The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-21
am, dear sir
Hon. JUDGE DICKSON, &c.
governor Anderson and Governor

Governor Anderson and Governor
BrOugh.
We published, some days since, the elo.
quent letter of Chief Justice Chase to Gov.
ernor Anderson, enclosing the resolutions
passed by q meeting of Ohioans ct Wash
iDgton on the death of Governor Brough.
Governor Anderson's response, which we
append gives ina few appropriate words, a
most truthful and spprecistive estimate of
the character of our late Chief Magistrate:
THE STATE OF OHIO,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
COLUMBUS, Sept. IL, 1865.
To His ErceLIency, Salmon p Chase, Chief
Justice q. s. a:
SRA press of gravest duties has pre-
vented me from replying before 10 your
admirable letter of the 9Th instant, enclos-
ing copy of the proceedings of the recent
meeting Of citizens of Ohio, convened at
Washington, in solemn respect to the
memory of our late Governor John Brough,
deceased.
The resolutions and remarks passed
oz1d n1uCt0- Ooous1Unj most justly
delineated his character and most fifty de
elared the public loss. And certainly
they do constitute memorial to his honor,
of which his surviving friends snd family
may well be proud throue b life.
Your own letter, too Cet me add is 8
most simple and truthful expression of the
public calamity from his death, and of the
patriots grief for the Nations misfortune.
For myself, do fully believe that the
entire surface of our State in its whole
mass of citizens, neither held, nor could
claim, one, whose departure could have
created such 9 vacuum.
Nor can think las is So frequent in
funeral eulogiums) that the unusual emo
tions ofgrief or the accustomed liberality
of posthumous praises have, in this case, at
all trsncended the actual worth of the de
parted.
He was man of such sharp and clear
perceptions, such retentive memory /;
such rapid powers, as well in the anslys
of facts as in the generalization of deduc
tioD, and yet had in that, such a sobriety
of patience and judgment in all his delib-
erztions (which, it must be admitted, sell
dom sppertain to quick minds) that he can
only be clsssed with the very first intel
lects of our nation.
Imske no account ofhis powers as n,,ora-
tor. For, although he was q great orator,
and in the highest and best sense, too in
this view make but trivial estimate of
oratery. It seems to me, that on serious
occasions, it is as thinker and deer, that
we should consider him more.
And then, too, in his moral nature, and
in those portions of bis duties which grew
out of it-how grsndly did his love Of, and
practice of Truth, Justice Honesty End
manly courage, In and for the Right, with
their kindred virtues, exalt him above
altogether above-thst whole herd of the
"vulgar great "-of able minds without
principle. AS, however, would not viii
lingly lapse into formal eulogy, forbear,
with the addition of q single thought.
If you, who are absent from the State,
thus think and feel, concerning this, our
great loss, what must be my meditAtions
and emotions, here and now, whilst occu-
pying (slas not filling) his seat. Almost
every hour is thrusting painfully upon me,
as s dark shadow, its remembrance of that
vanished power, with (its close companion
the sad consciousness of this weakness in
Its XRss9t. .RsG6uor to be your friend and
servant. CHARLES ANDERSON.