The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . and the very heavens ablaze with the bright pompof a rejoicing multitude. But yesterday our temples were vocalwith songs of rapturous thanksgiving for the great victories that ? Speaker Colfaxs closing address. Congressional Globe, Thirty-eighth Con-gress, 2d Session, Part 2, p. 1424. The statue was finally placed in positionDecember 2. 1863. It is a curious fact that it would have been crowned by aLibertv cap, instead of eagles feathers, had not JcfTerson Davis. Sec
The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . and the very heavens ablaze with the bright pompof a rejoicing multitude. But yesterday our temples were vocalwith songs of rapturous thanksgiving for the great victories that ? Speaker Colfaxs closing address. Congressional Globe, Thirty-eighth Con-gress, 2d Session, Part 2, p. 1424. The statue was finally placed in positionDecember 2. 1863. It is a curious fact that it would have been crowned by aLibertv cap, instead of eagles feathers, had not JcfTerson Davis. Secretary .ifWar. when the point came up, objected that it niight look as if this image ofAmericans might once have been enslaved. Todd s Story of the City ofWashington, p. 207. It mav be recalled, also, that it was only in 1857 that theHouse of Representatives left their old-time home, the present Hall ofStatuary, for the one they have since occupied. In a letter of March 13. 1865, Mr. Williams tells of a trip to the front andpleasant experiences as a guest of Generals Grant and Meade. • Copies among the Williams PRKSIDKXT ABRAHAM LINCOLN •mporary photograph by Brady, negativ L C. Handy, Washington, D. C. CONGRESSIONAL SPEECHES AND EULOGY ON LINCOLN 525 had been vouchsafed to our arms. To-day no jubilee soHcits loud huzzas—no aves vehement—no hurrying feet—nohymns of triumph salute our ears. It is the hour of darkness, asthese sad emblems indicate. A nation mourns. A mighty peoplethrongs its wide-spread sanctuaries, to lament its martyredChief, but just returned from the overthrow of the armed arraythat menaced its own life, to die in the very hour of his triumph—in the fancied security of its own capital—under the blaze ofa thousand lights, and a thousand admiring eyes—and in themidst of the brave hearts that belted him around, and would havespilled their lifes best blood to shelter him from harm—and todie, oh God of Justice! by the stealthy and
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