The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-14
THE LATE J. N. DUNLOP.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT TO HIS
MEMORY

| NE .HOHl
Unanimously Adopted bv the Madison
| Ward Democratic Convention Remark,
| bv Mr. Lyon G.. Tyler. Eulogistic Of the
| Life and Virtues Of the Deceased.
At the meeting of the Madison Ward
Democratic convention held last night
Mr. Lyon G.. Tyler offered the following
resolutions in memory Of the late Mr.
James N. Dunlop
| RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, at time when his services
would be invaluable to his State and
country Hon. James n. Dunlop has been
cut off in the prime of his life and genius
and summoned to the bar of the Great
Judge of all. there 10 receive the reward
of well.spent and patriotic life. We, the
Democratic citizens Of Madison Ward, in
convention assembled, do hereby resolve.
|. That in the death of James y. Dun
| Top Virginia has lost valuable citizen
the Democratic party loyal member
and untlinching leader; his acquaintance
tender and constant friend; and his
family noble and chivalrous protector.
2. That the sympathies of this meeting
be extended TO his bereaved family in the
awful affiiction with which his sudden
death has visited them.
In offering these resolutions Mr.. Tyler
said
Nh Chairman In offering these reso-
lutions, which have Just been read, felt
That was not only indulging my attach
ment as a friend, but WAS discharging as
Democrat the obligations imposed upon
me in common with my party to make
public acknowledgment Of the services
of Mr.. Dunlop, so lately lost to his fell
low citizens of this ward, which was his
home.
No eulogy is necessary here upon the
virtues of the deceased, Mr.. Chairman.
We all knew him, and we all esti
mated him at his true and
honest worth. But | think | may
say without fear of contradiction
that if there ever was knight, Cheva-
iier Bayard, fit to do noble things and to
die if necessary in noble doing then
James n. Dunlop was the peer of any
whose name is preserved upon the golden
pages of tradition.
He was taken away in the morning Of
his life when the dew drops OF hope
hung trembling upon every thought that
blossomed in his brain and were refracted
with rainbows of ambition by the busy
imaginations of youth But 1t is a mis-
take to suppose that his life was reck-
oned by the number of his days. The
poet says that twenty years of
Europe is worth cycle of Cathay," and
twenty years of Dunlop's manhood was
worth sixty times sixty Of many who
like Hampton soft crabs, spoil before
they are dead, or pass from the life to
death like wind that sounds through
ruined cells" For twenty years bis brave
voice was lifted in behalf of Virginia,
for twenty years il sounded like a clarion
all over the State in defense of her
That swarmed like locusts TO devour the
substance of the land.
Despising the sweets of the "fleSh pots
of Egypt scornng the rewards of
apostasy, and loyal to the last to the old
state, and TO the old Traditions OF purity
and honor that SO eminenlly distinguish
Virginia in the past, he was nevertheless
content to wear the simple livery of
Democrat and was rs proud In keeping it
spotless, stainless and pure as the honest
and upright judge in discharging The
duties of his office, keeps the ermine that
he wears.
Mr.. Chairman, such an example can
not die. Tha blood of the martyr is the
seed of the church The courage of
Dunlop in defense Of his principles
creates an epidemic Of nobleness. For
although the leader of the fororn nope
may fall in the breach his body often
furnishes his companions bridge to en-
Ter the citadel in triumph.
We may say of Dunlop as the English
'ather said of his son, g" would not give
my dead son for any living son in Chris
tendon" Mr.. Chairman, Dunlop is dead,
but Virginia rejoices that he lived
Mr.. Tyler, remarks were received with
loud applause, and after he had concluded
the resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed.