St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-31

Produce No Barren Copies
of the great men of other lands; but she
sends forth new creations with the
flavor of the fresh soil in their souls,
and the free life of new conditions upon
their lips. She gave us Lincoln, the
backwoodsman, the quaint, modest,
towering, tremendous figure fit to
stand beside KSop and Socrates, Henry
OF Navarro and William the Silent in
the gallery of the worlds immortals.
And even as she eXpels the lava flood
from her bosom, so she sent forth this
strikingly picturesque, combative, dar-
ing, soaring aud immensely energetic
figure whose laws we deplore today, and
for whom there is no precise parallel i'll
the history Of mankind. He was pre-
eminently an American of the Ameri-
cans; he had our weaknesses; he had
our greatness. We loved him because
He Was Like Ourselves.
He was as composite in his compost
| ton as our population. lie was the
| happy accident of many comingling
strength of the Goth with the fire OF the
South. The Mediterranean and the
! Baltic were welded in his mental con-
stitution. From the former he derived
| passion, Vehemence, intuitiOn-the
genius of emotion. From the latter he
inherited hardihood. persistence, power
the genius of action. In him the blood
| CT one poor, oppressed, handicapped, per-
secuted, subjugated people, released
from its chains, and given continent
! for its arena and liberty for its insplra-
ton. assembled on luminous wings to
tranScendent heights and fixed the ad-
| miratl0n Of mankind,
AS he grew older certain hereditary
traits Of melancholy and extreme sensl-
| tiyeness came to the surface of his
mind, and lost something Of the force
full directness of his earlier days. From
the
Heights Of Achieved Success
he began to drop the plummet of his
! thoughts into the profound depths OF
| the unknown world, and in the pres
ence of the InScrutible he recognized
| the littleness OF all human endeavor.
His life was fortunate and unfortu-
nate The gloom of disappointment
| sLrouded the brightness Of his career,
and domestic sorrow darkened his de-
Ginning years. 4 native OF PennSyl-
vania, he was an alien IN the state OF
| Maine: and she enthroned him in her
! heart, seating HIM amid its tenderest
chords. All honor to that noble North
ern commonwealth whose love for the
great child OF her adoption never tal-
tered, even through terrible trials. AS
the clouds Garkened and the bolts of
attraction crashed through the black
eped heavens she drew him closer and
closer within the grasp OF her shelter
ing arms. Even money,
The Universal HrOng-Doer,
could not buy her to desert or betray
him. She never permitted shallow gold
EN- incompetence to trample MN IN the
mire under their brazen hoofs. There
was something of climatic influences III
| this, and even more of race characterls-
tics and ancestral training in such
| strong, persistent, mistaken devotion.
She worshiped the possibilities OF nat
ure in the genius of her gifted son, ana
she would not prove false to her high
ideal. All honor to her, and size shall
have her reward. AS Kentucky
can never be mentioned without Sug-
gesting a name of a gallant and
chivalric Clay; as Massachusetts
brings before us the vivid image
of the god-hkc Webster, as South Caro-
lima recalls the memory of Calhoun, and
Missouri the career of Benton, so here
after Maine will be forever identified
and glorified by her fidelity to James &.
Blame. His life work is done. The
Power that made him and sent him has
recalled him. Every man does some
thing, however minute, in building up
the fabric Of his age.
Elaine Haas Left Behind
him one great Influence. He knitted
together more closely the republics OF
thesAmerican continent so that they
might the better resist the aggresSionS
of their transatlantic rivals. He
broadened the meaning Of the word
American" and he pointed the way TO
that day, near, l trust, IN the future
when inequalities of condition being
removed by the progress OF civilization
and grievouS poverty swept away from
the face of the world. universal freedom
of commercial intercourse may prevail
among all the populations Of the globe.
Happy is the man who can assist man
kind. This is crown of greatness.
greater than the presidency, and this
will hang suspended for centuries like
a circlet of stars over the grave of James
q. Blaine.
Stevens, Graceful Tribute.
When the great applause which greet
ed Donnelly's final words had subsidized,
| CGudlOI
tribute to the dead statesman, as fol
lows:
Nature forms human character as she
builds physical continents. Above the
plains and foothills she rearS majestic
peaks, " hose SUBMITS are gilded by the
earliest and the latest sunbeams. SO
she has supplied the face of history
with men whose characters tower above
their associates and their times. Their
life work is so largely identified with
the progress of the aye i'll which they
live that TO write their biography is to
epitomiZe its record.
Such was he whose memory we meet
to honor, and such he will appear to the
latest posterity. 1t is the provocative
of those who have known him long and
intimately to speak of him in that re-
spect. and we'll and eloQuentlY has that
duty been performed. But there was
another relation III which he was known
to millions of his countrymen as no
other man of this OF any former age.
He was
Pre-eIninently an American.
The honor, glory and dignity Of his
country were his foremost desires. To
establish her supremacy, within her
proper sphere, was his absorbing
thought Internally a democracy, he
would have seen her so imperial i'll her
foreign relations that the sun should
not illumine a spot where the rights OF
her humbleSt citizens were not as Sc
cure as in her capital. The farmer,
standing amid the golden shelves, the
lumberman in the primeval forest, the
miner in the bowels OF the earth, the
mechanic in the shop and the mariner
on the remotest sea, alike with the
merchant prince, recognized in him a
constant guardian and advocate of every
national and private right. The faint,
far cry of the down-trodden and OPP
pressed reached his ear and touched
his heart. He had his faults, but cant
and hypocrisy were not among them.
His personal magnetism was unpar-
alleled. His leadership was inspiring
and enduring. In his political rela-
tons lie
Was the Central Figure
of the generation. Much he was hon
ored by the confidence of his associates,
| II in Thlra