The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-04-11
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A SPECIMEN.

SPECIMEN.
The House convened for the consideration OF reso-
buttons In respect to the memory Of the Hon. Glib
Gubmuh, deceased, late a member, and the Hon.
Luntip Notepmls spoke thus:
"Mr. Speaker, am invited TO address the House
upon the resolutions before 1t, but had not been,
the promptings Of my heart would have caused me
TO take part upon this suspicious occasion, knowing
the deceased so well as l did, respecting MIN 30
much and loving him az friend who stlcketh tighter
than brother-naw when he Is financially broke.
swell could 1t be said Of him, sir, that them that
loved him best knew him most and nobly could he
I'LL tile ideal OF the immortal bard OF Avon who
trltey has written Noncloved him but to praise him,
| none praised him but the caucus
"our deceased friend and brother, sir, was born
In an Eastern State amid the signing and the groan
ing OF rough Atlantics heaving pillows which thun
dered.in awful tones upon the shore close unto the
house and roof which frat sheltered his infant head,
but, sir nj an early date In his career possessed OF
wish and desire to see this planet we nhabit, and
Knowing he could not go East unless he went In
boat or swimmed It, he turned his youthful energies
| toward and into the boundless West and took root
and grew verltabe dower of the prairie, which no
fire could singe, ne buffalo could trampe down, no
tornado could uprOot willy savage, hdcOus In sin
and wickedness and feathers and breechclout could
destroy.
"Sr, inasmuch as he was ushcred into this mum
dane sphere at very early period ofhs existence 1t
| may be said with equal fairness and truth that he
was born precocious, and although have heard 1t
| denied most vehementy that he was born with
teeth yet sir, 1t is record that he bit his mothers
breast when he was small, little, dlmnutlve child,
and 1t Is to be most sincerely hoped that violate no
! family confidence when I impart the fact to this
House that at his birth he within one of being
| a twin which was considered very remarkable.
"When, sir, the rosy hours of childhood had
passed from him and were no more forever, and he
had settled in the boundess West, and the of his
early manhood looming up and going aloft In Its
splendid and sublime luminosity, began and COM
menced tn tnge the East with its blooming and
blnshing ascending rays as the golden tint of its
coming encircled the horizon, our dead and de-
ceased friend gazed upon it with his eagle eye and
gave that sun to understand that he was ready for
the fray, aid dared TO launch his bark OF destiny
upon the broad bosom of the future, and nobly did
he equip himself for that fray right then and there
aforesaid.
"It cannot he said, Mr.. Speaker, that our friend
and brother had no faults, but 1t can be truthfuly
and truly asserted before and in the presence of this
House that his faults, fainRs, and weaknesses were
both of the heart, head, and hand, and again the
words of the poet hurled from the dark clouds
OF darkness and despair as we all know that tO
is divine hut to forgive Ia human, nevertheless and
Notwithstanding who, ali, who Is without faults? Or
to put ii palmer, sir, 1t can be asked in the
presence of the great enemy OF all our kind, human
kind and animal Kind and reptile kind and bird and
fish kind, who, which, what Is faultless7
"Sir, the notorious deceased came TO public office
or public Office came unto him as natural as his ven-
cradle mothers lacteal nuid whose gray hairs are
bent In sorrow to his tomb by the hillside where the
night wind ahurrylng athwart the will stop In
Its mpeuOus course sufficiently long to take seat by
his bier and dance requiem over-the newly turned
sod and breathe prayer into his casket and remain
long enough to mourn for the fallen provided 1t
l.nn
OF some contagious disease which In Its dreadful
course has swept away myriads and numerous
| human beings yet unborn.
sit would be worse than Idle, Sir, 1 was TO tell
his brothers here-if was to enumerate and sepa-
raely name all the duties, political and otherwise,
which he so faithfully done for his constituents with
out hope OF fee or reward; It would be Huperhuous
was to enlarge upon and specify all the good that
emanated and terminated and waxed good and Rlorl-
Gus anu grand and mighty from our beloved and de-
ceased dead friend; 1t would be as foolish
as It would be to praise the glores OF the
midday sun in the zenith as 1t blushingy weaves
the crimson robe of the evening about him and lies
down to pleasant dreams far, far In the mighty west
where the weary cease from troubling and the
wicked are at rest, but, SIR II can be said that wher
ever this dead man was placed he did his whole duty
to God and man and everybody else, and MIR.
Speaker. can be further said that standing and
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