Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-05-12

.oENALOH DLdND, Of HIh6lNl1.
Among the killed at the recent terrible ac-
cident, in Richmond, was member of the
State Senate, from Princc Edward county,
James w. D. Bland. He was colored
man. Since his untimely death, the Rich
mond papers have contained numerous al
lusions to his chala acter as a man and pub
lie officer, and we have been profoundly
struck with the tone of the tributes thus
paid. In the State Senate, on Saturday,
resolutions were reported in reference to his
death They came from a committee, of
which the Chairman was Lieutenant Gov
ernor John L. Marye. of Fredericksburg,
one of the most ardent of Southern men.
supporter of the rebellion throughout its
continuance, and during the process of re-
construction, as he himself stated, the earn
est political opponent of his dead colleague.
The resolutions, thus introduced, were
preceded by this preamble
"Whereas, James W. d. Bland, repre-.
sentative ia this body from the fourteenth
senatorial district, lost bis life by the APPALLING
catastrophe in this Capitol on the 9Th in
stant and whereas the deceased had won
the esteem and kind regard of every scna-
tor by the intelligence, candor, and concli-
atOry spirit which he exhibited in performing
his official duties, by his constant c0opera-
lion in all measures tending in his judgment
to promote the welfare alike of The white
and the colorcd races, and his earnest efforts
to draw the two races into relations of mu
tual benefit and good will"
The first resolution read that the Senate
"ResOived, Tnat this body sincerely and
deeply laments the uniimely deccase OF this
Senator, and considers his removal from the
Senate at this junclure Of the affairs OF the
state grave public loss."
In his remarks supporting the resolutions,
Mr. Marye spoke with such warmth and
earnest feeling that his speech deserves uni
versa remark. When Mr.. Marye, with his
political antecedents, his undoubted preju-
dices, and his present wide differences of
opinion, thus testified to the eminent merits
of Il black man, we can but pause and re-
joice in the facts he states, and the candor
and faithfulness with which they are stated.
He said
"The deceased was well known to me
before l met him in this Senate. We served
together through the long, the exciting, and
important labOrs of the Constitutional Con-
vention which framed the existing organic
law for Virginia. labored, day by day,
with all the energy of my mental and moral
being, 10 resist and prevent the political
aims and efforts sought to be accomplished
by Senator Bland and his associates. / had
thus a most favorable opportunity to OBJ
serve the intellectual and moral character
istics of the deceased
"And, now, here, standing as we do IN
mental view of his freshly. made grave, de-
sire to record my testimony that, amid all the
struggles, and trials, and temptations of that
eventiul session, l never witnessed an act
nor heard word from him, unworthy of an
honest and true man, laboring TO achieve
what he believed to be polit cally and NOR
ally right.
has been heightened by his official course
and his personal conduct and demeanor in
this body.
"Whlle he has asserted and claimed, with
manly but modest courage, what he deem
ed just and expedient for the welfare of his
own race, he has been considerate of and
| respectful towards the views and interests
of the white race, and we have all been i'm
pressed with the conviction that he has
faithfully endeavored to promote the true
"nu p. p.,n nunen' me,A'o y, po'u'
"n'ie ."o'e oi''Aeus Vi 'he na'ion whose
Tuioi anu h's'oiy anu conu',,on' SENATOR
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auu p'''er pieJuu'ces' 'noSe WHO so s'rehu-
ous'y oppose .nenh "us' surrey pause anu
consider what is thus said of their capabili-
ties. and what thcy NAV hereafter claim ms
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