The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-02
HENDRICKS.
BY JAMES wHITcoNB RILEY.

Pride of thy westland, and loved of the nation
Leader invinciblel Ruler most wisel
Fevered nor flushed by the throng's acclamation,
Steadfastly poised as star in the skiesl
Paths that were night to us
Thou didst make bright to us
Frightening still, till the transcendent shine,
Swiftly withdrawn from us,
Now thou art gone from us,
Haloes thy deeds with glory divine.
Versed as thou vert in the lore of the ages
Voiced as master in lofty debate,
Thine was an eloquence historys pages
RustlinZly whisper in vain to relate.
Mute there the wonderful
Pathos, or taunderful
Flashes of denunciation-not jeers
Silent the dutiful
Scorn, and the beautiful
Tribute of tremulous sobbiug and tears
III.
Thine, then the need of peoples affection
Born above factional wrangle and fray;
Still warmly homed in the hearts recollection,
Naught of thy virtues shall vanish away:
Still in security
Rest, in thy purity
Fixed as thy monument. wiring above
Ay, and outwearing it,
All time declaring it
Bronze shall outbrave not the legends of Lowell
Senator Turpie made the address of the
day.
SENATOR TURPIE's ADDRESS.
Senator Turpie's address was very fine
one. The leading characteristics Of the
dead statesman, together with the main
points of his public career, were clearly
brought out. In conclusion he said:
Thomas A. Hendricks was truly a man Of
varied learning and attainments, full, also, of
that wisdom unborrowed from the schools
patient, kindly, persistent, brave not distrust-
espoused, to put all that men lawfully may to
the hazard; and of fixed fidelity to principle
which brooked in its course neither despair nor
discouragement.
Faultlessly discreet in conduct. equally un-
disturbed by the clamor of dissent or favor,
with calm, clear, intuitive discernment In the
adaptation of means most excellent to the
nobleSt ends, with almost marvellous provision
of effects; though he purposed more, yet he
accomplished much for his country's welfare
Had he lived in the age of classic antiquity
an apotheosis might have followed his demise.
In one supremely critical 1uncture of our ma
tional affairs for many days, like Fabius of old,
he walked and safely kept the field of peril
meriting in this the simple, yet august decree
of the conscript fathers; HE hath deserved
we'll of the republic"
We unveil here to-day this monumental
figure, reminding US OF his life and presence;
in the goodly fellowship of these storied EN-
bems of the administration Of law, and of his
tory, wherein he bore SO large a part His fame
depends upon material yet more enduring, the
fabric of his words and works, ennobled by the
patriotic aims to which they related.
For it may well be believed there was some
thing about such a one, of that within, which
passeth show. He bad genius-the genius Of
statemanship; alike Dehtting the majestic
semblies and the highest councils of free
people.
TO genius belongs the hereafter. In the
vast halls Of the future its greetings are heard
its audiences are held posterity throngs to the
rece ption In their midst it moves, clad with
radiant nimbus of glory, and neither time, nor
chance, nor change, nor things past nor present,
nor things TO come, of whatever moment, may
dim or tarnsh its unfading splendor
At the conclusion of Senator Turpie's ad
dress brief speeches were made by Cows.
Hill, Francis and Campbell, and after this
the asseublage dispersed