The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-11-20
FALLEN IN THE
MIDST OF BATTLE
KNOW We NOT, THAT A PRINCE
HAS FALLEN THIS DAY IN
ISRAELI
FINE TRIBUTE OF Mr.. FIGUERS
Declares That Senator carmaek Was
The Greatest Man Tennessee
Has Produced.

the midst of the battle
Know ye not, that there is
Prince, and great man fallen thi
day in Israeli
These words were spoken thre,
thousand years ago. by King David
the first in regard to his much loved
friend, Jonathan, and the second IL
regard to his enemy, Abner, who haC
espoused the cause of the house Of
Saul. and who had just been assassin
ated as our friend and marty was.
ION last Monday afternoon, when
the news that our friend had been
assassinated, was flashed over the
wires, in every direction, the voices
of the people from every city town
and hamlet in the State, and from our
whole South land, that he loved so
well. went up with an accord. Know
ye not that there is a prince and
great man this day fallen in Israeli
"E. W. Carmack was a great man.
/ deal in no mere platitude or hyperb-
ole, when l say that, in my opinion,
and that Of thousands Of others, Ned
Carmack was the greatest man that
Tennessee has ever produced From
the hall of memory | have examined |
and passed in review, the names of !
were to the manor born, and those
that were sons by adoption. | have
not overlooked the names of Jackson,
Polk, Johnson, Bell, Haskell, Gentry
and others, all great men, but our
hero and martyr had more of the
elements of greatness than any of
them, measured by the standard of
greatness, as recognized by the en-.
lightened world today.
Many Of these worthless were great ,
in some particular point of character. :
Carmack had every element of char
acter to make him superbly great. HI
had a splendid intellect, unf1inching :
moral courage and an undaunted and =
chivalric physical courage. With h
these elements of character, he was
a formidable antagonist for all people +,
opposed to civic righteousness. No G
wonder they feared him, and desired o.
his removal from the State. h
He had the intellect to discover, II
and the courage to expose the ma ~
,hinations Of the evil ones in the
State. He is not dead but only at
est. His spirit is yet abroad in the q
and. He laid the foundation and the
emple will now be built-a temple
more induring than brass or marble.
He lives in the beauty of his I'M
elfish and patriotic example He ri
xists in the grateful remembrance
t his contemporaries, The flashes
rom his great life will penetrate far
1to the darkness of the future.
Iothers, in Tennessee, will teach 81
heir children yet unborn, to lisp his
anne with love and reverence; and lat
ausing underneath the shadow of the ca
lonument, to be erected, say, this is St'
memory of a noble martyr, who err
ave his life for the homes of the COZ
omen and children of the land. ne
"The workmen perish, but the work the
pes on, and Carmack like one of old, ITO
i'll accomplish more in his death than 70
his life. Let us be true to carry for
! to completion the work so master ma
lily begun by him.
"Ned Carmack was a great States In
an He was not a politician. He ol'
new nothing of the tricks and dema
ogy of the politician. He was a D
ose student, and with his matchless AZ.
telect, studied the institutions Of
S country. He mastered the consti
tion and laws as a science and this
why he was at all times a potent
ctor in the national halls of legisla- OE
On. It was this that made him the
ual of any man, In debate, In both
fuses of Congress; and made them
spect him as a man of unusual abil-
gar
when he was first elected 70 Con- LEI
ess, his scat was contested b. Hpe
an Of much ability, The house was sldi
rgely Republican and his opponent lh'
Is more nearly in alligument with Jua
at party than Carmack. Sas
He made the argument for him Gee
IT, That speech is q recognized was
lssic II abounded in flashes Of IN
thos, wit, humor inyectiye, and, at ~
mes. irresistible eloquence, and logic.
5 speech won his seat From that IT
y he was recognized as the peer of
Y man in that branch Of Congress,
imposed OF men of national reputa.
n.
4 was IN the Senate Gallery several T
ars ago, and party. who was point BAN
ont IN mo tho nrominenf Senators regi