The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-06
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very large space 10 the public eye.
For some years past the decline of his
physical powers had withdrawn him
from the public stage. This great
country, in whose service he had
long borne a conspicuous and in
fnential part, has been pursuing
its mighty course from one stage
of development to another, and
in the rush and whirl the man who
had sat in cabinets, who had borne his
couutry's commission in the adjudica-
ton of great. questions, who had sat in
its Senate as the representative of its
Empire State, and in the private affairs
and interests of its citizens had been
pre-eminent among advocates and coun-
sellers, had been immured in the seclu-
sion of enfeebled old age, forgotten by
the younger generations, a varied rem
iniscence of his surviving compeers.
In his day and generation Evarts was
not merely one of the great mental
forces of the country, but one of the
greatest, and, in some departments of
activity and effort, without peer.
Vermont has more than a casual in
terest in Mr.. Evarts. His father was
Jeremiah Evarts, Vermonter, man
of eminence in his time, philanthropy
list, and an original anti-slavery man.
The place to which the son turned as
his home from the stirring scenes and
arduous labors Of his life was Ver-
mont, at Windsor, where he had his
country seat, from whose broad acres
in the valley of the Connecticut he bore
the solace that Webster had from COM
muniOn with mother earth in Marsh
field. Around him were the country
homes of his children, and in Windsor
will be the final resting place of the
sage, attorney and statesman.
The senior Evarts was a graduate of
Yale, treasurer of the American Board
and founder of the Missionary Herald,
with his residence in Boston. In that
city the son was bora February 6, 1918.
From the Boston schools, from Yale
University, bore the chief honors of
scholarship, from Harvard law school
took his diploma in the law, and from
New York law firm his degree as
practicing attorney and counsellor
Mr.. Evarts was essentially literary
ia tastes and occupations, but he took
to politics as naturally as the duck to
its native element. So, while yet a
law student in the early for les, he found
relaxation in the exciting political cam
paigns of those times. In these side
excursions the young man showed that
he was the father of the older cam
paigner whose rallery and oratory
distinguished the times OF later gen =
Grafton.
Many budding citizen, in the days
when the North was preparing to Crap
pie with the problems human slavery
presented in the politics OF the coun-
try, was moved by Evarts' oratory and
drew inspiration from his speeches.
He was chairman of the New York del
egation ia the conven ioa that first
nominated Abraham Lincoln to the
presidency. He was the leading cham
pion of William II. Seward in that
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body, and nothing but the providence
of God could have overcome him.
His speech in New York, giving an ac-
count Of his stewardship at Chicago,
! on his return from the convention,
glowed with loyalty to the principles
for which he was contending, and bore
no suggestion OF a clansman's resent
ment because the rail-splitter of Hi
nois had been preferred to his great
chief. His relations with Mr.. Lincoln,
whom he came to know in Washington
and to admire, were of the most friend
ly and cordial kind.
| In the stormy times that followed
President Lincoln's assassination, Mr..
Evarts was.a presiding genius. He