Charles Sumner

'■ And the king said uuto hi sorvauts, ' Kuow yo not that thero is a princo and a great man tallón this day in Israel 't' " - '1 Sanil. iii. 38. This was Üio oxclatuation of King David when tho tidings were brought to him that Abner, his wiso advisor, liad becu slain by Joab, the valiant and reckless captain of the host. Joab believed that Abncr wus a liar and a traitor, that ho was doceiving the king and planningdestructiou to tho kingduiu, and that in Htriking him down, ho slioulil gratify the monarch, and bo praised by tho poople for his patriotio deed. But he found no uch favor in his bloody act ; which was an act of ruvongo, while it seemod to bo tin act of patriotism, for Joab had sworu vengoauco upoa the inan who killed hia brother Asahel. The monarch whom ho thought to please turned to curso him and all his house for the doed of violence, which had taken froni tho land the monitor of tho king, the great man and tho prince. Tho deed of tho ruffian madu of tho counsellor a martyr ; aud David was chiof mourner at the burial of one of whom many said that ho was plotting to ovorturn tho kingdom. A parallel to that Hebrew story wo havo seen in our own land. Nearly oighteon yearg ago, an American Senator was struck down in his seat in tho Sonate chamber, by a minguided fanatic, who, in avenging a fancied insult to his kinaman and his State, imaginod that ho was doing a patriotic deed, and that the nation would applaud him in chastising a traitor. But ho found that instead of the blessing, the curse carne back upon his deed, - a curse upon him and all his houso. His namo was consigned to infainy, in spite of tho pardon givon by his victim. - The man whom ho would disgrace, and would gladly have murdered, was liftod into new honor, was hoard as a counsellor in public affairs ; and before tho last issue of the violence carne, before the end of thoso long years of sufforing so f uil of cheer, and of dying so full of life, could see his prophecy come truo, and the land free from that groat wrong wnich he had denounced as the siini of iniquities. - And now, when the murder is done at last, and the voice of the martyr is sileut in death, tho whole nation risos to say, - " Know ye not that thoro is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel ?" Por tho doath of no mau in this nation could causo a sorrow so wide and deep as the doath of him for whora tho nation is now everywhere uiourning. No othor man had in tho hearts of the peoplo so large a placo, no other as an upright statoman had won so high a fume. In spito of slandor8 more uufounded, of vituperation more bitter, of hatred more intense, thun any public man of this generation was callod to meet, ho is borne to his grave with all the honors, and the people all say of him " Well done, good and faithful sorvant !" This the voicc of foos, not less than friends, of ancient foos not less than of recent foos, of those even who wero conquered in tho great battle which this leader more than any public man brought in the nation. This is the voice of his own State, just erasing in their sober secoud thought the passionate censuro which they had hastily passed on worda too Christian to be at onco understood. This is the voice of tho National Senato, mortified at that party bondage which had forced them to insult and cast aside their most competent man from the placo which he so nobly filled. This is the voice of the journals, almost without exceptiou, of the baser as of the better sort. This is the voico which comes back to us across tho soa, uchoing the lament for tho great man who had honored his country, yot was the fricud of mankind. How uiany hearts are heavy today, iu the sense of this great loss ! How raany will almost despair of tho Eepublic, now that this guardián of the uational purity has ceased to be a check upon the schemes of the demagogues ! What féar will come to the race once captive, -vrhom his word ráised to manhood, and who knew in him an advocate and friend that could always be trusted' In this immense public grief, tho montion of private grief seeuis almost pitiful, and those who prized the friendship of this gifted soul will not care toobtrude thoir own feeling. Where tho lament is so large, a voico of many waters, why should any single uoto be heard 'i It seems, indeed, almost a Providence, that the Nation should charge itself with tho burial of one who had no brothers of the flosh, and no near kindred at hand, to go as chief among tho mourners ; that all the peoplo, high and low, noar and far, whito and black, should have equal part in this sad pagoaat. With tho feeling of this loss so heavy upon us, wo cannot now calinly analyze the life of tho great man whom wo mourn, or pronounco upon it any judicial verdict. We can ouly note what is best and most unquestionable in his work, and what juetifies the honor and praiso that so many hasten to bring. We first think of Charles Sumner as the Statesman, the Legislator, the Senator, in tho only high public office that ho over held, but which he held longer than any man who has lived within thig generation. There are those who say that " he failed ns a Statesman," that ho was obstinate, dogmatio, unpractical, a theorist, a man of one idoa, not a useful or a sagacious man. But this all confesa, that his principios weru broad und high, foundud ou justice, on the sonso of the rights of men, in hannony with the ossential ideas of the Ropublic. This man was Statosinau in the best sense of tho word, one who would bring tho higher righteousness into tho Law of tho State, one who did not consult expediencies, or the passion of the hour, but trusted in what was abaolutoly just as certain to bo oxpedient ; who did not como to tho Senate Houso to serve a party, or to servo the time, but to do the best thing for all the peoplo, and for the time to come. He was not one of thoso legislators who make laws for private gain oi for private schemos, or for class interest, or who think that their first duty is to their immediato coustituents, to roward party fealty, or to find offico for tho friends who have worlsed in tboir behalf. If a Stutosman inust,be " politie," must care first for his party, and afterwards for righteousnes9, then Mr. Sumner was not a statesman. He was not a good politiian, in the common meaning of that word. He knew notbing about the manipulation of cauouses, and in his recommendations to office, he was eccentric en. ough to prefer men who ware fit for the duties. He never sought offiop, nnd ho had no love for the officeseeker. Xo man cared less for party xnachinery, or took less intérest in thocounting of votei. Por tho special work which ho did as a statesman, he had pre-eniinont fitness, lor he know tho laws of this land nol only, but the laws of other land, the law of nations, the Coinmou Law of Englaud, and the Civil Law of Komo, and the ancien t Law and tho working of Law in Hiatory, as very few men in this land kuew thom. I heard tho famous Judgo Story say of Mr. Sumner, that bcfore thia student was twonty-five years of ago ho had loarned law enough to inako him a competent Judgo in any Court of tho land. And his inind was judicial, uot hastening to conclusions,but waiting and oxamining ulways beforo dociding. Ho was not oae of tho statosmen whom we know to our sorrow, whose training hos been moatly in ward meotings, or who go to uiako laws, without knowledge of principles.and without knowlodgo of the working of these principlesin thoeventsof history. Intractable, indeed, ho was to this class of mon But the-y could not draw him or frighten him f rom his idoas, and ia the ond his t.heorios became facts and passed into tho law of the land. Tho praise of this statosman is greatest in tho very thing which so many reproached, his unyielding attachment to abstract justicc, and his unwillingnes8 to have part in any measures of more policy, to say anything or do anything from mero political roasons, or to suppross for such reasons anything that ought to bo said ; that ho aw froin the boginning tho gieat work of American statesmanship in this ago, kopt his oye stoadily upon that, mado all things bend to that, and refused to be turned aside from that by any less important issues. - He was nut a statesman of only one idea, but of a great idoa, with whioh other loss ideas must f all into line. Statosmen of thia kind aro remembored, while tho men of expedienoies are forgotton, whon tho oxci tomón t of tho hour has died away. And inthose last years ho has won more tho respect of tho people in standing out so prominently among pubiie men as incorruptible. Araong so many who have been shown as venal, bought with a prioe, tricksters, equivooators, - among the class of " Christian statosmen," as they are sometimos called, who proachtemperance, and plead poverty, and profesa their humble fait li, - Charles Suinner, who made no pretenco that he was an evangelist, or a moral reformer, but only a law makor, stands eminent in lofty virtue. No man dared to approach him with the offer of a bribe. No corporation was ricli enough to buy him as thoir advocate or to hire him to hold his peaco. No set of sohomers could mako him thoir accomplico in any speculation, no matter how lunch money thero inight be in it. His worst rovilers novor accusud him of mercenary motives in his public acts, that he gave a vote or uttered a word as tho paid agent of any entorpriso. He nevor had to stand up and excuso hiinself for weakness in not knowing what ho was doiugi or in denying what was provod agaiust him. No investigating committoo probed this mau's public intogrity, in all his long years of service. T&o plague carne close to his side, and friends feil around him, but it did not touch him. One aftor another, men who had stooil high in public confldence wero thrown down, bringing only into plainer sight the strong iutegrity of this honest and truthful statesinan, who had no schome in his hand, and no smiling lie upon his sorious face. This fact alone made men ashamod of the insult which had boen put upon one so faithful among the faithless.. Whatover charges may be urged against him, the charge that he was corrupt, rapacious, ready to use his advantago, to t.-tke tho opportunity and to go with the Honorable men around him in their plunder of the national Troasury, will not bo recorded against him. They may cali him a " selfish" man : - but this at any rato was not his f orm of solflshness. They may cali him an impracticable visionary ; - but even the harshest of his critics will not include him in the company who have made of the National Capítol, what the money changers and the dove sellers mado of the Tomplo in Jerusalem, " a den of thieves." And this statesman was patriotic in the bost sonso of that word. In his youth, he passed soveral years in Europe, whore he found favor raroly granted to so young an American, who had gainod no fame, and was only recoived on his nierit. He was welcomed in the best society of England, becamo the friond and correspondent of noblemen and scholars, and brought DaoK wnat seemea to some a very unre■ publican love for English institutions and iiiíuiiuT;.. But when ho carne into public lifo, raen saw that no lover of his country could be morejealous of its good repute, more zealous iu its cause, inoro hearty in defence of its ideas, than tliis friend of a foreign aristocracy. Mr. Sumner wasnot a mero holiday orator, to tell ia swolling ]hrases tho glory of the Bepublic, but he believed in the Republiu with all his soul and mind and atrongth, believed in it as the bost of govornraonts, bolieved in the American Rcpublic, in spito of its faults and its falsehoods, and set himself with all energy to purgo away the falsehoods, and bring the fabric iuto consistent shape. Who can forget tho time, whon, in answor to tho reckless sontiment given by aiiothor statesman of distinguished lineage, a sentiment pandering to the public greed for laúd, and encouraging tho robbery of 1 a sister republie, " Our country, however bounded," - Mr. Sumner changod it to read "Our country : always bounded by tho right?" The patriotism of this man would have the country right in its demanda, right in its purposes, not victorious merely, but just, magnauimous in its triumph, and ready to confusa a fault or an error. It was as far from hatrod to foreign nations, as from eervilo foar of their dictation. It would kcep tho ropublie sound and truo, in sympathy with its own ideas ovorywhere, ín other nations as well as on it owu ground With every nation seekiug to work its regeneration, to securo equal rights formen, tothrow off tho yoko of slavery, or priesteraft, or landed tyranny or class tyranny, Mr. Sumner was in sympathy ; but ho was not deceived by specious pretences iuto schomes of conquest, and had no care to extend the área of freedom, if that meaut the enriching of adventurers, or tho turning away of thought from real justico to sido interests. He would mako his country not greater in área or richer in resources, but purer in charaoter and stronger on its foundation. His patriotism, moreover, from the very beginning wont hand in hand with philanthropy. Ho was in no sense a profossional roforinor, and nevor undortook to get a living as tho itinerant advócate of any " cause," of temporáneo, or peaco, or prisou rofofm, or labor reform, or emancipation. Tho roformers compltiinod of him that lio would not go with them in their vehoment protest, would not take up thoir harsh words aud dofend their extreme measures, that he was too calni in his troatment of outrages. Yot his iuterost in theso causes was not less intonse than tho interest of tho strong-tongued pleaders. No membor of the Peaco Society over uttered so effective a word against the barbarism of war, as tho author of the address on tho "Truo Grandeur of Nations." Ho was one of tho first to show that thc systom of hording crimináis togethur iu prison only hardonod tUem in crime ana made virtue almott Notk. - In bis conTen&tion with frtends, Mr. Bumner vu i'ond of referriug to tho chissio writen Demosthenei ivas his model of (he orator, ind th constant conipanion of his studie. I muy be allowed, therefore, to use these words of the Greek orator in hia oration on the "Crown," graccfully translated for me by the Oreek Professor in the Michigan üniversitv as wontfl m liich the Amcricau orator mg)it havo returnrd to hts aecuseri with equal fitness. " I verily declare to you, that whon all the Statesmen amone Ihe Grecks were corrupted, formerly hy Philip, and uow by Alexander, me, neither favorable opportunitv nor blandness of words, nor magnitude of promlses, nor hope, nor fear, nor auythlng else inducid, uay, not even inclined to betray any of 1 the thiiiRs that I dpemed to be .tust and advantageous ■ to my fatherland. Nor dld I ever counsel my ■ trymen as rou have done, lnclinlng towarda personal ' ealn as ifin a balance, but with an unrlght and just . and Incorruptible mind have all public aflalrs been transactrf by me ; and whlle I etood at the heaU of ' affliirs of greater lmportance than anv of my ] temporedes, I have adminMered all their intoresta i with honesty and fidellty." impossible to them. He was a botter friend to tho working classes than the demagoguos who stir theso classes to diaastrousrobellion, and mako them cneinies to thoir oruployers. Indeed, Mr. Rumiier bas this praiae froui all bis critica, th.it he whs never a demagogue. Tlioy might culi liim fanatic, visionury, mischii f maker, firobrand, but they did nof, culi )iim demagogue. Tlu did not flátter or oajole tbe dnar people, while ho would secure thuir rights, andple&3 their causé against oppressors and masten. Mr, Suniner was kuown for many vean as an Abolitionist, and the leader of tho Abolitionists in tho National Gouncils ; yot bo was ulways an abolitionist within tho bounds of tho law, und uever denounced the Cüiistitution us a covenant ot' death and an agroement with heil. - Ho caiuo delibemtoly to his position, at'tur many yoars of thought, not taking it in any hoat of enthusiastn, and never urging it in any frantic way. Ho counselled no dissolution of the nation, no social catastrophe, uo slave inaurreotion. He was au abolitionist because he believed in tho equal rights of mon, beeause he knew that slavory was a curse to both races, a bar to progresa, au incubus upon the national prosperity, and a uliamo in a freo republio ; because ho believed that its remova.1 would tako away tho reproach of the land. They spoak of him as the special friend of the negro race ; but he was no moro the friond of that racu thiin of tho white race, and had no affinitios of taste for the children of África. Not becauso the opprossed wero black, but becauso black men wero oppressed, were denied tlipir rights, did he plead for them and labor for them. Ho would have done tho samo thing for red men or yellow men. And tho uatiou has come to his way of thinking, has come to seo that what ho said was truo, that the country is better off without tho wrong of slavery within it, and has a fairer future. ïhu hated name has ceased to be a badgo of disgrace and a signal for oxocration ; aud those who would havo crucified the agitators now opunly say that they are glad that the work is done, aud aflirm that it was intendod by the slaveholdors theinselves before tho agitation begau. Mr. Butuner lived to soo his motives in tliis great work appreciated, his 6on8isteucy admirod, aud tho harsh words i'orgivon, which he was constniinid to speak. No good man in America will mako it u, blot upou tho honor of this champion that he fought slavery bo long, and fought it with such courage. This will uot bo citod as ovidenco of his lack of wisdom, or of his lack of patriotism. Tho regrets for such zoal in what aeomed tho certain national ruin, aro all buried in the grave of " the lost cause." Mr. Sumner was not a passionate abolitionist, but a conscientious abolitionist; one who obeyed in his servico for tho oauso of freedom the voice of (xod in his soul. Tho Divine constraint was upou him as much as upon Luther in his famous journoy. Ho would go on, though thoro wero as many devils iu the way as thoro wore tilos on tho roofs of the houses. Aud tho ruling characteristie of his life was cousciontious fidolity. Ho did all his work thoroughlyandcarofully. He spoke no word hustily; prepared himselt for every task, and usod all diligence and caution in everything that ho undertook. This excessivo caro often made his public addresses eeom heavy, almost tedious; they would have been moro attractivo if, liko so many of tho lectures which we hear, they had drawn upon the imagina tion for their facts. The rhetoric of this orator was no hasty outpóuring of vohenient words, but was tho well considered speech of study and research. Mr. Suninor was ono of the most industrious of men, only surpassed in the pationco of his toil by that other patriot and philauthropist, whose melancholy fate tho wholo nation mourued a littlu moro than a voar ago. Yet ho worked for tho sako of quality, moro than of quantity; worked tllot he might do woll whatever he undertook. The name given to the stuall party which ho helped to croate - given dorisively as tho namo Christian waa given at Antioch to the followors of tho Nazareno- that they were "Conscience Whigs," was just and accurato in his oase. Ho had a conscience, though he did not trade upon it ; a conscionce iu small things as in large things ; a conseienco for foos as for frionds. Ho auswered the letters that wero sent to him, if he did not grant the request. He listonod to the plea, even when he could uot find it biuding upon him. In the line of what ho belinved to bo his duty, he was punctilious. In tho sessions of Congress, when ho was ablo to leavo his house, and ofteu when his physicians advisod against it, ho was raroly aDsent trom üis seat m the JSeuate; he catue at the hout1 of opening, and stayed until tho close. Ha could not run away from his post tbr private ploaeure or g:iiu, or for party service, to tho neglect of the task whieh he had takun. Like auothur gre&t man, his near friend, whoso recent deatk Í3 feit as a national sorrow, Agassiz, he could not afford to spend in niaking money tho time pledged to his higher duty. Ho was whoro he had agreed to be, waiting the courso of events, watchiug his opportunity, and not allowing to slip any golden moment for his work. Tho heats of summor uight weary hiiu, but they could not drive him away. And his conscienco as a Senator aided the blows of his nssassin in fatal work. Like tho great man whose ringing words in tho capítol inspired his youthful enthusiasm, he must fall in his place of labor, and could only turn a deaf ear to all friendly entreatics. Aud he inado all things tributary to the work he had chosen, becauso that work had chosen him. His largo reading on all theines, scienoe, theology, history, art - classic and romantic - tho vast stores of that tonacious inemory, heuceforth wero consecrated to his special duty. This he talked about; this ho meditated by night and by day. AU other intorests clustered about this central inferost, and all others became secondary. ïha affairs of the nation, tho public weal, wero nevor out of his mind. Ho loft now to othera thoso nico questious of litcrary criticism in which ho once took pains, and to which his tastes inclined him. He did not, indeed, fall away from his lovo of beautiful objocts and precious memorials; and more than any house in tho national capital, his homo was amusouiu ot rare, eurious, nd fascinating troasures, picturos and statuary, and ougravings, and reiics, and autographs, and costly books. He loved the society of learned inon in all walks of life, to givo theiu what ho had to give, and to get from thoin what they had to give. Indeed, tho charge that he was "pedant" was not wholly unjust. He loved to briug his various learuing to illustrato his argument ; and half educated men, impatient of learning, might say that to thoir apprehensiou tho learniug smothnrcd the logic. But, ou tho whole, pedantry in a statesuian ia more pardonablo than ignoranoo. Perhups he did not always consult tho fitness of his audience in his display of soholarship, and sometimos forgot that his fellows in law making had a diffarent idea ot' tlio qualifieation for that office. But tho charge was nevor true that ho was ruled in his public address by the vanity of tho orator, or that ho was thinking moro of tho finish of his periods or tho wealth of his illustration than of tho purposo thoy wero to accomplisb, of tho practical onds thoy were meant to 6crve, Mr. Sumnci' was au ogotist, no doubt, was self-consoious, and wishod to havo credit for what ho did. But egotism is tho weakness of great souls. Lamartine was an egotist wlien ho claimed tho glory of sweoping back tho tido of insurreotion aud saving Franco from anarchy and horror. Mirabcau was an egotist. Burko and Chatham assertcd themselvesin their pleas for tho nntiun. Henry Vane, Martin Luther, tho gveat Pope Hildebrand, the great preacher Chrysostom, and how aiaiiy mom 'of tho leaders of mankind wero sustained in their work by their intense self-consciousness. The Apostlo Paul was ready to spond and be spent, pet ho did not forget himself, and his peronality is in all his word and work. A nan has a right to assert himself when he cnows that ho is honostly working for a ofty end. The egotists aro conteinptible who have nothing beland tlieir egotisni, notbing to warrant it, who aro vain of their place and station, whoso conceit. has no good foundation. Mr. Sumner was not one of tboso men wlio deprecíate their power, pretend that thoy aro ignorant and weak when thuy know botter, and know that otben will not beliuvo tbem, who beguilo by u voluntar? humility while thoy worship theinselves as angels. Hu was not the muil to cali hiinsolf .1 miserable inner, in ohurch or anywhere else, wbilu ho knew that ho was trying'to do bis duty and to live an upright lite. His egotism mightlie a foible, but it was part of his honosty and sincerity. It told the truth. It was not au envious or spiteful egotism, which hated the faine or success of other Ben. No man more than Charles Suinuer recognized the worth of other good and great men ; no man was more cordial in panegyric or more faithful in friendship. No work dono i'or truth and righteousriess lost any beauty for him because it waa done by a rival or even by an onomy. Indeed, this man, stern, and meroiless almost, as ho was against thoso who betrayed what ho believed to be their trust, was gentío to his personal foes ; did not answer thoir railing with railing, and was content to sufter in silence. He boro meckly the personal insult ; and the imperious manner, the tone of which some complained, and which voxed his friends in theso lattor years, was moro the result of shattered nerves, and long pain, than of nativo temper. Charles Suninor was a gentleman always; by birtb, for his fathor was a model of courtly graco ; by education, by association, and from principio. He went by the golden rule, and gave to others what he would that they should give to him. And if ho had not been a puro man by instinct and by habit, the sense of tho dignity of his position would havo kept him from coarse indulgenco and disgusting vico. Ho was not an isoetic, and he loved to spread for his frieuds a hospitablo board, and sit with them there. But it was never roported of this Senator of the United States that he was maudiiu in company or intoxicated in the street, that ha know the house of the harlot or the den of tho gambler, or wasted' his substance in riotous living. His lips woro not wonted to profanity, and his convorsation had no stain of irapurity. Ho loft no dobt unpaid, for he had no debts, aiid obeyed the precept to owe no man anything. He was a pure man when ho was young, when tho temptations of college lifo ain ly tried to lead him astray. He kept his purity in the dangerous ways of foreign travel ; and in the more dangerous ways of tho National Capital ho kept it so closely that no suspicion of any impuro act ever rested upon him. The moral farue of this statesman is unsullied. He was a religious man, too, in thu truo sonso of tho word, though uot in the technical sonso of tho churches. He did not pass through any soason of what is called religious oxperience, and probably did not trouble hiinself about tho salvation of his soul. The man who is occupied in the great work of saving his country may be excused tho small work of looking out for his own salvation. Tho man who is working to make the kingdom of God and His righteousness real among men, need not bo anxious about his personal fate. He doubtless thought more about the way of his work than he did about tho stato of his soul. But ho was a revereut man, and bent himself before the majesty of tho Divino Law. Ho believed in justice, and mercy, and brothorly lovo, and in the new commandment of the Christian Gospel. He had honor for all true ministers of tho practical Christian law, though small heed för tho motaphysics of the creeds. His last reported words wero a message of love to tho man who, more than, any othor, has been a prophot to tho best minds in this land of manliness, self-respect, truthfulness, and moral courage. " Teil Emerson that I lovo him, and I revore hira," hè said, and died. Better those words than any weak cry for grace to his sins ! This man was religious, as he feared God, and kept his commandment ; as ho was truo to the voice of God in his soul ; as ho was firm to his convictions of rigbt and justico; as ho would not go with tho multitud to do evil ; as ho heard tho talo of the oppressed, and gavo himself to their deliveranco ; as his sympathies wero with every righteous causo ; as he stood up boldly to preach repentanco for iniquities ; peace instead of war ; brotherhood instoad of tyranny. Can the churches show us any higher type of religión, or one that comes nearer to the standard of tho Master f Theso few words of tribute may soem to many of you inadequate to the greatness of tho theme; yot perhaps others of you niay claim that the praise is too great, and that thoro wero fuults in the character of this statosmau which have boen too lightly passed over. But in thefreshness of grief it ia hard to be quite impartial, and it is hard to keep within bounds in speaking of tho virtues of the friend of manyyoars: "Quis de&iderio sit pudor aut modus tam cari capith." In how many sou!s at this hour that sad verse of the epiourean poet lingera ! I havo endeavored in this discourse to teil of Mr. Suranor what I know, and not nierely what others have said of him, for I began to know hira whon I was hardly more than a boy, and ho was a young man yet unknown to farao. Ho gave mo advice thon how and what to read, and from that time to this, nearly forty years, I havo had tho privilege of his friendship. In this very week, only two days bofore his death, I had from him an enclosuro of his recent speeches, directed by his own hand. I knew tho man, and I know him to bo what I have so imporfectly dosoribed him to be. SucU men as ho are needed in our national councils ; to check corruption ; to guard the treasury ; to redeem politics from its disgrace ; to hold up tho truo ideal of integrity and honor ; to keep in the nation the patriotism of the former day. Few men that his nativo State can seud are worthy to fill the placo which he has left vacant. God grant that no intriguer, no demagogue, no falso friond of the people, may sit in the seat which for moro than a generation has been so worthily filiad by so noblo a man, one whoso gifts and virtues friends and foos unite to confess and magnit'y.