. Book of the Royal blue . uck down Charles Sumner in the SenateChamber. The custom of erecting these monumentscontinued until 1868, one of the mostrecent being in memory of ThaddeusStevens, Pennsylvanias Great Common-er, wlio died in that year, and was buried 16 THE CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY. in the negro burying ground at Lancaster,Pennsylvania, as lie liad recjuested. A stately marble shaft marks the graveof William Wirt, once a candidate for thepresidency, famous as an author and asthe lawyer who conducted the prosecutionof Aaron Burr for treason. He ranks asone of the ablest men who ever fil
. Book of the Royal blue . uck down Charles Sumner in the SenateChamber. The custom of erecting these monumentscontinued until 1868, one of the mostrecent being in memory of ThaddeusStevens, Pennsylvanias Great Common-er, wlio died in that year, and was buried 16 THE CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY. in the negro burying ground at Lancaster,Pennsylvania, as lie liad recjuested. A stately marble shaft marks the graveof William Wirt, once a candidate for thepresidency, famous as an author and asthe lawyer who conducted the prosecutionof Aaron Burr for treason. He ranks asone of the ablest men who ever filled theplace of Attorney General, in which cajia-eity he served from I SI 7 to ISJ 5, in theCabinet of Monroe. An imposing m/irble column marks theresting jilace of George Clinton, \ ice-President of the United States, who diedsuddenly in Washington in 1812, whichrecords that he was a soldier and states-man of the Revolution, and that among themany high offices he filled were those ofGovernor of his native state. New York,. THK OF SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN. and Nice-President of the United is a monument erected by order ofCongress to Elbridge Gerry, one of thesigners of the Declaration of Independenceand Vice-President of the United States,who was stricken with a fatal illness in hiscarriage while on his way to the capitol topreside over the Senate, and was buriedhere in 181k Here lie many who in life bore highrank in the army and navy, as well as incivil life. A noticeable group of monu-ments stands near the center of the oldpart of the grounds. One is that of Gen-eral Jacob Brown, who was commander inchief of the army at the time of his death,in 1828, and beside it is one erected byorder of Congress to General AlexanderMacomb, who succeeded him in that rank,dying in ISll. It states that He servedhis countrj- in youth and manhood, in the profession in which he ilied, during a periodof over forty years, without stain or blem-ish on his escutcheon. Near a
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