The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-06
THE DEAD ANTHONY.
The Graceful Tributes Paid TO MI
Memory by senator Henderson, of
Nebraska.


pronounced; by Senator Henderson, in
toe United States senate, upon Senator
Henry Is. Antnony. of Rhode Island:
Mr. President, the eloquent tributes to the
noble man whose virtues we extol TO- day O.,
from those who have been his work
c:s in src senate from the eventful years
wh-p Henry 3. Anthony did his full duty
here, would seem to have so fully met the
dernan,is of reverence and affection that it
was no, needed that one who so lately
! came 10 full personal appreciation of his
uohl- qualities should be heard in words
OF cu,ogy. Yet l cannot resist the OPP
| porturlty offered Ice to speak of the high
esteem in which | held him during the
man, years when to me he was simply
on- Of the most prominent Of public men !,
and cf how much came to revere and
love him when it became my great privi-
ege to know him personally.
] can never forget the cordialty of the
welcome extended when | became his as
sociste in the public work to which he
had brought such high appreciation and
| advantageous effort; the encouraging
words and valuable aid given me by the
noble son of Rhode Island will ever
| remain in my memory as one of
| its most valued treasures. The mere
acquaintance of the latter part of the
Forty-seventh congress ripened into
SOMETHING stronger during the winter of
1855 81, and when, during the last sum
mer, it was my fortune to spend few
delightful days with him at Block Island,
in the state he loved so dearly. and when
! saw him surrounded by his neighbors,
relatives, and friends, an admiring ac-
r. III, fri
ship.
Coming to the United States senate in
1859, ard serving there for the next quar-
ter of a century, Gov. Anthony was an
active participant. if not leader, in the
most important legislative affairs during
those eventful years of the republic. He
took his seat at a time when partisan
spirit and sectional politics was at its
flood. During the dark and gloomy days
of the war of the rebellion he did
his full duty to the country he had sworn
to protect and serve. His voice was ever
raised for the cause of the right. He
could find no excuses for rebellion and
did not attempt to palliate treason. Too
gentle in nature to be fiercely denunci-
atory of the misguided and nisled men
who were engaged in that which he
deemed to be an unholy and inexcusable
crusade against the dearest and best in
terests of the republic and base attack
upon the rights of man, yet he had none
but words of condemnation for their
course and of strong support and hearty
help for the soldiers of the nation. Those
who wore the blue ever found in him a
friend.
The 3readful conflict over, his shaping
hand and controlling brain may be seen
w, hn nf
the important laws designed to cement
divided nation and bring again together
the warning states, that they might once
more dwell in unity and peace.
Twenty-Five years of intelligent, &C
tive, painstaking, appreciative perform
ance of bis arduous and perplexing du-
ties. How grand the record! There
was much during the time to perplex
and annoy, a great deal of nature cal
culatcd to change the patient, loving
spirit into one impatient and petulant,
but no colleague in the senate constitu-
eut in his State, or fellow-c citizen of
Henry B. Anthony ever found such
change.
The poet of the early English, grand
Godfrey Chaucer, says: ''He is gen.
tleman who does gentle deeds;' and the
life of our departed friend is so full of the
constant performance of such deeds that
he mas made himself of the true gentry
and issued his own patent of nobility.
He did not seem to tire of such we'll do
ing; the passing of the years and the
coming on of old age brought physical
change, but ''that good gray head which |
all men knew was ever the servant of |
the kind heart. He seemed to have fol- |
lowed the sound advice of the old philos-
H. III
cess the frigidity of old age by combin-
ing the body, the mind, and the heart,
keeping these in parallel vigor by exer-
else, study and love- ~
But do not propose any review of the
noble life that has gone or to comment
upon the valuable lessons that it teaches.
Others have done 1t far more probably
than l could hope to do. In one official
however, it seems fitting that |
should speak of the lamented dead. At
IN early period in his life Mr.. Anthony
editorial charge of the leading
newspaper of his native state and made
The Providence Journal a power for good.
Il was fitting recognition of his ultimate
of the printers craft that
the senate in December, 1859,
% place him upon the committee on
printing. He served continuously upon
his committee for nearly twenty-five
ears, and for twenty years of this period
le was its ,lert, attentive, accommodate
ny and efficient chairman. tsf
During the first year of Senator An
hony's service upon the committee, at a
ime when the political party with which
lie acted was in the minority, investiga-
ions were made of the contract system
nder which the printing and binding for
he government had been performed.
his investigation showed so many
buses, so much of favoritism and fraud,
hat the result was the purchase of y
rinting office, of small size and INSULT s
lent in its appointments. which grew
nth the country's needs and growth to {
IS present immense proportions. In the J
of this office, and in It's /
radual enlargement as the work done G
here has increased, Senator Anthony t
)ok a deep interest.
The busy hive, with its thousands of
ldustrious, intelligent employees, whose y
ctive brains and deft fingers furnish to y
le world the best public literature it has :,
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