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flows in his veins has come down from those fellow -being as you hope to be judged noble pioneers who laid the foundations for hereafter." the greatness and glory of our state; it is the This was the last great case . in which blood of a race who have never spared it Crittenden appeared, his duties as a senator, when demanded by their country's cause. etc., consuming all of his time. As an It is his fate you are to decide. I excite no orator he is in the same class with the greatest poor unmanly sympathy — I appeal to no our country has produced — the peer of low, groveling spirit. He is a man —- you them all. It requires genius to be placed in are men — and I only ask that sympathy the same category with Tom Marshall, which man can give to man. I will not Webster, Clay, Pinkney, Choate, Corwin, detain you longer. But you know, and it is and Wirt. He lived on excellent terms with right you should know, the terrible suspense all the great men of his time, never envying in which some of these hearts must beat them their laurels and always rejoicing in during your absence. It is proper for you their success. He died on the 26th of July, to consider this, for, in such a case, all the 1863. after having been in declining health feelings of the mind and heart should sit in for six months or more, leaving behind him counsel together. Your duty is yet to be the glorious memory of a life hallowed by all done; perform it as you are ready to answer that is noble and inspiring; of a life devoted for it, here and hereafter. Perform it to justice, to mercy, and to the more con calmly and dispassionately, remembering secrated offices of a patriot and statesman. that vengeance can give no satisfaction to On his monument, erected by the Legislature any human being. But if you exercise it in of an admiring state, are carved some words this case, it will spread black midnight and indicative of his character — some of the despair over many aching hearts. May last he ever uttered : the God of all mercy be with you in your "MAY ALL THE ENDS THEY AIM AT BE THEIR deliberations, assist you in the performance COUNTRY'S, THEIR GOD'S, AND TRUTH'S." of your duty, and teach you to judge your LEXINGTON, KY., July, 1908.

THE DOCTOR BY HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE He took them all: — the hopeless, The bankrupt and the bruised; A case that needed crutches He never once refused.

And many did he rescue That else had known the grave, So crafty was his cunning, So great his might to save.

He nursed them, propped them, petted, Then gave them each a wrench, And took them up undaunted Before the big full Bench.

But 0, the sin, the pity! He lives in want and woe, And only dreams of getting The fees his clients owe. CAMBRIDGE, MASS., July, 1908.