Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-03
GEN. N. P. BANKS DEAD.
The Distinguished Soldier Passes Away .! His
Home al WaItham.

WALTHAM, Mass, Sept 2.-The city OF
Of the death Of her favorlte and honored
non, General Nathaniel P. Banks. The
end came peacefully at o'clock Saturday
morning with the members Of his family
Mt his bedside, they having been sum-
moned hastily Friday evening.
About six weeks ago the general health
Of the deceased, which had been falling for
two years, was noticed to materially
change for the worse. 1t was in the hope
to arrest rather than the expectation Of
preventing this rapid change that his
friends accompanied him to Deer Isle, Me.
A brief period there showed that tho
hoped for relief would not come, and two
weeks ago he was brought to the Mclean
asylum in SomerviIlc, from which place
he was Friday evening removed to his
home In an ambulance.
DIR. Il. G.. Cutler was summoned and at
once pronounced the end near at hand. Ho
remained with him until his death.
The general did not recover conscious
ness and passed away without word to
his family. Brain trouble, from which he
has been n sufferer for two years, was tho
cause Of his death.
The generals funeral viii take place on
next Tuesday afternoon, under the direc-
ton of Mayor Warden and Colonel
Ephraim Stevens. On Monday afternoon
the body will be escorted to Asbury
Temple by detail of the Grand Army,
where it will lie in state until Monday
evening. On Tuesday afternoon mt 1:45
brief services will be held at the residence,
after which the body will be again borne
to Asbury Temple, where the public serv-
ices will be held
The 'bobbin boy" the young machinist
and village orator, the lawyer and editor,
the soldier and statesman, often cxtrava'
gantly culogizcd and quite as often cruelty
misjudged, has gone before that bar where
conduct and motives are weighed in their
true relation and eternal wisdom adjusts
the balance
A remarkable career indeed was his. A
statesman at two widely separated eras
and a soldier between them, he twice went
into almost absolute retirement, and twice
emerged thercfrom to figure in exciting
congressional debates, and, finally, when
most Americans had come to think of him
as historical character only, he aston
ishcd a generation which had not known
him by appearing for third time in con-
gross to contend with the sons and ncph-
ows of many with whom he had contendod
In his prime. In the Fifty first congress,
however as in the Thirty third-his last
and his flrst--hc was Il spectator rather
than an actor and by fortune AS rare as
it Is curious he declined or rather subsidized
out of public prominence even more grad
ually than he had attained to it,
In Physical Personality
no American III public life was ever better
equipped. AS he stood in the speaker
desk of the house of representatives he
looked the beau ideal of a statesman. AS
he sat on his horse before an army corps
he looked the very beau ideal of general.
Even In the way he mounted n horse there
was something that pleased the fancy OF
soldiers. A life size portrait of him rs
speaker would attract attention in every
gallery Of the world and men of all ma
tions would pause and pointing say
"Thcrc is statesman" His statue In
Westminster abbey would rank with those
of the Pitts and Cannings. Equally d
statue of Banks, the general, would be
classed with that of lie Beau Sabreur.