University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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flit. .uinw-vwreci-vanvwgr .M-............ ....1 Mg'... - 4 1-14 I r i , . 8 t 1 , , x , . f, e ,, , - . y8vb-qurnWw-awuw MthW-MM . . P: N xtMau 11: Away 2! 5! L 9 3 X K h WI 1 qt. 1 i 4 i Y 4 . CORKS AND CURLS a VOLXXI and a member of the State Senate. from 1875 to 1881, was Democratic Elector at Large in 1876, and has been one of the Delegates at Large fr0m Virginia to the National Democratic Conventions of 1880, 1888, I892, 1896, 1900, and 1904. In 1881, he was the Democratic nominee for Governor, and was defeated by W'm. E. Cameron, Readjuster. CI; He was elected a member of the House of Representatives ot: the 49th Congress in 1884,, and was elevated to the Senate of the United States to succeed William Mahone in 1887, and by successive elections he has adorned a seat in that august body ever since. His present term of service will not expire until the third of March, 1911. i CI; He is an LL. D. of Washington and Lee University and of Michigan University. . 0; Senator Daniel is recognized as one of the great orators of America. His first speech, which attracted attention in the Commonwealth, was made by him in June, 1866, as final orator of the Jefferson Society of the University of Vir- ginia. One of the most cultivated audiences that ever assembled in Virginia greeted him on that occasion in the great hall in the annex to the. Rotunda, which has been since destroyed, when his auditors were. entranced both by the manner and matter of his address, and the prediction was then made that he would speedily rise to eminence. q Gifted as he is by a splendid presence, by a rich voice, and by rare culture, he has beensummoned, by the people of the country as the orator upon, many noted occasions. The addresses that he has delivered upon the life and character of Robert E, Lee, of Stonewall Jackson, and of President Davis are classics in our literature. I 0; He was honored by the Congress of the United States by being selected unanimously, along with Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, to deliver before that body an oration upon the subject of iiWashingtonf, and although the theme a was threadbare, in the way'of treatment, he lent a new charm to the story of the Revolutionary Era. 0; The older citizens, who sat under the spell of Clay and Webster in the Senate of the United States, and Who listened to the great speeches that Senator Daniel has made on national questions, claim that his arguments and his speeches in point of elegant diction and powerful argument measured up fully to the highest standard set by his great predecessors. Q No gentleman is more beloved or has a stronger hold upon the affections

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1908 CORKS AND CURLS t 3 31mm 111. Eanivl . J; . ,1 4;? r 'ng .-. amr-as Ln. -r pl '9 . ,1 OHN WARWICK DANIEL stands in the front rank among ' eminent Virginians of this day and generation. He was born on the fifth of September, 1842, of'distinguished and talented ; ancestry. His father, Judge William Daniel, Jr.,iwas one v , a of the ablest lawyers and most learned judges in the State. ' b Mk q Major Daniel tifor the writer of this, who was his comrade in arms, prefers to call him by his military titlei 'was attending the Classical school presidedeover by Dr. Gessner Harrison, the great Latin scholar and University ; Professor, when the Confederate War commenced. . 13 CI; At the iirst call to arms young Daniel volunteered in the nineteenth. year of 1 $ ' his age and entered the Confederate Army as Second Lieutenant of an infantry P .V 141,15. . '11- m'f'fq'vw 1.. company in the famous ' Stonewall Brigade? In the tirst battle of Manassas he was conspicuous for his gallantry and fell on that bloody field seriously 3 a wounded. Afterwards he was made First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the i . . 11th Virginia Infantry, and was severely wounded at the battle of Boonesboro, in Maryland. He returned to the field as soon as his wounds sufficiently healed and was made Major and Chief of Staff of General Jubal A. Early, in which capacity he served until again terribly crippled in the great battle of iiThe W'il- dernessfi on the sixth of May, 1864. Ever since then his loving friends and admirers have described him as iiThe Lame Lion of Virginia? 0; After the war he studied law at the University of Virginia during the session of 1865-66, and thereafter practiced with his father until his death in 1873. No citizen of Virginia has been more honored than Major Daniel. He became dis- tinguished as a lawyer, as an author of law books, as a Virginia Legislator, and as a brilliant orator before he entered the Senate of the United States. itDaniel on Attachmentsii and 8Daniel on Negotiable Instrument? are among the standard law books, not only of America,ebut of England, and many of his arguments before the Supreme Court of the State marked him as one of the most erudite and powerful advocates who practiced before that Court. G; He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1869 to 1872,

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i t 1908 CORKS AND CURLS Ul of Virginians than Senator Daniel. He is an honor and an ornament to his State as a laWyer, a legislator, an orator and a statesman, and the University of Virginia has no son on its list of illustrious alumni whose. career is pointed to with more pride than that of the Senior Senator from Virginia'-and if the Presidency, in the order of events, could be bestowed upon a Southerner, the chances are that the mantle would fall upon his shoulders. MICAJAH WOODS. C lzarlottuesw'tlla, V a. March 20th, 1908.