Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-07

of the donors to deliver this portrait to your
Excellencv As the honored representative of
the State.
As. Mr. Bradbury closed. Gov Frederick
Robe stepped forward and responded in a
finished and appropriate manner.
Gov. Frederick Robes Response.
In behalf and in the name of the State of
Maine, l have the honor and pleasure TO &C
cept this fine portrait of the late Hon. Lot NJ
Morrill,, to be placed in its Capitol for all
future time. The thanks of our citizens are
due you, Senator Bradbury and your associ-
ates, who have conceived this noble idea for
thus perpetuating the memory of one of
Names most distinguished and honored sons
This gift of yours is a fitting tribute and
represents the high esteem in which his men,
DRY is justly cherished The appropriate
eulogy, which has just been pronounced, falls
upon grateful ears. We all remember Gov
Morrill, as a cultured citizen and true friend.
As Patriot be was devoted to the best in
terests of his country. As Chief Magistrate
over our State, Statesman in our National
Senate and financial adviser in the Cabinet
of President Grant. he was learned and sa-
gacious. and through series of memorable
wears built up and maintained the dignity and
power of constitutional law, morality, educa-
ton, temperance, and the material elements
of prosperous State and Nation. He de-
Tended and supported the integrity of the Re-
public through the darkest davs OF lis history.
Although too young to participate in the early
formation of our State Government, he was
well acquainted and afterwards intimately
associated with many of the distinguished
statesmen and jurists. who took part in the
first constitutional convention of the State of
Maine piflTaps W hn aftprwayd hnpnra1
by the State. and added to lis importance in
its executive, legislative and Judicial depart
ments. The lessons and experiences which
he received in early life from such sources
gave him the opportunity of becoming pro-
ticient in the science and necessities of
Government, and afterwards a teacher and
advocate of those requirements so essential
to the successful development of a State.
He was the champion of freedom against
every form of opposition, and a true friend
to all moral reforms. His many official acts
and recommendations, written upon the pages
Of the history of our State AMI Nation, are
memorials of his fidelity and loyalty. The
people of the State of Maine will never for
get his virtues, and what he has done for
them; and future generations look upon
his noble features so faithfully delineated
upon canvass, and read his biography, they
faithful" and worthy of lasting remembrance
for his high principles and noble purposes.
80 who shall lightly say that fame
Is nothing but an empty name,
Whilst in that sound there is o charm,
The nerve 10 brace. the heart 10 warm;
As, thinking of the mighty dead,
The young from thoughtful couch will start
And vow, with lifted hands outspread,
Like them to act Il noble part
who shall lightly say that fame
Is nothing but an empty name.
When but for those our mighty dead,
All ages past IA blank would be,
sunk in oblivion's murky bed,
desert bare, shipless sea
They are the distant objects
The lofty marks of what have been"
Again thank you for this beautiful work
of art, and may the citizens of the State o4
Maine follow this example which YOU have so
generously set, showing thereby that appro-
pirate and lasting memorial honors are but a
just recognition of the valuable services of
our distinguished Statesmen, and add TO the
dignity ard reputation of the State.