Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of James P. Walker, a Representative from MissouriU.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - 67 pages |
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... meet . He had a dependent mother and an affectionate sister who relied alone on his strong arm for support . He believed that in the whole his- tory of mankind there had never been any except three forms of government . One , wherein ...
... meet . He had a dependent mother and an affectionate sister who relied alone on his strong arm for support . He believed that in the whole his- tory of mankind there had never been any except three forms of government . One , wherein ...
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... meet- ings , and I shall always remember it well as the last we had , was in the hot , weary months of last summer , immediately preceding his departure to his district to engage in that con- test for renomination which Death so ...
... meet- ings , and I shall always remember it well as the last we had , was in the hot , weary months of last summer , immediately preceding his departure to his district to engage in that con- test for renomination which Death so ...
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... meet and fitting that we should pause in the heat of political strife to pay a tribute to the memory of one who was associated with us here . It was given to but few to know intimately the family relations of the late JAMES P. WALKER ...
... meet and fitting that we should pause in the heat of political strife to pay a tribute to the memory of one who was associated with us here . It was given to but few to know intimately the family relations of the late JAMES P. WALKER ...
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... meets no more honored or fitting death than in the heat of battle , so the departed could have no higher fortune than to have passed away even while engaged in the active labors of political contest . To those of us who knew him upon ...
... meets no more honored or fitting death than in the heat of battle , so the departed could have no higher fortune than to have passed away even while engaged in the active labors of political contest . To those of us who knew him upon ...
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... meet around his untimely grave , and with genuine and unfeigned sorrow pluck a few flowers from his useful life to lay them at his tomb . The life of JAMES P. WALKER is a fit commentary on our Government and its possibilities in ...
... meet around his untimely grave , and with genuine and unfeigned sorrow pluck a few flowers from his useful life to lay them at his tomb . The life of JAMES P. WALKER is a fit commentary on our Government and its possibilities in ...
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Page 16 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 22 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, • •*" •, That Life is ever lord of Death, ^ j^* And Love can never lose its own! We sped the time with stories old, Wrought puzzles out, and riddles told, Or stammered from our school-book lore "The Chief of Gambia's golden shore.
Page 42 - Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be ! The eternal surge Of time and tide rolls on, and bears afar Our bubbles ; as the old burst, new emerge, Lash'd from the foam of ages ; while the graves Of empires heave but like some passing waves.
Page 50 - There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death.
Page 28 - Nor why we're left to wonder still nor why we do not know. But this we know: Our loved and dead, if they should come this day, Should come and ask us, "What is life?
Page 51 - Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. Resolved, That, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the Senate do now adjourn until 10 o'clock ante meridian tomorrow.
Page 4 - That a select joint committee, consisting of seven members of the House and three members of the Senate, be appointed to take order for superintending the funeral, and to escort the remains of the deceased to...
Page 10 - LIFE treads on life, and heart on heart ; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart : And I was 'ware of walking down That same green forest where had gone The poet-pilgrim.
Page 5 - The Speaker. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Missouri? There was no objection. Mr.
Page 15 - I do not believe it. I do not want to believe it — but, then, what is the object of it?