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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Samuel Sullivan Cox
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Samuel Sullivan Cox Author:United States. Congress Subtitle: (a Representative From New York), Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-First Congress General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: Govt. Print. Off. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos o... more »r missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Address Of Mr. Holman, Of Indiana. Mr. Speaker: The plaintive cry of the Hebrew king when the chiefs of his people were stricken down, "How are the mighty fallen!'' expresses the sadness of this hour. '' How are the mighty fallen!" Nine distinguished citizens, chosen by the people to represent them in this Congress, have finished their course and passed into the other world; three of them, Samuel S. Cox, William D. Kelley, and Samuel J. Randall (the last of whom but a few hours ago we bore away with heavy hearts to the place of his final rest), the foremost members of this House by reason of their long membership in Congress, their commanding abilities, and the valuable services they had rendered to their country. All these, as it were but yesterday, were in this Hall, in the full tide of its great interests, engaged in the noble rivalry of who should best promote the happiness of our people. Now, their work completed, they sleep in the sacred silence of death. I can hardly realize that the House of Representatives of the American Congress is at this hour paying its last tribute of honor to the memory of Samuel S. Cox, closing the record of a career so illustrious. It is sad to think that a life so good and beneficent, so bright and cheerful, diffusing in its pathway the rays of perennial sunshine, the very spirit of kindly sympathy and gladness, should ever close. There is so much of the "true, the beautiful, and the good" in the life ...« less