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1 guished consideration can bring to the
i faithful public servant to him crate
fully and spontaneously: his fellow citizens
admired and esteemed him. Yet only
i after he had gone hence did the full
measure of the nations loss come to be
adequately felt. We can almost adopt his
| own touching Language. uttered but a few
months before his departure:
Too often the world does not know
I that it has received largess from a hand
Of more than imperial bounty until It
comes time to lay garlands over a face up
| turned in the blindness Of eternal sleep.
| This beautiful monument Is the tesu-
n1ony of an undying affection into the
! the sacred pale Of which we may only
enter with silent reverence and chastened
steps. The loss we deplored brought a
| domestic affection, the sundering of ten
der ties and obliteration of mutual hopes.
| to which the glory we commemorate can
offer meager compensation. In a sense,
| then. this conservation is a. private So
lemnity. But in a larger sense, no occa-
sion can be void of public interest and
significance which within the state he
loved and honored, or anywhere whiting
the enlarged circumference of the nation
he helped enlarge and ennoble, pays re-
gard to the character and career Of Cush-
| man K. Davis. He is his countrys now,
and flames. Even the fragrance of near
est and hottest love must mingle with the
! incense of grateful countrymen.
His Services to His Country.
| It is an abiding disappointment that
the last resting place of her most Illus
trlous son was not located within the
state which loved him so devotedly and
whose annals he had so conspicuously
adorned. But If that was not to be, GER
tainly no filter. spot could have been
chosen than this majestic Arlington, pan
theon of heroes, holy Of holes to the
hearts of American patriots forever more.
His fame was national; his services were
for the nation. for mankind. for the whole
commonwealth of humanity. In the glow
OF his gallant youth he fought for the
union. for emancipation, for the unstained
nag and for an irdivisible country. In the
splendor of his masterful maturity he
helped in highest spheres Of influence to
organize, to conduct, and to conclude
a war. which vastly augmented the
nations prestige and infinitely extend
the horizon wherein it is permissible, nay,
mandatory, that man shall die for men.
Tribute From Senator Hoar.
All the characteristics of Senator Davis
were pronounced and commemorate. Sem
ator HOar truthfully says:
He was everywhere a gentleman. He
met every occasion with a simple and
quiet courtesy. There was not much Of
Difference in it; there was no yielding or
supplfcation tinaidity in it But there
is something more than this in the temper
OF which am speaking. The man who
possesses it gives tone to every circle in
which he is found
He was a man Of strong religious convic-
tons. as many Of his public and private
utterances freely testify. Among others,
this:
i know human history, and know that
IN the first century something happened
that destroyed the old world and gave
birth to the new The resurrection of
Jesus would account for that change, and
do not know of any other adequate So
luton that has ever been proposed.
The Foe Of Political Corruption.
He was the living embodiment of genu-
Inc. practical civil service reform and the
implacabe foe of political corruption. In
none OF his campaigns was an office prom
lsed or an unclean dollar expended by him
or for him; in many Of them he was con-
frosted by venal methods employed by UNI
scrupuleus rivals. His ultimate success
is a great credit alike to his eminent merit
and his unpurchasable constituency. De-
tailed records of the duplicates he met and
-
place in history is secure and in the light
OF that unchallenged exaltation the archie
tects Of treacherous conspiracies to throt-
tie and supplant him shrivel into disre-
garded insignifcance. Let those who ques-
ton the survival of political purity take
courage from the advancement of Senator
Davis. He was recognized and sustained
and elevated without any of the appliances
of wealth or arts of the demagogue.
His soul was the sanctuary Of great de-
signs and grand ideals. He walked the
mountain ranges in his thought; he COM
passed the world in his intelligent percep-
tons. He commanded homage by the
brilliancy Of his genius. the breadth OF his
culture and the integrity of his purpose.
He frightened the flag with the luster OF
his achievements; he wrote new pages Of
glorious history.
Here, after LIES tolls and joys and con-
ficts. he sereneiy sleeps. Here Hnger
vo1celess echoes Of his high renoWn. And
with this comely monument we mark the
spot around which cluster memories and
loves and inspira lions which can never die.