New-York tribune., 1874-06-25
THE EULOGY.

OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE When. not many
weeks since, the Committee OF your Association
did me the honor to invite me to present in
an address to the assembled graduates OF the
College, a commemoratiOn of the life, the iaDors'
and the fame of the very eminent and greatly non
ored scholar of your discipline, lawyer orator SEN
ator, Minister Magistrate, whom living wnole ma
ton admired and reyered, whom dead whole ma
tion amente, felt that neither just sense OF pub
lie duty nor the obligations of personal affection
would permit me to decline the task. Yielding, per-
baps too readily to the persuasons OF your commit
tee that close professional and public as
socation with the in the later years OF
his lfe and the intimate enjoyment OF his personal
friendship might excuse my want oil that b'nains
tie Of fellowship in a commemorauon In which tne
venerated College does dutiful honor to son, and
the assembled Alumni crown with their affection
the memory Of brother, dismissed also, upon TIC
same persuasion, all anxious soeitudes which other
wise would have oppressed me, lest importunate and
inextricable preOccupations of time and mlnd shoud
disable me from presenting as considerable and az
considerate survey of the eminent character and
celebrated career of Mr.. Chase as should compors
with them OF satisfy the just exigences OF the occa-
sion.
THE TORCH HE KINDLED WILL CONTINUE BURNING
The commemoraton which brings US together has
about it nothing funerea in sentiment or ooserV'
ance to darken our minds or sadden our hearts To-
day. The solemn rites of sepulture, the soDbngs Oh
sorrowing affection, the homage OF public grei' the
concourse of the great officers of State. the assem-
blage of venerable judges, the professions OF toe
bar of the clergy, Of liberal and learned men, the
attendant crowds of citizens OF every Social Ians
and station, both in the great city where he aied
and at the National Capital have already graeed MS
burial with all imaginable dignity and unmeasnred
rr.
no part of our duty to-day Nor Is the maternity OF
nurture which the college gives to those 1t calls ir
sons bestowed as il is upon their mind and cbarac-
ter affected by the death of the body as is the heai
of the natural mother; are you, his brethren I'D
this foster care of the spirit bound with the same
sense of bereavement as are natural Kindred Inc
flial and fraterna relation which he bore 10 you
the college and the alumni, is hardly broken ny ns
DEATH nor is he hidden from you by his burial H''
completed natural life Is but the assurance ana per
| petuation Of the power. the fame, the examp'e
which the discipline and culture here bestowed had
for their object, and IN which they find their con-
timing and eyer-increasing glory. The energy here
engepdered has not ceased it's benetcent activity,
the torch here lighted still diuses its illumination,
and the fires here kindled still radate their heat.
Not less certain is it that the spirit OF this COM
memoration imposes no task OF vindlcation OF de-
fepse and tolerates tone Of aduatlon or applause
The tenor of this life, the manifestation OF this
character was open and public before the eyes OK AL
men, upon an eminent stage Of action, displayed
constantly in the high places OF the world NO
faculty that Mr.. Chase possessed no preparation OK
mind or Of spirit for great undertakings or for not
able achievements, ever failed OF exercise OF exho
ton for want of opportunity, or being exercised OF
exhibited. missed commensurate recognition or re-
.ponsiye plaudits from his countrymen. HIS career
shows no step backwards; the places he hlled were
all of the hiQhest the services he rendered we're the
most difficult as well as the most eminent AZ, as
the preacher proclaims, time and chance hsppcnetn
70 all the times in which Mr. Chase lived permitted
the widest scope 10 great abilities and the nobese
forms of public service and the fortunes OF MS ZIG
show the felicity of the occasions which petei MN
In draw out these abilities and to receive these sev
ices Not less complete was the round OF Puone
houors which crowned his public labors, ana we
have no occasion here to lament any shortconss"i
prosperity or favor or repeat the authentic Iudg-
r,ent which the voices of his countrymen have pro-
uounced upon his fame.
THE MAN AND HIS NATURE.
The simple office then, which seems to me marked
ont for one who assumes this deputed service in the
name of the College and for the friends OF good
learning is in so far the just limits OF time and
circumstance will permit. to expose the main Tea
lures of this celebrated life, to decpber the man
and his nature" to connect the true elements OF his
character and the molding force OF his education
with the work he did, with the influence he welded
in life with the power Of the example which lives
after him. and always to have in view, as the most
fuful uses Of the hour his reatonsto to the men aud
events of his own times and not less his true place
IN h;storv among the lawyers, orators. statesmen
maoistrates of the land Vers mon r1od is our maxim
to-day-truth not words, must mark the tribute
the College pays to the sober dignity and solid worth
of It's distinguished son.
Born of lineage which, on the fathers side' dates
its American descent from the Puritan migration OF
1870 and ON the mothers finds her the first OF that
stock native to this country the son of these parents
took no contrariety Of traits from the unien OF the
blood Of the English Puftans and the Scotch Cove
nanters, but rather harmonious combination OF tho
characteristics Of both. These, sturdy enough In
either, combined 10 this descendant to produce as
INDEPENDENT and resolute nature for the conflicts
and labors Of his day as any experience OF tnai or
triumph of prescription persecution suffered or
resisted, had required or supplied in the long MS
tory Of the contests Of these two copgenal races
with iuiss and potentates with princ,palities and
mowers, Nothing could be less consCnant with .
mat esmate Of the strong traits Of this lineage than
which neither Hebrew nor Grecian, nor Roman nur-
ture has wrought for its heroes either frmer fiber
ar noblr virtue than to ascribe its chief power to
enthusiasm or fapatcism. Plain, sober, practical
men and women as they were, there was no hard
detail of life that they were not equal to,
no natient and cheeress sacrifice they could not
dure no ycisstude Of adverse prosperous fortune
which they could not meet with unchecked serenity.
II IL be enthusiasm that in them the fear Of God
had cast out the fear Of man. fanatcim that they
nlaced things that are spiritually dscernedv above