, 1890-07-23

The following eloquent tribute to MI.
Corlett is from the pen OF Gen. John
Charles Thompson:
Corlctt is dead. The Angel of Death
has chosen to still the heart, in most uni
versal touch ard toue with our people,
and to shock all within our borders. Wyo-
ming, in the dawn of her statehood. has
lost the counsel of her ablest mind, the
support Of her strongest arm, the loyal
love of a great soul, which thought and
felt and moved on lines above party and
in an atmosphere of patriotism.
P~re-eminent among her lawyers-fore-
most Of her statesmen-frst in the affec-
tons of her people-alasl deaths
gloomy night" has closed upon his bril-
liast, useful and honorable career Just as
it wa. reaching '1ife's glorious noon"
1t is appalling to realize the loss of a
man 81 equipped public servant SO
rich in mi I and heart, and ripe with ex-
%rience. from the counsels of a new state.
To see a full orbed luminary obseured.
when the cry of an infant commonwealth
is for light, is no ordinary calamity.
The heritage of bis devotion to certain
great ideas and principles is ours; but
they will not be illuminated by his genius,
nor vitalized by his spirit
Mr.. Corlett has been for two decades,
fscile princeps, among all the choice spir-
its, whose intellect, whose culture, and
whose character have adorned the society,
the bar, and the politics of a great terri
tory, whose GROWING glory is that she en-
ters the sisterhood of states with less Hit
eracy than the oldest and proudest mem
Der Of the union, founded by either the
Puritans of New England or the Caval-
iers Of the South.
he hlled the full measure of his
opportunities as a lawyer, a states
man and a citizen of the territory,
and what would have been his proportions
as a senator of the state of Wyoming in
the congress of the United States, may
be gagged lin the light of a measureless
opportunity, by projecting on a national
scale his shadow, as it lies athwart the
hearts and history of Wyoming.
The length of his mental perspective,
the clearness of his vision, the grasp OF
his intellect, the honesty of his purpose,
measuring and sauaring all questions BY
broad principles and not narrow policies,
would have stamped him as truly great. -
With such a senator Wyoming would
have been accorded that position, as a
state, which will be determined by the es-
innate made of the calibre and character
OF the men and women she accredits to
the councils of the nation.
The moral heroism of w. w. Corlett
(along lines of duty made his life earnest,
practical, beneficial. while living, and in
valuable as az example-it perpetuated
his self possession, that infallible test
Of greatness, the calmness. the patience,
the sweetness of his spirit to the.end-
which, departing. lett its tenement OF
| clay as placid as if he had but passed into
a dreamless sleep.
Of this departed it may be said that
be saw clearly, and decisively followed his
best light. He is to be judged by the
testimony of a brave. generous, noble
life, and not by a dying declaration Of
sudden belief. Actions and deeds were his
soucbstone; the golden rule his practical
gospel, and if by your fruits yo are to be
known and judged, then our friend lived
and died a Christian.
He believed that he who lives a life OF
love and charity for the brotherhood Of
man will be eushrined In the love and
mercy of the fatherhood OF God.