PETER ALFRED TAYLOR.
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have not escaped the contagion of compromise. They go to court, and are caught in the net of "society," which sticks to them like a Nessus shirt. Peter Alfred Taylor has never been caught. He has gone to no court but that of the sovereign people. I honor the man and the constituency which has so long honored itself by honoring him.
"Stainless soldier on the walls,
Knowing this and knows no more,—
Whoever fights, whoever falls,
Justice conquers evermore;
And he who battles on her side,
God, if he were ten times slain,
Crowns him victor glorified,—
Victor over death and pain."
