Memorial Eulogies Delivered in the House of Representtives of the United States
Memorial Eulogies Delivered in the House of Representtives of the United States
Samuel Sullivan Cox
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'Ji c'i'i / SPEAKER 3IICHAEL C. KERR. Congress ; and he will share my thought and feeling. The first death which we were called upon to mourn M^as that of a beloved Southern statesman and soldici-, Jolin A. (Quitman. . Subseriuently and how frc((uently have others fallen! I feel almost isolated, standing between the nianv dead, mIio were friends, and the living who in a few years will be numbered with tiie dead; but in all these chances and changes of time it has been my lot to cheer and not to... sadden. In the home and amonti- kindred for two generatidns it was not for me to weep, but to dry the tear of others. When the great moan went up tliat Poii'das was indeed dead, and in that solemn hour for the conntrv, I came forth to the stricken men who surrounded my Ohio home to hear the last telegraph — not to mourn but to comfort tiiem with hope. In the dark hour when the country was lillcd with liattle-cries and blood, I lifted on liigh not the wail of . Icremiah, but the jov of Isaiah, in the hope that soon the waste places would be bnih up and the old l^af and bloom return with the sprino;.
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