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I never heard him deliver a speech that was not worthy of being printed and preserved.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Creswell: “I never heard him deliver a speech that was not worthy of being printed and preserved.”
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Creswell reflects on the enduring quality of speeches delivered by Henry Winter Davis, suggesting their importance for posterity.
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His friends saw deeper, and knew that beneath the exterior he assumed in his struggles with the world there beat a heart as pure and unsullied, as confiding and as gentle, as ever sanctified the domestic circle, or made loved ones happy.
Never again will he, answering to the roll-call from this desk, respond for his country and the rights of man.
The sword may rust in its scabbard, and so let it; but free men, with free thought and free speech, will wage unceasing war until truth shall be enthroned and sit empress of the world.
He lived to vote for that grand act of enfranchisement that wiped from the escutcheon of the nation the leprous stain of slavery, and to know that the Constitution of the United States no longer recognized and protected property in man.
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