Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1844-01-13

fession. 'Intuitive sagacity supplied in
him the place Of long experience: and
boundless beneyolence conciliated uni
versal esteem. To all his patients he
was the same, flying with alacrity to
every call, attending upon the poor
and humble as zealously as on the rich
and powerful, on the stranger as readi-
ly as on the neighbor, discharging TO
all the duties of nurse and friend, as
well as of physician, and wholly re-
CARELESS of his own interest, or even Of
his own health, in his zeal to serve and
to save others.
The highest professional honors and
rewards were before him. Though
commencing on provincial theatre,
there was not capital in Europe or
America in which he would not have
attained the front rank in physic and
surgery. But his fellow citizens per-
ceived in his varied abilities capacity
and aptitude for service in different
walk He was called into the political
field by an election 10 the Senate ofhis
adopted State. Thence he was called
TO the performance Of judicial duties
BY Federal appointment to investi-
gate land titles. Thence he was call
ed TO The high station of Senator in the
Congress Of the United States-frst
by an executive appointment, then by
three successive almost unanimous e.
lections. The last Of those elections
he received but one year ago, and had
not commenced his duties under it
had not sworn in under the certificate
which attested it-when a sudden and
premature death putan end to his earth
ly career. He entered this body in
1888; death dissolved his connection
with il in 1913. For ten years he was
a beloved and distinguished member Of
this body; and surely nobler or f.
ner character never adorned the cham
Der of the American Senate.
lie was my friend; bat speak not
the language Of friendship when !
speak his praise. A debt of justice is
all that can attempt to discharge: an
i'm rorfect copy of the true man is all |
can attempt to paint.
A sagacious head, and feeling heart
were the great characteristics of DR..
Linn. He had judgment which pen
etrated both men and things, and gave
him near and clear views of far distant
events. He saw at once the bearing
the remote bearing-of great measures,
either for good or for evil; and bro't
instantly to their support, or opposi-
ton, the logic ola prompt and natural
eloquence, more beautiful in its dellv-
cry and effective in its application than
any that art can bestow. He had great
fertility of mind, and was himself the
author and mover of many great meas
ures-somc for the benefit of the whole
Union some for the benefit of the
great West-some for the benefit of his
own Stationary for the benefit Of
private individuals. The pages of le-
gislative history will bear the evidences
of those meritorious labors to remote
and grateful posterity.
Brilliant as were the qualities Of his
head, the qualities Of his heart still G.
clipsed them. It is to the heart we
look for the character of the man; and
what a heart bad Lewis Linn! The
kindest, The gentlest, the most feeling
and the most generous that ever beat
in the bosom of bearded man! And
yet, when occasion required it the most
daring also. He never beheld a case
OF human woe without melting before
it; he never encountered an apparitlon
of earthly danger without giving il de-
iance. Where the friend, or even the
stranger, in danger ordistress, TO whose
succor he did not fly, and whose sor-
rowlul or perilous case he did not make
his own? When-where-was he ever
called upon for service, or a sacrifice,
and rendered not, upon the instant, the
one or the other, as the occasion re-
quiredf
The Senatorial service of this rare
man fell upon trying times--high par
ty times--when the collissionsof party
too often embiiter the ardent feelings
OF generous natures; but who ever
knew bitterness or party animosites
in him? He was, indeed, party man
as true to his party as to his friend
and his country; but. beyond the time
of duty and of principle-beyond the
debate and the vote--he knew 10 par
ty, and saw no opponent. Who among