Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-29

Republican, forces, he was the central
llgurc of that body. In 1899 he laid
asiee ne cares. anSieties and honers
OF q polHicaf'lifc and returned to the
practice of law in the city of. New
k. BY his death oui. country has
lose one OF it's most eminent citizens
and statesmen. His distinguished SER
wees as representative and Speaker,
and attorney general in his native
STATE and as representative and
Speaker of the National House of Rep
reseatatiyes, iaresinseparably connect
ed with the history of his country. He
mas in all these positions, exhibited a
MlSsqin and patriotism which have
5e p &eEH and lasting impressioIf
U afeful -hearts@6f his scouil,
fls Character MAS formed
q utsseF by athe influence OF our
ia tielitfqns. y Ehat fhe physical.
ir1ea4Ql, and moral -fac,hsies Of Mr..
Reed irayeAep erier to those of most
men, cannot he questioned. They were
not cultivated, improved and directed
by any influence or circumstances
wholly outside of himself
The road to wealth, to honof. and to
fame was open to him only through
his own efforts; but he very soon made
9 deep and favorable impression upon
the people of his native State, and
upon the nation at large. His integri-
wand his public and private life were
absolutely spotless, his habits were
temperate and his life simple.
He loved his old Portland home and
his friends in that city above all else,
AT the bar and in his Legislative ser2
vices he manifested those high quail
tiles as public speaker, which have
secured for him so much popular APP
plause and admiration. His physical
and mental organization eminently
Qualified him 10 become a great and
impressive speaker.
These PERSONAL advantages won the
prepossessions of an audience. even
before his intellectual powers began to
move his hearers: and when his Strong
common sense, his profound reasor<
ing, his clear conceptions of his SUBJ
Ject ins'all it's bearings. and his saRik~
ing and beautiful illustrations, united
with such personal qualities were
brought to the discussion of any 1ues-
ZION, his audience was enraptured and
convinced. His voice is silent on
earth; fereyea. The darkness of death
has. obscured, the luster of his eye
But the memory Of. his services, not
only in the States of Maine, not, only
10 the United States, but for the, cause
of right and Progress throughout, the
world. will live through future ages,
as q bright example. stimulating. and
his own countrymen and
the, people of all nations in their pa-
tridic devotions to country and HUI
manity.
Your EXcellency and Gentlemen of
the Assembly The people for whom
speak can lay claim to none of the
peculiar relations existing between 9th
er communities represented on this
floor, and that leader ana master of
men who is gone.
There are those who shared his con-
fidence and who had his love, whose
hearts must bleed and break at every
word we utter here.
b There are those of his city and dis
triet. of the soil which gave him birth
and which has at last received back it's
Own.
There are those Of that great party
ia which, his life was in constant am
tagonisln, WIG in eloquent and chiy-
airops. words have through their rep
resentative testified to the spirit be-
hind this antagonism. In eloquent and
ciivuIrous words has this testimony
beer given. as we should expect from
those who even when stricken by his
blows recognized that they were adj
minis tered as a corrective for their
country's good.
If any of these relations be made the
test of the privilege of speaking here,
the voice of Sagadahoc should be ST
lent.
We were of his political household,
but or seat was not 3t his table. Not
even from the abundant surplus of our
endorsement of the principles of his
party which we never failed to give,
were we permitted to contribute to
the suffrage which maintained him in
that position his genius WAS so to eX-
alt. He was educated, it is true, in
the classic shades just beyond our
borders. and some of the chosen friends
of his youth were from our city. But
these We're ancient ties long since dis
solved. He had become to US, in the
vernacu,ar of the coast. as craft with
whose build we were once familiar,
but which had. since, leaving us, ac-
CURED such breadth of beam, and
draft of water. that ave could no long
err expect TO see her navigate in our
vicinity
Mr.. President, euioSy. euloGy of the
sort common to these occasions, leu-
logy without discrimination, seems out
of place here He would not have had
it, 1t was dista steful to the living. 1t
were scarcely less than disloyalty to
the dead.
Even this ceremony. so natural and
gratifying TO US. would not have been
Of his choosing. He believed that pub
lie servants We're trustees of the peo-
ple's time. and that these ceremonies
were wasteful of that time. He, used
to cite with appreciation, you will re-
member the instance of the death of
that other great Commoner, John
Bright, sand the action of the British
House of Commons. which. when he
died. decided it would best honor his
memory by proceeding with the. coun-
try's business.
Speaking. then, with the frankness
characteristic of the man, and which
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