Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-09
ADDRESS
Delivered in the City Of Watertown, at
the request of the
MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL,
ON TIE OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF
GOV. LOUIS p. HARVEY.
BY
DANIEL HALL, ESQ,
MAY lsr, 1852
ADDRESS
UANIEL HAIL, ESQ.
MAY lsF, 1852.

/ mournS the death OF her iate Chief Magls-
trate. While this shadow has fallen on
every patriotic heart, it is but the prompt,
/ ings OF our own feelings, that we, in obe-
dlence to the call of our present Chief
Executive, and of our Mayor and City
Council. commingle our griefs upon this
sad occasion. and celebrate the virtues of
the distinguished dead.
| A few days since, Gov. HARVEY left the
Capital Of our own State, in the full flush
Of health aud manly vigor, and went forth
to alleviate the suferings Of our brave sol
diers. who in defence our country, had
received honorable wounds upon the red
battle field. and, although his mission OF
mercy was nearly accomplished, alas he
has not returned and so suddenly and
mysterously did the destroyer claim him
as his victim, that neither the State that
delighted to bestow on him its highest
honor, nor the wife of his bosom, has The
melancholy privilege of seeing his body
becominsiy srrayed for its burial. or Of
committing it to The kindly earth with ap-
propriate rites of sepulture.
Gov. Louis ?. Harvey was born in
East Haddam, Con, July 22l, 1922. In
1928 he removed to the state of Oh'o
where lie grew up to manhood, and en-
joyed such opportuities for education as
his fathers limited means could bestow.
In order to provide for his own support.
at an early age he become teacher. In
The year 184l he emigrated to the state
OF Wisconsin, settled at Southport-now
kenosha--where for some time he was
engaged in the same occupation and also
edited the Southport American. Wing
paper. In 1847, he WAS married to the
lady who survives him. and for whose
bereavement the people Of our state ten
der their sncerest sympathy. He then
removed to Clinton, in Rick county,
where he became merchant, and in The
fall of that year Was elected to the second
constitutional convention. He afterwards
removed to Shopiefe, in Rock county,
which was his residence at the time of
his decease. From 1854 TO 1857 he was
member of our State Senate. Ia 1859
he was elected Secretary Of State. and in
1861 was chosen Governor.
Gov. Hlrvey was a self-m4ds man in
the truest and nobest sense. Without the
advantages Of wealth or powerful friends,
by the exercise of prudence, dilig nee,
probity and temperance, and by the power
Of genial generous sympathy, and the
influence of consistent Christian lie, he
achieved the highest distinction in our
state. His public life embraces all the
stormiest period of our political history.
In all these relations AMI positions his in
tegrity was unquas.ioned, and his honor
untarnished.
But my more intimate acquaintance with
Gov. Harvey commenced with the ,urney
which terminated his earthly existence,
and AS 1t is in consequence Of my having
been present at that sad event that am
requested 10 address you, | deem it pro-
per that l should give you an account Of
The leading incidents of that journey. as
furnishing the best Illustration of his
| character and the manner of his decease.
The first accounts Of the terrible battle
at Pittsburg Landing reached this state, |
think, on the 9Th day of April last. On
The same day the Governor teIe5rsDhed to
a number of the most eminent surgeons
in the state, requesting them to accom-
pany him to the relief OF the suffering and
wounded Of our Wisconsin soldiers. All
these invitations. think. we're accepted
| The surgeons were, DIS. WolcJtt, DJus-
man and B ,rtIett Of Milwaukee; Dr.. Cody
of this place; Drs Page and Ps4ke of
Racine or Kenosha; D.. Carey of BeIoit !;
DR.. Treat Of Evansville and Dr. Wilson
of Sharon H, was also attended By E
H. Broadhead and Gen. Wadsworth, Com
missary General Of the State, Hon Messrs.
Stuntz and M;Dil Of the Assembly, and
J. N. Bundy as his Private Secretary.
The generosity of the citizens of MIL
waukee, Madison and other portions of
the state had furnished him with large
amount of supplies adapted to the wants
of wounded men. His wife reluctantly
separated from him at Chica 70, and there
bade him her last adieu. While at Chi
cago the Governors party had an oppor-
tunity to hear the distinguished Parson
Brownlow, and to have intensified their
adherence of the Infamous rebellion
which has desolated our land and shroud
ed it in mourning. by his narrative of the
cruellies practiced on the Union man Of
Eastern Tennessee. On the morning Of
the lth of April the party was speeding
through the prairie land of Illinois on the
Central Illinois Rulroad. The first indi-
cation that We were approaching the
scenes o. warfare. was, when a short dis
tance south of Urb4na We beheId coffia
just arrived on the railroad, in charge of
a soldier with a name inscribed on il. and