His implicit faith in God's eternal justice, and his grand moral courage, imparted to him his proselyting zeal, and gave him that amazing, kindling power which enabled him to light the fires of enthusiasm wherever he touched the public mind.
Creswell highlights the moral courage and zeal of Henry Winter Davis, attributing his ability to inspire others to his faith in justice.
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You see the conflagration from a distance; it blisters me at my side.
But there is a courage of Statesmen, besides; and nobly was it illustrated by the statesman whose national services we commemorate to-day.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
The regular studies were prosecuted with diligence, and from them he derived great profit, not merely in knowledge, but in what is of vastly more account, the habit and power of mental labor.
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