Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-12-21
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT,

We find in the Washington papers report
OF the truly eloquent remarks made by Hon.
JOSEPH CHANDLER. in announcing 10 the
House o. Representatives, Oh Wednesday, the
4ih inst. the death of the Hon. CHESTER
BUTLER, of Wilks.Barre.
MIR. Chandler rose aud addressed the House
as follows
Mr.. Speaker, while it is the duty of this
body to devote lis deliberations 10 the good
of the living, it is one of its time -honored Gus
toms 10 pause in the midst OF its labors 10 do
honor TO the honorable dead. And am in
structed by the delegation of the State Of
Pennsylvania TO ask this body TO suspend its
labOrs and 10 request its members TO forbear
even their fluctuations OF neeing again,
while announce that one of those with whom
we took counse! only few weeks since, we
shall meet no more on earth.
My highly esteemed colleague, the Hon,
Chester Butler, the Representative Of the llih
district of Pennsylvania, died on his return
from the labors of this Congress. He reached
Philadelphia on Tuesday, the lst day of Oc
tober and was there seized " ith complaint
so violent that he survived the attack only
ill the Saturday following, expiring in the arms
| of her whose mnisralons had been the con-
soalisn OF bis life, and surrounded by members
of a family that had arrived only TO receive
the last look of a beloved parent and friend.
! Few names, sir, are more conspicuous in
the annals of Pennsylvania than that of Butler
1t is illustrated By courage, by patriotism, and
! by pieiy, and the family in the famed and
beautiful valley of Wyoming, boast of ances-
! trail associations which reflect lasting honor,
while they devoye weiShty obligations.
Chester Butler, born in Wksbarre, Luzerne
county, Pennsylvania, in March, 1888, was
the grandson OF Colonel Butler who com.
manded the American troops at The lime, Of
the terrible calamity distinguished in our ma,
| tional history as the massacre of Wyoming
A lofty monument denotes the exact location
of one scene of tha, appalling drama, and
bears The names of lis most CONSPICUOUS actors,
But gratitude for the services and veneralion
| for the character of the sufferers owe their
| freshness almost as much TO the distinguish,
ed work of the descendant as 10 the record OF
their ancestors indomitable valor and melan.
| choly fate.
| MIR. Butler graduated at Princeton College
in 1917, and then read law in the Litchheld
School: and subsequently under Judge Nal.
Iery, distinguished jurist of Pennsylvania,
and was admitted to practice in 1920. His
career at the bar was marked by a lofty esii-
mate of his profession, and his whole prac-
lice was characterised by fidelity that Sc
cured him lasting esteem and unbounded cons
fidence.
In 1916 Mr.. Butler was nominated as a can
dida,e for Congress; and, although his party
was in hopeless minority, he received gra-
iiiying majority of votes, and in iS4s was re-
elected, without having betrayed The conf
dence OF his own party TO purchase the suf-
irages OF his opponents, or forfeited the re-
gard OF an opposition ay sacrificing the good
Of the country 10 The advancement Of sectional
or party views. He seemed not only TO COM
prehend the just medium Of public measures,
but to have the rarer quality oil inducing the
people 10 respect aHd adopt his owp opinions