John Creswell: “And if with such heroic resolve we fall, we fall with honor, and transmit the name of liberty, committed to our keeping…”

He lived to witness the triumph of his country in its desperate struggle with treason, and to behold all its enemies, either wanderers, like Cain, over the earth, or suppliants for mercy at her feet.

For the Christian, scholar, statesman, and orator, all good men are mourners; but what shall I say of that grief which none can share--the grief of sincere friendship?

She was the incarnation of all that is Christian in life and hope, in charity and thought, ready for every good work, herself the example of all she taught.

If from his father he drew a courage and a fierce determination before which his enemies fled in confusion, from his mother he inherited those milder qualities that won for him friends as true and devoted as man ever possessed.