The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-23

'E. Lee if he had surrendered the oom- mand to Gordon or Longstreet when Ap- pomattox became clearly ineyitablef
 George Gray was born at Newcastle Del, May {, 1840. and has resided there ever since. I suppose his was 8 Presby- terian family, for he was sent to Prince ton forlan education, and was graduated in the class of 1859, when he was nine teen, receiving the degree of A. B., and three years later the degree of A. M. He studied law in his fathers office, and then attended the famous law school of Harvard university. In 1863 he came to the bar. He was twice attorney general of the state, and ranked with the fore most lawyers of tho North Atlantic Sea- board. He was a delegate to the demo- oratio convention of 1878, 1880 and 1884, in all of which he strove for the nomina- ton of Thomas Francis Bayard. the greatest democrat and the greatest statesman Delaware ever produced.
 W hen Bayard left the Senate to be sec- retary of state in MT. Clevelands first cabinet, Delaware sent Gray to supply the vacancy in the Senate, and he ranked with the ablest and best men in that body during the entire fourteen years he was a member of 1t. In 1885 it had not yet come in fashion to pull down great statesmen and put, in their stead hope less medioorities. And here just a little pendantry may not be resented.
 When that big, bluff. course. vulgar, rude, beef-eating, ale-guzzling English man, Robert Walpole, was master of Great Britain, the ono man he was de- termined should not be his rival in the state was Bolingbroke. By caprice of fortune Bolingbroke had lost on the throw of the dice when Queen Ann died. He attempted to restore the Stuart and would have succeeded if the old Queen had not been so precipitate in dying. The house of Hanover oame in. Bolingbroke went into exile, became primo minister of the pretenders court without a realm, was tried and convicted of treason and attainted.
 Old walpole had as much good nature as he had good sense and suffered Boiling broke to return to England and put him. self at the head of the tory party-out of parliament. Macauly cites tho fol- lowing array of talent who assailed the administration. Bolingbroke, Carteret, Chesterfield, Argyle. Pulteny, wyndham, Doddington, Pitt, Littleton. Pope, Swift, Gay, Arbuthnot, Fielding, Johnson, Tompscn Akenside and Glover. Of these Bolingbroke was the most brilliant, and the one Walpole most feared. Though a tory, Bolingbroke's political writings in that ''great Walpole battle" would serve for a great deal better democratic plat form than any we have had since 1892. The spirit of liberty and the arraign- ment of arbitrary power Is magnificent in every paper, couched in the brilliant literary style of the foremost political writer of even that splendid age. He was even a greater orator than he was a writer and that was why Walpole, who might have sent him to the scaffold, held the attainder over him to keep him out of parliament.
 Walpole lost and was kicked upstairs" to the House of Lords, where his rival in the Commons, Pulleny, soon joined him also kicked upstairs" But Bolingbroke gained nothing. He died an attainted traitor. How he ohafed at being exclud- ed from the public debates Is shown in