The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-09-11
The Late Senator Pc.senden.
NOTICES OF HIS DEATH IN THE PUBLIC Jou7

The Late Senator Fcssenden.
OF HIS DEATH IN THE PUBLIC JOUR
NAILS. MEETING IN WASHINGTON.
The respect felt for our distinguished fellow
citizen who died Wednesday is indicated oy
the universal attention and profound regre'
which the news of his decease excited. We
make few extracts from papers pupiisheu III
different parts of the country:
From the Bangor "mgI
u.-- =, ,be Senate is too well known
g.. - r,rtber detailing His record ID part
of onr history, and his country Mas oeeh non
~ in boporipg him. However many OF his
1918 NAV have differed with him upon some
nccasions, there are few to impeach the integ-
r;tv of his action, and the name of William
pitt Fessenden will ever be held in kindly re-
membrance, not merely by his hosts of person.
al friends but by his State which he has so
ably represented and by his country which he
has SO faithfully served.
From the Springfield Republican,
Mr.. Fessenden had great virtues and great
talents. he was an earnest worker for party
and for country in everything that he believed
to be right, and he has left a record such as
few attain to. He was eminently man in
whose judgment the people mad confidence,
whose integrity it was safe to believe In; and
though he sometimes went wrong, few will
care to think of that now, but of the many
more times when he was power for the right.
From the New York Tribuue.l
His splendid stand in the later stages of the
anti-slavery contest in the senate will never
be forgotten so long as the triumh in which
that contest ended is celebrated; his character
as a pains-taking, sagacious and practical leg
islatOr will never cease to afford an example
to those who come after him, and his fame as
pungent debater, most dangerous to encoun-
ter, and rarely worsted, will be one of the
traditions of the body he so long adorned
from the New York World.]
For the daily transaction of ordinary legisla-
tive business, no Senator had better aptitudes
or more valuable experience; and his State
has no man yet known to the country who is
at all capable of filling his place.
From the Worcester Spyl
Mr. Fessenden's found judgment, intimate
familiarity with public business, and his skill
in debate gave him position OF great inf1u-
ence in the Senate. Hardly any of its men,
bers would be more missed, and there are few
men in the country whom we could so ill af-
ford to spare.
from the New York Post.I
Mr.. Fessenden was an able lawyer, an up
right citizen, statesman of sound views, high
character and independent judgment; and a
man of great and deserved influence in the
Senate of the United States, of which he was
for many years one OF the most generally re-
spected members
The confidence which he inspired in his
character and abilities was well shown in his
selection by President Lincoln to succeed Mr..
Chase when he resigned the secretaryship of
the Treasury; and by the general, satisfaction
with which MIR. Fessenpen's reluctant accept
ance of the important place was received by
the people at very critical period of the war.
[Albany Evening Journal.l
Mr.. Fesseuden was man of remarkable
dignity and force of character. In the Senate
he held position of acknowledged leader.
ship, to which his superior abilities entitled
him. He was a thorough classical scholar, a
close and untiring student of political philos-
ophy and the economy of Government, a close
and accurate observer of events, refined and
accomplished gentleman. He will be remem-
bered in the future az one in school of states
men who belong to the past generation
which embraces such names as those of Web
ster, Clay, Calhoun, Wright and Adams men
who gave q peculiar character to American
politics, and who are forever to be considered
apart from and above the demagogues and
mediocre geniuses who have recently domin-
ated in our Legislative councils.
A meeting of the citizens of Maine, now in
Washington, was held Thursday evening to
take action in regard to the death of Senator
VIM. Pitt Fessenden. Among the gentlemen
present were Hon. E. 3. French, Nathaniel
Hatch, Edward Fenno, Llewellyn Deane, w.
p. Drew, j. L. Dodge, Lemuel Bursley. Capt
III. A. Snow, Colonel c. D. Gilmore, DR.. Kent
Hill, A. S. Smith, Charles L. Whelpley, and
others. The meeting was called to order by
Col. Gilmore, who nominated Hon. E. B.
French as chairman. Mr. L. Bursley was
chosen Secretary.
Upon taking the chair Mr.. French paid an
earnest, eloquent and heartfelt tribute to the
memory of the deceased Senator.
On motion committee CT five was appoint
ed to draft resolutions expressive of the sense
of the meeting, consisting of Messrs. L. Deane
of Portland, Q. D. Gilmore of Penobscot Will
lis Patten of Bangor, George w. Mcclellan of
Eastport and Edward Fenno of Augusta.
While the committee were out eulogistic
speeches we're made by w. P. Drew and Ma
thaniel Hatch, after which the following reso-
lutions were reported and unanimously adop-
ted:
Whereas, The custom of ages has sanctioned and
sanctfed public expression of regret and coincidence
when, in the process of nature the great and good
of our race are removed by death; and
Whereas, We citizens of Maine, have been adj
vsed OF the recent death Of our Senator William
Pitt Fessenden and DESTROYS OF placing on
record some tokens OF our affection for his person
and gratitude for his services, therefore
EeSoiUed, That in the decease of our distinguish
ed citizen orr State, our nation and mankind srf-
fer a common bereavement.
RESOLVED, That regard Senator Fessenden as
embodying and exempifying in his life and charac-
fer all that be embraced in the word Sta esman,
and as above all things else, in that noble title,
true man-above party-above sect; his hands were
soiled by no brhe, and, hood was nsXsr SER
fing manhood that enabled him to grappled success
death calmly in the face through the weary days of
his last illness; bopnd to no Sect he walked no pri
vate path, bat "looked through Nature up to Ma
lures, God.''
RESOLVED, That we extend to the family and the
relatives the heartfelt expression of sympathy
them that warnest sympahies attend them,
but that our grefis tempered by he thought that,
though gone from us, his life is yet with us in its
noble example of integrity, purity and justice.
Resotced, That copies OF these resoluto be for
warded to the family Oh the deceased and to the
newspapers in the State of Maine.