The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-09
WREATHS OF LOVING WORDS.
Senator's Pay Tribute TO The Memory
Of COlQuitt.

Filled With Beautiful Thoughts-The
News of Colquitt's Death Received
with Tears and Lamentations by His
Former Slaves Few Men With a
Career So Long and Brilliant Have
Lived a Life So Pure and Blameless.
ceased as a Soldier, Statesman and
Patriot.
Washington. Jan. Sin the Senate to-
day a resolution was offered by Mr.. Nor
gan and agreed to. calling on the Presi-
dent for copies Of reports and documents
relating TO the enforcement of the regu-
lations respecting fur seals and to the
claims of the British government on ac-
count of the seizures Of sealing vessels
in Bering sea.
The conference report on the military
academy appropriation bill was presented
and agreed to.
Mr.. Lodges resolution as to the with
drawal of vessels of war from the Ha-
wallan Islands, was laid before the SEN
ate.
Senator Palmer took the floor to oppose
the resolution, and his speech bristled
with sharp and pointed sayings. Thus.
after arguing that it was absurd for the
Senate to demand reasons for the Pres
idents action, unless it had also the
right to compel an answer, he declared
that organized curiosity was often simply
organized impertinence, and he asserted
that the President was maintaining the
most rigorous policy Of non-intervention
in the affairs of the Hawaiian Islands.
AS to the existing government in those
Islands. he said that it was an infinite
| impudence 10 characterize it as a re-
| public 1t was an aristocracy based on
| wealth.
just as Senator Aldrch, rep, of Rhode
| Island got the floor to Criticise the Pres
| idents recent utteranccs on the inter-
/ view furnished to the Southern Associated
/ Press the morning hour expired, and tho
resolution lost its place of precedence,
! and was again RENTED to the calendar.
Resolutions We're offered by Mr.. Pugh
/ expressing the Senate's profound sorrow
! at the death, at the last session, of SEN
ator Colquitt of Georgia, and suspending
the business of the Senate TO enable the
| senators to pay a proper tribute Of regard
/ to his high character and distinguished
| public services.
/ Eulogies were pronounced by Senator'S
! Gordon, Turpie, Hill, Pasco, Mills, and
! Walsh.
The speeches of all Of the senator's were
/ Of a higher order than are usually heard
/ in the Senate upon similar occasions. All
/ bore testimony to the affection of the
/ speakers for the man and respect for the
| politician.
! The two Georgia senators spoke from
| knowledge gained in long and intimate
! personal association with the deceased
| statesman.
NJ f-o~1.~ ~ot5. ssrrt,,4 ato....e, l.
strongest and best, which, subjected to
temptations, manfully resists and comes
| through the furnace of trial with its fiber
| still strong and its original purity still
| preserved in active simplicity and sweet
ness.
Tested by this standard, Alfred Holt
COlquitt Of Georgia was both strong and
great. Subjected during his eventful life
10 quick and trying vicissiuudes of fortune
and inheritHg a name hOnored and loved
in his state and section, he not only pre-
served his personal integrity and illus
trious name untarnished, but increased
their luster by a blameless life of long,
devoted and brilliant service to the
church and society, to his people and
country.
Alfred II. Colquitt was surrounded in
early manhood with all the temptations
which accompany wealth. lis large plan
tatons yielded him a prncely income,
which enabled him to crafty every taste
and to indulge in almost every luxury yet
his life and manners and. bearing never
lost that beautiful simplicity and winning
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 ostentation, as
made restraint and embarrassment i'm
possible, and gave to his guests the feel
ing Of restful ease and the perfect free
dom of home life. His house furnished
shelter to the suffering, his purse gave the
poor aid and when the reverses incident to
the civil war came upon him, as they came
to all his people, he shared with them
their distresses and poverty uncomplain-
ingly and bravely.
Il should feel that my analysis of this
phase of his life we're indeed incomplete
if l should fail to illustrate it by a refer
ence to his relation to the colored race.
Accustomed during a great portion of his
life to the command and control of large
bodies of slaves, always with kindness
and justice, his cares for them and his in
terest in their welfare was unabated when
through their freedom, his own fortunes
were shattered. On the plantation, in the
church and the school house his
voice, his counsels and example
were those of a friend, en-
couragihg the lowly race to a higher
life, and to more earnest efforts in pre-
paration for the exalted duties Of citizen
ship; and if his ascending spirit were cog
nizant of the benedictons which follow
its fight, it would be thrilled with an ad-
ditional JOY at the tributes paid to his
memory by the tears and lamentations of
former slaves.
1T is no exaggeration to say Of him,
Mr.. 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 peo-
pie and accepted of God.
In the bosom of his native state we
have laid him on his chosen hillside,
where the music Of the Ocmulgee's
waters and the weird songs of the pines
VIII chant above him their everlasting
anthem of praise and benediction."
Mr.. Walsh said of Mr.. Colquitt: 81
knew him well, and I respected him for
his many excellent qualities of head and
heart. He was man of gracious and
noble presence. He had kind heart and
a 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