id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 22084 Creswell, John A. J. (John Angel James) Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis .txt text/plain 11227 473 65 The death of Hon. HENRY WINTER DAVIS, for many years a distinguished the State of Maryland, to deliver an oration on his life and character, Representatives, introduced the orator of the day, Hon. J. to you the friend and fellow-member, here, of HENRY WINTER DAVIS, and I MY COUNTRYMEN: On the 22d day of February, 1732, God gave to the world moulded, in no small degree, the law of a great nation, let us, in honorary orations of his class, on the great day of commencement. "My father's death had embittered the last days of the year 1836, for two years he devoted to law and letters only the time he could Mr. DAVIS had said that Maryland was loyal to the United States, and had HENRY WINTER DAVIS was a man of faith, and believed in Christ and his Speaking for the nation, Mr. DAVIS said: ./cache/22084.txt ./txt/22084.txt