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and took an active park in the legislation which secured for
it the elegant, comfortable and commodious edifice that is
henceforth to be its home. Nor were his efforts in behalf of
Education confined to those of his own race. Recognizing
the imperative necessity of Education for all who are endow-
ed with citizenship in our nation, he labored with all the ear-
nestness of his nature to secure an increased appropriation
for the colored schools of our State. But while thus atten-
tive to the needs and requirements of the children of the
whole State, so far as their rudimentary instruction was con-
cerned, he was also alive to the necessity for encouraging and
fostering those academic institutions that were devoted to
preparation for the higher, departments of knowledge and
for the admission of the zealoils student to the dome of
classic and polite culture. Prominent among these were the
Charlotte Hall Academy, of whose Board he was the Presi-
dent, and for which he entertained all the enthusiasm of an
ardent youth for the lovely object of ha heart's admiration.
How he plead for aid and assistance to her in need, lovingly
recounted the men of distinction she had numbered among
her instructors and the prominent Marylanders she had edu-
cated within her walls, every one will recollect who occupied
a seat in this chamber during the Session of 1874. Charlotte
Hall was to him a subject of ceaseless eulogium and unfail-
ing attraction.

But the strong and eloquent, the courteous and sympa-
thetic must alike, with the weak and timorous, the rude and
selfish, pay the debt of nature. Death is no respecter of per-
sons and with impartial hand exacts from all the tribute that
frail humanity must pay to His kingdom. The young and
the old, the rich and the poor, the learned and the unlearned,
the gifted and the ignorant, must submit to His power. Our
brother has yielded up his life to the great Giver of life, and
his place in this Body, before the end of the period for which
an attached constituency had elected him as their Senator,
has been vacated. In bowing to this dispensation, the truth
is forced upon our own souls, that we must all sooner or later
follow the same path, and that if we would leave memories
that shall be precious to our families and our people, we must
work while it is day, before the night shall come wherein
there is no work. It is only the conscientious, diligent, un-
tiring laborer in the line of dirty, wherever his lot may be
cast, who shall leave behind him a name redolent with the
commendation of the good and the heartfelt affection of his
fellow-citizens,—it is only the faithful servant of the Great
Master, who will receive the welcome words "well done"
from Bit gracious lipa. May such a reward be ours when
life's fitful career is over.