Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-07

his public services, but in the retirement
of private life and among his friends his
character shone with lustre and genial.
ity that are deserving of more than ordi.
nary mention.
He was modest unassuming man in
the relations of life. He was devoid oi
all ambition, only to do hisduty faithfully
and well. He never sought the ap
plause of men, but the consciousness OF
having done all his work with an honest
purpose was his richest reward. Strong
in his own sense of right, he never refus
ed the counsel of greater experience and
with contempt for that weakness which
refuses to acknowledge an error he
cheefully accepted the right path even at
the sacrifice of personal pride. He was
not public speaker and never attempted
it, but his conversations upon topics indi-
Gated that with mind stored with varied
knowledge, had he trained himself in the
school of experience, he would have prov.
ed most instructive and popular speaker.
He was great reader, in all departments
of English and American Literature, in
dicating scholarly tastes, which he fully
gratifed. In the departments of practi-
cal life he was an observer and student,
as was often shown by his
taste and judgment in the selection of
animals for his own use. He was a lover
of music and cultivator of the divine art,
and it afforded him recreation in his
leisure hours. He was the best culti-
waited musical critic in Vermont, and often
made long journeys to hear the most cele-
brated artists of the musical world. So
cially, he was the most genial of compan-
ions with those who surrounded him, and
even made stranger regard him as a
friend. A man whose faults. whatever
they were, were plainly to be seen of all
men, and whose noblest virtues were often
hid from all save his intimate friends, and
to them his warm, genial nature disclosed
qualities which bound them firmly to
him.
/ Married late in life to most estimable
lady, his wife and children were objects
of an alteration of which only a mind
trained like his to vigorous exercise oi
manly thought could be capable. From
the unseen world his yearning spirit will
look down and endeavor to bless them.
With his afflicted family the entire
community sympathize in their great be-
reavement. Mere words cannot assuage
their poignant grief, but the Fathe,
whose mercy is beyond feeble compre'
hension, will, in His own good time, heaI
the wound it has pleased Him to aflict
Out of His infinite benevolence the widow
and the fatherless will receive His care.
1t has not unfrequently fallen to oui
lot during the years of our editorial labors
to pay tribute to the memory of the hon.
ored dead of Vermont; but never with
deeper sorrow than that which pains our
heart to pay to him whose name stands at
the head of this article. For many years
we have enjoyed his acquaintance, and for
several of the later years his friendship.
His sterling nobility of character, the
genial, upright. manly honesty of the
man-these qualities overshadowed any
faults, so that they served but as foils to
heighten and intensity the brighter tints
of the picture. His record is an open
page, whereon will be inscribed a history
the proudest might wish to own. 1t is q
history of straightforward dealing with
all questions with which he came in con.
tact in public or private.
Now, with heavy heart we recognize
the fact that friend, honored fellow
citizen and faithful public servant ha'
passed on to the land of shadows. Others
will take the places he has so we'll filled
and in the whirl of public affairs hii
name will gradually fade from the lips o.
men. But while in our Commonwealth
there remains an appreciation of honest
zeal, of true devotion, of earnest, indefat
igable labor, while his work is recog
nized although the workman has beer
called away, and the pen dropped from
his nerveless hand, the name and labor'
of DugaId Stewart will be sacred heri
tage, to be mentioned with kind remem
brance and grateful appreciation.