commissioned to teach man the power of Truth, and to prove to
the nations that their Redeemer liveth.

JOHN W. DANIEL: _Washington_, 1885

15. When that great and generous soldier, U.S. Grant gave back to
Lee, crushed, but ever glorious, the sword he had surrendered
at Appomattox, that magnanimous deed said to the people of
the South: "You are our brothers." But when the present ruler
of our grand republic on awakening to the condition of war
that confronted him, with his first commission placed the
leader's sword in the hands of those gallant Confederate
commanders, Joe Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee, he wrote between
the lines in living letters of everlasting light the words:
"There is but one people of this Union, one flag alone for
all."

The South, Mr. Toastmaster, will feel that her sons have been
well given, that her blood has been well spilled, if that
sentiment is to be indeed the true inspiration of our
nation's future. God grant it may be as I believe it will.

CLARE HOWELL: _Our Reunited Country_, 1898

16. Two years ago last autumn, we walked on the sea beach
together, and with a strange and prophetic kind of poetry, he
likened the scene to his own failing health, the falling
leaves, the withered sea-weed, the dying grass upon the
shore, and the ebbing tide that was fast receding from us. He
told me that he felt prepared to go, for he had forgiven his
enemies, and could even rejoice in their happiness. Surely
this was a grand condition in which to step from this world
across the threshold to the next!

JOSEPH JEFFERSON: _In Memory of Edwin Booth_, 1893

17. A public spirit so lofty is not confined to other lands. You
are conscious of its stirrings in your soul. It calls you to
courageous service, and I am here to bid you obey the call.
Such patriotism may be yours. Let it be your parting vow that
it shall be yours. Bolingbroke described a patriot king in
England; I can imagine a patriot president in America. I can
see him indeed the choice of a party, and called to
administer the government when sectional jealousy is fiercest
and party passion most inflamed. I can imagine him seeing
clearly what justice and humanity, the national law and the
national welfare require him to do, and resolved to do it. I
can imagine him patiently enduring not only the mad cr