we must all be called, he will find he has no account to settle there.  No soldier who followed General Lee could have felt more grief and sympathy at his grave than I would, could I have been present upon the mournful occasion of his burial.  I lamented his loss as a private loss, and still more as a public loss.  I knew that his example would continue to allay the passions aroused by the war, and which I was not surprised were excited by some acts in that war.  I love my country; I am jealous of her honor.  I cherish her good name, and I am proud of the land of my birth.  I forbear to criticise the lives and characters of her high officers and servants, but I can say with truth that, during the late war, the laws of humanity were forgotten, and the higher orders of God were trodden under foot.

“The resolutions need no support which human lips can by human language give.  Their subject is their support.  The name of Lee appeals at once, and strongly, to every true heart in this land and throughout the world.  Let political partisans, influenced by fanaticism and the hope of political plunder, find fault with and condemn us.  They will be forgotten when the name of Lee will be resplendent with immortal glory.

“Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, in the course of Nature my career upon earth must soon terminate.  God grant that when the day of my death comes, I may look up to Heaven with that confidence and faith which the life and character of Robert E. Lee gave him!  He died trusting in God, as a good man, with a good life and a pure conscience.  He was consoled with the knowledge that the religion of Christ had ordered all his ways, and he knew that the verdict of God upon the account he would have to render in heaven would be one of judgment seasoned with mercy.  He had a right to believe that when God passed judgment upon the account of his life, though He would find him an erring human being, He would find virtue enough and religious faith enough to save him from any other verdict than that of ’Well done, good and faithful servant.’  The monument will be raised; and when it is raised many a man will visit Richmond to stand beside it, to do reverence to the remains it may cover, and to say, ’Here lie the remains of one of the noblest men who ever lived or died in America.’”

HON.  GEORGE WILLIAM BROWN

“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen:  The able and eloquent gentlemen who have preceded me have left but little for me to say.  I rise, however, to express my hearty assent to the resolutions.  Their broad and liberal views are worthy of the great and good man whose virtues and fame we seek to commemorate.  He has passed away from earth, and our blame or censure is nothing to him now.  The most eloquent eulogies that human lips can utter, and the loftiest monuments that human hands can build, cannot affect him now.  But it is a satisfaction to us to know that expressions