Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer
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Excerpt from Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer: Read Before the Vermont Historical Society, October 29th, 1868 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: Although the official announcement of my appointment to the present service designated it as "an eulogy," I see that the published official notice of this meeting announces me for "An Address on the life and services of Hon. Jacob Collamer." I hence infer that a memorial, rather than an eulogic service will the better answer the proprieties, and meet the expectations of this occasion. And this may well be so; for Eulogy found free expression from eloquent and adequate tongues in the halls that had been honored by the presence and services of the illustrious dead, while the tear of present grief was dimming the eyes and moistening the cheeks of his surviving fellow senators and statesmen. It was emulously echoed by the many tongued press of the nation. It was worthily and touchingly repeated in these legislative halls by those commissioned to give utterance to the deep and universal grief, as well as to the unanimous and cordial "well done, good and faithful servant," of our stricken, yea, doubly stricken State; for within the fleet four months, our Foot had followed our Collamer from their lofty eminence on earth, to the bourne beyond the bitter waters. The article before me is prepared as a sketch to be read, rather than an address to be delivered. While it is too brief for the subject, it is too long for the occasion. It is a kind of forced compromise between the subject and the occasion, and not entirely proper towards either. On account of its length, I shall read it very rapidly,- not deliver it as an address, nor pronounce it as an oration. I proceed, then, and remark: - The present service is both sad and grateful - difficult, and yet a duty. The subject was a patron of my early professional life, as a Judge of the Courts, and as a partner in business. For more than twenty-five years he was my neighbor and my familiar friend. He was, during all that time, conspicuous for his abilities, - most of the time filling high official positions, and constantly attaining a wider and more emphatic recognition for excellent qualities and character as a public man. I knew him too intimately, too minutely, I was too largely the beneficiary of his kindly favor, and withal he has passed away too recently for me to be able to think of him attentively, and considerately to pass his life in review, without a sadness that is painful, springing from a fresh sense of personal bereavement. And yet, since he has gone to his higher reward, it is grateful, in this presence, to proffer a memorial tablet of his character and his worth, in the hope of edifying some in the present, and in the coming time, to whom he is and will be, less fully known than he was to me and others who walked the ways of active life in personal association with him. In the very thoroughness of my knowledge of the life, and qualities, and character of the subject lies, in a great measure, the difficulty of doing properly the work before me; and this is enhanced by the peculiar sentiments with which he was regarded by me. The public interest in a public man is more begotten by a few leading things he does, his manner of doing them, and the more prominent traits of mind and morals as indicating ability and character, than by the innumerable lesser things, and the minute interblended elements, that, in their aggregation and combined action, produce the entirety of the recognized, effective, public man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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