The Calumet news., 1914-04-20
STATUE OF MICHIGAk'S CIVIL
WAR SENATOR IS UNVEILED

Continued From First Pace.
and then grinds out some regulations,
| few of which survive: but Chandler
stands out against the back ground
| If years as one of group of men of
| 4 critical time uncompromisingly de-
| voted To the Union and To freedom
Lincoln Leader in Michigan.
Mr. Hamilton portrayed Chandler's
| Puritan strain, his entry into business
| - "A tall gaunt awkard wiry, plain.
! enerec.Ic man. of his rise in business
and politics. of his intense hatred of
slavery. without an ounce of comprom-
ise." of his leading the iisht for Lin
| coin in Michigan in 1860 and Of his
part in many historic occasions.
Statues, he said, are milestones
| which tell us how far and i'm what di-
rection we have travelled"
In sharp. brief sentences, Mr. Ham
ilton pictured to the gathering attend
ing the dedicatons these attributes of
the war senator:
chandler was a member of the
| committee on the conduct of the war
and was one of Lincoln's friends and
advisers when he was carrying the
Constitution through the wilderness #
fear" without precedent or parellel TO
govern or direct him.
When the whirlwind of passion
were turned loose and the clouds that
lowered over the Republic we're red
with the flame of war he never thought
of compromise.
Compromise has no place i'm his
temperament. He never admitted the
| possibility of defeat lie denounced
every suggestion of peace except the
peace of an undivided nation swept
clean of slavery.
He visited the sick and the wound
ed in the hospitals, and no soldier in
trouble ever applied To him i'm vain.
chandler was at the meridian Of
his mental power when Lincoln died
and the war ended. He lived fourteen
years after that in the constant serv-
ice of his country.
Things He Helped To Do
tion acts. He voted guilty on the
impeac hment of Johnson.
He believed in protection to AM
erican labor and American industry
and voted for the Morrill, tariff i'm
1861.
He believed in the dignity of labor
and defended it,
He stood for sound mon p and ma
tional honesty ana cor lored the
public debt sacred obligation.
He voted to redeem our pJper mon
ey and pay our bonds in gold.
He voted for the resumption Of
specie payments against a powerful
public sentiment for imitation saying"
We need one thing besides more mon
ey, and that is better money"
He was defeated i'm 1873. succeeded
by Christiancy and appointed secre-
tary Of the Interior
The Interior Department had fallen
into disrepute as shaltering fraud,
corruption. and incompetency. Chand-
Ter brought To bear the resources Of a
trained business experience and clean
ii out.
Mature keeps books and makes her
marks on human faces. Chandler's
face was a face Of resolution.
He was a leader of men. He was
without cant and without hypocrisy.
He had no patience with the cheap
and sterile kind of politics which is
willing To ignore the truth to gain po-
litical advantage.
He went to the point with equivo-
cation.
of casuistry.
"As an orator he was plain. direct
blunt. powerful
He was not the kind of statesman,
too common now, To whom noise and
headlines mean distinction
He was big in every way. He had
his faults, but the providers and the
scavengers, the scarchers of the gar
hage heaps of history for soiled and
tainted scraps with which To discredit
the dead. have never dragged To light
an unwholesomc thing about Chandler.
He died at Chicago the night of
October 81. 1879, in the midst of "A hot
campaign.
He came to the Senate of Nation
with slavery embedded In it's Consti-
tuition and he left ii a Nation of free
workers.
He came To the Senate OF a Nation
divided by sectional interests; he left
IL "A united Nation.
He came To the Senate of a Nation
which doubted the strength of its own
constitution; he left it with "a Consti-
tuition established as the fundamental
law of an indestructihle Union SYM
bolized by one ilag, whose stripes are
red with the blood of patriots shed