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further mark of respect to Mir. Colquitt's s memory, the senate, at $40 o'clock, ad- journed until tomorrow.
 The speeches of all of the senators were of higher order than are usually heard in the senate upon similar occasions. All bore testimony to the speakers affection for the man and respect for the politician and the statesman. The two Georgia sena- tors spoke from knowledge gained in long and intimate personal association with the deceased statesman.
 MT. Gordon said that character is strong est and best which, subjected to tempta- tions, manfully resists and comes through the furnace of trial with it's fiber still strong and it's original purity still pre- served in active simplicity and sweetness.
 MT. Colquitt was both strong and great. Subjected during his eventful life to quick and trying vicissitudes of fortune and in- heriting name honored and loved in his state and section, he not only preserved his personal integrity and ilustrious name untarnished, but increased their lustre by blameess life of long, devoted and bril-. liant service to the church and society, to his people and country.
 Alfred H. Colquitt was surrounded in early manhood with all the temptations which accompany wealth. His large plan- tations brought him princely income, which enabled him to gratify every wish and indulge in almost every luxury, yet his life and manners and bearing never
 
 modesty which are the most striking evil dences of gentle natures and noble breed- ing. His hospitality, while almost bound less, was so cordial and dispensed with such grace and absence of ostenta- tion as made restraint and embarrassment impossible and gave to his guests the feel ing of restfui ease and the perfect freedom of home life. His roof furnished shelter to the suffering; his purse gave help to the needy, and when the revulsions incident to the civil war came upon him, as they came to all his people, he shared with them their distresses and poverty uncomplaln- ingly and bravely.
 should feel that my analysis of this phase oi his life were indeed incomplete if 1 should fail to illustrate 1t by reference to his relation to the colored race. Accus- toned during great portion Of his lie to the command and control of large body of slaves, always with kindness and jus tice, his care for them and his interest in their welfare was unabated when, through their freedom, his own fortunes were shat tered. On the plantation, in the church and in the school house his volce, his coun- sell and example were those of a friend.
 Encouraging 2 that lowly race to higher life and to more earnest efforts in prepara- ton for the exalted duties of citizenshlp, if his ascending spirit were cognizant of the benedictions which followed its flight, it thrilled with additional joy at the tributes paid to his memory by the tears and lamentations of former slaves.
 It is no exaggeration to say of him, MT. President, that few men with career so long and brilliant have lived a life so pure and blameless and left legacy so rich and inspiring to the people and &C., cepted of God.
 in the bosom of his native state we have laid him, and on his chosen hillside, where the music of the Ocmulgee's waters and the weird songs of the pines will chant above him their everlasting anthem of praise and benediction.
 MT. Walsh said of MT. Colquitt: s'I knew him we'll, and l respected him for his many excellent qualities of head ana heart. He was man of gracious and noble presence. He had a brave and kind heart and pure and noble spirit. He was a man of strong religious conviction. He did not believe that things happen just so in this world. He believed that all things here are governed and divinely ordained. He believed that even in this life as a man planted should he reap. He was a man of faith and of works, and he believed that faith and works were essential to eternal salvation; 80 did he believe that even in this life success is best attained by faith and good work and by devotion to principle.
 The Hon. Alfred Holt Colquitt followed in the footsteps of his illustrious father. He filled every office in the gift of his peo- pie with fidelity and ability. He was statesman, a soldier and patriot, dis charging every trust and duty imposed on him by his state and country. Like his father, he was possessed of fervent piety and professed and good religion. He was filled with genuine charity and exempli- fled in word and act that great right of religious freedom which is the birthrieht of every American citizen. In him was found an ardent defender of the principles of civil and religious liberty, upon which is built the most just and the most perfect government ever devised by human wisdom. In his young manhood he served his country in the Mexican war and filled one term In the representative branch of congress. In the war between the states he foug ht for the independence of the Southern Con- federacy, and gained merited distinction for his courage aud devotion.
 He was one of the knightliest soldiers of that mighty host tbat challenged by its heroic deeds the admiration of the world and won the homage of mankind. In his chivalric nature there was no bitterness. When the end came that brought wreck and ruin to him and his people he walked in the paths of peace, and by pre-. cept and example endeavored to build up the waste places and turn the minds and hearts of his countrymen to the government of their fathers, cherishing no animosities, but respecting and honoring the integrity of the union.
 illustrated his state and country. Full of years and honor, he has been gathered to his Fathers mansion, leaving behind him a record of duty nobly done.
 THE TOWN DESTROYED