Year: 1860




Hanlin in bis home life, was published in


the St. Louis Democrat in October, 1875.


1t will be read with peculiar interest at the
present time when there is strong proba-


bility that the substantial farmer and the
talented statesman will soon be called to Gll
the second Office in the gift Of the people of


the United States:


One of the first men in this nation is
Senator Hamlin of Maine We do not
mean that he has those gifts Of brilliancy
which attract upon the instant, nor those
demonstrative qualities OF a contentious
spirit, which make men the idol of excited
crowds; but that in calmness and manliness,
in solidity of character, in trnth of speech,
/ in firmness of resolve, he has few equals
among the distinguished statesmen OF the
day. From the time of Jackson till now
4 he has maintained the rigid inAexibility of
| his faith, careless Of party defections and
neglectful of party rewards, yet with the
1 courage to lead on in critical iunctures, or
to stand aloOf and alone when factions be-
come demoralized with victory. Taught
earl y that Democracy meant freedom and
! not slavery, he has never sweryed from that
/ teaching but in all his relations has ever
allied himself with the radical element ia
politics which represents both control by
the people and liberty to the individual.
/ In his domestic life he is above reproach,
and of singular simplicity of habit, going
from the Senate chamber to the harvest
field, or from the tolls of a small farm to
the care of a great State, with the ease,
dignity and cheerfulneSs that mark the man
devoted to duty before pleasure, and con-
scious Of acting his true part in life or
late we have seen going the rounds of the
partisan press n series of letters from Wash
ington, telling how grandIy and gorgeously
some of our wealthy representatives. have
entertained the diplomatists and strangers
at the federal capital, and dealing in what
we must believe to be very exaggerated ac-
counts of their muni6cence. To rival the
White House in splendor is now the highest
ambition of many there and when we recall
the plumber of the public treasury in which
they have participated, the only wonder is
that they succeed so poorly. 1t is in con-
trast with such-with the Douglases CIV wins,
and Brights, who ape the poor pretension of
arstocratie ways-that we wish TO present
picture of this truly Republican Senator
as seen in his own home. The sketch is
from private letter not designed for pub
lication but it has such a genial glow about
it, and altogether shows so fine type of
the American civilian, that we are sure we
shall be Pardoned for giving it to the pub
lie. Il is as follows


"Haying had business to call me to this
city, thought l would ride down the river
to Hampden, (about five miles and pur-
chase cargo of tanning for Il customer IA
Quaker and at the same time call upon my
old friend, Hamlin. After knocking at his
plain and comfortable residence, fine look
ing specimen of a farmer daughter came
to the door and said |, Is Senator Ham
lin at home The answer was, He is ;
but not in the house at this time Yam
kee fashion, said l. Where is be ? - /
Down in the field was the reply. Show
me the way, said |. No sooner said than
done, and there | found our distinguished
FREUD at work. Himself and son, a fine
looking young man, were gathering pump /
kns. You no doubt have often heard of
Yankee pumpkin pies, and doubtless eaten /
them, too. These were grown amidst a
field of corn, which we are sorry to saw, is +
rather light this year, in Maine especially. /
He has no other help, and with hne little .
farm of only ten acres of tiIage land, he .
told me he yearly raised moreth han sufficient .
for all his uses, and for ten years had al 7
ways had corn left over, to sell from ten to
twenty bushels but this year he thought .
he should not. He had his family horse IA .
good one) in a common farm wagon, Just /
drawing the last load of pumpkins All !
his harvesting is done, except the corn. He /
had a lame back that day from the effects of .
carrying his wheat up stairs to his granary; /
it was all cleaned up, and looked finely. /
He had his ground plowed and SUBSIDIZED, to-
gether with large manure heap, in good |
shape made from the waste earth and muck. /
some other additions, with a few casks of /
and lime added. He has his cranberry bed and .
all the small fixings, such as good poultry
yard, fine hogs, &C, whilst for dinner, every
article upon the table was grown upon this
snug little farm. And, to add to the pleas
ure, the good lady, Mrs. Hamlin, had Just
given birth to a beautiful boy, and the mother
was doing well. His eldest son is reading
law at home with his father, after the
work is done, and the daughter looks after
the home concerns with ease aud grace


:" write you this for yonr own gratifca-
ton, to show you what our New England
small farm people can do to make life 60
smooth, and not detract from the chances Of /
others in doing the same. This, doubtless.
would not compare with some of your Wes-
tern farms, but | know you will not think
the less of it and its owner for all that


The Republican ticket might truly be
called the g Workingman's ticket" Both
the candidates have been Injured to manual
labor, and can sympathize with the work
man in his wants and aspirations. Remem-
bering their own hard toll, they would not
fail to foster the interests of labor when
ever opportunity offered.


SAD AND FATAL ACCIDENT.-It is our
melancholy duty to announce the sudden
death of VIM. Earl Collins, son of Thomas .