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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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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMORIAL ADDRESSES ON THE ***
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+Produced by Barbara Tozier, Sigal Alon and the Online
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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 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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