The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-22
FOURTH EDITION
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Memorial Services In Honor OF
Henry Winter Davis.
WASHINGTON. February %.

UASdlNdION, rBOTudIy lls
Before IL o'clock the galleries we're crowded.
in anticipation ofthe memorial exercises in honor
of the memory of the late Hon. Henry Winter
Davis. The flags above the Speakers desk we're
draped in black, and other insignia of mourning
were exhibited. ....
A fine portrait of the honored dead peered
through the iolds OF the National banner, above
the Speakers desk. The Marine Band, during
the hour preceding the opening of the exercises,
occupied the auteroom of the reporters gallery,
and furnished appropriate music.
At twelve o'clock the Senators and the Judges
of the Supreme Court entered, preceded by
Chief Justice Chase, and many officers of the
army and Others followed. The President is not
present, but Secretary Stanton and Secretary
McCuloch entered the hall before the opening
exercises. Senior Romero, the Mexican Minis.
ter, Governor Fenton, of New York, and Judge
Advocate General Holt are among the dgnita-
ries represented.
After a prayer by the Chaplain, the Declara.
ton OF Independence was read by Hon. Edward
Mcpherson, Clerk of the House. After the read
ing Of the Declaration, followed by the playing
of dirge by the band, Hon. Schuyler Colfax,
Speaker Of the House OF Representatives, rose
and sai1:-
Ladies and Gentlemen-The duty has been de-
volved on me OF introducing to you the friend
and tellow-member mere of Henry Winter Davis;
and will detain you but moment from his
address, to which you will listen with saddeued
interest The world always appreciates
and honors courage = the courage of
the amphitheatre, at the stake and Oh the rock:
the courage of patriotism which inspired mil
lions in our own land to realize the history
Of Curtius and to fill up with their own bodies,
il need be, the yawning cha5m which imperilled
the Republic; the courage of humanity, which
is witnessed in the pesthouse and the hospital
at the deathbed of the homeless and the prison
cell of the convict But there is a courage of
a statesman besides and nobly was it illustrated
by the statesman whose national services are
commemorated to-day. InheXibly hostile to
oppression, whether of the slave on Ameri-
can soil or of Republicans struggling in
Mexico against monarchical invasion; faith
full always to principles and to liberty,
championing always the cause of the do own-trod-
den; fearless as he was eloquent in his avewals,
he was mouned throughout continent aud from
the Patapsco to the Gulf, the blessings of those
who had been ready to perish, followed him to
his tomb. 1t is fitting, therefore, though
dying q private citizen, that the nation
should render him such marked and unusual
intellectual triumphs; and have great pleasure
in introducing to you, as the orator of the day,
Hon. J. A. J. Cresswell his colleague in the
Thirty-eighth Congress, and now Senator from
the State of Maryland.
Mr.. Cresswell commenced by appropriate refer
ence to the memories of the day and the times
and in whose honor 1T is observed, and to the
recent memorial services OF the second Father
of his Country, and then proceeded to
give O brief biography of the early lite of
Mr.. Davis, his struggles for an education
and a profession, with record of the subsequent
events of his remarkable career, his political
opinions and his labors, and his triumph of
freedom and patriotism.