Discourse on the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell: Delivered in the Freemason Street Baptist Church, Before the Bar of ... the 29th Day of June, 1860 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Discourse on the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell: Delivered in the Freemason Street Baptist Church, Before the Bar of Norfolk, Virginia, and the Citizens Generally, on the 29th Day of June, 1860

It appears to me that the life of Mr. Tazewell may be divided into three striking periods The first, extending from his birth to his settlement in Norfolk in 1802 the second, from the settlement in Norfolk to the close of his term as Governor of the Common wealth and the third, thence to his death.

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Excerpt from Discourse on the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell: Delivered in the Freemason Street Baptist Church, Before the Bar of Norfolk, Virginia, and the Citizens Generally, on the 29th Day of June, 1860

Gentlemen of the Bar:

When the sad event occurred which has drawn us together this morning, you met in your accustomed hall, and expressed the feelings which such an event might well inspire. You then adjourned to assist in performing the last solemn rites over the bier of your departed friend. Clad in mourning, you attended his remains from his residence to the steamer, and, embarking with them, transported them over the waters of that noble bay which our venerable friend had crossed so often, and of which he was so justly proud as the Mediterranean of the Commonwealth; and, in the deepening shadows of the night which had overtaken you, and which were rendered yet deeper by the glare of the solitary candles flickering in the wind, more touching by the ceremonies of religion, by the grief of his slaves, and by the smothered wailing of his children and grandchildren, and more imposing by the sorrowing faces and bent forms of some of our aged and most eminent citizens, you deposited the honored dust in its simple grave; there to repose - with two seas sounding their ceaseless requiem above it - till the trump of the Archangel shall smite the ear of the dead, and the tomb shall unveil its bosom, and the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the statesman who ruled the destinies of empires, and the peasant whose thoughts never strayed beyond his daily walk, shall rise together on the Morn of the Resurrection.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.