Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-06-11
Hon. Daniel Kellogg.


No State in the Union of its size and
age has produced more marked men
than Vermont, Chittenden, Allen, Brad
ley, Collamer, Marsh are names familiar
to all readers of our political history.
Their influence is felt in Europe as well
as in this country. The men and women
who first settled this land of green hills
and living streams, were endowed with
brave souls and sturdy bodies. They
feared God more than man, or rather
they feared only God, and defended
their rights against the unjust agents of
royalty with stubborn courage, which
like Scotch bravery, has inspired poet
and novelist to record their deeds.
Many years ago there came into this
State young lawyer, whose traits of
character made him welcome tothese ear
ly settlers. Mr.. Kellogg graduated at
Williams College, and studied law with
the late Gen. Field. He was a hard
student, with habits of untiring indus
try and application, man of vigorous
health andpure morals Such an one was
bound to win in the race, but he attained
honor by no sudden breeze of good for
tune which sometimes watts even COM
mon-place man into fame, by no great
event, which like war forces man up
ward as the internal connections of the
earth form mountains, but young Kel
legg worked his way patiently, by hard
study, and with a courage that never
failed, till he became, after the death of
Mr.. Bradley, his falher-in-law, the ablest
lawyer in the State. We remember him
in tie prime of his life, large, stately,
handsome man. One felt instinctively
as they looked upon him, that there was
power in the massive head and noble
physique, and that if you trusted your
case to him, he would bring you through,
if right was ON your side. Judge Kel-
logg was good speaker, but he gained
his cause more by solid argument than
by impassioned eloquence. Calm and
logical in his nature he wrought upon a
jury more by the force of his powerful
reasoning than by any appeal to senti-
ment or feeling. He was honored by
the people Of his State and had he stood
politically upon the popular side, there
was no Office in their gift which would
not have been rendered to him. He was
an honest, fearless democrat of the old
school.
When secession threatened to divide
the Union it found in him stern I'M
compromising foe There was no Buchan-
anism in his composition, but, like the
great democratic chief, he would have
quelled the incipient rebellion had he
been in power, by meeting out stern and
merited justice to the traitors who dared
the first overt act Of treason. He was a
man of courtly manners, somewhat re-
served and reticent to strangers, and in
middle life, when absorbed in business,
some thought him stern and cold, but
like good fruit that is sound at the core
he softened as the autumn of life ap-
preached, and lived to ripe old age,
with no decay of mental power He
spent part of the last winter of his life
in Washington, the welcomed guest of
his daughter, Mrs. H. A. Willard, en-
joying the play upon the political stage,
but like one who had been behind the
scenes, and knew the falseness of much
of the pageantry. His home in Brattle-
boro, was made the centre of attraction
by his own presence, and that of his ac-
complished wife, whose loving care and
sympathy Of taste gave an added charm
to life in that beautiful village. Another
of the great and good men of Vermont
have passed away. His memory will be
held in honor, but some ADLER pen than
mine will l trust, write his eulogy.
A.E.P.
N FWBIJRYpORT Mass