Memorial Addresses Upon the Life and Character of Leland Stanford
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Excerpt from Memorial Addresses Upon the Life and Character of Leland Stanford: Late a Senator From the State of California, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Saturday, September 16, 1893 Mr. White of California. Mr President, another member of this body has passed from among us. his term of office not accomplished. it is meet that we who have been his associates should record our sorrow and pay fitting tributes of respect to his memory. I shall not enter upon an examination of the life and services of the late Leland Stanford. I am apprised that other Senators, long his companions here and elsewhere, desire to signalize their regard by a review of his career. It may not be amiss, however, for me to contribute a brief expression. Senator Stanford was thoroughly identified with the interests of California. His relations to that State and to her progress will be fully detuled by my able colleague and others who are to follow me. He was not only twice elected to the Senate of the United States by the California Legislature, but he was also chosen by the people to the high station of governor. He was thus honored at a time when it was necessary that strong and wise counsel should prevail, and the history of our commonwealth discloses that Governor Stanford was not only loyal, but that his policy was such as to win the applause of all well-disposed men, regardless of party affiliation. He had faith in the American Union, and conducted his administration in accordance with his belief. In the pursuit of the objects which he desired to attain, Senator Stanford was diligent, painstaking, and unremitting. His successes were due, I think, largely to his determination to win the object of his aspiration. His firmness did not beget arrogance, and the possession of wealth did not impair in the slightest degree his kindly characteristics. The leading part which he took in constructing a transcontinental railroad system and in carrying on the vast interests connected with railroad corporations on the Pacific coast is fully known and needs no elaboration or extended presentation. The crowning effort of his life - strikingly at variance with the conduct of the average millionaire - was the contribution of his means to the cause of education. While many doubted his ability, as they doubted the ability of any individual, to sustain the stupendous burden which he undertook at Palo Alto, matters have so progressed as to justify the conclusion that he and his estimable wife did not overestimate their capabilities. This bestowal of his fortune demonstrated Mr. Stanford´s philanthropy. The plan which he outlined for the practical teaching of the youth of his country proved that he appreciated the necessities of his fellows. Owing to the impossibility of overcoming the intervening distance, I was the only representative of the Senate at his interment. While participating in the impressive ceremonies which there took place, I soon observed that, although there were no invitations issued, there were in attendance a vast number of the older citizens of California - a remarkable representation of the pioneer element. Many of those who had passed through the storms of more than one-third of a century and who had participated in the active contentions of early California life stood by the bier with moistened eye. Some of them had differed from Senator Stanford in politics and some had opposed him in other respects, but all were emphatic that he was a man whose heart was no less reliable than his brain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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