Year: 1869

follows:


"Mr Chairman,-I rise to second the mo-
ton for the adoption of the resolutions just
submitted because 1t gives me an opportunity
to say few words respecting the deceased.
For some twenty years have been acquaint-
ed with him. For the last fifteen years our
relations have been of the most intimate and
friendly character.


every one who ever knew him knows full
well that no man of his time surpassed him in
self will. He was unyielding, impatient of
contradiction, and occasionally imperious and
dictatorial. say this in no fault-finding
spirit. 1t would have been strange had it
been otherwise. No man In Virginia was so
much of a target for the political party to
which he was opposed. Not unfrequently,
too, his frank and fearless expression of his
opinions subjected him to worse than the as
saults of his enemies-he was wounded in the
house of his friends. So, too, he was honest
in his convictions, and arrived at his conclu-
sions slowly, or evolved them rapidly from
great cardinal principles as to the soundness
and truthfuln ess of which he had no more
doubt than has the martyr In those the adhe.
renee toswhich carries him to the stake and
the fagots. He was of that metal which al
though when tried and heated in the furnace
of opposition may melt, melts but to harden
into steel.


"It was sometimes my fortune or misfor-
tune to oppose him-to oppose him openly,
decidedly, warmly. But now, almost in the
Immediate presence of his clay cold remains
it is due to him to say that such opposition
never made any difference in our friendship.


"He had filled important positions in the
State and national halls of legislation. Indus
trious, with great power of endurance, and
great capacity for labor, he guarded the inte-
rests of his constituents with more watchful-
ness than did the dragon the golden fruit of
the Hesperides. Differ with him as some
might, and did, as TO what were their true in.
terests, no one ever accused him of neglect or
of being unfaithfui to the trusts which he be-
lieYed were confided to his keeping.


"As IN orator he was not of the Ciceroninn
order-was not ornate in his style, rarely in
dulged in figures of speech, still more rarely
garnished his speeches with quotations either
prose or poetical. Butt for the impressveness,
for the clearness with which he stated his
propositions, for his happy faculty in mar
,shal ling his facts and arraYing& &his arguments,
few equalled him. have always thought
his best efforts were not addressed to legisla-
tive bodies. Able as he always was, it was
upon his native heather that he showed to best
advantage, and was the true Macgregor. When
in political discussions he met upon the stump
foot to foot and front to front a foeman worthy
of his steel, or when in some gubernatorial or
presidential campaign he spoke TO great
mass meeting OF that Whig party which he
worshipped as the ParsPe does his sun god,
then the alb ility of the. man shone forth with
its brightest lustre.


"I do not wish to say one word Of an un-
pleasant or discordant character This is
neither the time nor the place to rouse angry
passions, to excite the acerbity OF feeling or
the licentiousness of language engendered by
politics and the fearful struggles through
which we have passed and are now passing.
But I cannot get my own consent to omit
passing remark as to that which he considered
the crowning glory of his public career.


g In n somewhat varied life l have been
brought in contact with many OF the politi-
clans and statesmen of the second and third
generations since the Revolution. And whilst
do not mean to say that 1 have not seen
more eloquent orators, more far-slghted and
sagacious public men, 1 do say 1 have never
known or seen 1, man who believe surpassed
John Minor Bolts in his patriotism-in his
heartfelt desire for the interest and honor of
the United States. 7 think, could his pale,
cold lips now speak, they would ask no epi-
taph other than this: Here lies one loho 7aeuer
yielded to 8ectionalSm, but ,9ho oued his country
his -tolt0Le country


80, too, believe he regarded his Union
record as a nobler heritage than any he
could have left his family-as one richer
than


-' The pearl


The Egyptian ueen pledged to her Roman


lord


When in her cup she poured a kingdom's g


price,"


Notice was given that the committee of
twenty would attend to the body during
the night; also that the funeral would take
place from st. James's church yesterday