Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-01-13
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rise, and gathering in the rivulsts
from either side it becomes our beautiful
stream.
Though Mr.. Morrilrs life was for many
years a public one, and his reputation ma
tional one, yet that life and that reputation.
in a measure, commenced in the town of
Resdtield sboat half century ago, the town
which have the honor to represent. 1t was
| in the town of Readfeld that Mr. Morrill,
married his wife, who now sits mourning by
the dead husband. Ii was in the town of
Readteld that Mr.. Morrill,. in connection with
the Hon. Timothy o. Howe, now Postmaster
General of the United States, occupied little
seven bv nine law office, commencing that
successful, brilliant and wonderful career
| which has just been terminated by death.
Readfeld has looked upon the career of her
esteemed adopted son with honorable pride.
In those early days Mr.. Morrill, was poor
hut ambitions young man. without the ad
| vantages of wealth or influential friends but
he won his way up through all the grades Of
office to the highest one within the gift of our
| own State, and to a seat in the councils Of
the nation and in the Cabinet at Wash
ington. Mr.. Morrill's education was.
| in large measure, selfeducation. Not
having advantages of schools other than our
common town schools and few years at the
Academy, he made the world of business HE
school and his associates in society his
| teachers, and drawing from them their
practicing refining and moulding influences,
| he became the self-reliant, atfable and gentle
manly man we have known. He was a self
made man in that degree in which say
that he rightly developed the native powers
with which God endowed him. He belong
ed to that class of noblemen to which Lincoln
and Garfield belonged, and others who have
shed uster On the history of our country,
| k,,-, ,taIt Il Ia hat
there are possibilities of manhood under a
republican civilization which can be found
no where else. In any other government
| than republic like ours the careers of such
men would be simply impossible. Those
men constitute the title of nobility of our
| land, an aristocracy not of wealth, not Of
birth, not of blood, but an aristocracy of
brains, higher and purer and nobler than all
| others.
| do not purpose to anayze the characters
ties of Mr.. Morrill,. but wish to say that his
| acknowledgment was not abnormal and one
sided in its growth,as we sometimes find it in
self-educated men, but it was of a symmetrical
and rounded proportion of character. The
various and diverse positions of
trust and responsibility. all of which
he so faithfully filled, show that he was
not only self-rellant man, a strong man,
but that there was a versatility in his char
/ aefa bv ,rb irh ba aI IN al nj
self to all these varied positions. But, sir,
he is dead. No. not dead. Such men do not
d;o uo I;vos No live. IN tho, cb.racter
| af s,.,i;na hnnastv .rd nroh;,, ora nre;nch.
;rc Ndoi;,, 20 HE m;ssian Iio i've. in ,h.
legacy of an honorable and an nnsta;ned
| ran,n uh;.h h. hoonao,hs 90 h. .or-ow;n,,
| family, legacy more precious than that of
gold or lands He lives in the example which
tho, .nccss. doc. no, coma for,n;,o,si,
hut az the resnlt of toll and unvear;ei
effort and industry In the language of our
,root noo, Who ba, bn, , tow waeLs nroc.dod
hin, 90 tho land of sboJow and "denort;ng bos
iaf, hoh;nd hin, footnr;n,, nn ,ha ssnds ~
TINA >,
| "Footprints which perhap. another
Sailing DER lifes solemn man.
some ioriorn OF sniP-wreckeo Dro'her
| rho raseIm,;ons go nan;,,orsIv .a,,,.,
| The char then announced 80 tho commit.
tee Messrs Heath of Augusia. Robin,on of
Readfeld I've. of Cast;na Ts,bot of Eas,
| Woch;as Coodnow of Cals;. nrow of For,
Eoir6oId UaII ~ pocLI.nd Snoaord of na.,
| IL Enor,, sc g. IL. nr I...;..o'
powers Of Ho,,l,on Haml;n of Ranger Mat'
tocks of Portland Houston of Reifa,t and
| Moore of Thomaston
| Tho chair than 1cIared tho uo,.o .d;orrr.
| al rn,;I Nordov rnorn;ru a, ~ o,,.oL
p.r,r'ars p,,,s a,n pnrs D..
rr.vvn
Rv Mr. Ieav;tt of Pb;,I;,. pe,;,;or or
Cbarla. " Eos,er and 5G o,bers a.L;no for
moro s,,;ncon, d;vorco Iaw rer.,rod % Oh.
Con,r,;.,oo ~ rna,, a.. '" "
a., NJ pod;cL nf Edan"p.,;,;o oerp
Pohe,,. or ole fnr a ,a,aar,nh ina f-or, ~,
| I.rhnr 90 EI.wnr,h ,nrar,.a 81 ~. c.,
m,tce on Ra;lroads and Telsor.nh f;ns.
Rv M Goodw;n Of g, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of lance N pr.dhnrv ., Al. Co. an sn, -,
omana ~. char,or ot ,ha Ws.,i.rS v;,Isao
Cnrno,a.;o,. rasax.ad % ,ha Cam,n,;,,na a,.
.aaI afiairs AIso n.,;,;nn of r u powsii
o, al. En- cot tho o.,;,ioner. and ,he;r s.,.,a.
off from Hartland Village Corporation. 70.
fe,red 20 tho Comm;,tee On Town.
Rv NJ white of Iew;.,onNpe,;,;on of A
In Savage and 600 others Of Iev;ston .sk.
inc for re.enactment of ton hour law With
suitable nrov;sion. for n. Enforcement. re-
ferred 10 ,be>Committee ON Legal Affai,.
Rv Mr. Ymng of Observation-Disclosures of
W. n. Taylor ct ale. for restoration of salary
Of register of probate of waldo county. re-
ferred TO the Committee on Legal Affairs.
Bv Mr.. Kimball of Betbel-Petition of r.
T Benock Of als. for an appropriation for
con.trnct;on Of bridge acro.s Magallaxsv
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