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 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 U.5. Sixtieth Congress 
 
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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 March 7, 1908 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Proceedings in the House 5 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D.D 5 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Tones, of Virginia — — 7 
 
 Mr. Gaines, o{ West X'irginia '4 
 
 Mr. Flood, of Virginian '7 
 
 Mr. Lassiter, of Virginia -i-- — -^ 
 
 Mr Campbell, of Kansas ^ -2 
 
 Mr. Lamb, of Virginia ^4 
 
 Mr. HoUiday, of Indiana 3' 
 
 Mr. Chaney, of Indiana 34 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 39 
 
SLEMP. 
 
Death of Hon. Campbell Slemp 
 
 PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE 
 
 Monday, December 2, igo'j. 
 Mr. Jones, of \'irginia. Mr. Speaker, it is with the deepest 
 regret that I announce the death of my colleague, the Hon. 
 C.-\MPBELL Slemp, which occurred very suddenly at his home in 
 Big Stone Gap on the morning of October the 13th last. At 
 some future time 1 shall ask the House to set apart a day when 
 Members may be afforded the opportunity to pay tribute to 
 his life, character, and public services. 
 
 Wednesd.w, February 26, igo8. 
 
 Mr. Jones, of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- 
 sent for the present consideration of the order which I send 
 to the Clerk's desk. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Ordered, That at the hour of 1 o'clock p. m. on Saturday, March 7, 
 legislative duties be suspended and eulogies on the life, character, and 
 public services of the Hon. Campbell Slemp, late a Representative from 
 Virginia, shall be in order. 
 
 There was no objection to the consideration, and the order 
 
 was agreed to. 
 
 S.ATIRUAY, March 7, igoS. 
 
 The House met at 1 2 o'clock m. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry .\. Couden, offered the following 
 prayer : 
 
 We thank Thee, our Father in heaven, for the beautiful cus- 
 tom, long since established in the Congress of the United States, 
 of memorializing those of its Members who pass from earth to 
 the realms beyond and rest from their labors. 'The righteous 
 
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6 Proceedings in the House 
 
 shall be in everlasting remembrance and the memory of the 
 just shall be blessed." It quickens the nobler aspirations of 
 those who survive and emphasizes the virtues of those who have 
 passed on. Bless the special service of the hour in memory of 
 one who served faithfully and efficiently upon the floor of this 
 House and left behind him a record worthy of an American 
 statesman, who in war and in peace lived to his convictions, and 
 died respected and beloved by all who knew him. 
 
 Let the everlasting arms be about the bereaved familv to 
 uphold and sustain them in their affliction and comfort them in 
 the hope of a family reunion in the realms above where there 
 shall be no more sorrow and no more tears, and Thine be the 
 praise, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 The Speaker. The hour of 2 o'clock having arrived the Clerk 
 will read the special order. 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 On motion of Mr. Jones, of Virginia, by unanimous consent, 
 
 Ordered, That at the hour of 2 o'clock p. m., on Saturday, March 7th, 
 legislative duties be suspended and eulogies on the life, character, and 
 pulilic services of the Hon. Campbell SlEmp, late a Representative from 
 Virginia, shall be in order. 
 
 Mr. Jones, of Virginia. Mr. vSpeaker, I offer the following 
 resolutions. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the Hon. CAMPBELL vSlEmp, late 
 ■ a Member of this House from the State of Virginia, and in pursuance of 
 the order heretofore made, the business of the House be now suspended to 
 enable his associates to pay fitting tribute to his high character and distin- 
 guished services. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk be, and he is hereby, instructed to send a copy 
 of these resolutions to the family of the deceased. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Langley). The question is 
 on agreeing to the resolutions. 
 
 The question was taken and the resolutions were unanimously 
 agreed to. 
 
Address of Mr. Jones, oj Virginia 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. Jones, of Virginia 
 
 Mr. Speaker: It becomes our duty to pause for a brief mo- 
 ment amid the busy scenes and active legislative work of this 
 House to pay fitting tribute to the life and character of a de- 
 parted colleague. Nothing has impressed me so painfully during 
 my somewhat extended service in this body as the appalling 
 frequency with which we are called upon to mourn the death of 
 our Congressional associates, friends, and daily companions. 
 Even before they had taken their seats, and entered upon the 
 active duties of this Congress, two most distinguished and widely 
 known Senators, each bearing a commission from the State of 
 Alabama, passed serenely to their final rest, full of honors and 
 of years. And scarcely had the grave closed over the mortal 
 remains of another honored son of our beloved Southland, a 
 distinguished Senator of the State of South Carolina, when, only 
 three short days ago, the entire country was startled by the an- 
 nouncement that Senator Redfield Proctor, of X'ermont, long 
 a conspicuous figure in the councils of the nation, had suddenly 
 been summoned to that "undiscovered country from whose 
 bourne no traveler returns." And although the visitations of 
 death during this session have been less frequent in this Hall 
 than in the other Chamber of Congress, two of its Members, 
 George W. Smith, of Illinois, and Campbell Slemp, of Virginia, 
 have answered their last earthly roll call and passed into the 
 g^eat beyond. 
 
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 Of all the States of this Union none, within my personal 
 knowledge of the membership of Congress, has been so stricken 
 by the hand of death as has Virginia. Since the beginning of 
 the first session of the Fifty-second Congress fourteen of those 
 who at one time or another ser^^ed that State in Congress have 
 laid down the honors conferred upon them, as well as the cares 
 and burdens of this life, and gone the way which those of us 
 who for the time being are left behind must sooner or later 
 travel. 
 
 Of these, Lee, who had been reelected, passed away before 
 taking his seat in the Fifty-second Congress; but Barbour, Epes, 
 Otey, Richard A. Wise, and Rixey died in the midst of their 
 legislative duties and with the harness still on, whilst Edmonds, 
 Meredith, Turner, Lawson, Walker, O'Ferrall, and George D. 
 Wise lived to witness the termination of their Congressional 
 careers and surrendered up their lives amid the peaceful scenes ' 
 and quiet environments of their Virginia homes. 
 
 Such has been the mortality in the comparatively small dele- 
 gation from the State of Mrginia during the period in which I 
 have, in part, had the honor to sen.'e it here. The bare recital 
 of stern realities so strikingly impressive as these can but serve 
 to admonish the strongest and most heedless among us that life 
 at best is beset by snares and full- of uncertainties, and that 
 "Death rides upon every passing breeze " 
 
 On Sunday, October 13, 1907, Col. Campbell SlEmp, late a 
 Representative from the Ninth Virginia District, died at his 
 home at Big Stone Gap. His death was very sudden and came 
 as a distinct shock to his many friends throughout Virginia and 
 elsewhere. 
 
 My personal acquaintance with Colonel SlEmp began with the 
 opening of the Fifty-eighth Congress, although I had long known 
 of him as prominent in the politics of my State. Our homes 
 
Address of Mr. Jones, of Virginia 9 
 
 were separated by the extreme length of the State, a distance 
 of more than 500 miles. For these reasons I have been obliged 
 to rely to a very large extent upon those whose fortune it was 
 to know him longer and more intimately for most of the facts 
 connected with his long and somewhat eventful life, which I 
 shall now briefly present. 
 
 Colonel SlEmp's father, Sebastian Smith Slemp, was one of 
 the foremost men of his section and a striking figure in his com- 
 munity. His mother, before her marriage, was Margaret Reasor, 
 a member of one of the most prominent and well-known families 
 in southwestern Virginia. Lee County is that extreme south- 
 west section of the State running like a wedge for a number of 
 miles between the State of Kentucky on the north and that of 
 Tennessee on the south. ^Mountains rich with coal and ore 
 there alternate with fertile valleys. Although to-day this 
 countv is justly regarded as one of the richest and most pros- 
 perous in the Commonwealth, conditions there were far different 
 half a centurv ago. Then the railroads which now traverse 
 everv section of the county had not penetrated its fastnesses. 
 Its inhabitants were cut off from the markets of the world, and 
 the cattle for which that section of Virginia is now so widely 
 famed were marketed in Baltimore, being driven many miles 
 across the ranges of the Allegheny Mountains and up the Shen- 
 andoah Valley. Cattle raising and farming were the chief in- 
 dustries, and naturally the utter lack of transportation facilities 
 and the almost inaccessibility of markets were not conducive 
 to the rapid development of material wealth What such 
 environments and conditions did develop was something in- 
 finitely better — a strong, hardy, self-reliant, and thoroughly 
 independent manhood, and this doubtless largely accounts for 
 the untiring energy, indomitable will, perfect self-reliance, and 
 strong, practical common sense which in after life contributed 
 
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 no little to the business successes and tlie political achieve- 
 ments of Colonel Slemp. 
 
 The educational facilities of Lee County were very limited 
 in those days, and so it was that his parents sent the subject 
 of my remarks at an early age to Emory and Henr)- College, in 
 Washington County, where most of the young men of that day 
 and section were educated. Here young Slemp applied himself 
 assiduously to his studies; but the death of his father necessi- 
 tated his return to his home three months before graduation. 
 He was not permitted to remain there long, for the great con- 
 flict between the States was rapidly approaching, and having 
 decided to cast his fortunes with tho^e of his native State, 
 although scarcely of age, he proceeded to raise a company, 
 which was soon thereafter mustered into the service of the 
 State and of the Confederacy. Whilst guarding the mountain 
 passes leading from Kentucky into Virginia, Captain SlEmp's 
 command was opposed to that of Colonel Garfield, afterwards 
 the martyr President of the United States. Later he served 
 with his command in Kentucky. On his return to Virginia he 
 organized the vSixty-fourth Virginia Regiment, of which he be- 
 came the commanding ofhcer, serving with it in southwestern 
 Mrginia, east Tennessee, and east Kentucky. Under General 
 Marshall he participated in the raid through eastern Kentucky, 
 and later he was ordered with his command to Chickamauga, 
 but before his preparations had been completed the order was 
 countermanded. His military services practically ended at Cum- 
 berland Gap, where the entire command of General Frazier, of 
 which his regiment formed a part, was surrendered to the 
 Union forces. 
 
 The war ended. Colonel SlEmp returned to his home in Lee 
 County. He had married Miss Nancy Brittain Cawood, of 
 Owsley County, Ky., in the year 1864, whilst serving in that 
 
Address of Mr. Jones, of Virginia 1 1 
 
 State, and having arranged to purchase the old Slemp home- 
 stead, he resolutely set to work to earn a livelihood /or himself 
 and family and to lay the foundations for the handsome com- 
 petency which he later accumulated. There was still small op- 
 portunity for the accumulation of wealth in that isolated section, 
 but by perseverance and industry and the exercise of that in- 
 telligence and fine business instinct which characterized his 
 entire career as a man of affairs, he soon won for himself a com- 
 manding position in the industrial life of his section. 
 
 In 1878 Colonel SlEmp was elected to the house of delegates 
 of Virginia, where he became an ardent advocate of the read- 
 justment of the State's indebtedness, and where he numbered 
 among his intimate friends such prominent leaders of that then 
 popular movement as Gen. William Mahone, Senator H. H. 
 Riddleberger, and Hon. John E. Massie. He was reelected to 
 the house of delegates by a largely increased majoritv in 1880. 
 Up to this time Colonel Slemp was a Democrat in politics, but 
 he subsequently, along with General Mahone and other promi- 
 nent readjusters, became affiliated with the Republican party, 
 to which political organization he ever afterwards gave his 
 allegiance. 
 
 In 1883 he was a candidate for the state senate, but was 
 defeated by a small majority, since many of his old friends and 
 supporters among the readjusters — that issue having been 
 settled — returned to the Democratic fold. 
 
 In i8go he received the Republican nomination for lieutenant- 
 governor on the unsuccessful ticket headed by General Mahone. 
 The canvass which he made, however, brought him into state 
 prominence, and thereafter he was frequently honored by his 
 party, having more than once occupied the position of elector 
 on its Presidential tickets. 
 
 In 1902 he was elected a Representative in Congress from 
 the Ninth Congressional District, and he was twice thereafter 
 
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 reelected bv increased majorities, but in each of these three con- 
 tests he was vigorously opposed, and only succeeded in winning 
 the election after a bitterly contested campaign. It is safe, 
 therefore, to affirm that the Ninth District has never witnessed 
 harder fought political battles than the three from which Colonel 
 Slemp emerged as victor. 
 
 As the sole Representative of his party in Congress from 
 Virginia, he was selected by President Roosevelt as the Repub- 
 lican referee for the entire State, and thus it was that his 
 time became largely occupied in dispensing federal patronage. 
 That he could under circumstances such as these give any 
 considerable attention to his official and public duties is really 
 to be wondered at, and yet at least one of his committee assign- 
 ments demanded of him constant application and untiring 
 work. He laid no claims to the graces and gifts of oratory 
 and he made no speeches in Congress, but he was a laborious 
 worker, and his intensely practical mind and strong po/'ers of 
 application enabled him to accomplish much in the way of 
 legislation. 
 
 It is no small tribute to Colonel SlE-Mp's tactfulness as a 
 man and to his skill and ability as a political leader that his 
 absolute supremacy was never seriously contested by his party 
 associates and that his party leadership was universally recog- 
 nized and generally accepted throughout the State of Virginia, 
 as well as in the district of which he was the actual Representa- 
 tive in Congress. That, as the sole dispenser of great federal 
 patronage in his State, he did not incite bitter opposition to 
 his leadership in his party is also a high tribute to his political 
 sagacitv and to his adroitness as a leader of men. 
 
 Colonel Slemp was preeminently a man of action. In busi- 
 ness, as in politics, he \vas ever aggressive, and in both was 
 exceptionally successful. It is said of him that he fought for 
 
Address of Ml . Jones, of Virginia 13 
 
 evervthing in life which he obtained that was worth the having, 
 and that he owed the eminence which he attained in pohtics 
 to constant effort and persistent warfare. 
 
 For forty years he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church South and a firm believer in its teachings, and. 1 am 
 told, always a liberal contributor toward its support. 
 
 That he was steadfast and loyal to his friends and unflinch- 
 inglv firm in his convictions is the judgment of those who knew 
 him well, and I can bear cheerful and willing testimony that 
 in all his relations to his colleagues he was uniformly courteous 
 and ever regardful of their feelings. His bearing toward them 
 was both unostentatious and unassuming, and in his inter- 
 course with his fellow-members he was at all times genial and 
 open-hearted. Politically, he and I were very far apart, and 
 as to most of the great public questions now before the country 
 we differed widely and radically, but personally our relations 
 were most cordial and friendly and therefore it is that I have 
 availed myself of this opportunity to speak of his life and 
 achievements and to pay an humble tribute of respect to his 
 memory. 
 
 To the keeping of those who loved him in life, and l)y whom 
 his memory will ever be cherished, has been surrendered the 
 record of his long, earnest life — a life full of effort and achieve- 
 ment. To them that record will ever remain a priceless inherit- 
 ance and a sacred possession. 
 
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 Address of Mr. Gaines, of West Virginu 
 
 Mr. Speaker : Those men whose lives are spent in a struggle 
 to advance the principles in which they believe, against their 
 own personal interests, at a sacrifice of their own comfort and 
 with scant hope of success, must always command, not merely 
 our respect, but our intense admiration. 
 
 The difference in our ages precluded any very intimate 
 acquaintance and association between Colonel SlEMP and my- 
 self. Mv personal acquaintance with him was limited to the 
 Fiftv-eighth Congress and Fifty-ninth Congress, during which 
 we were both Members of this House. It falls therefore more 
 properlv to others than to me to review his career minutely. 
 His entire history, however, was one of unselfish devotion to 
 principle and indomitable determination to fight for his opin- 
 ions, without regard to his interests. Taking first the company 
 of which he was captain, then the regiment of which he was 
 colonel, into the ser^-ice of the Confederacy, a service which 
 could appeal to no property interest of himself or of his moun- 
 taineer neighbors who followed him, he gave, when scarce more 
 than a boy, an example of his capacity for leadership and his 
 devotion to what he deemed to be right, characteristic not 
 only of his life, but marking him unmistakably as a type of 
 his section. Emerging from the poverty in which the war left 
 him, by the avocations of the school-teacher and farmer he 
 again presents himself as typical of the class and section to 
 which he belonged. No one less responsive to the demands of 
 duty, no one less obedient to the dictates of conscience, no one 
 less disposed to disregard his own interests, his own ease and 
 
Address of Mr. Gaines, of West Virginia 15 
 
 comfort at the call of conviction, could by any possibility have 
 lived such a life as his. 
 
 Knowing something in a large way of his history, and having 
 known many men of his type in my own State, I was prepared 
 to understand him perhaps better than most Members of this 
 House. And so, not knowing him very well personally, I still 
 took a deep interest in his career, recognizing in him a con- 
 spicuous type of a section and a people whose history has not 
 yet been written. 
 
 Casting his lot as a young man with the Confederacy, on the 
 side of the State against the great majority of his country, be- 
 cause he deemed his duty to be that way, he allied himself 
 during his mature years to that political party which did not 
 meet with the concurrence of the majority of the people of his 
 State. The proprieties and my disposition on such an occasion 
 prevent my saying anything partisan or political in its nature. 
 But our admiration for courage, for determination, for devotion 
 to a cause without regard to success, compel equal admiration 
 for the men possessing those qualities, whether they be Confed- 
 erates at Appomattox or Republicans in the South. It is a part 
 of his historv that when the troops of which his regiment was 
 a part were to be surrendered he secured the pennission of the 
 general commanding to take his regiment and attempt their 
 escape. Dividing what was left of his regiment into groups of 
 seven, thev made their way along the mountain side from 
 Cumberland Gap to a place of safety, Colonel SlEMP and his im- 
 mediate friends being the last to escape, and so were beyond 
 the Union lines when the Confederate troops were surrendered. 
 When the war was over, he and his regiment ceased to fight, 
 but they had not surrendered. 
 
 The same spirit characterized him as a party leader. From 
 every standpoint of interest, business and social, such a political 
 
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 fight as he made was not easy. No man becomes or can become 
 a leader in such a movement who consults either his fears or 
 his love of ease. It is a leadership which belongs only to those 
 men cast in such a mold that they can fight for their principles 
 without reference to the result. Under such conditions those 
 who count the cost either do not enter the controversy or enter 
 it upon another side. There must have been many times during 
 his long party leadership when Colonel SlEmp longed for the 
 greater ease he had known amidst the failing fortunes of the 
 Confederacy. 
 
 But mere blind courage, however admirable, will not suffice 
 for such leadership. Sound judgment, untiring energy, infinite 
 patience, and tact are alike necessary. No man can accomplish 
 anything in such a controversy unless he possesses also those 
 qualities which inspire the highest personal devotion and friend- 
 ship. Such devotion and friendship are found only bv those 
 who in turn are true to their friends; and it is perhaps this 
 trait of Colonel Slemp's character of which those who knew him 
 will most frequently think as they recall his memory. And this 
 conspicuous loyalty of friends and to friends is the only com- 
 pensation for a life of such struggle at all commensurate with 
 the labor required and the sacrifices entailed. The ardent de- 
 votion of his followers was to Colonel Slemp, as death termi- 
 nated his long fight for his principles, the chief recompense for 
 his efforts in a cause in which leadership is at once a martyr- 
 dom and a triumph. 
 
Address of Mr. Flood, of Virginia 17 
 
 Address of Mr. Flood, of Virginia 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Hon. C.\mpbell Slemp was born in Lee 
 County, Va., on December 2, 1839. 
 
 He was educated in the common schools of \'irginia of that 
 day and at the Emory and Henry College, where most of the 
 young men of southwest Virginia completed their education at 
 that period. 
 
 With the hardy, virile, and independent spirit characteristic 
 of mountain environment, and with the advantages of a some- 
 what extensive academic training, the inference would be natu- 
 ral that his career would be exceptional; and so it proved. 
 
 He entered the Confederate army in 1861, when just of age, 
 as captain, and was subsequently promoted to lieutenant-colonel 
 and colonel. 
 
 He was a Democrat until 1879, when the debt question split 
 the partv of the State. The issue was upon what was the just 
 and equitable indebtedness of Virginia upon the debt contracted 
 manv vears before the war for internal improvements. 
 
 While there was room for honest differences of opinion as to 
 the right and equities in the case, the controversy was a most 
 unhappv one for \'irginia, especially so coming as it did at a 
 period when the State was still crippled by the disasters and 
 impoverishment of a long and devasting war and still agitated 
 and unsettled by the dark problem of reconstruction. 
 
 Gen. William Mahone, who was afterwards United States 
 Senator, was the leader of the section of the Democratic party 
 in favor of readjusting the debt, which section acquired the 
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 title of "Readjuster party. " Colonel Slemp cast his fortunes 
 with this party and was elected as its representative to the 
 house of delegates in 1879, and again in 1881. In 1880 he sup- 
 ported the Mahone-Hancock-English presidential ticket, and 
 subsequently went with General Mahone into the Republican 
 party, and in 1883 was the candidate of this party for the State 
 senate, but was defeated. 
 
 In 1889 he was nominated by the Republican party of the 
 State for Ueutenant-govemor upon the ticket headed by Gen- 
 eral Mahone for governor. This ticket was overwhelmingly 
 defeated by the Democratic ticket led by Governor Philip W. 
 McKinley. 
 
 ^Ir. Slemp was not again a candidate for an office until 1902, 
 when he was nominated by the Republicans of the Ninth Vir- 
 ginia district for Congress and was elected. 
 
 This district has from time to time been an uncertain and 
 fluctuating political quantity — now Republican, now Demo- 
 cratic. 
 
 But in 1894 the powerful figure of Gen. James A. Walker, the 
 last commander of the Stonewall Brigade, loomed up as the 
 leader of the Republican party in the district. He was a man 
 of commanding ability, of strong personality, of undaunted 
 courage, and of overbearing will. In 1894 and 1896 he swept 
 all opposition before him and carried the district by large 
 majorities. 
 
 In 1898 the Democrats nominated a man who was of force- 
 ful and aggressive personality. His intellect was as strong, his 
 will as imperious, and his courage as dauntless as were those of 
 James A. Walker. The entire State watched the issue expect- 
 antly, for it was known that it would be "Greek meets Greek" 
 when James A. Walker and William F. Rhea tried conclusions 
 upon the hustings. 
 
Address of Mr. Flood, of Virginia 19 
 
 It was the custom in \'irginia, in districts that were at all 
 close, for the candidates of the respective parties to engage in 
 joint discussions. Such discussions were arranged between Rhea 
 and Walker. They proved to be intensely dramatic and inter- 
 esting, and, at times, reached the danger point. The general 
 opinion was that Rhea got the better of his opponent in these 
 discussions, and he was elected, and again in 1900 he overthrew 
 the same antagonist. 
 
 In 1902 the Republicans nominated Colonel Slemp. He con- 
 ducted a still-hunt campaign against Congressman Rhea, and 
 succeeded in defeating him by a majority of 218. The defeat 
 of such a man as Rhea reveals, without the telling, the fact of 
 Colonel SlEmp's popularity, influence, and power in -his district. 
 Colonel Slemp was reelected in 1904 over Hon. J. C. Wysor, 
 one of the ablest lawyers and most brilliant orators in Virginia, 
 by a majority of over 4,000; and was again elected in 1906, 
 defeating ex-State Senator Robert P. Bruce, a splendid young 
 Democrat, by a large majority. 
 
 As a Member of this House he made many friends by his 
 genial manners and his kindly sympathies. His career here 
 was quiet and unobtrusive; yet it was signalized by such untir- 
 ing industrv and eminent good sense that it redounded not only 
 to the benefit of his district, but to the aggrandizement of the 
 Republican party in the entire State. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, to the reflective mind there is an element of 
 pathos in every life. However the candidate for earth's hon- 
 ors and ambitions may gird himself with the panoply of prepa- 
 ration, how eagerly soever he may stand expectant for the steed 
 of opportunity, how exultantly soever he may vault into the 
 saddle and ride in triumph to the coveted goal, yet in every case 
 "does black care ride behind." 
 
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 This is the dispensation to universal humanity; and I can pay 
 no higher tribute to this House than in recalHng that its gener- 
 ous and tender usage has always been to bury all memories of 
 strife and contention in the grave of a colleague. We all look 
 forward to this; and we shall not be disappointed. 
 
 "There is no pocket in a shroud." There are no politics in 
 the tomb. 
 
 Those who have sat with us in this Chamber, and are gone 
 from among men, we remember with chastened and kindly 
 hearts. 
 
 And so of our departed colleague we all unite in saying, 
 "Honor to his memory; peace to his ashes." 
 
Address of Mr. Lassiter, of Virginia 21 
 
 Address of Mr. Lassiter, of Virginia 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I did not have the honor of serving in this 
 House with our deceased colleague, nor did I have the privi- 
 lege of the personal acquaintance of Colonel SlEmp. Our resi- 
 dences have been in widely separated parts of the State. Yet 
 I can bear testimony that for many years his name echoed 
 loudly in the Commonwealth and his activities have been 
 notable in the recent history of Virginia. 
 
 I shall leave to my colleagues and to his more intimate 
 political associates a proper sun,ey of his public ser\'ices and 
 personal merits. 
 
 That he was a brave and masterful man is evident not only 
 from his local achievements, but from the confidence reposed 
 in him by the Federal Administration. 
 
 In an hour like this, when the divine mvsterv of death over- 
 sliadows human ambition and shames the animosities of men, 
 it is reassuring to those who love our country to recognize the 
 high qualities of mind or heart which have alwavs character- 
 ized the representatives of the American people. 
 
 The regard which 1 entertain for the son and successor of 
 our late colleague, as well as the honor due to a gentleman who 
 has borne the mandate of a Virginian constituency to represent 
 its wishes in this Hall, impels me to say a word of personal 
 sympathy to the living and respect to the memory of the dead. 
 
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 Address of Mr. Camfbell, of Kansas 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Colonel SlEmp was one of almost 10,000 rep- 
 resentative Americans who have given conspicuous service to 
 their country in this House. His services here were not dis- 
 tinguished upon the floor. He was not a debater, but one 
 acquainted with the duties of a Member of this House well 
 knows that much arduous work is done here that is not evidenced 
 upon the floor. Colonel SlEmp was referee for all the political 
 patronage of the State of Virginia. That of itself is a sufficient 
 burden for the shoulders of any man, however great. That he 
 did this work and did it well is evidenced by the fact that he 
 was returned to this House one session after another for three 
 consecutive terms, at a time when he had at his disposal all 
 the Federal patronage within his State. In addition to all of 
 this. Colonel SlEmp had the work of a Member of this body 
 that is required in the Departments here, and everyone who 
 has had service in this House knows how arduous that service 
 is and how burdensome it sometimes becomes. A visit to two 
 or three departments a day, keeping up the enormdus corre- 
 spondence that is necessary, requires a degree of industry that 
 is not required of men in the average walks of life. He was a 
 man of patient industry and did his work faithfully and well. 
 My acquaintance with Colonel Slemp began in the work of one 
 of the busiest committees in the House, that on the District of 
 Columbia. The work there is similar to the work that is required 
 of the common council of a city of the size of Washington. Mr. 
 Slemp was always at his post. He was wise as a counselor on 
 civic affairs, always ready to devote himself to duty, and neyer 
 
Address of Mr. Campbell, of Kansas 23 
 
 shrank from a single responsibility. He lived the life of a busy 
 man. He was born to a life of struggle and contention. He 
 endured the trials of war and reconstruction in his younger 
 manhood. Virginia had problems after Appomattox. Colonel 
 SlEmp took them up and assisted in adjusting them all. He 
 met and was equal to every responsibilit>- that rested upon 
 him as a citizen. He did his duty as he saw it. No man can 
 do more, and no higher tribute can be paid to a citizen of this 
 country or to a Member of this House than to say of him that 
 he did his duty faithfully as he saw it. 
 
 Colonel SlEMp has experimented with the problem of life and 
 has solved the great mvstery of death. He, like all the innu- 
 merable multitude who have preceded him to the grave, was 
 cheered with the hope of victory and depressed with the fear 
 of defeat; he was able to gratify a lofty ambition and win in 
 many of life's notable conflicts, but when the great summons 
 came he yielded, as all men must. To that summons no man 
 can say nay. Life, with its hopes, with its fears, with its am- 
 bitions, with its conquests, and its defeats, must end. 'Tis the 
 fate of all. Every man, whatever his hopes, may look forward 
 to the time when he, too, shall answer to the summons that calls 
 to the grave. Position, place, and power are not a defense. 
 Ambition, achievement, and responsibility are not a bar. 
 From the cradle to the grave life is a conflict with death. The 
 infant struggles for life in its beginning, and finds it a struggle 
 throughout to the end, when the mystery of death solves the 
 last problem of life — 
 
 E'en silent night proclaims my soul immortal: 
 E'en silent night proclaims eternal day. 
 
 In this hope death loses its sting and the grave its victory. 
 
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 Address of Mr. Lamb, of Virginia 
 
 Mr. vSpeaker: For the fifth time in twice as many years the 
 Virginia Representatives in this House are called upon to pay 
 tribute to the character and public sen.ices of a deceased 
 colleague. The death of one-half of their number in a decade 
 suggests the old, old thought that " in the midst of life we are 
 in death." These deaths have come to the young and middle- 
 aged as well as to the old. They are solemn and stern remind- 
 ers that the youngest and strongest may be called away at 
 any hour, and that the oldest among us would do well to so 
 carry ourselves in life that our goods and chattels may be 
 packed and ready for the departure we must soon make. 
 
 These frequent deaths remind us of a passage in one of 
 Thackeray's letters. He was referring to a friend who had died, 
 and he wrote : 
 
 He was ready, I suppose, and had his passport made out for his journey. 
 Next comes our little turn to pack up and depart. To stay is well enough, 
 but shall we be very sorry to go? What more is there in life that we 
 haven't tried? What that we have tried is so very much worth repetition or 
 endurance? I have just come from a beefsteak and potatoes and a bottle 
 of claret, both excellent of their kind, but we can part from them without 
 a very severe pang, and note that we shall get no greater pleasures than 
 these from this time till the end of our days. What is a greater pleasure? 
 Gratified ambition? .Accumulation of money? What? 
 
 We have the answer in a Latin maxim: "Vanitas, vanita- 
 tetn;" or, from the theologian's standpoint — 
 
 "Vanity of vanities," saith the preacher; "all is vanity." 
 
 Since we are called upon so frequently to contemplate death 
 and know that we shall before long explore the "uncharted 
 seas" ourselves, let us contemplate it as a state less mysterious 
 
Address of Mr. Lamb, of Virginia 25 
 
 and even more natural than life. The only thing we need fear 
 about it is that it may catch us using life unwisely — with empty 
 hands, and work all undone. 
 
 The brave man learns as the soldier does to put the fear of 
 his own death behind him, and if he think of death at all it will 
 be at such times when the scythe has cut down some loved one 
 or some honored friend and colleague, as is the case with us 
 this hour. 
 
 For himself there is no fear. No man can afford to waste 
 his thoughts and time on death. The work we are put here to 
 do demands our energies and powers. Just in proportion as 
 we do this work faithfully will we be held in esteem by our 
 fellows — our names recalled with pleasure and our memories 
 revered bv the generations that follow us. 
 
 In the death of C.mvipbell SlEmp, Lee County, Va., has lost 
 an honored and useful citizen, and the Ninth Mrginia District 
 a Representative who was honored by an election for three 
 successive terms in Congress. 
 
 He was a man of action and his Hfe was one of achievement, as 
 we may well infer from the period of his birth and the condition 
 of southwest Virginia at that time. Lee County is that extreme 
 southwest section of the Commonwealth of Virginia, running 
 like a wedge for a number of miles between the State of Ken- 
 tucky on the north and Tennessee on the south. In the youth of 
 SlEMP no railroads penetrated the mountains of Lee County. 
 Stock were driven through the Allegheny Mountains or up the 
 Shenandoah \'alley to Baltimore. Goods were hauled long dis- 
 tances to market over mountain roads. The people were poor, 
 while great riches were hidden beneath the rugged mountains 
 that look eternal. 
 
 These very conditions, however, helped to produce strong and 
 practical men who developed self-reliance and determination. 
 
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 These characteristics were obser\'ed by those who were thrown 
 with Colonel Slemp. After attending the schools in Lee County 
 he was sent to Emorj- and Henry College, one of the oldest 
 institutions of learning in southwest Virginia. It is said that at 
 Emory and Henry he was not only a diligent student, but one of 
 the most popular. Then, no doubt, developed those traits that 
 made him a favorite with his fellows in civil and military life 
 and giving him at the age of 21 a captaincy in the Confederate 
 States of America. 
 
 It is shown bj- the Confederate records that Campbell Slemp 
 entered the Confederate ser\-ice September 16, 1861, at Camp 
 Lane, Lee County, Va., as captain Company A, Pound Gap 
 Battalion, afterwards known as Company A, Twenty-first Bat- 
 talion Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States army. He was 
 promoted to be lieutenant-colonel, same battalion, date not 
 stated, and he was reported present with the organization on 
 April 30, 1862. On November 24, 1862, the regiment was con- 
 solidated with other Virginia troops to form the Sixty-fourth 
 Virginia Infantry, Confederate States army, and he was ap- 
 pointed colonel of the new regiment, to rank from December 
 14, 1862. 
 
 The Union sentiment north of Lee County was strong — that in 
 East Tennessee was still stronger — yet the people of Lee County, 
 for the most part, were loyal to their State and the Confederacy, 
 and furnished their full quota of men to the Southern army. 
 
 These men under SlEmp were engaged at Pound Gap and were 
 there opposed by Colonel (afterwards General) Garfield. Later 
 this command was sent over into Kentucky, where it took part 
 in many skirmishes with the Union forces. 
 
 Returning to \'irginia. Colonel SlEmp organized the Sixty- 
 fourth \'irginia Regiment, of which he became colonel, and with 
 this regiment operated in Virginia. East Tennessee, and eastern 
 
Address of Mr. Lamb, of Virginia 27 
 
 Kentucky. The services of his regiment practically ended at 
 Cumberland Gap in 1865, where General Frazier and his com- 
 mand was surrendered to the Union forces. The Union records 
 of prisoners of war show that Colonel SlEmp was paroled Mav 2," 
 1865, at Cumberland Gap, Tenn. 
 
 In the death of Colonel Slemp another of the ex-Confederates 
 of this House has fallen asleep. In the Fifty-fourth Congress 
 there were thirty-two of these men here. To-day we number 
 seven. In the Southland they are falling more rapidly than thev 
 fell in battle, and on the other side, those by whose deeds of valor 
 we may well measure our chivalry and manhood are falling at the 
 rate of 300 each month. 
 
 The conflict in which they engaged will soon be only a memorv, 
 while their sons will vie with each other in paying tribute to the 
 heroism and valor of the men who wore th^ blue and the men who 
 wore the gray. Monuments to each will be built on the battle- 
 fields where American valor won and lost. Faithful historians 
 will record the facts free from the prejudices of the hour and can 
 not fail to make mention that the one side was right under the 
 strict construction of the Constitution and the other side right 
 under the changed conditions of public sentiment in their respec-- 
 tive communities. The philosophical historian of the future will 
 not fail to record the achievements in civil life of the men who 
 returned from the armies to their homes — often to desolate 
 homes, where there was more than one vacant chair. 
 
 On the Southern side it required more moral courage and 
 strength of character to meet the stern duties and pressing 
 responsibilities of life than it did to face the mortal perils of the 
 battlefield. Heroes the\- were called in war. Greater heroes 
 were these men in peace. For their sacrifices and toils in build- 
 ing up their wasted fortunes; for their patience under the recon- 
 struction laws; for their manly triumph over innumerable diffi- 
 
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 culties, due to burdensome taxation and constantly falling prices, 
 the world will some day mete out to them full praise in story and 
 song. 
 
 The company and regiment that Colonel Slemp led in the 
 engagements to which we have referred were among these men. 
 They averaged perhaps 25 years of age when the curtain fell upon 
 the tragic scene at Appomattox, and for the most of them at 
 Cumberland Gap. Lee County had suffered greatly, though not 
 so much as the counties that I have the honor to represent on this 
 floor. These men, with their comrades, have made that (bounty 
 rich bv their enterprise and their labors. Many of them, like 
 Colonel Slemp, were men of intelligence and force of char- 
 acter, and became, as he did, leading figures in the civil and 
 business life of his section. 
 
 In 1 878 they elected him to the house of delegates of Virginia 
 over several competitors. In 1889 he was nominated on his 
 ticket for lieutenant-governor and made a thorough canvass of 
 the State. He was often selected as chairman of district and 
 state conventions and was elector in the Harrison and McKinley 
 campaigns. 
 
 The people of his district, who were better judges of his life 
 and character than we, who were only thrown with him in the 
 ordinarv business of this House, bestowed on him their highest 
 honors, and elected him over talented men like Wysor and 
 Bruce and others. 
 
 Southwest Virginia is Republican for two reasons not well 
 understood on this floor. The old-time Whigs inherited their 
 opposition to Democracy. Even the most conser\-ative of the 
 Clav Whigs had to be graduated into the Democratic ranks 
 through the name of "Conservative Democrats." 
 
 A great number refused to take the degree. In 1878 a third 
 party, the Readjuster party, swept the State, producing bitter- 
 
Address of Mr. Lamb, of Virginia 29 
 
 ness of feeling and dividing the Democratic party. Its success 
 was made possible through the negro vote It soon ran its 
 course, and when the flood subsided it left a few strong and 
 many good men in the Republican party who had hitherto 
 affiliated with the Democrats. Like many revolutions, it had its 
 -compensations. It taught some Democrats to conquer their 
 prejudices, and it impressed nearly all with the stern necessity 
 of holding to the "ancient landmarks." 
 
 The members of the grand old party of southwest \'irginia 
 can not be designated by their complexions altogether. A 
 bright little girl of 7 years of age in my hotel from one of the 
 Southern States, addressing a gentle and comely lady from New 
 Jersey, said: " Are you a republic?" The lady replied : "Yes; I 
 am what you call a republic." The child quickly replied : "Well, 
 you are too good looking; you are tlie best looking republic I 
 ever saw." Had the little child been raised within the shadow 
 of the mountains of southwest Virginia or played along the banks 
 of the limpid streams that flow on forever she would have met 
 as many fair "republics" as ever watched from the Jersey 
 coast the incoming time from old ocean's wave. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, the laws of compensation come to most men 
 as they journey through this bustling, active life that the pessi- 
 mist describes as a "vale of tears." 
 
 Men like Colonel SlEmp, who had to be the architects of their 
 own fortune and struggle heroically against adverse conditions, 
 are often comforted, as he was, with children, who grew up 
 around him with advantages and opportunities that were denied 
 him. He looked upon these as beings of new hope and labored 
 well to educate them. If from the spirit land we shall watch 
 the scenes being enacted here, our deceased colleague behold 
 with delight and gratification his seat filled by his own son. 
 Man lives again in those to whom he has given being. Our 
 
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 mistakes only furnish beacon lights to warn them of danger, 
 while our little successes stimulate them to renewed efforts 
 and serve as guideposts along life's journey. 
 
 In paying this tribute to the memory of my deceased col- 
 league, I express the earnest hope that happiness and con- 
 tentment may attend those who immediately bind his memory 
 to earth. 
 
Address of Mr. Holliday, of Indiana 31 
 
 Address of Mr. Holliday, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker; During the last few years of his life I was well 
 and intimately acquainted with Campbell SlEmp. During the 
 Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses we boarded at the same 
 hotel. We were about the same age. He had worn the gray 
 while I was wearing the blue, and, like a great many other old 
 men, we liked to get together and exchange reminiscences. 
 We lived to some extent in the past, as is characteristic of men 
 of our age. In that way our friendship became intimate and, 
 like everybody else who knew him, I liked him well. His laugh 
 was so genial, his smile was so contagious, his hearty hand grasp 
 was so wholesome that it was a delight and joy to meet him. 
 We never talked politics. We would most of our time talk 
 about old times when we were boys, and we got a lot of pleasure 
 out of it, and to-day I take a great deal of pleasure in remem- 
 bering those things and the pleasure I got and the pleasure I 
 gave to him during those conversations. When the war broke 
 out between the two sections of the country :Mr. SlEmp threw 
 in his fortune with his State as against the great body of the 
 nation. He fought her battles well and gallantly. He led 
 men, as gallant soldiers as followed Alexander the Great during 
 his career, and when the fortune of war had gone against him, 
 when the flag he loved went down in defeat, he did not repine; 
 he did not go whining about, complaining of his ill luck. He 
 went to work, like thousands of other brave men who were with 
 him, to build up the country that had been destroyed, to 
 replace the waste places, and restore the grand old Common- 
 wealth which he loved so well to her ancient prosperity. 
 
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 I am glad he did this, not only he but thousands of others, 
 and from that time onward he had the interest of his State 
 as well as the interest of the United States closely at heart. 
 There are men who will say that Campbell SlEmp was wrong 
 when he cast his fortunes with the Confederacy; there are 
 men who will say that he was wrong when he cast his political 
 fortunes with the party to which he had been a long time 
 opposed. We will not discuss that. That is not for us to say, 
 but we who know him, know that his convictions were as 
 strong as the eternal hills among which he dwelt, and either in 
 peace or war, in the field of battle or in the field of politics, 
 Campbell SlEmp followed his convictions, and that is enough 
 for us to know. He had a stormy career undoubtedly. He was 
 situated so, and his environments were such that it must have 
 been stormy; but after life's fitful fever he sleeps well, and his 
 death admonishes those of us who are his contemporaries, if we 
 need any admonition, that our time is coming within the near 
 future. We have nothing to complain about; we have done our 
 part; we have tried to do it. I may say in passing, in speak- 
 ing of his legislative career, although I was intimate with 
 him, we did not talk very much about legislative matters, and 
 I am inclined to think, to be fair about it, that he, like myself 
 and a few others, entered the political arena too late in life 
 to acquire distinction in the halls of legislation, but he did 
 his duty. He was honest, upright, fair, always ready. No 
 amount of trouble and no amount of worry could dim his good 
 humor or bring a frown to his face. He has gone and they 
 are fast going. 
 
 Those men who played an important part during those 
 troublous days are fast passing away. We think they have done 
 their share well, and it seems to me there is nothing grander in 
 historv than the action of the two great armies after the civil 
 
Address of Mr. Holliday, of Indiana 33 
 
 war. I speak of this to-day because he was a splendid repre- 
 sentative of one of those armies. The Northern army — flushed 
 with victory, some people thought they would establish a mili- 
 tary dictatorship over this country — melted away into the ranks 
 of peaceful life without causing a ripple. The Southern army, 
 while they told us, and I confess I had some fears, they would 
 start a guerilla warfare, did nothing of the kind, but went to 
 peaceful pursuits in life, and the country' in a few years was 
 as strong and vigorous as ever. 
 
 Gentlemen, I regard that as really greater than the battles 
 which these men fought, the battle of self-abnegation, the battle 
 for better things and better conditions after the bloody conflict 
 was over. 
 
 C.^MPBEi-L SlEmp has passed away. We, his contemporaries, 
 will not survive him very long, but we are glad to know that the 
 world has grown since we have been in it. It is one of those 
 things that gives pride to a man, who has climbed to the heights 
 of life and is going down on the other side, to know that he 
 will leave the world a little better than he found it. I feel 
 that, and I am optimistic aboi t it. The men who, like Camp- 
 bell SlEmp, have set an example of duty to a cause, whether 
 right or wrong, consecrated themselves and their lives to what 
 they believed to be right, are among the country's noblest 
 exemplars. 
 
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 Address of Mr. Chaney, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker : 
 
 We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; 
 In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
 
 We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives 
 Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 
 
 Campbell SlEmp was a Virginian by birth and life. In 1839 
 his eyes first saw the light. He honored the State which gave 
 him birth, and for almost fourscore years, boy and man, he 
 served well the "Old Dominion." I served on no committee 
 with him here. 
 
 I knew him onlv since he came to Congress; and I found him 
 genial, sociable, and reliable. Endowed by nature with a happy 
 turn of mind, he wore the cares of public office easily and 
 agreeably. He was always at his best in answering a political 
 question, deciding a post-office controversy, or proving to a 
 constituent why he failed to accomplish a task. Living only 
 a limited distance from the National Capital, and being the 
 only Republican Member from his State, everybody from Vir-- 
 trinia came to him for everything; and every morning from 7 
 o'clock to noon, at the Ebbitt House, where we both lived, 
 and in the lobby of the House when Congress was in session, 
 and again at the hotel up to the hour of retirement at night, 
 the hearty laugh of Mr. SlEmp was heard. Everyone liked 
 him, for he was everyone's friend. 
 
 In the "great unpleasantness" he, with the ardor of a local 
 pride and the inspiration of a controlling environment, served 
 the Confederate cause. As captain, lieutenant-colonel, and 
 
Address of Mr. Chaney, of Indiana 35 
 
 colonel he chivalrously wore the "gray" and valiantly battled 
 for the avowed sovereignty of the Southern States. On a Con- 
 federate tombstone in Georgia there is an inscription: "To the 
 memorv of those who died for a brave and simple faith." It 
 was in this "brave and simple faith" he believed, and for this 
 "brave and simple faith" he fought on to the end of that 
 incomparable struggle. But when the swift, flashing blade had 
 declared that there was no sovereignty but the Stars and 
 Stripes, he doffed the habiliments of rebellion and held up his 
 hand to the Lincoln interpretation of the Constitution, southern 
 Democrat though he was. After that the prejudices of recon- 
 struction did not concern him quite so much as fidelity to the 
 Union, and with patriotic devotion he labored to rebuild the 
 temple of absolute liberty "without the hope of fee or re- 
 ward." To that purpose he brought every energy and every 
 faculty. Not finding a ready enough acceptance of the "malice 
 toward none and the charity for all" of the sainted President, 
 and differing with his party on some important public ques- 
 tions, he left the Democratic party in 1880, along with that 
 splendid Virginia American, William ilahone. He soon en- 
 rolled his name among those who believe that "one man's lib- 
 erty ends where another's begins." He was not one of those 
 to commit "the unpardonable sin," and there was no unpar- 
 donable sin, in his view, in anybody else. 
 
 I like the man who is too courteous and honorable to impugn 
 the motives of his fellows, and I always believe in his good 
 intentions, for he is generally too worthy to have any other 
 kind. I would that every man could shake off the sad mis- 
 takes of his life, that there might be no weight to his progress, 
 so that he could the better run the s\vift race of success. 1 
 would that men could easih- discriminate between the essen- 
 tials and the nonessentials of life, like unto the judge on the ^ 
 
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 bench, between that which is evidence and that which is not 
 evidence. 
 
 There is more lost to life and progress and civilization and 
 humanity through brooding over fancied wrongs, unwarranted 
 inferences, and unprovable assumptions than there is by panics, 
 and wars, and hurricanes, and accidents, and disasters. Fortu- 
 nate is the man who can create within himself a liberal heart, 
 a tolerant spirit, an equity of conscience, and thereon build a 
 character which commands unstinted acceptance and liberal 
 respect. 
 
 There are three eternities, "faith, hope, and love." "Faith 
 is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not 
 seen," and is a substantial element of human life. Hope opens 
 the eyes wide, clasps the hands of friendship and confidently 
 goes forth to conquer and to satisfy. Love is the charity of the 
 human heart which binds together families, and friends, and 
 states, and principalities, and powers. Campbell Slemp was 
 endowed with a liberal heart, a tolerant spirit, an equity of 
 conscience, and these three eternities possessed him body and 
 soul, mind and strength. 
 
 He was a typical American, l)orn of her soil, baptized in her 
 crystal waters, nurtured in her admonitions, inspired by her 
 possibilities. He was a true citizen of the Republic, for he 
 believed in doing unto others as he would that others should 
 do unto him. Indeed, this was his religion. It is a scripture 
 impossible of misinterpretation, and worthy of universal 
 acknowledgment. 
 
 Mr. Slemp was a man of earnest convictions, of uncompro- 
 mising conscience, of honorable impulses. He was likewise 
 affable, courteous, and generous hearted. He lived not to 
 himself alone, but to contribute his share of the world's work 
 and to assume his full portion of its responsibilities. His life 
 
Address of Mr. Chancy, of Indiana 
 
 37 
 
 was respectable, creditable, and successful. He died as he 
 lived, in the open x'kw and critical scrutiny of I he best citizen- 
 ship of Virginia, and with the approving conscience of his 
 associates in Congress. He put off not until to-morrow what 
 he could well do to-day. He spoke the words, he did the 
 things, he cheered the hearts, and he kept the faith of family 
 and friends, of vState and nation. His life was guided by the 
 
 poet: 
 
 We shall do so much in the years to come, 
 
 But what have we done to-day !■ 
 We shall give our gold in a princely sum, 
 
 But what did we give to-day? 
 We shall lift the heart and dry the tear; 
 We shall plant a hope in the place of fear; 
 We shall speak the words of love and cheer. 
 
 But what did we speak to-day ;■ 
 We shall be so kind in the afterwhile, 
 
 But what was the kindness to-day? 
 We shall bring each lonely life a smile, 
 . But what have we brought to-day? 
 We shall give to truth a grander birth, 
 And to steadfast faith a deeper worth; 
 We shall feed the hungering souls of earth, 
 
 But w-hom have we fed to-day? 
 We shall reap such joys in the by-and-by, 
 
 But what have we sown to-day? 
 We shall build us mansions in the sky, 
 
 But what have we built to-day^ 
 'Tis sweet in idle dreams to bask. 
 But here and now do we do our task? 
 Yes, this is the thing our souls must ask: 
 
 What have we done to-day' 
 
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 :Mr. Jones, of X'irginia. Mr. Speaker, as some of those who 
 had indicated a desire to speak on this occasion arc unavoid- 
 ably absent, I ask unanimous consent that the\- may be per- 
 mitted to print their remarks in the Record. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. Is there objection? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Mr. Jones, of Virginia. ]\Ir. Speaker, as a further mark of 
 respect to the memory of the deceased, I move that the House 
 do now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was agreed to. 
 
 Accordingly (at 3 o'clock and 12 minutes p. m.) the House 
 adjourned. 
 
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