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in her history. And when standing by his lifeless corpse',
the thought was farced upon me that there lay

"One of the few, the immortal names,

That were not born to die "

In the vigor of a grand constitution unattended by those
who would have known no fatigue, no exertion too great
if it could have brought him comfort. within hearing
of ardent admirers and enthusiastic friends, solitary and
alone he experienced the fatal accident that must have
brought almost instant death—near where ho first saw the
light of day and on the very ground which was trod by his
feet in boyhood's hours, was the lamp of life extinguished.
Solitary in the grandeur of his intellect, so was he solitary
in the hour of death; and death is inexorable in his de-
mands.

"Come, when the blessed seals

That close the pestilence are broke,

And crowded cities wail its stroke;

Come, in consumption's ghastly form,

The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ;

Come, when the luart beats high and warm,

With banquet song, and dance, and wine ;

And thou art terrible—the tear,

The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier :

And all we know, or dream, or fear

Of agony, are thine."

The reputation of such a man as Reverdy Johnson, is the
property of his fellow-citizens, and of his country. Left it
be our privilege to show how we prize it as one of the prince-
liest legacies he could leave behind him.

At the conclusion of the remarks by Mr. Steiner, Mr.
Walsh arose and said :

While, Mr. President, it is perhaps the more immediate
province for gentlemen belonging to the learned profession
to testily to the worth, talent and patriotism of the dimin-
guished son of Maryland, to whose memory the resolutions
just read are dedicated—still, it is no less the duty, mournful
though it be, of those representing on this floor, the great agri-
cultural interests of the Siate, to add their tribute to his
venerated memory, which they now do by cordially and
entirely endorsing the eloquent and appropriate remarks of
the learned gentlemen who have just addressed the Senate,
and who have therein depicted in such fervent language his
world-wide acknowledged reputation as the sagacious, yet
honorable diplomatist, the astute, yet honest statesman, the
learned and able jurist, and last, although far from being