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FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION. 
 
 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, 
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, February 24, 1879. 
 
 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That twelve 
 thousand copies of the memorial addresses delivered in the Senate and House of 
 Representatives upon the late JULIAN HARTRIDGE, late a Representative from the 
 State of Georgia, be printed ; of which three thousand copies shall be for the use 
 of the Senate and nine thousand for the use of the House of Representatives. 
 
 Attest : 
 
 GEO. M. ADAMS, Clerk. 
 
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 ADDRESSES 
 
 DEATH OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE, 
 
 PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE. 
 
 JANUARY 8, 1879. 
 
 Mr. COOK. Mr. Speaker, it is my painful duty to announce the 
 death of my colleague, Hon. JULIAN HARTRIDGE, which took place 
 at his room in this city at six and a half o clock this morning. At 
 some future time I shall ask that a day be set for the consideration 
 of appropriate obituary resolutions. I offer now the resolutions which 
 I send to the desk. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with sincere regret the an 
 nouncement of the death of Hon. JULIAN HARTRIDGE, late a Repre 
 sentative from the State of Georgia. 
 
 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
 That a special joint committee of seven Members and three Senators 
 be appointed to take order for superintending the funeral and to 
 escort the remains of the deceased to his late residence in Georgia ; 
 and the necessary expenses attending the execution of this order shall 
 be paid out of the contingent fund of the House. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate the foregoing resolutions 
 to the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased 
 this House do now adjourn. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously adopted. 
 
FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 
 
 The SPEAKER announced the appointment of the following-named 
 members as the committee on the part of the House under the sec 
 ond resolution : Mr. PHILIP COOK, of Georgia; Mr. SAMUEL S. Cox, 
 of New York; Mr. GEORGE C. CABELL, of Virginia; Mr. JOSEPH C. 
 STONE, of Iowa; Mr. ROBERT H. M. DAVIDSON, of Florida; Mr. 
 CARTER H. HARRISON, of Illinois; and Mr. JOHN I. MITCHELL, of 
 Pennsylvania; and then, in accordance with the last resolution, the 
 House (at twelve o clock and twenty minutes p. m.) adjourned. 
 
 JANUARY 9, 1879. 
 
 Mr. COOK. I offer the following resolutions. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the funeral ceremonies of Hon. JULIAN HART- 
 RIDGE, late a Representative in this body from the State of Georgia, 
 be held at three o clock p. m. this day in this Hall. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate the foregoing resolutions 
 to the Senate, and invite the Senate to attend said funeral ceremonies. 
 
 The resolutions were adopted unanimously. 
 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Sympson, one of its clerks, 
 announced the adoption of the following resolution : 
 
 Resolved, That, pursuant to the invitation of the House of Repre 
 sentatives, the Senate will attend the funeral ceremony of Hon. 
 JULIAN HARTRIDGE, late a member of the House of Representatives 
 from the State of Georgia, in the Hall of the House of Representa 
 tives this day at three o clock. 
 
 At three o clock the Senate of the United States, preceded by the 
 Sergeant-at-Arms and headed by the Vice-President of the United 
 States, with the Secretary, the Chief Justice and associate justices of 
 the Supreme Court, and the President of the United States and the 
 members of his Cabinet, entered the Hall, were properly announced, 
 and were then conducted to the seats assigned them. 
 
FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 5 
 
 At fifteen minutes past three o clock the casket containing the 
 remains was brought into the Hall, preceded by the Chaplain of the 
 House, the committee of arrangements, and the Senators and Repre 
 sentatives from Georgia. 
 
 The Chaplain of the House, Rev. W. P. HARRISON, D. D., read 
 the ninetieth psalm and selections from the epistle according to Saint 
 John, the book of Job, and the first epistle of Timothy. He then 
 offered the following prayer : 
 
 Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, we are assembled together 
 this day on a solemn occasion. It has pleased Thee in Thy myste 
 rious providence to call from earth into eternity one whom we loved, 
 a member of this House of Representatives, one of the chosen serv 
 ants of this people. We can but bow, O God, in submission to this 
 affliction of Thy providence, and we pray Thee that while we con 
 sider this day the death of our departed friend, oh impress upon us 
 the solemn truth that we too are mortal, that we are passing away, 
 that very soon the place that knows us now will know us here no 
 more forever. 
 
 Oh Infinite Spirit, apply the lesson of this hour to every heart. Oh 
 God, help us to reverence Thy name and Thy law and to fear Thee 
 as the beginning of wisdom, to give Thee our heart-service, to dedi 
 cate our lives to Thy glory upon the earth, that we may fulfill every 
 duty, that with fidelity in all things we may honor Thy name and 
 serve our generation. 
 
 Oh God, look in pity, in tender compassion, upon the family of 
 this deceased brother. Oh Thou that hast promised to be a husband 
 to the widow and a father to the fatherless, care tenderly for them. 
 Do Thou soften this heavy stroke by the consolations of Thy Holy 
 Spirit ; and as no man can minister to grief so deep and so dark, Oh 
 Infinite God do Thou give solace, and in Thy compassion and Thy 
 tender mercy may they find resignation and peace. 
 
 Go with us, Oh God, to the remainder of our life s short journey, 
 
FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 
 
 prepare us for every duty to Thee, to our country, to ourselves. 
 May we be faithful to all trusts; may we serve Thee with a perfect 
 heart, and when we too shall lie cold in death, when we shall appear 
 in the presence of our Infinite Judge, oh God, grant unto us in the 
 parting hour confidence in Thy mercy, trust in Thy redeeming power, 
 and in the heaven of everlasting peace receive us all at last, through 
 Jesus Christ our Redeemer. Amen. 
 
 The Chaplain next read selections out of the fifteenth chapter of 
 the first epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians, and afterward ad 
 dressed the House as follows : 
 
 All that is mortal, my beloved hearers, of JULIAN HARTRIDGE, 
 Representative in the Congress of the United States from the State 
 of Georgia, lies before us. Suddenly in a day, without warning, cut 
 down as by a single stroke of the great reaper, Death. In the prime 
 of life and vigor of his days his sun has gone down while it was yet 
 high noon. 
 
 It is not my purpose to speak of him as a man, as a friend, and a 
 public servant. This task belongs to other and more capable friends. 
 Only those who knew him intimately, who knew him well in all the 
 closer relations of private friendship, were fully prepared to appre 
 ciate his worth. 
 
 It may be permitted to me to echo what I believe to be the general 
 sentiment of esteem in which he was held by all who knew him. As 
 a man, frank in disposition, courteous in manner, generous in spirit, 
 brave in principle, true to every trust reposed in him. As a man, 
 modest, retiring, somewhat reticent, and therefore needed to be thor 
 oughly and closely cultivated in order to be fully understood and 
 appreciated. As a public servant, trusted in early life with the 
 responsibilities of a high station among his fellow-citizens, repeatedly 
 the subject of their choice in various public stations in his own State, 
 and for nearly four years in this House a Representative of his people. 
 Everywhere that he was known, by all with whom he came in con- 
 
FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 
 
 tact, I believe it to be simply true to say that he was thoroughly 
 esteemed and fondly loved as a friend, as a man. 
 
 His mind was clear and logical, having the peculiar characteristics 
 which qualified him for the thorough mastery of the science of the 
 law. His life devoted to this profession, preferred by him above all 
 others, it was but recently that he refused to be a candidate for re- 
 nomination to the office which he had filled in this Government, 
 preferring the private duties, the labors and toils and the promises 
 of his own profession to public life. 
 
 A rapidly extending practice, a rapidly growing interest called his 
 attention home; and so he was awaiting but the lapse of the few 
 weeks that remain of this present Congress to retire to his native 
 place and give himself wholly to the duties of the legal profession. 
 
 Alas, how frail are human expectations! How suddenly are our 
 hopes blasted! Oh, how vain are the calculations of man trusting 
 to a long life, to a prosperous and useful future! In a moment cut 
 down and he himself summoned to the bar of his Judge! 
 
 While I leave to others to portray his character, as a minister of 
 the everlasting gospel of the Son of God it becomes my duty to 
 press upon your attention the solemn lesson of this hour. As he lies 
 cold in the coffin to-day, you and I, my hearers, must lie before many 
 days have passed away. It is but a trite statement of the truth, and 
 it is one that we have avoided and have endeavored to put away 
 from thought and conscience; but death is a certainty. Whatever 
 else may happen to you and to me, we must die. If you or I 
 were able to gather together all the wealth of the world we could 
 not postpone, much less prevent, that solemn hour. Whatever sta 
 tion you may occupy in society, you may illustrate the glory of your 
 country, you may write your names high upon the temple of fame, 
 the world may be filled with the testimonials of its applause at your 
 achievements, but though you stand in fame s highest niche, out of 
 that you must come down and fill the narrow house of clay. The 
 
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 warrior may grasp all the world as the prize of his skill on the battle 
 field, and while the wreath is being placed upon his brow the insid 
 ious archer, Death, shall strike his vitals with the poisoned arrow, 
 and the wreath of fame will be transferred from the throbbing brow 
 to the pale memory of a man that was. 
 
 However we may fulfill, however we may dignify, the trusts com 
 mitted to our hands, faithful or unfaithful, true or untrue to them, 
 in any event, in every event, this, among all uncertainties of time, 
 this is certain that we must die. Let us not put away the consider 
 ation of this thought because it is appalling, because it brings to the 
 conscience and to the heart a tremor and a fear that is dreadful. We 
 must consider it; it is wisdom to think of it; it is the highest wisdom 
 to prepare for it and so to live as that whenever death may come we 
 shall be prepared to answer the summons. 
 
 You, my fellow-countrymen, you who are representatives of this 
 great people, having responsibilities intrusted to you as broad as the 
 mighty land you serve, you are in an especial sense the ministers of 
 the great God, the ruler of nations and of men. Your public trusts 
 will be judged by those who committed them to your care, and before 
 that bar of judgment you periodically stand; but the accountability 
 to the Judge of all men, to our Creator, our Preserver, our Redeemer, 
 that is immediate; it is direct; it is unavoidable. 
 
 I have no right to enter into the secret councils of any man s 
 thought, nor can I come between him and the Infinite Father. But 
 to-day I solemnly exhort you. Oh, to-day I dare ask you this mo 
 mentous inquiry: Are you, as representative men of this nation, by 
 precept and example giving forth to those you represent, to the 
 people whom you serve, such testimonies of moral rectitude and 
 purity and goodness as they ought to follow, that following you they 
 may glorify God and serve their generation? The very uncertainty 
 of the time of death is often an excuse for our postponing its consid 
 eration. We must die; that is certain. We do not know when we 
 
FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 
 
 shall die; the hour is uncertain. It may be in a month, a week, a 
 day, an hour hence that our God shall call us to answer for the 
 trusts reposed in our hands. Oh, to-day may the Infinite Spirit seal 
 the solemn lesaon twice repeated within twenty days to the members 
 of this House and of this Congress. Oh, to-day may the Infinite 
 Spirit seal this lesson upon our hearts, and may we, serving our 
 country as fulfilling a duty to God himself, so serve God in all our 
 actions, private and public, as that He may be pleased to own 
 our labors, with gracious benediction to bless us, and make us the 
 examples that others may follow in safety; and when these days of 
 ours are numbered and our short life is passed away, oh that you, my 
 hearers, that we all, may pass out of the darkness, out of the clouds, 
 out of the uncertainties, out of the doubts, out of the mysteries of 
 this brief life into the eternal day of peace and rest at God s right 
 hand. 
 
 Rev. BYRON S JNDERLAND, D. D., Chaplain of the Senate, then 
 offered the following prayer: 
 
 Oh God, Most High, King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, suffer us 
 not in any blindness of nature, in any severity of trouble, to doubt 
 of Thy fatherhood. Suffer us not in any pride of reason or vanity 
 of conceit to despise Thy chastening and set at naught thy reproof. 
 Though we are all as men of unclean lips before Thee, yet is there 
 not in the wide universe any friend for us like Thee. There is none 
 like Thee to love us. Though we cannot resolve the mystery of our 
 complication with the evil of the world, yet in our struggle to be free 
 we would fain put all our trust in Thee as our all-sufficient help. 
 
 Oh God, remember the days of our mourning and out of our dark 
 ness create Thou for us the light of immortal hope. Let not the fail 
 ures of this life nor even the deliquium of death itself prostrate us 
 and cast us down with dismay, since Thou hast opened for us the 
 portals of eternity and made even the grave itself but the gateway 
 to a realm of everlasting honor and renown. 
 
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FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 
 
 Be graciously pleased to comfort those that weep for the father and 
 friend who lies low in this Hall. In this deep gloom who can embrace 
 them but Thee ? Be with Thy servants who shall go to bear him 
 away out of the great station from which thou hast so suddenly sum 
 moned him to his distant home, where the light of earth is gone out 
 forever. Send Thine angels to whisper to the widow s heart and 
 stricken children that solace which can come alone from Thee. Oh 
 Lord of Grace keep them in Thy peace. And now, we beseech 
 Thee, be favorable to Thy servants, the President of the United 
 States and to all our public rulers, counselors, law-givers, magistrates, 
 judges, governors, officers, and all the inhabitants of the land, that 
 righteousness and truth may be the stability of our times, and that 
 we may be a people to Thy praise, in all our generation, through 
 Jesus Christ. Amen. 
 
 The benediction having been pronounced by the Chaplain of the 
 House, Rev. W. P. HARRISON, the remains of the deceased were then 
 removed from the Hall, followed by the Georgia delegation and the 
 committee of arrangements, to be conveyed to his late residence at 
 Savannah, Georgia; and the President of the United States, the mem 
 bers of the Cabinet, the Chief-Justice and associate justices of the 
 Supreme Court, and the members of the Senate retired from the Hall. 
 
 On motion of Mr. COLE (at four o clock and fifty-five minutes p. 
 m.), the House adjourned. 
 
 FEBRUARY 8, 1879. 
 
 On motion of Mr. COOK, it was ordered that Thursday, February 
 13, instant, at three o clock p. m., be set apart for eulogies upon the 
 late Hon. JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 
 
FUNERAL CEREMONIES. II 
 
 FEBRUARY 13, 1879. 
 
 The hour of three o clock p. m. having arrived, the House, under 
 its previous order, proceeded to pay the last honors to the memory 
 of Mr. JULIAN HARTRIDGE, late a Representative from the State of 
 Georgia. 
 
 Mr. COOK. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolutions. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That this House has heard with profound regret of the 
 death of Hon. JULIAN HARTRIDGE, a Representative from the State 
 of Georgia. 
 
 Resolved, That the House do now suspend the consideration of 
 other business, in order to pay proper respect to the memory of the 
 lamented deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That in token of regard for the memory of the lamented 
 deceased the members of this House do wear the usual badge of 
 mourning for thirty days. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of this House do communicate these 
 resolutions to the Senate of the United States. 
 
 Resolved, That out of further respect to the memory of the deceased 
 this House do now adjourn. 
 
 ADDRESS OF yViR. poOK, OF pEORGIA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: JULIAN HARTRIDGE was born in the city of Savan 
 nah, Georgia, in September, 1829, and died in this city on the th 
 day of January, 1879. He was the eldest son of a prominent and 
 successful merchant of Savannah, who gave to his son all the educa 
 tional advantages within his reach. At the Chatham Academy, a 
 school then distinguished of its kind; at the Montpelier Institute, 
 presided over by the late Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, and at other 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. COOK ON THE 
 
 educational establishments in the interior of the State, JULIAN HART- 
 RIDGE passed the school days of his boyhood. From the first he 
 was a bright and apt scholar, standing at the head of his classes and 
 mastering with equal facility the classics and the sterner routine of 
 mathematics in advance of the boys of his own age. Even then he 
 developed a marked capacity for speaking in one so young and 
 modest, and soon attained rank as an excellent declaimer. 
 
 When prepared for college, he entered Brown University, at Provi 
 dence, Rhode Island, an institution of high renown, then under the 
 presidency of the eminent Dr. Wayland. His class was one of rare 
 ability, being composed for the most part of young men from the 
 best families of the neighboring New England States. Though by 
 no means a studious youth or devoted to the daily duties laid down 
 in the curriculum, he immediately took high rank in a class which 
 numbered among its members the present distinguished chancellor 
 of the University of Michigan, Mr. Angel, and others who have 
 made their marks on the hustings, in the forum, and in the councils 
 of the country. His powers of oratory and composition made up in 
 a measure for his other delinquencies, and it is no disparagement of 
 his old and treasured associates to say, nor will one of them dissent 
 from the assertion, that he might at will have borne off the honors 
 of his class. 
 
 After graduation he attended a course of law lectures at Cam 
 bridge, Massachusetts, and, after service in the law office of Judge 
 Robert M. Charlton, was admitted to the bar and settled down for 
 practice in his native city. Success attended him from the inception 
 of his career, and he was soon elected by the legislature of Georgia 
 to the office of solicitor-general of the eastern judicial circuit. In the 
 discharge of the duties of his office he was thrown into almost daily 
 antagonism with a bar of exceptional power and brilliancy, composed 
 of such men as Charlton, Law, Ward, Owens, Lawton, Jackson, and 
 others, whose names and achievements are part of the history of the 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 13 
 
 State. He bore himself admirably, winning much of fame, something 
 of fortune, and troops of friends, who ever afterward followed his 
 career as clients. In this arena and in the contests which it evoked 
 he laid the foundation of that professional learning and ability which 
 subsequently carried him to the leadership of the bar at an age when 
 most of the men of his time were patiently struggling far below. 
 
 Yielding to the persuasion of personal and political friends, he 
 served one term in the general assembly of the State, where his tal 
 ents and eloquence enlarged his growing reputation and usefulness. 
 He was chosen and served as delegate in the Democratic convention 
 of 1860 at Charleston, South Carolina, and Baltimore, Maryland. 
 The breaking out of the late civil war found him a prominent, pop 
 ular, and prosperous man. Thoroughly in sympathy with his State 
 and people, he took the field with the Chatham Artillery, an organ 
 ization in which he held the position of lieutenant, and served in 
 that capacity until he was elected a Representative from the first dis 
 trict of Georgia to the Confederate Congress. Here he served until 
 the close of the war, occupying a distinguished place upon the com 
 mittees and in the debates of the House, his speech upon the con 
 script act having marked him at once as one of the profoundest 
 thinkers and ablest debaters in a body composed of men who had 
 justly won their titles to eminence in governmental affairs. 
 
 At the close of the war he returned to his home and profession 
 broken in fortune but undismayed in spirit, and just so soon as order 
 was partially restored his practice began to grow. Almost his first 
 appearance of note was before a military tribunal charged with the 
 trial of an old and prominent citizen of Georgia for his life. His 
 effort in this case added to his fame and will stand as an achieve 
 ment of which all lawyers may well be proud. Though conviction 
 followed of course, the sentence of the court remains until this day 
 unexecuted. Debarred for a time in common with his fellow-citi 
 zens from participation in the political management of his State, he 
 
14 ADDRESS OF MR. COOK ON THE 
 
 devoted himself assiduously to the law, and with satisfactory results. 
 When the sword was at length sheathed at the behest and in the 
 presence of the civil law, he was called to preside over the first conven 
 tion which gave the State a chief magistrate chosen by the people. 
 He was then and there made chairman of the State central executive 
 committee. Soon after he was sent as a delegate from the State at 
 large to the Baltimore convention, and in the ensuing campaign con 
 tributed largely to its successful result by his canvass as one of the 
 electors for the State at large. 
 
 Reluctantly he gave up his profession and consented to stand for 
 the Forty-fourth Congress, to which he was elected; for, after ac 
 cepting the nomination, he prepared a letter withdrawing from the 
 contest, and was only persuaded by the strong appeals of personal 
 and political friends from putting his determination into execution. 
 For the benefit of his constituents he consented to election to the 
 present Congress, and then of his own volition announced his retire 
 ment from public life. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, of his service here you and others can speak. I 
 trust I may not be accused of stepping beyond the bounds of the pro 
 prieties of this occasion when I say that he has died leaving behind 
 him more impress upon the minds and hearts of his colleagues and 
 less upon the Congressional Record than any member of his term of 
 service. 
 
 Death anticipated but by a short time a step he deemed incumbent 
 upon himself in behalf of those he held most dear. 
 
 In early manhood he married Miss Mary M. Charlton, eldest daugh 
 ter of his legal preceptor, Judge Robert M. Charlton, one of the 
 purest and ablest of Georgia jurists, and once a Senator in the United 
 States Congress. Seven children were the fruit of this union, six of 
 whom survive, and the youngest was born at the moment when his 
 father was eloquently defending his people in the matter of what is 
 called the Hamburgh massacre. 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 15 
 
 There may perhaps be around me gentlemen who, in recalling his 
 words on that occasion, still regard as a rhetorical flourish snatched 
 up for the occasion his touching allusion to the bond which bound 
 him to the slave who cradled him in her arms and soothed with songs 
 the passing sorrows of his childhood. It is not strange that those 
 nurtured under different conditions should fail to appreciate the tie 
 that ran from master to man before it was rudely sundered by the 
 hand of war, but those who saw the black man and the white man 
 under a common flag and command bear to the sound of the muffled 
 drum our friend to his last home, and who on that Sabbath morning 
 witnessed the unfeigned grief of the throng of all classes and condi 
 tions as the funeral cortege moved through the streets of Savannah, 
 will not be slow to say that all classes of a community there mingled 
 in a common grief at a common calamity. 
 
 JULIAN HARTRIDGE died as his star was in the ascendant. On 
 either side fame and fortune seemed to be waiting and beckoning to 
 him with kindly hands. He had declined a place upon the supreme 
 bench of his State, the goal of the ambitious in his profession, and 
 had laid aside the power and place of a Representative of the people 
 just as his name and fame were becoming familiar to the heart and 
 ear of the country. 
 
 We shall miss him here. No words of mine can say how the wife 
 and children shall miss him as the evening shadows fall darkly and 
 the days dawn drearily as the years go by. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, JULIAN HARTRIDGE was a type of the men of the 
 South of his day and generation. He was ambitious of profes 
 sional and political distinction, but his ambition was toned and 
 tempered by prudence and modesty and never marred by jealousy 
 or passion. He was conservative in temper, thought, and action. 
 No man was a cooler, safer counselor, truer to his convictions, and 
 braver in their support. He was not polemic in mind or aggressive 
 in action, and preferred to reach his fellow-men through the roads 
 
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 of reason and logic rather than by appeals to their passions and 
 prejudices. 
 
 Diffident of his own powers, he would tremble as a debutante, even 
 in the latter days of his professional life, as the time came for him to 
 take his place before a jury. Once warmed up to the task before 
 him, like one in battle, he soon became oblivious to his surroundings 
 and regarded only the duty in front. His professional associates will 
 long recall his even and urbane manner on all occasions. He never 
 assailed, and only when hardly pressed would let fly a sarcasm to 
 show an antagonist that he wore steel and knew its use. Thoroughly 
 grounded in the law, he despised its technicalities, loved its broad 
 and ruling principles, and rested the cause of his clients upon the 
 foundations of logic and reason; but when yoked to the weaker side, 
 he could cloak under a smooth and captivating eloquence an auda 
 cious sophistry calculated to baffle the soundest judgment. He was 
 a thinker rather than a student, was restless in the presence of labor, 
 yet when the necessity could no longer be postponed was capable of 
 almost superhuman effort in the way of self-abstraction and incessant 
 work. 
 
 In private life he was quiet, gentle, and unobtrusive; so shy some 
 times that those who knew him little mistook for hauteur what was 
 really a modest reserve. 
 
 As a husband and father, he was kind and indulgent to a fault. To 
 his children he was always a playmate and friend; and, once nestled 
 in the bosom of his family, it took matters of moment to call him 
 away. 
 
 As a statesman, he was broad and liberal, and well illustrated the 
 State that gave him to the Federal Council. Within the sound of 
 my voice are those who will recall his words and bearing in the last 
 perilous crisis of the Republic. When the sword was threatening to 
 sever the Gordian knot made by a doubtful election, and revolution 
 threatened to rear its head within these halls, here, under this broad 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDCE. 17 
 
 shield of the State of Georgia, he, in a spirit of justice, wisdom, and 
 moderation, gave his adhesion to a plan of adjustment which averted 
 another internecine strife with all of its attendant horrors. 
 
 He was not without faults. In common with his fellows, he took 
 place on the lower side of that line which divides Omnipotence from 
 frailty, and marks the difference between man and his Maker. 
 Though never a professor of the tenets of any Church, he respected 
 profoundly those who honestly and consistently adhered to them, 
 and himself cherished an abiding faith in the great cardinal and 
 catholic principles of the Christian religion. 
 
 His death, Mr. Speaker, furnishes us with another striking instance 
 of the uncertain tenure of our lives. But yesterday the people of 
 his district called to his vacant chair the judge under whose sittings 
 he won his earliest professional triumphs, the now Nestor of the bar 
 of Georgia. 
 
 His last public duty was the preparation of an argument upon one 
 of the great questions now pending before this Congress; I refer to 
 the Geneva award. Just as this was finished and he was preparing 
 to obey the mandates of this House in another and a distant field of 
 duty, the summons came. 
 
 In the Southern land where he sleeps the spring flowers are already 
 beginning to bud and blossom on his grave; fit emblems of the im 
 mortality of the soul whose casket moulders beneath. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, Georgia left upon the battle-fields of the late war the 
 very flower of her chivalry. The young, the gifted, the brave of her 
 children she sacrificed upon the altar of her convictions. Is it to be 
 wondered, then, that she should like a mother hug closer to her 
 bosom those that the storm had spared ? 
 
 Upon those that came back mangled of limb or crushed in heart 
 she relied for strength and guidance in the future, and upon none did 
 she lean more heavily than upon JULIAN HARTRIDGE. And as to-day 
 she bends in woe over his newly made grave, may she not ask her 
 
1 8 ADDRESS OF MR. KNOTT ON THE 
 
 sister States to forget the strifes and estrangements of the past and 
 mourn with her for the untimely closing of a life so adorned with 
 noble effort in the past and so full of promise for the coming years 
 years that will never come ? 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I move the adoption of the resolutions I have sent to 
 the Clerk s desk. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. KNOTT, OF KENTUCKT. 
 
 There are some emotions, Mr. Speaker, which lie forever beyond 
 the domain of human language. The sublimest effort of inspired 
 poesy would be foiled in the vain endeavor to seek them an expres 
 sion. Any attempt to embody them in words would be but an empty 
 mockery. They find utterance only in the silent tear, the broken sob, 
 or the wailing cry. 
 
 Such is the voiceless anguish that swells the aching heart as we 
 look for the last time upon the still, pale features of one we have 
 loved, and realize in his pulseless form all the terrible fact of death; 
 that the melody of nature is hushed forever to his. "dull, cold ear," 
 and that the cheerful sun will rise and set on busy, joyous millions 
 through all the cycles of coming time, but bring no light to his fixed 
 and rayless eye. 
 
 Yet, sir, there is in every human bosom a resistless instinct, a con 
 stant longing to testify in some manner its yearning for the " loved 
 and lost." The fading wreath which affection s hand has twined about 
 the lowly tomb of humble poverty, and the gorgeous mausoleum, with 
 its chiseled columns and storied hatchments, and all the marble pomp 
 with which grandeur mourns magnificently over departed pride, alike 
 remind us of this mournful duty to the dead. In obedience to that 
 heartfelt impulse, in the discharge of the highest, holiest office of friend 
 ship, I rise to second the resolutions which have just been offered. 
 In doing so I would not insult the memory of my lamented friend by 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 19 
 
 indulging in an empty, inflated eulogy. I simply desire to place on 
 record, in the simple, unaffected language of affection, my own im 
 pressions of his character as I saw it illustrated in the quiet walks of 
 social life as well as in the arena of public duty. 
 
 My acquaintance with Mr. HARTRIDGE began with the opening of 
 the Forty-fourth Congress, when a certain congeniality in taste and 
 disposition soon brought us into relations of more than ordinary inti 
 macy. It was not, however, until we became more closely and con 
 stantly associated as colleagues on the Committee on the Judiciary in 
 the present Congress that I came to know him fully and appreciate 
 his real worth. 
 
 Handsome in person, accomplished in intellect, polished in man 
 ners, the very mirror of honor, always kind, always gentle, always con 
 siderate of the feelings and comfort of others, generous almost to 
 prodigality, Mr. HARTRIDGE in the social circle impressed me as one 
 of the most lovable gentlemen it was ever my fortune to meet. 
 There was a delicacy, a tenderness indeed, in his demeanor toward 
 his associates such as I have rarely, if ever, seen equaled, and which 
 rendered him at once the favorite of those with whom he came in 
 contact. 
 
 As a lawyer Mr. HARTRIDGE was rarely equipped. Endowed by 
 nature with an intellect singularly adapted to the discernment of truth 
 and embellished by literary attainments of the most liberal descrip 
 tion acquired in the best institutions of learning in the country, he 
 brought to the pursuit of his chosen profession an honorable ambition 
 and a persevering industry which speedily secured for him an enviable 
 distinction at the bar of his native State. His mind was quick and 
 analytic, yet careful and cautious; his love of justice pronounced and 
 inflexible; his professional as well as his personal integrity unsullied 
 by the slightest stain; while his devotion to his profession amounted 
 almost to a passion. It is by no means singular that qualifications 
 like these, coupled with his liberal store of legal learning, should 
 
20 . ADDRESS OF MR. HENDEE ON THE 
 
 justify the highest expectations of a brilliant career, so prematurely 
 terminated by his melancholy and untimely death. 
 
 As an orator the deceased was peculiarly gifted. His language 
 was unusually chaste and elegant as well as easy and fluent, his elo 
 cution correct and impressive, his logic clear and concise, and his 
 voice nlusical and magnetic. Few who have heard him here can 
 forget the charm of his manner or the force and perspicuity of his 
 matter; and if he failed to take the very foremost rank in the de 
 bates of this House, of which he was such a conspicuous ornament, 
 it was solely because of a characteristic modesty which made him 
 shrink from anything bearing the semblance of offensive obtrusiveness 
 or self-assertion. 
 
 As a legislator the deceased was pre-eminently conservative and 
 just, and although a Democrat of the strictest type such was his fealty 
 to his own convictions of right that he did not hesitate to disregard 
 the demands of mere party exigency whenever there was a conflict 
 between them. As a member of the Committee on the Judiciary, I 
 but express the common sentiment of his surviving colleagues when 
 I say that one more loved while he lived, one more lamented never 
 sat around its board, that 
 
 A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman, 
 
 Framed in the prodigality of nature, 
 * * * f 
 
 The spacious world cannot again afford. 
 I second the resolutions. 
 
 ADDRESS OF M.R. WENDEE, OF VERMONT. 
 
 Again, Mr. Speaker, the gavel falls to announce the suspension of 
 business, to stop the unsteady wheel of legislation, that we may for 
 the hour refer to the life and refresh our memories of one who but 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 21 
 
 recently, and so recently, Mr. Speaker, was among us an active mem 
 ber. We have heretofore dropped the silent tear and strewn tenderly 
 floral tributes, emblems of affection, purity, and love, in token of the 
 unspoken and deep respect which every member bore the deceased. 
 To this time what has been done by this House has been in sad 
 silence, but now we come to speak to the world true words of tribute 
 to the memory of one who was loved and honored by every gentle 
 man holding a seat upon this floor. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, my acquaintance with Mr. HARTRIDGE was short, 
 commencing with the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress; yet 
 it was somewhat intimate, as we were thrown together much during 
 that Congress in committee. Our acquaintance being short, my 
 words to-day must of necessity be few; but permit me to say that I 
 find it a pleasure to be permitted thus publicly and in this national 
 Hall, to speak of the deceased in words of commendation. A na 
 tion s prosperity, a nation s strength, a nation s greatness depend 
 largely upon the character of its public men, though perhaps in a 
 republic it may be true that such prosperity, strength, and greatness 
 have their base in the intelligence, virtue, and integrity of the people; 
 but unless the people are represented by men of character, men whose 
 love and regard for right is above that for self, the life of a republic 
 like ours even must be short; but in this country, I am safe in saying, 
 we have been particularly fortunate in the selection of our public 
 servants, and when one goes out from among us, as has Mr. HART 
 RIDGE, in middle age and full of vigor, the loss in one sense falls 
 heaviest upon the nation. 
 
 Others have to-day spoken fitly of the loss sustained by family, 
 relatives, neighbors, and locality, and of his excellent traits as a 
 husband, father, neighbor, and citizen, but I must content myself 
 with saying a word only as to the man. 
 
 Mr. HARTRIDGE was quiet, yet strong; unpretending, yet eloquent 
 and forcible; cautious, yet fearless. His opinion or judgment was 
 
22 ADDRESS OF MR. HENDEE ON THE 
 
 seldom given except after mature thought. A subject was never his 
 to debate upon till first fully mastered. He never thrust himself into 
 debate, yet was always ready to express himself when duty called, 
 and this he would do in the most simple and quiet way and with that 
 clearness and force of language and reason which always carry with 
 them conviction and satisfy the hearer. 
 
 Yes, Mr. Speaker, it must be said of Mr. HARTRIDGE that he was 
 eloquent, interesting, and convincing. He always commanded the 
 attention of this House when he spoke, and, though he spoke but 
 seldom, his influence was strong and far-reaching. 
 
 Mr. HARTRIDGE was a good lawyer and his profession was his life. 
 He was so strongly wedded to it and to the attachments, comforts, 
 and quiet of home that he refused an election to the Forty-sixth 
 Congress. 
 
 The Constitution was his constant study, and all will agree, I think, 
 who knew him, that as a constitutional lawyer he had no superiors 
 and but few equals upon this floor. 
 
 In the Forty-fourth, his first Congress, he was assigned to the Com 
 mittee for the District of Columbia, where he was fully appreciated 
 and strongly loved by all his associates. In the consideration of 
 subjects, and in the other incident acts of the committee, he was 
 non-partisan, and in the fullest sense treated and acted upon every 
 proposition with a view to its merits rather than with a view to the 
 interests of his party. During that Congress Mr. HARTRIDGE so 
 exhibited his knowledge of the law, and so convinced the country 
 and the members of the House of his ability as a lawyer and of his 
 strong common sense as a legislator, that the fact could not be ig 
 nored that his place was on the Judiciary Committee, and the Speaker 
 without hesitation, as I am informed, made the assignment, and I am 
 happy to say that no member on this floor to my knowledge ever 
 questioned the propriety of the act or his fitness for the position, but, 
 on the other hand, it was universally conceded that the honorable 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 23 
 
 Speaker had done Mr. HARTRIDGE justice and the country a bene 
 ficial service. 
 
 While on this committee he did his work well, and was respected 
 and regarded by every member of it as a gentleman, a sound lawyer, 
 and a wise counselor. 
 
 Further, Mr. Speaker, during the last and present Congress my 
 intercourse with members has been free and quite extensive, and 
 never yet, either before or since his death, have I heard any gentle 
 man speak ill of JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 
 
 Of Mr. HARTRIDGE I was a warm personal friend, and that friend 
 ship was reciprocated. Hence, Mr. Speaker, I feel able to say that 
 as a friend he was kind, trusting, true, and constant. Here below 
 man need never have a better one. 
 
 In short, Mr. Speaker, let me say that as a man he was strong, 
 intelligent, honest, industrious. As a lawyer he was studious, discrim 
 inating, educated, and reliable. And, sir, whether on the street, on 
 this floor, in the court-room, or in the committee-room, in society or 
 in his home, he was a perfect gentleman. He was possessed of that 
 peculiar refinement of intellect and that unassumed quietness of man 
 ner that always endeared him at once to those with whom he came 
 in contact, either socially or in a business way. But, Mr. Speaker, 
 the man, the lawyer, the statesman, the friend has gone out forever 
 from among us. 
 
 His life-work was well done, yet seemingly it was but half finished, 
 as he died in the very ripeness of manhood. 
 
 He was full of life, full of hope and ambition, and to all appear 
 ance had before him a long, eventful, and honorable career; but the 
 mysterious and invisible hand beckoned him away, and I will only 
 add that from the sad event those of us who are left to utter and 
 hear these last tributes to his memory should take heed and learn for 
 profit the lesson it teaches. 
 
24 ADDRESS OF MR. COX ON THE 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. pox, OF J^EW JORK. 
 
 It is a wise as well as kindly custom to honor our departed mem 
 bers. When that clock points to the inevitable hour devoted to 
 memory and eulogy, the conflict of opinion, the storm of contention, 
 and the turbulency of legislation cease. Through the rifted clouds 
 shines a serener and purer sky. What if the encomiums we offer are 
 couched in formal phrase; what if sometimes they become too trite 
 and general, and fail to allure the ear in this Chamber, where sen 
 sations are masters of elocution; what if in laudation we become 
 indiscreet and exaggerative still the custom is one ever to be rev 
 erently observed, as well for its benignity to ourselves and its solem 
 nity upon our deliberations as for the proper honors to the dead and 
 for the encouragement of the living. 
 
 What is the lesson it teaches? What, after all, is the glory which 
 so attracts us ? The answer comes even in the voice of the Epicurean : 
 
 It is an echo, a dream ; nay, the shadow of a dream, dissipated by every wind, 
 and lost by every contrary breath of the ignorant and ill-judging. You fear not 
 that even death shall ravish it from you ; but behold ! while you are alive calumny 
 bereaves you of it; ignorance neglects it; nature enjoys it not; Fancy alone, re 
 nouncing every pleasure, receives the airy recompense, empty and unstable as 
 herself. 
 
 No one dreamed that, after the many deaths in our body, this friend 
 would be the next. As we heard our daily roll-call and looked upon 
 our catalogue, he bid as fair as any for longevity in the chances of 
 life. Ah! it was a sad pen which inscribed the name of JULIAN 
 HARTRIDGE, of Georgia, upon the "yearly scroll of fate." 
 
 It was a sad fate that left him in the midst of his noble career 
 withered like a leaf on a summer s tree before the autumn or winter 
 came to chill and blast. Almost before we were through with the 
 obsequies of others his parting knell sounded, and we bore him away 
 to the endearing circle which received him so lovingly in his beautiful 
 southern home. 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDCE. 25 
 
 Various are the relations we sustain to each other in this House. 
 It would take a Psyche to assort and arrange the "confused seeds" 
 out of which have grown so many and such endearing relations of 
 regard and affection. Some of us live here under the same roof; some 
 serve on the same committee ; some take the same side on favorite 
 themes; some have had in our changeful American life mutual friends 
 who have brought them together; some are knit to each other by 
 association in their own States; and others, though far distant, share 
 early and delightful reminiscences, and among them that one which 
 springs radiant out of the morning of life, enhanced and beautified by 
 college partialities and studies. 
 
 The relation which drew me to JULIAN HARTRIDGE was the last 
 one. We were as far apart as Ohio and Georgia, where our parents 
 lived ; yet we became children of the same parent in New England. 
 Our alma mater was Brown University. I was his elder in the col 
 lege, graduating two years in advance of him; but not the elder in 
 that sedateness and reserve which is supposed to mark the years by 
 the disposition, and which gives even to the young a strength that 
 maturity does not bestow. It was this college memory of our alma 
 mater which quickened and preserved our friendship here. 
 
 Having reached the stadium of a half century of years, memories 
 of early associates become more distinct and interesting. As I look 
 back to those early days they return with their relict radiance and 
 enchantment, like a dawn, all opaline in the sky, all diamond on the 
 grass, all auroral with a joyous splendor, through which glimmers a 
 mist of tears for those who shared their joyousness, and who one by 
 one fall and fade. As our years "slope waning down the arch," these 
 hopes and illusions, as now and here, become memory. 
 
 Others may speak of JULIAN HARTRIDGE as a husband and father, 
 of his affectionate heart and tender sensibilities, and of his domestic 
 ties. These, with all his reserve, he could not conceal. Do we not 
 recall his tremulous and tearful tribute to his old colored nurse, spoken 
 
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26 ADDRESS OF MR. COX ON THE 
 
 from yonder desk ? It was a perilous theme in this House, too often 
 effusive in its irreverent mirth. Others may speak of him as citi 
 zen, soldier, lawyer, and man, filling with uprightness and honesty 
 all the relations to family, client, state, and society. It is mine to 
 speak of him as a scholar, as one whose mental characteristics were, 
 as he often told me, molded and inspired by our grand teacher, Dr. 
 Francis Wayland, and the corps of admirable professors associated 
 with him at Brown University. 
 
 In making up manhood, much may be attributed to hereditary 
 causes, much to early parental guardianship and care, but more to the 
 discipline and knowledge which education gives. Who shall under 
 rate the beneficence, not to speak of the advantages, of education? 
 
 It has been well said that "it is a companion which no misfortune 
 can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despot 
 ism enslave. At home a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude 
 a solace, and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides 
 virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius; without it, 
 what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage." 
 
 It is customary with some to depreciate scholarship. There are 
 those who find in its pedantry some sort of compensation for their own 
 want in the lack which often attends mere learning, and even those 
 who are accomplished, sometimes affect to despise its attainments. 
 
 Truly, it is not alone or chiefly by books that manhood is made. 
 Was it not Carlyle who said that " a man perfects himself by work 
 more than by reading"? But he was discriminating; for he gave 
 the meed of praise to that growing kind of men that combine the 
 two things wisely, and who valiantly do what is laid to their hand in 
 the present sphere and prepare themselves withal for doing other 
 wider things if such be before them. 
 
 This was the education which gave us the scholarship and intellect 
 of JULIAN HARTRIDGE. It was peculiar to Brown University. It 
 was the educational system of Dr. Wayland. It lay in the power of 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 2J 
 
 analysis. It was the dissection of a subject into its constituent parts, 
 to form a complete and rounded whole; feres atque rotundus. It was 
 the remark of Professor Greenleaf, of Cambridge, that in the first 
 recitation he could tell where his law students graduated; but he 
 always marked those of Brown, because of this special training in 
 analysis. Certainly the members of the Judiciary Committee of this 
 House, and the courts and bar of Georgia, in recognizing the cogent 
 advocate must have seen how his finer susceptibility was kept in 
 training and in stamina by this early discipline. 
 
 What were his favorite books and studies, and what his recrea 
 tions, what his habits in college life, it may be curious if not useful 
 briefly to recall, although they do not infallibly indicate the subse 
 quent life. How few of the ambitions of college days are realized, 
 how few of their cherished designs are carried out! How frail in 
 after years seem those sustaining illusions and enrapturing enthu 
 siasms which spring from the hard rocks of study, all pure, crystal 
 line, and iridescent! It was the verdict of JULIAN HARTRIDGE S 
 college mates that although he was reserved and made but few ac 
 quaintances and had but few companions and confidants, he was ever 
 courteous and kind, chivalric, and true to his convictions. This re 
 serve seemed to some to have an air of hauteur, but we who knew 
 him understood him better. Perhaps it came from a certain isolation 
 in the college growing out of sectional feeling, which even then had 
 permeated our institutions of learning. 
 
 Whatever he did, he did well. His dilatoriness and laxity of effort 
 at times seemed to be filled up by an excellence when he was aroused 
 which must have been the fruit of abstraction and meditation. Though 
 he may not have stood as high as some others in his class, sometimes 
 failing outright, yet what he did was perfected, like a cameo cut t>y 
 a practiced hand, with an exquisite sensibility to the beautiful. He 
 was regarded, in spite of certain shortcomings, as a brilliant scholar; 
 and especially brilliant in the art of rhetoric. Those who have heard 
 
28 ADDRESS OF MR. COX ON THE 
 
 him here will not be surprised that his fancy, his susceptibility, his 
 southern ardor, chastened and curbed by discipline, gave him facile 
 grace and elevated genius in oratory. His junior speech in 1848 
 was on the "Superstitions of the Highlands." One of the professors 
 remarked of it that never, in essay or speech, had he listened to such 
 a warm and glowing tribute as that paid to Robert Burns and his 
 religion of humanity. 
 
 He was very happy with his pen, writing with fluency and fervor, 
 but he was most felicitous in oratory. No one doubted his power. 
 In his speaking he had that dash, that elan which is characteristic of 
 the gifted Southerner. There was in his voice an indefinable mag 
 netism over an audience that held them as in a spell, as he "graced 
 the noble fervor of the hour." He had the natural endowment of 
 the orator who is born, not made. No one in his class so fascinated 
 and thrilled. This was doubtless the secret and select compensation 
 he chose, for any indifference to other branches of culture. I have 
 wondered that he did not more frequently display this rare gift in 
 this House. Perhaps in his modest regard of himself he underesti 
 mated its charm. He took no pains to excel in class-room work, 
 and graduated with moderate rank; but all agreed that he was no 
 idler. He was a diligent reader, especially of history and historical 
 fiction. All agreed that his was a mind of unusual brilliance, but 
 few then anticipated that he would erect so solid and superb a struct 
 ure on the hard science of the law. 
 
 We who served here with him know how partial he was to his 
 State, his section, and its institutions and history. Even in his col 
 lege days these local feelings were very marked. They were encour 
 aged by his habitual reserve in a New England State. One of the 
 freaks which grew out of them illustrated the intensity of his local 
 pride. When the class of "moral science" lingered three weeks in 
 debate over the slavery question he persistently refused to recite dur 
 ing that time, because he would not repeat Dr. Wayland s sentiments 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTKIDGE. 29 
 
 as expressed in the text-book. Luckily, the State of Roger Williams 
 and the university which was founded on the principles of toleration 
 expressed in its charter passed this by as a pardonable element of the 
 genius led, which is not peculiar to any section. 
 
 That which first gave to Dr. Wayland his fame was not his pecu 
 liar methods of teaching; it was his tractate on "accountability." If 
 his scholars were not impressed by him with this idea, in its highest 
 meaning, it was from an inborn obduracy in the scholar. He taught 
 us that it was the gravitation of the moral universe; that intellectual 
 beings were moral agencies ; and that they must have this virtue or 
 be sundered from God s universe. Without it the ruler is a tyrant, 
 the judge a despot, the legislator a charlatan, and the philosopher an 
 empiric. It is the strength and the ornament of the soul. Without 
 it what are the rudiments, vestments, and culture of the mind? 
 
 What his constituents and his State loved in JULIAN HARTRIDGE, 
 was this sense of accountability and his recognition of it as duty. 
 Imbedded in his nature, which never knew a dishonest thought, and 
 along with his mental habitudes, was the moral genius implanted by 
 our great teacher, whom the sons of Brown University ever delight to 
 revere. It was this mental power and moral rectitude which JULIAN 
 HARTRIDGE bore away from the city of Providence when he began 
 the active labors of his profession and filled the offices with which 
 his people intrusted him. Practical education is not obtained by 
 book or by recitation. Few who leave their imprint on the world 
 are thus educated. There is a self-education that only collision with 
 others can give. Nay, this conflict must uneducate often to re 
 educate for practical duty. There are cloistered virtues which 
 ponder the problems of this and the other life, but it is in the heat 
 and dust of active life where the guerdon of fame is won. 
 
 Certain it is 
 
 Says Lord Bacon 
 that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and under- 
 
30 ADDRESS OF MR. COX ON THE 
 
 standing do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with one 
 another; he tosses his thoughts more easily; he marshaleth them more orderly ; 
 he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally, he waxeth wiser, 
 and that more by an hour s discourse than by a day s meditation. 
 
 It was in the collisions of the forum, of the court, and the legisla 
 ture, and in the fierce arena of debate, when one mind sharpeneth 
 another by the cunning of logical fence, that this commanding power 
 was developed and increased in our friend. 
 
 Coming thus equipped for service here, may we not say that he has 
 kept with studious heed his faith to the oath he took to our organic 
 law? He stood here for all the muniments, limitations, rights, and 
 powers of the Constitution as it was and is. He knew well their 
 meaning, and had no timidity in following the needle which pointed 
 to the haven designated in the articles. He desired to restore to the 
 nation the hallowed and healing spirit of mutual confidence and con 
 ciliation. When he came hither he brought no mental or moral reser 
 vation. Indeed, he was, as his report on the reopening of the Presi 
 dential matter in this Congress showed, conspicuously conservative 
 in many senses of the peace and contentment of the people. 
 
 I have said that Mr. HARTRIDGE had a dainty and refined sensibil 
 ity. It was not limited to taste in art or in literature. He was fond 
 of flowers, and especially of those rare flowers which are of tropical 
 origin. The Brazilian orchids, in our Botanic Garden, were his de 
 light. They are the offspring of perpetual summer. They cling to 
 trees and blocks of wood, and feed not upon the soil, but upon the 
 moist and heated air. Their variety and brilliance of color and ex 
 quisite aroma are said to excel all the productions of the floral king 
 dom. Their habits belong to the atmosphere and not to the earth, 
 and their formation is a portrayal of the entire scope of animated 
 nature, including a mimic caricature of the human species. There is 
 one in the Botanic Garden, known to science as Cattleya Warscewiezii, 
 which excels all of its numerous tribes. It was this flower which my 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 31 
 
 friend was accustomed to watch. He visited the garden again and 
 again to observe the development of its gorgeous blossoms. It dec 
 orated his desk and casket on the occasion of his obsequies. I thought 
 he would love to have his favorite in life near to him in death. No 
 poet has yet sung of this airy, exquisite flower. The rose and lily 
 have had their minstrels, but no muse has yet attempted to express the 
 delicate loveliness of this paragon of beauty, whose hue outblanches 
 the lily and outblushes the rose. If fancy were allowed some license, 
 something in our friend s character and culture might be found sym 
 bolized in this flower. Its variety; its luxuriance; its honeyed wealth, 
 which, from its constitution, no insect can touch without death; its 
 isolated growth amid lofty tropical trees, to which it clings like a 
 bird of many-colored plumage; its unsullied purity amidst the sur 
 roundings of fen and marsh, are emblems of his rare excellence, his 
 exuberant imagination, his sweetness of disposition, his superiority to 
 the little annoyances of daily life and to the temptations which beset 
 us in pursuing the duties and ambitions of our political life. His very 
 reserve and isolation, his "high-built genius" above. the groveling 
 matters of earth give, like his favorite flower, a fragrance to his 
 memory which embalms it forever in the heart. 
 
 The community where he lived was paralyzed by the suddenness 
 of their calamity. They could scarcely realize that the music of his 
 voice, which melted them with pathos or convinced them with reason, 
 was hushed forever. They had expected that their favorite would 
 have been preferred to other honors than those which belong to 
 Georgia here. Little did they expect that their beloved Representa 
 tive would end his existence before that service was ended. Little 
 did they expect that only his inanimate form would return to them. 
 There was some solace for their loss in the honors which this House 
 and the country paid their Representative; but it was indeed a somber 
 day for the city of Savannah when the body of JULIAN HARTRIDGE 
 was borne to them. 
 
32 ADDRESS OV MR. FRYE ON THE 
 
 In the State of Georgia few men since the day of her great states 
 man, William H. Crawford, have been so distinguished and beloved. 
 All classes of all races and all professions soldier, civilian, and citi 
 zen united in swelling the chorus of praise and contributing their 
 sorrowing sympathy. Even as the cortege passed through the city 
 bearing him to his last resting-place, the mosses which drape the oaks 
 of the forest added their funereal sadness to the scene. 
 
 That gentle spirit has departed from us. While thinking of him 
 sterner eyes than mine will well with tears over his departure. The 
 college boy, the legislator, and the friend, these are my bereavement; 
 others may miss a life-long friend, a trusted counselor, a kind father, 
 and loving husband, and Georgia will miss one of her leading lawyers 
 and statesmen. All the meshes which have been woven around his 
 daily life to bind him earthward are sundered, but only sundered to 
 be rewoven, we hope, in the better country, where " the silver cord is 
 never loosed, nor the golden bowl ever broken." 
 
 ADDRESS OF yVLR. J^RYE, OF 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: I intended and ought to have made a fitting prep 
 aration for speaking to the character of JULIAN HARTRIDGE, but an 
 enforced absence in the city of New York on an investigating com 
 mittee has absolutely prevented. I regret this, sir, exceedingly, and 
 yet I do not feel willing to allow the occasion to pass in utter silence, 
 for Mr. HARTRIDGE and I were warm personal friends, although all 
 the circumstances of our lives would seem to have been antagonistic 
 to any such friendship. He represented a constituency living down 
 in one of the Gulf States and I one living in the extreme North; he 
 was formerly a slave-owner and I was educated to believe slavery to 
 be a crime against man and an offense against God; he sympathized 
 with rebellion, I with its foes; he was a Democrat, I a Republican. 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 33 
 
 And yet I have in my life learned to love few men better than 
 I did him. 
 
 It was only an accident that revealed the beauty of JULIAN HART- 
 RIDGE S character to me. Oh, how many flowers of friendship fail to 
 blossom in this world simply because men do not know each other; 
 and how much our nation has suffered from this same strangeness ! 
 Why, sir, I am convinced, and have always been, that rebellion itself 
 was the child of this same strangeness. If the North had known 
 the South and the South had known the North before the war as 
 they knew each other at its close, there would have been no war. 
 Why, sir, being brought together and held together for four long 
 years, even in a terrible, bloody conflict, only made us better friends 
 than we ever were before and revealed to each other a respect and a 
 title to respect which we never had dreamed of. 
 
 And in this House is it not precisely the same? Here we come 
 from different and remote sections of the country; we come with 
 prejudices of section and of party upon us; we remain together for 
 a session or two; we separate, and those same prejudices still cling 
 to us. And why ? Because we have had no opportunity to know 
 each other. In this House there is always "the other side"; outside 
 this House our constituents demand every single moment of our 
 time; so that only now and then is a man of the one side revealed 
 to the man on the other. 
 
 A notable instance occurs to me at this very moment. There is a 
 gentleman from Alabama who has served with me in this House four 
 or six years, and until recently I never knew hirn. I knew he had 
 been a major-general in the Confederate army. He had his preju 
 dices, and I undoubtedly had mine. Yet the accident of sending me 
 to the city of New York with him on a committee and putting us 
 side by side, bringing us in close contact for two weeks, only revealed 
 the gentleman to me, and brought into life, on my part at least, a 
 friendship for him which I never shall forget. 
 
34 ADDRESS OF MR. FRYE ON THE 
 
 So, sir, accident disclosed JULIAN HARTRIDGE and his character to 
 me. Had it not been for accident he and I would have been parted 
 by death each to the other comparatively unknown; if we had preju 
 dices they would have remained to the end. It was the accident of 
 our serving on the same committee that brought us together. He 
 was placed upon the Judiciary Committee, of which I was a member, 
 and prejudice disappeared, while in its place friendship sprang into 
 life. 
 
 During the long session in the Forty-fifth Congress matters of 
 great importance, questions involving legal propositions that were 
 abstruse and difficult to understand, were constantly before that 
 committee; and each man there was compelled to exhibit what 
 powers there were in him. My impression is that Mr. HARTRIDGE 
 made but one or two speeches in the House upon this floor during 
 the time he was here. I know that they attracted general attention; 
 but I am satisfied from my knowledge of him that it was his modesty 
 that prevented him from taking the position and holding it in this 
 House to which his pre-eminent ability entitled him; a modesty 
 which would not allow him to stand here by the hour and demand 
 the Speaker s eye and the Speaker s ear; a modesty which would not 
 permit him to put his name upon a list upon your table; a modesty 
 which would not allow him to ask time from the gentleman who had 
 control of the floor. I am satisfied that it seemed to him to be an 
 assumption. But when we were in the committee-room, where, as I 
 have said, every man was compelled to exhibit himself, then JULIAN 
 HARTRIDGE came at once where he belonged into the fore rank. 
 We had not met together for three months before I was entirely sat 
 isfied that he was a lawyer of pre-eminent ability; not a special 
 pleader, not a technical lawyer, but a lawyer in the broadest sense 
 in which the word may be used. He had convictions, and never 
 feared there to enforce them; he had opinions, and was ever ready 
 to maintain them. 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTR1DGE. 35 
 
 In the expression of his opinions he was graceful, persuasive, 
 logical, kindly always. His mind was clear and comprehensive, 
 and his apprehensions were remarkably quick. He commanded 
 the respect of his colleagues on that committee. He was not a 
 partisan there, he was not a Democrat there ; he was a lawyer test 
 ing and trying legal propositions, and I can say that I never knew 
 his judgment there to be blinded by his section or by his party. In 
 his bearing he was dignified, in his manner always courteous. He 
 was exceedingly slow to give offense, and equally slow to feel that 
 any offense whatever was intended him. I, sir, came from that com 
 mittee with the judgment, and I believe my colleagues upon it will 
 concur with me, using the words with their full and complete mean 
 ing, that JULIAN HARTRIDGE was a good lawyer. But one other 
 thing, in my judgment, can be added to that to make up the verdict 
 that he was a man of perfect character so far as humanity and per 
 fection can exist together; and I feel that I can justly add that 
 word. I met him, as I have said, daily; I saw him continually; I 
 associated with him more than, perhaps, with any other gentleman 
 on the other side of this House, and I never knew him to utter one 
 word, I never knew him to do an act, I never knew him to give 
 expression to a thought, that did not indicate to me that he was a 
 good man as well. 
 
 Have I not said it all? A good lawyer and a good man; I ask 
 that nothing more, when I am dead, shall be said of me, and I pray 
 that that may be said truthfully. 
 
 That he was a tender father, a gentle and loving husband, a noble, 
 generous neighbor and friend, I cannot doubt. 
 
 Why God should have taken him right in the prime of his beauti 
 ful life, when the brilliant promises, of which the gentleman from 
 New York [Mr. Cox] has spoken, of his early manhood were day 
 by day and hour by hour being redeemed; when his country, his 
 State, his party, his friends, his wife, and his children needed him 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. HARRISON ON THE 
 
 more than they ever did before oh, why God should have taken 
 him then is to me and to us a mystery. Its solution can and shall 
 only come in the great hereafter. 
 
 May Heaven grant that the admonitions and warnings of these 
 deaths, which have come to this House so frequently and so sud 
 denly, teach us that we too should prepare to meet our God. 
 
 ADDRESS OP yVlR. J^ARRISON, OF JLLINOIS. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : Of all the kindly epigrams which have come down 
 to us from the past, no other is so replete with piety as the old pagan 
 maxim, "De mortuis nil nisi bonum" When the icy fingers of death 
 have seized upon the strong man; when the arm once quick to 
 ward off and the hand powerful to resent an injury have been fettered 
 by the heavy weight of inurning clay; when the tongue caustic to 
 retort an insult and ready to refute a calumny has been paralyzed by 
 the stroke of ruthless Death, then nearly all men feel that the living 
 should tread lightly about the tomb, that the voice should be hushed 
 in the presence of the silent one, and that no ill thing should be 
 spoken of him. 
 
 Why, sir, this almost universal sentiment, universal at least among 
 all men elevated above the savage ? Is it not because there is in us 
 all a vague, undefined, but ineradicable feeling a feeling born of 
 heart-yearnings, or of superstition, or of indwelling immortal soul 
 that there is an immortality in us, and that the spirit of the dead yet 
 lingers about its old tenement and near to the dear ones of life, and 
 that it would be pained by the utterance of a harsh word to which it 
 is powerless to reply ? 
 
 There is, perhaps, sir, no earthly thing so terrible to a brave, good 
 man as that a calumny touching his good name should live when he 
 himself shall be gone, and shall have left no one able or willing to 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 37 
 
 defend his honor. A stoic may despise a slander in life; only a cynic 
 can calmly sleep and know that a calumny is being graven upon his 
 tomb. 
 
 Again, sir, although we all know we must die, yet no living being 
 can realize his own death; we are wholly unable to comprehend, 
 even in the presence of that most solemn memento mori, death itself, 
 that we, too, shall 
 
 Die, and go we know not where ; 
 
 To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; 
 
 This sensible warm motion to become 
 
 A kneaded clod 
 
 that "the places which know us now shall know us no more"; that 
 our moving, breathing bodies, so sensible to pain and quick to drink 
 in pleasure, shall become an intangible nothing. We therefore hug 
 to our hearts the hope that there is in us a living immortal part; and 
 we cannot divest ourselves of the idea that this living something will 
 hover around the places we love on earth. This yearning as to our 
 selves makes us prone to feel, if not believe, that the spirit of our 
 loved dead is floating about us. So that in obeying the old maxim 
 by speaking of the dead only good, we are but paying the debt we 
 shall owe to those who shall follow us. 
 
 Sir, how easy the simple task, when we know of the dead naught 
 but good ! How grateful the duty, when we have known our dead, 
 and yet have learned nothing of him except that which is good! In 
 arising in my seat to-day, Mr. Speaker, and joining in the solemn 
 pageant moving in honor of JULIAN HARTRIDGE, I simply perform 
 that grateful duty, for I did know him, and yet I could not, even if 
 I would, recall of him a single thing of which I could say a word not 
 good. Whatever there was in him which in life I blamed was really 
 an evidence of virtue. 
 
 What I shall say of him, sir, shall be said as due to one I sincerely 
 loved, as a tribute to one who bound me to him by "bands of iron 
 
38 ADDRESS OF MR. HARRISON ON THE 
 
 and hooks of steel." I wish to drop upon his bier a simple flower, 
 fragrant with affection. I would pluck from my memory and lay 
 upon his breast a green leaf, redolent of the love which he awakened 
 in my bosom. I shall say nothing biographical of our friend; that 
 has been better done by others. At the expense of using the egotist 
 ical " I " oftener than could be wished, I shall endeavor to paint to 
 you the manner of man he appeared to me to be, and to tell you why 
 I loved him, confining myself entirely to his personal characteristics 
 as exhibited here in our midst. 
 
 Three years ago, sir, last December I met JULIAN HARTRIDGE for 
 the first time. We were utter strangers to each other, and probably 
 would never have become more than passing acquaintances if we had 
 not in the last Congress drawn seats side by side. For he was a man 
 exceedingly reserved in manner so much so that to a casual ac 
 quaintance he seemed coldly distant and studiously retiring. He 
 had that courtliness of bearing which erects about a man a barrier 
 over which a stranger steps only on exact and palpable invitation. 
 Our juxtaposition during the Forty-fourth Congress drew us into 
 close communion. We discussed together the more important 
 questions which came before the House. In a short time I found 
 that he possessed a mind of very high order and a cultivation of 
 rare finish. 
 
 His perceptions were remarkably quick, clear, and clean. He 
 caught at once the underlying foundations of every subject debated; 
 and his mind, grown severely logical from his long and scientific study 
 of his profession, quickly stripped a question of the tangled threads 
 thrown around it by others. I soon considered it a reason for self- 
 gratulation if my already-formed opinions and his were in accord. 
 His name followed mine immediately on the roll-call. If he voted 
 with me I felt doubly assured I had made no mistake. 
 
 As a constitutional lawyer he had no superior in this or in the pre 
 ceding House. His mind was ever on the alert when an appeal was 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 39 
 
 made to that chart of our liberties. He was a strict constructionist, 
 yet believed that our Magna Charta was sufficiently elastic to guide 
 a people whose bounds were to be co-extensive with that of a conti 
 nent. He did not hold it to be a Procrustean bed, to fit which a vast 
 nation should be lopped off at either end. 
 
 Whenever a constitutional or legal question happened to be under 
 discussion he paid the closest attention to every word said, and al 
 lowed no argument to pass unheeded. On such occasions he has 
 often turned to me to expose the error of some citation of authority 
 or to controvert some deduction improperly drawn, and always so 
 clearly and tersely as to win immediate conviction. At such times, 
 when it seemed the House was going wrong, I have urged him to 
 get up and give his views, and I have known him on several occa 
 sions to take the floor to do so, and then to sit down again before 
 gaining recognition, as if he dreaded to push himself conspicuously 
 forward. This happened so frequently that I blamed him for his 
 reticence as an injustice both to himself and to the House. 
 
 This reticence was not the offspring of any uncertainty as to the 
 correctness of his views, but was from a sort of aversion to appear 
 ing to be anxious to make himself heard. I recall two or three occa 
 sions, when, after sending to the Library for authorities, he handed 
 them to me, with the suggestion that I should get up and give them 
 to the House. This was not from timidity or fear of failure, for he 
 knew his thoughts would never find his tongue disobedient to their 
 call. He had great command of language. Words apt, choice, and 
 beautiful flowed from his lips as in a voluntary stream. What he 
 seemed to want was that the House should be right. He was not 
 ambitious of being the one to set it so. A rare quality, sir, in an 
 American Congressman. 
 
 JULIAN HARTRIDGE was a poet by nature; and I suspect, though 
 he never positively confessed it to me, had often dipped his pen in 
 the Catalian fountain. I had a habit of cutting from newspapers any 
 
4 ADDRESS OF MR. HARRISON ON THE 
 
 fugitive verses which struck my fancy. These I would sometimes 
 read to him, and he had to be very deeply absorbed in business not 
 to readily lend me his ear. I remember reading to him one day from 
 a newspaper clipping Palmer s exquisite Ode to Light. He had never 
 seen it before. After reading it he called me back to the cloak-room 
 and then read it several times aloud. His dark eye filled to suffusion, 
 showing how the beautiful stanzas had touched the chords of his 
 heart and set them to singing in rythmic harmony. 
 
 So poetic were his tastes that his speeches were somewhat weakened 
 by a disposition to clothe the coldest logic in flowing if not in meas 
 ured periods. His mastery of language being great, his ready tongue 
 was apt to play lackey to his tuneful ear, and to pour out mellow 
 sentences as pleasing in sound as they were solid in sense. His gest 
 ures, too, were graceful and in perfect harmony with the euphony of 
 his tones. On this account a stranger was apt to suspect his speeches 
 were prepared in advance and committed to memory; this, even when 
 they were entirely impromptu. 
 
 But, after all, Mr. Speaker, it was neither the mind, nor the man 
 ner, nor the cultivation of JULIAN HARTRIDGE which drew one s love 
 to him. It was the man s heart, soft and gentle as a woman s, giving 
 and craving love, as the heart of a pure and chaste woman gives and 
 craves it. His was one of those rare natures which reconciles us to 
 the truthfulness of David s description of Jonathan s love, " a love 
 passing the love of women." Pythias might readily have loved such 
 a Damon ; and Damon might have sought to die for such a Pythias. 
 One meets but few such in a life-time, and finds them but rarely 
 emerging from the secluded recesses of private life. 
 
 Loving and tender in his feelings, JULIAN S expressions of affection 
 were exceedingly caressing. Speaking to him one day after I had 
 known him some months, I addressed him as HARTRIDGE or Mr. 
 HARTRIDGE. With a tone as endearing as that with which a mother 
 utters the word " darling," he called me by my given name and said : 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 41 
 
 "We have now known each other a good while; we are friends; I 
 really hope we love each other. Promise me hereafter always to call 
 me JULIAN." 
 
 Mr. Speaker, this was a little thing; a very little thing; but it was 
 one of those little things which are a revelation. Remember, sir, the 
 world is made up of untold little things. It is an aggregation of 
 atomies which looks down from Mount Blanc s old giant dome. It 
 was this and many other similar little things which revealed to me 
 JULIAN HARTRIDGE S great heart. Loving in his nature, his heart 
 yearned for love. Rendering love, his soul thirsted for it as the earth 
 thirsts for the evening s dew. 
 
 I said that heart was as soft and gentle as a woman s. Yet, sir, his 
 was no woman s nature. Clear in his conceptions, he was steadfast 
 in his opinions. Clairvoyant, he despised a hypocrite and hated a 
 sham. Brave, he could have looked into a cannon s mouth, and his 
 eye would not have quailed as the torch sought the priming; yet a 
 cry of distress brought tears to his eyes. Chivalrous, he could have 
 measured swords with an enemy without a tremor, and would have 
 followed honor s or duty s call into the deadly breach; yet a friend s 
 distress melted him, and a woman s wail unmanned him. 
 
 Thus, sir, appeared to me the man whose loss we lament to-day. 
 His memory will live in our hearts as bright and fresh as the mantle 
 of ever-living green with which the oak robes itself, beneath whose 
 spreading boughs he calmly sleeps. Such, sir, was the man whom a 
 loving wife and tender children mourn in their far-off sunny home. 
 As the mother of the Gracchi pointed to her children as her jewels, 
 so may these bereaved ones point to the husband s and the father s 
 deeds and fame as their most unperishable gems. 
 
 Cut off in his manhood s prime; his sun hardly at its meridian, his 
 country, his friends, and his family have lost the ripeness of his years. 
 What fruits those riper years would have borne we can only judge 
 by those already gathered. JULIAN HARTRIDGE filled many positions 
 
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42 ADDRESS OF MR. DAVIDSON ON THE 
 
 of honor, and filled them all with glory to himself and for his country s 
 good. 
 
 The deeds he has done are left behind, 
 
 The enduring produce of immortal mind ; 
 
 Fruits of a genial morn, and glorious noon : 
 
 A deathless part of him who died too soon. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. PAYIDSON, OF J^LORIDA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: I appreciate the privilege, mournful though it be, 
 which has been granted to me on this occasion to drop a flower on 
 the grave, to pay a humble tribute to the loved memory of Georgia s 
 departed son. Well do I remember the shock which I experienced 
 when on the morning of the 8th day of last month it was announced 
 to me, " HARTRIDGE is dead." Sad announcement indeed it was, for 
 it told that a noble and generous heart had ceased to beat and that 
 an honest and upright life had ended. For years, Mr. Speaker, I had 
 known JULIAN HARTRIDGE by reputation, but it was not until the 
 present Congress had convened in extra session that it was my good 
 fortune to become personally acquainted with him. That acquaint 
 ance was growing in warmth and intimacy when the shaft of the 
 cruel archer struck him and the links of friendship which were being 
 wrought were rudely broken. Sir, I will attempt no lengthy pane 
 gyric, will indulge in no excessive fulsome praise of the lamented 
 dead, but will content myself with a brief sketch of his life and 
 character. 
 
 He was born in Savannah, Georgia, and in early manhood became 
 a member of the legal profession of that city. There were giants in 
 the law there then as there are now. Berrien, Charlton, Law, Ward, 
 and other distinguished gentlemen, whose reputations were not con 
 fined to the limits of their own State, but were national in their 
 character, were at that time practitioners at that bar. Gifted by the 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDCE. 
 
 43 
 
 Master, as HARTRIDGE was, notwithstanding the great array of talent 
 with which he had to cope, by his sound judgment and logic, by his 
 stirring eloquence and brilliant oratory, he was not long in making 
 for himself clients and a name. 
 
 A position having been gained, he rapidly advanced in his profes 
 sion and in the confidence of his fellow-citizens. Soon he was made 
 solicitor-general of his circuit, then elected to the legislature of his 
 State, and when the unhappy struggle began, when war s alarum was 
 sounded, he was, though young in years, enjoying an enviable repu 
 tation as an advocate and a jurist. 
 
 Loving the sunny land which gave him birth, and indorsing those 
 principles which the people of his section advocated, he laid aside 
 the robe of the lawyer and donned the uniform of a soldier. He 
 entered the army of the Confederate States, animated by that spirit 
 which was conspicuously displayed at that eventful period of our 
 country s history, both by men of the North and of the South that 
 spirit which is so beautifully protrayed by the poet when he says: 
 
 No fearing, no doubting, thy soldier shall know, 
 
 When here stands his country and yonder her foe. j 
 
 One look at the bright sun, one prayer to the sky, // Tr 
 
 One glance at our banner, which floats glorious on high ; 
 
 Then on, as the young lion bounds on his prey; C^ \ ~1 T I i 
 
 Let the sword flash on high, fling the scabbard awayy^ 
 
 Roll on like the thunderbolt over the plain, 
 
 We ll come back in glory or come not again. 
 
 But, Mr. Speaker, the genius of Mr. HARTRIDGE as a lawyer and 
 his judgment and wisdom as a counselor and legislator had become 
 so well known to his fellow-citizens that they would not permit him 
 to remain long in the military service. About one year after he 
 became a soldier, he was called by his constituents from the tented 
 field to occupy a seat in the Congress of the Confederate States, and 
 of that body he continued to be a member until the close of the war. 
 
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 ADDRESS OF MR. DAVIDSON ON THE 
 
 Resuming the practice of his profession, he was soon in the enjoy 
 ment of a lucrative business, and by his energy, industry, and supe 
 rior ability gained for himself a conspicuous position and honorable 
 distinction as a lawyer. In 1874 he was elected to the Forty-fourth 
 Congress, and so well and faithfully did he serve his constituents and 
 his country that he was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress. Here, 
 in the city of Washington, at his post and in the discharge of duty, 
 he was called to that bourne from whence no traveler returns. In 
 the vigor of his manhood he has been stricken down has gone to 
 his long home, and we are left to sadly mourn his departure. 
 
 By the death of JULIAN HARTRIDGE this House, his native State, 
 and the whole country have sustained a great loss. The grand 
 demonstration which was witnessed on the occasion of his funeral 
 illustrated the fact that he was greatly beloved by the citizens of 
 Savannah; and as evidence of his worth and the admiration and 
 esteem which his brothers of the bar had for him, I will quote from 
 the preamble and resolutions which were adopted by them a few 
 days after his death. 
 
 They say : 
 
 His character was free, open, and generous. His nature was noble and loving. 
 He carried his heart in his hand. His course was always forward and manly, and 
 he was free from all taint of hypocrisy. To younger and humbler professional 
 brothers he was ever kind and considerate, and his hand was always extended to 
 support, aid, and direct them. He has left in the hearts of survivors a void that 
 cannot be filled, and he goes to his grave missed, honored, and wept. 
 
 Often, Mr. Speaker, has death entered this Hall during the present 
 session of Congress. The solemn question suggests itself now, who 
 will be the next? It is written: "Therefore be ye also ready, for in 
 such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh." 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 45 
 
 ADDRESS OF ^R. pQODE, OF 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: I esteem it a privilege on this sad memorial occa 
 sion to unite with other members of this House in rendering a just 
 tribute of respect to the memory of our departed associate and friend. 
 It is true the voice of eulogy cannot now reach the dull, cold ear of 
 death, or bring back to life that inanimate form which was so recently 
 borne from this Hall, after solemn and impressive ceremonies which 
 denoted more strongly than language could express the depth and 
 sincerity of a nation s grief. But in all ages of the world it has been 
 held to be not only a pious duty but a mournful pleasure to recount 
 the virtues and perpetuate the memory of the great, the noble, and 
 the good who have been removed from earth by the relentless hand 
 of death. 
 
 If a stranger from some foreign land had chanced to be present 
 here on the gth day of January last, when the casket containing the 
 lifeless body of JULIAN HARTRIDGE was brought into this Hall, it 
 would not have been necessary to explain to him that the nation had 
 sustained a heavy and afflictive bereavement. The presence of the 
 President and his Cabinet, the Senate of the United States, the mem 
 bers of the Supreme Court, the sad and sorrowful countenances of 
 the members of this House, and the solemn stillness which pervaded 
 the Hall and the crowded galleries, would have sufficed to inform 
 him, before the Chaplain of the House had commenced the impres 
 sive services of the hour, that no ordinary man had been stricken 
 down and suddenly cut off in the midst of a useful and honorable 
 career. 
 
 And if he had gone with the Congressional escort to the home of 
 the deceased in the beautiful city of Savannah, and had witnessed 
 the imposing funeral pageant and the universal outpouring of the 
 
46 ADDRESS OF MR. GOODE ON THE 
 
 people to do honor to their noble and distinguished dead; if he could 
 have seen how the hearts of the bravest and strongest were para 
 lyzed by the heaviness and suddenness of the blow how an entire 
 community, without regard to age, sex, color, or condition, was 
 bowed down in grief and sorrow and bitterness of woe; if he could 
 have stood at the grave, bestrewn as it was with beautiful and fra 
 grant flowers, and had seen how many in that vast throng were 
 unable to repress the tears which welled up from the heart, he would 
 have felt constrained to exclaim, "Behold how they loved him!" 
 What higher or nobler tribute could have been paid to the dead 
 than was implied in such a demonstration from the people who had 
 known him long and well? It was far more significant and elo 
 quent than words. 
 
 He had been born and reared in their midst, and they had known 
 him from his earliest childhood. They had witnessed the commence 
 ment of his professional career, and had watched with admiration 
 and pleasure his onward and upward course, as step by step he 
 climbed the steep "where fame s proud temple shines afar." They 
 had seen how in a few years, by his commanding abilities and per 
 suasive eloquence, he had attained enviable prominence at a bar 
 whose members enjoyed not only State but national renown. They 
 had elected him, while yet a young man, to the responsible office of 
 solicitor-general of the circuit in which he practiced. They had 
 witnessed his brilliant forensic triumphs when, in vindication of truth 
 and innocence and justice, he had wielded alternately the ponderous 
 battle-ax of a Richard or the keen scimiter of a Saladin. They had 
 often listened to his powerful, convincing arguments, had been led 
 captive by his beautiful rhetoric, had been melted to tears by his 
 touching pathos, and had stood on tiptoe to catch the last receding 
 tones of his musical voice as they died away in the court-room. 
 Although his constitution was feeble and delicate, they had seen him 
 when the war commenced relinquish a large and lucrative practice, 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 47 
 
 sever the ties that bound him to family and home, and, as a vol 
 unteer soldier in the ranks of his country s defenders, cheerfully 
 encounter the hardships of the march, the privations of the camp, 
 and the perils of the field. In a word, Mr. Speaker, the people of 
 Savannah knew JULIAN HARTRIDGE as we could not know him here 
 in the bustle and turmoil of Congressional life. They not only 
 admired and were justly proud of his high intellectual endowments 
 and his brilliant talents, but they loved him for the modesty of his 
 demeanor, the purity of his character, the loftiness of his purpose, 
 the nobility of his nature, the sincerity of his friendships, and his 
 fidelity to the sacred relations of husband and father. 
 
 My personal acquaintance with Mr. HARTRIDGE commenced in 
 February, 1862, during the dark days of the civil war, when he came 
 to Richmond as a Representative from the State of Georgia in the 
 Congress of the Confederate States. As a member of that body he 
 was not only distinguished for his great powers in debate and his 
 persuasive oratory, but for his strict attention to the interests of his 
 constituents and his unswerving fidelity to that cause which he 
 believed to be the cause of civil liberty and constitutional govern 
 ment. Although he was called upon to legislate under the most 
 trying circumstances, while the roar of artillery could be constantly 
 heard as he sat at his desk in the hall of representatives and the 
 flashing of the guns could be distinctly seen from the dome of the 
 capitol, his heroic spirit never faltered for a moment, but he con 
 tinued to vote every man and every dollar required by the adminis 
 tration for the prosecution of the war until the cause of the Confed 
 eracy was lost and its torn and tattered banners were surrendered to 
 overwhelming numbers at Appomattox Court House. 
 
 The war being over, he addressed himself like a true man to the 
 work of restoration. He conceived it to be a high and patriotic duty 
 to extinguish all the bitterness and hate of the past and to exert 
 all his acknowledged influence in re-establishing fraternal relations 
 
48 ADDRESS OF MR. GOODE ON THE 
 
 between the lately dissevered sections of the Union. As a member 
 of the Forty-fourth Congress, and also of the Forty-fifth, he rendered 
 valuable and conspicuous service in the consummation of that object 
 "so devoutly to be wished." In that memorable struggle which took 
 place in the House during the stormy days immediately preceding 
 the 4th of March, 1877, his manly voice was heard above the din 
 and tumult of the hour, and that voice was for peace. He did not 
 despair of the Republic, but cherished an abiding faith that consti 
 tutional liberty would still live. In an address delivered here on the 
 morning of the 25th of January, 1877, an address which completely 
 electrified his hearers and was of itself sufficient to establish his 
 reputation as one of the most splendid orators of the age, he said: 
 
 Constitutional liberty has been before in as great straits as now, but has never 
 been destroyed entirely. From the day when it was wrested in an unshapen, 
 unformed condition from an English tyrant at Runnymede by the iron-mailed 
 hands of English barons to the present hour, when it stands invested with the 
 full stature and majesty of manhood, through all the vicissitudes of change and 
 time and blood it has never died. Time and again it has seemed to be over 
 thrown in the tumults of temporary revolution or destroyed by the vacillating 
 changes of the popular will. Time and again the hand of some Tudor or Stuart, 
 or the power of some star chamber, or the grasp of some military despotism, has 
 seemed to crush it into dust. But each time the hand of some Hampden or the 
 sacrifice of some Warren has proved to the world that it still existed and still 
 claimed its followers and apostles. Ay, time and again the life has seemed to 
 depart from its body, and, clothed in the cerements of the grave, it has been put 
 away out of sight into what seemed to be its eternal tomb. But its disciples had 
 only to labor and to wait, and each time some hand has been found to roll away 
 the stone of the sepulcher; and issuing forth in all its pristine vigor and beauty, it 
 has again shed sunshine and safety all over the land. 
 
 Sir, I stand almost beneath the coat of arms of my native State engraved upon 
 the ceiling of this Hall. There is the arch of the Constitution, supported by the 
 three pillars, upon which, respectively, are inscribed the words "Wisdom," 
 "Justice," and "Moderation." If these three words can be the talismans to 
 control our action wisdom in the concert of measures, justice in executing them 
 for the benefit of all alike, moderation in the exercise of power if we will act 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTR1DGE. 49 
 
 under the inspiration of those words, and so contain and so control ourselves, we will 
 hand down and perpetuate for posterity the great principles of constitutional liberty. 
 
 He labored for the restoration of peace, not only between the sec 
 tions, but between the races also. As a citizen of Georgia and a rep 
 resentative man of his State he sought to cultivate the most kindly 
 relations with the colored people. They fully appreciated his high 
 character and his patriotic efforts in their behalf. As an evidence of 
 their high regard and esteem for him as a citizen and a Representative 
 I desire to place upon record the fact that upon the occasion of his 
 funeral in the city of Savannah they made a formal request to be per 
 mitted to participate in the ceremonies. This request was gratefully 
 and gracefully acceded to, and in accordance with the arrangements 
 eight volunteer companies of colored troops joined in the funeral pro 
 cession, and as an escort of honor accompanied the remains to their last 
 resting-place. Such a spontaneous tribute of respect was honorable 
 alike to all concerned. It was honorable to the distinguished dead, 
 and honorable to the colored population of Savannah. 
 
 But, Mr. Speaker, I must forbear. Our noble, genial, and gallant 
 friend has gone from among us forever. The seat which he once 
 graced and adorned is now vacant. No more will we receive the 
 friendly, cordial grasp of his hand. No more will we look upon those 
 attractive features or listen to the musical tones of that voice which 
 never failed to rivet attention here. While we unite to-day with the 
 State of Georgia in rendering homage to the name of her noble and 
 illustrious son, while we determine to emulate his virtues and keep his 
 memory green in our hearts, let us indulge the hope that 
 
 We may fir.d in death 
 A hiding-place with God 
 
 Secure from woe and sin. till called 
 To share his blest abode. 
 
 Cheered by this hope, we wait 
 Through toil and care and grief 
 
 Till our appointed course is run, 
 And death shall bring relief. 
 
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 ADDRESS OF yVlR. ptTTLER, OF JS EW ^ERSEY. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : JULIAN HARTRIDGE was not a stranger to me when 
 we entered the Forty-fourth Congress together. True, we had never 
 met prior to the convention of that Congress, but warm personal 
 friends of the deceased then residents of my district, formerly of 
 his while equally warm personal friends of mine former constitu 
 ents of mine, then of his had made me acquainted with his manly 
 virtues, social life, sterling integrity, and eminent abilities, so that on 
 that day we met not as strangers, but as acquaintances, and I am 
 proud to say that such acquaintance ripened into a warm and gen 
 erous friendship, and that friendship was an earnest to me that the 
 estimate of our mutual friends was eminently correct, and often there 
 after in social converse have we talked o er and o er the surroundings 
 and associations of those friends, who had selected their new homes, 
 by reason of business relations or choice, in the mild and salubrious 
 climate of his own district or in the bracing, invigorating, and life- 
 giving atmosphere of mine. 
 
 When we the Representatives separated at the holiday vacation to 
 return to our homes to enjoy that festive season, no member on this 
 floor could have looked forward with more certainty of life than he, 
 none surely bore greater external evidence of health than he, and 
 when, immediately upon our return, with bated breath and whisper 
 ing sound we were told that JULIAN HARTRIDGE was dead when 
 scarcely one knew that he was sick the involuntary exclamation 
 from each was, "Who next?" 
 
 Fifteen days had not elapsed since Williams and Douglas had gone. 
 Tis true their hairs were silvered, their cheeks were furrowed, and 
 their eyes were dimmed, yet their deaths were unexpected, ay, they 
 were sudden; yet we consoled ourselves with the reflection " age brings 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 51 
 
 death, " and none supposed that our friend with such a fine physique, 
 in early manhood, with vigorous health, would be the next victim; but 
 the destroyer came, disregarding all these apparent safeguards of life, 
 and severed at a blow the relations of husband, father, friend, and 
 colleague. 
 
 It is for me simply to add my tribute to him as a friend and 
 colleague. 
 
 As a friend, he was true, honorable, actuated by principle, moder 
 ate in counsel, just in estimate, with a suavity of manner, gentleness 
 of expression, and a heart full to overflowing with tender and kind 
 emotions. All who came in contact with him were attracted by his 
 personal magnetism, and by his equable temperament and strong will 
 he retained all that came. 
 
 As a legislator, he was broad, liberal, and conservative. Although 
 a Southern Representative, his whole legislative life was but an earnest 
 that his fondest hope, his heart s desire was for a united country, a 
 Union reconstructed on the basis of love, mutual confidence, and 
 mutual interests; for when poisoned shafts for party purposes have 
 been hurled in this Chamber, to incite old passions and revive dead 
 issues that have been quenched in blood, he allowed them to fall 
 upon the "bosses of his buckler" unheeded, and if they pierced 
 through and punctured the finer recesses of his soul, and rankled in 
 his heart, yet he never plucked them out and hurled them back. He 
 felt that he was serving his native South to better advantage and in 
 citing his common country to acts of reconciliation and love by clos 
 ing the wound from public gaze and allowing time to do equal and 
 exact justice. Time moves slow, but will overtake with vengeance 
 that one, or combination, that attempts for party success or personal 
 ambition to revive the issues of the dead past. Oh, when will states 
 men, when will Representatives learn the lesson of the hour, and 
 answer responsive to the throbbings of the great heart of the Ameri 
 can people when they cry out, "Let the dead Past bury its dead!" 
 
52 ADDRESS OF MR. CUTLER ON THE 
 
 The American people with uplifted hands are begging, beseeching, 
 praying, that we shall legislate for the present and the future. We 
 have learned the fearful lesson taught of the past; we have drank of 
 its bitter waters; let those lessons and those draughts be a reminder 
 to us that our care is for the prosperity and happiness of a people 
 united under a common flag with a common object and for a common 
 destiny; and I cannot refrain from quoting here the words of a dis 
 tinguished member on this floor, Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio, at the 
 commencement of this session, when he said : 
 
 So far as I have studied the current of public thought and of political feeling in 
 this country, no feeling has shown itself more strongly than the tendency of the 
 public mind in the past few months. The man who attempts to get up a political 
 excitement in this country on the old sectional issues will find himself without a 
 party and without support. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, to show JULIAN HARTRIDGE in the double relation of 
 friend and legislator, I extract from one of his speeches the follow 
 ing. It was in the heat of debate, without preparation. 
 
 The object of the introduction of this amendment is self-evident. The partisan 
 purpose which it is intended to subserve is easily recognized by every intelligent 
 mind. I should not rise to oppose it were it not for the fact that it does gross in 
 justice to an honorable and gallant gentleman, and endeavors to cast an imputation 
 upon a portion of the people of the State which I have the honor in part to represent. 
 
 The people of Augusta, Georgia, have no immediate Representative on this floor. 
 The hand of Providence pressing heavily upon their gifted Representative pre 
 vents him from raising his voice, as he would do if here, in defense of the honor of 
 his constituents ; but there is no Georgian upon this floor who will not feel it his 
 duty, his pride, and his pleasure to enter his protest against any imputation such 
 as that conveyed by this amendment against a community distinguished for its in 
 telligence, for its integrity, for its virtue, and for its obedience to the laws and the 
 Constitution. 
 
 An investigation is going on conducted by the governor of South Carolina 
 through his official agents, his attorney-general, his adjutant-general, and his 
 coroners holding inquests over the bodies of those unfortunate dead. It would 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 53 
 
 have been well to have waited until that inquest had given to the world the result 
 of its determination before casting this fire-brand into this assembly. 
 
 His earnest desire was for a reunited country, and to the accom 
 plishment of that end he devoted his entire energy. His whole legis 
 lative life was imbued with the principle, " On earth peace, good will 
 toward men"; and he became a power, for in addition to the natural 
 magnetism of his nature he possessed a cultured mind, strict integrity, 
 unvarying principle, and fervid eloquence. 
 
 How well I remember, never shall I forget, and in memory I see 
 him now, as he stood then, where I now stand under the aegis of his 
 own noble and beloved State, looking up to the emblem of her sover 
 eignty and drawing inspiration from it, with what feeling, with what 
 pathos, with what eloquence, was answered by the involuntary and 
 prolonged responses of applause that re-echoed through the halls of 
 this Chamber, not only from the members but from the crowded 
 galleries, when he uttered the following tribute to his native State : 
 
 Sir, I stand almost beneath the coat of arms of my native State, engraved upon 
 the ceiling of this Hall. There is the arch of the Constitution, supported by the 
 three pillars, upon which respectively are inscribed the words "Wisdom", "Jus 
 tice", and "Moderation". If these three words can be the talismans to control 
 our action wisdom in the concert of measures, justice in executing them for the 
 benefit of all alike, moderation in the exercise of power if we will act under the 
 inspiration of those words, and so contain and so control ourselves, we will hand 
 down and perpetuate for posterity the great principles of constitutional liberty. 
 [Applause.] 
 
 " Dust to dust, earth to earth, ashes to ashes," have been spoken 
 over his grave, yet he lives and always will live in our memory; and 
 his colleagues in the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses will 
 always refer to him with no other feelings but those of pleasure, and 
 will ever speak of him as a friend sincere, a man true, a legislator 
 pure. I loved him as a friend for his sincerity; I sorrow for him as 
 a legislator for his purity and patriotism; he was ever forgetful of 
 self. I admired him as a colleague, for he had talents the possession 
 
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 of which it was not a sin for any of us to envy him in the enjoyment 
 of, and had virtues which we ought to emulate. 
 I mourn him gone, but he is not dead, for 
 
 There is no death! The stars go down 
 
 To rise upon some fairer shore; 
 And right in heaven s jeweled crown 
 
 They shine forever more. 
 
 There is no death ! An angel form 
 Walks o er the earth with silent tread; 
 
 He bears the beloved things away, 
 And then we call them "dead." 
 
 Born into that undying life, 
 
 They leave us but to to come again; 
 With joy we welcome them the same 
 
 Except in sin and pain. 
 
 And ever near, as though unseen, 
 
 The dear immortal spirits tread; 
 For all the boundless universe 
 
 Is life there is no death ! 
 
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 Mr. SPEAKER: The whole country received the announcement that 
 JULIAN HARTRIDGE was dead, with consternation and sorrow. The 
 people of Georgia have enshrined his memory in their hearts and 
 placed upon his bier their immortelles, dripping with the tears of 
 their anguish. The summons came to him in the vigor of his man 
 hood and the full maturity of his powers, and closed a useful and 
 brilliant career with scarcely a note of warning. We are prepared 
 for the demise of the aged and the infirm, and we watch the flicker 
 ing of life s lamp in them with emotions similar to those with which 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 55 
 
 we look upon the mellow glow of a summer sunset. The grave then 
 loses something of its terrors as we contemplate it as the resting- 
 place of a weary pilgrimage. Ignoring the sad truth that humanity 
 is subjected to the universal law of suffering and death, we assign 
 to life s duration the limit which age alone prescribes. We seem to 
 forget that 
 
 Leaves have their time to fall, 
 
 And flowers to wither at the north wind s breath, 
 And stars to set; but all, 
 
 Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death ! 
 
 Death palsies the arm of the warrior, and he drops from his nerve 
 less grasp the shattered spear. It stills the tongue of the orator, 
 and the senate and the forum are silent. It severs the chord in the 
 tide of song, and the harp of the minstrel hangs upon the willow. 
 It drinks from the blushes of beauty the mingled hues of the rose 
 and lily, and the reptiles of the grave banquet upon the lips our love 
 has pressed. Every age and every clime is monumental with its 
 symbols and strewn with the trophies of its conquests. 
 
 And still we are startled when its victim is selected from the 
 strong, suddenly stricken down in the full-orbed splendor of man 
 hood s high meridian, leaving exalted position vacant, and forever 
 blighting the promise of future honor and usefulness to country and 
 kind. The estimation in which the lamented HARTRIDGE was held 
 by the people of his native State is shown by the honors conferred 
 upon him living, and the grief with which they mourn him dead. 
 He was born in the city of Savannah, and spent the gambols of his 
 childhood and won the triumphs of his manhood in that beautiful 
 city that keeps vigil like a weeping vestal over the repose of his ashes. 
 
 JULIAN HARTRIDGE commenced his education in the schools of 
 his native State and completed it at Brown University in Rhode 
 Island, graduating with high distinction. He selected the law as his 
 profession and attended for a period the law school at Cambridge, 
 
56 ADDRESS OF MR. BELL ON THE 
 
 Massachusetts. Soon after his admission to the bar the people of 
 his country, always distinguished for their wisdom in selecting their 
 ablest men for official trusts, returned him to the legislature, in 
 which, at a bound, he placed himself in the front rank of the wise 
 men of the State as an eloquent speaker, ready debater, and prac 
 tical legislator. He was a delegate to the historic national Dem- 
 ocrati cconvention that met in Charleston in 1860. Returned 
 to the Confederate Congress in 1861, he was re-elected in 1863 
 and served as a member of that body during the existence of the 
 Confederacy. 
 
 He was chosen chairman of the executive committee of the Demo 
 cratic party of the State of Georgia in 1871, delegate for the State at 
 large to the national Democratic convention in 1872, and elector for 
 the State at large on the Greeley and Brown ticket in the Presidential 
 campaign. He was elected a Representative from the first district of 
 Georgia to the Forty-fourth Congress and re-elected to the Forty-fifth, 
 of which he was an honored and useful member at the time of his 
 death. He was always fully equal to the emergency surrounding him, 
 discharging the duties of every official position to which he was called 
 to the gratification of his friends and the admiration of his enemies. 
 He recognized in the law a jealous mistress, and paid chivalric court 
 at her shrine. He entered the lists for professional trial and profes 
 sional triumph with a bar illustrated with the learning and adorned 
 with the virtues of Berrien, Charlton, and Law, and soon the lance of 
 the youthful knight was gleaming at its head. He was elected by the 
 legislature solicitor-general of the eastern judicial circuit, and the cer 
 tainty with which criminals were convicted and crime punished at 
 tested the ability and fidelity with which he met the obligations and 
 discharged the duties of that responsible office. 
 
 His thorough culture, his sense of justice, his love of right, and his 
 powers of analysis eminently fitted him for success at the bar. His 
 statement of the questions of law in his case had the clearness and 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 57 
 
 force of argument, and his representation of the facts the merit of 
 fairness and candor. Repudiating mere dicta as authority, he vener 
 ated the precedents established by the great lights of the law based 
 upon authority and sustained by reason. He seized with promptness 
 the controlling points of his case and fortified them with authority 
 until his position was impregnable, and then assailed his adversary 
 in his weak points by harassing sorties from his chosen stronghold. 
 His position thus taken and his authorities arranged, he brought to 
 his argument the aid of a style of singular vigor and perspicuity. 
 He aroused the indignation of juries against wrong with blistering 
 invective and won them to his cause and his client with the appeals 
 of a melting pathos. 
 
 He added to a handsome person the accomplishment of graceful 
 action and the power of a charming voice. His elocution was 
 faultless; you could neither add nor reject a word without mar 
 ring its beauty or impairing its harmony. The sentences were so 
 constructed as to evolve the exact thought with the greatest possi 
 ble force, and to flow in "Pierian streams of transparent, cool, 
 and sweet." The multitude hung like the bees of Hybla upon his 
 lips to catch the sweetness his eloquence distilled. His mind, 
 trained in the disputations of the forum in intellectual gladiatorship 
 with lawyers of the highest order of ability, who came together 
 like electric clouds, flashing as they met, acquired wonderful powers 
 of activity and concentration; and these powers, marshaled by him 
 for the ascertainment and defense of truth, were wielded with the 
 skill of a master. 
 
 The truth was his guiding star in all his investigations. He sought 
 it by the nearest ways and plainest methods that earnest inquiry and 
 thorough search could discover. His resources of learning supplied 
 him with rich stores of classical illustration which were used not to 
 embellish, but to intensify his logic. Criminal prosecutions involving 
 the death penalty fully developed his transcendent powers of advo- 
 
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58 ADDRESS OF MR. BELL ON THE 
 
 cacy. The announcement that HARTRIDGE would address the jury 
 in a murder case was the signal for an admiring multitude to crowd 
 the court-room. The reports of the supreme court of Georgia con 
 tain the evidence of his research and learning as a jurist. He was 
 averse to the irksome drudgery of routine labor, but delighted in the 
 investigation and solution of new and difficult problems of law and 
 political economy. Brave as Caesar, he was modest as a maiden. 
 He had an exalted conception of the amenities and proprieties of life 
 in its private, professional, and public relations. 
 
 He seldom spoke in the House of Representatives, his sensitive 
 nature revolting at the struggle for the floor which frequently char 
 acterizes its proceedings, and his modesty recoiling at the thought of 
 thrusting a speech on unwilling auditors; but when he did speak he 
 always confined himself to the question, enlightened the House, and 
 commanded its attention. His speech on the electoral commission, 
 and the one delivered at the last session on the bill to prevent the 
 introduction into the United States of contagious and infectious dis 
 eases, are fine models of parliamentary eloquence. The world is 
 unwilling to concede excellence in more than one department of 
 intellectual superiority, but his professional brethren who knew him 
 best have accorded to him rare powers of advocacy and great learning 
 as a jurist, and by common consent have assigned him his position 
 at their head. 
 
 Of his statesmanship it is scarcely necessary to speak in this pres 
 ence; decided in his convictions, ardent in his patriotism, comprehen 
 sive in his views, and intensely devoted to the Constitution of his 
 country, he was a model Representative of an intelligent and patriotic 
 constituency. To appreciate the social qualities of JULIAN HART- 
 RIDGE it was necessary to know him intimately. Beneath an appar 
 ently cold exterior was concealed an affluence of genial nature, warm 
 friendship, and tender sensibility. At his desk, during the last ses 
 sion of Congress, he grasped my hand warmly, and in the absence of 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 59 
 
 any suggestion leading or referring to the subject, with evident emo 
 tion said : 
 
 I am regarded as cold, distant, and proud, but no man has ever been so misunder 
 stood; there never was a greater mistake. There never was a warmer heart than 
 mine. The truth is, it arises from a defect in my vision. I am near-sighted, and 
 cannot recognize my dearest friends at any distance from me. I would give the 
 world if it were otherwise. 
 
 Although I had been acquainted with him for twenty years, I 
 never knew nor appreciated him until that moment. It developed 
 in him the possession of a large endowment of those rare and high 
 qualities which constitute the charm of social life, beautifully and 
 comprehensively called 
 
 The softer green of the soul. 
 
 His countrymen have twined for his memory the wreath of laurel 
 and cypress the insignia of their pride and the symbol of their sor 
 row; and his friends have dropped upon his new-made grave friend 
 ship s last offering, the tribute of their tears. 
 
 But strew his ashes to the wind 
 
 Whose sword or voice has served mankind 
 
 And is he dead, whose glorious mind 
 
 Lifts thine on high ? 
 To live in hearts we leave behind, 
 
 Is not to die. 
 
 In the death of my late colleague the Republic has lost a patriotic 
 citizen and a wise statesman, the profession an eloquent advocate 
 and a learned jurist, society a courtly gentleman and a brilliant 
 ornament, and his family a devoted husband and affectionate father. 
 All that is left to them of JULIAN HARTRIDGE is the heritage of his 
 wisdom, the light of his example, and the memory of his virtues. 
 Time will mitigate our grief, and in the rush and whirl of busy life 
 other thoughts will engage our attention, but there is a sad home in 
 
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 the sunny South within whose broken circle there are bleeding heart? 
 for the healing of which earth has no balm. 
 
 For time makes all but true love old; 
 The burning thoughts that then were told 
 Run molten still in memory s mold, 
 
 And will not cool 
 Until the heart itself be cold 
 In Lethe s pool. 
 
 The influence of wealth, the resources of learning, and the author 
 ity of power, all stand dumb and helpless in the presence of death. 
 It is the solution of all the rivalries, struggles, and achievements of 
 time. Surrounded with blighted hopes and funeral trains, the broken 
 heart of humanity through all time has pressed the question of the 
 suffering patriarch of Uz, " If a man die shall he live again ? " The 
 quivering spirit whose insatiable thirst for immortality attests the 
 divinity of its origin and the duration of its destiny, kindles with joy 
 as it catches the response from the rejected Nazarine at Bethany, " I 
 am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in Me, though he 
 were dead, yet shall he live." 
 
 Poor wanderers of a stormy day, 
 
 From place to place we re driven, 
 And fancy s flash and reason s ray 
 Serve but to light the troubled way, 
 
 There s nothing true but heaven. 
 
 And false the light on glory s plume, 
 
 As fading hues of even, 
 And love and joy and beauty s bloom 
 Are blossoms gathered for the tomb, 
 
 There s nothing lives but heaven. 
 
 ADDRESS OF y\lR. ^ELTON, OF pEOR^GIA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: "In the midst of life we are in death." This is 
 one of the most impressive sentences in the English language. We 
 
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 may delude ourselves that the "dread destroyer" is far from us; 
 that we are strong and authorized to rejoice in our strength, but we 
 never remain undisturbed in our fancied security. 
 
 Every day we see the great in fame, the mighty in wealth, and the 
 beautiful in health fall around us. Nothing is secure. Death alone 
 is certain. 
 
 The business pursuits of life may be engaging and active; family 
 and friends may gather near, and their loving dependence may bind 
 them closer to us; highways of pleasure fringed with perpetual 
 spring, may stretch out before us, and we may see in the future rich 
 and fruitful rewards for our labors; political and professional honors 
 may wreathe themselves around the brow, while a cultivated intel 
 lect, quickened by a laudable ambition, gives assurance of increasing 
 distinction and greater usefulness : yet, 
 
 The hour concealed and so remote the fear, 
 Death draws still nearer, never seeming near. 
 
 My deceased colleague, Hon. JULIAN HARTRIDGE, was honored 
 by Georgia in early life. When he was a young man the State 
 placed him in important positions of public trust, and his future 
 promised a long continuance of well-deserved honors and an increase 
 of public duties which he would have met zealously and with credit 
 to himself and to his native State. 
 
 His legal ability was generally recognized, and whether he sought 
 distinction as a statesman or as a jurist, the path seemed easy of 
 access, leading to a realization of his fondest hopes. 
 
 Surrounded by a beautiful family, blessed with an attractive home, 
 honors hanging plentifully over his head, and rejoicing in the strength 
 of mature manhood, the destroyer marked him for his own, and, with 
 the briefest warning, he was called to leave all life s treasures and 
 enter the unknown world. 
 
 I add my tribute of respect and admiration for this noble Georgian, 
 
62 ADDRESS OF MR. FELTON. 
 
 and desire to unite with the people of my State in the grief with 
 which they mourn his loss. 
 
 No feeble words of mine will add to his fame; nor can I express 
 the grief felt or the great loss which our State has sustained in giving 
 up this favored son. He does not need the voice of eulogy. His 
 record is inscribed upon the history of his State. With heartfelt 
 sympathy for the inmates of that home made desolate by his untimely 
 death, and gratefully reverencing the memory of a colleague who 
 fell at his post of duty, we take our final adieu. I was at his bedside 
 a few hours before his death. I found him calm and hopeful a 
 philosopher, a scholar, a statesman, and a patriot awaiting his end. 
 
 The question was taken upon the resolutions, and they were unani 
 mously agreed to; and thereupon (at five o clock and twenty-five 
 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned. 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE. 
 
 JANUARY 9, 1879. 
 
 A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. GEORGE 
 M. ADAMS, its Clerk, announced that the House had passed a resolu 
 tion providing that the funeral ceremonies of Hon. JULIAN HART- 
 RIDGE, late a Representative in that body from the State of Georgia, 
 shall be held at three o clock p. m. this day in the Hall of the House 
 of Representatives, and inviting the Senate to attend at that hour. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolutions of the House of Repre 
 sentatives will be reported by the Secretary. 
 
 The resolutions were read, as follows : 
 
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, January g, 1879. 
 
 Resolved, That the funeral ceremonies of Hon. JULIAN HART- 
 RIDGE, late a Representative in this body from the State of Georgia, 
 be held at three o clock p. m. this day in this Hall. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate the foregoing resolution to 
 the Senate and invite the Senate to attend the said funeral cere 
 monies. 
 
 Mr. ANTHONY. Mr. President, I offer the following resolution and 
 ask for its consideration : 
 
 Resolved, That, pursuant to the invitation of the House of Repre 
 sentatives, the Senate will attend the funeral ceremony of Hon. 
 JULIAN HARTRIDGE, late a member of the House of Representatives 
 from the State of Georgia, in the Hall of the House of Representa 
 tives this day at three o clock. 
 
 The resolution was considered and agreed to unanimously. 
 
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64 ADDRESS OF MR. GORDON ON THE 
 
 Mr. ANTHONY. Mr. President, the resolution of the Senate pro 
 vided that the Senate should proceed at three o clock to the Hall of 
 the House. I understand that it is desirable that the Senators should 
 be seated there by three o clock. I move, therefore, that the Senate 
 now proceed to the Hall of the House of Representatives. 
 
 The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the Hall 
 of the House of Representatives, headed by the Vice-President and 
 Secretary, and preceded by the Sergeant-at-Arms. 
 
 The Senate returned to its Chamber at four o clock and fifteen 
 minutes p. m., and the Vice-President resumed the chair. 
 
 Mr. ANTHONY. Mr. President, I move that the Senate do now 
 adjourn. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from Rhode Island moves 
 that the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was agreed to; and (at four o clock and sixteen min 
 utes p. m.) the Senate adjourned. 
 
 MARCH i, 1879. 
 
 Mr. GORDON. Mr. President, I move that the Senate now pro 
 ceed to the consideration of the resolutions of the House of Repre 
 sentatives on the death of Hon. JULIAN HARTRIDGE, of Georgia. 
 
 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The resolutions will be reported. 
 
 The resolutions were read, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That this House has heard with profound regret of the 
 death of Hon. JULIX\N HARTRIDGE, a Representative from the State 
 of Georgia. 
 
 Resolved, That the House do now suspend the consideration of 
 other business, in order to pay proper respect to the memory of the 
 lamented deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That in token of regard for the memory of the lamented 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 65 
 
 deceased the members of this House do wear the usual badge of 
 mourning for thirty days. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of this House do communicate these 
 resolutions to the Senate of the United States. 
 
 Resolved, That out of further respect to the memory of the de 
 ceased this House do now adjourn. 
 
 Mr. GORDON. Mr. President, I offer the following resolutions: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate receives with sincere regret the announce 
 ment of the death of Hon. JULIAN HARTRIDGE, late a member of the 
 House of Representatives from the State of Georgia, and tenders to 
 the family and kindred of the deceased the assurance of sympathy 
 under their sad bereavement. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect for the memory of the deceased 
 the members and officers of the Senate will wear the usual badge of 
 mourning for thirty days. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to transmit to the family 
 of the deceased a copy of these resolutions. 
 
 ADDRESS OF M.R. GORDON, OF GEORGIA. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: No higher tribute can be paid to our common 
 humanity than to assert the truth that no man dies without leaving 
 some mourner over his ashes. No life is so obscure, its light so 
 dim, but that its going out leaves a shadow on some other life, and 
 the length of that shadow, the extent of the sorrow felt at his death, 
 is in some degree the measure of a man s usefulness while living. 
 
 Tested by this rule, the distinguished man to whose memory we 
 now pay tribute had already filled, though scarcely in the prime of 
 his manhood, a sphere of exalted and extended usefulness. 
 
 Born and reared amid the refinements of the most cultivated 
 society; accustomed to the companionship of the ablest and most 
 
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66 ADDRESS OF MR. GORDON ON THE 
 
 distinguished men of his State and section; commanding the respect 
 and even the admiration of the Representatives of the entire Union, 
 with whom he had served, he nevertheless won and held to the last 
 the confidence, esteem, and affection of the unlettered, the poor, and 
 the friendless among his constituents. His generous philanthropy 
 and noble sympathies touched the whole circle of humanity at its 
 every point, and all classes and creeds among the people he served 
 mourned his death as that of a champion and friend. 
 
 It was my fortune, sir, to be one of the committee who bore back 
 to his home by the sea and to a confiding constituency all that was 
 mortal of JULIAN HARTRIDGE. It was my fortune to observe the 
 extent of the loss to his people and the demonstrations of popular 
 affection, of gratitude, and of grief. Could you, sir, have witnessed, 
 as I did, the spectacle of the entire population of his native city 
 thronging its streets and following his remains to the grave, you 
 would agree with me that it was a demonstration worthy the memory 
 of any man. Such an exhibition of sorrow, felt alike by both races, 
 at the death of a Representative from a Southern State, under the 
 peculiar untoward circumstances which surround us, will be, when 
 rightly understood, a revelation and a sermon to those who now 
 misapprehend us. Like every true Representative of Southern senti 
 ment, JULIAN HARTRIDGE was a friend to the colored race, receiving 
 its recognition and gratitude while he lived and its homage when 
 dead. I ask permission in this connection to quote from a speech 
 made by him during an exciting debate in the House of Representa 
 tives. He said, referring to the colored race : 
 
 There is some feeling on our part toward this race among whom we were born 
 and reared, and with whom we daily live. There is scarcely one of us upon this 
 floor from that section who can look back to the days of his infancy or childhood 
 without seeing something to bring up pleasant and loved memories in connection 
 with this race. For my part, were I to seek to outrage this colored race, there 
 would rise up to rebuke me the memory of the nurse of my infant years the mem 
 ory of her whose bosom, although dark with the hue of slavery, yet tenderly and 
 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JULIAN HARTRIDGE. 67 
 
 softly pillowed my infant head; whose hands, although hardened by toil, yet kindly 
 ministered to my infant wants ; whose voice, although untrained and untutored, 
 sweetly sang the lullaby that soothed my infant slumbers. I tell you, gentlemen, 
 there are ties of interest, there are ties of policy, there are ties of memory and the 
 best emotions of the heart to bind the white people of the South to the colored 
 race. [Applause.] 
 
 Sir, to the sincerity with which he spoke these eloquent words, let 
 the scene I am about to describe bear witness. Around the hall in 
 which his remains were laid, and along the streets and at his grave, 
 were the congregated thousands of Savannah s colored inhabitants. 
 In the formal and grand procession which escorted his body to the 
 tomb, the splendidly equipped colored infantry and artillery marched, 
 at their own solicitation, with solemn tread and reverent mien. His 
 former slaves, freed from servitude for more than thirteen years, 
 many of them with heads whitened by age, vied with each other for 
 the honor of bearing his coffin. 
 
 But, sir, there was another incident connected with this demon 
 stration which I think worthy of special mention because it not 
 only bears witness to the character of Mr. HARTRIDGE and the sin 
 cerity of his professions, but is a silent, impressive tribute to that 
 peculiar institution under which he was born and reared, now passed 
 away forever. In advance of Congressional committee, taking pre 
 cedence over distinguished visitors and even of his kindred, accom 
 panying the bereaved wife and children of our deceased friend, as 
 members of his immediate household, were the family servants. First 
 among these was that old colored nurse, her form bent with age and 
 quivering with grief, whose bosom, in his own impressive language, 
 had pillowed his head in infancy, whose hands had ministered to his 
 wants, and who had so often sung her untutored but gentle " lullaby " 
 over his " infant slumbers." Sir, I am tempted to say in this connection 
 that there are myriads of such ties and memories which, undisturbed 
 by adverse influences, would be the surest, safest, and most enduring 
 
68 ADDRESS OF MR. GORDON ON THE 
 
 guarantee of the progress and the political and personal rights of 
 both races at the South. 
 
 Mr. President, I shall not attempt a biographical sketch of the life 
 of Mr. HARTRIDGE, nor make specific references to his triumphs at the 
 bar, on the hustings, or in deliberative assemblies. This has been 
 done in a manner most satisfactory by his colleagues in the House. 
 I prefer to attempt a brief analysis of those splendid endowments of 
 mind, of heart, and of person which so distinguished him. 
 
 With a vigor of intellect and a magnetic presence that gave him 
 command of men; with a rigid integrity and love of justice that gave 
 him the confidence of men ; with a nature the melody and harmony 
 of whose sympathies gave him the love of men ; with an eloquence 
 and strength of utterance persuasive and convincing ; with a love of 
 his whole country that quickened into new life the dormant patriot 
 ism of others, it is not too much to say of him that there is no height 
 of distinction nor breadth of usefulness to which he might not rea 
 sonably have aspired. 
 
 His chief mental defect seemed to have been an indisposition to 
 great intellectual effort. That his mind was one of unusual brilliancy 
 none who knew him well will deny ; and yet while his influence in 
 the House was great, he rarely spoke. There was in him a hidden 
 or rather repressed power, which, when fully aroused under the guid 
 ance of a beautiful culture and of a heart devoted to truth, was almost 
 irresistible before juries of the people, or in deliberative bodies. 
 
 His character is a fit counterpart of his mental endowments. Too 
 brave to know fear, he shrank from an act of cruelty or injustice with 
 the timidity of a child. Too proud to brook an insult or to give one, 
 yet his spirit was as gentle as a woman s, and as tender in the depth 
 and sweetness of his affections. 
 
 He was without hypocrisy or affectation, and so despised the least 
 semblance of ostentation as to give him at times the manner of austere 
 reserve. Behind this distant manner, however, there was a native 
 
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 courtesy, sincere and knightly, a generosity almost prodigal, a capac 
 ity for friendships devoted and true, and a geniality of temper uni 
 form and perennial. How could he be otherwise? Men are 
 molded, Mr. President, not only by the influences of home and its 
 associations, but by the peculiar civilization under which they are 
 reared, and even by the climate and the scenery of the country 
 around them. JULIAN HARTRIDGE grew up under a civilization 
 whose center was the home and the home affections, under a cli 
 mate where the blue skies were rarely overcast but by a passing 
 cloud, where the air was genial, soft, and balmy, and where the for 
 ests were clad in perpetual green. 
 
 His death, so sudden and unexpected to his friends, was not a sur 
 prise to him. He heard the muffled tread of the grim king, and 
 spoke freely of his approach. He stood calmly on the verge of the 
 undiscovered country, on the crest of that great water-shed from 
 which flow in opposite directions the rivers of time and of eternity 
 the one backward to the ever lost, the other forward to the everlast 
 ing ; and while we were yet hoping for his recovery he peacefully 
 crossed that dark line we all must pass which separates this life from 
 the vast and vague unknown. His career was short, his life closing 
 at its noon, while the sun was still shining on higher eminences just 
 before him. It closed on a career incomplete, yet pure, bright, and 
 honorable, and before the shadows of age had darkened his intel 
 lectual vision or dimmed one ray of his genius. 
 
 In his beautiful southern home we have buried him, near those 
 wild and weird and enchanting solitudes which he ardently loved and 
 from which he drew so much inspiration in his boyhood and maturer 
 years. Over his grave will grow the flowers that never fade, and 
 the ceaseless music of the pines will fitly emblem the grief of his 
 grateful people. 
 
70 ADDRESS OF MR. BOOTH ON THE 
 
 ADDRESS OF yVlR. JBOOTH, OF 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT : When an observance like this occurs in the busy 
 hours of a closing session it is apt to seem like an idle ceremony. 
 The duties of public life are so varied and pressing, its calls so inces 
 sant, its avocations so absorbing, that there is little time left for senti 
 ment or the indulgence of grief. 
 
 Our numbers are constantly changing by death and by the vicissi 
 tudes of political fortune; but the leave-taking is short, and the busi 
 ness of to-morrow will make the grief of to-day only a memory. 
 "The strong hours conquer us." It will be so when we shall sever 
 ally disappear even those of you, Senators, who play the greatest 
 parts on this great stage. The actor makes his exit; and however 
 well he may have performed his part, whatever plaudits he may have 
 won, the curtain does not fall, and the play goes on. 
 
 The time has gone by, if indeed it aver was, when the loss of any 
 life will seriously influence the permanent direction of public affairs. 
 It is true that no man s place can be filled by another; it is equally 
 true that it is not essential it should be. In the vast aggregate the 
 value of the largest unit is scarcely appreciable. A heart has ceased 
 to beat; it is one of millions. The struggle of a life has ended; the 
 struggle of human life never ends. How insignificant is the individ 
 ual life to the whole of humanity! Yet what an awful gift it is to 
 each of its possessors, this strange personality of ours, which isolates 
 us from all else and yet makes all that is a part of us. Nor sun, nor 
 moon, nor stars, nor past, nor present can be, save as they are a part 
 of us. 
 
 Life with its possibilities is an awful gift, and when it is bereft the 
 event is unspeakably solemn. Custom familiarizes us with the forms 
 of death, fashion hides their significance with pageantry; only the 
 
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 "stricken heart of love" realizes with what dark eclipse they come. 
 It is well that we should pause, even in the busiest hours, when a 
 comrade falls, not more as a mark of respect for his memory than to 
 receive for our own good the lesson of his life and death. 
 
 The memory of JULIAN HARTRIDGE cannot be other than a price 
 less possession, even in their sorrow, to those who loved him. It was 
 not my pleasure to know him, but by order of the Senate I was one 
 of the committee which attended his remains from this Capitol to the 
 beautiful city where he was born, where he was married, where his 
 children were born to him, where he had spent his whole life, and 
 where he is buried with his fathers. In that community which had 
 known him all the days of his life, all his outgoings and incomings, 
 I felt that I knew him too. There was a tenderness in the mention 
 of his name by all classes, which only a life filled with tender respect 
 for the rights and feelings of others could have won. There was a 
 warmth of expression that showed how he had grappled his friends 
 with hooks of steel. There was that high respect which is only con 
 quered by a life of probity and* courage. 
 
 I think his life must have been a happy one. The lines seem to 
 me to have fallen to him in pleasant places. No life is free from 
 struggles, trials, temptations, and failures, of which the world little 
 knows, and the deepest scars are within. His life was in a great 
 epoch. It marks its great transition, that the slaves who had borne 
 him on their backs and fondled him on their knees in his childhood, 
 as free men tenderly carried his body to the grave; still loving the 
 dear young master, panoplied in American citizenship, they walked 
 beside his hearse. His lot was cast with a community cultivated, 
 tasteful, generous, hospitable, and self-respectful. There he lived for 
 fifty years, and dying left no enemy or reproachful friend. Who of 
 us can desire or deserve a more fragrant memory ? 
 
72 ADDRESS OF MR. WAD LEIGH ON THE 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. JVADLEIGH, OF J^EW J^AMPSHIRE. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: In addressing the Senate on this occasion I feel 
 an embarrassment which I can hardly express. I had no personal 
 acquaintance with JULIAN HARTRIDGE; he was known to me only 
 by reputation. Such knowledge illy qualifies me to speak of him in 
 fitting terms. We acquire in familiar intercourse an insight into 
 human character such as can be gained in no other way. How often 
 in our experience the prejudices of half a life-time disappear in the 
 associations we form in this Chamber. If the people of the differ 
 ent sections of our country could know each other as we do it would 
 remove many common misunderstandings and tend to national unity. 
 
 But against Mr. HARTRIDGE I never entertained any prejudice. 
 He seemed one of those men, unhappily too rarely found, whose 
 character seems to disarm hostile criticism. All who knew him seem 
 to agree that he was a good lawyer a*nd a good legislator; that his 
 great natural powers were trained and strengthened by careful educa 
 tion, and that beneath a reserved exterior he had that warmth of 
 heart and those generous impulses which win and keep friends. That 
 he had the confidence of his constituents all agree. On a recent oc 
 casion when political passion threatened to fan into destructive life 
 the dying embers of civil war his voice and influence were thrown 
 into the scale of peace. Feeling how much our country needs states 
 men capable of rising above the demands of party when the union 
 and prosperity of our common country require it, I cannot but mourn 
 over the death of one who had given promise of such patriotic 
 liberality. 
 
 Representing as he did in part the Empire State of the South, he 
 could have aided much in welding strongly to the Union that great 
 commonwealth, and in bringing to her people that peace, that justice, 
 
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 and that harmony so essential to her welfare. In his death I think 
 she has sustained a great loss. 
 
 Can we look upon the frequent invasion of these Halls by death 
 without feelings of deep solemnity and awe? Sir, they forcibly re 
 mind us how frail a barrier separates us from the unseen world to 
 which we are swiftly hastening and of the imperious duty which rests 
 upon us to conscientiously perform the duties we owe to our country 
 and our God. 
 
 Mr. GORDON. I ask that the Senate agree to the resolutions. 
 
 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the 
 resolutions presented by the Senator from Georgia. 
 
 The resolutions were agreed to unanimously. 
 
 Mr. GORDON. I move as an additional mark of respect that the 
 Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was agreed to; and (at six o clock and forty-two min 
 utes a. m. Monday, March 3) the Senate adjourned. 
 
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