Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-10-25


carly lessons had implanted in his mind the
strongest impressions of the wickedness OF slave
~ His father was an abohtionist of the En-
o;sh school, and Immediately after taking up his
residence in Vermont, he begun to proclaim his
continents on that subject and he has lived to
see the doctrines that he incucated, which
twenty years ago were repulsive in the extreme,
now becoming generally acceptable through the
vici.itudes of war, martial law, and military
necessity Though Thomas Gleed ever voted and
acted with the predominant party in our State,
vet much stronger measures in behalf of freedom
than this party in the nation ever felt authorized
to advocate, would have received hearty sup
port from him. He has been deprived by death
of Witnessing the issue of struggle that may
terminate in an event to which he looked for
ward with eagerness-the proclaimng of liberty
throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants
thereof.
As a Legislator, he displayed uncommon firm
ness and manliness of purpose in whatever he
undertook. The measure that he advocated did
not always meet with very general favor, yet
his opponents accorded to him the merit of reso-
lnteness and energy. He was ready and fluent
in debate, and cordial and courteous in his
bearing to all. His presence for four years in
the General Assembly of Vermont, will long be
remembered by all his associates in either House.
His domestic aud private rela tions are said to
have been most happy. And any one who had
frequent occasions, as the writer of this sketch
has had, to mingle in his family circle would
have imagined that the multiplicity of profess
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his domestic enjoyment. He seemed hel: to be
entirely free from care and perplexity, and tc
relish most heartily the endearments of his iami
ly and home. His wife, Mrs. Cornelia Ann
Gleed, was daughter of Hon. Moses Fisk, OF
Morrisyille. They were married in November
1850.
With respect to his moral and religious life
from his own frank confessions made at different
times, it is evident that he fell very far shot o.
those elevated standards which were set before
him in the aliectionate counsels that he received
while under parental guidance and instruction
He never forgot these, however, and his re
spect for religious Institutions, and his liber
atty in sustaining them, showed that his early
training had not been without beneficial cfiec
and influence upon his character. He was {
man of generous impulses, benevolent in spirit
ready at all times to lend helping hand to thu
unfortunate and he will be remembered by
many for acts of kindness rather than for heavy
eXactons.
His counsels to his friends and associates il
his dying hour, were solemn and impressive
evincing much penitental sorrow for his own mis-
deeds, and an earnest desire that they might Sc
live as to MERIT the favor of Heaven and receive
q blessed inheritance.
Such is as comprehensive sketch of the lif
and the charactero of Hon. Thomas Gleed, as tn
time will allow me to present. And in view o
the sudden and uneX pccted termination of the lif
ofone so promising of future usefulness in higl
and public sphere we are reminded of that famili
ar sertiment of the poet
This is the state ofman to-day he puts forth
The tender leaves othope-to- morrow, blossoms
And bears his blushng honors thick upon HIM.
The th I'd day comes frost, killing frost,
And when he thinks good easy man. full surely
His greatness is aripening, nips his root,
and then he falls-never to hope again"