s full of wise counsel to his countrymen. Coming from a
representative of Virginia, who had borne arms and been badly
wounded in the Civil War, it had a double value and significance.
Mr. Daniel declared the cheering and hopeful truth that great
races are made of a mixture of races, and that the best and
bravest blood of the world's great races is mixed in the
American. He appealed eloquently to the circumstances which
should stir the heart of the whole people to a new and loftier
love of country. He pointed out that the differences in forty-
five great Commonwealths are not greater than ought to be
expected, and indeed not greater than is healthy. He pointed
out the National strength, the power of our great Republic
stands at the dawn of a new century, with every man under
its flag a freeman and ready to defend it. He called upon
his countrymen to stand by the Monroe Doctrine, to be ready
to defend it, if need be, in arms. He then specially appealed
to the people to foster the inventive genius of the country,
and repeated Mr. Jefferson's lofty prophecy that in some future
day--

"The farthest star in the heavens will bear the name of Washington,
and the city he founded be the Capital of the universal Republic."

Isham G. Harris entered the Senate the same day I did. I
counted him always among my friends, although we had some
sharp passages. I cannot describe him better than by reprinting
here what I said of him in the Senate after his death.

"Mr. President, the great career of Senator Harris is well
known to his countrymen. He has been for more than a generation
a striking and conspicuous figure in our public life. His
colleague, his successor, the men of his own political faith,
the people of the great State which he served and honored
and loved so long, will, each in their own way, portray his
character and record their esteem and affection.

"My tribute must be that of a political opponent. So far
as I have been able to exert any influence upon the history
of my country during the long conflict now happily past, it
has been in opposition to him, to the party to which he belonged,
to the opinions which he held, I am sure, quite as zealously
and conscientiously as I hold my own.

"We entered the Senate on the same day. He was a Southerner,
a Democrat and a Confederate. I was born and bred in New
England, a Republican, and an Abolitionist. We rarely spoke
in the same debate except on different s