American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-11-20
SMistellaneous.
JOHN A. ANDREW.

Before he was Fifty years old, in the
vigor OF his prime, respected aud beloved
as few men ever are, sudden y an / with
no pain to himself, but with an ibcredi>
Bile sorrow to the country. John A. Ans
drew has goue hence. How strong his
hold was upon the hearts OF all good men
among US nobody probably fully estima-
ted till he died How much good men
counted upon him ia the future even
they could act know until they found
themselves, as now, lookiag vaguely
about and seeing no man in his place.
Not siaos the news came of Abraham
Lincoln's death we're SO many hearts tru.
ly smittep. Not since the bright spring
days in which that memorable funeral
processioa wound through the land
we're so many sincere tears shed as for
personal, private loss, in thousands of
homes, as on the soft autumn day when
Governor Andrew, as he will be always
foudly called, was buried. Yet whatev.
er might have been hoped and expected
in the future, his service to his country
and to mankind was already great ana
complete. Not only by signal abb lity
but by noble character he had impr ess-
ed himself upon his c0ntempories, and
without spot upon his fame he takes
his place among the really representa-
tive Americans. ...a
Before the war he had been represenS
tative in the Legislature and member of
the Constitutional Convention and there
was no man in his State better known or,
more wholly trusted. We first heard his
name in 1859 from Massachusetts, 10 az
who said, "John A Andrew will be
Governor if he wants to be-" But W hen
the war was evidently at hand it was
Massachusetts which wanted h i'm, and
turned to him at ance as her leader.
How he led her is already familiar
tale. Those of her citizens who felt
most deeply aud truly all that her his
tory and a certain moral rennwn or the
State demanded, a 50 felt that the de-
Wand had been fully satisfied by him
Almost his first act upon his accession to
office in January, 1861, was to order
equipments for the soldiers. He knew
Shoh WoA WHo duu
ly understood its scope aud probable re-
suits. On the 18th OF April Massachu
setts blood the FIRST in the war-was
shed at Baltimore, and Governor An>
drew's dispatch to the Mayor of that city
introduced him to the country. I'll pray
you to cause the bodies of our Massachu-
setts soldiers, dead in Baltimore, to be
laid out, preserved in ice, and tenderly
sent forward by express to me. All ex>
pense will be paid by the Commons
wealth" -..
From that moment until the end of
the war there was no more untiriug and
efficient soldier Of the Union and of lib
erty than he. His executive ability was
remarkable, his industry astonishing his.
devotion uufaggiug.5 He worked with
hand and heart and head He enulpped
and organized the troops, but he also
iserved the moral sentiment which sus-
tanned the public opinion upon which
the war rested. He was the best of
eoanselors. dis insight was seldom at
fault he measured men accurately-
how justly, indeed, experience has since
shown In some conspicuous instances.
There were good and able men in the
executive chars Of the loyal States du-
ring the war. But it was last instinct
upon their part which selected Governor
Andrew to write the address of the loyal
GoEernors at Altoona. @
From the beginning Governor Andrew
saw plainly the relation Of slavery'to the
war. When General Butler moved into
Maryland in April, 1861. he offered his
troops to Governor Hicks to aid in sup
pressing servile instructions. Governor
Andrew, who instictively knew that
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