The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-20
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eral Garfield and the guardian of his chill
dren, having assumed this position from
his friendship for General Garfield, which
entai!ed considerable trouble upon him in
the settlement OF certain property rights
in Fairfax county, but which resulted in
quite a snug little sum for the children.
During the Civil War Mr.. Tucker was
Attorney General for Virginia. and held
the position during the entire time, re-
tanning il on the advice of General Robert
Z. Lee. who said to him that his proper
place was not in the field. but in the
discharge of the duties to which the peo-
pie had assigned him. He was one of the
counsel for Mr.. Davis when the indict-
ment was made against him for treason,
but the case never came 10 trial. In the
Supreme Court his most notable argu-
1nents were those in the Virginia debt
cases and the defence OF the Anarchists
Harvard, Yale, and William and Mary
Colleges conferred the degree of LII. D.
on him.
He was the President of the American
Bar Association in the nineties. One OF
the most powerful addresses he ever de-
liyered was on the Evidences OF ChFls-
tianity, in 1856. before the Y. NJ. I. A. OF
Alexandria He was thirty-three years Of
age at that time. but it has been pro
nounced by competent critics as one OF
his greatest efforts.
His speech before the Alumni of the
University of Virginia. in 1851, on the
Rights of Secession, when he was only
twenty-eight years of age, was bound by
Judge Holman. CT Indiana. with speech
of Mr.. Lincoln against the Rights of Sc
cession. because. as Judge Holman often
said. he regarded the two as the ablest
expositions Of the two doctrines that had
ever been put forth in this country.
WITH THE UNIVERSITY.
Mr.. Tucker came TO Washington and
Lee in 1910; was elected 20 Congress in
1874 and came back to Washington and
Lee in 1888. remaining here until his death.
He was q warm personal friend of General
Robert e. Lee. and had many interesting
"reminiscences of him. His posthumous
work Tucker on the Constitutions, is
the only legal work that he ever pub
lshed which has been prepared by his
son, Professor Henry st. George Tucker.
and published by Callahan e. Company, of
Chicago.
He was a delegate to the Breckenridge
Convention in 81. the Seymour and Blair
Convention in '6S. and delivered an address
before the General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church in Philadelphia a few
years ago. He was a warm personal
friend of Judge jeremiah S. Black, Judge
Charles Ruckeew, VIM. NJ. Stenger and
other notable lawyers of Pennsylvania.
THE ODE.
Two lustrous names, which, linked to-
gether, seem
AS priceless jewels linked by virgin gold,
Two stars that blend in one transcendent
To deck the armament of fame. and hold
The torch to light the path which they
must tread
Who would, unveiled, the face of glory
For high we find, on scrolls of worthiest
virginia.s sons. her Washington and Lee.
The academic halls. which classic make
This valley, hemmed by mountain ranges
high.
Fulfil the quiet dreams of one who brake
The tyrants power and hailed in free
dom's sky
A nations natal sign, as pure, as bright,
Who midst the stir of war and tolls OF
State
Did pause to care for Earnings sacred
light
The hero whom the world has christened
Great.
Here came kindred soul. in after years;
His country's sun had set behind the
cloud
His counuy's hopes were shrined in pa
triots tears,
His country's cause was draped in glory's
Shroud-
But nobler thus, he lived to show the
That human virtue seems, at least. the
OF human chance, that though his flag
were fured
Its honors would outvie the stress of
fate.
On guard they stand, at learning's mystic
door,
Twin sentinels. TO ask the countersign
OF all who seek TO cross the threshold DER
And enter where is truths eternal shrine.
Tho rich the gifts the numbered years
have brought
To your collegiate home-surpassins dear
Are these imperial mem'ries interwrought
With ev'ry stone OF ev'ry structure here.
@. Mother loved, thy many sons,
In whom the blood of freedom runs.
Have wandered far and wide.
Rut still they turn their thoughts to thee
Aud still their home where'er they be
Is near thy side
Here. where the mountains. one by one,
keep kindly watch Ger Lexington!
FROM north, from south, from east from
west.
The children nurtured at thy breast,
Return. to-day, their love to tell
And give to thee with willing heart
This stately hall. the culptors art
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