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 STATE OF RHODE ISLAND. 
 
 1885. 
 
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RESOLUTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 
 
 Resoliitiox for printing the remarks, etc., in relation to 
 the death of Senator, the late Hon. Henry B. An- 
 thony. 
 
 (Passed January 16, 1885.) 
 
 Resolved, That twent3'-flve hundred copies of the 
 proceedings and remarks made in both houses on the 
 death of the Honorable Henry B, Anthony, late Sen- 
 ator in the United States Senate from Rhode Island, the 
 funeral oration of the Rev. Augustus Woodbur}-, and 
 such other pertinent matter as the Secretaiy of State 
 ma}' deem advisable, be printed in pamphlet form for 
 the use of the General Assemblj', under the direction of 
 the Secretary of State, 
 
 A true copy. Witness : 
 
 Joshua M. Addeman, 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 
HENRY B. ANTHONY, 
 
 The Senior Senator in Congress from Rhode 
 Island, died at his residence in the City of 
 Providence, at fifteen minutes before two 
 o'clock, on Tuesday afternoon, the second 
 day of September, 1884, at the age of sixty- 
 nine years, five months and one day. 
 
 For many months he had struggled against 
 the insidious disease which was liable at any 
 moment to terminate his life. On several oc- 
 casions his condition had been so critical as 
 to excite general alarm; but each time he 
 had rallied from his prostration, and was 
 able to leave his home, to attend to public 
 business or his private concerns, and to min- 
 gle with his fellow citizens. It was only the 
 day before his death that he sat in his accus- 
 tomed place in the Journal office, surrounded 
 
b HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 by many of liis cherished friends, to whom 
 his animated conyersation was as entertain- 
 ing as usual and gave no premonition of his 
 approaching fate. 
 
 On the morning of tlie second of Septem- 
 ber lie arose in his customary state of health, 
 breakfasted at about eleven o'clock, and was 
 shortly after seized with a un^emic convul- 
 sion. His physician was summoned, and un- 
 der the administration of the usual remedies 
 the Senator recovered for the time, but was 
 again seized with another attack which speed- 
 ily proved tatal. The immediate cause of 
 his death was paralysis of the heart caused 
 by unemic poisoning, the result of Bright's 
 Disease from which he had suffered so long. 
 
 Immediately on receipt of this intelligence, 
 His Excellency the Governor made the fol- 
 lowing official announcement: 
 
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND. 
 
 Executive Department, 
 
 Providence, Sept. 2, 1884. 
 It is my painful duty to announce oflicially to the peo- 
 ple of the State that the Honorable Henry B. Anthony, 
 the senior Senator from this State in the Congress of the 
 United States, died at his residence, in Providence, tliis 
 day, at 1.45 o'clock, p. m. His long career has been 
 distinguished by faithful service to his native State, and 
 his fellow citizens will gratefully preserve the memory of 
 his devotion to their interests. The funeral services will 
 take place at the First Congregational Church, Provi- 
 dence, on Saturday, September 6th, at 12 o'clock, m. I 
 request the members of the General Assembly and the 
 State officers to meet at the State House on Saturday 
 next, at 11 a. m., for the purpose of attending the 
 funeral. I also request that, between the hours of 12 
 o'clock, noon, and 2 o'clock, p. m., on that day, all pub- 
 lic offices be closed, and that, as a tribute of respect to 
 the late Senator, all business during those hours be, so 
 far as practicable, suspended. 
 
 Augustus U. Bourn. 
 
 The Mayor of the City of Providence issued 
 the following notice and request : 
 
CITY OF PROVIDENCE, 
 
 Executive Department, 
 
 City Hall, Sept. 3, 1884. 
 
 His Excelleiic}^ the Governor has aunouuced to the 
 people of Rhode Island the sad intelligence of the de- 
 cease of Henry Bowen Anthony, the senior Senator of 
 the United States, which event took place at his resi- 
 dence in this city on Tuesday, the 2d instant. 
 
 Mr. Anthony had received the highest honors which 
 his native State could confer, filling the positions of 
 Governor and Senator with distinguished ability. By- 
 his public services, extending for more than a genera- 
 tion, he had won the esteem of those associated with 
 him ill the government, and commanded the respect of 
 all classes of citizens. 
 
 The funeral of the deceased Senator has been ap- 
 pointed for Saturday, the 6th instant, at 12 o'clock, 
 noon, and in consideration of his eminent public worth, 
 the municipal business will cease at that hour, and the 
 City Hall will be closed for the day ; the public flags will 
 
10 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 he displayed at half-mast from sunrise to sunset, and the 
 members of both branches of the City Council and the 
 heads of departments of the city government will attend 
 his funeral in a body. 
 
 Uniting with his Excellency the Governor, I respect- 
 fully request the citizens of this city to close their places 
 of business between the hours of 12 o'clock, noon, and 
 2 o'clock in the afternoon, on the day of the funeral. 
 
 Thomas A. Doyle. 
 
 3fayor. 
 
MEMORIAL SERVICES. 11 
 
 The General Assembly not being in session, 
 His Excellency the Governor requested the 
 following named gentlemen to act as a leg- 
 islative committee of arrangements for the 
 funeral of the deceased Senator : 
 
 On the part of the Senate, Messrs. George 
 A. Wilbur, of Woonsocket, Benjamin T, 
 Eames, of Providence, and David S. Baker, 
 Jr., of North Kingstown. On the part of 
 the House of Representatives, Mr. Speaker 
 Francello G. Jillson, of Woonsocket, and 
 Messrs. Henry H. Fay, of Newport, James M. 
 Pendleton, of Westerly, John Garter Brown 
 Woods, of Providence, William A. Harris, of 
 Providence, and (Jharles Edward Paine, of 
 Providence. 
 
 The following notice was given by the leg- 
 islative committee of arrangements : 
 
STSTE OF RHODE ISLAND. 
 
 Providence, Sept. 4, 1884. 
 
 The Committee of Arruugemeuts on the part of the 
 General Assembly for the funeral of the late Senator 
 Henry B. Anthony, request that the members of the 
 General Assembly, State officers, ex-Governors and 
 other ex-State officers meet in the State House on Satur- 
 day, the 6th day of September, at 11 o'clock, a. m., for 
 the purpose of proceeding in a body to the First Congre- 
 gational Church, where the funeral services will be held. 
 
 Carriages will be furuished to those who desire to fol- 
 low the remains to the Swan Point Cemetery. 
 
 For the Committee, 
 
 George A. AYilbur, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
MEMORIAL SERVICES. 15 
 
 In accordance with this request, the Gov- 
 ernor and other State officers, the members of 
 the (General Assembly, and many other gen- 
 tlemen who had previously held office in the 
 State, assembled at the State House, on the 
 morning of Saturday, the sixth day of Sep- 
 tember. Appropriate badges of mourning 
 were assumed, and the representatives of 
 the State proceeded in a body to the First 
 Congregational Church. The hour for the 
 funeral services was fixed at twelve o'clock. 
 The Church was at an early hour filled with 
 a sympathetic audience. Among the num- 
 ber were the President of the United States, 
 Chester A. Arthur; the Attorney-General of 
 the United States, Benjamin H. Brewster; the 
 President of the Senate, George F. Edmunds ; 
 United States Senators Nelson W. Aldrich, 
 Thomas F. Bayard, Matthew C. Butler, J. 
 Don. Cameron, Henry L. Dawes, Isham G. 
 Harris, Joseph R. Hawley, George F. Hoar, 
 Charles W. Jones, John R. McPherson, Jus- 
 tin S. Morrill, Austin F. Pike, James L. Pugh, 
 
16 HEXRY B. AXTHOXY. 
 
 and Matt W. Ransom; Secretary of the Sen- 
 ate, Anson G. McCook ; Chaplain, Rev. E. 
 D. Huntley, D. D. ; Sergeant-at-Arms, AVil- 
 liam P. C^anaday; Acting Deputy Sergeants- 
 at-Arms, James I. Christie and Thomas W. 
 Manchester ; Assistant Doorkeeper, Isaac Bas- 
 sett; Clerk, Henry A. Pierce, and Ben: Per- 
 ley Poore, Clerk of the Senate Committee on 
 Printing. 
 
 There were also present, the Judges of the 
 Supreme Court of the State, and of the Cir- 
 cuit Court of the United States; Federal 
 officers of the District; the Russian Minister 
 and his family; President James B. Angell, 
 of Michigan University, a former Editor of 
 the Journal; His Honor Mayor Doyle, and 
 other representatives of the city government ; 
 members of the Board of Trade ; President 
 Robinson and the Faculty of Brown Univer- 
 sity ; representatives of the Providence Press 
 Club, and of various other civic organiza- 
 tions. His Excellency George D. Robinson, 
 Governor of Massachusetts, being unable to 
 
MEMORIAL SERVICES. 17 
 
 attend, was represented by Adjntant-General 
 Samuel Dalton, and by Col. Charles H. Allen 
 of his personal staff. Gen. Nathaniel P. 
 Banks, Ex-Governor Alexander H. Rice and 
 other prominent associates of the late Sen- 
 ator in pul)lic life, were also present to pay 
 the last tril)ate of respect to his memory. 
 
 In compliance with the request of the Gov- 
 ernor and of the Mayor of the City of Provi- 
 dence, there was a general suspension of 
 business during the hours of the funeral, 
 and numerous decorations of mourning: in 
 the principal thoroughfares of the city added 
 to the solemnity of the da}^ and the occasion. 
 
 At twelve o'clock, noon, the remains of the 
 deceased Senator were borne from his late 
 residence to the door of the Church, followed 
 by the honorary pall bearers, William God- 
 dard, William Gammell, Walter S. Burges, 
 George H. Browne, Charles C. Van Zandt, 
 William W. Hoppin, Henry W. Gardner and 
 Edward H. Hazard. They were met at the 
 entrance by the Rev. Thomas R. Slicer, the 
 
18 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 Pastor of the Church, the Rev. Augustus 
 Woodbury, and the Rev. Dr. E. D. Huntley, 
 Chaplain of the 8enate, who preceded the 
 remains down the central aish', reciting the 
 King's Chapel service for the dead, the sol- 
 enni strains of the " Dead March in Saul " 
 meanwhik^ adding most impressively to the 
 service. Appropriate hymns were sung by 
 the choir, among them "Lead, Kindly Light," 
 a favorite with the deceased Senator, and se- 
 lections from the Scripture were read by the 
 Pastor of the Church, after which the Rev. 
 Augustus Woodbury delivered the following 
 address : 
 
ADDRESS BY REY. AUGUSTUS WOODBURY. 
 
 The silent and secret forces of insidious 
 disease are among those mysterious elements 
 of our physical being which seem to baffle 
 human skill. The physician faithfully stud- 
 ies the problem, but can only approximate 
 its solution. Death, by slow degrees, saps 
 the foundation, and in due time overthrows 
 the structure of life. Nature gradually suc- 
 cumbs; the inevitable hour approaches with 
 sure steps ; the organs of the body cease to 
 discharge their functions ; the eyes look their 
 last upon the faces of dear friends ; the spirit 
 exhales, and there is nothing left but the 
 rigid form, soon to change to dust and ashes. 
 When death comes suddenly, we who remain 
 are stunned bv the shock, and cannot make 
 
20 HENRY P.. ANTHONY. 
 
 real to our hearts and minds the departure of 
 our friend from the scenes in which he was a 
 familiar ol)ject of our affection and regard. 
 But, in the progress of long-continued sick- 
 ness, we sadly watch and wait, in the anxiety 
 of a protracted suspense — the fond eye of love 
 catching the glimpse of every favorable symp- 
 tom — hoping against hope; or noting, with 
 quick and sympathetic recognition, the grad- 
 ual failure of tlie physical powers, till the 
 fatal change comes and leaves the heart be- 
 reaved. 
 
 All this we say is the Providential ordering, 
 and we submit to the decrees of that Almighty 
 Power, which joins with its action the designs 
 of infinite wisdom and the exercise of infinite 
 love. To the sufferer himself Avho is obliged 
 to feel that death cannot be averted, although 
 its coming may be somewhat delayed, the 
 experience is not without its compensations. 
 Human intelligence cannot devise a remedy, 
 but divine Providence furnishes an allevia- 
 tion in the training of chai'acter. Patience, 
 
REV. AUGUSTUS WOODBURY S ADDRESS. 21 
 
 courage, trust, obediouce, arc cultivated in 
 the soul. " Not as I will " becomes the 
 habitual expression of the heart — difficult 
 to say with a full comprehension of its mean- 
 ing, but when completely realized, the sub- 
 lime Avord of a victorious faith. To be Aveak 
 is to be miserable! It is quite true, for am- 
 bition is quenched, energy is dissipated, men- 
 tal and physical activity is stopped, and one 
 is forced to be a spectator merely of scenes in 
 which he Avould gladly have taken part, and 
 to confess that his Avork in the world is done. 
 Yet this Aveakness may be reinforced by the 
 divine presence and pOAver, and the spirit 
 may be lifted up into a plane of life from 
 Avhicli it can look serenely doAvn upon the 
 weaknesses and pains of this mortal state, 
 and prepare itself for the entrance into im- 
 mortal life. For death, as every trustful 
 heart must feel, is not the end. It is the 
 transition stage of the soul, the door Avhich 
 opens to the spirit the boundless realm of 
 immortalit3^ 
 
22 HENRY P.. ANTHONY. 
 
 Do I err in saying that upon tlie character 
 of our friend, whose obsequies we obserYC to- 
 day, this discipline of the spirit has been ex- 
 ercised for his eternal good? The disease to 
 which he has yielded was certain in its pro- 
 gress, and its end was calmly foreseen. He 
 could not have deceived himself by any flat- 
 tering indications of temporary improvement. 
 He has himself anticipated the hour when 
 his physical life Avould be extinguished. Per- 
 haps he may have preferred to die at the (Jap- 
 ital ; possibly in the Senate chamber itself, 
 the scene of his patriotic lal)ors, in the midst 
 of associates who had learned both to honor 
 and to love him. For men, who, when liv- 
 ing, serve the State with passionate devotion, 
 may fittingly desire to die on the spot which 
 has been rendered memorable by their pres- 
 ence — as the soldier would wish to fall upon 
 the field of l)attle, or the man of God would 
 wish to be stricken down wearing the harness 
 of his valiant endeavor for the divine king- 
 dom. But, whenever and wherever the sum- 
 
EEV. AUGUSTUS WOODBURY's ADDRESS. 23 
 
 nions might come, he was ready. With a 
 cheerful courage, with a patient submission, 
 with an undoubting trust, he has cahnly 
 looked forward to the time of his departure 
 from the field of active life. For him death 
 had no terrors, for he had schooled himself 
 to that serenity of soul which could not be 
 disturbed either in life or death. Not given 
 much to introspection, certainly not disposed 
 to make public his private and personal expe- 
 riences, he was yet, without doubt, conscious 
 in himself of this calm and peaceful state, 
 and thus passed painlessly and (juietly to his 
 final rest. Long has he filled the public eye, 
 well has he accomplished the mission of his 
 public service, faithfully has he discharged 
 the public trusts committed to his care, and 
 now he leaves to his fellow-citizens and his 
 fellow-countrymen the record of his diligent 
 and devoted labor. We attempt no laljored 
 panegyric. We pass no judgment. The fu- 
 ture will determine the value of his service, 
 and posterity will pronounce the verdict. 
 
24 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 "Well done!" To speak a simple word of 
 appreciation before the grave shall shut him 
 from our sight, is thy office of the hour. 
 
 Mr. Anthony was a genuine child and 
 a faithful representative of Rhode Island. 
 Born upon her soil, nurtured in her tradi- 
 tions, educated at her University, receiving 
 the highest honors she had to give, he thor- 
 oughly believed in tlie perfection of her pol- 
 icy and the permanence of her institutions. 
 When called upon to defend the peculiar 
 features of her government, lie brought to 
 the task Ijotli the ability of an ad\'Ocate and 
 the devotion of a son. In the editorial chair 
 of the journal which he controlled, and in 
 his seat in the Senate, he never forgot the 
 obligations he owed to the mother, who had 
 reared and raised him to the position which 
 he occupied and filled. He was jealous of 
 her honor and was always prepared to do 
 valiant battle for her ancient prerogatives. 
 The arguments which more than once he 
 made both in the Providence Journal and 
 
REV. AUGUSTUS WOODBURY 's ADDRESS. 25 
 
 ill the Senate in her behalf, may not have 
 wholly convinced those who believed, that 
 ill the changes of the times a more generous 
 e:!ftension of suffrage and a freer commercial 
 policy were desirable. But no one could 
 question the depth of his convictions and 
 the sincerity of his faith. He was positive 
 that the prosi)erity of the State and the wel- 
 fare of its people were bound up in the main- 
 tenance of institutions which its history had 
 sanctioned. With the power of this assur- 
 ance, he went to his duty with an unflinch- 
 ing resolution to give to it the fullest ability 
 he could command. This element of strength 
 is not to be lightly valued in making up the 
 estimate of his character. 
 
 But the claims of his native State were not 
 permitted to lessen his devotion to his coun- 
 try's need. His patriotism was as wise and 
 enlightened as it was eminent and marked. 
 Entering the Senate at a time when the first 
 mutterings of the storm that was to sweep 
 the land were heard, he was prepared with a 
 
26 HEXRY B. ANTHOXY. 
 
 calm courage to face the tempest when it 
 broke. Feeling the full sense of the respon- 
 sibility of the occasion, as a representative of 
 the Union, he was fearless and urgent in all 
 measures for the defence of free institutions 
 and the preservation of the Repuljlic. He 
 never doubted the result of the struggle in 
 its darkest days, but cheerfully and bravely 
 Avrought on for the achievement of a full suc- 
 cess. In the days of reconstruction he en- 
 deavored so to act that no second misfortune 
 of the kind should befall. The constitution 
 of the Senate clianged. One by one his early 
 associates passed away. Some paid the debt 
 of Nature. Others w^ere swept away by polit- 
 ical revolutions. But no revolutions touched 
 his seat or alienated the support of the people 
 of his State. Repeated reelections returned 
 him to his Senatorial chair. He became the 
 "Father of the Senate," and as the new mem- 
 bers came in they sought both his counsel 
 and his friendship. He Avas elected President 
 pro tempore, and with grace and dignity he 
 
REV. AUGUSTUS WOODBURY's ADDRESS. 27 
 
 conducted the deliberations of tlie distin- 
 guished body which called him to its chief 
 post of honor. It was something more than 
 a compliment, when the Senate, notwith- 
 standing his precarious health, delayed its 
 organization and once more elected him to 
 the office, hoping that he might be able to 
 discharge its duties. It was a recognition of 
 his worth, and though he was obliged to de- 
 cline the position, he was touched with grat- 
 itude and made more conscious than ever of 
 the warmth of feeling which his fellow mem- 
 bers cherislied towards him in their hearts. 
 He was the model legislator of the upper 
 branch of the National Congress, not indulg- 
 ing in long debate, but always attentive and 
 always present in the spirit of conscious duty. 
 His practical wisdom is perpetuated in the 
 rule for facilitating the business of the Senate 
 which l)ears his name. 
 
 Public life has many temptations, and there 
 have been men in public station who have 
 thought it not beneath them to serve them- 
 
28 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 selves and their own interest Avhile engaged 
 in serving the State. It is true, that many 
 stories that are bandied about in tlie pul)lie 
 press, which seizes upon them with too ready 
 an appetite for scandal, are gross exaggera- 
 tions. In the fierce light that beats upon 
 official station peccadilloes become crimes. 
 Of these indeed, we condone nothing, we ex- 
 cuse nothing. But i)artisan zeal may some- 
 times put a wrong construction upon innocent 
 motives and acts. Happily for ourselves we 
 have no need to speak here with l)ated breath. 
 For honor lias followed merit and tlie biuret 
 bears no bHghted leaf. Of the value and 
 honesty of Mr. Anthony's public service 
 there has never been the slightest question. 
 No lireath of detraction ever tarnished the 
 lustre of his well-earned public fame. He 
 did not seek or use his office for private gain 
 or personal emolument. If he did not rise — 
 or even aspire to rise — to the summit of the 
 highest statesmanslii]), he yet allowed no one 
 to surpass him in (be singleness of his pur- 
 
EEV. AUGUSTUS WOODBURY S ADDRESS. 29 
 
 pose to advance tlie interests of his State and 
 to promote the welfare of his country. His 
 stainless patriotism and liis unsullied pnhlic 
 integrity are known of all men. They are 
 as credita])le to the i)eople of our common- 
 wealth as to himself. The re})resentative re- 
 flects the character of his constituents. If 
 the fountain of ])uhlic virtue l)e pure, the 
 stream cannot well ]h> turhid. 
 
 It seems liut commonplace to speak of Mr. 
 Anthony's literary attainments. Accepting 
 journalism as his profession, he rapidl}^ car- 
 ried the paper which he edited to the fore- 
 most rank. Soon after he took charge of it 
 there occurred that period of great puhlic 
 disturl)ance when the safety of the common- 
 wealth fairly trembled in the balance. He 
 promptly and ably met the emergency, and 
 gave such direction to public sentiment and 
 such encouragement to the cause of pul)]ic 
 order, as to merit the generous recognition of 
 the value of his labors which his fellow-citi- 
 zens were glad to give. With a clear, incisive. 
 
80 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 direct style of composition, he brought to the 
 daily discussion of current events and public 
 measures the ample stores and full equipment 
 of a well-furnished mind. He brightened the 
 columns of the Journal with delicate humor 
 and lambent wit. When indulging in satire, 
 he carried in the velvet scabljard of his well- 
 turned periods a sword sharp as the scimetar 
 of Saladin. In the consideration of graver 
 themes he exhibited a cogency and vigor 
 which revealed the strength of an original 
 and carefully-trained intellect. If one should 
 meet him in controversy, it were well to see 
 that there were no weak or unguarded places 
 in the joints of the armor. For his keen eye 
 was sure to find them, and his trenchant blade 
 would be thrust home witli fatal result. His 
 election as Governor did not take him from 
 his daily labor, while he neglected no public 
 duty. When relieved from his service at 
 Washington, even when aided by the grace- 
 ful and accomplished scholar who now pre- 
 sides over the University of Michigan, he was 
 
REV. AUGUSTUS WOODBURy's ADDRESS. 31 
 
 still active in his editorial lal^or. It was not 
 till the advent of his late associate — whose 
 recent death was like the loss of his right 
 arm — that he can be said to have really re- 
 lincjuished the management of the Journal. 
 Its columns were enriched by frequent con- 
 tributions from his ready pen. After Mr. 
 Danielson assumed control, the daily mail 
 brought to the office the letter which he 
 found time amidst engrossing cares to write. 
 He loved the Journal, for it was his off- 
 spring. 
 
 His fellow Senators will, in due time, bear 
 witness to the excellence and variety of these 
 literary gifts. In a larger field, on a more 
 conspicuous stage the same qualities of mind 
 and heart were displayed. He did not often 
 speak at length. It would be far from his 
 habit to occupy an entire session with pro- 
 longed address. But when he spoke, it was 
 from a thorough knowledge of his subject, 
 and in pregnant and weighty words. His 
 long experience and his accurate ac(|uaint- 
 
32 HENEY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 ance with public affairs gave him a coni- 
 manding influence. He was well entitled to 
 the respect and attention with Avhich he was 
 always heard. His Avork in the committee 
 room was thorough and efficient, and the 
 public measures which he brought to the 
 Senate, well digested and prepared, were ac- 
 cepted as the conclusions of one who knew 
 well the true character and purpose of na- 
 tional legislation. 
 
 In one department of puljlic speaking he 
 certainly excelled. The memorial addresses 
 which from time to time he delivered in the 
 Senate are among the finest specimens of 
 elegiac oratory to be found in our language. 
 In this he discharged no perfunctory duty. 
 Speaking from the heart, with a delicate ap- 
 preciation of character, with a marvellous 
 felicity of diction and facility of expression, 
 Avith a complete and clear conception of the 
 gravity of tfie occasion, he uttered the sin- 
 cere sentiments of Ijrotherly affection and 
 friendly regard. Of these the three addresses 
 
REV. AUGUSTUS WOODBURY's ADDRESS. 33 
 
 which he made on the death of Senator Sum- 
 ner are preeminent. It became his duty to 
 dehver to the authorities of Massachusetts 
 the body of the deceased statesman. I have 
 been told Ijy the Sergeant-at-Arms of the 
 Senate who accompanied the committee to 
 Boston, that Mr. Axthony was not informed 
 till reaching the frontier of the State of what 
 was expected of him. Amidst the noise and 
 turmoil of the railway journey, he composed 
 in his mind the brief but touching address, 
 which deserves to be inscribed on the imper- 
 ishal)le bronze. It Avas the grateful expres- 
 sion of profound feeling when, in committing 
 to the Governor of our neighboring common- 
 wealth the mortal part of her honored son, 
 he further said : "The part which we do not 
 return to you is not wholly yours to receive, 
 nor altogether ours to give. It belongs to 
 the country, to freedom, to civilization, to 
 humanity." The heart of the man spoke 
 from the tongue, and when, on other occa- 
 sions he addressed the Senate in eulogy of 
 
34 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 the friends who had fallen by his side, we 
 may well believe, that his whole nature was 
 stirred by the warm emotions that found ex- 
 pression on his eloquent lips. 
 
 Glimpses of his inner life are thus vouch- 
 safed to us. And if we were permitted here 
 to enter into those sacred precincts, where 
 personal and private sorrow has its home, 
 there would be a full revelation of kindness, 
 gentle consideration, fraternal love, generous 
 helpfulness, lo3^al friendship and uplifting 
 faith. An early sorrow touched our friend 
 soon after he had entered upon his public 
 career. There is no doubt but that it tinged 
 all his subsequent yenra. For though in so- 
 cial intercourse he was a most genial host, an 
 ever welcome guest, a delightful companion 
 and the centre of a charmed and charming 
 circle of friends, there was still the unseen 
 presence of a melancholy, which checked the 
 exuberance qf his spirits. It was the minor 
 chord in the harmony of his life. It is not 
 for me to dwell upon the theme. Those who 
 
REV. AUGUSTUS WOODBURY 's ADDRES!- 
 
 OO 
 
 have through life feU the warm contact of his 
 love, who have experienced the joy of his 
 friendship, who have shared his confidence 
 and secured his esteem, carry in their hearts 
 the fervent, grateful appreciation of his vir- 
 tue, and will long cherish the raemorv of his 
 worth. Those who were associated with him 
 in the common duties and lal)ors of human- 
 ity, those who were employed by him in the 
 conduct of his chosen occupation, those who 
 for many years have looked upon him as a 
 master and leader in their l)usiness, will ac- 
 knoAvledge the justice and honor with which 
 every detail was observed, the fidelity with 
 which every obligation was met, and the 
 thoroughness with which every task was 
 performed. Three score years and ten have 
 nearly passed. The heavy l)urden has been 
 laid down. The weary body is at rest. The 
 busy mind has transferred its activity to an- 
 other sphere of being. The spirit is with its 
 God. 
 
 Mr. AxTHoxY has seen in the Senate a gen- 
 
3G HENEY B. AXTHONY. 
 
 oration of statesnion pass away. He has seen 
 a new generation come upon the stage of pub- 
 he hfe. Is the past better tlian the present? 
 As we bid f\xrewell to those who vanish from 
 our sight, have we no Avord of wek-ome to 
 those wlio are pressing forward? We grieve 
 over the death of men who, we thought, coukl 
 hardly be spared. We look around to see 
 wlio are to take up and carry on the work 
 which they have been doing. A pillar of 
 the State has fallen, and as we look upon 
 the fragments, we fear tliat the structure 
 is weakened. But the Republic, bereaved 
 afresh of one of its most trusted and trust- 
 worthy counsellors, still lives. Divine Provi- 
 dence ahvays finds its agents and instruments, 
 and by the inspiration and help of the Divine 
 presence the blessed results })romised for hu- 
 manity will be attained. I cannot more 
 fittingly close this address than in Mr. Ax- 
 thony's own Avords: "When I recall those 
 whom I liave seen fall around me, and whom 
 I thought necessary to the success, almost to 
 
REV, AUGUSTUS WOODBURY S ADDRESS. 37 
 
 tlie preservation of great principles, I recall 
 also those whom I have seen step into the 
 vacant places, pnt on the armor which they 
 wore, lift the weapons which they wielded, 
 and march on to the consummation of the 
 w<")rk which they inaugurated. And thus I 
 am filled with reverent wonder at the benefi- 
 cent ordering of nature, and inspired with a 
 loftier faith in that Almighty Power, with- 
 out Avhose guidance and direction all human 
 effort is vain, and with whose blessing the 
 humblest instruments that He selects are 
 equal to the mightiest work that He de- 
 
 The exercises at the church closed with 
 prayers, the singing of an appropriate hymn 
 by the congregation, and the benediction. 
 
 The funeral cortege was large and impos- 
 ing. The streets through which it slowly 
 ^vended its way were thronged with jjeople, 
 who by their countenances expressed their 
 
38 HENRY P.. ANTHONY. 
 
 profound sensil)ility of tlie public bereave- 
 ment. At the Swan Point Cemetery the 
 remains were entombed, tlie Chaplain of the 
 Senate uttered fervent i)rayer, and the as- 
 semblage bowed with uncovered heads and 
 saddened hearts. 
 
 " The dark orowd moves, and tlieve are sobs and tears: 
 The black earth yawns : tlic mortal disappears ; 
 Ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; 
 He is o'one who seem'd so great." 
 
ACTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 
 
 On the assembling of the General Assembly 
 at its adjourned session in Providence, on the 
 sixth day of January, 1885, His Excellency 
 the Governor in his annual Message to the 
 two Houses, referred to the death of Senator 
 Anthony in the following words: 
 
 ''I have now to perform the sad duty of 
 announcing to the General Assembly, offi- 
 cially, the death of Hon. Henry B. Anthony, 
 who was our senior memljer in the United 
 States Senate. He died in the city of Provi- 
 dence, September 2d, in the 70th year of his 
 age. 
 
 "Twenty-seven years ago this spring he 
 was elected by the almost unanimous vote of 
 the General Assembly to the United States 
 
40 HEXRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 Senate, and at the time of his death was the 
 senior nieni1)er in k'ligth of consecutive ser- 
 vice. During this entire period he possessed 
 not only tlie unbounded confidence of his 
 constituents, Ijut Ijv his marked abilities, his 
 devotion to duty, and his uniform courtesy, 
 he had gained the entire confidence and es- 
 teem of his fellow Senators. On the 14th of 
 Januar}^, 1884, he was elected to the high 
 position of President of the Senate and act- 
 ing Vice-President of the United States, but, 
 owing to his feeble health, was obliged to de- 
 cline the office, very much to the disai)point- 
 ment of the people of ivhode Island, and of 
 his many friends throughout the country. 
 
 "Although for nearly a year and a half he 
 suffered from a dangerous disease, he at times 
 regained so much of his accustomed strength 
 that we all had h()j)ed that he would be spared 
 to us for many years. 
 
 "A grateful peo})le will long rememl)er his 
 valuable services, and will cherish his many 
 virtues." 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 In the House of Representatives, on the 
 same day, the following Resolutions were 
 presented by Ex-Governor Charles C. Van 
 Zandt, a representative from Newport : 
 
 Resolutions upon the death of Senator Anthony. 
 
 Whereas, The Honorable Henry B. Anthony, the 
 senior Senator from Rhode Island in the Congress of 
 the United States, after a lingering illness, is dead, full 
 of years and honors, having served faithfully and with 
 distinguished ability, for a period unprecedented in dura- 
 tion in the history of the State : 
 
 Therefore, Resolved, This General Assembly de- 
 sires to express and to spread upon the records of the 
 State their appreciation of the eminent character and 
 brilliant services of Senator Anthony and the genuine 
 patriotism which inspired his statesmanship and shaped 
 his public and private career. 
 
42 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 Resolved, The Honorable Senate concurring herein, 
 that these resohitions be entered upon the records of 
 each of the two Houses of this General Assembly. 
 
 The resolutions were ordered printed and 
 made the special order for Friday, the ninth 
 day of January, when they were called from 
 the table by Ex-Governor Van Zandt, who 
 addressed the House as follows: 
 
 EX-GOVERNOR VAN ZANDT's REMARKS. 
 
 Mr. Speaker. — I do not know whether I can 
 add by any words of mine to the force and 
 strength of what has already been said, not 
 only in this State but through the length 
 and breadth of the country, of the graces 
 and the patriotism of Henry B. Anthony. 
 I am only a follower of those who have said 
 everything that was to be expressed in his 
 memory. I only bring a few personal remi- 
 niscences and an offering of sincere friend- 
 
I 
 
 EX-GOV. VAN ZANDT S REMARKS. 43 
 
 ship to the memoi;y of one whom for ma 113^ 
 years, I have known, esteemed and sustained. 
 
 History has been made with rapidity dur- 
 ing the last twenty-five years; it has accom- 
 plished more in that time than in the two 
 centuries preceding. It seems to me that the 
 men of this nation who, either in the forum 
 or in the field, have identified themselves 
 with the right and defended and supported 
 it in the hour of peril are entitled to the 
 very first places in the hearts of their coun- 
 trymen, and as time recedes, and what is to 
 us now a vivid picture, must become a mere 
 memory of the past, these men will stand 
 preeminent in the history of the country 
 and the State. 
 
 Our resolutions are sympathetic and friend- 
 ly, and our remarks as to the life and char- 
 acter of Henry B. AntiJony are given in a 
 different way, I might say in a different 
 spirit, from that which will in a few hours 
 or days be spoken under the great dome of 
 the Capitol at Washington, for there his ser- 
 
44 HEXKY P.. AXTHOXY. 
 
 vices will be recognized and enlogized b}^ the 
 strongest and ablest men and the most elo- 
 qnent statesmen of both parties in this great 
 countiy. It will be grand and dignified; it 
 will be as solemn and majestic as the "Dead 
 March in Sanl." Here we gather as one Tam- 
 il}^ and recall the different recollections of 
 him, near to our hearts, and in contrast to 
 what will be done in the capital city of this 
 conntrv. It will differ from the national 
 enlogies because through it will run like a 
 golden thread the dearer melody of "Home, 
 Sweet Home." 
 
 Senator Anthony was born on the soil of 
 Rhode Island, in one of its pleasant rural 
 villages, and dame nature smiled upon his 
 face when he was an infant and beautified it 
 forever. He came to the city when young; 
 he graduated from our University; all his 
 earlier manhood, with some unimportant ex- 
 ceptions, was passed among us, and the result 
 of his bringing up was a sound old-fashioned 
 conservatism. This fashioned and controlled 
 
Ex-Gov. VAN zaxdt's eemarks. 45 
 
 his whole life and his actions. I propose to 
 speak very briefly to you to-day upon Hexry 
 B. AxTHoxY, the man, the editor, and the 
 statesman. 
 
 After graduating Avith high honors, and 
 with eyes full of hope and cheeks flushed 
 Avith the anticipation of dawning manhood, 
 he Avent forth to earn his OAvn living, as he 
 AA^as not gifted Avith large ancestral posses- 
 sions. When he AA^as young he displayed 
 taste and culture. He had a natural incli- 
 nation for poetry, and some of his earlier 
 verses might Avell be used to-day to garland 
 his tomb Avhen he died full of honors and 
 of 3^ears. He Avielded the pen of a ready 
 Avriter, and Avhen he became an editor it Avas 
 marvellous to see the subtle charm and force 
 and beauty of diction AA'hich he gave to his 
 paragraphs, AAdiich Avere pregnant AAuth A\'is- 
 dom. It seemed to me sometimes that his 
 ready and trenchant paragraph gloAved and 
 sparkled as one might imagine the magnetic 
 Avire AAuth its message of flame touched with 
 
40 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 a pencil of fire. There was an exquisite 
 charm and fascination in his words, akin 
 to music, and a force and accuracy and 
 common sense in his conclusions. He never 
 buried or suffocated facts or good sense in a 
 profusion of rhetoric. And therefore it was 
 natural that in his early days he should be 
 called to the editorship of what was then the 
 principal paper in Rhode Island. How well 
 he discharged the duties of his position the 
 older men ])efore me know perhaps better 
 than the younger. He wrote with the accu- 
 racy and polish of an Addison his editorials 
 in the columns of the Providence Daily Jour- 
 nal. Day after day he performed his inces- 
 sant and untiring labors as editor, and how 
 incessant the labors of an editor are when 
 the paper stands at his bedside every morn- 
 ing and calls like the leech's daughter crying 
 for "more and more," only an editor knows. 
 This hard Avork he did, and brought the 
 finest culture of the scholar to his assistance. 
 I think that everv one will concede that 
 
EX-GOV. VAN ZAXDT's REMARKS. 47 
 
 Henry B. Anthony, during the struggle in 
 this State from 1840 to 1842, when there was 
 serious internal trouble respecting the organic 
 law of the State, conscientiously ascertained 
 the right and the conservative interests, as 
 he esteemed them, of the people, and battled 
 for them to victory, and this he did all 
 through life. The results of this flowed in 
 upon him personally. His paper was a suc- 
 cess. Time rolled on and he surrounded 
 himself with the most sparkling coterie of 
 friends that ever assembled in this State, and 
 as brilliant as gathered in the days of good 
 Queen Bess in England. Men of intellectual 
 keenness and learning, possessing great pow- 
 ers of wit and satire, naturally erratic in pro- 
 portion to their brilliancy — for comets have 
 no well defined orbits, and the meteor that 
 scatters diamonds and rubies on the breast 
 of night has no orbit at all,— but the subtle 
 and wonderful powers of Henry B. Anthony 
 easily placed him first among them. Al- 
 though many of them were gifted with rare 
 
HENRY B. ANTHONY 
 
 genius, yet without his conceded leadersliip 
 it would have been barren of results. This 
 was a personal power I have never seen sur- 
 passed. 
 
 He married early in life, and his life was 
 saddened by the ^death of the lovely woman 
 who became everything to him. She shared 
 his labors, penned editorials, wrote brief par- 
 agraphs, and was always at his side. She 
 died many years ago. 
 
 I have some hesitancy as to the fitness of 
 my making one remark, Ijut after due delib- 
 eration it appears to me to be so tender and 
 so delightful a view of the character of the 
 dead statesman, that I cannot refrain from 
 mentioning it here. I Avas with him one 
 evening in the month of November ; it was 
 just about the gloaming. There Avas a great 
 Avood fire sparkling on the hearthstone; AA^e 
 sat talking, .when l)y-and-l)y he Avent up 
 stairs but came down in n feAv moments and 
 brouglit Avitli liim a Avliite marl)le model of a 
 female hand. He lield it up to me and it 
 
EX-GOV. VAN ZANDt's REMARKS. 49 
 
 became almost lifelike in the glowing of the 
 fire. He said to me that it was his wife's 
 hand. As I stood by the side of his coffin 
 and saw his hands lying upon his breast cold 
 and white in death it came irresistibly into 
 my mind that in the land aljove the stars 
 and clouds those two hands would be united 
 forever, and there would be no more sei3ara- 
 tion or parting. 
 
 Governor Anthony remained as editor of 
 the Providence Journal and actively engaged 
 in kindred pursuits until he was elected Sen- 
 ator. You are f\imiliar, Mr. Speaker, with 
 the circumstances that led to his election as 
 Governor, and the graceful dignity with 
 which he adorned that position, and the 
 conservative character he gave to his admin- 
 istration. The people wished to elect him for 
 a third time, but he declined. Yet after an 
 interval of years, still in the f\iithful service 
 of the public as editor, he was chosen to the 
 position of United States Senator. This was 
 in 1858, and I cast mv first vote for him. I 
 
50 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 well remember the occasion, and how that 
 rosy cheeked, dark eyed young man sped on 
 his way to Washington with ambition more 
 than gratified. The civil Avar began almost 
 contemporaneously, and if Henry B. An- 
 thony during the entire course of his Sen- 
 atorial career ever spoke a false word or gave 
 an unpatriotic vote, I am not aware of it. 
 There was an exquisite symmetr}^ in his 
 whole career which defied criticism and dis- 
 armed partisanship. He was a party man, 
 3^et he was regarded with affection and ad- 
 miration by, I think I may say, all the mem- 
 bers of the opposite party. He stood by 
 Abraham Lincoln, strengthened his hands, 
 cheered his heart and supported his admin- 
 istration faithfully and devotedly; he sus- 
 tained the government with men and money, 
 and if one were to be asked which was the 
 hardest, whether to stand in the field ^vhcre 
 grim visaged war had reared its awful front 
 or face to face in the Senate cliamber witli 
 defiant and sullen men, who with their States 
 
EX-GOV. VA?f ZANDT's REMARKS. 51 
 
 were leaving one by one, and subsequently 
 opposed by those who misunderstood what 
 they called his radicalism in the conduct of 
 the war, he might Avell say — It was the 
 higher moral heroism to stand there calmly, 
 coolly and faithfully, and sustain the gov- 
 ernment and preserve the Union. 
 
 In the Senate he was at one time presid- 
 ing officer and practically Vice-President of 
 the United States. Although at times there 
 seemed to be almost a want of virile power, 
 yet when you contemplate him carefully you 
 see that it was the result of prudence and 
 discretion, mingled in no way Avith appre- 
 hension or hesitancy. He differed in tem- 
 perament from many others, yet he differed 
 wisely and well. 
 
 I do not know, Mr. Speaker, that I can add 
 anything to these imperfect -statements. It 
 is very difficult when a man's heart is too 
 near his lips for him to express his thoughts 
 with that clearness and force and eloquence 
 which he would desire to use. But truth is 
 
52 HEXRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 always eloquent, and truth is more than elo- 
 quent when it is irradiated with S3'mpath3^ 
 and with love. 
 
 Henry B. Anthony has passed away. He 
 will always he rememhered in the history of 
 the State. We come here to-day to cast our 
 glistening pebbles on his cairn. A few days 
 and w^e shall throw our ballots for the man 
 who is to succeed him. Veril}^ Mr. Speaker, 
 the king is dead; long live the king. 
 
 Mr. Charles E. Gorman, of Providence, 
 then spoke as follows : 
 
 MR. Gorman's remarks. 
 
 3Ir. Speaker. — In tlie midst of the aflPection- 
 ate praises of friends and the admiring eulo- 
 gies of political associates, I deem it my duty 
 toward the memory of our late Senator to 
 add the word of one who bore toward him in 
 life tlie relations of political antagonism and 
 of personal friendliness. 
 
:\[R. GORMAX'S REMARKS. 53 
 
 The occasion, though one of eulogy, is 
 ne(^essarily one of generosity, for it is most 
 becoming when the lips are sealed by death, 
 that the truthful testimony of the living 
 should be spoken unalloyed with the contests 
 that are closed and unaffected by the differ- 
 ences that are terminated. 
 
 It is now fully thirty years since I first 
 met Senator Anthony. He was then the 
 editor of the Providence Journal, I a news- 
 boy. 
 
 At that time the present system of ex- 
 changes between newspapers did not prevail, 
 and papers pul)lished in foreign cities were 
 obtained by purchase. It was one of my 
 daily duties, upon the arrival of the New 
 York and Boston dailies, to carry them to 
 the editorial room of the Journal, then on 
 Washington row. The relation thus early 
 established between Senator Axthoxy and 
 myself was a very pleasant, although not in- 
 timate one. The impression that a man like 
 Senator Axthoxy would make on a young 
 
54 HENRY P.. ANTHONY. 
 
 boy is one of tliose that lasts tlirough life. 
 To me this daily intercourse and its sur- 
 roundings are as of yesterday. I can picture 
 him now in that inner sanctum, the embodi- 
 ment of manly vigor and handsomeness, sur- 
 rounded in the late afternoon l)y that group 
 of Rhode Island's sons and friends of his, 
 whom he "grappled to his heart with hooks 
 of steel"; the then centre of Rhode Island's 
 statescraft and politics as it continued until 
 his demise. 
 
 I can now well fancy how within that 
 little room the affairs of the State and the 
 political party, of which his paper was the 
 organ, were discussed and determined, and 
 how Governors, and Senators, and Repre- 
 sentatives were made and unmade. 
 
 Some of the men that gathered there, are 
 still among us, the majority liave passed to 
 realms beyond. 
 
 Among the dead I recall Professor Goddard, 
 the polished scholar and courteous gentleman, 
 whose careful productions invariably entered 
 
I 
 
 MR. Gorman's remarks. 55 
 
 the columns of the Journal iinserutiiiized Ijy 
 the careful editor; James F. Simmons, mod- 
 est and retiring, then approaching his Sena- 
 torial term, full of facts and information 
 relating to the diversified industries of New 
 England; Sullivan Dorr, the father, primely 
 dressed with immaculate ruffled shirt and 
 genial ruddy face; Wilkins Updike, with his 
 quaint figure, blue coat and brass buttons; 
 Nathan F. Dixon, liis bosom friend of college 
 days long passed, plain of speech and man- 
 ner, but every inch a man ; and William P. 
 Blodgett, with his practical pleasantries and 
 radiant expression. 
 
 Of those among us, EdAvard H. Hazard, full 
 of quip and joke, and with that soft manner 
 that touches grief so lightly and consolingly ; 
 Hon. William W. Hoppin, whose gentleness, 
 so natural, gives us a glimpse of what Ches- 
 terfield had been ; Hon. Walter S. Burges, 
 Democratic to the core, but knowing tlie pure 
 qualities of true friendship never allowed his 
 politics to disturb the attachment Ijetween 
 
56 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 himself and his lifo-Ioiig friend, and Stephen 
 Harris, holding in his hand every wire that 
 could be pulled at the approaching contests, 
 and many, many others, Mr. Speaker, could 
 I recall, all, the best of Rhode Island's sons. 
 
 Were the portraits of the men who thus 
 gathered around Senator Anthony portrayed 
 upon canvas, there would be preserved an 
 historical picture of the brains, the culture 
 and ability that dictated the destinies of the 
 State during that period, worthy of preserva- 
 tion upon these Avails, 
 
 May I say, Mr. Speaker, that of all tliat 
 entered that room none Avere more welcomed 
 or more kindly received than the swift-footed, 
 happy-hearted newsboy, who thoughtlessly in- 
 terrupted discussion, carelessly pervaded pri- 
 vacy — never rebuffed, always smiled upon, 
 and at New Years generously remembered. 
 But, sir, these were the (jualities of the man — 
 a man of heart, of gentleness and of charity. 
 
 This was of my ])oyhood days. Thirty 
 years have since rolled swiftly by, but the 
 
MR. Gorman's remarks. 57 
 
 recollections of the kindness that shone upon 
 that unequal intercourse remains bright with- 
 in my memory to-day. 
 
 In a few years the gracious editor was lost 
 in the dignity of the Senator, I thought, to 
 me forever. Sixteen years afterwards I had 
 occasion to visit Washington, bearing with 
 me a petition in behalf of my fellow-citizens 
 relating to the suffrage laws of this State. 
 To my surprise, on the morning of my arri- 
 val, Senator Anthony called upon me at my 
 hotel. He recalled our former relations, and 
 extended to me in that gracious manner so 
 preeminently his own, the hospitality of his 
 table and his assistance in all that would 
 conduce to my business or pleasure. From 
 thenceforward our acquaintance continued, 
 unbroken in its pleasant relations. 
 
 Those who ever met Senator Anthony in 
 Washington will readily appreciate the deli- 
 cacy of his attentions and confiding influ- 
 ences of his manner. And those who have 
 met him under any circumstances will always 
 
58 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 remember the seductive charm of his bearing. 
 To him all were his equals, and thus he 
 treated them. An opponent might well ex- 
 claim after first meeting him : 
 
 "Make me not acquainted with thy enemy lest I become his 
 friend ! " 
 
 Of Mr. Anthony as the active editor of the 
 Joiirnal, I of course know but little ; long be- 
 fore I became interested in editorials he had 
 resigned that position, and it had passed into 
 other hands. Sufficient, however, in my time 
 has been traced to his pen, to easily distin- 
 guish his graceful style and pungent pro- 
 ductions. Those rich, trenchant, piercing 
 paragraphs Avere the work of a master hand. 
 They did their work well and in no bungling 
 manner. If they did at some times wound, 
 it was a sharp, dexterous cut that usually 
 healed and rarely left a scar. 
 
 Senator Anthony has frequently been re- 
 ferred to asj a Rhode Island man. I do not 
 understand this to mean that he would not 
 have been prominent outside of Rhode Isl- 
 
:\rR. GORMAN S REMARKS. -)'.; 
 
 and. I certainly do not ascribe to him that 
 in order to shine a small State was necessary 
 for a brilliant exhibition of his talents. He 
 entered active life in the State of his birth 
 amidst the men who had passed ttirough 
 the eventful days of 1842. He knew Rhode 
 Island, her people and her traditions well. 
 He studied all that entered into the political 
 forces of that time, of the then reorganized 
 State. He knew Avhere the political poAver 
 lay, and where were the weaknesses in the 
 citadel of that power, and he set himself to 
 the patriotic work (as he judged it) of direct- 
 ing that power and defending those weak- 
 nesses. How successfully he accomplished 
 it, none know better than I, and none in 
 this House, however deploringly, more read- 
 ily acknowledge the fact. 
 
 Unstintedly I accord to his memory the 
 tribute of his having done his work well and 
 with a chieftain's strength. 
 
 In these years, however, although at the 
 head of a party ample in power, he met 
 
GO HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 many controversies and strifes, and in the 
 allaying of these he displayed a power that 
 was as rare as it was masterly. In the ampli- 
 tude of power, the arrogance of factions with- 
 in are as dangerous as opponents without. 
 
 In all these party strifes it was his word 
 and counsel, it was his magnetism and cour- 
 age that allayed dissension and reformed the 
 lines of his party to march to their political 
 contests with unbroken front. 
 
 Senator Anthony may not be deemed to 
 have acquired the fame as a statesman that 
 fell to the lot of many of his illustrious asso- 
 ciates, but he was a most consummate leader 
 of men. He possessed in a preeminent de- 
 gree that peculiar and necessary power in 
 American politics to understand men and to 
 direct their action; to discern the political 
 forces, active and dormant, and to control 
 and bring them into play, so that the politi- 
 cal ideas and principles one maintains may 
 be carried to success ; the ability to allay dis- 
 cord and to appear upon the field when all is 
 
MR. Gorman's remarks. 61 
 
 dismay and disaster, and to snatch victory 
 from the verge of defeat. This was truly a 
 great and useful quality. I have never met 
 one within this State who approached him in 
 the possession of this power, and we vainly 
 look for one that even approaches him in 
 this respect now that he is gone. 
 
 To such a man Rhode Island Avas but a 
 play-ground. And I have no doubt that in 
 the great national contests of his party the 
 counsel of his wisdom, his experiences, and 
 his ability, was often sought. 
 
 Senator Anthony would have been a great 
 leader in any community, and would have 
 added lustre to American diplomacy where- 
 ever his country might have sent him. 
 
 In the State apart from his public career 
 he will ever be remembered by the goodness 
 of his heart, the polish of his culture and the 
 blamelessness of his life. 
 
 His, however, was largely a public career. 
 Entering the Senate of the United States at a 
 period which demanded the highest of patri- 
 
62 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 otic action, he was the surest witness upon 
 the watch towers of the nation of Rhode 
 Island's devotion to the Union. His un- 
 precedentedly long and continuous term of 
 service, it is true, was not marked by any 
 significant act of statesmanship or by any 
 illustrious exhibition of talent, but his ster- 
 ling devotion to duty was not defaced by 
 any act of cupidity or sullied by dishonor. 
 In my mind Mr, Anthony's fame as a Sen- 
 ator may well rest with those of his associates 
 and the measures they formulated and he 
 sustained. 
 
 Upon the passage of the thirteenth amend- 
 ment the country released, amidst their for- 
 mer masters in bondage, four millions of 
 slaves, and it became an immediate problem 
 of the nation what their future should be. 
 Clothed with citizenship, bringing to them 
 new rights and privileges, how could these 
 be secured became a pressing and embarrass- 
 ing question. He and they solved this great 
 question at once, finally and fully, in the 
 
MR. Gorman's remarks. 63 
 
 true x\^merican Avay, by the fourteenth and 
 fifteenth amendments to the national Consti- 
 tution, by whicli these recently created free- 
 men and citizens, numerous but politically 
 powerless, were armed with the American 
 weapon of defence against tyranny and mis- 
 rule — the ballot. 
 
 He knew well tliat if a consideral^le por- 
 tion of a community were left unprotected 
 by the possession of the ballot, their liberties 
 and rights were in constant jeopardy. He 
 knew, too, that although this sacred right of 
 suffrage were placed even in the hands of an 
 unlettered race, that while there might be 
 some abuse, that in the long run its educa- 
 tional influences would result in preserving 
 the commonwealth in peace, order and pros- 
 perity. 
 
 It is, therefore, in connection with these 
 declarations of great American principles of 
 Democratic government that I prefer to re- 
 member him. 
 
 It detracts none from the honor in which 
 
64 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 he should be held by the people he helped to 
 legislate into freedom and elevate into citi- 
 zenship that he was not more comprehensive 
 in the application of these principles. Nor 
 am I here to-day with any desire to criticise 
 or to pluck one laurel from his brow. 
 
 The period of Mr. Anthony's Senatorial 
 term was one within which many of his as- 
 sociates were driven from their pul)lic posts 
 of duty in dishonor and disgrace. When 
 this is the fact, I deem that it is proper to 
 give emphasis to the lofty, honest and pure 
 public reputation he ever bore. 
 
 Senator Anthony was in every sense a 
 man, the memory of whom the State should 
 honor. Whatever may be written of our his- 
 tory previous to the time when he entered 
 active life, the period from thenceforward 
 contains no more conspicuous citizen, and 
 when the history of the times within Avhich 
 he lived is written, his name will be foremost 
 of her many illustrious sons around whom 
 all others must be grouped. The death of 
 
MR. Pendleton's remarks. 65 
 
 such a man is essentially a loss to the State, 
 to me it can be no more than one whose pri- 
 vate character I respected, whose public vir- 
 tues I extol, whose open political antagonism 
 I admired, whose personal kindness I miss. 
 But to those who have had the assistance of 
 his counsel and have followed in the foot- 
 steps of his leadership to so many victories, 
 and never to defeat, the loss will be truly 
 great. We must remember, however, on 
 such occasions, 
 
 " The glories of our blood aud State 
 Are shadows, not substantial things ; 
 There is no armour against fate ; 
 Death lays his icy hand on kings ; 
 Sceptre aud crown 
 Must tumble down, 
 And in the dust be equal made 
 With the poor crooked scythe and spade." 
 
 Mr. James M. Pendleton, of Westerly, ad- 
 dressed the House as follows : 
 
66 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 MR. PENDLETON S REMARKS. 
 
 ilfr. Speaker. — I am not so presumptuous as 
 to rise here with the intention to pronounce 
 a eulogy on him whose sudden death sent a 
 shock of sorrow, not only throughout this 
 State which loved him so well, and which he 
 served so long, so faithfully, and with bril- 
 liant distinction, but throughout the nation, 
 which mourns the loss of a servant on whose 
 virtues, abilities and well proven patriotism, 
 so long the ornament and stay of her highest 
 council chamber, she had come to rely. 
 
 My more modest purpose is to attempt, as 
 well as I can, to make a simple statement of 
 what seem to me some of the chief qualities 
 of mind and character which made him so 
 endeared, so trusted, so honored. 
 
 It is now thirty-six years since I first knew 
 Henry B. Anthony. Since 1861, for twenty- 
 four years I have known him personally ; 
 some of the time intimately. I have been 
 
MR. Pendleton's remaeks. 67 
 
 something of a close and interested observer 
 of his public life, and, sir, when I think of 
 the service of Senator Anthony, extending 
 as it does, through such a long space, and 
 that space covering as it does the most criti- 
 cal and trying period of our national career, 
 when I am called upon this solemn and 
 mournful occasion to speak some words 
 which shall express fittingly the worth of 
 his work, sir, I am oppressed with the multi- 
 tude of thoughts that crowd upon me. I am 
 painfully aware of my inability to say any- 
 thing: which will enhance the name of a man 
 whose faithful and distinguished service of 
 more than a quarter of a century has already 
 enshrined in the hearts of a grateful people 
 an enviable and immortal memory. The rec- 
 ord of that service is too long to be recited 
 here — there is no time even to single out 
 from the great multitude a few of the shin- 
 ing results. 
 
 I will call your attention to what I con- 
 sider some of the traits of Senator Anthony's 
 
68 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 character, which were the foundation of his 
 greatness and his worth. At a time when 
 the quality of men's souls was tried to the 
 utmost, when in the confusion and fiery swirl 
 of impending war ; when the rude, strong 
 hand of rebellion was clutching the throat of 
 the nation — those days of swift transitions, 
 of hot, passionate deeds, when the very fibre 
 and texture of man's faith in republican in- 
 stitutions Avas put to its severest tension — 
 Senator Anthony stands in his place in the 
 United States Senate, so strong, so brave, 
 so eminently wise in counsel, surprising his 
 most admiring friends by his equality with 
 every emergency of the State as it arose, in 
 the rush and whirl of events, never hurried 
 from his balance. In emergencies that swept 
 men into confusion, -the Senator stood firm, 
 calm, alert, listening, analyzing, cool, (piick 
 to detect what was the wise thing to be done, 
 and having decided, he pushed it witli all 
 the impassioned energy of heart and brain. 
 I ask, sir, what was it that enabled our Sen- 
 
MR. Pendleton's remaekr. G9 
 
 ator so unerringly to do the right thing, 
 proving himself in times of panic and loud 
 mouthed war, ''A pillar steadfast in the 
 storm?" I should answer, sir, it was his 
 fidelity to duty, which being exercised in the 
 place to which he was called was a sacred 
 sense of patriotism, and this sacred love of 
 countr}^ runs through his Avhole public life 
 and gives it almost an epical quality. And, 
 sir, this splendid trait is strikingl}^ shown in 
 the fact that when peace came it was found 
 that he who had stood through the darkest 
 hours of the war without once losinii- heart 
 or hope, was free from those bitter and blind- 
 ing feelings of animosity and of vengeance 
 which war so commonly leaves behind it. 
 His public acts after the war all through 
 those trying and perplexing days of recon- 
 struction bear upon them the unmistakable 
 stamp of a l)road, wise and magnanimous 
 statesmanship, which could emanate only 
 from a heart and mind actuated by a deep 
 and sacred love of country. 
 
70 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 Again, sir, it has been charged by some 
 critics of Senator Anthony that he ncA^er 
 originated any great measure of statecraft. 
 How true this criticism may be I am not 
 prepared to say, but one thing stands out 
 in glittering glory through his long public 
 career, and that is his almost perfect political 
 insight. He possessed in an extraordinary de- 
 gree the rare quality to know a good thing 
 when it was presented, and he had the cour- 
 age and ability to defend it, uphold it, and 
 push it with a zeal and tact that went far 
 towards compensating for the lack of the 
 genius of originality. He not only listened 
 to advice, but he had the rare gift to distin- 
 guish and seek out those most competent to 
 offer it. He could learn and profit by other 
 minds. His judgment of a measure was so 
 profoundly wise and right as to argue a qual- 
 ity of statesmanship of greater value often 
 than any quality of origination. 
 
 " He that borrows the aid of an equal un- 
 derstanding," said Burke, "doubles his own; 
 
MR. PENDLETON S REMARKS. 71 
 
 he that uses that of a superior elevates his 
 own to the stature of that he contemplates." 
 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to 
 his authors, Lander replies: ''Yet he was 
 more original than his originals." It is Em- 
 erson, I think, who says: "Next to the orig- 
 inator of a good sentence is the first quoter 
 of it." 
 
 But, sir, our Senator was always equal to 
 the need. He had a masterful good sense, 
 which mastered the problems of the emer- 
 gency ; and his clear comprehension of them 
 as they grew proved him a man fitted to the 
 event. It would be hard, sir, to exaggerate 
 his worth. He was tested by heroic trials, 
 lived still after many of the heroes, a heroic 
 age raised up had passed away; a hero he 
 stood to the end and now. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I cannot close without speak- 
 ing of one other shining trait. If the Uni- 
 ted States Senate ever had a member who 
 was thoroughly incorruptible, who was proof 
 against all bribes offered to vanity, prejudice 
 
72 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 and ambition, and selfish interest, and whom 
 all the fairest and most tempting enticements 
 of this world could not swerve or persuade 
 into a dishonest action, that member was 
 Henry B. Anthony — this integrity he prized 
 above every earthly gift. It was the corner- 
 stone on which his character was built, he 
 consecrated it to the service of his State and 
 nation — and, sir, when I think of all those 
 days of such swift transitions, when men 
 were speeding by such questionable ways 
 to colossal wealth, of such passionate and 
 al,)rupt changes of opinion, yet through it all 
 he proved himself a man worthy and trusted, 
 always holding to the right — I would say, 
 instinctively doing the right thing. More 
 than shrewd, he was sagacious. When I re- 
 member that of all the votes he cast on pub- 
 lic measures through all those years, I do not 
 recall one of those votes now which, viewed 
 in the light of mature thought, either his 
 State or his warmest and clearest sighted 
 friend could wish changed, or even think 
 
MR. freeman's remarks. 73 
 
 unwise. I repeat, sir, when I think of all 
 this, men are fallible, I know, but sir, Henry 
 B. Anthony seems almost infallible in his 
 judgment as a public servant, as attested in 
 his voting for and support of public meas- 
 ures, this is no chance or accident. It was 
 a result of his unfaltering fidelity to duty, 
 his keen insight and fine appreciation, his 
 unswerving integrity. 
 
 I cannot more fittingly close what I have 
 to say than by using his own words on 
 Charles Sumner: ''His eulogy is his life; 
 his epitaph is the general grief; his monu- 
 ment, builded by his own hands, is the eter- 
 nal statutes of freedom." 
 
 Mr. Edward L. Freeman, of Lincoln, made 
 
 the following remarks : 
 
 MR. FREEMAN S REMARKS. 
 
 Mr. Speaker. — On the 2d of September last, 
 at high noon, in the city that he loved, 
 
74 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 Henry Bowen Anthony, the senior Senator 
 of the United States from Rhode Ishmd, 
 peacefully fell on sleep. Though it had been 
 known for months that his life would not 
 probably be greatly prolonged, yet the an- 
 nouncement came most unexpectedly and 
 unwelcomely. As the sad tidings were whis- 
 pered over the city, in the busy haunts of 
 trade, in the halls of learning and of justice, 
 in the domestic circle, there was one univer- 
 sal expression of sorrow and regret. And 
 as on the wings of the lightning the intelli- 
 gence Avas carried throughout the length and 
 breadth of the land, all that knew him felt 
 that they had reason for sorrow. But it was 
 in this his native State that his loss was most 
 deeply felt and most sincerely mourned. 
 
 I do not propose to attempt any eulogy 
 upon his life and services to State or nation ; 
 abler pens than mine have written of his 
 career as journalist, his virtues as a citizen, 
 his services as a statesman; more eloquent 
 tongues than mine have spoken of his abil- 
 
MR. freeman's remarks. 75 
 
 ity, his integrity, his high sense of honor in 
 pubHc position, his constancy and truth in 
 all the relations of life. I can, however, but 
 add a word as to some of those qualities 
 which especially endeared him to every one 
 who loves our State. 
 
 He held Rhode Island's honor and repu- 
 tation much dearer than any personal consid- 
 eration or interest. For many years, without 
 near domestic ties, Rhode Island was to him 
 wife and children ; the love and atfection that 
 other men cherish for these nearest earthly 
 friends, he lavished upon her. He could 
 endure personal abuse, misrepresentation or 
 assault without manifesting the slightest an- 
 noyance ; but when the fair fame of his native 
 State was attacked, or her institutions villi- 
 fied, the lightning from the mountain cloud 
 was not sw^ifter than his voice to speak in her 
 defence, nor its stroke sharper than the bolts 
 that he hurled at her assailants. Rhode Isl- 
 and never had a more loyal son or an abler 
 defender, and she may well mourn that he 
 
YD HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 has been taken away and that his voice will 
 no longer guard her interests and defend her 
 honor. 
 
 " But strew his ashes to the wind, 
 Whose sword or voice has served maukiiid ; 
 And is he dead, whose glorious mind 
 
 Lifts thine on liigh ? 
 To live in hearts we leave behind 
 
 Is not to die ! " 
 
 One word of testimony to the faithfulness 
 and constancy of his friendship. More than 
 thirty years ago I first met Mr. Anthony. 
 From that time till the day of his death I 
 never received aught but kindness at his 
 hand. Always courteous, always ready to 
 grant an}^ favor that he consistently could, 
 always prompt, even in the midst of his most 
 arduous labors, to recognize the claims of the 
 humblest of his constituents upon his time 
 and attention, never on account of any dif- 
 ference of wealth or rank, or station, presum- 
 ing to slight or neglect any appeal from the 
 poor or weak, is it any wonder that from city 
 
MR. BARNEFIELD S REMARKS. 'I'i 
 
 and town, and village, and hamlet, all over 
 our State, should come up the voice of sorrow 
 and regret at his decease? 
 
 Without the shadow of suspicion on his 
 integrity or honor, through an unprecedented 
 term of public service, his light has gone out. 
 While there are many good, able and patri- 
 otic men left in our State, it is no disparage- 
 ment to them to say : 
 
 " He was the noblest Roman of them all ; 
 His life was gentle, and tlie elements 
 So mixed in him, that nature might stand up 
 And say to all the world, this was a man." 
 
 Mr. Thomas P. Barnefield, of Pawtucket, 
 spoke substantially as follows: 
 
 MR. BARNEFIELD's REMARKS. 
 
 Mr. Speaker. — It was never my privilege 
 to know Senator Anthony with any degree 
 of intimacy. And yet I may . say that my 
 earlier recollections of him not only deeply 
 
78 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 impressed me, but have had an abiding influ- 
 ence. 
 
 I very well remember an afternoon quite 
 early in our civil war, while I was a soldier 
 in a Massachusetts regiment, I climbed the 
 hill and the steps of the Capitol in Washing- 
 ton for the first time. I was but a youth, 
 and yet in my boyhood home I had been 
 taught to revere the men in high places who 
 were then true and loyal to the Union. A 
 patriot was my highest conception of a noble 
 man. As I looked upon one and another of 
 the men whose names I had so often heard, 
 and who then and afterwards bore burdens 
 and performed labors which have never been 
 estimated too highly, the Senator from Rhode 
 Island stood prominently among the grand 
 company. To look into their faces was an 
 inspiration, and the memory of those scenes 
 followed and encouraged me many times af- 
 terwards, when the exposures in camp, the 
 fatigue of long marching and the imminent 
 dangers of battle made the young soldier 
 
MR. BARNEFIELD's REMARKS. 79 
 
 count the cost of his love of country. This 
 was the first time I saw Governor Anthony; 
 but, from the spring of 1862 until the time of 
 his death, I cherished the highest regard for 
 him, and when, at the close of the war, I 
 became a citizen of this State, his name and 
 fame, like the fame and name of my former 
 General, the lamented Burnside, were parts 
 of the heritage which came to me by my 
 change of residence. 
 
 I have read with interest and profit much 
 that was written and spoken by our deceased 
 Senator; some of his shorter speeches, like 
 the eloquent and fitting words with which 
 he delivered to Massachusetts, the State of 
 my birth, the remains of our honored Sum- 
 ner, have been burned into my memory. I 
 share, sir, the pride which we all so justly 
 feel as we recall the long and brilliant career 
 of Mr. Anthony. The reflected light of the 
 honors which came to him so often and so 
 deservedly, has shone upon his constituents 
 and in turn honored the commonwealth 
 
80 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 which he so well represented. As a fond 
 mother's heart beats high when her dear boy 
 is crowned with laurel, so the people of Rhode 
 Island had the highest gratification when her 
 noble son received the plaudits of the nation. 
 Mr. Speaker, I do not feel that I have 
 added, or that I can add, anything to the ap- 
 propriate eulogies Avhich have been so elo- 
 quentl}?" pronounced by the gentlemen who 
 have preceded me; but, sir, I could not re- 
 frain from bringing my humble tribute to 
 the memory of him whose loss I have keenly 
 felt, and feel to-day, in common with all the 
 people of our State. May he rest in eternal 
 peace. 
 
 The Speaker of the House, the Honorable 
 Francello G. Jillson, of Woonsocket, closed 
 the addresses of the day with the following- 
 remarks : 
 
MR. SPEAKER JILLSON's REMARKS. 81 
 
 MR. SPEAKER JILLSON S REMARKS. 
 
 No words of mine can add character to 
 the just and eloquent tributes which have 
 been so gracefully and eloquently rendered to 
 Rhode Island's distinguished Senator, whose 
 death we sincerely mourn. The inspired and 
 beautiful words which Senator Anthony used 
 on the occasion of the death of Connecticut's 
 honored Senator, Governor Buckingham, 
 seem to fit so perfectly, and are so appli- 
 cable to the spirit of the resolutions, that 
 I will read a few selections upon this oc- 
 casion : 
 
 ^'When the pale messenger lays his hand 
 upon an accomplished life, a life that has 
 rounded out the years which experience and 
 inspiration assign as the desirable limit of 
 human duration ; when these years have 
 been occupied with usefulness, rewarded by 
 success and crowned with honors ; when a 
 good man, having discharged the duties and 
 
82 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 fulfilled the trusts of life, lies down, calmly 
 and peacefully, to his final repose, we may 
 grieve, but we cannot complain. The tears 
 of affection may not, indeed, be kept back, 
 but the voice of reason is silenced. To com- 
 plain at the close of such a life is to complain 
 that the ripened fruit drops from the over- 
 loaded bough, that the golden harvest bends 
 to the sickle ; it is to complain of the law of 
 our existence, and to accuse the Creator that 
 He did not make man immortal on the earth. 
 For such a life eloquence shall lift her voice 
 and poetry shall string her lyre. For such a 
 man praise, honor, imitation; but not tears. 
 Tears for hiiii who has failed; tears for him 
 who fainted on the wayside ; not for him 
 who finished the journey; tears for him who, 
 through his fault or misfortune, omitted to 
 employ the opportunities that were given to 
 him for the work that was assigned to him, 
 not for him who died when he had accomp- 
 lished that for which he lived. 
 
 "We will lament, therefore, in no com- 
 
MR. SPEAKER JILLSON's REMARKS. 8o 
 
 plaining spirit for the man Avbose memory 
 we celebrate to-day. With our grief that he 
 has died shall be mingled our thankfulness 
 that he has lived. The State that he served 
 so faithfully and so well, in the time of her 
 greatest emergency, proudly lifts his name 
 and inscribes it on the roll of her honored 
 and remembered sons. And the history of 
 that State cannot be fairly written without 
 honorable mention of his character and his 
 services. The Senate, which he informed 
 with Avise counsels, which he adorned with 
 dignity of manners and with purity of life, 
 bears equal testimony to his abilities and to 
 his virtues, and equal honor to his memory." 
 
 The Resolutions were then unanimously 
 adopted by a rising vote, and the House, 
 as a further mark of respect, forthwith ad- 
 journed. 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE. 
 
 The Resolutions were communicated to 
 the Senate, on Wednesday, the fourteenth 
 day of January, this being the anniversary 
 of the election of Senator Anthony to the 
 office of President of the Senate of the Uni- 
 ted States, in the year 1884. After the read- 
 ing of the Resolutions, the Hon. Benjamin 
 T. Eames, of Providence, addressed the Sen- 
 ate as follows : 
 
 REMARKS OF SENATOR EAMES. 
 
 M: President — Within the brief period of 
 three years the State has been called upon to 
 mourn the loss of two of its most prominent 
 citizens. Burnside, wrapped in the flag he so 
 bravely defended, quietly rests in a soldier's 
 
86 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 and patriot's grave. And now, while the 
 grief for his sudden and untimely death is 
 as fresh as if it had occurred but yesterday, 
 "the silver cord is again loosed," and An- 
 thony, after a service of more than a quarter 
 of a century in the highest political trust in 
 the gift of the State, has passed aAvay. The 
 curtains again drop. The home and office of 
 Senator Anthony are draped in mourning. 
 The signal flag over the Journal building 
 is at half-mast. The announcement of his 
 death is passed Avith bated breath through 
 the city and the State, and telegraphed over 
 the country. A shadow crosses the threshold 
 of every home in the State. The local press, 
 in fitting words, recall his public services, 
 and the leading papers of the country pay 
 just tribute to his public virtues. The Presi- 
 dent of the United States, his colleagues in 
 the Senate, from distant States, the Governor 
 of the State, and the members of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly, the Mayor and City Council 
 of the city of Providence, the Judges of the 
 
SENATOR EAMES' REMARKS. 87 
 
 Supremo Court, the Board of Trade, the Pres- 
 ident and Trustees of Brown University, and 
 thousands of his fellow-citizens, from all parts 
 of the State, join in the solemn and impres- 
 sive ceremonies of his funeral service, and 
 sorrowfully leave his mortal remains in their 
 last resting place. 
 
 This sad event calls for a pause as we enter 
 upon the duties of the first session of the 
 General Assembly after his decease, for the 
 purpose of placing upon record, and giving 
 expression to our high appreciation of the 
 public services which he rendered to the 
 State and the country. 
 
 Senator Anthony was possessed in an emi- 
 nent degree of the qualifications required for 
 the efficient discharge of the duties of the 
 responsible positions which he held. 
 
 He was educated at Brown University, and 
 under its excellent and thorough course of 
 studies in the preparation of young men for 
 professional and literary pursuits, he acquired 
 that discipline and culture which enabled 
 
88 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 him to concentrate his rare intellectual gifts 
 upon any subject presented for his considera- 
 tion, and to give expression to his views in 
 clear, terse and vigorous language. In this 
 University he laid the foundation of the suc- 
 cess which he achieved in after life. 
 
 Graduating at an early age, and in doubt 
 as to his pursuit in active life, he happily 
 made choice of a profession Avhich was con- 
 genial to his cultured tastes, and at the early 
 age of twenty-three years assumed the re- 
 sponsible position of editor of the leading 
 public journal of the State. 
 
 AVith clear and definite views of what such 
 a paper should be, and how it should be con- 
 ducted to secure influence and the public con- 
 fidence, his purpose was to make the Journal 
 a means of communicating accurate informa- 
 tion of current events, to deal fairly with all 
 questions of public interest, and, upon a true 
 statement of facts, to enforce its position by 
 reasons which would secure the approval and 
 command the respect of its readers. In his 
 
SENATOR EAMES' REMARKS. 89 
 
 early efforts in this direction, upon the ques- 
 tion of suffrage, and a change of the existing 
 government in 1841-2, he was called upon to 
 grapple with the principles which lay at the 
 foundation of a free government ; and the 
 marked ability and good judgment with 
 which he conducted the Journal in the dis- 
 cussions of these Cj[uestions contributed ma- 
 terially in securing their settlement in the 
 transition of the government from the colo- 
 nial charter to the existing constitution of 
 the State. 
 
 This service was fitly recognized in the pre- 
 sentation to him by the citizens of the State 
 of the silver salver, which recently, under 
 his will, has })assed as an heirlooni to the 
 Jottrnal 
 
 His ability in that critical period in the 
 history of the State, and afterwards in the 
 conduct of the Journal as the political organ 
 of the Whig party, brought his name promi- 
 nently before the people, and in 1849 he was 
 nominated for and was elected to the office of 
 
90 HENRY B, AXTHONY. 
 
 Governor of the State. He held this office 
 for two years. In the discharge of its dnties 
 he acquired liis first experience in practical 
 legislation, and an enviable reputation for 
 the courtesy, impartiality and dignity with 
 which he presided over the deliberations of 
 the Senate. 
 
 In 1859, he was elected United States Sen- 
 ator, and held this office during the remain- 
 der of his life. He brought to the discharge 
 of the duties of this important public trust a 
 highly cultivated intellect, a thorough knowl- 
 edge of the people and interests of the State, 
 the rich experience of public affairs which 
 he had acquired in daily contact for twenty 
 years as editor of the Journal in the discus- 
 sion of the national questions of that period, 
 and a familiarity with, and clear and definite 
 opinions upon the great questions which at 
 the time of his election were agitating the 
 country, and threatening the unity and life 
 of the republic; and thus equipped witli a 
 clear perception of tlie importance and re- 
 
SENATOR EAMES REMARKS. 
 
 01 
 
 sponsibility of his office, he entered upon it 
 with a sincere purpose to discharge its duties 
 as a sacred public trust. 
 
 His record shows with what ability, in- 
 tegrity and fidelity he has discharged these 
 duties during the long period of his service 
 in the Senate. Called to the public service 
 in the dark days of the republic, when seces- 
 sion was openly threatened unless concessions 
 were made upon the question of slavery, lie 
 extended, so far as his convictions of duty 
 would permit, the olive branch of peace in 
 the hope of averting the dire calamities of 
 civil war. But when armed rebellion made 
 the attempt by force to disrupt the Union, 
 he stood firmly by the government and ren- 
 dered efficient service through the terrible 
 conflict for its life. 
 
 He was an active participant in and a part 
 of the legislation of Congress in the adoption 
 of the amendments to the constitution Avhich 
 abolished slavery, secured the right of citi- 
 zenship and the equal protection of the law 
 
92 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 to the new-born freedman, and conferred 
 npon him the right to vote, and the legis- 
 hition Avhich secured these rights, as well as 
 that legislation which provided for the recon- 
 struction of the vStates, pensions for soldiers 
 and sailors disabled in the service, the reduc- 
 tion of the public debt, the resumption of 
 specie payment, the protection of American 
 industry and labor, and other legislation of 
 vital importance affecting the civil rights of 
 the people and the material interests of the 
 country. Upon all these questions the action 
 of Senator Anthony received the general ap- 
 proval of the citizens of the State. He was 
 true to his own convictions of duty, to the 
 principles of his party, and to the State and 
 country. 
 
 Faithful in the discharge of every duty of 
 liis position, he was constant in his attend- 
 ance upon the sessions of the Senate, and as 
 a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs, 
 and chairman of the Committee on Printing, 
 he was careful and thorough in his consider- 
 
SENATOR EAMES' REMARKS. Do 
 
 ation of all matters referred to these commit- 
 tees. He was prompt in reply to all who 
 addressed him upon matters of public con- 
 cern or private interests, and I venture to 
 say that no citizen of this State made a 
 request of him upon any matter which re- 
 lated to the duties of his office, which his judg- 
 ment approved as right, with which, so far as 
 in his power, he did not cheerfully comply. 
 No breath of suspicion was ever cast dur- 
 ing his long public life upon the integrity of 
 his purpose, in the discharge of the duties 
 of his high trust, to serve the best interests 
 of the country and the State which he rep- 
 resented. 
 
 His ability, fidelity and integrity secured 
 the confidence of his associates in the Sen- 
 ate; his genial nature and dignified bearing 
 their respect and good will; and these com- 
 bined the prominent positions to which he 
 was elected, and the influence which as Sen- 
 ator he had in the deliberations and actions 
 of the Senate. 
 
94 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 Although he seldom took an aetiYe part 
 in the dehates upon the great questions dis- 
 cussed in the Senate, his advice was sought 
 upon all important subjects of legislation, 
 and his judgment had its influence and 
 weight in their determination. 
 
 Upon any subject referred for the consider- 
 ation and report of any committee of which 
 lie was a member, he was fully prepared 
 clearly to state the facts, and the reasons for 
 his opinions, and he seldom failed to secure 
 the approval of the Senate ; and upon any 
 matter immediately affecting the special in- 
 terests of the State, he was ready to give his 
 reasons for the action which he asked; and 
 whenever in the course of debate anything 
 occurred which cast reproach upon, or in any 
 way touched adversely the good name or 
 lionor of the State, he was quick and prompt 
 in reply. 
 
 How keenly sensitive Senator x\nthony 
 was in this respect is apparent, among many 
 others, in his speech in 1861, in which he 
 
SENATOR EAMES' REMARKS. 95 
 
 vindicated the claim of Rhode Island to 
 having first realized in a civil government 
 the great idea of religious libert}' ; in his 
 address upon a resolution for the erection in 
 the Capitol of the nation of an equestrian 
 statue of Major General Nathanael Greene, 
 and in that for an appropriation for the ex- 
 penses incurred by the French government 
 in renovating the inscription upon the mon- 
 ument in the grounds of Trinity Church, at 
 Newport, erected to the memory of Admiral 
 De Ternay. The speeches of Senator An- 
 thony upon these occasions are gems of pure 
 English, expressed in words so fitly spoken 
 that they are like ^' apples of gold in pic- 
 tures of silver"; while his great speech in 
 1881, ''The defence of Rhode Island," in 
 its thorough consideration of the subject, its 
 admirable and telling arrangement of facts, 
 and the force and vigor of its logic exhausts 
 everything that could be said in support of 
 his views of the questions discussed. 
 
 Senator Anthony held the high office to 
 
96 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 which he was first elected in 1859 for a 
 longer period, with a single exception, than 
 any Senator since the adoption of the Con- 
 stitution, and longer than any other Senator 
 from this State. The qualities which secured 
 his prominent position, and his influence in 
 the Senate, also secured his continuance in 
 office. His ability and the experience he 
 had accj[uired gave him a strong hold upon 
 the people of the State, and he was elected 
 to his fifth consecutive term with the general 
 approval, and with a sincere desire that his 
 life would be spared, not only for its full 
 term, but would be continued, in the hope 
 that, as a fitting crown to his public service, 
 he would give to the country his recollec- 
 tions of the distinguished men and of the 
 stirring events which occurred during the 
 period of his public service in the Senate. 
 Such a memcmto in the easy and graceful 
 expressions of his pen would not only have 
 been interesting and instructive, but a fitting 
 close of liis public life. 
 
SENATOR EAMES' REMARKS. 97 
 
 Senator Anthony was master of the Eng- 
 lish hxngnage. Clear, exact, terse and vigor- 
 ous in its use, he seemed, as by instinct, to 
 select the most appropriate words in giving 
 expression to his thoughts. His speeches 
 and memorial addresses, scattered here and 
 there in the Congressional Record, sparkle like 
 diamonds in the dim light of the surround- 
 ings with which they are intermingled. 
 
 In social life he was strongly attached to 
 his friends, and he lost no opportunity to 
 advance their interests. He was genial in 
 disposition, courteous in address, and gen- 
 tlemanly in bearing to all. A true son of 
 Rhode Island in every impulse of his heart, 
 he never failed to serve what he believed to 
 be its interests to the best of his abilities; 
 and in his positions of editor of the Journal 
 and of Senator, he was a power in this State 
 in moulding and directing its political affairs 
 for a period of more than thirty years. 
 
 But his work is done. It has been well 
 
 k 
 
98 HENEY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 done. His portrait in this hall as Governor 
 of the State, is draped in mourning. 
 
 " The vital spirit has fled 
 To retiiiu no more to Avake the silent dead." 
 
 His genial face and manly form have passed 
 from our sight; but his memory will abide, 
 and his public services will be remembered 
 long after his body shall have mingled with 
 its kindred dust. He now quietly rests in 
 yonder cemetery by the side of the chosen 
 companion of his life, whose early death cast 
 a shadow over his path in after life, and 
 whose spirit we may hope he has now met 
 in that other life, where there is no parting, 
 in the blessed realization that, 
 
 ' ' Beyond this vale of tears 
 
 " There is a life above, 
 " Unmeasured by the flight of years ; 
 
 " And all that life is love." 
 
 As the representative here of the city of 
 his residence, with a sincere regret of my 
 inability to pay a more fitting tribute to his 
 
SENATOR METCALF S REMARKS. 
 
 99 
 
 memory, I ''cast this pt'l)l)lo on the cairn" 
 of tlie dead Senator, who in life loved his 
 native State so well, and served it so faith- 
 fully. 
 
 " May be rest iu peace." 
 
 Hon. Henry B. Metcalf, of Pawtucket, then 
 said : 
 
 SENATOR METCALf's REMARKS. 
 
 3Ir. President. — He would be indeed a bold 
 man who should assume his ability to make 
 any important contribution to Rhode Island's 
 already noble monument in memory of her 
 distinguished son, and yet I doubt not that I 
 express the sentiment of every Senator pres- 
 ent in the wish to participate, by even a 
 slight tribute, in the honor so justly paid to 
 the life record of Henry B. Anthony. 
 
 As a citizen of Rhode Island, he was for 
 more than forty years identified with the 
 wisest and best of her policy and legislation. 
 
100 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 Adopting his own words concerning the life 
 work of an honored citizen of a sister State, 
 we may well say of Senator Anthony: "The 
 State that he served so faithfully and well in 
 the time of our greatest emergency, proudly 
 lifts his name and inscribes it on the roll of 
 her honored and remembered sons. And the 
 history of that State cannot l)e fairly written 
 without honorable mention of his character 
 and services." 
 
 Called to the Senate of the United States 
 in the most momentous and critical period 
 of our nation's history, he l)ore well his part 
 as the nation's servant. Enjoying the associ- 
 ation, cooperation and respect of such men as 
 Sumner, Wilson, Douglas, Fessenden, Hamlin, 
 Hale, Seward, Chandler, Crittenden, Wade, 
 Collamer, Preston King and Simon Came- 
 ron, and, during the early portion of his 
 Senatorial career, with such antagonists as 
 Jefferson Davis, Toombs, Slidell, Mason and 
 Benjamin, his Senatorial life was indeed a 
 notable one. 
 
SENATOR METCALF's REMARKS. 10 1 
 
 His record for official faithfulness, consist- 
 ency and integrity has never been impeaclied, 
 and ahhough he was an earnest partisan, he 
 hehl the confidence and respect aUke of friend 
 and antagonist. An intense political oppo- 
 nent has said of him: 
 
 "Perhaps there was no man in the Senate, 
 during the twenty-five years that he was a 
 member of it, from whose political opinions 
 we more radically dissent than from his. 
 But we have always entertained the highest 
 respect for his dignity, uprightness and lofty 
 standard of official conduct. He was a states- 
 man with old-fashioned notions of integrity 
 and propriety, and passed through the temp- 
 tations of his position without reproach." 
 
 In the highest and best sense was he em- 
 phatically a man of the people. Although 
 far removed from everything like a spirit of 
 sycophancy, to all classes was his counsel 
 available. Independent and decided in his 
 opinions and action, he yet ever welcomed 
 the opinions and advice of others. As a 
 
102 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 controversialist, especially in the line of the 
 profession which he so adorned, his sword 
 was perhaps more ready to thrust than to 
 parry. It was a keen blade which demanded 
 and secured respect, but its grasp Avas that of 
 conscience and honor. 
 
 Prominent among his distinguishing traits 
 should be named his love for his native State 
 and his zealous Avatclifulness of her good name 
 and her interests. In her behalf he seemed 
 to think of himself as only her servant, while 
 he sought and highly prized her approval. 
 My last call upon him in Washington was an 
 extremely sad one. On the day preceding he 
 had been elected to the Presidency of the Sen- 
 ate, A\diich office he was unable to accept be- 
 cause of physical Aveakness. The uppermost 
 thought in his mind seemed to be of anxiety 
 lest the people of Rhode Island might not 
 approA^e his action in declining the office. 
 But it Avas painfully apparent that the ex- 
 perience of the preceding day was to him 
 the premonition of the closing of what had 
 
SENATOR METCALF's REMARKS. 103 
 
 been exceedingly happy relations to a people 
 whom he loved. 
 
 As we think of Senator Anthony and his 
 life, we find many of his own words almost 
 inseparable from a true expression of our 
 feelings, or the suggestion of our ideas. Of 
 William Pitt Fessenden he said: "It is the 
 i^eneral fortune of eminent public men to be 
 greatly slandered in life and to be unduly 
 eulogized in death." But as we read and 
 reread the words of love and respect that 
 have been written and uttered because of the 
 death of Senator Anthony, and after, by the 
 lapse of time, the impulsiveness of our sor- 
 row has been softened, I think you will 
 agree with me that the words of adulation 
 have been almost remarkably free from 
 extravagance, and that the words of eulogy 
 will be largely adopted as those of his- 
 tory. 
 
 The words of Senator Anthony in closing 
 his eloquent tribute to the memory of Charles 
 Sumner may well be revived now that the 
 
104 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 eulogist's place lias in turn l)een vacated, and 
 his own armor laid doAvn. He said : 
 
 "When I look back over this long period, 
 crowded with great events, and which has 
 witnessed the convulsion of the nation, the 
 reorganization and reconstruction of our po- 
 litical system ; when in my mind's eye, I 
 people this chamber with those whose forms 
 have been ftimiliar to me, whose names, 
 many of them historical, have been labelled 
 on these desks, and are now carved on the 
 marble that covers their dust, I am filled 
 wuth a sadness irrepressible, yet full of con- 
 solation. For, musing on the transitory 
 nature of all suljlunary things, I come to 
 perceive that their instability is not in their 
 essence, but in the forms which they assume 
 and in the agencies that operate upon them; 
 and when I recall those whom I have seen 
 fall around me, and whom I thought neces- 
 sary to the success, almost to the preserva- 
 tion of great principles, I recall also those 
 whom I have seen step into the vacant 
 
SENATOR Wilbur's remarks. 105 
 
 places, put on the armor which they wore, 
 Hft the weapons which they wiekled, and 
 march on to the consummation of the work 
 which they inaugurated — and thus I am 
 tilled with reverent wonder at the benefi- 
 cent ordering of nature, and inspired with 
 a loftier faith in that Almighty Power, with- 
 out whose guidance and direction all human 
 etf'ort is vain, and with whose blessing the 
 humblest instruments that He selects are 
 eipial to the mightiest work that He de- 
 
 Hon. George A. Wilbur, of Woonsocket, 
 next addressed the Senate : 
 
 SENATOR Wilbur's remarks. 
 
 Mr. President. — After listening to the elo- 
 quent words wdiich have been uttered in 
 praise of the late Senator Anthony, I do not 
 believe that I shall be justified in breaking 
 
106 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 the spell which their truth and their heauty 
 have produced upon us; still, I desire in a 
 few words to bear testimony with others to 
 his worth and character. 
 
 I cannot claim, as others may, an intimate 
 acquaintance with Governor Anthony, but in 
 common with the people of Rhode Island I 
 knew of him ; knew him as they knew him, 
 by his high and exalted position, by the 
 faithfulness with which he discharged the 
 duties of his office, by his reputation for 
 honesty and integrity, Ijy the hjve he bore 
 to his native State, and by the alacrity and 
 power with which he asserted her rights and 
 defended her honor. I know of him as the 
 expounder of our Constitution, and the cham- 
 pion of the rights guaranteed by that instru- 
 ment to us. 
 
 Mr. Anthony was elected five consecutive 
 times to the United States Senate, and for 
 more than twenty-five years he represented 
 Rhode Island in that bod}^, entering it when 
 but forty-four years of age, and continuing 
 
SENATOR Wilbur's remarks. 107 
 
 a meml)er until September, 1(S(S4, when he 
 died, having lived the alloted time of man. 
 
 " In toil he lived, in peace he died, 
 When life's full cycle was complete, 
 Put off his robes of power and pride, 
 And laid thorn at his Master's feet." 
 
 He was the oldest Senator in time of ser- 
 vice as such, and was known as the father of 
 the Senate, from the pine clad hills of Maine 
 to the golden gates of California. 
 
 He was three times elected President j^ro 
 tempore of the Senate, which ofhce he filled 
 with distinguished ability, and with the dig- 
 nity due the exalted position. 
 
 Advancing years and tailing health warned 
 him of the danger of over-exertion, so that 
 one vear aeo to-dav he declined to accept the 
 high office to which the Senate had elected 
 him again, though he knew that by accept- 
 ing that office he would be virtually the Vice- 
 President of the United States, an office I 
 believe no Rhode Islander ever held. 
 
 During all these years of arduous labor for 
 
108 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 US, he was ever true to his State, his country 
 and to himself; conspicuous for his assiduity, 
 for his gentlemanly bearing, and for the abil- 
 ity which he possessed in so eminent a de- 
 gree. His acknowledged ascendancy in the 
 Senate was second to none. For this reason 
 he was often sought and his influence solic- 
 ited for some act, measure or thing. On all 
 proper occasions he granted these requests ; 
 his gentle heart would forbid a refusal. 
 
 When, after the lapse of years, the impar- 
 tial historian shall record the history of our 
 country during the quarter of a century just 
 past, he will write no brighter, purer, fairer 
 name among the statesmen of our land than 
 that of Henry B. Anthony. I have heard 
 so much of the liberality of our dead Sen- 
 ator, of his gifts to the poor, and his kind- 
 nesses to the unfortunate, that I had almost 
 come to know charity by its synonym, Hen- 
 ry B. Anthony. 
 
 His efforts in behalf of the soldiers of our 
 own and other States, when disabled by dis- 
 
SENATOR Wilbur's remarks. 109 
 
 ease, are well known in every hamlet and 
 village of our State. I knew of a Massachu- 
 setts soldier to whom he gave some money 
 in this city, a sum much larger than was 
 required to take the poor fellow home. I 
 know of another case where a Rhode Island 
 soldier, having contracted some disease in the 
 service which incapacitated him from per- 
 forming his duty applied for a discharge, and 
 much to his disgust it was denied him. The 
 soldier's mother, wdio was with him, said she 
 would see Mr. Anthony about it, for she 
 knew that her son would die unless he was 
 taken home to the scenes of his childhood. 
 She saw Senator Anthony, Avho at once took 
 pains to have the case investigated. A few 
 days later the soldier was discharged. He is 
 now in receipt of a pension from the govern- 
 ment. The recital of such instances might 
 be indefinitely multiplied, and yet we should 
 not know all, for he did not parade his acts 
 of charity and kindness before the world. 
 After all that we have heard recently of 
 
110 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 tlie character of some men, who have held 
 hi,iih places in Washington, it haylly seems 
 possible for a man in that city to become 
 conspicuous and retain his character for hon- 
 esty, yet Senator Anthony did, for he was an 
 honest man. He always acted upon princi- 
 ple and never from impulse. We have no 
 knowledge that any man ever dared to ask 
 his services in the furtherance of any im- 
 proper scheme. I believe that they dreaded 
 his anger and feared his power. No word 
 or whisper against his character was ever 
 breathed ; no word uttered by him which 
 would compromise his dignity. No question 
 was ever raised as to his ability or faithful- 
 ness in the performance of his duty. 
 
 With the aid of that power which con- 
 scious ability and honesty always bestows, he 
 went on year after year laboring for us and 
 paying us back in the services he rendered a 
 thousand fold for the honors conferred upon 
 him by his native State. 
 
 " Let others liail tlie rising sun 
 I bow to him -whose course is run." 
 
SENATOR Wilbur's remarks. Ill 
 
 At the last Republican Convention called 
 to nominate State officers, a resolution was 
 introduced, congratulating him upon his res- 
 toration to health and his resumption of 
 official duties. It became my pleasant duty, 
 as Chairman of that Convention, to transmit 
 a copy to him, which I did at once. A few 
 days later I received an acknowledgment 
 from him, in which he said: "I receive 
 with deep sensibility this mark of the favor 
 of the constituency which I have served for 
 more than a quarter of a century. 
 
 "In looking back through all that period 
 of my unconspicuous but not unfaithful ser- 
 vice, if I find that I have not, like many 
 of my predecessors and contemporaries, done 
 anything to add lustre to the annals of the 
 State, I can truly say that I have not been 
 wanting in the fidelity, disinterestedness and 
 zeal with which I have borne the high com- 
 mission intrusted to my hand. This evi- 
 dence of the favor which has followed me 
 in all this time would be a sufficient reward 
 
112 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 for much more distinguished service than I 
 have been able to perform." 
 
 Here speaks the man, the citizen and the 
 statesman, and here also speaks his pride of 
 character, which tells to us in his own words 
 his object and aim in official life, which was 
 to serve his State and country faithfully, and, 
 when his days were at an end, to give back 
 the high commission which the State had be- 
 stowed upon him unsullied and unstained by 
 any unworthy act of his. 
 
 ''Anthony, they say that you are dead. 
 You are not dead. We will love you while 
 the State lives, and not while the State lives 
 will you be dead in our hearts." 
 
 Hon. Z. Herbert Gardiner, of Exeter, spoke 
 as follows : 
 
 SENATOR Gardiner's remarks. 
 
 Mr. Preddent. — I beg leave to trespass upon 
 the time of the Senate to add a few words of 
 
SENATOR Gardiner's remarks. 113 
 
 tribute to the memory of a departed friend, 
 and in support of the resolution now under 
 consideration. My acquaintance with the 
 late Senator Anthony was brief and not 
 very intimate, having first the honor of his 
 acquaintance in the year 1879, when first a 
 member of the lower house. Being intro- 
 duced to him by a friend one day, in his 
 room in the Journal office, he at once began 
 that agreeable conversation, easy manner, 
 and fatherly bearing, that I soon began to 
 feel that he was as much a friend of the 
 ''country boy" as to those in higher walks 
 of life. I met him but seldom after that, 
 but when I did I found him the same pleas- 
 ant, agreeable man. His fame and influence 
 through the columns of the Journal reached 
 to nearly every household in the State, and 
 when the news of his death came we all felt 
 that we had met with a public and personal 
 loss. He was indeed a remarkable man ; no 
 other but such a man could have been 
 elected five times in succession to the Uni- 
 
114 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 ted States Senate, his being the second in- 
 stance in the histoiy of this country in that 
 respect. And also elected thrice to preside 
 over the deliberations of that august body, 
 showing to what extent his worth was helci 
 by his associates. And all this in one of the 
 most critical periods in our country's his- 
 tory. 
 
 And it seems to us that he is taken from 
 us at a time when he is most needed, when 
 the questions are impending that he best 
 could grapple, when the problems are pre- 
 sented that he best could solve. We look 
 around for those who shall fill his place. 
 But there is One who doeth all things well. 
 In the order of His providence it is not per- 
 mitted for any place to long remain vacant. 
 Whomever He takes. He raises up others to 
 fill the void that is left. So it was with 
 Sumner, so it was with Burnside, so it will 
 be with Anthony ; and so, Mr. President, 
 long distant be the day, will it be with you, 
 with others, our Avisest and best. Men die. 
 
SENATOR Gardiner's remarks. 115 
 
 but their words are left on record, their 
 works remain, their example survives. 
 
 In looking over some of the eulogies de- 
 livered by the late Senator upon the death 
 of some of the most distinguished men of 
 the country, none seems to me to more strik- 
 ingly resemble his than the words he spoke 
 in his eulogy on the life and public services 
 of Hon. Henry Wilson, late Vice-President 
 of the United States, and I will close by 
 reading them : 
 
 "And home he had none. No man shared 
 more largely in the affections of the Ameri- 
 can people. No man was more beloved by 
 his immediate constituency; but tliose pleas- 
 ures which the greatest of orators placed 
 above all other immeasurable blessings of 
 rational existence, above the treasures of sci- 
 ence and the delights of learning, and the 
 aspects of nature, even above good govern- 
 ment and religious liberty, ' the transcendent 
 sweets of domestic life,' were no more for 
 him. Those relations which nature intended 
 
116 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 for the joy and rapture of our youth, for the 
 happiness and the embellishment of our ma- 
 turer years, for the comfort and consolation 
 of age, had been severed by the remorseless 
 shears of fate. No eye grew brighter when 
 he raised the latch that held his lonely dwel- 
 ling ; no outstretched arms of wife, no ringing 
 laughter of children, welcomed his returning 
 footsteps when he crossed the threshold over 
 which all that had given life and joy and 
 beauty to that simple abode, and had lighted 
 it up with a glory not of palaces, had been 
 borne never to return. He had nothing left 
 to love but his country. It was proper that 
 from yonder Chamber to which the suffrages 
 of his fellow-citizens had carried him, he was 
 borne to his final place of rest. Tender 
 and loving hands received him; friends and 
 neighbors, who loved him because he was 
 good, even more than they admired him 
 because he was great, stood tearfully around 
 his open grave. And there, with swelling 
 hearts, but with unfaltering trust in the 
 
SENATOR BURRINGTOn's REMARKS. 117 
 
 eternal promises of God, they laid his manly 
 and stalwart form to mingle with the dust of 
 his kindred." 
 
 Hon. John C. Burrington, of Barrington, 
 addressed the Senate as follows : 
 
 SENATOR BURRINGTON 'S REMARKS. 
 
 Mr. President — I did not expect when I 
 entered this chamber this morning to take 
 any part in the eulogies now offered here, 
 preferring to leave that to those who had 
 known Senator Anthony more intimately, 
 and were far better prepared to present the 
 eloquent testimonials of his life and char- 
 acter to which we have now been listeners. 
 My acquaintance with him began but a lit- 
 tle while ago, when, upon entering somewhat 
 into political life, we were brought sometimes 
 together, and I came to learn more of the 
 man than ever before, and to know how 
 much he loved the people and the institu- 
 
118 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 tions of his native State. We have all seen 
 how ably he has at all times defended her 
 whensoever and howsoever assailed; I most 
 heartily concur in everything that has been 
 so ably said in his praise by those who have 
 preceded me, and gladly avail myself of the 
 opportunity to add a word to these testimo- 
 nials of respect and regard for the deceased 
 Senator. I move the passage of the resolu- 
 tions. 
 
 Hon. John Winsor, of Coventry, spoke as 
 follows : 
 
 SENATOR WINSOr's REMARKS. 
 
 3Ir. President. — Representing as I do in this 
 honorable body the town of Senator Antho- 
 ny's birth and where he passed the earlier 
 years of his life, I have thought that it might 
 not be inappropriate, and perhaps might be 
 expected by the citizens of my town, that I 
 should attempt to say a fcAV words in remem- 
 
SENATOR WINS(JR's REMARKS. 119 
 
 brance of their most honored son, whatever 
 my own misgivings might be regarding my 
 ability to do justice to so sad and delicate a 
 duty. After listening to the eloquent eulo- 
 o-ies delivered by other members of this Sen- 
 ate, I feel that I can do little else than reiter- 
 ate and endorse their sentiments. Many of 
 you who are older, and have had the pleasure 
 of a longer and more intimate acquaintance 
 with Senator Anthony than I, are better pre- 
 pared with reminiscences to deliver fitting 
 encomiums. Senator Anthony was born in 
 the viUage of Anthony, in the town of Cov- 
 entry. The house in which he was born still 
 stands upon the pleasant site on which it was 
 builded. In this house, venturing from his 
 mother's knee to the nearest object within 
 his grasp for support, he took the first steps 
 of his life, but how short and feeble were 
 those steps compared with the strides of his 
 political career in later life. The old school- 
 house, where the rudiments of learning were 
 first breathed into his mind, still exists, and, 
 
120 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 ornamenting one corner of the village, stands 
 the old " Friends Meeting House," where Sab- 
 bath after Sabbath he was led by devout 
 parents to listen to the teachings of divine 
 inspiration. In this village, frolicking upon 
 the green, in shade and sunshine, inspiring 
 the salubrious air known only to country 
 towns, with good hygienic surroundings 
 and an ample supply of all that conduces 
 to physical growth, there was developed a 
 strong and vigorous constitution. Upon this 
 depended largely the success which he after- 
 wards achieved, for, as a rule, there can be 
 no great mental development, activity and 
 endurance without a strong physical organ- 
 ization to support it. It was in this village 
 also, that the love of home was impressed 
 upon his developing nature, and remained 
 through life a marked characteristic of the 
 man. 
 
 After the labors of a weary session of Con- 
 gress he would retrace his steps to this city, 
 and after greeting a few friends and obtain- 
 
SENATOR WINSOR's REMARKS. 121 
 
 ing a little needed rest, would resume his 
 journey to the hearthstone of his childhood, 
 there to live over again those happy days, 
 which were as fresh in the archives of his 
 memory as though they had transpired but 
 yesterday, and I have no doubt that many 
 an hour in the city of Washington, Avhich 
 otherwise would have hung heavily upon 
 him, was passed like a pleasant dream, in 
 the reversions of his memory to happy in- 
 cidents and associations connected with his 
 boyhood. His return to this city from his 
 labors in the National Congress was simply 
 a return to the home of his adoption, where 
 he greeted friends, acquaintances and asso- 
 ciates, but his return to Coventry was more 
 like the return of a long-absent son to the 
 arms of his parents, brothers and sisters, and 
 to the hospitalities of his old home. And 
 while the city of Providence might have 
 been considered his home, yet there was one 
 spot in this State which was dearer to him 
 than all others, across which was written in 
 
122 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 golden letters the word "Home." That spot 
 was tlie villaL;e of Anthony, in tlie town of 
 Coventry. Rliode Island at large may elaim 
 him for its son, l)ut the people of Coventry 
 enter a i)rior and original claim, for among 
 them he was born, by them he was rocked in 
 the cradle of his infancy, his boyhood Avas 
 passed among them, and they watched with 
 the care and anxiety of tlie proudest i)arent 
 the tender bud. wliich was destined to de- 
 velop into a flower of rarest genius. 
 
 The announcement that Senator Antho>y 
 would be in Coventry on a certain day or 
 evening to deliver an address upon whatever 
 subject was a signal which rallied its citizens 
 and gave him a crowded house. They loved 
 to hear him speak, and they loved to gaze 
 upon that countenance, radiant and flushed 
 with the memories which rushed upon his 
 mind. He always spoke in the most elo- 
 quent and tender words of the attractions 
 those hills and valleys, rocks and rills, ponds 
 and meadows had for him, and of the pleas- 
 
SENATOR WINSOR's REMARKS. 123 
 
 lire he derived in being among them. Dur- 
 ing the delivery of his last address to the 
 people of Coventry he said that, as age crept 
 upon him, his heart and thoughts Avere more 
 and more with them, and it seemed fitting, 
 and in consonance with his feelings that 
 there "he should let his anchor drop, where 
 first his pennon flew," words full of mean- 
 ing, and almost prophetic. On occasions like 
 this, it is well remembered how affectionately 
 he would greet the surviving friends of his 
 early years, how tenderly he would speak of 
 those who had passed away, and then in 
 broken voice speak of the little graveyard in 
 the bend of the river at C^entreville, where 
 the dust of his own kindred repose, repeating 
 with a cadence none could Hsten to unmoved, 
 those lines of Holmes — 
 
 " The mossy marbles rest, 
 On the lips that I have prest 
 
 In their bloom, 
 And the names I love to hear. 
 Have been carved for many a year 
 On the tomb." 
 
124 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 Of his wide and useful public career, it is 
 not my purpose to speak ; that has been most 
 fittingly and eloquently done by those who 
 have preceded me. It was simply to say 
 a homely word of the affection which he 
 always had for his native town, and the 
 kindly regard in which he was held in turn 
 by them, that prompted the few words I 
 have spoken. No more than this shall I at- 
 tempt to do, and I could not well do less. 
 
 Mr. President, I move that the Senate con- 
 cur with the House in the adoption of the 
 resolutions by a rising vote. 
 
 On rising to take the vote on the adoption 
 of the resolutions. His Excellency Governor 
 Bourn, as presiding officer of the Senate, then 
 made the following address : 
 
 GOVERNOR bourn's ADDRESS. 
 
 Before the question is put on the resolu- 
 tions, I ask the indulgence of the Senate for 
 
GOVERNOR bourn's ADDRESS. 125 
 
 a few minutes — not that I may add to the 
 words of the Senators who have addressed 
 you ; not that our grief may be assuaged or 
 our sorrow measured by words, but that I 
 may join with you in a tribute of respect and 
 affection to the honored dead. When I real- 
 ize how heavily the hand of affliction has 
 been laid upon us ; how often the Senate has 
 been called upon to mourn the loss of Rhode 
 Island's noblest sons, and of those for whom 
 the nation has wept, I am appalled at the 
 measure of our loss. Death has indeed 
 reaped a glorious harvest, and Rhode Isl- 
 and has contributed her full share to swell 
 his already overflowing garners. Never be- 
 fore in our recollection have we been so sadly 
 afflicted. 
 
 The names of Burnside and Garfield, Whit- 
 comb and Tobey and Lapham, Danielson and 
 Anthony, bring to our minds men whose ser- 
 vices to the nation have been conspicuous, or 
 who have been identified with the history of 
 the State for upwards of a quarter of a cen- 
 
126 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 turv. It seems but yesterday that we met in 
 this chamber and marched to yonder church 
 to take part in the last sad rites in memory 
 of Burnside — our beloved Burnside, stricken 
 with scarcely a moment's warning, while 
 watching and praying with us at the bedside 
 of a dying President. And when in one 
 short week we lost l)oth Burnside and Gar- 
 field we thought that our affliction was more 
 than we could bear. And then, one after 
 another, tliere passed from among us Wliit- 
 comb and Tobey and Lapham, like autumn 
 leaves before a withering blast. With the 
 name of Anthony we instinctively associate 
 one who was long his partner and friend, 
 who wielded the pen of a ready writer, whose 
 vigorous mind impressed itself as much, per- 
 haps, as any other on the politics and insti- 
 tutions of Rhode Island, and who, when 
 Anthony was stricken with a mortal disease, 
 seemed, in the prime of manhood, able to 
 continue for many j^ears the work to which 
 he had devoted his life. But alas for human 
 
GOVERNOR bourn's ADDRESS. 127 
 
 calculations, the summons came to Danielson 
 many months before the Angel of Death took 
 the gentle spirit of Anthony back to God who 
 gave it. Hoping against hope, we prayed 
 that Anthony might be spared to serve his 
 State and country, but ''God's finger touched 
 him and he slept." 
 
 A grateful State cannot better show its 
 appreciation of his services than by placing 
 these resolutions among its archives. It is 
 no empty honor that we may thus confer on 
 his name. The history of the past is but a 
 record of the lives and actions of the great 
 men of every age — of men of great thoughts 
 and noble deeds — of men who dared to fight 
 and to die in defence of a just cause — of men 
 who moulded laws and institutions — of men 
 renowned in peace and in war. Search where 
 we will — in the shadowy depths of antiquity 
 — in the records of those mighty empires 
 tliat ruled the ancient world — in the strug- 
 gles of the dark ages between Paganism and 
 Christianity, between barbarism and civiliza- 
 
128 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 tion — in the social and moral elevation of 
 the people and in the development of mod- 
 em nations — and we will find naught else in 
 history. The history of the present will be 
 known to posterity only by the fame of our 
 great men that we shall preserve and trans- 
 mit to them. 
 
 " Who then shall say that Fame 
 
 Is but au empty name, 
 When but for these, the mighty dead 
 
 All ages past a blank would be — 
 Sunk in oblivion's murky bed — 
 
 A desert bare — A shipless sea." 
 
 Perhaps no man in recent times was bet- 
 ter known to the people of Rhode Island 
 than Senator Anthony, none more highly 
 respected. Almost his entire active life was 
 spent in the city of Providence, and to serve 
 her, the State, and the nation, he freely gave 
 his time and his abilities. He was for many 
 years the editor of the chief newspaper in 
 the State — a most responsible position — for 
 two years Governor of the State, and elected 
 
GOVERNOR bourn's ADDRESS. 129 
 
 as Senator for thirty years in the Senate of 
 the United States. Whatever position he oc- 
 cupied was graced by the faithfuhiess and the 
 conscientiousness with which he filled it. 
 
 But it is not my intention to dwell upon 
 his life and services, or to enlarge on his pri- 
 vate virtues. That duty has been done far 
 better than I can do it. I feel, however, that 
 I must speak very briefly concerning his Sen- 
 atorial term, which extended over one of the 
 most important periods of our history. At 
 its beginning the country had, for a number 
 of years, been agitated over the attempt to 
 carry slavery into the Territories which had 
 been solemnly dedicated to freedom, and 
 which are now inhabited by millions of free, 
 industrious and intelligent people. The Re- 
 publican party had been defeated in its first 
 national campaign ; but the determination of 
 the North that slavery should not be carried 
 into the Territories caused the agitation to be 
 continued with increasing force until it cul- 
 minated in the election of 1860 and the seces- 
 
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130 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 sion of the South in 1861. Then came the 
 rebellion — with its four years of war on the 
 most gigantic scale — in which the resources 
 of both North and South Avere taxed to their 
 utmost, a war that had for its object the de- 
 struction of the Union and the foundation of 
 a State with shivery as the only object of its 
 existence. But by the Grace of God we were 
 enabled not only to preserve our Union, but 
 to destroy that cursed institution tliat had 
 been the cause of all our national discord. 
 Then followed the period of the reconstruc- 
 tion of the South, in Avhich the problems to 
 be solved were the most perplexing that 
 statesmen ever had to deal Avith; and then 
 came a period of rest — of growth — during 
 which the country increased beyond all con- 
 ception, in Avealth, power and population. 
 
 During the Avliole of this eventful period 
 Senator Anthony took an active and im})ort- 
 ant part in all the questions that came to be 
 determined by Congress. In the darkest days 
 of the Avar he never faltered in his allegiance 
 
GOVERNOR BOURN S ADDRESS. 
 
 131 
 
 to the cause of the Union— never swerved 
 from the strict line of duty — never for a mo- 
 ment doubted the success of our arms and 
 the restoration of the Union. And when the 
 war was over and peace once more prevailed 
 throughout the land, no one was more ready 
 to take our Southern brethren by the hand — 
 no one more anxious to remove the last rem- 
 nants of sectional discord. 
 
 It is impossible to think of those times in 
 connection with his services without l)ring- 
 ing before us those great and noble spirits 
 who, with Anthony, labored so faithfully 
 for their country. We rememl)er Lincoln, 
 the great, the good, the true, who will ever 
 be revered by posterity as the master spirit 
 that controlled our destinies — who fills a 
 martyr's grave, dying as truly for his coun- 
 try as those who fell on the field of battle; 
 and Seward, who amid the perils that beset 
 us from within and without, so skillfully 
 conducted our foreign and our domestic 
 affairs; and Stanton, whose genius brought 
 
132 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 into existence those mighty armies that will 
 ever be the wonder of men ; and Sumner, 
 whose great talents w^ere devoted to bringing 
 freedom to the slave, and who was willing to 
 die rather than cease the agitation that liber- 
 ated from bondage four millions of human 
 beings; and Garfield, the soldier, the states- 
 man, the patriot, the martyr; and Burnside, 
 loved alike by the nation, his soldiers and Ijy 
 all who knew him, wdio served with equal 
 ability on the field of battle and in the halls 
 of Congress ; and scores of others whose fame 
 is enshrined in the hearts of a loving people. 
 But we may not now recall them all. The 
 many went before him, the few that remain 
 will soon follow him. 
 
 Although elected to the second highest 
 place in the gift of the nation. Senator An- 
 thony never "sought what men call glory." 
 He sought rather to serve his country by 
 a quiet, dignified, continuous application to 
 duty; and in this he was rewarded with the 
 love and esteem of his fellow Senators and 
 
GOVERNOR bourn's ADDRESS. 138 
 
 the respect of all. In grateful recognition of 
 his long and valuable services we will enroll 
 his name among those the State delights to 
 honor. And when the future historian shall 
 write of the tr^dng scenes in which he took a 
 prominent part — of those who served with 
 equal fidelity their State and their nation — 
 of the institutions of Rhode Island, he will 
 find no brighter example, no truer represent- 
 ative than Henry B. Anthony. 
 
 The Resolutions were then by a rising vote 
 unanimously adopted in concurrence, and the 
 Senate as a further token of respect forthwith 
 adjourned. 
 
PROCEEDINGS 
 
 TUB COlffiS OF THE EIW STATES, 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE UNITED STATES SENilTE. 
 
 Washington, January 19, 1885. 
 
 The Senate having under consideration 
 the following resolutions offered by Hon. 
 Nelson W. Aldrich: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has lieard with profound 
 sorrow of the death of Henry B. Anthony, late a Senator 
 from the State of Rhode Island. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the Senate be now 
 suspended, to enable his associates to pay proper tribute 
 of regard to his liigh character and distinguished public 
 services. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate commu- 
 nicate these resolutions to the House of Representatives. 
 
 Resolved, That, as an additional mark of respect to 
 the memory of the deceased, the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
138 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 REMARKS BY" SENATOR ALDRICH. 
 
 J/r. President. — He who was here the senior 
 in service, and first in the affections of his 
 associates, rests in 
 
 The lone couch of his everlastiug sleep. 
 
 His great heart with all its attractive qual- 
 ities has ceased to beat. His stalwart form, 
 so recently instinct with strength and life, is 
 crumbling in the dust. 
 
 He who has so often lighted up with the 
 touches of his matchless eloquence the char- 
 acter of others is no more. Oppressed by a 
 sense of personal loss which is beyond ex- 
 pression, and by the sorrow of separation 
 from a wise counselor and faithful friend, I 
 despair of rightly interpreting the story of 
 his honorable life and rendering an adequate 
 tribute of praise to his memory. 
 
 Henry Bowen Anthony was born at Cov- 
 entry, R. I., April 1, 181e5. His ancestors 
 had for more than a century and a half re- 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR ALDRICH. 139 
 
 sided on Rhode Island soil. His father, Wil- 
 liam Anthony, and his maternal grandfather, 
 James Greene, were Quakers. His father was 
 a cotton manufacturer, and the establishment 
 of which he was manager was the third of 
 its kind erected in the State. 
 
 William Anthony was a man of strong 
 character, greatly respected by his neighbors, 
 and it is easy to trace the influence of his 
 wise teachings and Avatchful care in the 
 future character of the son. The lattfer was, 
 in his early life, imbued with the doctrines 
 of the Society of Friends which left their 
 impress on his nature, developing that gen- 
 tleness of manner and love of peaceful meth- 
 ods, that strict integrity and conscientious 
 devotion to duty, which were the most strik- 
 ing traits of his character. 
 
 He received a preparatory education in a 
 private school at Providence and entered 
 Brown University in 1829. At college he 
 had the benefit of the teachings of the dis- 
 tinguished Dr. Wayland, then president of 
 
140 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 the university. After his graduation, in 
 1833, he entered the office of his ])rother 
 in Providence with the intention of engag- 
 ing with him in the business of manufactur- 
 ing. He remained there five years, spending, 
 however, a portion of liis time in the prose- 
 cution of his business at Savannah, Ga. At 
 tliis time he was a casual contributor to news- 
 papers and magazines; and a poem written 
 by him during his stay in Savannah attracted 
 considerable attention. We can readily im- 
 agine that he found literary work more con- 
 genial to his tastes than the exacting demands 
 of a business life. 
 
 Mr. Anthony first became connected with 
 pu])lic affairs as a journalist. In 1838, at the 
 age of twenty-three, without previous train- 
 ing, except as an occasional contributor of 
 literary articles, he assumed the editorial 
 charge of the Providence Journal. He ac- 
 cepted the position at the request of a 
 kinsman, who was then the proprietor of 
 that paper, to fill a vacancy, and with the 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR ALDRICH. 141 
 
 understanding- that the arrangement was to 
 continue only for a few weeks; but the con- 
 nection thus made did not cease until the 
 day of his death. His success as an editor 
 was instant and marked. The time at which 
 he took charge of the Journal was one of 
 great political excitement in Rliode Island. 
 The bitter struggle which was then going on 
 to change the government of the State for 
 the avowed purpose of securing an enlarge- 
 ment of the suffrage brought the contestants 
 to the verge of civil war. 
 
 In this contest, Mr. Anthony, who when a 
 young man, as in later years, was conserva- 
 tive in his instincts, naturally took the side 
 of ''law and order." The triumph of the 
 party to which he was attached was largely 
 due to the vigorous and incisive advocacy of 
 the journal under his control. His brilliant 
 leadership attracted some of the brightest 
 and best men of his State to his support. 
 The members of the party which he led with 
 such consummate ability, were prompt to 
 
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142 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 acknowledge and to show their appreciation 
 of the invaluable service which he rendered 
 their cause at this period. The conduct of 
 the Journal in this controversy established 
 Mr. Anthony's reputation as a journalist, 
 which then, and as long as he was actively 
 engaged in the exercise of the profession, 
 extended far beyond the limits of his own 
 State. In the midst of a political conten- 
 tion of unsurpassed virulence he was never 
 tempted by the impetuosity of youth nor 
 driven by the malevolence of personal at- 
 tacks to write a sentence or utter a sentiment 
 which would not bear the test of his mature 
 judgment, or which his friends would prefer 
 should be erased or forgotten. 
 
 He was best known for the vigor and abil- 
 ity with which he wrote of political affairs, 
 both State and national, and for his brilliant 
 and genial satire ; but the native dignity and 
 courtesy of the man were manifested in the 
 grace of style and ornate eloquence which 
 distinguished all his literary workmanship. 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR ALDRICH. 143 
 
 With a strong love for his profession, he had 
 all the faculties of the ideal journalist — that 
 of ready, clear, and forcible writing; of 
 prompt decision in emergencies, combined 
 with fair and temperate judgment; of wise 
 choice in his associates and subordinates, 
 with the cordial and friendly spirit of ap- 
 preciation which secured their warm zeal 
 and cooperation. 
 
 There was nothing labored in his work. 
 He was an exceedingly rapid as well as an 
 industrious writer, and has been known to 
 keep four expert compositors busy in setting 
 his editorial manuscript. For years he per- 
 formed the greater part of the editorial writ- 
 ing for the Journal, and even after his election 
 to the Senate was for a long time in the habit 
 of sending to the paper his daily editorial 
 contribution. To his latest day he kept up 
 the habit of writing for its columns, and did 
 not abandon it even under the pressure of 
 enfeebling illness. His last paragraph, con- 
 tributed a few days before his death, was a 
 
144 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 friendly notice of an acquaintance, and his 
 last suggestion in its management was a re- 
 quest to spare a political enemy. The Jour- 
 nal was always the object of his affectionate 
 care. His supervision of its columns was 
 constant and close, and the suggestion that 
 he should relieve himself of its responsibil- 
 ity, after the sudden death of his trusted as- 
 sociate, Mr. Danielson, under whose editorial 
 management its reputation had been ably sus- 
 tained and its sphere of usefulness enlarged, 
 moved him to the expression that he would 
 as soon think of parting with a child. 
 
 As a journalist Mr. Anthony was vigorous 
 in controversy and dealt in hard and sharp 
 blows when he felt they were needed ; but it 
 was a characteristic of his temper as well as 
 the secret of his success that he never in- 
 dulged in unnecessary controversy or yielded 
 to the temptation of being satirical merely 
 for the sake of showing his skill. He never 
 descended to abuse; and there was a kindly 
 element in his keenest satire which robbed it 
 
REMARKS EY SP]NATOR ALDRICH. 145 
 
 of half its seventy. His opponents always 
 felt that they were dealing with an antag- 
 onist who would take no unfair advantage. 
 His style of argument in the discussion of 
 important subjects was remarkably clear and 
 simple, and no one was ever at a loss to un- 
 derstand what he meant, or was at fault in 
 following his train of thought. 
 
 In his later years he took special delight 
 in writing on local topics in a spirit of genial 
 humor and w4th all the graces of a true Ad- 
 disonian style. His simple tributes to the 
 memory of friends w^ere marked with the 
 same feeling eloquence which distinguished 
 his elegiac orations in this Chamber. For 
 many years Mr. Anthony was the Providence 
 Journal. His individuality and his intellect- 
 ual not less than his political intluence made 
 it the center of the intellectual life of Rhode 
 Island and attracted to it the contributions 
 of the brightest minds in the State. 
 
 It is perhaps not too much to say that no 
 paper in the country outside of the metropol- 
 
140 HENRY E. ANTHONY, 
 
 itan journals had a higher reputation than 
 the Providence Journal while Mr. Anthony 
 was its editor; and that it was merely the 
 limitation of its sphere that prevented him 
 from being ranked in influence as a journal- 
 ist with his great contemporaries of that re- 
 markable era in American journalism. The 
 volumes of the Journal while under his direc- 
 tion constitute his most conspicuous monu- 
 ment. 
 
 In 1849 Mr. Anthony was the nominee of 
 the Whig party for governor of Rhode Island 
 and was elected. His administration was 
 successful, and he was reelected in 1850 but 
 declined the nomination for a third term. 
 
 Governor Anthony's position as a political 
 leader in Rhode Island was then assured. 
 The confidence of her people in his capacity 
 and sagacity continued in a marked degree, 
 and it was manifested in 1858 by his election 
 to represent the State in the United States 
 Senate. This office he assumed on the 4tli of 
 March, 1859, and by the uninterrupted favor 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR ALDRICH. 147 
 
 and generous faith of his constituency, shown 
 by five successive elections, he retained it for 
 more than twenty-five years, until he was the 
 oldest Senator in service and long after all 
 his early associates had left this Chamber. 
 
 Entering the Senate in the full vigor of 
 early manhood, he was splendidly equij^ped, 
 by nature and education, by a careful study 
 of political history, and b}^ an intimate 
 knowledge of the science of government, for 
 the responsible duties of his high station. 
 At this time the shadows of the approaching 
 ''irrepressible conflict" which was soon to in- 
 volve the country in war had fallen upon the 
 Capitol. Elected as a Republican, the first 
 who was not openly allied with the Aboli- 
 tionists, his conservative tendencies did not 
 prevent his taking the earliest opportunity to 
 attest his devotion to the cause of liberty. 
 
 To recount the events in which Senator 
 Anthony during the years of his service was 
 a participant, or of which he was a Avitness, 
 would be to recite the liistor}^ of the country 
 
148 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 for its most interesting and important period. 
 I can not, liowever, forbear an allusion to his 
 valuable services during the critical years of 
 the late civil war. In this momentous crisis 
 he brought to the discharge of his important 
 duties in the Senate, and as a trusted coun- 
 selor of the Executive, great good sense, 
 sound nerves, a clear, cool judgment, a cour- 
 age never dismayed by disaster, and a loy- 
 alty and patriotism equal to any sacrifice or 
 emergency. We have, as a people, justly be- 
 stowed our highest honors upon the military 
 heroes who at that time rendered conspicuous 
 service to the country, but it may be doubted 
 whether we have properly estimated the in- 
 fluence and services of those who in the na- 
 tional councils shared the responsil)ility of 
 the great contest. 
 
 Measured by the length of time employed, 
 Senator Anthony's greatest labors while a 
 member of this body were on the Committee 
 on Public Printing, of which he was the 
 chairman for more than twent3^-two years. 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR ALDRICH. 149 
 
 During this period, and largely tlirougli 
 his influence, the extravagant and corrui)t 
 S3''stem of contract printing was abolished, 
 a national printing office established, the 
 publication of debates transferred from pri- 
 vate ] lands to the Public Printer, and eco- 
 nomical reforms in the manner of purchasing 
 paper and other supplies Avere initiated. He 
 souglit, unsuccessfully, to restrict the public 
 printing to the legitimate demands of the 
 various Governmental Departments, and to 
 prevent the publication for popular distribu- 
 tion of large and expensive editions of works 
 of questionable value. He also endeavored, 
 with equal lack of success, to make the Con- 
 gressional Record what it purports to be, a 
 faithful transcript of Congressional proceed- 
 ings, and to prevent its '' leaden columns " 
 from being weighed down by the insertion 
 of speeches which were never spoken. 
 
 Senator Anthony served from 1868 to his 
 death on the Committee on Naval Affairs, 
 of which he was for many years the senior 
 
150 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 member. He was familiar Avith the condi- 
 tion and Avants of the Navy, and was greatly 
 interested in promoting all measures which 
 promised to add to its efficiency. Meritori- 
 ous officers always found in him an earnest 
 advocate and firm friend. 
 
 Senator Anthony was elected President 'pro 
 tempore of this body in March, 1863, and re- 
 elected in March, 1871, serving for four years. 
 In this position he displa^^ed rare abilities 
 as a parliamentarian and presided over the 
 Senate with grace and dignity. In January, 
 1884, he was again elected, but "with a heart 
 overflowing with gratitude" felt obliged to 
 decline, as the state of his health warned him 
 not to assume any labors that he could hon- 
 orably avoid. 
 
 Senator Anthony never consumed the time 
 of the Senate in useless discussion, but on the 
 rare occasions when he participated in debate 
 his remarks were characterized by both clear- 
 ness of statement and soundness and force of 
 argument. His memorial addresses, in which 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR ALDRICH. 151 
 
 he rendered graceful and grateful tribute to 
 the memory of dei)arted Senators, are ac- 
 cepted as models of perfect taste, and are 
 marked by an elegance of style and a spirit 
 of kindly but just criticism which conniiand 
 universal admiration. Ranking with these 
 in grace of style are his address at tlie com- 
 pletion of the equestrian statue of General 
 Greene near the Capitol, Avhicli owes its ex- 
 istence to his exertions ; his speeches on t/he 
 occasion of the presentation by the State of 
 Rhode Island to the National Government of 
 the statues of Roger Williams and General 
 Greene, and his remarks in favor of an ap- 
 propriation for the restoration of the monu- 
 ment which marks the last resting place of 
 the Chevalier De Ternay, at Newport. 
 
 As a Senator he applied himself steadfastly 
 to the absorbing duties which crowd a sena- 
 torial life, never neglecting any appeal or 
 demand from his constituents. No man had 
 a more exalted idea of the dignity and im- 
 portance of the senatorial office than he ; 
 
152 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 and none was more careful to preserve intact 
 its time-honored privileges and prerogatives. 
 He was inflexibly opposed to all innovations 
 on established precedents in modes of pro- 
 cedure, and was accepted as authority on all 
 matters pertaining to senatorial etiquette. 
 He held a position of honorable and com- 
 manding influence among his associates in 
 the Senate and in the councils of his party. 
 
 He was by nature incapable of doing a 
 mean act. With a high sense of political 
 and personal honor, no narrow influences 
 ever controlled his political action. Living 
 at a time when few reputations escaped at- 
 tack, it is a matter for congratulation that 
 his long public career closed without a stain 
 upon his honor and without the breath of 
 suspicion resting on any of his official acts. 
 Neither foes nor rivals ever ventured to ques- 
 tion his uprightness or his strict integrity. 
 
 Senator Anthony was a devoted son of 
 Rhode Island, proud of lier institutions, fond 
 of her traditions, and familiar Avith every 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR ALDRICH. 153 
 
 phase of her not ungiorious history. With 
 uncommon solicitude he had watched her 
 wonderful industrial growth and intellectual 
 development. For half a century he had 
 been more influential than any other of her 
 citizens in molding public sentiment and di- 
 recting the policy of her people; and as the 
 acknowledged leader of the dominant party 
 in the State, his influence in political matters 
 was, for a large portion of this time, control- 
 ling. He implanted and nurtured a patriotic 
 spirit in the hearts of her sons which will 
 continue to bear fruit in perpetual remem- 
 brance of his example. 
 
 In every forum and on every occasion, 
 whenever her institutions were assailed or 
 any principle dear to her people brought in 
 question, he became her advocate and de- 
 fender, using every weapon of offensive or 
 defensive warfare with all the skill of a vet- 
 eran and all the enthusiastic ardor of a 
 youthful recruit. He was impelled to this 
 service rather by the promptings of affection 
 
154 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 than the ck'nuinds of duty. This engrossing 
 love for his native State was his grand pas- 
 sion, and to serve her interests with fidelity 
 was the one undeviating purpose of his life, 
 dominating all circumstances and surround- 
 ings. He never, however, found his intense 
 loyalty to his State in conflict with his duty 
 as a Senator of the United States. 
 
 His exceptional success as a political leader, 
 in a community where many amhitious and 
 able men were disposed to dispute his ascend- 
 ency, did not depend alone upon that esteem 
 and confidence of his fellow-citizens, which 
 is the natural reward for devoted services. 
 He had the faculty of forming a correct 
 judgment of the character and capacity of 
 those Avith whom he came in contact, and 
 there was a subtle charm in his nature 
 which appealed strongly to the sensibilities 
 of otliers, attracting men of the most diverse 
 characteristics and attaching them firmly to 
 himself and his fortunes. His manner was 
 always conciliatory ; his temper was never 
 
EEMARKS BY SENATOR ALDRICH. 155 
 
 impulsive, and his persistence rarely assumed 
 an aggressive form. He persuaded and pre- 
 vailed more by the moderation of his spirit 
 than by the vigor and comprehensiveness of 
 his understanding. He was faithful to his 
 friends, clinging fondly to old companions 
 and associations; but this did not prevent 
 his prompt recognition and appreciation of 
 the new men, with s})ecial qualities for 
 leadership, whom changing circumstances 
 brought into prominence. 
 
 He was a zealous party man, but he never 
 used the patronage or power of official sta- 
 tion to advance his personal interests. When 
 required to decide, as he often was, upon the 
 comparative merit of aspirants for political 
 preferment, he invariably made fitness and a 
 capacity to advance the public welfare the 
 only standard of judgment. 
 
 His associates here can hardly fail to speak 
 with warmth of his striking personal charac- 
 teristics; of his genial and gracious presence 
 — in manner and essence that of a gentle- 
 
15n HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 mail — which has so long adorned this Cham- 
 ber. Here he was faithful in his attachments, 
 tolerant of his opponents; and the unusual 
 sweetness and uniformity of his temper en- 
 deared him to all with whom he came in 
 contact. He never practiced the arts of the 
 demagogue, but he had a strong attraction 
 for all that was real, genuine, and manly, 
 and an instinctive dislike for shams and 
 everything like cant or hypocrisy. He de- 
 tested display and pretension, and shrank 
 from notoriety. He had an inexhaustible 
 fund of human gentleness, which made him 
 naturally courteous and amiable ; but his 
 courtesy and politeness never offended by 
 taking the form of condescension. He was 
 considerate of the feelings and comfort of 
 others ; quick to discover and commend 
 merit. His nature was cast in the finest 
 mold — 
 
 His lif(i was gentle, and the elements 
 
 So mix'd in him, that Ntiture might stand up 
 
 And say to all the world, This was a man ! 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR ALDRTCH. 157 
 
 He was a strong man mentally and physi- 
 cally, but no disproportion marred the sym- 
 metry of his character, and no irregular 
 outlines called attention to the strength and 
 beauty of the structure. 
 
 His conversation abounded in simple and 
 delightful charms, and he was a favorite in 
 every social circle. His hospitality had all 
 the elegance of that of a gentleman of the 
 old school, and his house in Providence was 
 always the attractive centre of a circle of 
 brilliant men and women. 
 
 It was painfully evident when Senator An- 
 thony last attended the sessions of the Senate 
 that death had marked him for its victim; 
 and no one knew this better than himself, 
 for he had been informed by his physician as 
 early as April, 1883, of the fatal character 
 of the disease from which he was suffering. 
 Returning to his home in April last, he pro- 
 ceeded with perfect composure to set his 
 house in order for the great change. Dur- 
 ino- the months which followed he awaited 
 
158 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 the dread summons with a patience and phil- 
 osophic calmness which deeply impressed all 
 those who were about him. With the slow 
 wasting of his physical powers there was no 
 visible impairment of his mental faculties. 
 The letters written by his own hand during 
 this period had all the peculiar grace and 
 charm of style wdiich made him master of 
 the epistolary art. 
 
 He was singularly reticent even to his most 
 intimate friends in regard to his inner being, 
 but whenever the uncertain tenure of his life 
 was mentioned he always manifested a spirit 
 of humble submission to Divine will, and 
 would say, "God's time is best." In the face 
 of death his courage never faltered; and the 
 lessons of faith which had been taught him 
 by a Christian mother were never forgotten. 
 "He had," to use the words of his friend, 
 Rev. Mr. Woodbury, in his eloquent funeral 
 discourse, "schooled himself to that serenity 
 of soul which could not be disturbed either 
 in life or death." At his home devoted 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR ALDRICH. 159 
 
 friends and relatives ministered to his com- 
 fort, and the ablest medical skill sought by 
 the use of every remedy known to science to 
 stay the progress of the disease, but all their 
 efforts were in vain. On the 2d of Septem- 
 ber last, he peacefully sank to rest. He was 
 buried from the neighboring church where 
 the funeral rites of his beloved colleague, 
 General Burnside, had been so recently sol- 
 emnized. "Twin heirs of fame," their pre- 
 cious dust reposes in the same cemetery, and 
 their memories are together graven on the 
 hearts of the people of Rhode Island. 
 
 His funeral, without pageantry or display, 
 was an appropriate tribute of honor to the 
 distinguished dead. It was attended by the 
 President of the United States, a large num- 
 ber of Senators, and the official representa- 
 tives of his State and city. 
 
 In the history of the Senate others have 
 served as faithfully and as honorably as he 
 whom we mourn, but it is rare that length of 
 service unite with a high order of intellect 
 
160 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 and a spotless reputation to form a senatorial 
 career as impressive, as instructive, and as 
 patriotic as that which is now closed in the 
 grave of Henry B. Anthony. 
 
 Hon. William P. Sheftield spoke as follows: 
 
 REMARKS BY SENATOR SHEFFIELD. 
 
 3Ir. President. — As I recall the intimate 
 personal relations which existed between the 
 late Senator Anthony and myself, for a pe- 
 riod of forty years and upwards, the pleasure 
 I have felt from his society, the wisdom I 
 have derived from his counsel, the many acts 
 of kindness I have received at his hands, and 
 my attachment to his person, I hardly dare 
 to trust myself to review his life and charac- 
 ter in the presence of so many reminders of 
 his death. This Chamber was the scene of 
 his long-continued and useful service to his 
 country. The presence of his honored asso- 
 ciates to pay a tribute to his exalted worth, 
 
KEMARKS BY SENATOR SHEFFIELD. 161 
 
 and my own entry here to occupy the place 
 his death made vacant, bring before my mind 
 in bold outline the genial man whom I could 
 have wished would have lived always. 
 
 No Senator long acquainted with Mr. An- 
 thony will arise to address the Senate on this 
 occasion without having in mind the eulogies 
 pronounced upon deceased Senators by him, 
 eulogies which welled up from a mind and 
 heart filled with human sympathy, as pure 
 water from a natural spring, and expressed 
 in language as pure as the fountain in which 
 those eulogies originated; and especially will 
 each Senator recall the burning words with 
 which Mr. Anthony, as the representative 
 of the Senate, delivered to the authorities of 
 Massachusetts under the dome of its capitol 
 the dead body of a great Senator ; but the 
 voice then so eloquent over the remains of 
 Sumner is now hushed in death. The bril- 
 liant imagination which then mingled sad- 
 ness and triumph has now been put out 
 forever. Well may we say : 
 
162 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 Who would uot siug for Lycidas ? He knew 
 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme ; 
 He must not float upon his watery bier 
 Unwept, and welter to the parching wind 
 Without the meed of some melodious tear. 
 
 Mr. Anthony was a lineal descendant of 
 John Anthony, a native of Hempstead in 
 England, who came to Boston in the Her- 
 cules in 1634, and to Rhode Island soon 
 after 1640. Gilbert Stuart, the artist, whose 
 mother was an Anthony, who has preserved 
 on canvass so faithfully the features of Wash- 
 ington, descended from the same ancestor. 
 William Anthonv was the father of Senator 
 Anthony, and his mother was a daughter of 
 James Greene, of Warwick. The Warwick 
 Greenes have been a conspicuous family in 
 Rhode Island from the foundation of the 
 colony. General Nathanael Greene, whose 
 statue adorns a place in a hall of this Capi- 
 tol, and Colonel Ray Greene, who com- 
 manded at the battle of Red Bank, were 
 members of this family, and two of its rep- 
 resentatives have been members of the Sen- 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR SHEFFIELD. 163 
 
 ate. The ancestors of Governor Axthoxy 
 belonged to the Society of Friends, which, 
 for a considerable time in our colonial his- 
 tory, was the most influential denomination 
 of Christians in the colony. After Mr. Ax- 
 THoxY graduated from college, he went to 
 reside for a time and engaged in some mer- 
 cantile pursuit at Savannah. He returned 
 to Rhode Island and was there married to 
 Sarah Aborn, daughter of the late Christo- 
 pher Rhodes, in 1837. In 1838, at the age 
 of tAventy-three, he assumed the editorial 
 control of the Providence Journal. 
 
 At that time, and for more than a score of 
 years thereafter, he was surrounded by a 
 coterie of .young men, mostly college friends, 
 of learning, wit, and of marked ability as 
 writers, who aided him more or less in the 
 conduct of his paper. But while his asso- 
 ciates contributed to its success, his was 
 the critical judgment, the controlling mind 
 which carried the Journal to the front rank 
 of the NcAV England press, a standing wliicli 
 
104 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 it yet maintains. In the heated contests 
 which preceded the insurrection in the State 
 in 1842, and during and subsequent to that 
 event, while a constitution for the State was 
 being framed and adopted, the Journal was 
 the organ of the government, and the dis- 
 tinguished ability with which it was con- 
 ducted brought Mr. Anthony prominently 
 before the people of the State, and in 1849, 
 he was presented by the young Whigs as 
 their candidate for Governor, an office to 
 which he was elected that year, and reelected 
 in 1850, when he declined to be further a 
 candidate for the office. In 1854 the great 
 sorrow which ever after shadowed somewhat 
 the life of Governor Anthony fell upon him. 
 On the 12tli of July of that year his wife 
 died. I might pause here to dwell upon the 
 tenderness of his nature as developed by that 
 affliction, but the theme is too sacred — I will 
 not sully it. Burdened with this great sor- 
 row, earty in 1855 he visited Europe for rest 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR SHEFFIELD. 1()5 
 
 and relief. Upon his return he resumed con- 
 trol of his paper. 
 
 Governor Anthony inherited from his 
 father an interest in a manufacturing es- 
 tablishment located in his native town of 
 Coventry. Though for a time he was inter- 
 ested in carrying on business at this estab- 
 lishment, he retired from it when he went 
 abroad, but omitted to give notice of his 
 withdrawal. In 1857 the company became 
 involved in the financial distress of that 
 time. The creditors claimed that Governor 
 Anthony was liable for the debts of the com- 
 pany. He did not stop to have the question 
 of his liability for these debts settled in the 
 courts, but manfully came forward and met 
 them, and honorably settled the claims made 
 upon him. This added to his popularity, 
 and in 1859, after a sharp contest, he was 
 elected to the Senate of the United States, 
 and to this office he was four times reelected. 
 This shows alike the stability of the charac- 
 ter of the Senator and of the people of the 
 
166 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 State who elected him. While in the Senate 
 during this most interesting period of our 
 national history the conduct of Senator An- 
 thony was seen and known of all men. 
 
 As an editor Mr. Anthony clearly compre- 
 hended the rights and duties of his office. 
 He understood the wants and necessities of 
 the industrial interests of New England, of 
 which Providence is a great centre ; and it 
 was his laudable ambition to make his paper 
 a leading advocate and organ of those inter- 
 ests. He thought clearly and selected with 
 rapidity the words which could best express 
 his thoughts in the most forcible manner. 
 There was no room left for construction in 
 what he wrote. His style was direct, clear, 
 and forcible, without excess of verbiage — it 
 needed no interpreter. When he entered the 
 Senate he had no superior in New England 
 in writing effective editorial })aragraphs, and 
 though his Senatorial career was correct and 
 very creditable to himself, it may be well 
 doubted if he had continued in his profession 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR SHEFFIELD. 167 
 
 whether his fame as an editor would not have 
 been as desirable as it is as a Senator. 
 
 As a politician Mr. Anthony stood by his 
 party, seeking to correct its errors and to im- 
 prove its policy within and not without its 
 lines. He ahvays adhered with fidelity to 
 his convictions of duty, yet he always treated 
 his opponents with a generous justice, while 
 that treatment was duly appreciated, and 
 when it was not he was yet just. He won 
 the respect and regard of the opposing party 
 by tempering the expression of his convic- 
 tions with evidences of good-nature and with 
 an address which conciliated rather than re- 
 pelled them. 
 
 The secret of Mr. Anthony's influence was 
 an entire frankness, the natural outcome of 
 his character, with his absolute integrity of 
 purpose, which prevented him from support- 
 ing any measure which he believed to be pre- 
 judicial to the best interests of the public. 
 In the Senate he never made the most of 
 himself, for he always underrated his own 
 
168 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 capabilities in comparison with the capabili- 
 ties of others. He Avas careful never to un- 
 dertake what he feared he might not be able 
 to accomplish. 
 
 Mr. Anthony was a man of amiable and 
 even of fascinating manners, deferential to 
 those about him, and mindful of all the pro- 
 prieties of life ; he Avas well calculated to im- 
 press with a sense of regard and respect all 
 with whom he was brought into close rela- 
 tions; never obtrusive, full of conversational 
 resources, endowed with a ready wit and a 
 *rich fund of pleasing anecdotes always at 
 command to illustrate a point without en- 
 cumbering it. Strong in his friendships, 
 tender in his sensibilities, yet with absolute 
 self-control. That he was a student of the 
 science of government, apart from his ol)ser- 
 vation of the practice of that science in the 
 Senate, no one will pretend; and while he 
 could state a point wdiich would expose a 
 defect in the argument of an adversary as 
 clearly and as effectively as any of his com- 
 
KEMARKS BY SENATOR SHEFFIELD. 169 
 
 peers, he was not the man to present b}^ pub- 
 lic address a subject involving complicated 
 details. He rather directed his force against 
 an adversary by isolated assaults at his weak 
 points than by an attack upon his entire line 
 — by sortie rather than b}?' siege. He was a 
 conciliatory man and was possessed of great 
 forbearance. He would go to the very verge 
 of propriety to avoid the giving of offence, 
 and would exhaust the resources of a very 
 charitable disposition before he would believe 
 that cause for offence was intended to be 
 given to him ; but there was a line which his 
 self-respect would not allow him to pass or 
 an adversary to cross, and when forced to 
 resistance he was a vigorous and unyielding- 
 adversary. 
 
 Mr. Anthony loved his native State. He 
 was devoted to its institutions and thorough- 
 ly imbued with the spirit of its history. He 
 believed with Lord Coleridge that the char- 
 acter of a State was not to be determined by 
 the number of acres of ground it contained. 
 
170 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 or l:)y the number of its population, but 
 rather by the characters and achievements of 
 its people. In quiet retirement, in company 
 with men of kindred thoughts, in conversa- 
 tion Mr. Anthony dwelt with admiration 
 upon the fortitude and self-denial of those 
 exiles of exiles who settled the Rhode Island 
 colony; upon their sufferings and hardships, 
 and withal upon the Christian charity Avliich 
 they exhibited in planting and maintaining 
 the great ideas upon which the colony was 
 founded. Then lie would trace the progress 
 of the colonial history, the growth of the 
 colony and its development into a State; the 
 rise of its commerce until its canvass whit- 
 ened every sea; and that commerce alone, 
 and the commercial enterprise of its people, 
 merited the glowing eulogy of Burke in the 
 House of Commons upon the commercial 
 enterprise of all the colonies. Then he 
 would describe how wars and the adverse 
 policy of the government drove that com- 
 merce from the ocean and forced upon re- 
 
REMARKS BY SENATOR SHEFFIELD. 171 
 
 luctant New England a blessing in disguise, 
 that wiser policy, which the great commoner 
 of Kentucky called "the American system" 
 of fostering and protecting American indus- 
 tries; and how lUiode Island, upon the ruins 
 of its commercial industries, reared factories 
 and workshops and operated them, until their 
 handiwork under the operation of this benign 
 system won for them a place among the fore- 
 most industries of the country. At these 
 times he would also delight to dwell upon 
 the men who had illustrated Rhode Island 
 history and their achievements, to show the 
 claims of Rhode Island upon the national 
 Union, a part of which achievements he ap- 
 l)eared to feel to be his by inheritance from a 
 line of ancestors who had borne an important 
 part in settling, developing and maintaining 
 the colony and State during every period of 
 its history. 
 
 The grave has closed over him and shut in 
 his mortal remains. Throughout his life he 
 anticipated the harvest of a good name, and 
 
172 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 he did nothing to l)light it. His end did not 
 come until after a long career of useful pub- 
 lic service, when his physical energies had 
 been exhausted and the ends of life had been 
 attained. It is a sad thought; but it will not 
 be long before ''our lighted torches will pass 
 to other hands." 
 
 Senator Anthony was a fortunate man; 
 fortunate in his moral and intellectual en- 
 dowments; fortunate in his friends and in 
 his surroundings; fortunate in his life; for- 
 tunate in death in his own house with kind 
 friends around him. He has left no stain 
 upon his good name; his finished course cov- 
 ers nothing to be regretted, leaves undone 
 nothing desired, but that his career could 
 have been prolonged and that his usefulness 
 could have been continued. But it has been 
 otherwise ordered, and his friends should be 
 thankful for the blessings which his life has 
 conferred, rather than to murmur at the 
 Providence which has determined it. 
 
PASSAGE OF THE RESOLUTIONS. 173 
 
 Eulogies were also pronounced by Senators 
 George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, Thomas 
 F. Bayard, of Delaware, George H. Pendle- 
 ton, of Ohio, Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, 
 Augustus H. Garland, of Arkansas, George 
 F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, Matthew C. But- 
 ler, of South Carolina, John J. Ingalls, of 
 Kansas, Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut, 
 Charles F. Manderson, of Nebraska; and the 
 resolutions were agreed to unanimously. 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTITIYES. 
 
 Washinuton, January 21, 1885. 
 
 The Honorable Jonathan Chace, a Re^pre- 
 sentative from Rhode Island, addressed the 
 House as folio avs : 
 
 Mr. Speaker.— 1 offer the following resolu- 
 tions which I ask the Clerk to read: 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the House of Representatives has 
 received with deep sorrow the official auuouucement of 
 the death of Henry Bowen Anthony, late United States 
 Senator from the State of Rhode Island. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now 
 suspended that opportunity may be afforded to give ex- 
 
176 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 pression of our sense of his persona,! worth, of his pub- 
 lic services, and of the loss which the country and his 
 native .State have sustained. 
 
 Resolved, That at the conclusion of these tributes to 
 his memory the House shall stand adjourned. 
 
 REMARKS BY REPRESENTATIVE CHACE. 
 
 Again Rhode Island is called to monrn the 
 loss of a distinguished son. A second time 
 in my brief career in this House it becomes 
 my duty to pay the last tribute of respect to 
 the memory of one of her Senators. Again 
 we are reminded how swiftly glide these lives 
 of ours; that the dreams of hope are but 
 shadows; that the honors for which we 
 clutch must wither in our hand; that the 
 cares, the joys, the fears of life alike soon 
 find an end. It is well for us to pause for 
 a brief season and look back. 
 
 When, in the closing days of 1851), the 
 Senate of the Thirty-sixth Congress met, the 
 two sides of that Chamber more nearly re- 
 sembled the representatives of two hostile 
 
REMARKS BY MR. CHACE. 177 
 
 countries than an ordinary legislative body, 
 met to calmly discuss questions of common 
 interest. All of those wonderful intellectual 
 giants, the product of the primitive days of 
 the Repuljlic, had passed off the stage of 
 action. Clay, full of years, but weary and 
 worn with compromise, had sunk to rest 
 with only anxious hope, and was reposing at 
 his own beautiful Ashland ; the ashes of Cal- 
 houn were mingling with the soil of his na- 
 tive Carolina ; Webster, almost heartbroken 
 and full of forebodings for the future of the 
 Union, had been laid in the simple tomb at 
 Marshfield, where the ocean which he loved 
 so well might sing his solemn dirge through 
 the coming ages. The gathering storm which 
 these men had vainly sought to avert was 
 darkly impending over the nation. All the 
 great economic questions were swallowed up 
 in this one absorbing topic. 
 
 Among those who entered that vSenate and 
 took sides with the defenders of freedom was 
 Henry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island. In 
 
178 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 the prime of life, at forty-five years of age, 
 inheriting from a long line of virtuous an- 
 cestry a constitution of wonderful strength 
 and vigor ; of singular beauty, both of person 
 and of feature, with a commanding presence, 
 highly educated, cultivated in his manners, 
 with a rare grace and urbanity, and a charm- 
 ing felicity in social intercourse, he at once 
 became a favorite, even in those days of in- 
 tense partisanship, with members of both 
 sides of the Senate. Possessed of intellectual 
 gifts of the very highest order, thorougldy 
 furnished as he was by the peculiar training 
 which a long career of journalism had given 
 him, he Avas fitted to take a high position in 
 the councils of the nation. 
 
 Possessed of a peculiarly well-balanced 
 mind his caution and prudence often re- 
 strained him from labored efforts of oratory 
 and from participating in the excitements of 
 clashing debate. In all the legislative his- 
 tory of the country Init few men have intro- 
 duced measures of great and far-reaching 
 
REMARKS BY MR. CHACE. 179 
 
 importance. The qualities that dazzle and 
 captivate the popular mind are not always 
 those which are of most value. As in na- 
 ture, so in the operation of parliamentary 
 bodies, we find the silent forces are often the 
 most potent. It is by patient toil and careful 
 prevision in committee that the public inter- 
 ests are guarded and promoted. This was 
 the peculiar field of usefulness to which our 
 lamented friend bent his attention. On the 
 floor of the Senate he was alert, attentive, 
 and careful, and when occasion required, 
 quick to penetrate the armor of error, to 
 expose its purpose, or to defend those meas- 
 ures for which the public weal called. 
 
 He did not speak often, but when his voice 
 was heard it commanded attention. His 
 speeches, always bearing evidence of great 
 learning and research, were couched in the 
 purest and most polished English. His in- 
 tellect was broad and vigorous, with wit as 
 keen and incisive as a Damascus blade, that 
 would have been a dangerous weapon with 
 
180 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 one less gentle, for he was as kind and lov- 
 ing- as a woman. 
 
 In all the long list of names borne on the 
 Senate roll two men only have been elected 
 to five consecutive terms — Thomas H. Ben- 
 ton and Henry B. Anthony. And 3^et, 
 although serving so long, much of the time 
 during the most stormy period of our parlia- 
 mentary histor}^, no man (^f all that throng 
 of fellow-Senators could sa}^ that he had just 
 cause of offense toward him, and with rare 
 exceptions all were his friends. 
 
 Serving at a time, when from the necessi- 
 ties of the Government growing out of the 
 Avar, money was poured out like water, when 
 in the mad fever of specukxtion and gras})ing 
 for sudden wealth through Government con- 
 tracts, re})utations went down like soldiers in 
 battk', he came out unscathed, not a breath 
 of sus])icion resting uj)On him. Holding the 
 most pronounced views on all tlie (juestions 
 which agitated the public mind like a seeth- 
 ing caukh-on (hiring the [)eriod before and 
 
REMARKS BY MR. CHACE. 181 
 
 after the war, tlioiii;li abating iiotliiiig, he 
 retained the friendship of his most earnest 
 opi)onents. Knowing the weakness of inde- 
 cision, he readied forward for political truth 
 with a firm hand and still preserved a strong 
 balance of conservatism. 
 
 Deei)ly learned in the fonnchition ^irinci- 
 ples of our Government, and as deeply 
 skilled in the use of language, he sometimes 
 presented those principles with wonderful 
 effect. 
 
 He was twice elected Governor of Rhode 
 Island, and twice President of the United 
 States Senate. But long and honorable and 
 useful as have been his services in the Sen- 
 ate, it is as a faithful son of Hhode Island 
 that the citizens of that State will most cher- 
 ish his memory. Born in the town of Cov- 
 entry, of a Quaker family whose ancestors 
 had dwelt there from the days of its earliest 
 settlement, spending his youth among the 
 hills of his native State, educated in her 
 schools and at her university, putting forth 
 
\>>'2 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 the first labors of his early manhood as well 
 as the more brilliant efforts of his maturer 
 years in defense of her constitution, he loved 
 her as a man loves his mother. 
 
 He was, indeed, a part of Rhode Island. 
 He believed her constitution to be the most 
 perfect instrument of the kind ever drawn 
 by the hand of man, and his defense of it is 
 unanswerable. His name and his fame is 
 linked with Rhode Island and her happily 
 constituted system. There, as a journalist, 
 he attained a most distinguished position, 
 building up, from small beginnings, one of 
 the most influential and useful journals in 
 New England; earning, by the purity of his 
 diction, clearness and conciseness of style, 
 and felicity of expression, a high reputation. 
 Honored and trusted by her people, he hon- 
 ored them Ijy the faithfulness of his services. 
 
 I have known Senator Anthony from ni}^ 
 3'Outh up — known him as did all, to respect, 
 to admire, to love him. In every s})here, in 
 all circles, under all circumstances, wlierever 
 
REMARKS BY MR. CHACE. 183 
 
 he went, his progress was a constant conquest 
 of friendship, and friends once won, he "grap- 
 pled them to his soul with hoops of steel." 
 
 How many wlio commenced the race of 
 life with him have fallen by the way while 
 he passed on. The friends of his youth died 
 and he found others. 
 
 During his service in the Senate he saw 
 the shackles stricken from four million slaves, 
 the deed of manumission written in the Ijlood 
 of three hundred thousand men ; the .Union, 
 tottering to its foundation, purified and re- 
 stored, the dream of the fathers that this 
 land should be consecrated to liberty realized. 
 During his term he saw men rise to distinc- 
 tion in both Houses of Congress, and pro- 
 nounced their eulogies. As Senator, he saw 
 Lincoln inaugurated ; held up his hands dur- 
 ing the vigils of those weary four years of 
 war, and saw him buried, mourned alike by 
 friend and foe. Saw Garfield rise from ob- 
 scurity to distinction in the forum, the field, 
 and in this House — elected Senator, made 
 
184 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 President, and laid in his grave on the shores 
 of Lake Erie. Grant's wonderful career from 
 the store in Galena to his triumphant prog- 
 ress round the world was but an episode. 
 
 Of his liopes for the future life I cannot 
 speak. He rarely spoke of it to me. 
 
 As life is ordinarily viewed, it may Ije said 
 that his was a success ; but if we could go 
 with him through the long journey, full 
 rounded up to near three-score and ten, we 
 miiiiit not maintain our estimate of Avliat is 
 human success. He had hosts of friends 
 and few enemies ; was honored as but few 
 men have been; but with all he carried for 
 many years a great sorrow. The wife of his 
 youth, beautiful and accomplished, was early 
 stricken down, and ever after he continued 
 alone the journey of life. He realized, as all 
 must, that — 
 
 All pomp was but a uame ; 
 That gold aud silver were not life aud joy ; 
 That what to-day bestowed of Iovl' or raine, 
 Tomorrow's breath would wither and destroy. 
 
REMARKS BY MR. CPTACE. 185 
 
 He realized, as do all who grapple with 
 great public questions, of how much too lit- 
 tle avail are our best endeavors to establish 
 justice, to put an end to inequality, or to sat- 
 isfy those less favored. He saw how empty 
 a thing is honor, what a dream is life itself, 
 and how decay and death follow quickly 
 after youth and strength, as cloud-shadows 
 chase the sunshine on the mountain-side. 
 Occupying as he did for many years so dis- 
 tinguished a position, he realized that — 
 
 He who asceuds the mountain tops shall find 
 
 Its loftiest peaks most wrapped iu clouds aud snow ; 
 
 He who surpasses or subdues mankind 
 
 Must look down on the hate of .those below ; 
 
 Though far above the sun of glory glow, 
 
 And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, 
 
 Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow 
 
 Contending tempests on his naked head. 
 
 And thus reward the toils which to those summits led. 
 
 With him '' life's vain parade is over." 
 But though " he walked with throngs of 
 good friends, now at last he is called to pass 
 alone the dread portals of death.'' 
 
186 HENRY B, ANTHOJs^Y. 
 
 He will lono' be remembered by his associ- 
 ates here for the radiance of his genial pres- 
 ence, for his careful attention to every detail 
 of legislative duty, for the warmth of his 
 friendship, and the absence of partisan ran- 
 cor. In his native State his memory will be 
 cherished by young and old for his gentle- 
 ness, his dignity, his faithfulness to trust, for 
 his long and useful services. 
 
 The Honorable Henry J. Spooner, a Repre- 
 sentative from Rhode Island, spoke as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 REMARKS BY REPRESENTATIVE SPOONER. 
 
 M)\ Speaker. — The "Father of the Senate" 
 is dead. A long life of usefulness, largely 
 devoted to the public service, has closed. A 
 career unexampled by that of any son of his 
 native State and almost unparalleled in the 
 history of the Rei)ublic has terminated. All 
 
REMARKS BY MR. SPOONER. 187 
 
 that was mortal of Henry B. Anthony has 
 been borne to its final resting place, rever- 
 ently escorted by representatives of the Na- 
 tional and State governments and by the 
 mourning people of Rhode Island, and ten- 
 derly committed to the soil from whence he 
 sprung. 
 
 His obsequies have been said; his virtues 
 and attainments depicted, and his great ser- 
 vices to his State and the nation fittingly- 
 portrayed. The General Assembly of the 
 State of Rhode Island, the Board of Trade 
 of the city of Providence, the Commandery 
 of the Loyal Legion of this District, of which 
 he was an honorary and an honored compan- 
 ion, the Senate of the United States, the pub- 
 lic press and the voice of the people, have all 
 recounted and recalled the incidents of his 
 honorable life and pronounced their eulogies 
 upon his private character and his distin- 
 guished public services. 
 
 The utterances of this hour, devoted to the 
 memory of the deceased Senator, properly 
 
188 HENRY B, ANTHONY. 
 
 supplement the many similar tributes to his 
 worth ; and though evolving little perhaps 
 not already said, may at least, while giving 
 appropriate recognition by this House of the 
 public loss and the public sorrow, point again 
 the lessons of a completed and well-spent life; 
 and so, while appreciating the completeness 
 of the tributes already paid, I can not omit 
 the opportunity offered to render this last 
 testimonial of respect and regard for my late 
 friend and colleague. 
 
 It Avas Senator Anthony's fortune to live in 
 stirring, troublous times, and to be a promi- 
 nent participant in events which have largely 
 contributed to the making of our history. 
 From early manhood to almost the allotted 
 life of man, he may be said to have been con- 
 stantly concerned in the direction of public 
 affairs ; first as an influential editor and con- 
 troller of public thought; then as Governor 
 of his State; and finally as United States 
 Senator by five successive elections and dur- 
 ing- more than twenty-five years of contin- 
 
REMARKS BY MR. SPOONER. 189 
 
 nous service, embracing the most eventful 
 period of our national existence. 
 
 Liberally educated and graduating at 
 Brown University in 1833, with great nat- 
 ural talents and no small degree of culti- 
 vation and adaptability for the work, Mr. 
 Anthony five 3^ears later became sole editor 
 of the Providence Journal, in which capacity 
 he established that newspaper among the 
 leaders of New England opinion, and at- 
 tained his earlier reputation as a graceful, 
 vigorous writer, and a keen and discriminat- 
 ing critic of men and of public affairs. 
 
 The period of his earlier editorial career 
 was in those years which immediately pre- 
 ceded and included the so-called " Dorr 
 rebellion/' when wide and irreconcilable dif- 
 ferences among the people of Rhode Island 
 concerning their suffrage gave rise not only 
 to bitter discussions and personal and party 
 dissensions, but even to domestic strife and 
 an appeal to arms, threatening the peace and 
 the very existence of the State. In those 
 
190 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 days, Mr. Anthony and his paper were the 
 stern, uncompromising supporters of the so- 
 called "law and order" party of Rhode Isl- 
 and, urging the supremacy of existing law 
 and of the government organized under it 
 until the same should be changed by and 
 through the instrumentality and processes 
 which that law recognized; and earnestly 
 demanding the suppression by armed force 
 of any armed resistance to what they claimed 
 to be the only lawful government of the 
 State. 
 
 It was during that period that Mr. Antho- 
 ny established his reputation as an editor 
 and first illustrated the proportions of his 
 ability and the grasp and insight of his in- 
 tellect. Yet, bitterly as the conflict was 
 waged between the " Dorrites " and the 
 "Algerines," as the contending parties were 
 called, and virulent as were many of the 
 animosities and antagonisms aroused — fami- 
 lies and former friends dividing in hostile 
 iXYi'iix — and althou<;h no man in Rhode Isl- 
 
REMARKS BY MR. SPOONER. 191 
 
 and more persistently and vigorously opi)Osed 
 Thomas W. Dorr and his associates than did 
 Henry B. Anthony, his peculiar characteris- 
 tics, both of manner and method, are illus- 
 trated by the fact that many of his most 
 hostile opponents in those days of internal 
 strife subsequently became his faithful polit- 
 ical adherents and closest personal friends. 
 Indeed, within a few days I have read a 
 letter recently written by an old ''Dorrite" 
 and a strong political opponent of Mr. An- 
 thony in the ''days of forty -two," who there 
 speaks of the deceased Senator as one among 
 his "ideals of great men." * 
 
 Largely by reason of the reputation earned 
 and the political alliances with which he 
 became associated during the years of and 
 immediately succeeding the contest referred 
 to, Mr. Anthony was in 1849 nominated by 
 the Whig party of Rhode Island and elected 
 Governor of the State ; and in the following 
 year reelected to the same office, receiving 
 upon this second election more than three- 
 
192 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 fourths of all the ballots polled — a marked 
 evidence of his popularity with the people 
 and of their satisfaction with his discharge 
 of his duties as chief magistrate during his 
 preceding term. 
 
 It is a peculiarity of Rhode Island politics, 
 due I believe partly to the size of the State 
 and partly to the characteristic independence 
 of her people, that party lines are frequently 
 broken for the expression of individual pref- 
 erences, and votes often cast in direct antag- 
 onism to the nominal party affiliations of the 
 voter; and Mr. Anthony, having perhaps to 
 a greater extent than any other of his fellow- 
 citizens a large following of personal friends, 
 of varying shades of political opinion, capti- 
 vated by his genial manners and won by his 
 unquestioned integrity and the constancy of 
 his friendship and his purpose, always found 
 many staunch political supporters among 
 those whose political alliances were usually 
 widely at variance with his own; and, al- 
 though originally a Whig aiid subsequently 
 
REMARKS BY MR. SPOONER. 193 
 
 always a Republican, through the course of 
 his long public life he enjo^^ed the continu- 
 ous confidence and political support of many 
 Rhode Island Democrats. 
 
 A Rhode Islander by birth and descended 
 from old Rhode Island stock; by nature, 
 descent, instinct, and education saturated 
 with the ideas, principles, and convictions 
 peculiar to the people of his State; with an 
 affection akin to admiration for her tradi- 
 tions, her history, and her ancient institu- 
 tions, Mr. Anthony was for more than a 
 quarter of a century recognized as that one 
 of all her citizens best qualified to represent 
 her interests, as was evinced by his repeated 
 elections to serve her during all that period 
 in the United States Senate. His Senatorial 
 career, extending from 1859 to the time of 
 his death in September, 1884, spanned the 
 lifetime of a generation. It saw the rise and 
 overthrow of the great rebellion, the aboH- 
 tion of slavery, and the reconstruction of 
 the Union with constitutional liberty for 
 
194 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 black as well as white as a foundation-stone; 
 it witnessed the restoration of financial safety 
 and integrity and that wonderful expansion 
 of American industries which wise legisla- 
 tion had fostered ; it beheld that marvelous 
 growth and prosperity which, within that 
 period of time, had nearly douljled the pop- 
 ulation of Rhode Island as Avell as the popu- 
 lation of the United States, and had nearly 
 tripled the value of their manufactured pro- 
 ducts ; it saw the star of the liepublic, which 
 had seemed about to set in clouds and dark- 
 ness, blazing again in the peaceful sky as a 
 beacon light to progress and to freedom ! 
 
 The long and faithful services of Senator 
 Anthony in the national councils form a 
 conspicuous part of the recorded history of 
 our country, and scarcely demand recital 
 here. They constitute a record of high pat- 
 riotism, fidelity to duty, and i)rudent states- 
 manship during those trying seasons of peril 
 and of strife when numerous new and im- 
 portant (|uestions affecting the safety and 
 
REMARKS BY MR. SPOONEH. 11)5 
 
 perpetuity of our institutions vexed the pub- 
 lic mind and demanded Congressional ac- 
 tion; the}^ embrace the period following the 
 war, when matters of scarcely less importance 
 to the welfare, peace, and prosperity of our 
 people — the reconstruction of the Union, 
 and questions of finance and traffic and tax- 
 ation — called for that wisdom in legislation 
 which he was so competent to exercise. Af- 
 fable and courtly in manner, earnest yet pru- 
 dent and conservative, diligent in the work 
 committed to his charge, possessing rare gifts 
 of eloquence and persuasion as well as a log- 
 ical mind united with unusual power of state- 
 ment and analysis. Senator Anthony, though 
 seldom indulging in formal speeches in the 
 Senate and but infrequently engaged in de- 
 bate upon the floor, was for many years a 
 power in the affairs of Government and one 
 of the most influential of Senators. As an 
 industrious member and as chairman of im- 
 portant committees, and for four years as 
 President j:>ro tempore of the Senate, he has 
 
196 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 left the impress of his statesmanship and his 
 patriotism upon much of tlie lei^islation en- 
 acted during his term of Senatorial service. 
 
 If Mr. Anthony had not l)een called to 
 public life, luit had continued to activel}^ 
 occupy his early editorial chair, I believe I 
 may safely assert that he would have at- 
 tained both reputation and fame as a great 
 editor. That was a career for which he 
 was peculiarly adapted and most admirabl}^ 
 equipped by his ability, his inclinations, and 
 his attainments. 
 
 Few men possessed a keener appreciation 
 of men and motives or better understood the 
 course and the cause of the progress of affairs, 
 or could express their views more clearly, 
 forcibly, and attractively. A master of good 
 English, some of the earlier as well as the 
 more recent products of his pen are among 
 the best examples of correct and graceful 
 diction which our literature affords. He 
 could be witty without being offensive; hu- 
 morous and yet not gross; severe but still 
 
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 kindly and discriminating; complimentary 
 yet not effusive; vigorous, or sympathetic, or 
 critical, or sad, or gay; and through all he 
 wrote there ever ran a genial, human vein, 
 with a captivating style of thought and ex- 
 pression ; and though his wit and satire Avere 
 keen and incisive, yet, like the scimiter of 
 Saladin, they seldom left a ragged wound to 
 fester long after their blows had been deliv- 
 ered. 
 
 But I will delay the House no longer. 
 The "Father of the Senate" rests from his 
 labors ; the voice of the master of eulogy is 
 hushed; and, with the memory of his glow- 
 ing periods ringing in my ears, my simple 
 tribute to his memory seems but discordant 
 music. 
 
 His fame is a part of our common history, 
 interwoven with the fame of Lincoln and 
 Grant and Seward and Sumner and of those 
 other patriots, now largely of the past gener- 
 ation, who labored, or fought, or died that 
 the Union and free institutions might live. 
 
198 HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 Eulogies were also pronounced l)y Repre- 
 sentatives William D. Kelley, of Pennsylva- 
 nia, Luke P. Poland, of Vermont, Leopold 
 Morse, of Massachusetts, J. Warren Keifer, 
 of Ohio, and John Randolph Tucker, of Vir- 
 ginia; and the Resokitions were unanimously 
 adopted. 
 
HENRY B. ANTHONY. 
 
 Born in Covdntry, R. I., April 1, 1815. 
 
 Graduated, Brown University, 1833. 
 
 Became Editor of the Providence Journal, 1838. 
 
 Elected Governor, 1849 ; Re-elected, 1850. 
 
 Elected United States Senator, 1858 ; Re-elected 
 
 1864, 1870, 1876, 1882. 
 
 Died in I^rovidence, September 2, 1884. 
 
 ^'The record of a noble life is tliat life's best 
 eulogy ; the liistory of the deeds of worthy men, 
 their most Uxstiug epitaph." 
 
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