The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-06-09

] tAN IT, 81 if-ANAat' 0tftth h'l 'tAtNt Aat'
/ II a narrative from birth To death
81 the life aud career as strange as dc
tiou. OF James 2. George late a senator
/ from the state Of Mississippi A bare
outline Of bis LIE beginning with the
sehoolboy working byaey and studying
LAT night By drelight down to the mo.
Iment when he refused beforehand a
third election to a seat in the United
states SENATE, reads more like fiction
| than biography
lit furnishes an excellent example Of
what ability unaidcd aud courage and
Industry uuCayored could work out for
their poysassor in the field Of equ0l OPP
portunitv furnished to al IN the earlier
and better days Of the republic. Suffice
lit for me to say that from small begin
ninps he had made of himself an eX
haustive law writer q great prosperous
and rich law practitioner and planter.
an able Judge whose opinions convinced
by their very statement successful
PARTY organizer Of a whole race in his
native state ut critical and semircyo.
Imaonary period great senator whose
excellence Of Judgment especially in
dealing with cases OF American consti
futional law, was everywhere recog
nized
Nor shah givea chronological sched
Iule Of his acts Of public service which
would require q much larger space than
II have at my disposal for their correct
setting down. All these things
have Been said and will be said By others
older and more able to say them than L
i shall only utter few words Of the
kind which one Of two friends left be.
hind may speak at the closed grave Of
the other who has moved away from
among men leaving behind him only
the lifeIess and buried caslet which
once bodied him forth to their eyes.
Ishall prefer to speak Of him as
knew him as something present the
product, a. an men are Of heredity, en-.
yiroument, and conscious purpose.
His heredity was simple. ln his veins
flowed the blood Of generations Of bard
dgbtiug bard worl ms oii tillng PIP.
glish,speaking ancestry
From # came clean healthy natu
raj intellect housed in q great healthy
warlize body both body and mind ca
pable Of indefinite growth. expansion
and cultivation with nothing abnormal
nothing degenerate. weakly sentiment.
al. or maudlin abouteither There went
with them power and courage to face
either the quick threat Of danger or the
slow wearing Of hardship
His environment you all know 1t
was that of bis time, bis class, his see
tion and it's institutions lie shared to
the fun its masterful virtnc to some
extent its preiudices He met fully all
It's tasks Of suffering and achievement
His purpose was to do honestly and
with conscientious and uushriukiug la
,..,-.,.zos, III, ,rl,.toyer ff,s fiIBe and ifs
,,rai,e,ns ~, demanded 10 be- done. and IL
it was political or legislative a- TO
do II with The confident hope 0f making
bis yorl,,pg roptribnte 20 tha better
,.e aftbo oon5ifiop If tine ma
tboas nasses whose lives are 30 Isolated
..5 ~, NJ, minds ara So absorbed IN the
5..,a,sr, II De,seless manual occupa.
,,,
~ eo,,+or aeorge Mr. Sneaker was
t,i.a. t,rr ,,re,t mar did he have
49, ~ ,,,ou Mn rfe achieved
o"y.'., T..-l ancideat Il came by
~ ,.''''I :, 80, o,,t.rod bts mind TO
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laOof was iii'N'ei'7 W 'Hs 'i'7
marvellous
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