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won for him the love and respect of those about him; and secured for him the unbroken continuance of promotion first hazarded upon his extrinsic recommendations.

Although as marshal he rendered up the slave under the cruel fugitive slave law, as a man he sought earnestly to purchase his freedom; when the war, that touchstone of character, which converted lambs to lions, and some lions to lambs, broke out and the State was called upon for aid, the "suaviter in modo " was found to be combined in our friend with the "fortiter in re;" he went at an hour's notice, filling the place of a recusant officer and serving faithfully and ably, in spite of repeated wounds, through all these haggard years, and for a year afterwards as Military Governor of South Carolina. When peace returned, he held the sword of justice as firmly as a ruder, blunter man.

I sometimes rallied him upon his smooth and kindly relations with men whom I felt inclined to denounce, but I became convinced that this uniform courtesy and lenity credited his heart while it did not discredit his head; it was Christian charity.

My old friend would not stand so high in my regard but for the unique exhibition of one memorable day when he had been invited to deliver the oration. Summoned betimes in the morning and carted about over an endless route for six or seven hours; then, after tedious marshalling, forced to listen to successive and inordinate speeches by committee-men, Grand Master of Masons, Mayor, everybody but the selected speaker, the sun went down and darkness fell before the orator of the day was allowed to hold forth. For once, even his

patience was exhausted; he gave a few extracts from his oration by torchlight and withdrew. I was refreshed by his undisguised, righteous indignation at this preposterous, egotistic disregard of proportions.

As to eloquence, how many better orations have been given than his on the centennial of the Battle of Bunker Hill, on the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, on Grant, spoken at Gettysburg, not to mention his speech at the Harvard Commemoration as spokesman of the returned volunteers, his annual addresses while President of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, his series of speeches at the Jubilee of Harvard College? Upon that occasion he exercised his habit of infinite painstaking, no other Alumnus would have performed the task of presiding officer so perfectly.

A tender devotion and constancy characterized his domestic relations. A home of his own in the fullest sense of the word he never had; his father's home was broken up upon the death of his mother and sister, when he was a young lawyer in Greenfield, a bereavement the more poignant that they lost their lives. preserving his; his father lived to a great age and I can bear witness to the son's filial piety; the love which husbands and fathers lavish upon their wives and children he shed upon scattered groups of relatives, a love ardently reciprocated.

This tenderness of heart extended beyond his family circle. Breakfasting with him during the Grand Army Encampment last summer, he confessed that the sight of these veterans brought back so feelingly the setting forth for the war, that his tears would flow.

In familiar intercourse he was genial and entertaining; a kindly humor enlivened his chat; he told a story with the art of an old campaigner.

A few words spoken by me elsewhere apply to him here:

"He has been one of our most faithful members; his stately and benign presence graced our meetings.

Here, as elsewhere, he diffused a spirit of chivalric courtesy by his dignified and cordial greetings, his temperate and kindly discourse.

"To the respect inspired by his honorable public service in peace and war was added the affection begotten of his unswerving loyalty to his friends, and his solicitous consideration of all, young and old, far and near.”

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When I heard of his death, there came to me the sense of the loss of a friend, and of the glory of a wellspent life.

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