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16 | imposing, A silent man, who always E(iade?.6tber8 talk aud was? himself a patient listener. Politic and pi^$??t;;^nihl and amiable#-' slow and indolent. No enemies. He b'ei?^mV;;Circuit Judge, IJ.r?
S. District Judge, Senator in Congress, ;apd;.Minister to Mexico.?*?.;' Sterling was a Northern man, who settled;^ Winchester at auj" early day, and oounected himself by marriage'vyrith'* wealthy and;V influential family. He was an indifferent'speaker' but well-readt m his profession, and very sociable and popular.?" '?John 'Black wasf generally supposed to be of northern origin, but Claimed to be a';-Virginian. He settled at an early period, in thve 'old . town of,
Monroe, Terry oountv, when Winchester and ?AJorKroe? were con-L trolling positions in the politics of the State. ' He Was;-'only aa? average speaker, but a shrewed lawyer. A fine TooVmg?'man, a good talker, a pleasant companion, with many warm frauds.' He was elected to the Senate of the United Slates as a Jack^on'man went over on the Bank question ; was very much petted'fit:'Wash-'' ington by Mr. Clay, Watkins Leigh, Willie P. Maiigum?ancf others lost his position in 1ir?	~	1	?
where he preinatur chiefly iu Claibor flinching, but of a
plain but strong lawyer. He. sickened here when holdiuj^Kie^, last court, and died at- the house of Col. Leonard Kimball, had lor a week previous a presentiment of death, and predicted tho hour when he would expire. McNair, was, I believe,	a native of	?	,
Covington county, of a Scotch lamily from North Carolina?a thrifty and upright and intelligent race, of which he was a fit	u
representative. A lair speaker, of correct convictions that always	:
impressed the -jury. Intellectual, laborious, conscientious, just? or.e of the purest men I ever knew.	j
Fellow-citizens: 1 have now given you a rapid outline of our	I
history, and recalled some of our prominent pioneers, This is an	i
appropriate hour for such reminisences. At this	very moment,	v
delegates from every quarter of the Union, and representatives from all the nations of the earth, are assembled in	Philadelphia,	f
? "Hhe birth-place of our Independence, to recall the	struggles and	i
: i perils, privations and sacrifices of our fathers for liberty aud free government. Our countrymen have come together, to renounce	f
;)V;forever the feuds of the past, and to proclaim eternal brotherhood !	-5 .
.? f On these shores, as you have seen, the soldiers of three na-' ???jtioos have displayed the standards of their kings.	.V
For ourselves we want but one, and will have no	other !	'*4
1 And here, m the presence of Almighty God, with	the spirits	\	S
-?<bf our departed friends-as witnesses, let ys swear eternal fidelity to	n
* Vu 1 r TTn mil and lf.K fla.c !	H	i*
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