Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1889-09-19
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HIat the Editor Of the Sas Fraacisco AUa
Has 10 say about the Dead Con-

their coming greatness, as became
statesman born on a frontier, the son
of pioneers. The next Congress will
lack much, lacking him.
He was singular amongst our pub
lie men in his record of service in Con-
gress from Ohio longer than the aver
age granted to Representatives, and
its supplement by far longer service
from the State of New York. We
believe that he and General Vande, er
Of the Sixth California District were
the only members of the last House,
and the only reelected to tie next,
who had record of service in that
body from two States. General Van
dever served four years from iowa,
leaTing his seat to enter the army.
Mr. Cox was of good Revolutionary
stock on the paternal side, and his ma
ternal grandfather was State builder
who penetrated the Ohio wilderness
close upon the heels of, Chucka Jack,
at time when men farmed on the
Scioto bottoms with fiintlock rifles.
No son of Ohio has made her name
more illustrous than this scion of her
pioneers.
His talents were versatile. He
shone with attractive qualities as law
yer, journalist, author and Statesman.
We use the last word with canton and
adyisedly. 1t is often mis-used by
to men who are politicians
only, astute party managers, who in
trigue themselves to front seats in the
focus of public attention, but who are
ignorant of the principles which cement
governments. A list of American
statesmen does not weary by its length.
A catalogue of those who have been
called statesmen is as formidable as
the directory of a western city prepar-
ing for Federal census.
During the war Mr. Cox supported
all efforts to maintain the Union, and
did not make the mistake of substi
tuting prejudice for patriotism. He
held, with Mr.. Tilden, that the Gov
ernnent had the means of self-preser-
vation and must use them, and when
the war ended he stood with many who
had battled for the Union in the
d sclaration that, the Union being re-
stored, the rights ef man AMI cis.I
liberty were not, therefore, weaker
than before.
His speeches upon commerce, en-
richetl by travel and observation IN
every zom, are csclopedic in their in
formation and suggestion All the
writers tftp6n-tite scf-fteeoff u eailn cum.
bined ,lid not excel hin in a sIirewd in
sight into the philosophy of commerce.
So great were his services in this re.
spect that New York city, by the voice
of her great merchants, continually de
manded his presence IN Congress as the
and seer Of the interests
they had in hand. When Mr. Cleve-
land appointed hir. Minister to Turkey
there came to him in Washington the
sharp ami cage; protest Of those mer-
chants against his acceptance Of post
which separated him and them. But
he required, as he thought, change.
Men born in 1924 ire no IongeD young.
Jefferson and the elder .Nddms we're
alive then, and Monroe w9s closing
his octave in the Presidency when this
Cong to be from two States
first saw the sun rise.
He took his vacation on the Golden
Horn, reyelled IN the mass of literary
material unused which he found in the
East; but he said to the writer on his
return, ''rhe music of the Golden Horn
was not as musical to me as the crudest
notes of the greenest horn ia Congress. >
He longed for the old associations, foi
the hard work of the committee room,
AMI the cut and thrust of the floor,
and to these he returned with all the
zest of boy at home for a college va.
cation. g
With enlarged views he considered
and bettered the methods of the postal
service, and proposed measures which
increased the efficiency of the coast
lite.saving service, which he established
in the beginning He fathered the
measure to admit the four new States,
and his last journey was to traverse
them and make study of thair peo.
pie and products and resources. From
this tour he returned convinced that
the remaining Territories should be ad
mitted and put in charge of their own
fortunes, to work out their individual
destlnies. Death came to him merci.
fully, not at the end of long langaish.
ing and great pain, but with the quick
ness of comwand uttered to one fit to
obey. Sunset found him ready for the
greater dawn that is for the eve of the
spirit only. But in every State IN the
Union for his fame was common to
them aIl-there seems to have fallen a
shadow. The most genial chords OF
the har, that sounds foT the inner
hearing seem to beunstrung and silent,
and the hand that could draw their
tense music will wake their harmony
no more.
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