Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-28
REMARKS BY MIR. 1NGERsoL1.

MT. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
 The beautiful tribute which Governor Hubbard has paid to the memory of our friend is exhaustive that nothing need be added on the present oeca- sion.
 will detain you but a few moments and if what I say takes more or less of personal turn you must excuse it when you consider that the stream of time washed for more than thirty years the shores Seymour and travelled together. He VI as my best friend and my child who bears his name, is his god child.
 Standing near his grave, and under the shadow of the granite shaft which has been this day unveiled in the presence of thousands of his admirers the old memories" of youth and middle age come thronging back to if to drown the utterance of thoughts on the public of the citizen whose character was without blot, and whose patriotism had no self ishness
 My friendship with him began when youth, pur- suing my studies in what is now Trinity college I chanced one evening, during a stroll through this city, to look in upon political gathering assembled to listen to the eloquence of Harry seymour, as he was then familiarly called. can never forget the speaker as he then appeared to my youthful eyes, his speech which won my young enthusiasm. At tractive in person, with voice melodious with ges- ture yet full of grace with language fautless and argument forcbe, he rivetted the attention of his hearers, and, with peroration well remember, he took his seat amid cheers repeated, which filled, from floor to ceiling, Belden Hall An irresistible impulse brought to his side; he took me by the hand and the acquaintance thus made grew into an abiding friendship and affection. Iheard him often after ts in assemblages of his fellow citizens and il the Poemic the then debating society Hartford where he always found willing and attentive 1sten-
 seymour was the same eloquent writer that he was speaker I have his letters begirning in the year 1886, and coming down to the time of his death precious legacies- silver and gold. In them read, if written with sunbeam, the political history of the State and country the standpoint of an ardent lover of both his estimate of public characters and measures, as they came under his notce his own inner history with it's sunshine and shade his views of the life here and t'beyond Arcturus and his sons and wish you remember that in of these hundreds of letters there word employed or thought suggested which to read would offend the delicacy of refined woman, the senEitiveness of valued friend, which incon- sistent with the noble heart promptings of patriot soldier statesman and Christian gentleman, all of which, combined, Thomas Henry Seymour was lin thought, word and deed"
 have been requested to speak of Seymour the sol dier. You probably familiar with his military career us your speaker because it is part of the written history of the State and the country for the honor of whose flag he perilled his preciouslife. first remember him in the Light Guard of Hartford. There may be those within the sound of my voice who recall the enthusiasm which, as it's captain, he infused into the frank and file" of that hgh-spirited corps see him tin the minds eye" now-his 1.-the, erect. sym metrical figure in tightly fitting blue coth military fatigue roundabout. with white pantaloons and him are Ward, Emerson, Colton, Roberts, Gray and others his troop of military friends; he is drill ing fthe boys" in the manual and field practice the then vacant lot adjoining the old City Hall and Market place-again, off for target shoot and again. out in full uniform to inaugurate the unfold ing of the first banner-a field of blue and the motto in gold,