and kindliness of his disposition. He was a scholarly man of great ability, coupled with great modesty. He possessed pleasing and winning manners, and in all his social relations he bore the character of an estimable, generous, kindly, and true man.
Like many other bright men, he has been cut down at the threshold of a career full of promise, and which would have brought additional luster to an already honored name, and given a broader scope to his public career. Imbued with a laudable ambition to acquire distinction for devotion to his adopted country, fealty to his party, and fidelity to his friends, he was ever governed in his conduct by a conscientious desire to perform his whole duty as became a man, a citizen, and a public servant. His success was achieved under most perplexing and embarrassing circumstances—standing at one period almost alone in his advocacy of moderation, conciliation, and justice. His conservatism commanded the respect of his political opponents and secured a confidence which was evinced by their votes. On the other hand, he supplied to his own party its safest and wisest counsel and its ablest leadership.
This much is honestly due the memory of my deceased colleague; and, in closing, I can but say that by his death this body has lost a member who would have taken high rank as a legislator and made a record that would have been alike creditable to himself and to the State which he represented.
Address of Mr. Blanchard, of Louisiana.
Mr. Speaker, a colored fireman at Willard's Hotel, this city, making his early rounds, unlocked the door of room No. 16, on the second floor, at half past 6 o'clock on the morning of March 15, 1886, and stepped softly into the room to kindle a fire for the comfort of its occupant. He had advanced but a step toward the open grate when he discovered that occupant lying prone upon his back and surrounded by a pool of blood. Astounded by the discovery, he ran
