The Memorial To Fessenden

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ISBN 13 : 9781331005094
Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William Pitt Fessenden (a Senator From Maine) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William Pitt Fessenden (a Senator From Maine): Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, 41st Congress, 2d Session, December 14, 1869 Mr. President: One who at your adjournment in April had in this Chamber become a familiar presence, a pervading influence, comes not again at your reassembling in December. The dull toll of far-off bells, the visible emblems of mourning, public and private, have spoken of bereavement, and touch our hearts with deepest sensibility. These swiftly-repeating vicissitudes in the personal destinies of those associated here; a consciousness of the numbers of the wise, the patriotic, the trusted, who of late have departed hence - who come no more to these councils - oppress as with the weight of a common misfortune; and now a new absence at the roll-call to earthly duty inflicts a fresh pang of regret. A great public sorrow afflicts the people of my State - a sense of bereavement the nation. In especial sympathy with the common misfortune the Senate pauses to pay its tribute of respect to its eminent dead, the marked lineaments of whose form and character are vivid still in the memory, who so lately stood here in his high office, in the prominence of native gifts and of a rich and varied experience, challenging the respect, the confidence, and the admiration of his countrymen. On the 8th day of September last, after a career pre-eminent in professional and public life, beginning with his earliest manhood, and having been constantly associated with the courts, and officially in the public councils of the State and nation, at the zenith of his fame and in the full possession of Ills intellectual faculties, William Pitt Fessenden was called away om the scenes of earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.