Excerpt from Obituary Addresses on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. William R. King: Of Alabama, Vice-President of the United States; Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, Eighth of December, 1853 Although gentle and kind in his intercourse with others, he could be stern enough when the public interests or his personal honour required it. He was a man, sir, whose whole soul would have sick ened under a sense of personal dishonor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.