Let us, gentlemen, recall these and similar
traits of this illustrious man, and holding up before posterity his pure
and bright example, let us not only honor it with our tongues, but
imprint it on our hearts, and imitate it in our lives.
And now, Patron of my youth, Guide and Counsellor of my maturer years,
and ever, ever, ever the Friend of my bosom, HAIL and FAREWELL!
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The various spellings are Tan'swell, Ta'rswell, Tassell, Taswell,
Tazewell. Tarswell is another abbreviation of Tankersville.
[2] Judge Benjamin Waller.
[3] Mr. Wickham married Mr. Tazewell's aunt, a half sister of Judge
Henry Tazewell.
[4] For a sketch of Mr. Tazewell and Gen. Taylor, as they appeared at
this early period of their career, see the graphic picture drawn by the
hand of Mr. Wirt, in the Old Bachelor, Appendix No. 3. Tazewell is the
Sidney, and Gen. Taylor the Herbert of the piece.
[5] See Appendix No. 3.
[6] The committee were Thomas Mathews, Thomas Newton, Jr., Luke Wheeler,
Theodoric Armistead, Richard E. Lee, Moses Myers, William Pennock,
William Newsum, Thomas Blanchard, Daniel Bedinger, Seth Foster, J.
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