| Show 0 riL ife and In 6 1 Is Gilbert A Menee te M Chicago o Ti Times Herald H The death of ef f Senator S Dator recalls a speech made by him in the Ute senate in August 1890 on the death of ot Senator fleck BOCk of Kentucky It was probably the Ute strangest eulogy ever delivered in I that body Rich almost faultless in I Irh rhetoric rh as his hip speeches always were I it also Iso revealed rev some of the inner workings of his mind thoughts speculations speculations lations vagaries if you will men seldom express even f enter entel tamed Senator Ingalls Ingails ne never er indulged I In long prefaces and he plunged into Int this subject with almost startling ab ss He said Mr President rugged marged robust and indomitable the incarnation of physical cal cat force and intellectual energy n Sen Son Senator Senator ator Beck seemed a part of ot nature in inseparable Inseparable inseparable separable from life and exempt from Infirmity I recall the emotion with which I saw him stand painfully in his hl place and Dd announce with strange pa pathos patho thee thos that for the first time in twenty years he be found fouad himself h unable to par participate partiCipate participate in debate He lingered ered a awhile awhile awhile while as the prostrate oak retains its verdure for a brief interval after its fall or as th the flame fiame flickers tUckers when the candle is burned out but his work I was done It was wu the end The right to is in hunan human hURt an esti estt estimation e tt mation the most meet me t sacred the moet flost in inviolable Inviolable Inviolable violable the most moet Inalienable The Joy of living in such a splendid and lumi day dBY as title this t ls is 18 inconceivable To exist is exultation To live Uve forever is our hope To know to love to achieve to triumph is rapture and yet we are all under sentence of death de th Without trial or opportunity for defense with no knowledge of ot the accuser or the nature and cause of the accusation without being bel confronted with the wit witnesses nesses fleeces nes s Against us we have been sum summoned summoned mooed to the th bar of life and condemned to death There is no writ of error or review revl w There Th re Is neither exculpation nor appeal The he tender mother cries passionately for mercy for her first firstborn firstborn born but there is 18 no clemency The rhe cravi felon sullenly pra prays s for a 8 mo moment moment nb ment In which to be M but the theis is no reprieve The s soul seul ul helplessly beats its wings against the bars shudders shudders shudders ders and disappears Humanity itself Is destined to extinction extinction tion don or later it is the instruction Instruction tion of that the energy of the earth will be expended and It will be become become become come incapable ln of supporting life A group of feeble and pallid survivors survivor in some sheltered valley In the tropics will behold the sun sink below the horizon and the pitiless stars glitter In the th midnight sky The last man will perish and the sun will rise riso upon an earth without an inhabitant Its at atmosphere atmosphere its seas its life Ufe and heat heats will s ill m vanish and the planet will wUl be an idle cinder uselessly sly spinning in its orbit If the only object of creation is de destruction destruction destruction if infinity is the theatre of an uninterrupted series of ot irreparable ble calamities if the final cause of life is de d deth th then time is an inexplicable tragedy and eternity an illogical and indefensible catastrophe But no Mr President Pra this eulogy is for the quick and not for the dead It is not an inconsolable lamentation It Is a strain of triumph It is an Af sf Affirmation t to those who survive that as our departed associate contemplating at th tb close of his life the monument of good d det deeds ds he be has erected might exclaim with the Roman poet Nom Norn omnis So turning to the si silent silent silent lent and unknown n future he could rely with Just and aLd reasonable le confidence upon that th most mes impressible i and mo mc momentous momentous assurance ever delivered d to the race Qi He that believeth in me though be he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and bellev believeth eth oth in me shall never Dever die Of course I have only quoted a part of the speech though in its entirety it itty was wan very ty brief Being called catlett from the chamber c I did not have an ai opportunity op opportunity alty to speak spek to Senator Ingalls until the next day but then I went around a nl to his seat and congratulated him telling him that in many respects I the speech 8 remarkable He Be Beseemed seemed pleased thanked me inc and then thenn as n s I was going be lie turned and said in whit I thought a disappointed tone toDe Do you knew Pierce that you are the only man mII mania to rt this chamber that has said saida I a blamed word to me about it r |
