Albert Beveridge: “We have it in our power to secure the happiness of one half of the human race.”

What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!

These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.

In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.

The Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser said that "no man has lived or died in this country, save its father George Washington alone, who united such a warmth of affection for his person, with so deep and unaffected a respect for his…