+second lieutenant in the Sixth Infantry. At that time the spirit of
+resistance to the authority of the National Government was being
+exhibited to such an extent in Utah as to call for measures of
+repression. Assassinations and outrages of all kinds were common, and
+the officers of the United States were powerless either to prevent or
+punish their commission.
+
+When Mr. Buchanan became President the resolution was formed that the
+insubordination and conflict of authority existing in that Territory
+should cease, and the necessary executive and judicial officers having
+been appointed for the enforcement of the laws of the United States and
+the preservation of the public peace, it was determined to send a
+detachment of the Army to protect them against violence and to assist
+them as a posse comitatus, when necessary, in the performance of their
+duties. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston became the commander of this
+military force, and Lieut. LEE had his first experience of the service
+in this expedition. As the occasion does not call for a recital of the
+events of that period, I will content myself with the remark that he was
+then, as on every occasion in after years, faithful to the obligations
+of duty. His term of service in the Army was of short duration, and from
+that fact we may infer that he was not enamored with the life of a
+soldier in time of peace.
+
+In 1859 he resigned his commission, and soon thereafter was married to
+Miss Wickham, the daughter of a family distinguished in the annals of
+Virginia. They went to reside at the White House, on the Pamunkey River,
+in the county of New Kent. It was at this old historic country home that
+the marriage of George Washington with the Widow Custis was celebrated.
+It descended to Gen. LEE from his mother, who was the great-granddaughter
+of Washington's wife.
+
+Here he devoted himself to the tillage of the soil and became engrossed
+with the pursuits of a plain and unostentatious farmer. His condition
+and surroundings at this time were such as to invite contentment and
+encourage the cultivation of those pure and lofty sentiments for which
+he was ever distinguished.
+
+Being in the flower and strength of his young manhood and blessed with
+affluence and the love of an accomplished wife, there seemed wanting
+nothing to make his home an earthly paradise.
+
+But the course of this peaceful and happy life was not to run thus
+smoothly to the end. Dark and threatening clouds of war soon lowered
+upon our land, and the political conflicts and antagonisms, which had
+grown in intensity and bitterness with the flight of years, ripened into
+civil war in 1861. The crisis then arrived when the appeal to arms was
+inevitable, and with it the necessity that all men should decide whether
+allegiance was first due to the State or General Government. There were
+honest differences of opinion on this question, which had existed from
+the very foundation of the Republic.
+
+He was connected by blood with a long line of illustrious men, who had
+borne a conspicuous part in the events which led to the declaration of
+American independence and the establishment of this constitutional
+Government. It was Richard Henry Lee who offered in the Continental
+Congress, in June, 1776, that stirring resolution which proclaimed to
+the world "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be,
+free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance
+to the British Crown; and that all political connection between them and
+Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
+
+It was his own grandfather, known in history as "Light-Horse Harry Lee,"
+who, in the long struggle which followed this bold declaration, struck
+such sturdy blows for the liberties and rights of his countrymen as
+caused him to receive the special commendation of George Washington, of
+whom in turn he uttered those memorable words: "First in war, first in
+peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Bearing a name thus
+associated with all the glorious achievements of the past, it was but
+natural that he should have felt an ardent attachment to the Union. But
+he was a son of Virginia, "where American liberty raised its first voice
+and where its youth was nurtured and sustained."
+
+There the doctrine of the sovereignty of the State was accepted as the
+true interpretation of the Constitution almost without division of
+sentiment. Her people held that allegiance was first due to their State,
+and while all deplored the necessity for, few, if any, doubted as to the
+right of separation. When in April, 1861, a convention representing her
+people passed the ordinance of secession, he felt no hesitation in
+adopting his course. He resolved at once to consecrate himself and his
+sword to the sacred duty of defending her homes and firesides.
+
+Having raised a company of cavalry, he was made its captain, and was
+rapidly promoted from rank to rank until he reached that of
+major-general. Soon after his entry into the Confederate service he
+became associated with the command of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, and
+participated thereafter in nearly all the movements of that fearless and
+dashing leader, whom the brave Gen. Sedgwick, of the United States Army,
+pronounced "the best cavalry officer ever foaled in North America." On
+June 3, 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee, the father of my deceased colleague,
+assumed the command of the Army of Northern Virginia three days after
+the retiracy of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, caused by a wound received in
+the battle of Seven Pines.
+
+The plans of the Federal commander for the capture of the capital of the
+Southern Confederacy had been well chosen. His army, according to his
+own report, numbered 156,000, of whom 115,000 were ready for duty as
+fighting men. All the vast resources of his Government were being
+employed to enable him to prosecute his campaign with efficiency and
+vigor. His troops had been furnished with artillery and small arms of
+the most approved description and best pattern. They had abundance of
+ammunition of the finest quality and ample supplies of food and
+clothing. Gen. McDowell, then at Fredericksburg with 40,000 men, and
+Gens. Banks and Fremont in the valley of Virginia, were expected to
+cooeperate in the movement. A line of fire was slowly but steadily being
+drawn around Richmond. These plans, as I have said, had been well
+conceived and were being executed with great precision and skill.
+
+To oppose this formidable advance there were less than 100,000 fighting
+men in Virginia, and they were greatly inferior to the enemy in both
+equipments and supplies. Gen. Johnston, penetrating the designs of his
+adversary, commenced operations to prevent their accomplishment. The
+bloody and stubbornly contested battle of Seven Pines was fought in part
+execution of his plans. When Gen. Robert E. Lee succeeded to the
+command it was apparent that some decisive blow must be struck to save
+the Southern capital from a state of siege. Surveying the whole field
+with a keen and practiced eye, he saw that the left wing of the Union
+army, which had been thrown across the Chickahominy and advanced to
+within four or five miles of Richmond, occupied a strong and almost
+impregnable position. An attack upon the center promised no better
+results.
+
+Under these circumstances he turned his attention to the right wing,
+and, in order to obtain the fullest and most accurate information
+concerning McClellan's position and defenses on that portion of his
+line, ordered Gen. Stuart to make a reconnoissance in the direction of
+Old Church and Cold Harbor. With 1,500 picked men that pink of Southern
+chivalry immediately undertook the execution of the orders of the
+commanding general. This daring exploit was popularly known as "Stuart's
+ride around McClellan." It is a fact that he did pass entirely around
+the Union army, and, building a bridge across the Chickahominy,
+reentered the Confederate lines in safety. In this perilous expedition
+he was assisted by his bravest and best officers, among whom were Gens.
+WILLIAM H.F. LEE, and his cousin, the dashing Fitz Lee.
+
+More was accomplished than had been anticipated, and it was ascertained
+that the right and rear of McClellan were unprotected by works of any
+strength. In consequence of the information thus obtained the decision
+was formed to make the attack in that direction, and on the 26th of
+June, 1862, began that series of splendid battles which culminated in
+the retreat of McClellan's army to Harrisons Landing, on the James
+River, and the deliverance of Richmond from danger. On the 9th of June,
+1863, there occurred near Brandy Station, in the county of Culpeper,
+Va., one of the most extensive and stubborn cavalry fights of the whole
+war. Two divisions of Federal cavalry, commanded by Gens. Buford and
+Gregg, and supported by two brigades of "picked infantry," fell upon
+Stuart with such suddenness and fierceness that the attack was almost
+crowned with victory. Nothing saved him from defeat, if not from greater
+calamity, but his own coolness and that of his lieutenants, coupled with
+the indomitable pluck and intrepidity of his troopers.
+
+In this engagement that brave Georgian Gen. Young, formerly a member of
+this House, by a splendid charge with sabers, without carbine or pistol,
+repulsed a dangerous and gallant assault on the rear, while Gen. WILLIAM
+H.F. LEE, with equal courage and dash, protected the left of the
+Confederate position. In this encounter Gen. LEE received a severe
+wound, which necessitated his retirement from the field. He was carried
+to Hickory Hill, in Hanover County, the home of Gen. Wickham, a near
+relative of his wife, and here he was captured and placed in solitary
+confinement in Fort Monroe as a hostage, certain officers of the United
+States being then held under sentence of death in Libby Prison in
+retaliation for the execution of certain Confederate officers in the
+West.
+
+Gen. Custis Lee, being then a young unmarried man, on the staff of the
+Confederate President, met, under special flag of truce, representatives
+of the Government at Washington, and begged to be permitted to take the
+place of Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE, giving as a reason for the proposed
+exchange his desire to save from punishment the innocent wife and
+children of his wounded brother. The offer was declined, and he was told
+that the burdens of war must fall where chance or fortune placed them.
+
+In this incident we have a beautiful and touching illustration of the
+strength and warmth of brotherly love and of the knightly bearing of the
+Lees of Virginia. While thus detained as a prisoner of war, racked with
+physical suffering and those mental tortures which a sensitive and
+high-strung man must feel under such circumstances, there came the sad
+tidings of the death of his loved wife and two children; and thus was
+added another, the most poignant of all the griefs with which he had
+been afflicted. His old Virginia home, associated with so many sacred
+memories, had been reduced to ashes, and now there remained of the once
+happy family which formerly occupied it only the captive father. This
+weight of woe would seem too much for human endurance, but he bore it
+with the fortitude of a Christian soldier. He was exchanged in the
+spring of 1864, and returning to his division, led it in all the
+engagements, from the Rapidan to the Appomattox, where the curtain fell
+upon the stirring and bloody scenes in which he had been such an active
+participant.
+
+As a soldier he was always calm, cool, and self-possessed. Those who
+have had experience in the ranks know that the bravest and best soldiers
+will falter and hesitate when they are without confidence in the
+ability, judgment, and foresight of their leader. The soldiers who were
+ranged under the standard of Lee, believing that their noble commander
+was equal to all emergencies, followed him with unwavering trust, and
+their survivors testify to the affection in which a spirit so gentle and
+yet so brave was held.
+
+No higher eulogy can be pronounced upon any man than to say of him that
+which can be truly alleged of Gen. LEE, that he was an honored and
+trusted leader in that splendid Army of Northern Virginia, which only
+failed where success was impossible. They challenged the respect and
+admiration of the world, and of their great captain it has been said
+that "a country which has given birth to men like him and those who
+followed him may look the chivalry of Europe in the face without shame,
+for the fatherlands of Sidney and Bayard never produced a nobler
+soldier, gentleman, and Christian than Robert E. Lee."
+
+These meager details of our civil war have not been given with the
+purpose of reviving unpleasant memories or of perpetuating sectional
+animosities. They have been related because they constitute an important
+part of the story of the life of him whom we mourn.
+
+On both sides were displayed the highest qualities of the military
+leader, and illustrated as never before the pluck, endurance, and dash
+of the American soldier. They were Americans all, and, without
+distinction of sections, we can claim part of the honor of their
+achievements and partake in the pride of their great names. We have
+furnished to the world the indubitable proof that these States united
+are invincible. When, at Appomattox, our arms were stacked and banners
+furled we returned to our homes with no divided allegiance.
+
+We believe that in the safety of the Union is the safety of the States.
+And we rejoice that "the gorgeous ensign of the Republic is still full
+high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original luster,
+not a stripe polluted or erased, not a single star obscured, bearing for
+its motto no such miserable interrogatory as 'What is all this worth?'
+Nor those other words of delusion and folly, 'Liberty first and Union
+afterwards,' but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living
+light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and
+over the land and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other
+sentiment, dear to every true American heart, 'Liberty and Union, now
+and forever, one and inseparable.'"
+
+But while entertaining these sentiments, we can not, we will not, forget
+our glorious dead. The brave men against whom we fought neither expect
+nor desire such unnatural conduct. Whether the cause for which they died
+was just or not it would be idle to discuss. It is enough for us to know
+that--
+
+    They were slain for us,
+    And their blood flowed out in a rain for us--
+    Red, rich, and pure, on the plain for us;
+    And years may go,
+    But our tears shall flow
+    O'er the dead who have died in vain for us.
+
+After the cessation of hostilities Gen. LEE resumed the occupations of a
+farmer on the old plantation which he had left in 1861. The implements
+of warfare were exchanged for those of the husbandman, and following the
+plow on the furrows he commenced the work of repairing the losses he had
+sustained. In 1868 he married Miss Mary Tabb Bolling, the daughter of
+Col. George W. Bolling, of Petersburg, and they continued their residence
+at the White House until 1874, when they removed to Ravensworth, in the
+county of Fairfax, where he died.
+
+He was an able and faithful Representative, and always devoted to the
+interests of his constituents. As a fitting eulogy to his worth it may
+be truly said that it was his disposition to follow the line of duty to
+the end. The conscientious performance of every trust confided to him
+was the watchword of his life. In his conduct as a legislator he was
+never ruled by faction or interest, but the promotion of the public good
+was the motive of all his actions. While exhibiting none of the showy
+and sparkling qualities of the orator, he was distinguished for the
+possession of good judgment and strong practical common sense. He was a
+man of calm and even temperament, and was seldom, if ever, controlled by
+prejudices or swayed by passion. Those who were associated with him here
+remember his dignified and courteous bearing. No words of bitterness or
+reproach ever escaped his lips, and he never forgot what was due to
+others as well as to himself.
+
+I never heard him speak an unkind word of another, and while reserved,
+and to a certain extent formal, in his demeanor, he was a man of
+infinite sweetness of disposition:
+
+    And thus he bore without abuse,
+    The grand old name of gentleman.
+
+Both in his public and private life he furnished an example worthy of
+the emulation of all who love the true nobility of humanity. We will
+draw aside the curtain only for a passing glance at the domestic circle,
+of which his beautiful and lovely wife was at once the pride and the
+ornament. Surrounded by this devoted helpmeet and two manly sons, there
+was not a happier home in old Virginia. Warmed by the love of his big
+and generous heart, it was the abode of contentment and peace. The dread
+messenger was never more unwelcome than when he entered the portals of
+Ravensworth and made vacant forever the chair of the husband and the
+father.
+
+We can say nothing to assuage the poignant grief of the widow and
+children, but our hearts are filled with the fervent prayer that
+Heaven's choicest blessings may be showered upon them.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. HERBERT, OF ALABAMA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: In this brief tribute to the memory of Gen. WILLIAM H.F.
+LEE I should be unworthy of the friendship which it was my privilege to
+claim did I indulge in anything else than the language of soberness and
+truth. In him there was no manner of affectation; he pretended to be
+nothing but such as he was, and it is certain that if he had been giving
+directions to his biographer he would have laid down the rule announced
+by Thomas Carlyle, in his review of the life of Lockhart, that the
+biographer in the treatment of his subject "should have the fear of God
+before his eyes and no other fear whatever."
+
+Froude, as biographer, claims subsequently to have applied to the life
+of Carlyle his own rule; and all the world knows that in the portrayal
+of Carlyle's faults of character the biographer left many a sting in the
+hearts of those who had loved the great man while he lived and who felt
+that the failings on which the historian had dwelt ought to have been
+interred with his bones. The biographer who shall perform faithfully the
+task of writing the life of "ROONEY" LEE will not paint him as a genius
+like Carlyle; but, sir, if there was any single feature in the character
+of our friend that, laid bare to the world even by the bold hand of an
+Anthony Froude, would cause the faintest blush to tinge the cheek of
+family or friends, I, who knew him well, do not know what it was.
+
+It is true, sir, that it was not my fortune to be thrown in contact with
+him in the earlier years of his life. I did not know him when his
+character was being shaped and molded by the generous and refining
+influences which surrounded him from his cradle to his manhood.
+
+My personal acquaintance with him may be said to have begun only when he
+had taken his seat by my side in this Hall. But his fame had come before
+him. A representative of the most distinguished family in America, he
+had been, by this circumstance alone, conspicuous from his birth; and
+yet he came among us with not a spot upon his name.
+
+During the civil war, from a subordinate position rising rapidly to high
+command and always in the bright light that surrounded him as a son of
+the most illustrious general of modern times, he bore himself as a
+soldier without reproach. Neither in civil life nor in war had calumny
+assaulted him. Such a man, entering here upon a new career, attracted
+attention the moment he came into this Hall.
+
+It soon appeared to those who watched him closely that he was singularly
+modest. This modesty was not diffidence. He was at all times
+self-poised. On this floor, addressing himself to a public question just
+as in a private conversation among his friends, he always had the easy,
+unpretentious manner of the thoroughbred gentleman, but his modesty was
+easily apparent in an utter lack of self-assertion. He never put himself
+forward except when duty prompted, and then he did nothing for display;
+never a word did he speak for himself, but only for his cause.
+
+He made indeed no pretensions to oratory; he had never been trained in
+its arts; but his mind was broad and highly cultured, he had a vast fund
+of vigorous common sense, and he expressed himself readily and
+pointedly. With these faculties he would in time have taken rank as a
+strong debater.
+
+While broadly patriotic, he had at the same time a high sense of
+obligation to his immediate constituency, and he was patient to a
+remarkable degree. His district, you will remember, Mr. Speaker, lay
+just beyond the Potomac.
+
+It was an easy matter for his constituents to come to the Capitol, and
+naturally many of them sought office at his hands. I sat near him in the
+Fifty-first Congress. Often have I known him to be carded out a dozen
+times a day; and if he ever expressed himself to me as worried by these
+interruptions he never failed to show by what he said that his annoyance
+arose not so much from the importunities of his friends as from his
+inability to serve them.
+
+In address he was remarkably pleasing. Indeed, his manner was so genial,
+so pleasant, so hearty and sincere, that the memory of his kindly
+greeting will not be forgotten until the whole generation of his friends
+shall pass away. Who is there among his associates on this floor that
+will ever cease to remember him as, morning after morning in the
+springtime, he came into this Hall, bringing from his home a basket of
+roses to distribute among his friends? He was not seeking popularity.
+Such a thought had not occurred to him, nor did it enter into the mind
+of anyone here. He simply loved his friends, and he loved flowers just
+as he loved all things beautiful and true.
+
+Such a man could not but be, as Gen. LEE was, a model brother, husband,
+and father. In all his life nothing was more lovely and beautiful than
+his family relations.
+
+He had about him none of the arts of the demagogue; he was always true
+to himself, and therefore never false to any man. His whole walk and
+conversation illustrated that he was the worthy son of his noble father;
+that from his youth up he had profited by the precepts and example of
+that illustrious chieftain, who declared, in those memorable words
+already quoted by my eloquent friend [Mr. Tucker], that duty was the
+sublimest word in the English language. And, Mr. Speaker, let me say
+that the idea conveyed by this word duty, as taught by the father and
+practiced by the son, was far higher than that ideal, lofty though it
+was, expounded by philosophers like Plato and Cicero. With the Lees duty
+meant Christian duty.
+
+With all these characteristics Gen. LEE could not but grow and continue
+to grow as he did in power and influence in a body like this; and had he
+been spared for that long career in this Hall hoped for by his friends
+he would have risen to eminence as a legislator.
+
+But this was not to be. He has passed away from us forever.
+
+When such a man dies out from among us, let critics cavil as they may
+about time wasted in memorial addresses. We should do violence to our
+own feelings did we not pause to honor his memory; we should do wrong to
+the American people, whose heritage they are, did we not spread before
+them the lessons of his life, that the whole country may venerate his
+virtues and the youth of the land may emulate his example.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. HERMANN, OF OREGON.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: Of all picturesque spots on the face of the earth there is
+perhaps none that can rival in scenic beauty Mount Arlington, in the
+State of Virginia. Shaded by the primeval forest to the rear, and in
+front beautified by the gently sloping lawn, decorated by variegated
+flowers and artistically trimmed shrubbery, with the dark-green waters
+of the Potomac ebbing and flowing not far away and in full view the
+mighty nation's splendid capital city, stands the stately old mansion,
+with its classic columns, where nearly fifty-five years ago was born
+our departed friend and colleague, and one of the beloved
+Representatives of the people of Virginia--Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE. Born
+in Virginia, he remained a Virginian continuously to the hour of his
+death.
+
+Inheriting the martial genius of his eminent ancestry, he early aspired
+to a career in the military service of his country, and at the
+comparatively early age of twenty we find him bidding adieu to his
+college studies at Harvard and uniting with the Army in its expedition
+to Utah in 1858, where he first experienced the fatigues and hardships
+incident to the life of the soldier in the long march over the arid
+plains and through the mountain canyons into the Mormon territory. The
+prospect of inaction, with a long period in garrison, proved a
+disappointment to so ambitious a spirit, and he resigned his commission
+and returned to the domestic welcome of his Virginia farm.
+
+Soon, however, the indication of a long peace proved delusive, and the
+scene shifted. This time it was decreed that he should behold the
+terrible conflict in which one portion of his unhappy country was to
+engage in deadly array with another portion. Obeying what he conceived
+to be the mandate of his State, he followed the impulse of his feelings
+and the example of his kindred and his friends, and periled all in that
+belief. He participated at once, and most actively, in some of the most
+sanguinary engagements of the civil war. Wounded at one place, taken
+prisoner at another, then exchanged, and again in the van of battle, we
+find him following the forlorn hope until the close of the struggle at
+Appomattox, when he again returned to the old farm.
+
+He possessed the undivided confidence of his constituents. He was
+regarded by them, as he was so long observed by us in our intimate
+associations with him in this Hall, and especially in the committee
+rooms, as an intelligent and conscientious legislator, a laborious
+servant of the people, a courtly gentleman, a generous and devoted
+companion. Loyal as he was to his political convictions, he was yet the
+most considerate and the most conservative in his relations with those
+who radically differed with him. He admired frankness; he despised
+duplicity. While he was obedient to the reasonable edicts of caucus and
+party organization, we recall occasions when he was prompt to rise above
+the partisan. He was as broad-gauge and comprehensive in the study and
+performance of his duty toward all parts and all interests of his
+reunited country as he was anxious for the obliteration of sectional
+animosity and sincere and generous of heart in his social obligations to
+all of his fellow-men.
+
+The most touching remembrance we bear of Gen. LEE's goodness of heart
+has reference to his custom in springtime of bringing to this Hall from
+his farm great quantities of lovely roses, and having them distributed
+to his associates of both political parties on this floor with his
+compliments. Here we have a practical illustration that flowers are the
+interpreters of man's best feelings. In oriental lands the language of
+flowers was early studied and made expressive. As Percival says:
+
+    Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers,
+    On its leaves a mystic language bears.
+
+With Gen. LEE they bore tidings of good will to partisan friend and
+partisan foe alike. They bespoke in mute eloquence the expansive heart
+of one "that loved his fellow-men." Little, however, did he think at the
+time that these beautiful roses were especially speaking to him as
+emblems of a near immortality. Awakening from their sleep of winter,
+they were also harbingers of a brighter day to him and of the bloom of
+a glorious resurrection. The Germans have a saying that "he who loves
+flowers loves God." If this be applied to Gen. LEE, we have the blessed
+assurance that he has approached close to the celestial throne.
+
+Gen. LEE belonged to one of the most historic families of America.
+Looking back to the early settlement and the pioneer struggles of the
+peninsula and then through the plantation and colonial period of entire
+Virginia, we everywhere discover the genius, the dauntless courage, the
+independence, and the resolute patriotism of the Lees. It has been well
+said, sir, that Virginia is the mother of Presidents; and this is true.
+A momentary reflection does not suffice to demonstrate the various
+causes which combined to bestow upon the Old Dominion this prominence. A
+mature study, however, will serve a double purpose. It will teach us not
+only how Virginia more than any other State became the nursery for
+Presidents and statesmen, but how at the same time were given character
+and fame to its distinguished family--the Lees.
+
+The permanency and prosperity of states and political bodies are as much
+due to the character of their superstructures as are the strength and
+stability of the material edifice to the foundation upon which it rests.
+The Argonauts of Virginia united in a remarkable degree the pride and
+culture and learning and loyalty of the Cavaliers with the conviction of
+purpose and martial courage and discipline of the followers of Cromwell.
+First came the heroic vanguard--the men like Capt. John Smith--who
+blazed the way through the forests of the James, the York, the
+Chickahominy, and Pamunkey. Then followed the refined, enthusiastic, and
+chivalric gentlemen of the polished court of Charles I, with many of the
+clergy, who brought with them their intense loyalty to the Crown, as
+well as to the episcopal government and Anglican ritual. Among these,
+too, were the proselyted royalists; old and honorable families after the
+defeat of Charles, seeking exile in the far distant yet faithful
+Virginia. Then came those who triumphed at Naseby, and overthrew the
+kingly office and maintained the constitution of the realm and the
+integrity of Magna Charta and the Petition of Rights.
+
+The necessity for self-defense and the maintenance of order originated
+self-government and the assertion of individual right, and these united
+the widely variant elements of the community in a loyal union. It was
+the amalgamation of such spirits in Virginia in 1676 which demanded the
+right of personal liberty, of universal suffrage, and of representation;
+and here was fought the prelude of that great drama one hundred years
+later, when a Virginian, in the name of a whole nation, penned the
+immortal words which proclaimed to all the world the "inalienable right
+to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Here were the Lees, the
+Patrick Henrys, the Randolphs, the Jeffersons, the Madisons, and the
+Masons of Virginia; and here, to close the drama with freedom's
+triumphant army, was the most illustrious of them all--George
+Washington. It was from such an ancestry our late colleague was
+descended, and it was from such teachings and such examples he imbibed
+his zealous convictions of right and his sturdy regard for the exalted
+prerogatives of a free people.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. WASHINGTON, OF TENNESSEE.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: On the 15th of last October death again invaded the ranks
+of this House. The mysterious messenger laid the summons of his cold
+silent hand upon one who had immeasurably endeared himself to all whose
+good fortune it had been to know him. To-day we pause amid the rush of a
+nation's public business to mourn the country's loss and to pay a just
+tribute to the noble dead. When such a man as our late colleague, Gen.
+WILLIAM H.F. LEE, is taken from our midst, a void is made which can
+nevermore be filled. It is not his visible presence or his tangible body
+that we shall so much miss. It is the magnetism of a pure mind, the
+silent, potent influence of a spotless character, the power of a great,
+good, and noble soul to elevate and dignify all with whom it came in
+contact that will prove our irreparable loss. No man ever associated
+with Gen. LEE without feeling the better for it. To have been with him
+made you feel like one who had drawn a long deep inspiration of pure
+fresh air into his lungs after breathing the stifling atmosphere of a
+close room. His thoughts, his conversation, his ideas diffused about him
+a sound and healthy morality, that was as natural to him as its delicate
+odor is to the rose. Modest and gentle as a woman; sympathetic as a
+child; guileless as the day; a logical, well-trained, accurate mind; a
+horror of injustice; absolutely devoid of resentment; a benignant
+countenance, and a splendid physique, made him indeed a man among men.
+
+Sir, I believe not only in early training, but in the force of early
+surroundings and family traditions. Sprung from an illustrious line of
+statesmen and patriots, who had left their impress on every page of the
+history, civil and military, of this country from the colonial days to
+the present; born on those beautiful heights overlooking this city at
+Arlington, where the house was filled with the sanctified relics and the
+very atmosphere he breathed in childhood was pregnant with the
+traditions and precepts of "the Father of his Country;" his mother being
+the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted son of the
+immortal Washington; his father that world-renowned military commander,
+the self-poised, calm, patient, dignified, glorious Gen. Robert E. Lee,
+it would be unnatural not to expect to find the impress of all these on
+the heart and mind and character and life of Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE.
+
+To some my words of eulogy may appear fulsome; but having known him in
+public and in private, at home by his own fireside, as well as abroad on
+the active field of life, I know that my poor words can but fail to do
+full justice to his true worth. With him the performance of duty was
+accompanied by no harsh word or cynical expression; on the contrary, his
+calmness and uniform sweetness of manner were almost poetical. I recall
+a notable instance in the Fiftieth Congress, when, pressing under the
+most trying circumstances the passage of a bill for the relief of the
+Episcopal high school near Alexandria, he was temperate and patient.
+Standing on the Republican side of this Hall, among those who questioned
+him, his words fell softly and evenly as snowflakes on the turbulent
+House, which finally by an almost unanimous vote passed his bill.
+
+He shrank from publicity; therefore he never spoke on this floor unless
+it was necessary to push a measure intrusted to his charge; then he
+always acquitted himself with credit. In the committee and among his
+colleagues his influence was irresistible, because his judgment and
+integrity were above dispute.
+
+With him a public office was a public trust, which he accepted and
+administered for his State and his constituents without regard to race,
+color, or party affiliation. Many times have I seen him, when coming in
+from his country home in the morning, met at the depot by a dozen or
+more of his constituents, claiming his attention to their private
+matters with the Departments of the Government.
+
+The patience and tender care with which he heard and looked after each
+were paternal and pathetic. His love for little children was intense and
+beautiful. Nothing made him happier than to fill some little fellow's
+hands and pockets with candies and fruits, claiming only in return a shy
+caress. In his home is where his perfectly balanced Christian character
+shone in its brightest light. As father and husband he was indeed a
+model man.
+
+I shall attempt no extended biographical sketch; that has already been
+well done by others. Yet I can not refrain from saying that in every
+stage of his career Gen. LEE did his whole duty, actuated entirely and
+solely by the loftiest motives.
+
+A graduate of Harvard at twenty, he was appointed a second lieutenant in
+the regular Army. Often I have heard him tell of the wearisome march
+across the plains to California with his regiment, long in advance of
+civilization and railroads, when most of that journey through the desert
+was made perilous by roving bands of hostile Indians. Retiring from the
+Army, he married and settled at the historic White House, in lower
+Virginia. There he was the typical Southern country gentleman of
+refinement and culture, taking an active interest in agriculture and the
+public affairs of his community. When the war between the States
+summoned Virginia's sons to her defense he again became a soldier.
+
+Throughout the struggle he discharged every duty and was equal to every
+responsibility placed upon him. His soldiers loved and trusted him as a
+father, for they knew he would sacrifice no life for empty glory. The
+saddest chapter in all his life was when--a prisoner of war at Fort
+Monroe, lying desperately wounded, with the threat of a retaliatory
+death-sentence suspended over his head, in hourly expectation of its
+execution--he heard of the fatal illness of his wife and two little
+children but a few miles away. Earnestly his friends begged that he
+might be allowed to go and say the last farewell to them on earth. A
+devoted brother came, like Damon of old, and offered himself to die in
+"Rooney's" place. War, inexorable war, always stern and cruel, could not
+accept the substituted sacrifice, and while the sick wounded soldier,
+under sentence of death, lay, himself almost dying, in the dungeon of
+the Fort, his wife and children "passed over the river to rest under the
+trees" and wait there his coming. Yet no word of reproach ever passed
+his gentle lips. He accepted it all as the fortune of war.
+
+In all the walks of life--as a student at college, as an officer in the
+regular Army, as a planter on the Pamunkey, as a leader of cavalry in
+the civil war, as a farmer struggling with the chaos and confusion that
+beset him under the new order of things following the abolition of
+slavery, as president of the Virginia Agricultural Society, as State
+senator, and as a member of Congress--Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE met every
+requirement, was equal to every emergency, and left a name for honor,
+truth, and virtue which should be a blessed heritage and the inspiration
+for a nobler and loftier life to all those who shall succeed him.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. HENDERSON, OF ILLINOIS.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: It is not my purpose at this time to make any extended
+remarks upon the life and public services of the late Gen. WILLIAM H.F.
+LEE. Other gentlemen of the House, more intimately acquainted with Gen.
+LEE in his lifetime, are better prepared to do justice to his memory
+than I am. But having enjoyed a very pleasant acquaintance with the
+deceased during his four years' service as a member of this body, I
+desire to express the great respect which I entertained for him as a
+gentleman of high character and of noble, manly qualities. Descended
+from one of the most highly honored families in the State in which he
+had his birth, he was liberally educated, and at an early age entered
+the Army as a second lieutenant and served as such until 1859, when he
+resigned his commission and returned to the peaceful pursuits of civil
+life. In 1861 he followed his illustrious father, and entered the
+service of the Confederate States as a captain of cavalry. That he was a
+brave and gallant soldier there can be no doubt, for his military
+history shows that he rose step by step from the rank of a captain to
+that of a major-general of cavalry. In 1865 he surrendered with his
+father at Appomattox, and renewed his allegiance and devotion, as I am
+glad to believe, to the Government of the United States.
+
+I can but wish, Mr. Speaker, that such honored names as those of Gen.
+WILLIAM H.F. LEE and his distinguished father had never been led into
+rebellion against the Government of their country. But they felt it to
+be their duty to follow the fortunes of their State, and let us to-day,
+while mourning the departure of our deceased friend, rejoice that the
+surrender at Appomattox has been followed by a restored Union, and that
+our reunited, undivided country is now one of the strongest, most
+powerful, and prosperous of all the nations of the earth.
+
+As a Representative in this body, while he was not inclined to
+participate actively in the discussion of public and political
+questions, still Gen. LEE took great interest in all that pertained to
+the public welfare, and especially in that which, in his judgment, was
+in the interest of his immediate constituents. He was an able, faithful,
+and efficient Representative as well as a noble, manly man, and in all
+my intercourse with men I never met a more genial, warm-hearted,
+pleasant gentleman than the distinguished citizen to whose memory we pay
+tribute to-day. I well remember his kindly greetings, and I am sure all
+of us who knew Gen. LEE deeply regret his loss as a member of this body,
+to which he was for a third time elected by his confiding constituents,
+and extend to his sorrowing bereaved family our warm heartfelt
+sympathies.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. CHIPMAN, OF MICHIGAN.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: I have not been in the habit of speaking upon occasions of
+this kind, but it is one of the joys of my life, a very great joy
+indeed, to feel that I had a place in the heart of the gentleman whom we
+are now commemorating. I knew him very well, and in many respects I
+regarded him as one of the most fortunate men whom it was ever my
+pleasure to know. While many men here are struggling for fame, while
+many of them will leave the struggle heartsick, weary, defeated, he had
+that power, that charm, so precious and so lovely, of attaching men to
+him by the ties of affection. Little children loved him.
+
+There was a benignancy, a sweetness of demeanor, which attracted them to
+him, and while his name may not be sounded in the trump of fame, yet the
+subtile power of his gentleness and goodness has permeated many lives,
+will shape many destinies, and will have a force in the history of the
+world greater than that which will be exerted by many who will succeed
+him here. He was a soldier, yet he was gentle and kind. He was a
+descendant of a long line of honored ancestry, yet he did not believe
+that mere wealth was necessary either to respectability or to greatness.
+He was a farmer and loved the soil. He looked upon the ripened grain as
+the flower of human hope and as a minister to human needs. He loved the
+breath of cattle, and he regarded the occupation of an agriculturist as
+the noblest and the best in which a man could be engaged. He was a true
+son of the soil--hearty, simple, gentle, true.
+
+But, sir, the particulars of his career, both public and private, have
+been recounted by those who knew him well; have been recounted with
+great force, with great eloquence and propriety. There is, however, one
+part of that career to which I wish to refer. He was engaged in the
+memorable struggle which convulsed this nation from center to
+circumference and which fastened the gaze of the civilized world. I wish
+upon this occasion to say emphatically, that wherever we may have stood
+in that struggle, whatever was good and great in any man participating
+on either side of it is a precious heritage to the entire American
+people to-day. We proved that, North, South, East, West, we had not
+degenerated in the qualities which make a nation great.
+
+Grant and Lee, Sherman, Sheridan, and the two Johnstons have gone from
+us forever, and every day the green sward of peace, the flowers of
+affection, are placed above the grave of some hero of the blue or the
+gray. But I love to think that above these graves stands the Genius of
+American freedom, serene and grand, and bids the world behold how brave
+the sons of the Republic were in the past; how united they are in one
+purpose and one destiny in the present; how certain they are to be a
+people noted for reasonable liberty, for perfect union, and for
+sufficient material power to be formidable and just alike to the other
+nations of the earth.
+
+And so, sir, I come and lay the flowers of my Northern home upon the
+bier of this son of Virginia, this good citizen, this patriot, this man
+who, I am proud to believe, held even me in his affection. And when
+gentlemen here speak of the terror and the mystery of death, I tell them
+that to such a man death has no terrors, and that to the good man it has
+no mystery; for in that illimitable hereafter, which must be populated
+by all the sons of men, it must be, it will be, well with all of us.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. WILSON, OF WEST VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: The House has already heard from his friend and successor
+the story of Gen. LEE's life. I shall not, therefore, repeat it even in
+briefest outline. Enough for me to say that he was one in a long lineage
+of noted men, who by some innate force and virtue had stood forth in
+three generations as leaders of their fellow-men; that he was the son of
+the greatest of all who have borne the name, and that in early manhood
+he exhibited the soldierly instincts and the soldierly capacity that
+seemed to be historically associated with it.
+
+With such a lineage and with such a history he came to this House, and I
+believe I can offer no higher tribute to his memory to-day than to say
+that in all his associations with us here he was the embodiment of
+gentleness and modesty. Indeed, Mr. Speaker, as I now recall Gen. LEE,
+and explore with aching heart the memory of a close and cordial
+friendship with him, I can say with confidence that in the blending of
+these rare traits I have never known his equal. They were a part of his
+nature, not more illustrated in business and social intercourse with
+fellow-members than in his relations with the page who did him service
+and who learned to regard himself in some way as the special friend and
+associate of Gen. LEE.
+
+Many of us doubtless can recall the evident pride of the little fellow
+who occasionally placed upon our desks the roses which his kindly patron
+brought by the basketful in the spring mornings from his Virginia home
+to brighten the sittings of the House. And this gentleness and modesty
+were the more attractive because they were the adornment of a sincere
+and manly character. How much came to him as the rich legacy of
+ancestral blood and how much was wrought into his nature by the training
+of his youth it is idle to speculate. In both respects he was lifted far
+above the common lot of men. Of his mother it is said by those who knew
+her well that she was one of the most accomplished and at the same time
+most domestic, sensible, and practical of women. Of his father's
+influence and teaching, to say nothing of his lofty example, we have the
+striking proofs, if any were needed, in letters that have been
+published. Let me cull but an occasional expression from these
+unaffected outpourings of the heart of Robert E. Lee toward the son he
+loved so well. "My precious Roon," as he was wont to call him.
+
+When the boy was not yet ten years of age he closes a playful letter,
+adapted to such tender years, with these earnest words:
+
+     Be true, kind, and generous, and pray earnestly to God to enable
+     you to keep His commandments and to walk in the same all the days
+     of your life.
+
+A year later, writing from the ship _Massachusetts_, off Lobos, to his
+two sons, a letter full of interest to boys, he urges them to diligence
+in study:
+
+     I shall not feel my long separation from you if I find that my
+     absence has been of no injury to you, and that you have both grown
+     in goodness and knowledge as well as in stature; but how I shall
+     suffer on my return if the reverse has occurred. You enter into all
+     my thoughts, into all my prayers, and on you in part will depend
+     whether I shall be happy or miserable, as you know how much I love
+     you.
+
+Ten years later, when the son had become a lieutenant in the Army, he
+admonishes him:
+
+     I hope you will always be distinguished for your avoidance of the
+     universal bane whisky and every immorality. Nor need you fear to be
+     ruled out of the society that indulges in it, for you will acquire
+     their esteem and respect, as all venerate, if they do not practice,
+     virtue. I hope you will make many friends, as you will be thrown
+     with those who deserve this feeling. But indiscriminate intimacies
+     you will find annoying and entangling, and they can be avoided by
+     politeness and civility. When I think of your youth, impulsiveness,
+     and many temptations, your distance from me, and the ease (and even
+     innocence) with which you might commence an erroneous course, my
+     heart quails within me and my whole frame and being tremble at the
+     possible results. May Almighty God have you in His holy keeping. To
+     His merciful providence I commit you, and I will rely upon Him and
+     the efficacy of the prayers that will be daily and hourly offered
+     up by those who love you.
+
+A year or two later, on New Year's Day, 1859, he writes:
+
+     I always thought there was stuff in you for a good soldier and I
+     trust you will prove it. I can not express the gratification I
+     felt, in meeting Col. May in New York, at the encomium he passed
+     upon your soldiership, your zeal, and your devotion to your duty.
+     But I was more pleased at the report of your conduct; that went
+     more to my heart and was of infinite comfort to me. Hold on to your
+     purity and virtue; they will proudly sustain you in all trials and
+     difficulties and cheer you in every calamity.
+
+So, too, when the young lieutenant had married and settled down a
+typical Virginian farmer upon the estate left him by his grandfather
+Custis, the well-known "White House" on the Pamunkey, the home of Martha
+Washington:
+
+     I am glad to hear that your mechanics are all paid off and that you
+     have managed your funds so well as to have enough for your
+     purposes. As you have commenced, I hope you will continue never to
+     exceed your means. It will save you much anxiety and mortification
+     and enable you to maintain your independence of character and
+     feeling. It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than
+     to make our means conform to our wishes. In fact, we want but
+     little. Our happiness depends upon our independence, the success of
+     our operations, prosperity of our plans, health, contentment, and
+     the esteem of our friends, all of which, my dear son, I hope you
+     may enjoy to the full.
+
+With such counsels, glowing with a father's love and enforced by the
+constant example of a father's life, it is no wonder that the son grew
+into the manliness, the gentleness and modesty, the charitableness of
+judgment, the unconspicuous and patient devotion to duty, and the
+personal lovableness of Gen. LEE.
+
+Mr. Speaker, I might say much more from the promptings of a strong and
+unfeigned affection and from a sense of the public merits of our late
+colleague, but where there are so many to speak, it is not necessary for
+one to attempt a catalogue of his private virtues and of his public
+services.
+
+Perhaps I may fitly add a word in closing as to Gen. LEE's military
+career. From a captain of volunteer cavalry he rose on his own merits at
+the age of twenty-six to the rank of major-general. I have not searched
+the annals of war to recite his military history, for it is not the
+soldier that I have been commemorating, but I may recall a testimony not
+improper to be placed on record here to-day. I happened to be in company
+with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston about the time that Gen. LEE was first
+nominated for Congress. The old commander, who, as all know, was not
+given to effusive speech, expressed to me his hearty gratification at
+the event, and in doing so his high estimate of Gen. LEE as a man and of
+his ability as a soldier. His praise was strong and unstinted, and no
+one will question its sincerity. Mr. Speaker, what more need I add than
+to say that in all the acts and relations of life, as son and soldier,
+as husband and father, as private citizen and as Representative of the
+people, as friend and as Christian, our departed colleague left a memory
+we may well cherish and an example we may well follow.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. CUMMINGS, OF NEW YORK.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: Great as is our country, its history is comparatively
+brief. Though brief, it is exceedingly instructive. So far as there can
+be an outcome in ever-recurring events, it is the outcome of a
+tremendous social and political struggle. Sir, it hardly suits the
+occasion to refer to the origin of this struggle or to trace its
+progress, but the effort for popular government is discernible through
+many centuries. As we come nearer to our time it becomes more
+intelligent and determined. Our great Declaration was its best
+pronunciamento. Our written Constitution was its most concise
+expression. The events that produced them founded a normal school for
+patriotism. In it was perfected a new departure. Fealty to lord and king
+was supplanted by fealty to human rights. Proclaimed in the council
+chamber, these rights had to be won in the field. Yorktown completed our
+first endeavor at nation-making; we graduated masters at Appomattox. The
+first proclaimed the prowess of the Confederation, the second testified
+to the strength of the Union. Both astonished the world. Both transpired
+in Virginia.
+
+Conspicuous in this analogue of our history were the Lees of Virginia.
+They have a lineage too illustrious for praise. Its escutcheons are too
+bright for adornment. It reaches back for centuries loyal to honor and
+to truth. Him we mourn to-day was a gifted scion of that great name. His
+highest distinction was won in Confederate arms.
+
+Thank God, I can now speak of our civil war with satisfaction and not
+with reluctance. I allude to it with a satisfaction akin to that one
+feels in gazing upon a plain fertilized by an inundation. Flowers spring
+up, birds sing, and golden grain nods in the sunlight. But our civil war
+was more like an upheaval than like a deluge. It shook every timber in
+the grand structure with which we had surprised the world. Other
+governments have fallen of their own weight; our matchless edifice could
+not be shattered by an explosion.
+
+Both contestants stood guard over the popular principle and would not
+let it be mined. They were instructed in the same school and by the same
+teacher. Local privilege was as strong with the one as with the other.
+The dispute was whether the Union should endure the strain of the race
+and slavery issue. The long and vexing argument was adjourned to the
+battlefield. In no other respect was our system even threatened. This
+close connection at the root made the angry divergence begin to
+assimilate at the very outset.
+
+So kindred was it, that when Grant met his heroic opponent at Appomattox
+he says that he fell into such a reunion with him that he had twice to
+be reminded of the occasion that brought them together. He then
+conformed to it, and treated those who surrendered not as conquered, but
+as reclaimed. Lincoln went further. He found a Confederate legislature
+ready-made to his hand, and promptly permitted it to repair the
+situation. In thus mingling the gray with the blue he was neither
+color-blind nor purblind. He knew what he was doing. He desired to
+blend them, as emblematic of a more perfect Union. Possibly the
+Confederate legislature suited his purpose best.
+
+After this testimonial it looks to me something like treason to that
+great name to try to exclude Confederate worth from the annals of the
+strife or from the glory of its grand consummation. Neither act nor
+actor can be profitably spared.
+
+Mr. Speaker, the other day in this very Hall I laid a chaplet on the
+bier of a dead comrade. To-day I am trying to commemorate the virtues of
+a Confederate colleague. Both died while members of this House. That
+both were my countrymen warms my heart. As my countrymen I can make no
+invidious distinction. If living neither would permit it, and he is more
+reckless than I who would profane the memory of either.
+
+Mr. Speaker, I have said that I could speak of the civil war with
+satisfaction and not with reluctance. The occasion prompted me to say
+so. The occasion requires that, as a Union soldier, I should state my
+reasons. We learn from experience, and war is the toughest kind of
+experience. When it raised its horrid front and began its work of
+seeming devastation, we shrank back from its terrible promise. The world
+looked to see us dismembered; but the great Republic, like a daring
+cruiser, emerged from the tempest sound from keel to truck. Not a brace
+swung loose, not a plank was sprung, no spar was shivered. Within there
+had to be readjustment. Aloft the Stars and Stripes rose and fell in
+graceful recognition of the trial. The thunder of her broadsides
+proclaimed the value of this object-lesson in nation-making.
+
+We had learned a juster appreciation of ourselves as a whole people, and
+if this were all, it was worth the tuition. But we had besides garnered
+into our storehouse of knowledge vast consignments for the use of
+liberal economic government. We had infused into our laws, our language,
+and our institutions new vigor for conquest and for human enlightenment.
+Venality, that dogs great efforts, undoubtedly there was. But the high
+tide of the conflict showed no mercenary taint. On both sides it was
+urged from the highest motives of patriotism and of honor and in defense
+of the popular principle. That principle with us means local
+self-government and representative union. The rebel yell was because
+they thought local government in peril. The Federal huzza was for
+representative union. Together they were cheering the same deeply
+embedded sentiment.
+
+Those who would study the phenomenon must remember that where opinions
+approximate on parallel lines, but from some interest or sentiment
+refuse to coalesce, the passions are liable to ignite. Fusion then takes
+place in a terrible heat. The heat must be sufficient to remove the
+obstacles that the mass may become unified. We have as a result a firmly
+established representative union of local self-governments. The cooling
+and finishing process has left no flaw. Sir, what sort of a soldier must
+he be who is not proud of having been tempered in such a trial? If after
+the unmatched tournament this is not the spirit of victor and
+vanquished, then the lights of chivalry are burnt out and magnanimity is
+no more.
+
+Mr. Speaker, I know of no greater praise of a life than to say it was
+one of honest endeavor. Whatever faculties comprise it, this is the
+scope of human duty. When to this is added a conscience adequate to all
+the suggestions of a great and busy career, the sum of human excellence
+has been reached All this I believe in my soul can be truthfully said of
+"ROONEY" LEE. "Rooney" was his father's term of endearment, which all
+who knew him, without distinction of age, race, or sex, delighted to
+apply to him when absent. When present, it was always "general." A
+thorough soldier, there was an idyllic strain in his nature. He was
+essentially rural in his tastes. He loved the wheat fields and tobacco
+plantations of his native State. Its very air seemed to inspire him.
+
+The Blue Ridge was to him the perfection of natural beauty. He was warm
+in his friendships and true to his kinships. Always dignified, there was
+a heartiness in his greetings that was irresistible. He was as broad as
+his acres. Riding or driving over his vast estate or in its vicinity,
+his cheerful halloo rang in the ears of those who had not seen him, and
+the cheery swing of his hat, though paid to all, was a cherished
+compliment. If the spirit of mortal be proud, it was not his spirit.
+Courteous, sympathetic, unobtrusive, patriotic, knightly, and
+beneficent, he was a part of the soil of Virginia itself. He had the
+loving hospitality that would take all into the march of progress. How
+much of these qualities was innate, how much he drew from his high
+lineage, how much from the teachings of his illustrious father, can
+never be known, but he blended them in a halo that will not soon fade
+from his memory.
+
+Sir, others have spoken of the incidents of his life and of his unabated
+fidelity to its claims. I can not add to his record. I have met him in
+battle array; I have embraced him with a soldier's warmth. We entered
+Congress together; we have fought here side by side. It has fallen to my
+lot to eulogize him. This I will venture: It would mar the catalogue of
+bright names of which America is so proud if his were omitted from the
+roll.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. COWLES, OF NORTH CAROLINA.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: Truly "in the midst of life we are in death." There is
+scarcely one of the associates and colleagues of Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE
+who knew him here and up to the closing days of the late Congress who
+would have been deterred by the thought of personal risk from exchanging
+the chances of life or death with him for a few months; and yet, in so
+short a time the dread summoner, who soon or late is to call us all, has
+taken him from this life into that which fadeth not, neither does it
+die.
+
+    The hand of the reaper
+      Takes the ears that are hoary,
+    But the voice of the weeper
+      Wails manhood in glory.
+    The autumn winds rushing
+      Waft the leaves that are searest,
+    But our flower was in flushing
+      When blighting was nearest.
+
+Yes, death, the unsolved and unsolvable mystery, has enveloped him, and
+he has passed from our view never more to be seen and known of men on
+this earth. But yesterday the living, moving, brave, sympathetic,
+generous friend, and now, alas, but a memory--and yet a memory dear to
+all who knew and appreciated his noble attributes of heart and mind; a
+memory which has left its impress upon his fellow-men for nobility of
+character; a memory which can not wholly fade, but must influence for
+good not only his own immediate posterity, but all those who may come
+after him.
+
+My acquaintance with Gen. LEE began in the early part of the war between
+the States. It was upon a night march, as we rode with the advance guard
+of the army, where we might expect at any moment a hostile volley. He
+related to me in a low impressive tone of voice an experience which had
+occurred to him when his command by reason of surprise had met with some
+disaster. What impressed me most at the time was that, although others
+must have been to some extent culpable, he took all the blame upon
+himself, and had not a word of complaint for either officer or man who
+served under him.
+
+This trait of magnanimity, such a splendid companion to personal
+courage, I found afterwards to be characteristic of the man.
+
+Though springing from a long line of heroic and patriotic ancestors, he
+had not a particle of pretentious pride, but to all men, privates in the
+ranks as well as officers, so that they were but brave and good
+soldiers, he always found "time enough for courtesy." He never tried to
+appropriate another man's laurels, but he possessed in a high degree
+that quality of courage which is so well described by Emerson:
+
+    Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
+    To mean devices for a sordid end.
+    Courage, an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,
+    By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.
+    Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,
+    Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.
+    Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,
+    By which those great in war are great in love.
+    The spring of all brave acts is seated here,
+    As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
+
+In his friendship he was gentle and tender as one who is full of love
+and human sympathy. You might have thought him better fitted for the
+paths of peace, and yet upon the battlefield he was brave as the
+bravest. Whenever and wherever duty called him his personal safety was
+by him never considered. Often have I seen him in the thickest of the
+fight, by his presence and personal direction cheering and encouraging
+both officers and men. Though the son of the general in chief of the
+army, he took no favor by it.
+
+He never took advantage of his rank to keep to the rear and send his
+regiments in. You could always measure his estimate of you by the manner
+in which he met you. The soul of candor, his heart shone in his eye, and
+placing a high estimate upon manhood, he loved all in whom he recognized
+it. For about two years during the latter part of the war I served in
+his command, and had every opportunity to observe and know him.
+
+My acquaintance with him here was but a revival of old memories. I
+always loved him as one who--
+
+    Spake no slander; no, nor listened to it.
+           *       *       *       *       *
+     Who reverenced his conscience as his king.
+
+Who, if he committed an error or wronged any man, was swift to redress
+it; never laying his blame at another man's door. Who excelled in all
+the virtues which go to make up a beautiful private life in all the
+essentials of faithful friendship and truthful character; who lived--
+
+                   Thro' all this tract of years,
+    Wearing the white flower of a blameless life.
+
+Think for a moment how much better and happier every one would be if all
+men were earnestly to strive to live up to this high standard and how
+much of pain would be spared the world. He was one of the most faithful
+members upon this floor; faithful to the public interest, and whenever
+any proposition was under consideration which specially concerned his
+own people, they always had in him an able advocate and strong defender.
+
+He is gone! sincere Christian, loving husband and father, trusted
+friend. The life that was given him has been taken away. The widow and
+the orphan mourn, and their grief is our grief; but a merciful Father
+has given him more than he has taken away, and this strength and comfort
+through the tender mercy of our Saviour is theirs--
+
+     I am the resurrection, and the life, he that believeth in me,
+     though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and
+     believeth in me shall never die.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. BRECKINRIDGE, OF KENTUCKY.
+
+
+Mr. SPEAKER: I never had the pleasure of Gen. LEE's acquaintance, so far
+as I could recall, until he entered this House as a Representative of
+the district which lies just across the river; but there were many
+things in common between us which soon caused a kindliness of feeling
+much warmer than the frequency of our association would indicate. It
+happened that we were almost of the same age, born within a few weeks of
+each other, and that on all great questions of the day we were
+singularly alike in our opinions, and, if I may use such an expression,
+even in our prejudices.
+
+Amid all the trials of life we two found we had adhered to simple
+beliefs of those Southern homes in which we were the reared; that no
+advance in civilization, no pretense of progress, had ever obscured our
+views as to the olden beliefs and the simpler truths which had been
+inwrought into our being by the venerable fathers and beloved mothers
+with whom we had been blessed. The substratum of our beliefs was
+precisely the same. And we found that we were not ashamed of that
+substratum, that we were not given to apologizing for adhering to
+so-called "obsolete" traditions or to creeds "that were passing out of
+fashion."
+
+We also found that on the political questions of the day we were
+similarly in accord. We believed in the same political principles. And
+so it was a very rare occurrence that when the roll was called in this
+House we were not found voting, even on what seemed to be trivial
+matters, upon the same side. It was not strange that with these
+coincidences of belief and with our having both served in the
+Confederate army and the local accident of the nearness of our seats
+which threw us together, there grew up a regard greater than was
+indicated by our association outside of this Hall.
+
+If I were to select in my acquaintance him who, as much as any other,
+deserved the title, I would say of Gen. LEE that he was a gentleman. All
+that had concurred in producing him was of the best. The blood which
+gave him life, the soil out of which he grew, the kindly influences
+which always surrounded him, the molding powers to which he had been
+subjected--all were of the noblest. A son of such houses, reared at such
+knees, influenced by such powers, he passed early under the influences
+of Harvard. Later he took his young experience as a soldier under Albert
+Sidney Johnston. He began his civil life in a delicious home, with the
+love of an exquisite young wife. And in the Confederate service he was
+associated with the best and the bravest volunteers of the Old Dominion
+herself.
+
+It was not strange that the product of such influences should be a
+gentleman. All that was courageous, all that was loyal to truth, all
+that was courteous to those with whom he came in contact, all that was
+gentle and kindly was not only the heritage which he received with his
+name and his blood, but it was developed by all the environments which
+he was so fortunate as to have surround him. If I were to select a
+character of which it might be said that it was round, without angles,
+even without salient points, it would be his--not because he was weak,
+but because the calmness, the serenity, and the magnificence (if I may
+use a word that seems to be hyperbolic) of the equipoise of his
+qualities made each of them seem less important than it would have
+seemed if other qualities had been less.
+
+It would not be extravagant to apply to him the paraphrase of the
+apostolic description of a Christian gentleman--loving without
+dissimulation; abhorring the evil; cleaving to the honorable; preferring
+to confer honor rather than to receive it; earnest in the work of life,
+and careful of time and opportunity to labor; hopeful of all good;
+patient in tribulation; forbearing to resent trespass; charitable in
+thought and word, as in deed; given to hospitality; at peace with his
+own conscience and with God.
+
+We live, Mr. Speaker, in a heroic age. I constantly hear of this being
+an age of materialism, of the worship of the "almighty dollar." I
+challenge all the past, in all the endeavors of man, to reach a higher
+level, to equal the heroism of the age in which we have been called to
+perform our part--the devotion to duty, the readiness to make
+sacrifices, the willingness to give all for the truth which have marked
+our generation--the era in which we have to act our part.
+
+This simple, kindly, unaffected, modest gentleman; this man, with his
+sweet calm smile, who met us every day, passing in and out with a
+certain reticence of modesty, was himself but the type of the age in
+which he lived and of the people from whom he sprang. All modest as he
+was, he had given up everything at the call of duty. All simple and
+kindly as he seemed to be, he had at the head of charging squadrons
+captured cannon, and with more heroic endurance had lain without
+complaint in the cell of solitary confinement. He carried about with him
+in the simple modesty of his everyday life the heart that at a moment's
+notice was ready to still its beating at the call of duty; and with the
+same simplicity, with the same freedom from ostentation, with the same
+delicious smile, he would have walked into the jaws of death if it had
+become him as a gentleman to do so.
+
+To live in such an age, to be associated with such men--and, thank God,
+they are not uncommon amongst us--the bar at which I practice, the
+tables at which I sit in the kindliness of social intercourse, the men
+with whom I have been blessed enough to be called into contact, the very
+strangers who call on business at my house, rank among them men just
+like unto him. I say to live in such an age, to be associated with such
+men, to play a part, however obscure, in such drama, make life worth the
+living; make the hereafter nobler for him who has been so blessed.
+
+Mr. Speaker, to-day, in the midst of this the ending of the nineteenth
+century, we who will soon pass away, we who are but the remnants of a
+generation of war, can proudly hand over to those who shall come after
+us the example of lives that in war feared nothing but God, in peace
+strove for nothing but the good of the people.
+
+
+
+
+PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE.
+
+
+EULOGIES.
+
+MARCH 4, 1892.
+
+The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate resolutions from
+the House of Representatives, which will be read.
+
+The resolutions were read, as follows:
+
+     IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, _February 6, 1892._
+
+     _Resolved_, That the business of the House be now suspended, that
+     opportunity be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. WILLIAM
+     HENRY FITZHUGH LEE, late a Representative from the State of
+     Virginia.
+
+     _Resolved_, As a further mark of respect to the memory of the
+     deceased, and in recognition of his eminent abilities as a
+     distinguished public servant, that the House, at the conclusion of
+     these memorial proceedings, shall stand adjourned.
+
+     _Resolved_, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the
+     Senate.
+
+Mr. BARBOUR. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which I send to the
+desk.
+
+The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolutions will be read.
+
+The resolutions were read, as follows:
+
+     _Resolved_, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the
+     announcement of the death of Hon. WILLIAM H.F. LEE, late a
+     Representative from the State of Virginia.
+
+     _Resolved_, That the business of the Senate be now suspended, in
+     order that fitting tribute may be paid to his memory.
+
+     _Resolved_, That as an additional mark of respect the Senate shall,
+     at the conclusion of these ceremonies, adjourn.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. BARBOUR, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. PRESIDENT: The resolutions just read were passed by the House of
+Representatives on the 6th day of February last in respect to the memory
+of WILLIAM H.F. LEE, deceased, late a member of that body from the
+Eighth Congressional district of Virginia.
+
+Before asking the Senate to adopt the resolutions it is incumbent upon
+me, as one of the Senators from Virginia, as it is in harmony with my
+own personal feelings, to submit some remarks in explanation of their
+purpose and object; a sad and mournful duty to be performed on my part.
+
+Gen. LEE was my immediate successor in the House of Representatives, and
+served with ability and efficiency in both the Fiftieth and Fifty-first
+Congresses. He was reelected to the present Congress, but his career was
+arrested by that higher and supreme Power to which we must all yield,
+and on the 15th of October, 1891, he departed this life at his home in
+the county of Fairfax, and in the midst of his family and friends.
+
+I do not consider it necessary in this presence or on this occasion to
+go into much detail touching the life and character of the deceased.
+
+The full and eloquent tributes paid to his memory in the House of
+Representatives show the high appreciation in which he was held by his
+associates in that body, and express in far more fitting terms than I
+could employ their estimate of his character, services, and virtues.
+
+Gen. LEE came from a distinguished lineage. Two of the family signed our
+Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence, and another was
+Attorney-General under Gen. Washington.
+
+On the paternal side he could refer to his distinguished grandfather,
+Gen. Henry Lee, of the Revolutionary army, who was known as Light-Horse
+Harry, the commandant of Lee's Legion, so conspicuous in the annals of
+that period. His maternal grandfather was the late G.W. Parke Custis, of
+Arlington, the stepson of Gen. Washington, and familiarly called in his
+day the child of Mount Vernon.
+
+His father, Gen. R.E. Lee, the chief military figure on his side in the
+late civil war, was too well known for comment at my hands. It is the
+boast of some of the old baronial families of England that their
+ancestors rode with William the Conqueror at Hastings. To a certain
+extent the pride of ancestry is an ennobling sentiment, and Virginians
+must be pardoned when tempted to refer to the illustrious names which
+their State in the past has furnished to the nation. The name of Lee has
+been a household word in Virginia for three generations of men. In the
+death of Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE the State has lost one of her truest and
+worthiest sons and the Federal Government a faithful and patriotic
+Representative.
+
+Although acquainted personally with Gen. LEE for many years, it was only
+within a year or two before his death that I had the opportunity to
+appreciate fully the high personal qualities of the man and to
+understand the real nobility of his nature. The more I saw of him the
+higher became my respect and admiration. He grew upon me with closer
+contact and more intimate association.
+
+I was greatly impressed with his invariable courtesy of manner and great
+amiability and kindness of heart, to which was added a knightly bearing
+and cordiality of greeting which, combined, made Gen. LEE with all
+classes of society an imposing and attractive figure.
+
+He has gone to his last resting place, mourned by his family and friends
+and lamented by an extensive acquaintance throughout the country. He had
+filled the measure of his duties in every respect, and was entitled, as
+he passed from the stage of action, to the plaudit, "Well done, good and
+faithful servant."
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. PASCO, OF FLORIDA.
+
+
+Mr. PRESIDENT: My acquaintance with WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE commenced
+in the summer of 1854, when we met at Cambridge as members of the new
+freshman class at Harvard College. He was just then entering his
+eighteenth year, was well grown for his age, tall, vigorous, and robust,
+open and frank in his address, kind and genial in his manners. He
+entered upon his college life with many advantages in his favor. The
+name of Lee was already upon the rolls of the university, for other
+representatives of different branches of the family had entered and
+graduated in the years gone by and had left pleasant memories behind
+them. His distinguished lineage made him a welcome guest in the older
+families of the University city, and of Boston, its near neighbor, who
+felt a just pride in the historic and traditional associations connected
+with the earlier history of the country, and many of the influential
+members of the class belonged to such families.
+
+He was rather older than the average age of his classmates, and his life
+had been spent amid surroundings that had enabled him to see a good deal
+of society and the world, so that he brought with him into his college
+life a more matured mind and a greater insight than the student usually
+possesses at the threshold of his career. He had enjoyed excellent
+advantages in preparing for the entering examinations, and was well
+grounded in the languages as well as mathematics, so that he entered the
+class well fitted for the course of study to be pursued. Thus, from the
+first, he was prominent in the university, and soon became popular among
+his classmates, and his prominence and popularity were maintained during
+his stay among us.
+
+This was due not to superior distinction in any particular study or in
+any one feature of college life, but rather to his general standing and
+characteristics. He kept pace with his classmates in the recitation
+room, not so much by hard and continuous study as by his quick
+comprehension and ready grasp of the subject in hand and the general
+fund of knowledge at his command. He was of a friendly and companionable
+nature, and there were abundant opportunities in a large class to
+develop this disposition, cultivate social intercourse, and strengthen
+the bonds of good fellowship. He had been accustomed to an outdoor life
+in his Virginia home, and his manly training had given him an athletic
+frame which required constant and vigorous exercise. This he sought in
+active sports on the football ground and in the class and college boat
+clubs, where he was welcomed as a valuable auxiliary.
+
+In a large university--and Harvard had gained that rank even as far back
+as those days--there are various fields of action, and other honors are
+recognized than those marked on the catalogue or contained in the
+degrees. The graduate who excels in mathematics, the languages, the arts
+and sciences, is decked with the highest honor on commencement day, but
+there are unwritten honors given by general consent of classmates to
+those who have developed a superiority in any mental or physical
+excellence. When in after life the members of a class meet on some
+public college anniversary or gather together at a reunion and the
+memories and traditions of college life are talked over anew, the merits
+of those who excelled in pleasant companionship, in kindly bearing, in
+generous conduct towards their associates, in outdoor games and sports
+requiring strength and dexterity, are pleasant subjects to dwell upon,
+even if the possessors failed to stand among the highest upon the roll
+of scholarship.
+
+Thus it was that LEE established himself among his associates during the
+three years that he remained among us, and though he contented himself
+with a medium standing in scholarship and exhibited no ambition to gain
+a high rank upon the college rolls, he won the regard and confidence and
+respect of all his classmates and held a warm place in the hearts of
+those with whom he was most intimate.
+
+Towards the close of our junior year, in the early part of 1857, upon
+the recommendation of Gen. Winfield Scott, he received a commission as
+second lieutenant in the Army, and was assigned to the Sixth Regiment of
+Infantry, which was ordered into active service on the Western frontier,
+and took part in the expedition to Utah which was commanded by Col.
+Albert Sidney Johnston. LEE accepted this appointment, closed his
+connection with the college, and our paths in life diverged for more
+than thirty years.
+
+In 1887 we both became members of the Fiftieth Congress. I well remember
+his coming to me, with kindly face and outstretched hand, on the first
+day of our session in December, as I sat in my seat in this Chamber,
+expressing pleasure at meeting me after so many years of separation and
+satisfaction that we were to have opportunities of renewing the
+acquaintance and friendship of our early days. Though the exacting
+duties of Congressional life gave me fewer opportunities of associating
+with him than I could have wished, yet I saw much of him during the
+years we spent here together, and I shall always remember those
+occasions with satisfaction. Sometimes it was only a word in passing, a
+shake of the hand, a brief conference on public business, but whether
+the interview was brief or prolonged his manner and conduct were always
+kind and friendly and sincere.
+
+While we were together in Congress he often referred to our college life
+and its associations, and remembered them with evident satisfaction. He
+became a member of the Harvard Club here in Washington, and I recall a
+pleasant evening when he was one of the after-dinner speakers there. In
+the summer of 1888 he went to Cambridge, to revisit the old scenes and
+once more meet his friends and associates of the olden time. He attended
+the commencement exercises and spoke pleasantly at the class supper. His
+classmates who then met him will long cherish the remembrance of that
+last visit, his hearty greetings, his cordial manners, the interest he
+manifested.
+
+The renewal of our acquaintance soon satisfied me that the experience of
+life had strengthened and developed all that was good and noble and
+manly in the young student. The same warmth and cordiality which had
+endeared him to his classmates won the regard and affection of his
+associates here. The same general ability and rotundity of character
+which had made him prominent in the little world of college life made
+him useful and influential in various lines of duty in the wide field of
+Congressional legislation.
+
+During the intervening years the manly bearing, the physical
+superiority, the nobility of spirit which had characterized him in the
+earlier days had made him a leader among men when the storm of war raged
+over the land. Brief as were the days of the unacknowledged Southern
+Confederacy, his name was enrolled in bright letters upon the pages of
+its history, and his brave deeds will in future days be chronicled in
+song and story by those who admire true courage and recognize all that
+was gallant and noble and heroic in the lives of all those who fought on
+both sides of our great struggle as worthy of preservation and
+commemoration.
+
+When LEE first left college his military duties, as has been already
+stated, carried him to the far West, and he there saw some rough
+service. The Utah expedition was a training school for soldiers and
+generals, and many who afterwards gained renown and fame, under the
+different standards were there associated together in a common duty.
+Besides the leader and commander, Col. Johnston, were Robert E. Lee,
+Hardee, Thomas, Kirby Smith, Palmer, Stoneman, Fitz Lee, and Hood. When
+the Army first entered upon this service there was a small cloud of war
+in the horizon, but it soon cleared away, and the company to which LEE
+was attached was assigned to a dull and monotonous routine of garrison
+life. This possessed no attractions for the young lieutenant, and there
+were other influences drawing him towards his native State. He resigned
+his commission, returned to Virginia, and settled at the White House, in
+New Kent County, where George Washington had married the widow Custis.
+
+The plantation had descended to her son, George Washington Parke Custis,
+and from him through LEE's mother to the grandson. He soon established
+his cousin, Miss Wickham, as queen of this historic home, and he was
+here with his little family amid these surroundings, with everything to
+make life attractive, when Virginia and her sister States of the South
+passed their ordinances of secession and sent delegates to Montgomery to
+unite in the attempt to form a Southern Confederacy. LEE never doubted
+that allegiance was due first to his State, and when war followed he
+drew his sword in defense of Virginia.
+
+As long as the strife continued he avoided no danger, he shunned no
+peril, he feared no adversary.
+
+Now with a company, now a squadron, now a regiment, now a brigade, now a
+division of cavalry behind him, he went upon the march, formed the line
+of battle, or rode into the enemy's lines. Whatever duty was assigned to
+him, he entered upon its discharge with energy and vigor. In the varying
+fortunes of war he was wounded, captured, held as a hostage; but the day
+of recovery and exchange came, and he once more headed the brave
+followers who loved and honored and trusted him, and during the last
+year of the struggle he again shared their hardships and privations and
+dangers. But the end came at last, the issue was settled, the
+arbitrament of war was decided adversely, and he sheathed his sword and
+returned to the place where his home had been.
+
+The year 1865 marked a low ebb in the fortunes of the Southern people,
+and perhaps it may not be unprofitable to dwell briefly upon their
+conduct when under the shadow of defeat and disaster. The distinguished
+father of him to whose memory we are this day paying tribute went from
+the head of a great army to train the new generation of young men of the
+South in the halls of a university to usefulness in the various walks of
+citizenship. The students who enjoyed the privilege of sitting at the
+feet of this grand college president there learned lessons of
+patriotism. They were advised to build up the places left waste and
+desolate, and to look hopefully forward to a reunited country and a more
+prosperous future.
+
+Whatever public disappointment or private grief or loss he suffered was
+buried in his own breast. He advised his countrymen that the great
+questions which had long divided the country, and upon which opinions
+had been so diverse that legislative debate and administrative action
+had failed in finding a solution, had been finally settled by the sword,
+and that henceforth their duty was to the Union restored and
+indissoluble.
+
+With so illustrious an example the immediate restoration of peace and
+good order all over the South is not to be wondered at. The annals of
+all nations may be searched in vain for a parallel. It is an easy task
+for men who have accomplished all they desired to lay down their arms
+and return to their homes and resume their former avocations.
+
+The Southern soldier did all this after failure and defeat. The cause
+was lost; his efforts availed nothing. The homes of many were in ashes;
+sorrow was in every household; many were stripped of their all. The
+labor system of the country was destroyed; commerce was dead. Many had
+not seed to plant their lands. The workshop, the manufactory, the
+shipyard were silent as the grave. The arts of peace seemed to have
+perished. The soldiers were disbanded without the means of reaching
+their homes, and the few survivors of those who went forth with bright
+hopes, proud and confident in their strength, returned one by one weary
+and footsore and disheartened.
+
+The history of other nations would have suggested to the historian that
+the result must be open riots and secret assassinations, a reign of
+violence and terror, years of turbulence and lawlessness, before society
+would settle down to its former condition. But how different was the
+result. The parole upon which the soldier was released was in no
+instance violated. The situation was accepted without a murmur or
+complaint. The laws were obeyed. The terms imposed were acceded to. Soon
+the busy hum of industry was heard through the land. The arts of peace
+were revived. Agriculture and trade once again flourished, and our fair
+country began to bloom again into something like its old-time beauty and
+prosperity.
+
+There were few Southern soldiers who returned to a greater desolation
+than did our late associate, Gen. LEE. Fate seemed to have done its
+worst. The beloved wife and the two dear children who had made his home
+at the "White House" a paradise had died in 1863, while he was held as a
+prisoner and a hostage at Fort Lafayette and Fort Monroe. The place had
+been occupied by Union troops; the mansion, with all its surroundings,
+had been destroyed by fire, and, as has been well said by another, there
+was "not a blade of grass left to mark the culture of more than a
+hundred years." Had he been an ordinary man he would have sunk with the
+load of sorrow and trouble which weighed him down. But he had a brave
+heart, which defeat and affliction and disaster with united effort could
+not conquer.
+
+With the same noble spirit which had actuated his father, the elder Lee,
+he threw aside his discouragement and took up the duties of life and
+citizenship anew. He had made himself famous as a soldier; he now began
+in earnest to cultivate the arts of peace. It was no easy task, for the
+era of reconstruction immediately succeeded the war, and only those who
+were actually under its ban can realize the burdens and hardships it
+entailed upon an unfortunate people emerging from a disastrous
+conflict.
+
+He rebuilt and reestablished his home at the White House plantation. He
+was married November 27, 1867, to Miss Mary Tabb, daughter of Hon.
+George W. Bolling, of Petersburg. In 1874 the family removed to
+Ravensworth, in Fairfax County.
+
+At both these places he cultivated his broad acres and interested
+himself in all matters relating to agricultural progress and
+development. He advanced and promoted these interests as president of
+the Virginia State Agricultural Society. He represented his county for a
+term in the State senate, but declined a reelection, and returned to his
+plantation and the enjoyment of home life. After a few years of quiet he
+was called, in 1886, to a new field of activity by neighbors and
+political friends, who desired his services at the national capital, and
+he became the Representative from the Alexandria district in the
+Fiftieth Congress, and he was in his third term, when, on the 15th day
+of October, 1891, the hand of death removed him from his career of
+usefulness. For weeks his strong constitution and vigorous frame had
+resisted disease in his Ravensworth home. All that kindness and skill
+could suggest was done in his behalf, but skill and kindness were of no
+avail, and he bade adieu to home and family, companions and associates,
+earthly duties and surroundings, and entered upon his eternal rest. His
+mortal life was closed.
+
+I well remember a day spent in his company nearly four years ago, and
+its occurrences gave me an opportunity to witness the regard in which he
+was held by those among whom he had lived and to whom he was best known.
+It was on Decoration Day, in a section of country where he had seen
+service as a soldier, not far from where he had lived in his early
+childhood. He was the orator of the occasion. Many of his old
+companions in arms and members of their families were among his
+audience, and they listened eagerly as he made appropriate reference to
+the departed comrades who slept under the little hillocks near by them,
+bright and fragrant with the flowers of early summer, which the loving
+hands of woman and childhood had heaped upon them. As he descended from
+the platform he was surrounded by old and young, who thronged about him
+to shake his hand or give expression to a friendly greeting. Admiration
+and affection were expressed upon their countenances for the brave man
+before them, whose gallant deeds had been told at every fireside in the
+country around, and who was loved and honored because, in addition to
+his own merits and virtues, he represented the great leader whose name
+was the embodiment of a precious memory.
+
+I have portrayed WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE as a student, a soldier, a
+planter, a public man representing his people in the State legislature
+and the National Congress.
+
+Some have united in paying tribute to his memory because they were born
+and reared in the State which gave him birth, some because they shared
+with him the hardships and dangers of his military career, some because
+they were associated with him in Congressional life and committee work.
+But while I take a great pride in all that he accomplished in the after
+years, it is more pleasant to me to recollect him as the student, for in
+that relation I was first drawn into companionship with him; it was
+during that period of our lives that I first learned to regard him, and
+my tribute is to my classmate and friend of auld lang syne. May he rest
+in peace in the bosom of the honored State he loved so well and served
+so faithfully.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. STEWART, OF NEVADA.
+
+
+Mr. PRESIDENT: The biography of WILLIAM H.F. LEE has been furnished by
+his colleagues and associates. I do not propose to dwell upon the
+details of his public or private career, or that of his distinguished
+ancestors, who acted so conspicuous a part in the history of the
+American Colonies and in the trying times of the Revolution by which our
+independence was gained.
+
+I had the good fortune to form the acquaintance of Gen. LEE and his
+estimable wife at the beginning of the Fiftieth Congress. I was strongly
+impressed with his noble presence, and his genial, modest, and dignified
+bearing. He seemed to me an ideal specimen of true American manhood. His
+wife was a lady whose appearance at once attracted attention and whose
+qualities of head and heart charmed and delighted friends and
+associates. He was a devoted husband. His tender and gentle bearing
+toward his wife were natural and unaffected. The daily life and conduct
+of both were a conspicuous example of the benign influence of a husband
+and wife who love, honor, and respect each other.
+
+My impressions of him were so favorable and agreeable as to create a
+desire on my part to cultivate his acquaintance and know more of his
+character. We met frequently, and discussed freely the social and
+political topics which engaged the attention of members of Congress at
+the national capital. He was modest and unobtrusive in the expression of
+his opinions; but as I knew him better I was profoundly impressed with
+the scope and breadth of his information.
+
+His judgment of men and measures was as free from local prejudice and
+partisan bias as any man's I ever met. He was induced by his generous
+nature to attribute good rather than unworthy motives to those with whom
+he differed. He was honest, true, and unsuspicious. On all occasions he
+expressed attachment to the Union of the States, and manifested a
+patriotic devotion to the Constitution as the charter of our liberties.
+
+He was a brave soldier, and fought on the losing side in a war that
+convulsed the continent and astonished the civilized world; and as a
+brave soldier he accepted without reservation the verdict of the war. It
+is to be regretted that his heroic services were not on the side of the
+Union, but the conditions which placed him in hostility to the flag of
+the United States are forever removed. Every cause which produced that
+terrible conflict was eradicated and obliterated in carnage and blood.
+The horrors of that fratricidal war are now history. The glorious
+results achieved are being realized in the abolition of slavery; in the
+Union of the States restored, strengthened, and cemented; in the
+respect, confidence, and just estimation of the people of all the
+sections for each other, and in the establishment beyond question of the
+capacity of the citizens of the Republic to dare and to do in great
+emergencies what to all the world seemed impossible.
+
+To-day the virtue, the patriotism, and the renown of the fathers of the
+Revolution and the founders of our free institutions are the common
+heritage of all the people, both North and South. The gallant and daring
+exploits of Legion Harry or Light-Horse Harry Lee, the grandsire of the
+deceased, inspire the same admiration and respect in the sons of the
+North as in the sons of the South. It is most gratifying that the
+descendants of the comrades in war and associates in council who gained
+the independence and established the Government of the United States
+are again united in stronger bonds of interest, good fellowship, and
+respect than ever before existed.
+
+Generations to come will enjoy not only the fruits of the Revolutionary
+struggle and the establishment of constitutional liberty, but they will
+be blessed with liberty that knows no slavery and with a Union forever
+indivisible, and they will contemplate with no partisan feeling the
+sacrifices which were necessary to secure such results. The type of
+manly virtue of which our deceased friend was a conspicuous example is
+one of the best fruits of free institutions. His death in the prime of
+his manhood and in the days of his usefulness was a great loss to the
+country and a bereavement to his family for which there is no earthly
+compensation. But he has left for them in his good name, his
+unimpeachable character, and his many virtues an inheritance more
+valuable than gold.
+
+He has gone where all must soon follow. The wealth of his example is an
+inspiration to the living to emulate his virtues, enjoy a conscience
+void of offense, and leave to surviving relatives the inheritance of an
+honored name. Such an ambition is worthy of an American citizen, and the
+value to humanity of such a life as that of Gen. LEE can hardly be
+overestimated.
+
+Why should death be regarded as a calamity? It is the inevitable fate of
+all the living. May it not be a part of life? The hope of immortality is
+the greatest boon conferred upon the living. On an occasion like this
+words will not soothe the grief of those who are near and dear to the
+deceased. Their consolation must be in the hope of reunion beyond the
+grave.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. COLQUITT, OF GEORGIA.
+
+
+Mr. PRESIDENT: It is a difficult and delicate task to draw with justice
+and propriety the character of a public man. Fulsome panegyrics have
+often been pronounced upon the character of the dead either out of
+flattery to the deceased or to gratify the ambitious desires of the
+living.
+
+In paying a tribute to WILLIAM H.F. LEE I am not influenced by any such
+questionable views. To do honor to his memory I need only say what
+justice and truth dictate. There is little danger, in speaking of him,
+of committing the offense of exaggerated eulogy. There is more danger of
+doing the injustice of understatement in commemorating a character so
+rounded and symmetrical.
+
+As a son, Gen. LEE's filial piety was so marked as to make him an
+example worthy of all imitation by the youth of his country. In every
+post of honor or trust to which he was called--and they were many and
+exalted ones--he met his engagements with such fidelity and courage as
+never to incur censure and seldom provoke criticism.
+
+His bearing as a private citizen was of such dignity and benevolence as
+to secure the love, while it evoked the admiration, of all who knew him.
+
+His character was made up of blended chivalry and courtesy and adorned
+with the mild luster of a religious faith.
+
+He was frank and open, plain and sincere, speaking only what he thought
+without reserve, and promising only what he designed to perform.
+
+As he was plain and sincere, so he was firm and steady in his purposes;
+courteous and affable, he was not influenced by servile compliance to
+his company, approving or condemning as might be most agreeable to them.
+He was a man of courage and constancy, qualities which, after all, are
+the ornaments and defense of a man.
+
+He had in the highest degree the air, manners, and address of a man of
+quality; politeness with ease, dignity without pride, and firmness
+without the least alloy of roughness. He loved refined society, but he
+had great respect and sympathy for those who had been reared in simple
+habits and the toils of life.
+
+He possessed an even and equal temper of mind. Those who best knew him
+can testify of him what has often been asserted of his great father,
+that they never heard an acrimonious speech fall from his lips; that his
+whole temper was so controlled by justice and generosity that he was
+never known to disparage with an envious breath the fame of another or
+to withhold due praise of another's worth.
+
+Mr. President, the friends of Gen. LEE do not claim for him brilliant
+talents and the gifts of genius. It is doubtless a beneficent ordination
+of Providence that the best interests of society are not solely
+dependent on what in common parlance is called genius. Fortunately for
+the good of mankind, great gifts and powers of mind are not
+indispensable to our happiness or to a safe and salutary development of
+social conditions.
+
+Patient industry and impregnable virtue are the essential cardinal
+qualities that make the man, in the vast majority of cases, worthy of
+love and honor, and which conserve the best interests of the world.
+
+That man who in his career and relations to society has gone on from day
+to day and from trust to trust, never disappointing but always realizing
+every just expectation, it seems to me is the character who deserves of
+his fellow-men the highest meed of praise, and gives in his person and
+example the surest guaranty that the world will be all the better for
+his agency in shaping its affairs.
+
+The friends of Gen. LEE enjoy the perfect assurance that in every walk
+of life, on every occasion when duty called him, his responses were ever
+marked by a dignified and intelligent performance of the tasks assigned
+him.
+
+What higher honor can we ask for him than this: that weighty as were the
+responsibilities that devolved upon him by inheritance and high as the
+expectations which were the natural implications of this inheritance, he
+fully and nobly met them. Much as was expected of him, he more than
+realized the claims and obligations of a noble lineage. His
+fellow-citizens and his contemporaries regard his career as an honor and
+his companionship as a delight and a resource that adds poignancy to
+their grief in the loss of so loved and valued a friend.
+
+I might refer to the incidents of his military career to illustrate his
+courage and fidelity, but it may not be considered appropriate to the
+time and the occasion. It is cheering, however, to believe that in this
+exalted body there is not to be found that spirit of truculent
+uncharitableness which refuses any credit to an honorable adversary.
+
+Time, which touches all things with mellowing hand, has softened the
+recollections of past contests, and they who looked upon him as a foe
+now only remember the glory of the fight, and would join hands with us
+to weave the garland of his fame.
+
+Securely may the friends and admirers of this noble character rest in
+the belief that his name for generations to come will be enrolled in the
+glorious list of worthies that has for all time made the name of
+Virginia illustrious and among the foremost of all the commonwealths of
+the ages past.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. BUTLER, OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
+
+
+It was my good fortune, Mr. President, to know Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE
+with the intimacy of personal friendship for more than a quarter of a
+century, and I can pass no higher encomium upon him than by saying he
+had all the qualities that constitute a true gentleman, a gentleman in
+the highest and best sense. He inherited from a very illustrious and
+distinguished ancestry a prestige rarely enjoyed in this country, and
+yet he was as unpretending, unaffected, and modest as the humblest man.
+His self-contained dignity of character never deserted him. His placid,
+well-balanced, well-poised equanimity always sustained him.
+
+It would be extravagant to say he inherited the commanding abilities of
+his illustrious father, but it would be entirely within the line of a
+just criticism to affirm that he did inherit many of the highest
+characteristics and qualities of that great man. In personal demeanor,
+in that suave, gracious, considerate, self-respecting, and respectful
+bearing which give assurance of the perfect gentleman he very much
+resembled his father. He was always approachable and cordial, and yet I
+doubt if any man ever attempted an improper liberty or ventured undue
+familiarity with him. His high character and affability of manner
+protected him against such relations.
+
+In the late civil war we served side by side in the same cavalry corps
+in the same army almost continuously from the beginning to the end. I
+therefore had the best opportunities of forming a correct estimate of
+him as a soldier and man, and it is within the bounds of just judgment
+to place him among the most distinguished in that brilliant array of
+American soldiers and men of that eventful period.
+
+I recall with vivid recollection my first association with him at
+Ashland, Va., in June, 1861, where he was stationed as a young captain
+of cavalry at a school of instruction. Thence he rose by regular
+gradations to major-general of division, resigning his sword with that
+rank.
+
+Gen. LEE never aspired to be what is sometimes called a "dashing"
+soldier. He was quite content with the serious, earnest, steady
+performance of his duties. It would be no compliment to say that a son
+of Robert E. Lee and grandson of "Light-Horse" Harry Lee had courage.
+Such a quality is a necessary ingredient of such a man's character. But
+his courage was not of that frothy, noisy kind so often paraded to
+attract attention. In battle he was as steady, firm, and immovable as
+any soldier who ever wielded a sword or placed a squadron in the field.
+In his relations to his subordinates he was the perfection of military
+propriety, always considerate and kindly, but firm and impartial in the
+enforcement of discipline.
+
+Towards his equals and superiors in rank he bore himself with a knightly
+chivalry that at once commanded respect and confidence. How could he
+have been otherwise, descended from such a noble sire, with such an
+example of courtly dignity and untarnished manhood?
+
+After the close of hostilities, having discharged his whole duty as he
+understood it with fidelity and courage, he retired to his native State,
+to his farm, and there, by the same quiet, honorable, manly course of
+conduct devoted himself to the duties of civil life, establishing by his
+example a standard of citizenship worthy the great Republic to which he
+renewed his allegiance.
+
+The people of the Commonwealth of Virginia could not and did not permit
+a man of his exalted character, sound intellectual qualities, and safe,
+conservative judgment to remain in private life. His services and
+example were too valuable to the public, and he was called into the
+public service, first as senator in the State legislature, later into
+the lower House of Congress.
+
+There, as elsewhere, he soon took rank among the wisest and safest
+legislators in the body pursuing the even, modest tenor of his way with
+that faithful regard for his duty to his constituents and his country
+that characterized every relation and position of his life.
+
+Those of us, Mr. President, who were favored with his acquaintance
+recall with a respect bordering on reverence his commanding figure as he
+came in this Chamber, his courtly presence, his gentle bearing,
+persuasive conversation, amiable, respectful manners. The consciousness
+that we shall never see him again is a sad and depressing reflection,
+and a mournful reminder that it is only a question of time--how long
+mortal man can not foretell--when those of us who survive him must obey
+a similar summons, and disappear, as he has done, from the scenes of
+life forever.
+
+In paying tributes of respect and affection to departed friends I know
+how hard it is to impose restraint upon our partiality for them and how
+strong the temptation to indulge in expressions of exaggerated eulogy.
+Knowing Gen. LEE as I did, I can say of him with absolute sincerity and
+truth that he was as free from the small and petty faults of our nature
+as any man I have ever known. In his private relations he was literally
+without guile or deceit. Straightforward, honorable, just in all his
+dealings, he was a model citizen and faithful friend.
+
+In his public life he proved himself equal to every station. Zealous,
+attentive, conscientious, untiring, he met every responsibility with
+fidelity and confidence. He never disappointed a friend, betrayed a
+trust, or took unfair advantage of an opponent. In a word, Mr.
+President, he lived a perfect gentleman, discharged faithfully every
+duty of life, and died honored and beloved by his friends.
+
+Others have spoken of the life and character of this distinguished man
+more in detail, more eloquently, with more finished oratory, but I yield
+to none in the sincerity of my humble tribute to his memory.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. DOLPH, OF OREGON.
+
+
+Mr. PRESIDENT: The echoes of the voices of those who pronounced eulogies
+upon the life and character of the late distinguished Senator from
+Kansas have hardly died away in this Chamber, and we have again laid
+business aside to pay our tributes to the memory of a late honored
+member of the House of Representatives and a distinguished son of
+Virginia.
+
+These sorrowful occasions, which are deprecated by some as involving a
+loss of the time of the Senate and needless expense to the Government, I
+can not think are unprofitable to us or to the country. Surely in the
+mad rush and hurry of business we may be permitted to halt long enough
+to take notice of the invasion of our ranks by death and to voice our
+esteem for a departed member. The death of an eminent member of the
+Senate or of the House is not only a loss to his immediate constituency,
+but to the whole country, and, in accordance with a long and honored
+usage, demands from his former associates formal and appropriate action.
+
+After such an hour spent in the contemplation of the common end of all
+that live, in introspection and retrospection, who of us does not again
+take up the burdens of life with renewed resolutions to redouble our
+energies to faithfully discharge every public and private duty.
+
+My acquaintance with Mr. LEE was not intimate. I frequently met him
+socially, but he did not belong to the party with which I am affiliated,
+and no fortuitous circumstance occurred to bring us together in the
+discharge of public duties. The incidents of his life, his public
+services, and his domestic relations have been fittingly alluded to by
+others, and it only remains for me to cast an evergreen upon his grave,
+to add my poor tribute to his memory, and give expression to the
+emotions awakened by the occasion and the exercises of the hour. Coming
+from a long line of distinguished ancestors, serving with marked
+distinction in the Confederate army until the cause he championed was
+hopelessly lost, honored by the people of his State by election to high
+civil positions, in which he did credit to himself and honored them with
+a rounded character and well-developed manhood, at once the incarnation
+of gentleness, tenderness, and courage, it is not to be wondered at that
+sorrow for his death hung over his State like a funeral pall, and all
+parties vied with each other in giving expression to the universal sense
+of private and public loss.
+
+He was the son of a distinguished sire, who in life was the idol of the
+people of Virginia; but he was held in the highest esteem by the people
+of his State not so much on account of his illustrious father as on
+account of his own ability and worth. His public services and his
+blameless life, touching, tender, and beautiful, won the tributes to his
+memory pronounced by his colleagues at the other end of this Capitol.
+Fortunate, indeed, is the man who can win such admiration from his
+associates.
+
+What higher eulogy can be pronounced on any man than that in every
+station, public and private, he was true to himself and faithful to the
+people and was equal to the duties of his station? Not every man can
+become great; genius is the gift of the few, but goodness and fidelity
+to duty are within the reach of all. He has gone the way of all the
+living. He has found the level of the grave. Our words of eulogy can not
+reach him there.
+
+    Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust,
+    Or flatt'ry soothe the dull, cold ear of death?
+
+Solomon, summing up this question, said:
+
+     For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any
+     thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them
+     is forgotten.
+
+     Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished;
+     neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is
+     done under the sun.
+
+To human reason the death of him we mourn was untimely. He was born May
+31, 1837, and died October 15, 1891. He was therefore in the prime of
+manhood, and apparently had many years of useful life before him. But
+death sometimes strangely selects his victims. No season, no station, no
+age is exempt from his fatal shafts. When death comes to the aged as the
+end of a fully completed life we regard it as natural. But when death
+comes to the young, the gifted, and the promising, we with our finite
+vision look upon it as sad and mysterious. We are constantly reminded
+that--
+
+    The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
+      And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
+    Await alike the inevitable hour.
+      The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
+
+It is creditable to our humanity that at the grave animosities are
+buried, and those who speak of the dead remember their virtues and pass
+over their frailties.
+
+     Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are
+     extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping
+     sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.
+
+     The reconciling grave swallows distinction first that made us foes;
+     there all lie down in peace together.
+
+To the grave, "the world's sweet inn from pain and wearisome turmoil,"
+we are all hastening. Earth's highest station and meanest place ends in
+the common receptacle to which we shall all be taken. Dark and gloomy
+indeed would be the grave without a hope in a personal immortality, a
+belief that the soul survives the body, and that to this immortal part
+the tomb is the gate to heaven. When one feels like Theodore Parker when
+he said:
+
+     When this stiffened body goes down to the tomb, sad, silent, and
+     remorseless, I feel there is no death for the man. That clod which
+     yonder dust shall cover is not my brother. The dust goes to its
+     place; man to his own. It is then I feel my immortality. I look
+     through the grave into heaven. I ask no miracle, no proof, no
+     reasoning for me; I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality. I am
+     conscious of eternal life.
+
+Or like Byron when he wrote:
+
+     I feel my immortality oversweep all pains, all tears, all time, all
+     fears, and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep into my ears
+     this truth--thou livest forever!
+
+Death loses its terrors and the grave becomes a welcome goal for weary
+and buffeted mariners on life's stormy sea--the gate to endless life.
+
+By these oft-repeated scenes in this Chamber; by the frequent visits of
+the stern messenger to both Houses of Congress to summon a member from
+his field of labor here to the bar of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe
+above; by the constant changes going on around us in obedience to the
+inevitable law of nature, by which death everywhere succeeds to life,
+we are reminded that we shall not long continue as we now are. It is
+possible that as we are startled by the announcement of the death of an
+associate we mentally ask ourselves, Who will be called next?
+
+    So live, that when thy summons comes to join
+    The innumerable caravan which moves
+    To that mysterious realm where each shall take
+    His chamber in the silent halls of death,
+    Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night,
+    Scourged to his dungeon; but sustained and soothed
+    By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
+    Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
+    About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS OF MR. DANIEL, OF VIRGINIA.
+
+
+Mr. PRESIDENT: The late Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE was conspicuously
+connected with the public affairs of his State for more than thirty
+years. He was deservedly honored, loved, and trusted by the people. For
+two terms he represented the Eighth district of Virginia in Congress and
+he was elected for a third term, but when Congress met in December last
+his chair was vacant. Surrounded by his beloved family and bemoaned by
+all who knew him he peacefully breathed his last at Ravensworth, his
+home, in Fairfax County, on the 15th day of October, 1891.
+
+Thus, Mr. President, disappears one singularly endowed with the
+qualities that win the confidence and affections of mankind. His noble,
+honest face, beaming with intelligence and benevolence, was a true index
+to his nature. Strength of character and sweetness of disposition made
+him a man of mark and influence in all the relations of society. His
+life was full of noble uses. Respect for the rights and tenderness for
+the feelings of others stamped his conduct on every occasion. He
+fulfilled Sidney's definition of a gentleman, "high thoughts seated in a
+heart of courtesy," and I know of no better legacy that a father could
+leave his household or a patriot leave his country than such a record as
+he has left to attest his virtues.
+
+I will not penetrate the sanctity of the home bereaved by his death. The
+fond and noble wife and the sons who miss the husband and father, who
+was representative to them of life's dearest boons, have in his memory
+whatever earth can give them of consolation, and they learned from none
+more than from him to look above in sorrow and affliction.
+
+As a Representative in Congress Gen. LEE was diligent in the service of
+his constituents and in behalf of policies which commended themselves to
+his favor. He seldom spoke, but it was not because he could not speak
+well and forcibly. He was not noted as the peculiar champion of any of
+the great measures before Congress, but it was not because he did not
+comprehend them nor take great interest in them, and I doubt if there be
+many Representatives who have had a more wholesome or further-reaching
+influence.
+
+His fine character and engaging manner made friends for him and for his
+people. His excellent judgment had great weight in council, his
+political ideas were eminently liberal, and his tact and attention
+reached results where perhaps more aggressive qualities would have been
+ineffectual. On one occasion that I recall he was urging the passage of
+the bill to pay for use and occupation of the Theological Seminary near
+Alexandria during the war. He became the mark, in doing so, of inquiry
+and badinage, and some one, meaning to disparage the claim by
+intimation that the clerical professors of the institution had been
+enemies of the Government, called out to him, "How did they pray?" He
+answered instantly, "For all sinners." His ready pleasantry put
+everybody in good humor and the bill was passed.
+
+Gen. LEE was a representative man in a larger sense than that of
+official designation. He was a representative country gentleman, and the
+flavor of his native soil was in his character. He was born in the
+country, at beautiful Arlington, with the woods and fields and streams
+and mountain vistas around him. He lived in the country all his life,
+and died in the country, at his home in Fairfax County, an owner of
+land, loving the land; his home, a fine old country seat of colonial
+pattern, the scene of domestic peace and love and hospitality; his
+voice, that of the good people of his vicinage; his life, daily tasks,
+intermingled with daily studies and contemplation; his aims, those of
+the patriot and Christian, his country, God, and truth.
+
+Gen. LEE was a representative American of broad gauge and vision. Many
+of us--and I have felt myself amongst them--are quite provincial. We
+know our own neighborhoods and their people, and we grow slowly into
+knowledge of other sections and their people. Local caste, prejudice,
+interest, and bias warp us and minify our usefulness. Gen. LEE was not
+of this kind. There was no sectionalism in his caste, no bigotry in his
+creeds. His strong local attachments, natural to a true nature, neither
+dwarfed his opinions, soured his reflections, nor darkened his vision.
+His was a ripe mind and his a generous nature. He understood men,
+because he understood mankind. He had respect for all men, because he
+respected manhood. He dealt considerately and justly with all men of all
+races, creeds, opinions, and aspirations, because he respected men and
+because he had a good man's sympathy, with the hopes of his race, his
+country, and humanity.
+
+I would not speak of him as a brilliant man. He was more. He was a wise
+and good and true man. Gen. LEE was a representative of our racial
+history. The story of his family began when his remote ancestor rode
+with the Norman knights at Hastings. Another led a company of English
+volunteers with Coeur de Lion on the third crusade to the Holy Land,
+and was made the Earl of Litchfield. Still another was that Richard Lee
+who, intense loyalist as he was, became a commissioner from Virginia and
+urged Charles II to fly for refuge to the Old Dominion when his throne
+was trembling under him. Quarrel and fight as we may and as our fathers
+did before us, the continuity of race achievement is unbroken.
+
+The growth of race ascendency and the expanse of race domination are
+unceasing. The picture is unique and the nation one, however the theater
+enlarges, however the scenes shift, however the actors differ in the
+drama. Gen. LEE was a representative democrat or republican, for I use
+the words in their generic sense. His grandfather was that young
+American Capt. Henry Lee, the ardent youth of nineteen, who at the head
+of his company of Virginia horse reported to Washington for duty when
+the first army of Continentals were ranging themselves upon the plains
+of Boston. He was the first to break the record of his line for loyalty
+to the Crown of England in espousing the cause of American independence,
+the first to draw his sword for the new king proclaimed at
+Philadelphia--the sovereign people.
+
+As "Light-Horse Harry" Lee he goes down to history and renown;
+distinguished in general orders of the army and in promotion from
+Congress for one exploit, and for another with the thanks of Congress
+and a gold medal. In statesmanship as in soldiership, he was the friend
+and follower of Washington. In the Virginia legislature, when the
+resolutions of 1798 were debated, he took sides against them, and in his
+speech you may find nearly all the arguments which are used in favor of
+the Federal construction of the Constitution. When Washington died he
+was a member of Congress, and pronounced upon him the memorable words,
+"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his
+fellow-citizens." He was one of those virile men who could write, speak,
+and fight.
+
+When Gen. Winfield Scott led the American Army to Mexico there rode by
+his side Capt. Robert E. Lee, the son of Henry Lee, an officer of
+engineers upon his staff. He was four times brevetted for gallant
+conduct and came back famous. When Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston led the
+Utah expedition in 1858 there marched on foot in his columns Lieut.
+WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH LEE, the son of Robert E. Lee. He was not a
+soldier by education, but by instinct. A graduate of Harvard College and
+the stroke oar of his class, he was well prepared for military life, and
+the third of his line to bear arms for the United States. But no war
+ensued; the canker of a long peace was settling on military aspirations.
+
+Lieut. LEE resigned, married, and settled on his farm, the White House,
+on the Pamunkey. With the prattle of little children around his knees
+and pastoral scenes before him, his prospects were those of domestic
+tranquillity and joy.
+
+What a rush was there to the standards when war broke out in 1861!
+Americans acted like Americans. They divided in conviction. They did not
+differ as to the method of dealing with conviction. To divide was the
+propulsion of conditions, to fight the law of blood. Not one of the Lees
+had provoked war, but not one stood back. The whole family of Lees
+became representative soldiers of their people; Gen. Robert E. Lee
+commanded the greatest of the Southern armies and his brother became an
+admiral of the Southern navy. His sons and nephews were soldiers and
+sailors.
+
+The nephew of Northern identity kept place with the North. The more
+numerous class of Southern identity kept place with the South; the boy,
+a private in the ranks or cadet on shipboard, the young men leading
+companies and regiments and winning brigades and divisions, the sire and
+chief commanding all. Their names are interwoven with war's dread story
+and splendid deed. Not one had any reproach; not one struck a blow below
+the belt. The woman, the child, the captive found a fortress in the hand
+of Lee, the foeman met his peer. The history of two continents and many
+centuries was written over again on fields of blood.
+
+WILLIAM H.F. LEE raised a company of cavalry at the beginning of the war
+and surrendered as a major-general of cavalry at Appomattox. He fought
+his way to his rank and suffered all of war's vicissitudes save death.
+His men believed in him and followed him. He was wounded; he was twice a
+prisoner; he was held as a hostage in solitary confinement with death
+impending. His wife and his children died while he lay wounded and in
+prison. Whatever man may suffer he suffered to the uttermost. Amongst
+his first acts when he emerged from prison was to visit, shake hands
+with and congratulate the Federal officer for whom he had been held as
+hostage. He was a representative Christian, void of vindictiveness and
+uncomplaining; he made no outcry of pain; he sealed his lips to
+reproach.
+
+I knew him well, respected him profoundly, and loved him dearly. I have
+often heard him speak at gatherings of old soldiers and on a variety of
+occasions; sometimes those of turbulence. I have marveled at his
+self-poise and reserved power. Never once did I hear him say ill of any
+man, nor allude to his own sufferings or deeds, nor utter words of
+bitterness. He took his lot as it came to him, as a man who does the
+best he can and leaves the rest to the Disposer of events. His
+conscience and his human sympathy, like his soldiership, were instincts,
+and his Christian creed was the sum of his intuitions. Gen. LEE was a
+representative of the times in which he lived, eccentric in no opinion,
+even-tempered, wise, cautious, prudent, steadfast, and gentle; he sought
+to be useful rather than to shine. He took deep and active interest in
+all that concerned his State.
+
+As a State senator he could be relied upon to support liberal and
+progressive measures; as president of the State Agricultural Society he
+did much to excite interest and develop improvements; as a trustee or
+visitor to educational institutions he rendered valuable practical
+service to the cause of popular enlightenment. In political life he had
+sharp contests; friend was surprised and opponent discouraged when
+emergency brought forth the reserve forces of his character and ability.
+If modesty cloaked his powers in retirement, opposition elicited them;
+and the fluency, tact, and ability with which he discussed issues and
+met exigencies were remarkable in one whose experiences of early life
+had separated him from civil pursuits and training.
+
+If I have spoken of Gen. LEE's ancestral distinctions, it was not
+because either he or his people have ever presumed upon them. On the
+contrary, no people whom I have ever known have rested less of claim
+upon their antecedents or less sought to substitute reminiscences for
+achievements. The independent, honest, and simple Republicans and
+Democrats of our country justly despise a pretender who boasts the
+shadow of a name; but that of which the individual may not boast becomes
+his country's pride; and I count it great glory to our country that its
+institutions have nourished and the highest characteristic of our race
+that it has produced successive generations of men who preserve the
+continuity of sterling virtues. I count also as the star of hope for
+this grand Republic that a distinguished soldier of a lost cause becomes
+the beloved statesman of the cause that won, and finds around him the
+old-time comrades and old-time foes, all his friends and each other's
+friends united in the service of our common country.
+
+No nobler words have been spoken of the late Gen. LEE than by soldiers
+who fought against him, and I respond to them with honor and praise. The
+production of men who may maintain the rights their fathers won, and
+ever grow in liberal thought, noble character, and worthy achievement is
+the highest mission of republican institutions. From Hastings, A.D.
+1066, to Boston in 1776, the name of Lee was blended with the glories of
+our fatherland. But from Boston to Appomattox it grew the more
+illustrious with grander opportunities. Victorious through a track of
+eight hundred years to the 9th of April, 1865, it has been still more
+victorious since--rising to the height of harder trials and sterner
+tasks and grander duties than those of leading embattled lines. The
+glorious nation of which he was a type and the glorious band of which he
+was the son come forth from ruin and desolation on one side, moved by
+gracious institutions and magnanimous sentiments upon the other, taking
+their place in the reunited columns of parted friendship, cementing anew
+by adaptive virtues the broken ties, marching again with the mutual
+magnanimities of companionship at the head of column.
+
+If a race that has won liberty and made it a birthright lets it slip
+away through hands of weakness or deeds of folly, and if the self-made
+man of to-day loses the vantage ground of his life work with his
+fleeting breath, the careers of nations would be brief, the story of
+liberty would be a nurse's tale, and the careers of individuals would be
+vanity of vanities. The prepotent blood that made an empire of an
+insignificant island and stamped its language and its laws upon it made
+also here the most splendid Republic of the earth out of a savage
+wilderness and assimilated to itself all tributaries. That Republic
+delegates its unfinished tasks to a posterity that will lift higher the
+monuments of its greatness and strengthen the foundations of its
+endurance; and in the lives of Gen. LEE and those of his worthy
+compatriots of all sections who unite as friends the moment conditions
+cease that made them foes, I see exemplified the noblest qualities of
+our kind and read the auguries of prolonged peace, progress, happiness,
+and stability.
+
+
+The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the resolutions
+submitted by the Senator from Virginia.
+
+The resolutions were agreed to unanimously, and under the last
+resolution the Senate (at 4 o'clock and 20 minutes p.m.) adjourned until
+Monday, March 7, 1892, at 12 o'clock m.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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