The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-28

ment. There is nothing in nature more
! curious and instructive than the
change for the better which SO fire.
| quently comes from transplanting. AS
| in the natural world, so in the mental
and morald world, and there is nothing
| more curious or marked in human civ
ilization than the change which has
| come to men in consequence of their
| migration. The impulse to seek a new
home in what is hoped to be a better
| country, has altered the map of the
| world, and done much to perfect the
civilization of mankind.
At this hour the senate, in which all
| the states are represented, joins with
Kansas in paying its tribute of admir-
| alton and respect to the most promi-
| nent and illustrious citizen of that
state. now alas departed, whose statue
is henceforth to occupy a pedestal in
our national Statuary Hall.
A New England boy. of Puritan an
cestry, nurtured by a New England
| mother in a New England home, grad
| uated at New England college. adj
| mitted to practice as a New England
| lawyer, turned in his youth to what
was then the far West, to take on new
growth, acquire ii new power and
| strength, to become foremost In the
building of a new state, to be honored
while yet in his early manhood as its
| representative in the Senate of the
United States, there for eighteen years
to make his mark on the policies and
| destinies of the republio-this in a
word is the condensed life history Of
ex-senator John ]. ingalls,. ~
It is the old story over again. Per-
haps there is no better illustration in
all our history of the growth in power
and influence of man in consequence
Of his migration from the settled habits
and institutions of the East to the new
and undeveloDed regions of the West.
| Had the boy Ingalls, remained in Mas
sachusetts he would probably never
have been a representative Of that
state either in the Senate OIL The House
His whole life work ,would}haSe been
| along different lines, and though ne
could never have been inSonspicuous,
he would doubtless never have left a
lasting impression upon the history
of our country. He gave no early
/ promise of particular interest in public
| affairs; no Indication that statecraft
| would be with him a favorite pur-
suit in his boyhood and young man
| hood his tastes were scholarly and
| literary. .s"&
| Remaining In New England he would
unquestionably have been distinguished
as an author. a poet, a critic. an his
| torian, rather than ais an eminent law
| yer or statesman. Once settled in
Kansas, however the gateway Of pre-
| ferment swung wide open to him. New
/ thoughts, purposes, hopes and as
| pirations took possession of him. His
| choice was well made. Territorial
| Kansas had been born in agony and
4 baptised in blood. Within its borders
| the first great battle between human
slavery and freedom had been fought
was indeed still in progress. 1t end
ed only at Appomattox, Ingalls, had
| in him not only the Puritan spirit of
/ liberty, but the ancestral warlike spirit
| of the Northmen. He was of the lien
/ age of Thor. He had been taught to
! love freedom. He was ready to do bat
/ tie for it. The bloody conflict in Kan
/ sas was over, but the peaceful, though
| no less acute, struggle was still on A
state which for a while seemed doomed
| to slavery was to be builded on the
foundation of freedom.
Making his home in Kansas in 1858,
| we find ingalls, the next year member
| of the Wyandotte convention, in which
| was framed the constitution upon which
Kansas was to be admitted into the
| Union as fere state, and although
practically a stranger in the growing
l territory we find his worth and infiu-
ence already recognized insonuch that
/ the new constitution was largely the
4 pen. Kansas, free and fearless, be-
| came the object of his intense love
| and devotion. Looking at his record
/ his part in constitution making and
| state building, these HE earlier years
| seem to me the most significant. He
| became noted SENATOR and as such
acquired a"great reputation, but doubt
/ if in all his after life he ever rendered
/ more valuable service to his state than
| when he helped to construct and so
| largely nodded it's original constitution.
which, like that of the republic fol-
| lowed, and was the elimination of an
intense, weary, and bloody struggle for
liberty, and, like our National Consti!
| tuition, was ordained to secure the bles-
sings of liberty to the people of Kan
| sas. The painter, found his higher and
| nobler work in state building. ingalls,
| was by nature genius. The neces-
stiles and opportunities of his new life
| made him a practical statesman.
| I first saw him when came to the
Senate in 1879. He had then been six
years Senator, and his name and
fame had already filed the country.
| 1t was an able Senate. 1t comprised
| many senators Of great learning, abil-
ity, and influence but think I make
| no invidious comparison when I say
that its three most conspicuous men,
bers, senators most in the public eye,
were Conkling, Blaine, and Ingalls,,
each unique and forceful personality,
| and oe these three, ingalls, was by no
means the least conspicuous or distin-
| guished. Visitors to the Senate gallery
wished to have first pointed out 40