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imposing. A silent man, who always made others talk and was himself a patient listener. Politic and prudent ; mild an.dfe.miable;
( .	slow	and indolent, No enemies. He became Circuit Judge, U.
S. District Judge, Senator in Congress, and Minister to Mexico. Sterling was a Northern man, who settled in Winchester at an early day, and connectpd himself by marriage with a wealthy and influential family. He was an indifferent speaker, but well-read in his profession, and very sociable and popular. John Black was generally supposed to be of northern origin, but claimed to be a Virginian. He settled at an early period, in the old town of Monroe, Terry county, when Winchester and JMonroe were controlling positions in the politics of the State. He was only an average speaker, but a shrewed lawyer. A fine looking man, a good talker, a pleasant companion, with many warm friends. Ur was elected to the Senate ot the United States as a Jackson man ; went over on the Bank question ; was very much petted at Washington by Mr. Clay, Watkins Leigh, Willie P. Mangum and others; lost his position in Mississippi, and became a planter in Louisiana, where he prematurely died. Willie was a North Carolinian, raised chiefly in Claiborne county, a man of violent temper, stern, unflinching, but of a high sense of honor, sensitive and generous. A plain but strong lawyer. He sickened here when holding his last court, and died at the house of Col. Leonard Kimball. He. had for a week previous a presentiment of death,'and predicted the hour when he would expire. McNair,, was, 1 believe, a .native of Covington county, of a Scotch family from North Carolina?a thrifty and upright and intelligent race, of which he was a fit representative. A fair speaker, of correct convictions that always-impressed the jury. Intellectual, laborious, conscientious, just? one of the purest men I ever knew.	1
Fellow-citizens: 1 have now given you a rapid outline of our history, and recalled some of our prominent pioneers, This is an appropriate hour for such reminisences. At this ? very moment, j.	delegates	from	every	quarter	of	the	Union,	and	representatives
from all the nations of the earth, are assembled in Philadelphia, the birth-place of our Independence, to recall the struggles and ? perils, privations and sacrifices of our fathers for liberty and free government. Our countrymen have come together, to renounce , forever the feuds of the past, and to proclaim eternal brotherhood I On these shores, as you have seen, the soldiers of three 'na-;V-.r tions have displayed the standards of their kings.'
For ourselves we want but one, and will have no 'And here, \Xi the presence of Almighty-.God, with the .'spintajg of our departed friends as witnesses, let us swear eternal fidelit^^:^ ^nmrt^nd**it9ii*ffog L
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