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LIBRARY

MEMORIAL ADDRESSES

AND CHARACTER

WILLIAM H. ENOCHS,

A REPRESENTATIVE FROM OHIO,

DELIVERED IN THE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND IN THE SENATE,

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION.

PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1895.

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring*), That there
be printed of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the Hon. William
H. Enochs, late a Representative from the State of Ohio, 8,000 copies, of
which number 2,000 copies shall be delivered to the Senators and Repre
sentatives of the State of Ohio, which shall include 50 copies to be bound
in full morocco to be delivered to the family 01 the deceased, and, of the
remaining, 2,000 shall be for the use of the Senate and 4.000 for the use
of the House of Representatives, and the Secretary of the Treasury is
directed to have engraved and printed a portrait of the said William H.
Enochs, to accompany the said eulogies.

Agreed to in the House of Representatives April 18, 1894. Agreed to
in the Senate April 20, 1894.
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CONTENTS.

Announcement of death : Page.

In the House of ^Representatives 5

In the Senate 52

Address of Mr. Brice 57

Mr. Bundy 48

Mr. Grosvenor 8

Mr. Hare 27

Mr. Henderson, of Illinois 25

Mr. McKaig 35

Mr. North-way 44

Mr. Sherman 54

Mr. Warner 32

Mr. Wilson, of Ohio 40

PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH.

AUGUST 7, 1893.

Mr. GROSVENOR. Mr. Speaker, the painful duty devolves
upon me to announce to the House of Representatives the
death of my distinguished colleague, WILLIAM H. ENOCHS,
a Representative from the State of Ohio, who died at his
home in the city of Ironton, Ohio, in the early morning of
July 13 last.

I shall not detain the House at this time with any remarks
upon his memory. His death came to us all with the sudden
ness and awfulness of a thunderbolt; and his colleagues upon
this floor deeply lament his untimely death. Death came to
him without a shadoAv of warning; and the news of the
calamity fell with terrible force upon his family, his large
number of personal friends, and the constituency he so well
represented on this floor.

At some future time I shall ask the House to devote some
time to the consideration of this sad event, and for the pres
ent I offer the resolutions which I send to the desk.

The Clerk read as follows :

Resolved, That the House has heard with sincere regret the announce
ment of the death of Hon. WILLIAM H. ENOCHS, late a Representative of
the State of Ohio.

Resolved, That the business of the House he suspended, in order that the
puhlic services and private character of the deceased he thoroughly

commemorated.

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Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be directed
to communicate these resolutions to the Senate, and send a duly attested
copy to the widow of the deceased.

The SPEAKER. As the Chair understands, these resolutions
are offered that they may lie over for action hereafter.

Mr. GROSVENOR. That is the purpose. And now, Mr.
Speaker, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the
deceased Member, I move that the House do now adjourn.

The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at three o clock
and thirty-one minutes p. in.) the House adjourned.

EULOGIES.

MARCH 17, 1894.

The SPEAKER pro tern pore (Mr. OUTHWAITE). The Clerk
will report the special order.
The Clerk read as follows:

Resolved, That Saturday, the 17th day of March, from two o clock in the
afternoon, be set apart for the purpose of paying eulogies to the late Hon.
W. H. ENOCHS.

Mr. GROSVENOR. I call for the reading of the resolutions.
The Clerk read as follows :

Resolved, That the House has heard with sincere regret the announce
ment of the death of Hon. WILLIAM H. ENOCHS, late a Representative
from the State of Ohio.

Resolved, That the business of the House be suspended, in order that the
public services and private character of the deceased be thoroughly com
memorated.

Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be directed to
communicate these resolutions to the Senate, and send a duly attested
copy to the widow of the deceased.

Resolved, That at the conclusion of these services the House, as a
further mark of respect, do adjourn.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the adop
tion of the resolutions.
The resolutions were agreed to.

Address of Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, on the

ADDRESS OF MR. GROSVENOR, OF OHIO.

Mr. SPEAKER: WILLIAM H. ENOCHS was born in Xoble
County, Ohio, March 29, 1842, and died in tbe city of Ironton,
bis home, on Thursday morning, the 13th day of July, 1893.

Of his parents I knew but little, and that only by common
report. They were people in moderate or possibly poor cir
cumstances, and the boy was compelled to work on the farm
in aid of his father and to secure a living for himself. The
father and mother of ENOCHS are said to have been persons
possessing more than ordinary strength of character. They
were of pious minds and very industrious and upright people.

Young ENOCHS made good headway in the schools which
he attended, being for the early years of his student life sim
ply the common schools of Lawrence County, Ohio, to which
section his parents had removed. He taught school, and with
the proceeds of that employment attended the Ohio Univer
sity at Athens, at my home. The impression he made upon
the people of niy town and upon the faculty of the college
was that ENOCHS was a handsome, well-behaved, ambitious
young man with country manners and country tendencies.
His deportment as a student was such as to challenge the ap
proval of the professors, and he made an impression upon the
people of the town which made them ever afterwards his
friends.

It can hardly be said of him that he manifested distinguish
ing traits of character, but he did manifest satisfactory traits
of character. He was manly, upright, industrious, coura
geous, and conformed to the rules of the college and the cus
toms of the town to the entire satisfaction of his friends.

Young ENOCHS was a student at the Ohio University in
the spring of 1861, when the war broke out. In giving his

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early experience lie was in the habit of saying that when
the war began he followed the first fife and drum that came
along. The notes of that fife and drum are still sounding in
my memory. It was on the evening of the Sunday following
the attack upon Fort Sumter that the first meeting to express
the opinion of that college town upon the great subject of
rebellion and war was held in the town of Athens, and young
ENOCHS was there. I still remember the glow on his face
and the light in his eye as the news from Washington was
read and resohitious to contribute men and money were
adopted.

Yery shortly afterwards he enlisted in the Twenty- second
Ohio Volunteers for three months. That regiment, like many
others from Ohio, was organized under the Seward theory of a
ninety-days termination of the war, but long before the end of
the ninety days it was plainly visible to the intelligent eye that
we had embarked in a war of years, and the young soldier
reeulisted at Ceredo, W. Va., in the Fifth West Virginia Vol
unteers, in Company K.

He had seen three months service. He was finely formed
and a soldierly looking young man, and it has been well said
of him that he was a boy in blue all over.

As a soldier he was a dashing soldier. I never heard that
he made plans of action, but I have heard that he always
acted. He became a lieutenant in December, 1861, and on
April 19, 18G2, he was promoted to captain of Company E, and
on August 17, 1863, he became lieutenant-colonel, which rank
he held until December, 19, 1864, when he was promoted to
colonel of the First West Virginia Kegimeut, into which the
Fifth and Ninth had been consolidated. This position he
held until the close of the war, and after the war Colonel
ENOCHS was brevetted brigadier-general in honor of his hon
orable services on the field.

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The regiments with which General ENOCHS served per
formed substantial and valuable military services. They were
in the prominent battles of Cross Keys, Bull linn, Winches
ter, Opequon, Cloud Mountain, Lyuchburg, Cedar Creek, and
Fisher Hill.

I think it can be said of him as a soldier that he was a good
tighter. With all the vicissitudes of politics and personal
matters I never heard a word of detraction in regard to the
military record of this gallant man. His characteristics as a
soldier, in addition to those to which 1 have already alluded,
was a special adaptation to skirmish fighting. He had a way
of getting a little farther out than the average man on the
skirmish line and ascertaining a little more about the enemy s
position than the average man.

He was an uneducated, untrained, aud undisciplined Phil
Sheridan. He had all the ardor of that great leader, all the
push, all the courage, all the patriotic devotion. He was lack
ing, of course, as we all were, in skill, in training, and in theories.

The soldier of 18G1 was the ideal soldier of the war. On
more than one occasion I have done, in my way, and with my
ability, full justice to the men of all ranks and all terms of
service who did what they could to put down the rebellion, and
I have not drawn lines of demarcation between the three-years
man and the four-years man and any other man who did hon
orable service. But, after all, there is to my mind a special
halo around the men of 18(51. There is something in the men
who heard the gun of Fort Sumter in all its enormous rever
berations and appreciated in some measure the terrible im
portance of that awful shock, and hastened with all proper
speed and promptness, anxious to accept the gage of war and
meet the shock of battle.

It was the soldier of 1861 who did not measure consequences
or weigh results. His country was assailed and he knew it,
and that was all he wanted to know. He did not inquire the

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 1 1

rate of compensation or the amount of pension he was to
receive. He never thought of it. He looked about him to
make some arrangements for those who depended upon him,
shouldered his musket as the men of Lexington and Concord
shouldered theirs, and marched with a purpose and determina
tion as heroic as was the sacrifices of the men at Valley Forge
and &quot;Xorktown.

Such a man was WILLIAM H. ENOCHS. Full honor for serv
ices in the field will always be awarded his memory by his
comrades of the war and by the people who knew him.

He studied law after the war, and graduated at the Cincin
nati Law School in I860. He began the practice of law in
West Virginia, but after about a year he removed to Iroutou,
where he lived the remainder of his life.

In the latter years of his law practice he devoted much time
to railroad practice, and in that connection was an industrious,
energetic, enterprising, and ambitious lawyer.

He was elected to the legislature of Ohio in 1869 and served
a single term and voluntarily withdrew from politics for the
time being.

As a lawyer little need be said beyond the fact that he was
industrious, persevering, and ambitious. He stood well at the
bar, and in the lines of his profession which he pursued he
was successful. As a citizen he was an aggressive friend of
Irouton and the section in which he lived.

He had intelligent views on business affairs, and as he had
been in the war so he was in peace on the skirmish line of
enterprise and business aggression.

He was a candidate for Congress in 1888, but failed to receive
the nomination ; but in 1890, after one of the most exciting
struggles ever known in that section of Ohio, he was nomi
nated for Congressman. The district had been newly formed.
It consisted of the counties of Athens and Meigs, Gallia, Law
rence, and Scioto. Three of the counties had come from the

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old Eleventh district and two from the Fifteenth district, and
had been thrown together in the new Twelfth district.

As thus constituted, the new district had two members of
Congress, both of whom were candidates and both of whom
were supported with great pertinacity by the delegations
from two counties, but the loyal and untiring support given
to General ENOCHS by his own county of Lawrence carried
the day for him, and he was nominated, and, although he had
received the nomination at the end of an unparalleled strug
gle, which lasted five days, in two different conventions, an
adjournment having been taken from one city to another and
a period of two months having intervened so satisfactory
was his nomination that no man ever received a more loyal
support than he received in all the counties of the district
and by all the men of his party everywhere.

Of his services connected with the Eifty-second Congress
others will speak. Those who served with him in this Hall
can best describe his character in Congress.

Of him it can be truthfully said that he was careful and
considerate of and attentive to the wants of his district.
He was a faithful representative of local interests and made
warm friends among the members of Congress, and received
the approval of a new constituency, in a Congressional dis
trict which was practically that in which he had long lived,
by being renominated by acclamation and elected by an over
whelming majority to the Eifty- third Congress; but before
that body assembled the messenger came, and the soul of this
gallant and distinguished soldier and faithful citizen was
removed from earth to join the great majority of his comrades
of the war on the other shore.

On Fame s eternal camping ground

Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round

The bivouac of the dead.

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Mr. Speaker, I feel that I can not better discharge my
duty to ray dead colleague iu this behalf than to incorporate
in my remarks the eloquent and beautiful address of Rev. W.
B. Marsh, delivered at the funeral of Mr. ENOCHS:

COMRADES : To-day Ohio mourns a heroic and devoted son, a mail
whose career recorded would furnish a part of the vital history of our
Commonwealth and nation, and whose character had elements worthy
of painstaking analysis.

I regret that the brevity enforced by this mournful occasion will per
mit so little liberty on my part in this direction.

It is perhaps fitting that he who lived so modestly and carried himself
as a son of the people and a brother and comrade of every man should
be laid away with simplest obsequies; public, only because the public
know that they are always at home on the grounds and in the home
of General I^xocus. This great assembly has convened spontaneously
to swell the one sad acclaim of family, friends, and old comrades in arms.

Our distinguished friends from abroad, representing both Common
wealth and nation, are here in discharge of no mere perfunctory duty,
but to blend their testimony with ours that we have lost not only a
great citizen, but a friend and a brother.

The impressive lessons that always find their way to honest hearts
concerning life and immortality have been abundantly suggested and
have found expression in the more impressive language of song and
prayer and of Holy Scripture. No long exhortations can deepen or
enhance what is borne in upon our souls so solemnly and aftectingly.
The spirit of Duty stands at the head of the bier and the spirit of Love
at its foot, and they point us to the noble dead as one worthy to be a
leader still along the path of a devoted and patriotic life.

The elder ages were distinguished by contrasting extremes of human
character and destiny. God seemed not to care except for mighty men,
and to use mankind as but a base soil out of which to grow heroes. We
have now entered a new age, a second act in this drama of the Uiviuepur-
poses. Now the word has gone forth from the Throne to &quot;make a high
way for the people.&quot; &quot;Every mountain shall be made low and every
valley shall be exalted,&quot; not to secure the level of mediocrity, but the
grade of the sublime.

God purposed and purposes to make all men his people and to make all
his people prophets. lie planned of old through the hero as an individ
ual to raise up a race of men of heroic mold. I eschew purposely the

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cant phrases of a socialism that is ignorant and pretentious, and that seeks
progress by debasing high things, rather than by a great continental ele
vation. But the era has dawned, and is now crescent, whose com
manding purpose is the perfection of society, of man as an order, rather
than of man as an individual.

It is now often said by the frowning pessimist that the day of great
men is past ; that our age has not produced and can not produce the hero ;
that in politics, and in literature, and in art, and in religion excellence is
no longer attainable.

&quot; Great is mediocrity,&quot; seems to their ears the watchword of the nine
teenth century democracy. But these men misinterpret the method of the
Divine progress and evolution.

The supreme care for many ages did indeed seem expended to produce
a few men worthy of being called after God s name single personalities
looming up in the midst of a low level of degraded humanity, men super-
eminent quite as much by reason of the depression of their surroundings
as by their celestial altitude.

But thus God has sought to secure first the piers of the great bridge,
afterwards to cast athwart the chasm the mighty cable. Joshua and
David, Ilezekiah and Ezra, are buttresses of the King s highway; Enoch
and Moses and Elijah are Gibraltar fortresses, at once frowning over and
protecting the low-lying plains and exposed seas of humanity.

But God seeks now quite other things. And with this change or ina-
tuijty of plan arises a new exigency. The qualities now to crown the
superior man are quite different. He must still bo brave and loving and
honest of purpose and self-devoted.

But now he must partake of the new spirit of a divine social democ
racy. Now, the question is not how elevated a man is in his separate
personality, but how well does he fill his place in the social organism.

His very success in this will serve to hide from the uudiscerniug the
superb quality of his influence. The great man to-day, to fulfill God s
present purpose, must bo like leaven endowed with mighty but secretly
working powers of human sympathies, not a measuring rod to show
people how small they are beside the Colossus.

The most conspicuous gift of the men of the new age is a certain spirit
of human brotherliness camaraderie. The solemn obeisance, the prostra
tion of the body, the stately inclination of the proud head, the formal
salute, may indicate respect or official subserviency or recognition of

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 15

social equality. But the grasp of the hand through which pulsates the
bloo l of a warm heart, the beaming eye which tells of sympathy and
interest and common rights this is the symbol of comradeship.

There is a gift in it. You can not impart it or imitate it. It is more
than an art it is a mystery how an honest, cordial man, feeling him
self as in the same boat of destiny with you, and glad of it, can impart
somewhat of his very soul to you in the way he grasps your hand. There
are political handshakings and ministerial handshakings, but they are
as far removed from that of which I speak as society kisses are from
the kiss a mother presses upon her baby s lips.

General ENOCHS had this rare gift of deep and honest cordiality. To
shake hands with him was an acquaintance. A throb of human brother-
liness came across that bridge. He did not need to say that he liked
you or wanted to help you. He made no professions of extraordinary
friendship, but felt himself that he was your comrade and ready to
share anything that he had good gifts or perilous service.

Social philosophers have a great deal to say about equality. The
word and the thought are poisoned with the letiveu of selfishness.

There are two forms of greed that which by might and opportunity
appropriates all it can get; this is the greed of the pen and the sty.
The other is the greed that scans your neighbor s plate or in famine
weighs out his rations. A greed too weak to rob computes relative ad
vantages and offsets even the gifts of friendship. This is civilized greed,
but greed it is still. The doctrine of social equality is selfishness armed
with yardstick and scissors, butcher knife and scales.

High above this goddess of the Paris commune the spirit of comradeship
sits cloud-enthroned.

Comradeship consists with largest divergence of gift and possession.
Your superior officer, your commander, may be your comrade. If more
highly endowed, if more highly favored, he says by look and action,
&quot;Take what you need; ask Avhat you will; let me help you if I can.&quot;

The grandest comradeship of the ages was that of Jesus with his
chosen twelve.

May the time never come when we shall have a mechanical, mathe
matical equality. But may the day be hastened when the rich and the
poor, the highly endowed and the ignorant, jthe strong and the weak,
shall be able to grasp hands, saying more than &quot;We are equals,&quot;
more even than &quot; We are brethren,&quot; better, &quot; We are comrades.&quot;

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We bear to his grave to-day a man worthy of superior honor. He won
his place not by home influence, not by advantages of birth and inherited
wealth, not by political intrigue nor by favor in high places, but by
sheer force of innate manhood.

General ENOCHS, transplanted to other ages, would have won his way
to the front, and might have gained the deceptive luster which now in
our eyes irradiates the mighty men of the elder ages. But the glory of
our friend is that he was true knight of this dawning day of human
brotherhoods.

He was alive with the very spirit of the age. His sword was tipped
with divine fire from olf Liberty s altar, and he was baptized in the
rising flood of that great sea which is ere long to wipe away human wrong.

We honor him for attainments and for achievements in camp and field
and legislative halls. Hut most of all do we honor and hail the memory
of one who never for a moment forgot he was one of the people, not
ashamed to be our brother and our comrade.

This quality gives impress to the style of patriotism of this new age.

I greatly honor the name of George Washington. In the ranks of
heroes he stands preeminent; but from his cradle he was instructed to
think of himself as a superior being, quite above the low-lying level
of ordinary citizenship. His love of country was passionate, his self-
devotion was perfect, but always self-conscious. There was always
the patronizing air, &quot; See how dignified and great I am, and yet how
unreservedly I give up all for love of country. In this, in a degree,
Clay and Webster were like their great prototype. Undoubted patriots
and brave men they all, but possessed somewhat of the spirit of
Kaiser William the Third, who bids his people trust him as he trusts
God. A hero of this type poses attitudinizes.

Our age has made an advance, not a retrograde, in producing men
like Sheridan and Hayes and ENOCHS, who rode at the head of their
columns and said, not &quot;Boys, go in,&quot; but &quot;Boys, come on. I have read
history, all I could get my hands on. My boyhood was thrilled with
fancies from the bloody scenes of ancient heroism. But never in all the
history of the race have men fought with the abandon of uiicalculating
bravery as up and down the marches of the Shenaudoah V alley. I saw
the Wilderness and Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor, but, momentous as
was the struggle and nnfl inching the courage, yet Winchester and its
approaches saw deeds of personal prowess of the highest order known
among men. 1 speak as one who had exceptional advantages of seeing

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 17

both these scenes of tremendous achievement from a vantage ground
and without the personal preferences and prejudices which might warp
the judgment.

I can see as in vision a scene described to me by General ENOCHS
only a few weeks ago with a purely incidental intention of illustrating
a matter to which I need not now refer.

Hayes, injured by a fall, his horse having just been shot under him,
lies with his head in ENOCHS S lap, his face turned away from the scene
of disaster, then fast hastening on to panic. In the distance arises the
cloud of dust whose center, like the core of a cyclone, contained the
foaming charger of Phil Sheridan, Hearing the goal of his historic ride.
&quot;Boys, are you whipped ? &quot; &quot;No, we are ready, waiting,&quot; is the prompt
reply. Victory flaps his wings over the illustrious trio, before whom
Achilles and his band of Greeks were play heroes. It is not often in
modern warfare that personal prowess of a handful of men turns the
scales of destiny and wrings victory out of defeat.

But the best thiug of it all was that this heroism was not a mere
parade of physical prowess; it was championship of great principles.
The Greek poet represents the very gods as enlisted in the fight
around ancient Troy, and performing heroic deeds in aid of their
favorites. And the Hebrew bard declares that the very &quot;stars in
their courses fought against Sisera.&quot; We believe that not nature
alone or lower potencies of celestial good or evil were arrayed, but
that Jehovah of Hosts marshaled our armies in contest on which
hung the fate of a continent and the destiny of a race. And the
echoes of the battle for union and liberty will resound through the
valleys and hills of Virginia till the archangel s trump shall sound.
Great was the arena, observed of men and angels the contest, and
enduring the victory. A new peace has assumed royal sway, not clad
in robes of oriental eft eminacy, but with victory-crowned brow. And
so evermore

God give us peace, not such as lulls to sleep,
But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit.

And let our ship of state to harbor sweep,
Her ports all up, her battle lanterns lit,

And her leashed thunders gathering for their leap.

And evermore God give us men, true to the high ideal and true to the
illustrious type, seeking to fulfill their destiny as sons of a great republic.

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There are many things we would be glad to say in further portraiture of
the noble band of men, &quot;some of whom have crossed the flood and some
are crossing now/ but it is not meet.

We believe that God who had need of Samson and of Jephtha of the
strong and of the valiant as well as need of Moses the devout and Samuel
the spiritual, had and has still a place in His kingdom for these men of
mighty deeds. They have worked out their salvation in somewhat diverse
fashion from many who have been types more approved of mother church ;
but beneath all has been the same sterling spirit of faith in God and sub
lime devotion to duty which under any form and guise constitute the bone
and muscle of true religion.

Happy the moralist whose training and breadth of view enable him to
tell a man when he sees one.

Wise the religious teacher who has learned to discount pretentious saint-
liness, with its marble polish, and to pause in admiration before elements
in character of granite and iron. Marble is good for grand balconies and
for tombstones; granite and iron make foundation stones and anchors.

The noblest work of God and highest study of man are found within the
compass of a brave soul.

It took the Almighty more than ten milleniums to make a man, and then
He was not satisfied with him. &quot; It repented God that He had made man,&quot;
naively says the ancient chronicler.

Failure we know there can be none. When God breaks old molds of life
it is not because He has tried and failed, but because He has used the
molds and fulfilled their purpose and wishes to clear the field for a higher
product. So God made man, or is making him.

There is room and scope for grander things, both for the race here and
for the individual in the free and glorious kingdom beyond.

We point not to General ENOCHS S life and character and say, &quot;Behold
the perfect man,&quot; but, rather, &quot;Behold what broad foundations the master
builder has laid for temple or for palace.&quot;

Unpretentious, sincere, brave, brotherly, reverent of God, and a lover
of all men was he.

The battle of life is ended and, as in many another battle, the victor is
the victim the fallen is the hero in the strife.

We bless God that this is but the earthward view. And standing on
these green shores, if penetrate we may the mysterious void through
which he has passed, we rend the heavens with our salute: Comrade,
well done !

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In addition to this I will embody in my address an editorial
written by his friend, and which I believe accurately describes
his services to the country.

It is as follows :

General ENOCHS was born near Middleburg, in Noble County, March 29,
1842, making him fifty-one years of age last March. His parents were
Henry and Jane Miller Enochs.

He was reared on his father s farm and attended the common schools in
winter, with the advantage, however, of one term at the Ohio University.
When Fort Sumter was fired upon, he was a student at the Ohio Univer
sity, and on the 19th of April, 1861, he entered in Company B, Twenty-
second Ohio Volunteer Infantry; soon after he was promoted to corporal
and sent to guard the railroad between Marietta and Parkersburg, thence
to West Virginia, participating in the numerous marches and skirmishes
of his command and the battle of Rich Mountain. He was promoted to
fourth sergeant, and in that rank was mustered out of the service July
2-1, 1861. He at once reenlisted in Company K, Fifth West Virginia
Infantry, an organization composed almost whol]y of Ohio men.

In October he was elected captain of his company, but owing to his
youth the colonel of the regiment refused to recommend him for a cap
tain s commission, and he was made first lieutenant of the company.
His drill and discipline soon attracted the attention of the army officers,
and he was frequently complimented for the manner in which he had
brought up the company. His regiment was organized and camped at
Ceredo, W. Va. Rebel regiments were also being organized within a few
miles of its camp, the surrounding country swarmed with bushwhackers,
and his company and regiment were in active service from the time of
their enlistment. In the winter of 1862 the regiment was ordered to
Parkersburg. Soon after Lieutenant ENOCHS was sent with his company
to New Creek Station and assigned to the command of that outpost. At
this time there was a vacancy in the majorship of the regiment, and
Lieutenant ENOCHS was recommended by the officers of the regiment for
the position, but again his youth prevented his preferment, and he was
promoted to captain and assigned to Company E. This company soon
became the best drilled aaul disciplined company in the regiment, and in
the spring of 1862 led the advance at the battle of Moorefield, partici
pating in all its marches and skirmishes along the South Branch of the
Potomac, including the battle of McDowell, May 8, 1862.

20 Address of Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, on the

Keturning to Moorefield, the regiment crossed the mountains with
the army under Generals Schenck and Milroy, striking the rear of the
Confederate army under Stonewall Jackson, where the regiment was
engaged. The Union armies, united under General Fremont, followed
Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley, skirmishing and fighting day and
night until the battle of Cross Keys, June 8, 1862, when Jackson crossed the
river under cover of night, burning the bridge behind him; Fremont s
army went down the valley. Schenck s division and General Milroy s
brigade (to which the regiment then belonged) marched from Luray
Valley across the Blue Ridge and joined the Army of the Potomac, com
manded by Gen. John Pope. The division was assigned to the Eleventh
Corps, then commanded by Gen. Franz Sigel. The regiment participated
in numerous skirmishes, until the terrible battle of Cedar Mountain was
fought, which was one of the most desperate battles of the war.

The regiment afterwards participated in the battles along the Rapi-
dan and Rappahannock rivers, including Freeman s Ford and Sulphur
Spring, being under fire every day for about twenty days. In the first
day of the second battle of Manassas, although the junior captain of the
regiment, Captain ENOCHS was in command. The regiment went into
the fight near the stone house, and in the woods some distance beyond
the regiment fought almost the entire two days of the battle over the
possession of the railroad cut in the woods. The cut was taken and
retaken until one-fourth of the regiment was either killed, wounded, or
missing.

History has never given the facts concerning this battle; the loss and
disaster to the Union Army there has never been told.

The regiment next participated in the battle of Chantilly. In all
these marches, skirmishes, and battles Captain ENOCHS took an active
part, being in command of either his company or the regiment.

After the battle of Chantilly, the regiment, being almost entirely
destroyed, was ordered to the fortifications around Washington to
obtain shoes and clothing. Soon afterwards it was transferred to the
Kanawha Valley, West Virginia.

In the spring of 1863 it was ordered to Gauley Bridge, on the Kanawha,
where it remained the greater portion of the year, scouting and skirmish
ing through the mountains of that country. August 17, 1863, Captain
ENOCHS was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. May 4,
1864, his command broke camp and started toward Lewisburg, W. Va.

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 21

At Meadow Bluffs it joined the army under Gen. George Crook, and
crossed the mountains, destroying the railroads and bridges. It joined the
army under General Hunter at Staunton, Va., and under that gentleman
made the raid upon Lynchburg. In its endeavor to get into Lynchburg,
Colonel ENOCHS with his regiment charged the breastworks, but was
repulsed and driven back with heavy loss. The Union army was com
pelled to retreat to the Kanawha Valley. This was one of the longest
and hardest raids of the war. It was, as the general has stated it, &quot;days
and nights of marching, starving, and fighting.&quot;

The regiment remained but a short time in the Kanawha Valley, wlien
it was ordered to Harpers Ferry and the Shenandoah Valley. The army
started up the valley, fighting the rebels at Bunker s Hill, July 19, 1864,
and at Carter s Farm, July 20, 1864, and at Winchester, July 24. The
Union army was driven north of the Potomac River and soon became a
part of the army under General Sheridan, and under him was in the
battles near Halltown, Va., August 22, 23, and 24, 1864. At the battle of
Berryville, September 3, 1864, Colonel ENOCHS S regiment made a brilliant
charge on a Mississippi brigade of four regiments, driving them from the
field and capturing a number of prisoners. At the battle of Winchester,
September 19, 1864, Colonel ENOCHS S regiment was in the front on the
extreme right of the Union army. Shortly after going into the fight the
rebels were found behind the stone walls on the opposite side of a deep
slough; the regiment waded through and charged the rebels, driving
them from their chosen positions until their fortifications were reached.

In this charge Colonel ENOCHS was severely wounded when within one
hundred yards of the fortifications, a ball striking him in the head
and cutting through a heavy felt hat. He was supposed to have been
instantly killed, and was left where he fell. During the night he was
conducted to his regiment, and the next morning was again in command,
following the retreating rebels toward Fisher s Hill, which point they
had strongly fortified. September 22, Colonel ENOCHS was given charge
of the advance, which climbed the mountain and got in the rear of their
works before they were discovered. When the signal was given, the
whole army charged the fortifications, capturing most of the enemy s
artillery and routing their army. The regiment under Colonel ENOCHS
participated in numerous other skirmishes up to the battle of Cedar Creek.

For gallant and meritorious services during this campaign Colonel
ENOCHS was brevetted general, being the youngest man of his rank in

22 Address of Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, on the

the Army -of the Potomac. During this service his regiment had become
so depleted that it was consolidated with the Ninth West Virginia, and
was afterwards known as the First West Virginia Veteran Infantry.

The regiment remained in the valley under General Hancock until nea.r
the close of the war, when it was sent to Cumberland, Md., where Colonel
ENOCHS was assigned to the command of the Department of Maryland,
and on March 13, 1865, he was commissioned brigadier-general.

General ENOCHS was, a partisan in politics. He belonged
to the Republican party. He believed in the principles and
the policy of that party, and while he had the fullest toler
ation for the opinions of others at all times, yet he believed
that it was the duty of that party at all times, and under all
circumstances, to recognize and reward the services of the
men who had made the Republican party great, strong, and
powerful in the country, and I honor him for it. If he were
to be tried on this occasion by the touchstone of the doctri
naire, or by the professor of modern political methods of the
East or the South or the West, he would fall far short of
receiving the approval of such pharisaical judges; but if he
were to be tried by the standard of the men who have gone
before him, and who made the party to which he belonged a
great party, and impressed its principles upon the statute
books of this country, and wrote them in indelible words of
living light in the organic law of this land, he would stand
par excellence a man to be honored by his successors in the
Republican party.

There was nothing about him that suggested the idea that
he was ashamed of the men who had made him prominent in
Ohio politics. He was willing to recognize the instrumentali
ties he was willing to use.

Mr. Speaker, I attended his funeral at Ironton. On a beau
tiful Sunday we assembled at the home he loved so well and
witnessed the ceremonies incident to that solemn occasion. I
never witnessed a greater demonstration of the love, affection,

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 23

confidence, and esteem of a great constituency than was man
ifested at the bier of General ENOCHS on that occasion.

For many hours people came, not alone from the Ohio
counties around him, but from across the river, and for miles
from many directions a great column of sorrowing people;
and as I sat and witnessed the slow-moving pageant as it
passed by the remains of General ENOCHS, and saw the tears
welling from the eyes of the prosperous, the strong, the poor,
and the humble, the masses of citizens who had known him
all his life, I felt that surely there was some quality about
this gallant soldier and tried citizen that made him the
especial idol and favorite of the population. It was a high
testimonial to his worth and standing as a man and citizen.

General ENOCHS was most happy in his domestic relations.
He married a wife possessed of bright intelligence aud
praiseworthy ambition, clothed as with a garment with the
beautiful womanly qualities of modesty, energy, and courage;
and to her, as much as to any other incident of his life, he
owed the progress which he made. She had been to him a
friend, monitor, and counselor. Faithful to the last, with a
heart almost breaking, she stood at the grave of her husband,
proud of his history, grateful for the sympathy manifested on
every side, and took up the burden of his life where lie had
laid it down, to see to it that the splendid boy that he had
left behind him should be, in some measure at least, a rep
resentative of the good qualities of his father.

Just as the funeral cortege was entering the beautiful bury
ing place, peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning from
massive storm clouds rolling above startled the great audi
ence, and for many minutes a display of electrical power such
as is scarcely ever witnessed in that climate took place, and I
felt as though it were a fitting tribute to a life that had been
stormy but successful, a life that had been almost like a

24 Address of Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, on the

meteor flashing amid the surrounding clouds that had envi
roned his pathway through life. Coming up, as he had, from
humble life, he had written his name upon the records of his
State in a way never to be erased, and this was the end. It
was the end of a distinguished citizen, and these ceremonies
to-day are but to remind those who come after that the reward
of faithful service is the token of respect by the citizens of
the community. These ceremonies can not do good to him,
for

Can storied urn, or animated bust,

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath
Can honor s voice provoke the silent dust,

Or flatter y soothe the dull cold ear of death?

No; but we can place above his tomb the chaplet of our
honor, our love, our affection, our recognition. And the les
son comes to us to-day with great effect that we are passing
away; that we are passing off the stage of action; that the
places that now know us will soon be filled by others, and the
admonition is that we so conduct ourselves here that here
after we may meet the reward of the just upon the other
side; that in the great hereafter our Father will say, &quot;Come
up higher.&quot;

In the grave all achievements of an earthly nature end.
The lesson that comes to us is :

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e er gave,

Await alike the inevitable hour.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

And if our lives are to end thus, life indeed were not worth
living. Our hope or belief, our faith, goes out to a higher,
better, purer, and eternal life.

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 25

ADDRESS OF MR. HENDERSON, OF ILLINOIS.

Mr. SPEAKER : Prior to the meeting of the Fifty-second Con
gress, of which late Gen. WILLIAM H. ENOCHS was a member,
I had no personal acquaintance with him. He was not, how
ever, unknown to me by reputation; and I had heard him
spoken of as a gentleman of ability, and a soldier who had
served with distinction in the late war for the suppression of
the rebellion. But on the meeting of the Fifty-second Con
gress, in December, 1891, 1 soon became personally acquainted
with General ENOCHS, and as I met him- here in this Hall
from day to day I learned to respect and admire him for his
many manly qualities and for his ability and patriotism.

It is not an easy matter, Mr. Speaker, for a member of this
body to take a very prominent position in his first term; but
from my first acquaintance with General ENOCHS, and from my
observation of his service during the Fifty-second Congress,
he impressed me as a gentleman of ability and of good char
acter, genial and pleasant in his intercourse with his fellow-
members, arid attentive to the proceedings of the House.
I know that in all matters of local interest to his constituents
and his State he was attentive, earnest, and faithful in look
ing after them.

From frequent conversations with General ENOCHS, I knew
that he was not in good health during his service in Con
gress, and especially during the last session of his service,
when he felt great anxiety as to his health and at times was
very despondent. If he did not say so in words, he made
the impression upon my mind that he did not expect to
live long. Hence, while I deeply regretted the sad event,
I was not surprised to hear of his death.

26 Address of Mr. Henderson, of Illinois, on the

But, Mr. Speaker, it was not my intention to speak at
length upon the life and character of General ENOCHS at
this time. That duty will be better performed by those
more intimately acquainted with him. I only desired to
express the high regard I entertained for General ENOCHS
as a member of this body, and to pay some tribute to his
memory. He was cut off after serving a single term in
Congress. But brief as his service was, Mr. Speaker, it
was honorable to him and honorable to his constituents.

I can not close, however, without referring to the record
of General ENOCHS as a soldier during the late war. That
he was a brave and gallant soldier, and served his country
patriotically and faithfully, there can be no doubt. At
the very beginning of the war for the suppression of the
rebellion, and before he had reached his majority, his young-
heart was stirred with patriotic ardor; and he enlisted as a
private and entered the service of his country as a soldier:
and he served in every rank from corporal to colonel, except
that of major, and he was brevetted a brigadier-general.
Of such a record any man might well be proud. To have
risen from a private in the ranks in time of actual war to
the office of a brevet brigadier- general is honor enough to
enshrine his name and his memory in the hearts of his
friends, his family, and his countrymen.

Mr. Speaker, it is to such men as Gen. W. H. ENOCHS that
we are indebted for an undivided Union, for the preservation
of the Government established by our fathers, and the pros
perity which has followed the great struggle in which he
rendered such distinguished, patriotic service. All honor to
his memorv!

Life and Character of William. H. Enochs. 27

ADDRESS OF MR, HARE, OF OHIO.

Mr. SPEAKER : It has seldom fallen to the lot of any State to
be deprived within a period of eighteen months of three of its
Representatives in Congress by death.

That experience, however, little as it was contemplated two
years ago, infrequent as has been its occurrence in the history
of this body, and sadly suggestive as it must be to all of us,
has been visited upon Ohio, and upon Pennsylvania also, since
the beginning of the Fifty-second Congress. .

Ohio s misfortune, in the loss of her three Representatives,
began with the unexpected death of the well-beloved War
wick, after an illness so brief that many of his associates were
not aware of its existence until after its fatal ending. Among
all the surviving colleagues who mourned his departure from
their midst, perhaps no two men could have been selected
whose appearance more fully betokened the possession of per
fect physical health and soundness than WILLIAM H. ENOCHS
and George W. Houk, both of whom had been rechosen by
their fellow-citizens to fill the places in this Congress which
they had so highly honored in the last; both of whom were all
the more fully equipped for the efficient performance of public
duty; both of whom have since been called away suddenly,
without apparent warning, without even the grace of an
intervening week of illness between the flush of health and
the pallor of death.

I speak from external evidences only, for none of us may
know the actual physical condition of even his closest friend
nor the apprehensions and forebodings that may, and often
do, rack his mind, absorb his thoughts, disturb his rest, and
sit as a spectral presence at the fireside, a id even at the feast.

28 Address of Mr. Hare, of Ohio, on the

It is to me a matter of much regret, Mr. Speaker, that I can
say so little of what I feel ought to be said 011 this occasion,
that my contribution to the tributes of well-merited praise
which ought to and will be paid to the character and services
of General ENOCHS must of necessity be so inadequate as to
seem unworthy of the subject and tbe occasion.

Personally, I had never known him until we met here as
colleagues in the Fifty-second Congress, nor was my acquaint
ance with him here of that intimate character that enables
one to become familiar with the inner nature of his friend,
and with the countless incidents that go to make up the per
sonal history and largely to determine the personal character
and qualities of every man. I only knew him as all might
know him with whom he came in even casual contact, and my
impressions of him were gained only from such sources as
were alike open to all his associates.

He was a man of generous, kindly nature, of thoroughly
patriotic purpose, strong in his convictions, and wholly with
out fear of the consequences to himself of any course of action
he deemed it his duty to pursue. Hence the customary
restraints of party discipline were often galling to him, the
necessity of conforming his conduct to the views of others and
of following in the wake of party leadership irritated him
keenly, and he could not always be controlled.

Many a time indeed during his brief service here was he
known to vote and act with those to whom he was politically
opposed, not in a factious or rebellious spirit, not upon any fun
damental principle of party policy, for he was a partisan, but
upon any and every question which did not involve an essen
tial principle of political orthodoxy the vote of General
ENOCHS was cast according to his convictions of right and
justice regardless of the action of his party associates. And
for this manly spirit of independence, all too rare in this

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 29

body, he was deserving of the commendation of his colleagues
and of his countrymen. For the tendency here, Mr. Speaker,
is all too great to make of almost every question of public in
terest and importance, or even of minor concern, a party ques
tion, and to vote upon it not always with reference to the
individual views of members touching its intrinsic merits, but
too often in accordance with the sentiment that may prevail
on either side of the central aisle. It is a tendency that does
not improve in all cases the quality of our legislation, that is
sometimes fraught with mischief; a tendency that the ex
ample of such a man as General ENOCHS would do much to
rebuke and restrain.

Among those with whom ne was brought into most fre
quent contact General ENOCHS was, in the best sense of the
word, a popular man. High-minded and chivalrous in his
nature, wholly free from any form of affectation, without any
of the instincts of the sycophant or the time-server, he was a
man who loved his friends rather than his enemies, and was
in turn beloved.

Of his professional career, his business and social life prior
to his advent here, I am not prepared to speak except by in
ference. Neither am I familiar with the details of his service
in the army; but this I know, the title he bore was not an
empty compliment, bestowed through courtesy, as is too often
the case. For he was one of the heroes of the war, whose
courage was only equaled by his modesty, and modesty is
almost invariably found to be the companion trait of true
bravery. In the brief sketch of himself given in the Direc
tory we are not even informed of the command in which he
served, but simply that entering the service of his country as
a private soldier he rose through all the intervening grades of
rank to become a brigadier-general. And he was but nine
teen years of age when the war began.

30 Address of Mr. Hare, of Ohio, on the

It is a record, sir, of which any soldier might well be proud.
If all its pages could be unfolded what a history would they
disclose, what a claim would they establish upon the grati
tude, the esteem, the admiration of his countrymen.

But he did not deem it essential to his reputation here that
the volume in which this record is written should be un
closed, and I will not seek to penetrate its arcana nor even
to break the seal put upon it by him.

It is not a light thing, Mr. Speaker, that a young man
should for the sake of an idea, for the love of liberty, or even
in the defense of his country quit his studies, his employ
ments, and all the hallowed associations that cluster about
the home of one s childhood to voluntarily place himself in
the front of battle, where there could be no thought of per
sonal safety and no assurance of escape from wounds or even
from death.

You may call it by what name you will, the sentiment that
can inspire the human heart to brave death, in any form, when
the occasion is such as to demand or warrant the sacrifice, is
a heroic, a noble, a praiseworthy sentiment 5 and whatever
may be the estimate put by others upon such services as were
rendered by our late associate in the dark days now happily,
we trust, passed forever away, it will remain for his comrades
to estimate them at their true value.

For, sir, whatever may have been said or written by the
unthinking, by dreamers, by men whose only ideas of war
have been gained from works of history, or of romance, none
but those who have themselves experienced the horrors of ac
tual war, who have themselves kept the lonely vigil of the
midnight watch and marched beneath the burning heat of the
noonday sun, who have seen the lives of their comrades go
out in the hospital and in the prison as well as upon the bat
tlefield, by the wasting fever as well as by the bullet and

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 31

sword, who have themselves stood in the shock of battle and
witnessed the carnage and heard the cries of the wounded
and the groans of the dying, can form an adequate conception
of the perils incurred and the sufferings endured by the gal
lant and brave men who, in our own day and in defense of a
cause no less valuable and no less dear to their countrymen
than to themselves, wrought a work as unselfish, as heroic, as
any in the annals or traditions of the past.

We are their witnesses. It is for us to tell the story of their
deeds to the generations that shall follow. It is for us upon
every proper occasion to speak their praises, and to commem
orate in every appropriate way the virtues and services of the
men who bore an honorable part, however conspicuous or
obscure, in the day of our country s greatest trial and of its
supreme deliverance.

General ENOCHS was but a typical though an illustrious
representative of the class of men constituting that grand
army that mustered from the city and the hamlet, from the
counting-house and the workshop, from the office and the
farm, in response to the call of the Government, then men
aced with a most imminent and deadly danger, and not
simply menaced but actually involved in a struggle for its
existence the most gigantic, the most memorable in the his
tory of civil wars.

And so, to-day, the garlands we bring would be unworthy
of us, and disparaging to our late associate and comrade, if
we should fail to weave into their structure, and blend with
every tribute we pay to his memory, some expression of our
sense of his fidelity to the highest duty that could challenge
the patriotism, the loyalty, the heroism, the supreme devotion
of any lover of his country.

The response of our friend to that challenge was as
prompt and obedient as it was uncalculatiug and sincere.

32 Address of Mr. Warner, of New York, on the

And throughout the long and weary years of the war that
spirit of devotion never faltered, nor did his courageous pur
pose for a moment waver, until the victory was won and the
flag under which he fought floated again over all the land, the
acknowledged ensign of a reunited people, having a common
country, common interests, and a common destiny.

What more need be said of him 1 ? What higher tribute can
be paid to the memory of any man than to say that he was
true to every trust, loyal to every obligation, faithful in the
performance of every duty, generous in every impulse, sincere
in his friendships, the idol of his family, the defender of his
country.

Our associate, our comrade, our friend, is no more. In the
peaceful quietude of his own home, the hero of a score of bat
tles met and surrendered to the destroying conqueror whose
summons none may gainsay or resist.

He had lived to enjoy the reward of his services and sacri
fices in the gratitude and love and confidence of his fellow-
citizens. He died in the meridian of his manhood and in the
fullness of his fame.

Let a grateful nation hold him in cherished r3inembrance,
and may the example of his patriotism become and remain
the pride and emulation of his countrymen.

ADDRESS OF MR, WARNER, OF NEW YORK,

Mr. SPEAKER : Upon my election to the Fifty-second Con
gress, and especially after my assignment to committees, I
took a great deal of care to become acquainted, as it were, in
advance, with those who were to become my colleagues in the
House and my coworkers in the work of the committees to
which I was assigned. I can well remember, sir, the idea I
had formed in my own mind concerning the gentleman whose

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 33

memory is now being recalled in this House. I had learned
from the brief notes that had found their way to me that, a
mere boy, he had enlisted in the Union Army, and, coming out
at the end of the war not quite twenty-three years of age, had
lilled nearly every position in the line of preferment, from that
of private, with which he started out to serve his country, to
that of brigadier general, the brevet of which he wore when
he left the service.

I also found, sir, that he had come from one of the most
partisan if I may use that term without incurring criticism
sections of the country; where, if one might judge from the
majority by which his constituents sent him here to represent
them in this House, the tendency of his party was such as to
indicate extraordinary partisanship on the part of his people.
I knew, sir, that the committee upon which I met him was one
within which, probably to an extent not rivaled by that of any
other committee, were considered matters which called up the
most delicate questions of personal preference and all the
warring claims of party and of locality, and I was prepared,
sir, to be critical as regarded what seems to me must be the
course which should be taken by such a man as I had pictured
him to myself not in an uncomplimentary manner but as one
judging from the prejudices and predilections necessarily op
posed to those entertained by those with whom I was associ
ated, and which would influence me in deciding a course of
action.

Throughout the long term of service in that committee I
found the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. ENOCHS] disappointed
me in every particular, except in confirming the high qualities,
their esteem of which had been so strongly voiced by his con
stituency. From the beginning to the end of a service which
was marked upon his part by unvarying punctuality in attend
ance on our committee work, there was not, I believe I can say,
S. Mis. 215 3

34 Address of Mr. Warner, of New York, on the

a single occasion in which it could have been inferred, from a
vote he cast or any statement he made except so far as he
might have been called upon for information by those of his
colleagues who desired it what was the section from which
he came, the party to which he belonged, or the interest in
which he might be supposed to have most at stake. And, sir,
it is the remembrance of that fact, and of that quiet industry
with which he discharged the work that came upon him the
laborious and thankless work, I may say, of that committee in
the last Congress that I am here to-day to pay a tribute to
his memory.

In doing so, sir, I am paying tribute to the memory of a sol
dier who, distinguished in war beyond his fellows, never by
word or deed fought a post helium battle ; to the memory of a
partisan strong in his belief in the mission of his party, so
strong in his conviction of the justice of its cause that he be
lieved the best way to serve it was to serve the best interest
of our common country, without waiting to see how it affected
his party; to the memory of a gentleman who, although pos
sessing to such an extent the confidence of those who knew
him that he had every reason to return that regard by defer
ence to their personal predilections, was broad enough and
generous enough to treat every other locality with the same
consideration that he gave his own; to the memory of a pa
triot, sir, whose belief in the destiny of his own country was
so sanguine that, even as to those who differed with him, his
attitude was so tinged by his own generous spirit that he
gave to every colleague credit for the same patriotic senti
ments that animated himself.

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 35

ADDRESS OF MR, MCKAIG, OF MARYLAND.

Mr. SPEAKER: While we pause in the midst of our legis
lative duties to pay a tribute to the gentlemau so recently a
distinguished member of this House from the State of Ohio,
I desire to say that the words I utter to-day come not merely
from the fact of official fellowship with my deceased colleague
in the Fifty- second Congress, where we were associated in
committee work, but from the impulses of a warm personal
friendship.

In looking over the roll of members elected to the Fifty-
second Congress from the State of Ohio, I was much gratified
to see that Gen. WILLIAM H. ENOCHS had been chosen as a
member of Congress from one of its Congressional districts.

The distinguished gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Grosveuor]
has most eloquently and appropriately referred to the endear
ing and estimable qualities which, around the bier of this
late distinguished soldier and honored Representative, caused
many a tear to flow as a tribute of the love and respect of his
constituents, and I stand here to-day to pay the same tribute
of a section of the Southern country in which he had the
honor to serve a portion of his military career to the many
good qualities of heart and mind that made him esteemed
and loved wherever the duties of life called him.

Some may wonder what was the primal essential feature be
sides that of native gallantry in the striking personality of
General ENOCHS, who was a mere youth when he enlisted,
that caused his rapid promotion from private through each
successive grade to brigadier-general.

Soon after the tocsin of war was sounded, hundreds and
thousands of volunteer soldiers swarmed along the line of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad seeking the front near Washing-

36 Address of Mr. McKaig, of Maryland, on the

ton aud occupied points along tlie Potomac River and in West
Virginia. Cumberland, Md., my native town, in those troub
lous days was truly a frontier town, and was garrisoned with
Western troops, among them many Ohio regiments. At times
during the early days of the war we had General ENOCHS
with us. The comfort aud discomfort of our citizens depended
very much upon the character and disposition of those who
were placed in command, and our solicitude made us keen ob
servers of our military rulers. Our people who were brought
in contact with General ENOCHS officially or personally soon
discovered the quality that contributed to his rapid advance
ment in the subsequent years of the war.

The dominant quality of his nature was a genial, cordial
sympathy with all classes of noncombatants, and his thor
ough appreciation of their helplessness so molded his offi
cial policy toward them as not only to conquer their respect,
but to secure him their lasting esteem and friendship. We
soon learned that no matter what might be our own feelings,
whether of a Southern or a Northern cast, he was always
disposed to be as kind and considerate as his duty would per
mit. I am happy to be able to say, in the name of the South
ern people of my section, that no kinder gentleman, no more
genial spirit, nor braver soldier ever held a position of mili
tary command among them. Let us hope that our beloved
country may contain many like him among our youth, and in
climbing the ladder of life they would do well to keep in view
the record of this distinguished soldier and statesman

Whose life iu low estate began,
Who grasped the skirts of happy chance,
Breasted the blows of circumstance,
And made by force his merit known;
And lived to clutch the golden keys,
To mold a mighty State s decrees
And shape the whisper of the throne.

Life and Character of William H, Enochs. 37

General ENOCHS served in the army of West Virginia, where
such men as Generals Crook and Kelly held high command.
They, like him, were men who performed the official duties
assigned them to the letter and spirit, and yet at the same time
acted with such moderation and good judgment as to keep all
classes of people in that section in touch with them. They
are the commandants who are kindly remembered by our
people, but none were held in more esteem than the late Gen
eral ENOCHS.

Some fifteen or twenty years ago he returned to Cumber-
laud as one of the Grand Army comrades to celebrate the re
union of the army of West Virginia. He and those who came
there with him were met with the utmost hospitality by our
people, but none received so warm a welcome as the distin
guished soldier whose life we are now commemorating.

When he entered Congress, I found that the years that had
elapsed since he visited Cumberland had not changed him in
any essential particular, as he was still the same genial gen
tleman, and although our previous personal acquaintance had
been limited, we mutually looked each other up and became
quite intimate during our subsequent official association.

Under the assignment of the Speaker we became members
of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, aiid I
am glad to add my testimonial to what has been so eloquently
said by my colleague from New York [Mr. Warner] as to
the earnest and efficient work of General ENOCHS in all
matters brought before that committee. It was a noticeable
fact that in discharging his duties as a member of that
committee there were never any manifestations of local or
sectional feeling shown by him. He invariably gave to
the consideration of the subject-matter a sound, unbiased
judgment.

38 Address of Mr. McKaig, of Maryland, on the

At the expiration of the Fifty -second Congress, when we
were about to return home, I went over to his seat and had
a pleasant talk with him in relation to the work of our com
mittee in the event of our again having the same assignments
upon the assembling of the Fifty-third Congress, and when
we parted I little thought that 1 would never again look into
his kindly face nor hear his cheery voice.

It was a second time in less than a year that I had un
consciously bidden an eternal farewell to a fellow- member,
and, strange to say, both of the distinguished gentlemen,
ex-Governor Warwick and General ENOCHS, were members
of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and Rep
resentatives of the great State of Ohio.

In both of these gentlemen I felt a warm interest, not
only personally, but from a kind of State pride, as Ohio was
the native State of my father as well as my relations, the
McMahons, Vallandighams, and the Armstrongs.

Mr. Speaker, General ENOCHS was a man who in all the
walks of life lived up to the straight line of duty, develop
ing, in a strong manner, promptness of action as the great
feature of his character, which led him to success and honor
in civil, military, and legislative life. lie was a modest
man withal, and not given to thrusting himself forward, but
when he undertook the discharge of a duty he unswervingly
carried it through to its legitimate conclusion.

In my opinion, Mr. Speaker, no braver or purer man ever
sat in Congress than the late General ENOCHS. The impres
sions I derived from my association with him were of such a
character that the tribute I pay to his memory to day is a
heartfelt recognition of the qualities that endeared him to me
and which gave him fame and honor in the country he loved
so well and for whose life he fought so nobly.

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 39

It lias been eloquently said that &quot; Of the richest and
mightiest cities of this ancient world the only surviving indi
cations are the temples and the tombs; their dwellings, their
palaces, their theaters have all disappeared all the mag
nificent structures of their genius and their pride, save those
erected to the memory of the dead or the worship of the
undying. Passing away is written on everything this world
contains, yet we sit amidst its consentaneous and emphatic
teachings, unable to lay to heart its single moral, engrossed
with the shallow interest of a few brief moments in a passing
life with the immortal stars above us and the sepulchers of
nations at our feet.&quot;

Mr. Speaker, when a member of the Fifty-second Congress,
in common with other members of that body, I saw gentle
men sitting in their seats in the afternoon of certain days in
apparent health whose immortal spirits had before midnight,
in obedience to the inscrutable summons of Divine Provi
dence, drifted across the silent river into the great unknown
one a man of powerful physique and the other slender and
delicate.

In view of this uncertain life, does it not behoove each one
of us to so conduct our lives that when we in turn are called
to make this awful journey we may be fully prepared to meet
our Redeemer, and at the same time leave behind us as hon
orable a record as the one whose life we are commemorating
to-day?

Life is meant for enjoyment and for toil; but it is meant
also that the enjoyment should never be unmingled or su
preme and that the toil should never be wholly remunerative
or successful. This is designed to be an unsatisfying world,
and in that design lies the dominant and all-pervading ele
ment of religion as it points to a satisfying world beyond the

40 Address of Mr. Wilson, of Ohio, on the

life we are living here. The actual is very beautiful, but it
is insufficient in view of a possible far lovelier still.

Science for man unlocks her varied store
And gives enough to wake a wish for more,
Enough of good to kindle strong desire.
Enough of ill to damp the rising fire;
Enough of joy and sorrow, fear and hope,
To fan desire and give the passion scope ;
Enough of disappointment, sorrow, pain,
To seal the Wise Man s sentence, &quot;All is vain,&quot;
And quench the wish to live these years again.

ADDRESS OF MR. WILSON, OF OHIO.

Mr. SPEAKER: I have listened with pleasure and profit
to the well-deserved tributes which have been paid to the
memory of General ENOCHS here to-day.

It was my fortune to have some acquaintance with the
distinguished gentleman whose death we to-day commemo
rate. I did not know him intimately, but frequently met
him in conventions of the political party of which he and I
were members. In common with those who met him in any
of the walks of life, I learned to esteem Gen. WILLIAM H.
ENOCHS -for his excellent capabilities, genial fellowship, and
his splendid military achievements.

General ENOCHS was warm-hearted and generous to a
fault. He could not resist the appeals of those who were
disposed to disregard his friendship by imposing upon his
magnanimity. But while this characteristic trait of his con
stitution was often prejudicial to his interests and individual
success in business affairs, it contributed to his great popu
larity among the people with whom he lived. The generous-

Life and Character of IViUiam H. Enochs. 41

hearted man is always lovable because of his disinterested
solicitude for the welfare of the humble people.

As one of the Congressional committee who attended the
funeral of General ENOCHS, I met a very large congregation
of sympathizing friends and neighbors, who reverently wit
nessed the last sad rites. There were present also many
distinguished gentlemen from abroad. The attendant scenes
were impressive, one affecting feature being the presence of
many humble men and women, who timidly entered the room
where the remains were resting, and, as the unbidden tears
moistened their cheeks, lingering looked, and then turned
away from all that was mortal of the man who had been their
friend.

I am informed that our lamented colleague died a poor man.
But is it not worthy of reflection that this consideration is
small compared to the fact that his memory is enshrined in
the hearts of a grateful people. There are more than enough
men who have died rich in the possession of this world s
goods, but who left behind them no treasures in the memories
of those who survived them. The wealthy may have erected
to their memories magnificent monuments of marble or gran
ite to mark the resting places of their ashes; but a far more
enduring and honorable tribute of respect to the memory of a
man is the abiding love and respect which those who knew
him best retain for him after his death.

WILLIAM H. ENOCHS was born on a farm March 24, 1842,
and was there brought up. He was educated in the common
schools, entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduated in
180(5, and then practiced law. Tie was always courteous in
his intercourse with other members of the bar and in the
presence of the court.

But to my mind the most distinguished part of his eventful
life was his services for the preservation of the Union. He

42 Address of Mr. Wilson, of Ohio, on the

enlisted in the Twenty-second Regiment of Ohio Volunteer
Infantry on the 19th day of April, A. D. 1801 ; and he after
wards enlisted in the Fifth Kegimeut of West Virginia Vol
unteer Infantry, and became its commanding officer and led
his regiment in many severe engagements.

On account of his bravery he was promoted corporal, ser
geant, lieutenant, captain, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and
brevet brigadier-general successively. This is a record of
which any man should be justly proud. As much as I
esteem civil honors, I regard the military services of General
ENOCHS in the war of the rebellion as especially honorable.
The man who in a righteous cause risks his life and sacrifices
his private interests for the public welfare is entitled to
greater credit than he who in civil affairs distinguishes him
self above his fellow-men.

General ENOCHS was a member of the Fifty-second Con
gress and served in that body with distinction and ability.
His constituency, proud of his record, returned him to the
Fifty-third Congress, but he died before entering upon the
discharge of his duties. He was patriotic to an eminent
degree, and always used his best endeavors to advance the
interests of those whom he represented, and especially those
who served with him in the armies of his countries. If Gen
eral ENOCHS had faults and who has not&quot;? they were those
of an overgeuerous heart and were not of the kind that
inflicted injuries upon others. He was a good citizen, a brave
soldier, an able lawyer, a loving husband and father, a true
friend a gentleman.

Mr. Speaker, I regret that I am not prepared to make more
fitting if not more extended remarks on this occasion. And I
sincerely hqpe that my esteem for General ENOCHS personally
and my regard for his civil and military services will not be
measured by the few words which I speak to-day. I am not

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 43

sure that with preparation and care it would be possible for
me to effectually express my appreciation of my distinguished
fellow-citizen and fellow-soldier. His name is honored and
respected among his neighbors, and his record as a statesman
and soldier is found in the archives of his country, where
future generations may trace his honorable and eventful civil
and military career.

It is not expected that my remarks shall transcend a brief
mention of the salient features of a busy and useful life. Yet,
when confronted with the subject of life and death, our minds
naturally reflect upon the possibilities of a future life. It is at
such times that we most realize our inability to fully compre
hend the attributes of the soul.

Life is marvelous beyond description, and death is not more
mysterious than birth. The human intellect is incapable of
understanding the principle of life, and can not penetrate be
yond the veil which separates life and death. The tongue is
powerless to express our imaginations or portray our feeble
conceptions concerning the final destiny of man.

It is only by faith we see the glimmering lights of an eternity.
What ecstatic beauties usher the spirit into the realms of
futurity are known only to those who have passed beyond the
scenes of earth.

But our faith in the divinity of our Creator springs from our
hope of an eternity. The wisdom of God surpasses our under
standing, and I believe we may rest assured of His goodness
and mercy in all of His dealings with the subjects of His crea
tion. Acknowledging His supremacy, trusting in His prom
ises, and recognizing His infinite solicitude for the welfare of
the human race, may we not freely commit into the keeping o.f
our Creator the final destiny of every individual soul?

44 Address of Mr. Northway, of Ohio, on the

ADDRESS OF MR. NORTHWAY, OF OHIO,

Mr. SPEAKER: lu the presence of death we should always
speak words of soberness and truth. Unmerited eulogy
should never be indulged in, nor should we withhold a single
word of just commendation. We may not always speak all
the truth of a dead person, but what we do say should always
be the truth. Our portraiture of a person should be so life
like that acquaintances of that person can recognize in our
language a correct likeness of the life and peculiarities of the
one spoken of.

Such language may not always be used with pleasure, for
its correctness may cause pain, not alone in the speaker but in
the hearer or reader as well.

But when we have a subject of whom truthful words can be
spoken without pain to the speaker or the listener, then what
might otherwise be a burden is relieved of all unpleasantness
and we cheerfully perform a sad duty in speaking of the
merits of a dead friend.

In speaking of a public man we may confine our words to
his public life as he lived it and leave untouched his private
life, or we may venture to comment upon both. This often
times relieves a speaker of much embarrassment, for the pub
lic life may have been such as to merit commendation, while
the private life may have been such that truthful words had
better not be spoken publicly of it.

But when tbe private life has been along the line of high,
noble, and manly action, has aided humanity and relieved
pain and want, has strengthened the moral forces in society,
has tended to build up and protect homes and families, has
aided in the education and elevation of the masses, has been

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 45

an example for the young, ambitious, and struggling men
and women, lias added to the imperishable glory of a nation,
and taught the world by examples of heroic daring that
sacrifice of one s self in defense of one s country places that
one in the list of the immortals ; and when to this is added
a public life which fully supplements the private life, and
seeks to carry out in public acts those things which speak for
public good, then we may with lively feelings of satisfaction
make fitting mention of the whole life and hold it up in lan
guage of truthful eulogy as a life to be commended and
followed as an example.

Some men have lived more conspicuous lives than General
ENOCHS, but few have lived truer or better ones. Many
have had more extended public lives, none have lived those
lives more conscientiously than he. Many whose private lives
were known by a larger circle of men and women; few whose
lives were purer or blessed more within its influence.

I had not the pleasure of an acquaintance with our dead
friend, and it is for me to regret the want of that acquaint
ance.

Few men have devoted themselves more unselfishly to pub
lic or private good. Few men have exhibited greater devotion
to their country or taught to better advantage the example
of heroic daring.

Entering the army, as he did, a young man, and passing
through all grades from private to brigadier-general by brevet,
he exibited a devotion to patriotism and country which must
make his name immortal among the heroes of a country
which blesses and immortalizes its brave defenders. \A 7 hen
the war was over, no feeling of hate or resentment found
lodgment in his . bosom. From over the fields of Vicksburg,
Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and Appomattox there came to
him no breezes freighted with malice or hate, but he was

46 Address of Mr. Northway, of Ohio, on the

filled with forgiveness for all who made those fields possible,
and love undying for all those brothers in arms who made
those fields glorious.

He was a soldier who fought bravely and well to con
quer and then he forgave and treated all as brothers and
not as conquered.

He had a broad-gauged mind, and he looked at things on
the human side and judged all in the spirit of kindness and
humanity.

His service in Congress was of such short duration being
but one term that little opportunity was afforded him to do
those things which would bring him into prominence. None
know so well as those who have tried the experiment how
helpless one is to be of much service to his constituents or
the country in Congress until, by experience, he has learned
how work is done and under what rules. So it came about
that General ENOCHS followed the course pursued by so many
others, and made but little public show. Yet those of you
who served with him know how conscientiously he performed
those duties which fell to his lot to perform.

But his history as a soldier, citizen, and public man is a
sure guaranty that had he lived to continue his career in Con
gress he would have made a brilliant record and become the
pride of his constituents and his State. But death respects
not ambition or prospective greatness in life. His icy touch
chills into everlasting stillness the brave, the gentle, the
young, and brilliant, as well as the weak and dull. He re
spects not bright hopes, and is not stayed by breaking hearts,
but enters all the walks of life, and leaves his pall upon all
homes, and

With ever Imsy fingers

Culls his flowers, the sweetest, rarest,

Binding in his sheaves the fairest.

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 47

But his touch is not the end. Those who are worthy will
live in the memories of those who have been blessed by them
and in the remembrance of noble acts well done. General
ENOCHS when a very young man exhibited qualities of man
hood and bravery which enshrined him in the hearts of his
neighbors and friends and made his career memorable.

He listened to the call of his countrymen, and well did he
perform his duty.

And in his life he learned as well as taught that

Not once, nor twice, in our fair country s story,

Was the path of duty the way to glory;

And he who walks it, thirsting only for the right,

And learns to deaden love of self

Before his journey closes he shall find

The stubborn thistle bursting into glossy purples,

Which outredden all voluptuous garden roses.

Death may cut short human action, but it can not chill for
ever the memory of noble acts. So beyond the boundary of
human activity buds and blooms loving remembrance, bidding
defiance to death.

Our dead friend lives in all that is deathless; only his form
is gone. His devotion to home and country, his bravery and
gentleness, his life, &quot;four square to every wind that blew,&quot; his
kindness to friends and neighbors, his activity for public
good, his humanity, bear him up to everlasting remembrance,
and have earned for him among his neighbors and acquaint
ances that glorious commendation which we trust greeted liim
on the other shore &quot;Well done.&quot;

48 Address of Mr. Bundy, of Ohio, on the

ADDRESS OF MR, BUNDY, OF OHIO.

Mr. SPEAKER: To my colleague, General Grosvenor, was
committed the charge of conducting the order of the proceed
ings in calling the attention of the House to the death of the
late General ENOCHS.

This is in accordance with the wishes of his family and
friends, as I am advised, but I desire the privilege of casting
a sprig of cassia into his grave, and of placing a flower on
his tomb.

Gen. WILLIAM H. ENOCHS was mj r immediate predecessor,
having been elected in November, 1892, from the Tenth Ohio
Congressional district. From the Directory of the Fifty-second
Congress I glean a short and incomplete sketch of his life.

From this I learn that he was born in Ohio on the 29th day of
March, 1842. He was brought up on a farm, and was educated
in the common schools peculiar to those earlier days; he
entered the Union army as a private early in the war; served
throughout the war as private, sergeant, captain, lieutenant-
colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general. He commenced the
study of law in camp, and at the close of the war entered the
Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated, and was
then admitted to the bar. He at once actively engaged in the
practice of his profession, which he followed until his death.

At the annual election of 1890 General ENOCHS was elected
to the Fifty-second Congress from the Twelfth Ohio district
by a very large majority, leading the State ticket, and in 1892
he was elected to the Fifty-third Congress from the Tenth
Ohio district, which is composed in part of the former Twelfth
district.

On the morning of the 13th of last July our district and
State were severely shocked. The startling news went over

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 49

the wires of the sudden death, at his home in Ironton, of Con
gressman ENOCHS. The news seemed incredible; and at first
the people were unwilling to accept it as true. Conspicuously
powerful in appearance, and in all his methods of work and
action, he seemed certain to survive all assaults save those of
the ultimate years of man s allotted time. He had scarcely
reached the meridian of his power, had just attained that point
of a career whose future was destined to become one of useful
ness and distinguished honor, when summoned from Time to
Eternity.

General ENOCHS was one of the noted characters that stand
out in history, showing the possibilities of the young man who
goes, unaided by wealth or fortuitous circumstances, and by
the force of his own will power, honesty, industry, and perse
verance can achieve and win distinction among his fellows
such as the world awards to the so-called majesty of genius.

Born on a farm, inspired by the objects of nature, it might
be said that General ENOCHS received the rudiments of his
education in the school of practical experience, which so emi
nently fits a young man for the battle of life.

Plain and unpretentious of manner, with a nature abound
ing in human sympathies, a lover of his country and of his
kind, he was essentially a man of the people, a great com
moner who was ever ready to give a helping hand to his fel
lows. He was a man of pronounced convictions on all ques
tions and was as fearless in their utterance as he was sincere
in their entertainment.

He was unfaltering in his loyalty to Republican principles,
and even his political enemies were frank to admit their admi
ration for his open and conscientious convictions.

He stood squarely upon his merits as a man in all the rela
tions of life, never shirked a duty nor sought to evade re
sponsibility. His life was one of self-sacrifice in behalf of
S. Mis. 215 4

50 Address of Mr, Bundy, of Ohio, on the

others, arid he died as he had lived an enemy to none, a friend
to all mankind.

General ENOCHS was a citizen loved by his neighbors, hon
ored and respected by all; he was a philanthropist with a
generous hand, and no unfortunate, however poor, ever left
his door without having been comforted by his generosity.
He was a soldier by instinct, a stranger to fear, a gallant
leader whom men were always proud to follow, and whose
time and talent in later years were devoted to the cause of his
comrades. History shows that he was distinguished in all
the lines of service in the army in fact, that he was one of
the youngest, if not the youngest, commandants of a brigade
in the volunteer service. He was a lawyer true to his profes
sion, and exhibited an unfaltering zeal for the success of his
clients. He was a statesman of the practical type, with
exalted ideas of the obligations which public trust imposes.
He was a patriot who loved his country with a jealous love,
and was willing, if need be, to lay down his life in defense of
the old flag and the principles which it represents.

General ENOCHS possessed, in a marked degree, all the
elements which serve to attract men to each other. His
popularity and ability are plainly demonstrated by his rapid
promotion in the army, his success as a lawyer, and his elec
tion to Congress.

But he has been suddenly called from his field of activity
and usefulness here to take up the line of inarch of the silent
majority, including a large number of his old comrades in the
field, to the goal where we hope and believe there is no war,
but where all is peace and joy eternal.

But, Mr. Speaker, our resolutions and eulogies fall silent
upon the ear of our dead colleague.

The good knight is dust,

His good sword is rust,

His soul is with the saints, we trust.

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 51

Mr. Speaker, the sudden taking off of General ENOCHS left
the companion of his joys and the sharer of his trials and sor
rows, together with an only son a bright young man and
his father, earnestly desiring that he should have that educa
tion and preparation necessary for intelligent and effective
services to his country, nominated him to a cadetship to the
Military Academy at West Point, and who, it is believed, will
worthily represent the best interests of the country in the
future as his brave father did in the past.

Mr. Speaker, when I retired from Congress in March, 1875,
five of my colleagues had fallen during the last or short ses
sion of that, the Forty-third, Congress. As I return now, five
of those who were members of this Congress have passed to
the other shore.

Surely, Mr. Speaker, this ought to admonish us that we are
fast approaching the assembling of that great and final con
gress of all nations, kindred, and tongues, whose sessions and
terms are eternal, and whose business can not be interrupted
by broken quorums. Is it not the supreme duty of the hour
that the living should take all the precaution possible to as
sure the regularity of the elections, returns, and the official
signing and sealing of commissions, so as to secure an unchal
lenged right to seats in that greatest of all congresses, where
we shall be fully prepared to answer &quot;yea&quot; to that most sig
nificant and important question propounded by &quot;the man of
Uz,&quot; in the long ago

If a man die, shall he live again ?

The resolutions were adopted; and the House accordingly
(at three o clock and fifty-five minutes p. m.) adjourned.

PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH.

APRIL 19, 1894.

Mr. SHERMAN. I ask that the resolutions adopted by the
House of Representatives on the occasion of the death of
my late colleague in that House, Gen. WILLIAM H. ENOCHS,
may now be laid before the Senate.

The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate
the resolutions of the House of Representatives, which will
be read.

The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows:

Resolved, That the House has heard with sincere regret the announce
ment of the death of Hon. WILLIAM H. ENOCHS, late a Representative
from the State of Ohio.

Resolved, That the business of the House be suspended, in order that
the public services and private character of the deceased be thoroughly
commemorated.

Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be directed to
communicate these resolutions to the Senate, and send a duly attested
copy to the widow of the deceased.

Resolved, That at the conclusion of these services the House, as a
further mark of respect, do adjourn.

Mr. SHERMAN. I move the adoption of the resolutions which
I send to the desk.

The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolutions submitted by the
Senator from Ohio will be read.
52

Announcement of death. 53

The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows:

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sensibility the an
nouncement of the death of Hon. WILLIAM H. ENOCHS, late a Represent
ative from the State of Ohio.

Resolved, That the business of the Senate be now suspended, in order
that fitting tribute be paid to his memory.

Mr. SHERMAN. I ask for a vote on the adoption of the reso
lutions.

The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the
resolutions.

The resolutions were unanimously agreed to.

Address of Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, on the

EULOGIES.

APRIL 19, 1894.

ADDRESS OF MR. SHERMAN, OF OHIO.

Mr. PRESIDENT: The oft-recurring announcement in this
Senate Chamber of the death of one of our associates must
impress us with our uncertain tenure of human life, as well as
of official honors. Death regards 110 party, age, section, or
service. It comes to all, but gives no warning of time or
place or circumstance. Vigorous manhood may be the first
victim, while feebleness and old age are spared.

The death of my late colleague, Gen. W. H. ENOCHS, a
member of the House of Eepreseiitatives from Ohio, is a strik
ing example of this law of life and death. After an active life
of fifty-one years he had attained a position of honor and use
fulness where he could hope to take a leading part in the
House of Eepresentatives and prove in that, the highest pop
ular arena of American talent, his marked energy and ability.
He was elected a member of the House in 1890 by an over
whelming majority, and was reelected almost without opposi
tion in 1892. He had the affection and confidence of his
constituents, and in natural course and by the conservative
usage of his people would have been long retained as their
representative, but, unhappily, before entering upon his
second term, he died, sincerely mourned by his constituents,
without distinction of party, and by the people of Ohio who
had become familiar with his history.

Though thus untimely cut off, he had lived long enough to
furnish a remarkable example of that feature of American life
possible only under free institutions. He was a self-made

Life and Character of William H. Enochs. 55

man. He was the architect of his own fortunes. He was
born on a farm in Ohio in 1842. His parents were poor. He
was their chief dependence for the labor on the farm. He
had the advantage of the common country schools of Ohio,
and there acquired the habit of study, the love of books, and
the ambition to acquire an advanced education. At the age
of eighteen he entered the college at Athens, Ohio, but before
the first year was over, a few days after the firing upon Fort
Sumter, he enlisted as a common soldier in a three months
Ohio regiment, the first feeble, and, in view of subsequent
events, the ridiculous preparation for a great war. Then
only nineteen years of age, he proved his aptitude for military
drill and discipline and duty. He demonstrated his courage
in early conflicts in West Virginia. At the expiration of his
term of enlistment, without returning to his home, he enlisted
in a West Virginia regiment largely composed of Ohio sol
diers for a term of three years.

A narrative of his life and real adventures would be as in
teresting as a romance. I have heard his comrades speak of
him as an ideal soldier, brave yet cautious, cheerful under the
greatest fatigue, resolute and hopeful, and generally success
ful. It is needless to say that his qualities as a soldier soon
gained him promotion. He became lieutenant in December,
1861, and by successive promotions he attained the command
of his regiment and often the actual command of a brigade.
He was brevetted brigadier-general at the close of the war for
gallant and honorable service in the field. The only obstacle
in his way was his youth, which on two occasions delayed his
promotion. It was this test of soldierly qualities, this train
ing of body and mind, this struggle for political convictions
deeply embedded iu the hearts of both Union and Confederate
soldiers, that gave to our civil war its fierce energy and de
structive results.

56 Address of Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, on the

Still the war could not be avoided. It was an irrepressible
conflict. And, next to the preservation of the Union and the
abolition of slavery, the chief beneficial result of the war was
the respect which the soldiers, both Union and Confederate,
had for each other. Typical soldiers like General ENOCHS,
enterprising, brave, and determined, could perceive and ac
knowledge like qualities in Confederate soldiers, and could
regret that human wisdom could devise no method of settling
their differences except by destructive war, involving the
death or disability of one million of men and the loss of many
billions of dollars of property.

When the honorable military career of General ENOCHS
closed, he was but twenty-three years old and a brigadier-
general by brevet. His college life was closed by the neces
sity of earning a livelihood. He commenced the study of the
law, and graduated at the Cincinnati Law School in 1866. He
soon after commenced the practice of law at Ironton, on the
banks of the Ohio Eiver, where he ever since resided. He
served one term in the legislature of Ohio, but, declining
further service he devoted himself to his profession.

In November, 1890, General ENOCHS was elected a member
of the Fifty-second Congress by a very large majority; and
here, as on the battlefield and in his profession, he gained a
high reputation for industry, good sense, and ability of a high
order. Tbe kindly words spoken of him in the House of Rep
resentatives QII these resolutions, not only by his colleagues
from Ohio but by many others, is the best evidence of the
respect in which he was held by them after his brief service
in that body. His successor said of him:

Life and Character of William H. Enochs, 57

fear, a gallant leader whom men were always proud to follow, aiid whose
time and talent in later years were devoted to the cause of his comrades.
History shows that he was distinguished in all the lines of service in the
army in fact, that he was one of the youngest, if not the youngest,
commandants of a brigade in the volunteer service. He was a lawyer
true to his profession, and exhibited an unfaltering zeal for the success
of his clients. He was a statesman of the practical type, with exalted
ideas of the obligations which public trust imposes. He was a patriot
who loved his country with a jealous love, and was willing, if need be,
to lay down his own life in defense of the old flag and the principles
which it represents.

I believe that this high eulogy is a truthful, sincere, and
just tribute to the character of General ENOCHS. He left
behind him his wife and one child, the chief mourners, but
his whole constituency, without distinction of party, share in
their grief and have expressed in many ways their respect
and affection for their late representative.

ADDRESS OF MR. BRICE, OF OHIO.

Mr. PRESIDENT: The grim reaper has been a busy har
vester in the Ohio delegation since my service began in this
body, and it is my sad duty to address my associates on the
untimely death of one of the most honored and patriotic sons
whom the State of Ohio has sent to the national capital.

On July 12, 1893, Hon. WILLIAM H. ENOCHS, representing
the Tenth district of Ohio, died suddenly at his home in Iron-
ton. By his death there was taken from the public service a
representative whose whole career, both public and private,
evinced the highest qualities of manhood and patriotism; one
who walked fearlessly in the path of duty in peace and in
war, and who has left behind him memories which will long
be cherished, though he now sleeps beneath the sod. It was,

58 Address of Mr. Brice, of Ohio, on the

perhaps, the most fitting end that a hero of his soldierly mold
should die in the service of the country for which he had
through stormy years battled and bled.

General ENOCHS was a native of Ohio, having been born in
Noble County, March 29, 1842. Reared upon a farm, his field
of opportunities was not widespread, but such advantages as
he obtained he wrested mainly from adverse circumstances
by his own courage and endurance. His parents were sturdy
and honest, though not more prosperous than was usual with
the Western farmer of that day. From them he inherited the
qualities of sterling integrity which were maintained through
out his lifetime, a heritage more potent for honorable success
than any that a wealthy ancestry could bestow.

The conditions that surrounded him during his boyhood
days on the farm were natural and rational, doubtless con
tributing much to that evenness of character and sturdiness
of purpose which in later years marked his demeanor in the
tumults of battle as well as in the pursuits of peace.

His early education was had in the common schools; but
with an inborn disposition to lift himself to loftier heights he
became a teacher, and from his savings in this capacity
secured the means to attend college. What might have been
the outcome in this direction as the result of his studious
habits and his faculty for application we can never know, for
the call to arms of 1861 turned the current of his life into the
seething channel of a bloody conflict. He was but nineteen
years of age when he enlisted as a private, unconscious that
the future had in store for him the epaulettes of a brigadier-
general. But that was the sequel with which a deserving
fate rounded out his army life. It was the pride of his
friends, though he was personally modest concerning the
subject, that in five years, including some of the hardest cam
paigning of the war, he had risen from a private through all

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the intermediate grades to the high rank and honorable dis
tinction of brigadier-general. There hardly exists a prouder
military record than is contained in the mere statement of
that fact, and it is made more conspicuous when it is recalled
that these honors came to him not by a succession of fortu
nate accidents or the operation of kindly favoritism, but were
earned on grim and deadly fields of battle.

During the war he participated in ten important engage
ments, and a much larger number of minor battles and skir
mishes. At the battle of Winchester, near the close of the
war, he received a well-nigh fatal wound, a bullet from the
enemy traversing one side of his skull, but fortunately not
penetrating.

You must pardon me if I have dwelt somewhat at length
upon the military achievements of this admirable soldier, but
the glories of war are ever dazzling. In viewing them, how
ever, the honorable career of General ENOCHS as a citizen
and a legislator has not been forgotten. Sheathing his sword
when the turmoil of the great conflict had subsided, he pre
pared himself for the practice of law, which thereupon be
came his chosen profession. After he was admitted to the
bar he became known as a practical clear-headed lawyer, a
reputation which he not only sustained but increased during
the entire period of his long practice.

In 18G9 the allurements of politics diverted him from the
law for the time being, and he was elected to the State legis
lature. The attractions of that body evidently did not fulfill
all his expectations, for after one term of service he declined
to again be a candidate for the position, and returned to his
law office.

In 1890 General ENOCHS was nominated and elected as
a member of the House of Representatives from the dis
trict in which he resided, beginning his active duties when

60 Life and Character of William H. Enochs.

the Fifty -second Congress was organized. He devoted
himself faithfully to the duties he had been called upon
by his people to assume, looking after tbe material inter
ests of his locality, and at the same time giving studious
attention to the broader . issues involved in national affairs.
He was known to his associates as an earnest and thought
ful worker in the committees to which he was assigned,
where his practical qualities were most valuable.

His services in the capacity of a member of the House
of Representatives were pleasing to his constituents, and
without dissent he was nominated and elected to the pres
ent Congress. It was not his fate nor the fortune of his
country that he should serve out that trust. A short time
before the assembling of the Fifty-third Congress the hand
of death lifted him from earth; and at his desk, where on the
meeting day would have been handshakings and reunions,
were found tbe somber emblems of grief.

Mr. President, in paying tribute this afternoon to this dead
soldier and statesman we are doing honor to manhood, integ
rity, and courage. To the student of events I point out his
proud record as it is written on the pages of the history of his
country. It is more eloquent than words that I may speak;
more lasting than praises launched upon the echoes of this
Chamber.

Mr. SHERMAN. As a further mark of respect to the memory
of my late colleague in the House of Representatives, I move
that the Senate do now adjourn.

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at five o clock
and fifteen minutes p. in.) the Senate adjourned until to-mor
row, Friday, April 20, 1894, at twelve o clock in.

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