The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-30

For the benefit of it's thousands Of
readers, who were unable TO he pres
ent at I4ynchburz on Wednesday last
at the unwilling of the statue erected
3 in honor Of the memory of John War
wick Daniel. The Virgtnian liz to-day
printing In full the splendid tribute
paid the man whose memory the Old
Dominion viii lever keep green IN az
fectionate remembrance. by Professor
y William NJ. Thornton. the orator OF
the day.
Long close friend of Senator
Daniel and having a comman dor
English equalled by few. Professor
Thornton was peculiarly hned to ex-
press the sentiments of Virginia and
virginians on such an occasion. The
address follows:
Text Of Address.
We are met today TO do honor to
the memory of great Ntrsinian.
n always his home-the center OF MS
deepest affection, the focus of his
strongest activities Here ne grew TO
manhood; here he lived and loved and
iabored: here he died; and here at last
he was buried 1t is meet and right
that here in Lynchburg should be
reared the noble bronze. which shall
tell to coming ages the name ara uhe
fame Of John warwick Daniel. Soldier
and orator, Jurist and statesman. law
river and senator, with a loyalty root
ed like Virginias mountains IN the Nir-
rinaa soil, with a patriotism broad az
our conttnent--thts he was all TO his
countrymen. to all Americana. To us
vfrgfnians. TO you-men and women
of Lynchhurg-he was more. THIS
bronze effigy fifty figures the stately
dignity and courtesy Of the man, his
high political seriousness, the austere
beauty OF countenance Ike that or
some Roman Patrician of the Ausustan
age. II tells nothing of the heart
which beat of warmly In that daunt-
iess breast; nothing of the magnetic
gaze which seemed TO draw other
hearts into his allegiance. nothing OF
the mellow harmonies OF that magic
voice which seemed to claim US all as
his friends: nothing of the proud ar
lection, which welcomed all Virginians
as his brother Let us spend few
short minutes In saving concerning ms
great virginian some of the things
which no bronze can ever say.
FIRST PERIOD
John warwick Daniel was born the
gth OF september, 1912; he died 2eth of
June 1910. His sixty-eight years OF
life, so rich in events, in duties brave
iy done, in responsibilities nobly borne,
IN honors worthily won and generously
given. fall naturally into three we'll
marked periods: From his cradle to
Npp9nas.on from M xPnGmaon 10
Americas great hail of fame. Let me
sketch few pictures for you from
the first of these periods.
The first picture which comes be-
fore US shows a mother, beautiful and
young and tender. bending In alteration
over the siulnber OF her first born
child II IL Sarah Anne Warwick. and
the child la John Warwick Daniel.
Too soon this picture fades from our
view. The fragile young mother is
called away from earth TO heaven and
John Daniel and his infant sister pass
10 nf fhAsr Rran9nHFRnfa In
heriting IL may be a love all the richer
sor their orphan state.
Daniel himself paints for us the
next picture in the series. a portrait
OF John Warwick, his grandfather, in
whose affluent home his boyhood was
passed.
a nobier man never iived--hospita-
BILE, gentle. calm, self -poised-a gen
tieman in honor. In manners. in innate
refinement. A pure and lofty soul. he
seemed to mo to he everything that
a man could be. to be respected and
loved Successful from his youth In
business, he was rich and generous
without pretension or pride. Yet when
the end of the Civil War FRUSTRATED
his fortune, and he became old and
almost blind, his easy dignity lost no
feature of It's serene composurs. and
out of his true heart came no COM
plant OF man or fortune"
A Portrait of Daniel.
As we view this portrait we seem TO
recognize the source of that peculiar
charm which Daniels colleague. sem
ator Lodge. so beautifully character
fzed-"that grave courtesy, which