Thomas Brackett Reed
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Excerpt from Thomas Brackett Reed: Address by Hon. Samuel W. McCall Upon the Unveiling of the Monument of Hon. Thomas Brackett Reed at Portland, Me; August 31, 1910 A statue of a human figure, which does not represent a mere abstraction but a real and once breathing man, draws much of its significance from the nature of the forces creating it and also from a fit association with the spot where it is reared. At a time when government is expected to do everything, it is becoming quite too much the fashion to build monuments by law and pay for them by money taken by taxation from the people. The tribute thus rendered involves no special sense of sacrifice on the part of any human being. It is indeed cold compared with that which is paid by voluntary gifts and comes springing from the hearts of the givers. In one of the public squares of Washington stands a figure of Lincoln. It is not striking merely as a work of art, but it acquires a beauty and a pathos from the fact that it was reared by many small gifts from men and women whom his immortal proclamation had made free. It is surely a felicity that the statue of Thomas Brackett Reed which you unveil to-day should have been raised by the free gifts of those who knew and loved him and not from a levy upon any public treasury. Nothing could be happier also than its association with the spot where it is placed. It is ideally fitting that it should stand in the streets where he once played as a boy, in the city where he was born and lived nearly his whole life through, and where he now rests from his labors. I imagine you did not have in mind at all the last sentence of that beautiful speech of his spoken here a quarter of a century ago, but how perfectly this occasion seems to respond to it: Whatever fame great achievements may bestow, whatever honors the world may give, it is ever the most cherished hope of every seeker after fame or fortune to be kindly remembered and lovingly honored on the spot which gave him birth. It is no common thing for the citizens of a city like this, the commercial capital of a great State, to set up a statue in its streets, and we are now to render some answer to the question, What reason justifies this hour and what is its real meaning? The answer was simpler, although the occasion had no greater merit when you were putting up the statue of Longfellow; and it was simpler because of the difference in the nature of their work between a poet and a statesman. The statesman lives in the field of practical controversy; the poet in the realm of ideals. It is not an uncommon fate of poets to be neglected in their lifetime and to have their birthdays celebrated in after generations. But the statesman is feted in his life and too commonly forgotten when he is dead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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