Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-10-23

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By Mr.. Crane, of Concord, providing for
furnishing a copy Of Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary to each school district in the
State; to committee on education. By Mr..
Jones, OF ShOreham, to incorporate the
Shoreham Hotel Company; TO committee on
corp oratiOns By Mr.. Starr, of w hitingh
TO incorporate the Jacksonville Cheese
Factory Company; to committee on corpora
tions. By MIR. Cook, of Mendon. to amend
chapter 10 Q. relating to levy of execution !;
to committee on judiciary. By Mr.. Doug
on property sold; to committee on judiciary.
By Mr.. Pitkin, of Fairhaven, to amend an
act to Incorporate the Fairhaven Savings
| Bank; TO committee on corporations
Resoiuti0n.-By Mr.. White, of Topsham,
that the clerk be directed to insert at the
head of all printed bills, the name of the
committee to which said bills are referred !;
adopted.
Joint Resolutions By Mr.. Pitkin, of
! Montpelier, from committee on public
buildings, for the removal of the Aalutant
| Generals Office from room No. Z 70 room No
4; adopted on the part of the House.
From the Senate, relating to the death Of
! William II. Seward.
MIR. Haskins. of Brattleboro, said
! u. Speaker With every revolution Of
the earth may be recorded the death of some
| great and good man-his praises are sung
and his virtues arc recOunted by lips ia nil
Iar With his liie's history-his immediate
| relatives and friends sincerely mourn his
/ loss, hut he soon passes from the Temem-
brance Of all, and is forgotten But when a
wise and distinguished statesman, with
reputation national and worldwide, is
stricken from the number Of earth's chill
/ dren, the whole people mourn, and II is not
unusual for their Representatives, whether
/ assembled in State or National council, %
commemorate the mournlul event in the
manner of the resolutions now before US.
! shall attempt no eul0gy here, for | have
not the power ot speech to DO Justice to the
memory of tie illustrious dead But it
/ having been suggested that | should take
part 10 the exercises of this hour. chcerfuIlv
do so, for | feel that it IS en- honor to be ac-
corded the privilege OF doing honor to the
memory of the good; and patriotism fads
grateful exercise in recalling the obligations
under which a nation rests 10 those who
have done service to her in places of
distinction Such tributes, also, as these we
now bear. cannot fail 10 benefit the living
as well IS honor the dead ; TOR thev show 10
those IN life, what noble thing it Is TO earn
a name and a fame that will live after death,
and grow brighter and brighter as time rolls
on.
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home. ia Auburn. y. Y, on Thursday Oct
10th in the seventy second year of his re
lie had outived his threescore years and ten
and teyOnd the common lot of man He
was born Nav 10, 1901, and we learn tbot
after receiving a liberal education. be stuC-
iCd law was admitted t1 the bar in le22
and at once entered upon a successful
practice, ami an honorable and illustri0us
career IN the political arena o, his state ani
the nation. In 1890. he was elected to the
Senate of the State OF New York, and in
ls3o. ne was triumphantlv elected governor
ut his state over Governor Marcy, his sue
ces>.ul competitor FOR tie position four years
previous. i his Office he held for four years,
and the honorable course he pursued and
the acceptable manner in which he admins
tered tie affairs of his state during the
great financial commissions of that period, /
earned for him national reputation. In /
the winter Ut l~4S-9, be was elected To the !
Uu.tca States Senate, and IL was there that, |
en the llth If Marcl, 1850 IN reply to the |
spcceh OF Webster. delivered on the -th /
that he declared bis unalterable determine |
tion 10 make no further concession 70 the /
slave power, and uttered those ever memor- /
able words, There is a higher law than the /
Constitution which regulates our authority. /
and on all questions oC public improvement /
aud uationa. interest. maintained a high and
advanced position. lie served with honor
and distinction ID that body until March
lS6l. when he was called 70 q higher and |
more exalted field of useful and honorable
service He was IN fact one of the principal
founders of the Republican party, and took
an important part IN the political campaigns
of both the state and nation Ii was during
the excitement of fierce % Iitieal canvass
that IN l~5~ at Rochester. y. Y. he likened
the tw1 systems OF slave labor aud free labor
as ..-u irrepressible conflict between oppos-
ing forces. aud made the prediction, since
fully er fed. that =, the United States must
and viii. sooner OF later. become either en-
titclv % slayehoid.nE nation, OF entirely
free labor nation In 1860, he was perhaps
the most prominent republican candidate
throughout the north for the Presidency,
and on the first ballot at the Chicago Con
vention, received the largest number ofvotes
cast for any one candidate. But in this con
test he lost and Abraham Lincoln was
placed IN nomination; notwithstanding this
defeat for position, the highest in the gilt
1f the people and to secure which he had
hon rably sought, and no doubt expected 10
receive. he was among the first to yield
cordial support to Mr.. Lincoln nomination,
and entered with earnestness and vigOr upon q
that warmly contested canvass, which re ]
suited in the triumphant election OF a man, I
pledged 10 administer this government IN the
interest Of all, in strict accordance with the {
spirit of the Constitution, and the letter OF !
the Declaration of Independence. a
Upon the accession of Mr. Lincoln to the /
Presidential cfice, he rendered to Mr..
Seward the port folio Of the State
Department, which he accepted and con
tinued TO hold until March 4, 1869. Ii was
there that be made the most glorious and
enduring record of his busy lile-a record
familiar to the whole country, and well
understood among the nations of the old d
world. The day before he entered upon his
iuties of Secretary of State. in his place in
the Senate Chamber, and while Senators
rom other States were, without cause,
therefrom and leaving vacant
heir seats, and the dark and portentous .
clouds OF a cruel war were gathering thick /
around him, he boldly made known his Own
position in these patriotic words, - avOw
ny adherence . the Union, with my friends,
With my party, with my State, or without
hem, as they may determine; in every
went, OF peace or war, with every conse-
Iuence of honor or dishOnor, Of life or q
ieath.' How well and how faithfully ne
,ept his promise, and how nobly he bore
himself during the terrible trials and con- :
licts in which our country was then
ngaged-himself one of the selected victims
f assassination-the world full well knows,
md Americans will not soon forget
- He loved his land because it was his own, b
And sconed TO give aught other reason why" n
His labors as Secretary of State during the -,
Iar, were in many respects peculiar and u
in view the object of
reventing foreign nations coming to the a
id of the rebellious Southern Confederacy; II
nd notwithstanding much dissatisfaction ID
-as at one period expressed by prominent ;;
nhlirans ut tho eourse rursued nv him in u