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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell, by Hugh Blair Grigsby This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell Author: Hugh Blair Grigsby Release Date: October 19, 2005 [EBook #16906] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLETON WALLER TAZEWELL *** Produced by Mark C. Orton, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net DISCOURSE ON THE Life and Character OF THE HON. LITTLETON WALLER TAZEWELL, DELIVERED IN THE FREEMASON STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, BEFORE THE BAR OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, AND THE CITIZENS GENERALLY, ON THE 29th DAY OF JUNE, 1860, BY HUGH BLAIR GRIGSBY, LL.D., MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ETC., ETC. NORFOLK: PUBLISHED BY J.D. GHISELIN, JUN., No. 6 WEST MAIN STREET. 1860. DISCOURSE. GENTLEMAN OF THE BAR: When the sad event occurred which has drawn us together this morning, you met in your accustomed hall, and expressed the feelings which such an event might well inspire. You then adjourned to assist in performing the last solemn rites over the bier of your departed friend. Clad in mourning, you attended his remains from his residence to the steamer, and, embarking with them, transported them over the waters of that noble bay which our venerable friend had crossed so often, and of which he was so justly proud as the Mediterranean of the Commonwealth; and, in the deepening shadows of the night which had overtaken you, and which were rendered yet deeper by the glare of the solitary candles flickering in the wind, more touching by the ceremonies of religion, by the grief of his slaves, and by the smothered wailing of his children and grandchildren, and more imposing by the sorrowing faces and bent forms of some of our aged and most eminent citizens, you deposited the honored dust in its simple grave; there to repose--with two seas sounding their ceaseless requiem above it--till the trump of the Archangel shall smite the
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