The son of the toilsome pioneer. the ambitious child of that pioneers father. the soldier exiled from home. and returning humbly and modestly to his home after Federal successes and Confederate defeat. the lawyer resuming his meager practice after the woful struggle in a "lost cause." still he did not succumb to despondency. He yielded nothing to the catastrophes of his life. He never thought of emigration to Mexico or South America. He emerged from these disasters. he came to Congress as a representative of the dominant and patriotic element of his suffering people. Three times indorsed by his people. sustained by studious and careful practice of his profession and elevated in spiritby an invincible honesty .that no one ever challengedhe was enabled to resume his confidence among his people. though not his service here in the Fiftieth Congress.
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