. Minutes . i\b)nte-i-ey lie evinced the (pialities ol an inliei)id and resonrcerulsoldier; ,and, in the brilliaid, action at Bm^ia Visia, wherethough wounihul and bleeding Ik; r* iiiained in tlu saddle all and his famous iMississi|)pi irilles won (he batth; whieh niaileZaehai-y Tayloi- pi-esident ol the Unit his home to find awaiting hiiu Ihe higlKst honors wilhiu thegill of his Stale Taking his |)laee in Ihe llnihd Slates Senale,in Ihe splemlid prime ol his powers, wilh his luminous mindripened and eririehed V>\ earelul reading and long ■• ^ ■ •■ ■ ■- r i ; *■ Ir
. Minutes . i\b)nte-i-ey lie evinced the (pialities ol an inliei)id and resonrcerulsoldier; ,and, in the brilliaid, action at Bm^ia Visia, wherethough wounihul and bleeding Ik; r* iiiained in tlu saddle all and his famous iMississi|)pi irilles won (he batth; whieh niaileZaehai-y Tayloi- pi-esident ol the Unit his home to find awaiting hiiu Ihe higlKst honors wilhiu thegill of his Stale Taking his |)laee in Ihe llnihd Slates Senale,in Ihe splemlid prime ol his powers, wilh his luminous mindripened and eririehed V>\ earelul reading and long ■• ^ ■ •■ ■ ■- r i ; *■ Ir •:, i\ I.^r^.l^ i :1 i i i. i -^ ,(r;,:-lt \A Ini ; !. ■^Irl-i 1 ^ 7 3 ^5 ..,-ffliPHk- J^-. ^* A /si Mk ^T^ ^^ ^d^S? PUKT OFFICE, Main between 10th and lltli. Wli iTi] iioiisK OF Ill i; (om-iodij: \(\ [ Now Co n fed (■ late .Museum, Vl\\\ and Chn) 106 Seventeenth Reunion, Riehniojid, May 30-June 3, 1907. his country to which ho adhered as k) as he lived, he quiclviyassumed his rightful phice among the leaders of that augustassembhige. Never before and never since have so many illus-trious men sat together in the supreme council of the were John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster and HenryClay and Salmiin P. Chase and Lewis Cass and K. JM. T. Hunter;nid Wm. R. King- and John Uell and Samuel Houston and8te|)hen A. Douglas and Thomas H. Benton—tiiert were giairtsin the earlji iu those days—yet, it is said that the histoiian,Prescott, pronounced the Senator from Mississip])i tlie mostaccomplished man in that wellnigh matchless body of juslilication of this high esiimate may be found in hislucid and elevated discussion of the great questions then engag-ing the attention of the countiy, in his distinguished servic
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