North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-07-10

The public hes lost one Of its ablest rep
resentatixes, the community where he
lived one Of its most active citizens; wife
has been bereaved of the noblest of hus-
bands, and children have been separated
from the most devoted of parents-Hon.
Charles Denison is dead.
He passed away as calmly from the fell
lowsLip of mortas as he had peacefully
lived. Next to the thought of the be-
loved of his own household, his latest re-
fections were for his country, its peace,
its honor, its future glor;es of moral and
physical excellence. No man in Eastern
Pennsylvania was more endeared to the
public than he whom we 90 lately follow:
ed to the tomb where his patriot fathers
rest. The pefib OF the State could not
stay his departure, affection with its en-
twining arms was powerless to detain him.
Devoted to the cause of his county,
able, conscientious, and anxious, he sought
the highest prosperity of the nation, the
vindieation of the true liberties of the
people, the firm establishment and solemn
observance of the Constitution. No breath
of speech, no pulse of his heart, but his
loved at home, and the cause of constitu-
tional right, constitutional Liberty and a
government of yrstten law. Indeed, when
Charles Dennison, thrice honoreG with O
seat in the National Councils passed away,
the people of the State of Pennsylvania
and of the nation lost one Of their truest
friends, one of their noblest advocates
Of him, it may be said, that he did not
seek public preferment, but that place
sought him and honorable mention came
unsolicited. He was not aspiring, co intent
to do his duty, ever willing to do bis part
when duty called. Ably and fearlessly
he performed bis public duties in the Halls
of Congress, and second and a third
time his devoted constituents honored
themselves by enobllng him. The traitor
to the Constitution, to the rights of the
States, to the liberties of the people, under
whatever guise Of sentiment, OF faction or
public clamor, he regarded as the enemy
of mankind, believing that the hopes of
political society throughout the civilized
globe were dependant on the maintenance
of the America government as it came TO
Us from the fathers of the Republic. Had
he been demagogue, with no thought
but plunder and no aspiration but self, the
highest seats of public honor would have
been at his disposal-bad he put on the
glittering trappings of war he might have
been Pro-Consel, ruling conquered
States in derogation of all that is sacred in
the birth and history of the American I'm
ion-had he, indeed, proved recreant to
any of the fundamental principles Of hu-
man liberty as established and maintained
by rational system of government, Hon.
Charles Denison might have ascended at
his own will, to seats which are only reach
ed by annointed right through;the express
ed will of the people. In him the people
had the fullest confidence, SO correct was
he in his demeanor, so sound in his judg-
ment, so christian in his every act. The
assemblage which performed the last rites
of burial, unprecedented in this county for
numbers and so silent 10 its sense of be-
reavement, attest the loss which this CON-
munity has sustained the Eonors Of an
election to Congress in the most troublous
period of our national history, twice re-
peated. aud his course twice confirmed ex-
bibits the public sense of the worth.and
character of the man.
As Democrats, and as neighbors, as men
in public and in private life, we parted
with Hon. Charles Denison "a with pa
triot able, earnest and conscientious, as
with citizen whose daily walks has been
with us, active in bis profession, charita-
BILE in the cause of humanity, aud beloved
by all. .