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DISCOURSE 
 
 DELIVEKED BKFORE THE 
 
 New-England Historic-GtEnealogical Society, 
 
 BOSTON. APRIL 2, ISCS, 
 
 LIFE AND CHARACTER 
 
 HON. JOHN ALBION ANDEEW, LL.D, 
 
 LATE IMIi;sniENr OK THE SOCIICTY. 
 
 wrrri procekdixos axd appendix. 
 
 BY THE REV. ELIAS NASON, M.A., 
 
 MKMRFR OF THK SOriKTY. 
 
 /V , 6^ " Insigne mcestis praesidium reis 
 
 1/ f Et consulenti. Pollio, curiae! 
 
 Horace, lib, ii. car. i. 
 
 BOSTON: ,/, \ 
 
 NEW-ENGLAND HlST0RIC-GENEAL0GICATr-SOen?tY. 
 
 M. DCCC. LXVIII. 
 
\Vp recojrnizofl in (jov. AiuIvpw all tliiit is mo.st excellent in tlu' traits usually 
 attributed to New England, blended with a breadth of thought, a largeness of aim. 
 and an absence of every thing like provincial or sectarian prejudice, that raised him 
 to the full height of the American ideal, and will make his name honored wherever 
 the history of our country shall be read, as an illustrious and classic example of the 
 noblest phase of the Amcricnn character. — John .Tat, at New York. Xov. 11, 1867. 
 
 Geo. C Rand iS: Averv, Printf.rs, Boston. 
 
PROCEEDINGS. 
 
 At a special meeting of the Directors of the New- 
 England Historic-Genealogical Society, held at their 
 rooms in Brorafield Street on the 30th of October, 
 1867, the death of the President, the Hon. John A. An- 
 drew, LL.D., having been announced, it was ordered 
 that a special meeting of the Society be called on 
 Friday, at noon, to make ai-rangements for attending 
 his funeral. It was also ordered that Dr. Winslow 
 Lewis and the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter be a commit- 
 tee to present resolutions to the Societ}', expressive 
 of their great loss, -and their sympathy with his 
 bereaved family. 
 
 A special meeting of the Society was held, agreea- 
 bly to the order of the Directors, at twelve o'clock, 
 on Friday, the 1st of November, 1867. The Vice- 
 President, the Hon. George B. Upton, on taking the 
 chair, made appropriate and touching remarks. 
 
 Dr. Winslow Lewis, after a few brief words, offered 
 the followins; resolutions : — 
 
4 N. K. HIST01!lC-tiKNEAL0(iRAL SOCIKTV. 
 
 Resolved, That in the loss of our lionored and be- 
 loved President, the Hon. John Albion Andrew, our 
 Society has been deprived of one whose labors for 
 us, as well as for so many associations, — litei'ary, 
 benevolent, and patriotic, — have shed an enduring 
 lustre on his memory. 
 
 Resolved, That death has stilled a heart which 
 ever beat warndy for the best interests of his fellow- 
 man ; has hushed an eloquence which stirred the 
 depths of his admiring auditors, and which was ever 
 ready to sustain the cause of justice, patriotism, and 
 truth. 
 
 Resolved, That this city, this Commonwealth, 
 these United States, have been called to part from 
 one whose excellences and great characteristics had 
 rendered him eminently conspicuous to all, and 
 which would have elevated him to the still more 
 exalted stations of public life. 
 
 Resolved, That, while rendering this tribute to his 
 memory as a public-spirited citizen, we fondly recall 
 his private virtues, his amenity of manner, his kind- 
 ness to all, his warmth of feeling, his Christian life, 
 his genial face, which was a benediction. 
 
 Resolved, That these resolutions be transmitted 
 to the family of our late President, with the assur- 
 ance of our deep sympathies in this great bereave- 
 ment, and with our prayers that the God of the 
 widow and of the fatherless may ever be with and 
 sustain them. 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDRKW. 5 
 
 On the passage of the resolutions, interesting and 
 impressive remarks were made by the Hon. William 
 Whiting, Col. Albert H. Hoyt, and Charles W. Tut- 
 TLE, Esq. 
 
 On motion of John H. Sheppard, Esq., — 
 
 Resolved, That the Society attend the funeral 
 ceremonies on Saturday, the 2d inst. ; and that Col. 
 A. D. Hodges, Mr. Frederick Kidder, Hon. William 
 Whiting, Mr. Jolin W. Candler, and Edward S. Rand, 
 jun., Esq., be a committee to make suitable arrange- 
 ments. 
 
 On motion of the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, — 
 
 Resolved, That a committee be appointed, witli 
 full powers to make arrangements for an Address 
 before the Society, commemorative of the life and 
 character of our late President, the Hon. John A. 
 Andrew. 
 
 The following gentlemen were appointed, — the 
 Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, the Hon. George B. Upton, 
 Dr. Winslow Lewis, the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, Wil- 
 liam B. Towne, Esq., and Col. Albert H. Hoyt. 
 
 Society's Kooms, 17 Bromfielu Street, 
 Boston, Dec. 12, 1S67. 
 
 The Eev. Elias Nason, ]M.A. 
 
 Reverend and dear Sir, — The undersigned hrtvo the honor, in be- 
 half of the New-E.vgland Histokic-Gene.^logical Societv, to request 
 you to deliver a Discourse before the Society, conunemorative of the 
 
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 litb and cliaiactui- of its latu President, Es-Gov. Jons A. Andjikw, 
 LL.D., early in April next, or at such time as shall be most convenient 
 and agreeable to yourself. 
 
 We remain, dear sir, most respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servants, 
 
 Maksh.\ll 1'. Wilder. 
 
 Geouge B. Upton. 
 
 WiNSLOW Lewis. 
 
 Edmund F. Slaftku. 
 
 William B. Towne. 
 
 Albert Harrison Hoyt. 
 
 North Billeeica, Mass., ITtli December, 1807. 
 
 Gentlemen, — I have the honor to receive your communication of 
 Saturday last, extending to me an invitation to deliver a Discourse 
 before the New-England Historic-Genealogical Society in commemo- 
 ration of the life and character of its late illustrious President, Ex-Gov. 
 John A. Andrew, LL.D. It would have been far more gratifying to 
 me had some person better qualified to do justice to the distinguished 
 merits of our late associate been selected to address you ; yet, not 
 wishing to decline any task that a Society from which I have received 
 so many marks of courtesy has the pleasure to assign to me, I will most 
 cheerfully attempt to comply with your request, and will hold myself 
 in readiness to deliver a commemorative Discourse at suth time and 
 place as you may be pleased to designate. 
 With sentiments of very great respect, 
 
 I have the honor to be your most obedient servant, 
 
 Eli AS Nason. 
 Hon. BL\RSHALL P. Wilder. 
 Hon. George B. Upton. 
 WixsLOW Lewis, M.D. 
 r>ev. Edmund F. Slakter. 
 William B. Towxe, Esij^ 
 Col Ai.iiLKT Harrison llin i 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. ^ 
 
 This Discourse was delivered in Horticultural Hall, 
 Tremont Street, Boston, on the afternoon of the 2d 
 of April, 1868, in the presence of about seven lum- 
 dred persons, being members of the Society and 
 their invited guests. 
 
 Prayer was offered, and a benediction pronounced, 
 by the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D.D. 
 
DISCOURSE. 
 
 By Rev. Elias Nason, M.A. 
 
DISCOURSE. 
 
 Mil. President, Associates, 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen, — 
 
 With pensive and profound emotion I come once 
 more to shed with you the tributary tear, and cast 
 a chaplet of praise upon the grave of the illustrious 
 dead. 
 
 In the midst of bright and buoyant life, in the full 
 tide of manhood and of beauty, encircled by admir- 
 ing friends, enjoying the golden opinions of the good, 
 and rising to loftier reaches of thought and broader 
 fields of action, the late beloved President of this 
 Society has been cut down by the inexorable reaper ; 
 and our hearts are made to realize anew the touch- 
 ino- sentiment of those elegiac lines, which he, as 
 well as Wolfe and Webster, so prophetically pro- 
 nounced : — 
 
 •' The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 
 
 Aud all that beauty, all that wealth, e'er gave, 
 • Await alike the inevitable hour : 
 
 The paths of glory lead but to the grave." 
 
 But, though his form sleeps peacefully in the silent 
 mansion where ■' the Avicked cease from troubling," 
 
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 liis enkindling spirit, as an angelic warden, whisper- 
 ing gentle words of love, and winging sweet, inspiring 
 notes of hope and gladness, lives amongst us still. It 
 lives to bless the prisoner pining in his cell ; to 
 brighten the eye of the widow and the fatherless 
 whose strong support was stricken down defending 
 Freedom's flag at Gettysburg or Spottsylvania ; it 
 lives in the heart of the sciirred and veteran warrior 
 who remembers, in the gloaming, words that stirred 
 him in the hour of peril like the notes of martial 
 trumpet; it lives in the minds of myriads of freed- 
 men now exultins;- in the cheering beams of civil 
 liberty ; it lives in every bounding pulse of this old 
 Commonwealth ; and in her heart of hearts it must 
 still live, so long as men shall delight in the power 
 of intellect, or be charmed by deeds of humanit}', 
 or weep over scenes of misfortune and woe. 
 
 It is the laudable aim and purpose of this Society 
 to garner up the memorials and records of such illus- 
 trious men, and to preserve them in its archives for 
 the instruction and comfort of coming generations ; 
 and I therefore indulge the hope, Mr. President and 
 gentlemen, that you will accord to me 3-our indul- 
 gent sympathy while I shall attempt to rehearse the 
 story, portray the character, and unfold, its far as 
 possible, the secret of the success, of the remarkable 
 man whose life and character we are now assembled 
 to commemorate. 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 13 
 
 John Albion Andrew was descended from a respec- 
 table Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and was of the fifth gen- 
 eration from Robert and Grace Andrew, who settled 
 in Rowley V-illage — now Boxford, Mass. — about the 
 middle of the seventeenth century. Mr. John An- 
 drew, the grandfather of the governor, removed from 
 Salem, Mass., near the close of the Revolutionary 
 War, to a frontier settlement at a place on the left 
 bank of the Presumpscot River, originally named from 
 the home of its first settlers, New Marblehead, but 
 subsequently Windham ; * and lived in a house which 
 stood near the fort from which the celebrated Indian 
 chief Poland, the last of the Rocomeca tribe, whose 
 daring exploits have been so graphically described 
 by Mr. Charles P. Ilsley in his story of '• The Scout," 
 was shot. May 24, 1756. 
 
 On the death of Mr. John Andrew, who was killed 
 by the accidental discharge of his musket, in 1701, 
 the family returned to Salem, where Jonathan, born 
 on the 10th of September, 1782, was educated in the 
 public schools, and where he subsequently became a 
 trader. His health, however, failing, he made a visit 
 to his brother-in-law, John Chute, Esq., of Windham ; 
 and finally determined to purchase a house (for he 
 
 • * So named from Winilham, England ; and incorporated in 1762. It 
 is in Cumberland County, Me., and fourteen miles north-west of Port- 
 lanil. Population, 3,380. The Presumpscot River has ten falls in this 
 town. 
 
14 N. E. HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 said the ciige uiust be pruvided ere the bird is 
 cauglit). and settle near the home and the grave 
 of his father. 
 
 On coming into possession of his dwelHng, — a com- 
 modious cottage of one story, still standing on a 
 gentle eminence at South Windham, and about one 
 hundred rods Irom the Presuinpscot River, — Mr. An- 
 drew met with a little incident, which in its result 
 filled his new home with gladiTess, and materially 
 afiFected the destiny of this Commonwealth. 
 
 Stopping one day at the tavern on the margin of 
 Long Pond, in what is now the town of Naples, he 
 learned that a young woman, who had been teaching 
 a school in the romantic town of Fryeburg. had fallen 
 from her horse, and was, in consequence, detained as 
 an invalid at the inn. 
 
 Miss Nancy Green Pierce, the young lady referred 
 to, was the daughter of Mr. John and Mrs. Sally 
 (Farnsworth) * Pierce, who were born, one in Grotou, 
 
 * Deacon Isaac Farnsworth of Groton married Anna Green, Dec. 4. 
 1 744, and bad issue : — 
 
 Anna, born Jan. 23, 174G. 
 
 Isaac, born Jan. 14, 1748. ^ 
 
 Elizabeth, born May 24, 1 750. 
 
 OUve, born June 19, 1753. 
 
 Sally, born April 1 2, 1 755, at Pepperell. 
 
 Molly, born Nov. 28, 1 758. 
 
 John, born Jan. 19, 1765. 
 
 Samuel, born Sept. 29, 1767. 
 
 Vide History of Groton. hij Cahh Butler. Esq. 
 
JOHN- ALBION ANDREW. 15 
 
 the other in Pepperrell, Mass., and were connected 
 with the family of Ex-President FrankHn Pierce of 
 Hillsborough, N.H. She had large, beaming blue eyes, 
 a light and delicate complexion, and was of medium 
 stature. She was well educated, prepossessing in her 
 manners, quick in her perceptions, of fine colloquial 
 powers, with a voice so soft, so sweet, 
 
 " The listener held his breath to hear." 
 
 Mr. Andrew, now some thirty-five years of age, 
 was captivated by her charms. He pointed to his 
 vaciant house ; then made a fair proposal, which she 
 graciously accepted ; and in July, 1817, they were 
 united in the holy bonds of matrimony by the Rev. 
 Nathan Church, at the house of the bride's maternal 
 uncle. Dr. Samuel Farnsworth, an eminent physician 
 of the neighboring town of Bridgeton. 
 
 This union was most felicitous; and I think it 
 may with truth be said, there never was a happier 
 New-England home than that of Mr. Jonathan 
 Andrew. Clear-headed, keen, observant, though 
 somewhat inclined to taciturnity, consistent, liberal, 
 industrious, temperate, he managed his store and 
 farm with judicious skill and fair success ; while his 
 excellent wife, by her admirable domestic arrange- 
 ments, her literary and musical accomplishments, her 
 conversational ability, brightened by the serenest 
 and the sweetest temper in the world, rendered that 
 
16 ■ N. K. HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 humble house and home the appropriate nursery of 
 such as Heaven, indulgent to our sorrows, sends at 
 intervals to sway maukiml towards virtue by the 
 regal power of love. 
 
 Of such parents, intelligent, liberal, loving, pious, 
 prudent, our late honored President, on the thirtv- 
 first day of May, 1818, was boin. In such a well- 
 ordered, happy Christian home, he started on the 
 royal road to learning. Etper virtiitem ad gloriam. 
 
 His primal teacher was his mother. From her gen- 
 tle lips he early learned to read the New-England 
 Primer and the Bible ; and then was sent in com- 
 pany with his younger brother to the public school, 
 where, in his sixth brief summer, he had come to 
 read fluently the fine specimens of literature in Mr. 
 Lindley Murray's English Reader, and to spell the 
 words in Webster's Spelling-Book with promptitude 
 and accuracy. He was then the smallest * and the 
 lowest member of the class ; and when, at the ex- 
 amination of the school one day, the class was called 
 upon to read before the late Dr. John Waterman of 
 the committee, he heard them patiently, till, coming 
 to the little chubby urchin at the foot, he said, '' Now, 
 
 * When ten months old, he wei};hed hut ten ])(iiinih ; and hardly 
 began to attain to a sound an<l vii;oroiis growth nnlil the age of sixteen 
 or seventeen years. At the age of forty, he weighed about two hmuh-ed 
 pounds ; and his heiglit was five leet six inches, llis solid Napoleonic 
 form gave the impression that he was of greater stature. 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 17 
 
 boys, shut 3-our books, and take your seats." — " One 
 more to read," the teacher cries ; when, re-opening 
 his book, and hearing him, the doctor exclaims, 
 " Though last, this boy i.s not the least." 
 
 As the school was a mile distant, and not always 
 wisely taught, Mr. Andrew, who knew full well that 
 an education is the noblest patrimony a father can 
 bestow upon his offspring, erected, the ensuing year, 
 a small building on his own estate, in order that his 
 children might enjoy the benefit of private tuition 
 immediately beneath his eye. Here young Albion,* 
 under the foithful instruction of Miss Almira P. Ba- 
 ker, now of Newburyport, and Miss Sibyl Ann Farns- 
 worth, was initiated into the mysteries of Warren 
 Colburn's Arithmetic, then just published, and the 
 wearisome technicalities of Murray's Grammar ; from 
 wliich he sprang with rare delight to revel in the 
 rich repast presented him in the admirable selec- 
 tions of Mr. Caleb Bingham's " Columbian Orator," 
 and the Rev. John Pierpont's " American First-class 
 Book." 
 
 For the wild, athletic sports of boyhood, — running, 
 leaping, boating, gunning, — he had little inclination. 
 His mind, from infancy, was bent toward learning. 
 His loadstar, his divinity, was a book. Seated on 
 the counter of his' father's store, or by the margin 
 
 * He recehed tlie name Albion from his mother's brother, Albion K. 
 Pierce, — a young man of remarkable promise, who died in college. 
 
18 N. E. HISTOUIC-GENEALOCICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 of the gliding streiun, or underneath the fir-trees 
 near his father's dwelhng, his eye was ever fastened 
 as by magic spell upon the instructive page. 
 
 " Come r ape succhia i fiori, 
 Siicohia i 'letti de' mi<;liori." 
 
 He read and sang the hymn-book through and 
 through, committing many of the finest hyiiuis to 
 memory. He perused and reperased his mother's 
 well-worn copy of Cowper's " Task," and whatever 
 devotional or historical woiks her scanty library af- 
 forded. 
 
 He was well read in history, one of his earliest 
 teachers informs me, when a mere lad ; and it was 
 no small task to answer his questions satisfactorily. 
 
 He not only read with avidity whatever he could 
 find, but he remembered and digested what he 
 read ; assimilating it with his own original trains 
 of thought in such a manner as to Ije able to repro- 
 duce it to the astonishment of his teachers. 
 
 His father * was a deacon of the church at Wind- 
 ham ; his mother, as I have said, a woman of supe- 
 rior intellectual ability : and clergymen visiting that 
 town always found a warm and hearty welcome to 
 the hospitalities of the family. For this the Andrew 
 Place was known in Cumberland County as " The 
 Minister's Hotel;" and many a time were the vener- 
 
 * See brief genealojry in AppendLx. 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 19 
 
 able divines of that region startled, and sometimes 
 even discomfited in argument, by the fresh and 
 fearless utterances, by the dialectic skill, of the 
 curly-headed schoolboy, whose merry twinkling eye 
 bespoke the secret joy he felt in trying to measure 
 lances with his reverend seniors * 
 
 In the autumn of 1828, young Andrew, then in 
 his eleventh year, began the study of the Latin lan- 
 guage under Mr. Barzillai Cushman, Principal of the 
 Academy at Portland, with the design of making 
 preparation for college. 
 
 The ensuing summer he spent at home, assisting 
 his father, who had just been appointed postmaster; 
 reading the pajDers, and the antislavery addresses 
 which were then just beginning to soimd the alarum- 
 peal of universal freedom ; and reciting lessons in the 
 Latin Reader to Dr. S. W. Baker, then living in the 
 Andrew family. 
 
 Subsequently, he was a pupil in the Academy at 
 NorthYarmouth, under Mr. Sherman: and, while there, 
 he resided in the same family with the melancholy 
 and gentle poet, Granville Mellen ; by whose elegant 
 discourse the fertile fancy of young Andrew must 
 
 * A lady, who knew liim well, describes him at this time " as a bright, 
 cheerful, amiable, and afFectionate boy ; strictly honorable, and often 
 a peacemaker among the other buys in their school-day quarrels ; and, 
 though fidl of fun and mirth, very considerate and tender of the rights 
 and feelings of others." 
 
20 ^'^ K- insTi)i;ic-(;KNK.vi.(H;irAi. siinr.TY. 
 
 havt' 1)0011 (juiol\oiio(l, and somo iVosli inspiratiun 
 breathed into his ingenuous soul. 
 
 He began the study of the French language, in 
 the summer of 1830 or 1831, under the tuition of the 
 Rev. Thomas T. Stone, the popular Preceptor of the 
 Academy at Bridgoton ; and read with a peculiar zest, 
 iu tiie original, the laughable '' Adventures of Gil 
 Bias," by the inimitable Alain Rene Le Sage, the 
 Cervantes of France. 
 
 Returning home, he speut the winter of 1831-32 
 beneath the paternal roof, now saddened by the ill- 
 ness of his mother, whose remains, in early spring, 
 he followed to the grave.* He keenly realized the 
 bitterness of tliis bereavement; for, by the inspira- 
 tion of her refined and gentle spirit, ho had already 
 learned to reverence the invisible and eternal Ruler, 
 the unslumbering 
 
 " God of stillness and of motion, 
 Of the rainbow and tlie ocean ; " 
 
 and to listen thoaghtfully to his liigh behest, that 
 we conseci'ate our talent to the service of our suffer- 
 ing fellow-uieu. Her words, her love, her benedic- 
 tions, were the noblest heritage of her nohli^ sou. 
 
 * A gentleman, in a letter dated Sonth Windham, Me., March 26, 
 1868, says, " Gov. Andrew made a practice of visiting hi< mother's gi-ave 
 once a year. His last visit was in August, 1867. Her remains are 
 buried in a cemetery in the school district in which her son was born." 
 
JOHN ALBIDN ANDREW. 21 
 
 111 the ensuing suuinier, he commenced anew the 
 study of the cLissics under the tuition of tlie Eev. 
 Reuben Nason,* the fliithful and experienced Pre- 
 ceptor of the Academy at Gorhani Corner : and here 
 he continued, reading Sallust, Cicero's Orations, the 
 whole of Virgil, something of Horace, Jacob's 
 Greek Reader, and the Greek Testament, until the 
 spring of 1S34; when he entered, in his sixteenth 
 year, the fi-esh man -class in Bowdoin College, one 
 term in advance. 
 
 His deportment under Mr. Nason was invariably 
 commendable ; and although his fondness for mis- 
 cellaneous reading, and for disputation, prevented 
 him from attaining to any prominent lank in the 
 studies specially prescribed, he nevertheless had 
 here few equals in the art of declamation (.so lament- 
 ably neglected in our schools and colleges at the 
 present day), and perhaps none at all in point of 
 information really useful, and of original and inde- 
 pendent thought. 
 
 By some, it has been said that the late distin- 
 guished President of this Society sprang, as Minerva 
 from the brain of Jupiter, into intellectual pre- 
 eminence at a bound ; and that with Iiim, at least, the 
 
 * He was the son of Mr. John and ;\Irs. Rebecca (Perkins) Nason ; 
 and was born in Dover, N.H., April 7, 1779 ; H. C. 1802. He married, 
 first, Apphia, daughter of tlie Hon. Josiah Thatcher of Gorham ; second, 
 Martha, youngest daughter of Mr. James Coffin of Saco. He died of 
 disease of the lieart, at Clarkson, N.Y., Jan. 25, 183.5. 
 
22 N. K. HISTIll!UM!KNF.ALI)(iir.\L SOCIKTY. 
 
 child was not, as Wordsworth s;,ys, " the fother of the 
 
 man 
 
 It is indeed most true of him, as of Byron, that he 
 awoke one morning, and discovere.I that he was fa- 
 mous ; but it is also true, that, hy the law of slow and 
 steady growth, his mind was from earliest infancy pro- 
 gressively and harmoniously trained and developed- 
 crescensli eundo-kr the execution of those gigantic 
 labors which he ca.ne in later life so admirably to 
 perform. Like the elegant T. Pomponius Atticus, 
 he had in early boyhood a distinct articulation and 
 a pleasant voice. "'Erat autem in puero, pra^ter 
 docilitatem, summa suavitas oris ac vocis." 
 
 He put his early teachers to the blush Ijy his per- 
 sistence for the why and wherefore and the reason ol 
 the things they taught him. According to the Rev. 
 Mr Stone, "he was a decided politician" at the age 
 of twelve ; and, two years later, he delivered, before 
 a larce assemblv in the church at Windham, an elo- 
 quent extemporaneous address on Temperance; 
 and, long ere he assumed the toga virilis, was accu.s- 
 tom'ed to discuss fearlessly and sensibly with his 
 seniors the leading questions - such as the United- 
 States Bank, the tarifi; anti-masonry, and anti-slavery 
 _ which then agitated the public mind. 
 
 While many of his companions were trundling 
 hoop, or tossing ball, or flying kite, the future gov- 
 ernor of this Commonwealth was attacking with 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDRKW. 23 
 
 might and main the pohtical opinions of his teachers, 
 or, like young Marcus TulHus Cicero at Arpinum, 
 defending fearlessly his own. 
 
 On entering college, he toolv rooms with Mr. Ammi 
 R. Bradbury ; and came by degrees under the fostering 
 influence of the accomplished philosopher and poet, 
 Thomas Cogswell Upham, and the eloquent scholar 
 and gifted son of song, Henry Wadsvvorth Longfel- 
 low, whose names were even at that period known to 
 fame. 
 
 Though not ambitious to attain pre-eminence in 
 the recitation-room, young Andrew did most ear- 
 nestly aspire to the more honorable distinction of 
 becoming an independent thinker, a ready writer, and 
 an accomplished orator : and to this end he bent his 
 energies; reading history, biography, poetry; discuss- 
 ing philanthropic and religious questions constantly; 
 and, like Webster and Everett in their collegiate 
 days, writing articles in prose and poetry for the 
 periodical press. His first printed poetical produc- 
 tion, so far as I am able to discover, appeared in 
 " The Juvenile Reformer," published at Portland, Me., 
 by Mr. D. C. Colesworthy, now of this city. It 
 evinces alike his skill in numbers and his loving 
 heart. 
 
 Observing his taste and talent in this direction, the 
 Athenian Society of Bowdoin College appointed him 
 to deliver the poem on its anniversary in 1836 ; and 
 
24 N. K. llISTOUlC-GKNKALOIilCAL .SOCliaV. 
 
 to his facile pen his class was indebted for its closing- 
 song, which trips away in his favorite iambic ineasure 
 thus: — 
 
 " ^\ he'll shall our voices tiino ajxain 
 111 iiiori-y lau^'li and son^ 
 Iiv Aiidioscoggiu's wiiuliiig shoves 
 And Bninswitdc's pines among ? '' 
 
 On the fourth of July, in 1837, he delivered an 
 oration in the chm'ch at Brunswick; and his theme, 
 " Antislavery," — a word then contraband among the 
 " powers and principalities," — most clearly indicates 
 the course his mind was takin"- in those lowerinsr 
 political times, and his fearlessness in the advocacy of 
 human right. "Ready wit, good nature, fair scholar- 
 ship, an easy style of speaking," one of his classmates 
 writes, "were his general college characteristics." — ■' I 
 remember him as a social, genial, warm-hearted lad," 
 writes another of his classmates, " but remarkable 
 for no S2:)ecial quality, unless it were his love of de- 
 bate, and as being entirely devoid of any foolish diffi- 
 dence." 
 
 At his gnaduation he received the usual diploma, — 
 nothing more. 
 
 Thus many a mind quick with imperial thought, 
 which our collegiate '• lead and line " can never 
 rightly fathom, comes forth, uncrowned with acade- 
 mic honors, to win the palm by its own intrinsic 
 force, and to teach the world that those whose 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 25 
 
 memories it holds most dear are made of sterner 
 stufl" than academic " sheepskin," and soar unaided )3y 
 the waxen wings of college " parts," or patronage. 
 
 " Well, J. 0. F.," wrote young Andrew in the album 
 of a classmate as he left his alma mater, " all I have 
 to say by way of advice is, Do well to yourself, and 
 the world will act as kindly to you as you deserve ; 
 at least, so I hnve always found it myself Quit 
 yourself well, and others will follow suit. Endeavor 
 to make others around you happy, iind happiness 
 will be yours : " * which seems to be a kind of fore- 
 cast of his own remarkable career. In the autumn 
 of 1837, the Andrew family removed from Windham 
 to Boxford, the home of their ancestors in Massachu- 
 setts ; and John Albion entered, through the assist- 
 ance of his friend, Mr. Cyrus Woodman, the office 
 
 * He wi'ote impromplu, in \hf nlbnr.i <if anotluT classmate, — 
 
 " The road to honor, — 
 strait and narrow as the way to iieaven. 
 
 " Soon shall we take each other's hand. 
 
 And speak the sad ' Good-by ! ' 
 And we may roam o'er sea and land, 
 Far from our college-band 
 
 Of warmest, purest, truest friends : 
 But all shall meet 
 Where never ends communion sweet, 
 
 And pleasures high ; 
 Where fi'iends ne'er part. 
 
 Nor say ' Good-by ! ' " 
 
 .1. A. Andrew, of the Senior Class, 
 Howdoin College, A.D. 1S36. 
 
26 N. K. IllSTmilC-CENKALOGRAL SOCIKTY. 
 
 of the late Henry H. Fuller, Esq., as a student at 
 law. 
 
 Mr. Fnller Avas a stanch conservative of the old 
 regime, even in his manners and his dress; but 
 keenly observant and learned withal; genial, affable, 
 and as original, I might almost say, as his ill-fated 
 kinswoman, Margaret Fuller d'Ossoli. 
 
 His peculiar mental characteristics captivated the 
 ingenuous heart of Andrew, and exercised a potent 
 influence over his fine intellect, now rapidly develop- 
 ing itself, through the freshness of unsullied affections, 
 into princely strength and beauty. 
 
 It may be possible that dissimilarity in mental 
 organization quickens thought, just as the opposite 
 poles of the magnetic batteries engender fire ; and 
 that the most perfect friendshijj is cemented only 
 where one party brings in somewhat to atone for 
 the deficiency of the other, and thus makes out the 
 com^Dlement of the golden circle. 
 
 But, be this a psychological law or not, it is, never- 
 theless, most certain that a warm and intimate com- 
 panionship soon sprang uj) between the veteran 
 counsellor and his enthusiastic pupil, so that the soul 
 of the one was gradually transfused into the soul of 
 the other ; and what the college compeer of the 
 illustrious Edward Everett had garnered in the classic 
 shades of Harvard, or in the rich domain of jurispru- 
 dence, or in the refined and intellectual society in 
 
JOHN' ALBION ANDREW. 27 
 
 which he moved, became the heritage of John Albion 
 Andrew. It was beautiful to see the open, free, and 
 unrestrained intercourse between the loving master 
 and the loved disciple, and to know that that loved 
 disciple's heart-strings clung in grateful admiration 
 to the noble mentor who initiated him into the mar- 
 vels and mysteries of his jJi'ofession. You might 
 most truly say of them, as Thomas Parnell of the 
 hermit and the angel, — 
 
 " Thus stands an aged elm in ivy bound ; 
 Tlius youthful ivy clasps an elm around." 
 
 Mr. Andrew had liis lods^-ings, at this time, at the 
 house of Mrs. Ann Blodget ; sleeping, as did the 
 celebrated Charles, Lord Camden, when a youth, in 
 an attic, which was nearly opposite the Athenjeum, 
 in Howard Street. 
 
 He applied himself with vigor to his legal studies ; 
 making, as he could, delightful excursions into the 
 refreshing fields of history and poetry; listening 
 occasionally to the original speculations of Orestes 
 A. Brownson. to the ylowino- exhortations of the Rev. 
 Edward T. Taj^lor * to the eloquence of Dr. William 
 EUery Channing ; and cherishing in the interior king- 
 
 * Gov. Andrew entertained the warmest regard tor " Father Taylor " 
 through life, and often addressed the sailors at his chapel in words of 
 moving eloquence and pathos. When asked to assist at the funeral 
 ofKces of his distinguished friend and helper, the veteran chaplain said, 
 " I cannot do it : I can do nothing but cry." 
 
28 N. I*;. msTOKIC-GKNEALOCilCAL .SOCIKTV. 
 
 doiu of \i\}i aiR'uutaniiiiated .suiil the grand retbniia- 
 tory principles of freedom lor all, — fraternity, peace, 
 "good will to man." 
 
 At the close of his novitiate, he entered into part- 
 nership with his esteemed and erudite instructor, and 
 commenced upon the practice of the law. Electing 
 as his " specialty " that line of legal labor which per- 
 tains to the rights of landlord and of tenant, accept- 
 ing cases intricate and hopeless, witli little or no 
 regard to personal emolument, and throwing the 
 combined forces of his intellectual and almost vol- 
 canic emotional nature into them, he began slowly 
 to break up through that adamantine crust which 
 here so often holds the legal aspirant in abeyance 
 for weary years, and to be acknowledged as a rising 
 and a positive power at the Boston bar. 
 
 He was known among his companions, at this 
 period, as a light-hearted, independent, social, affec- 
 tionate, and golden-tempered young reformer; sin- 
 cere, truthful, temperate, devoid alike of personal 
 pride or mauvaise honte, and always ready for a 
 sharp discussion or a merry song. He was too ob- 
 jective in his cast of thought to climb the giddy 
 heights of transcendentalism ; too catholic to contend 
 for this or that dividing line of crape or lawn or 
 font or crucifix in the King's highway to the " Celes- 
 tial City:" and the only fear he had was this, — that 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 29 
 
 some poor unfortunate one amongst jou might be 
 wronger!. 
 
 '■ Teiner si dee di quelle cose 
 Ch' anno potenza di tar altrui male." 
 
 Dante, Inf. c. 11. 
 
 He had neither means nor inclination for the play- 
 house ; his principal amusement consisting then, as to 
 the end of life, in riding through the beautiful en- 
 virons of this city, relating brilliant anecdotes, sing- 
 ing merry songs, national ballads, or religious hymns. 
 Many of those present can doubtless well remem- 
 ber with what a comical twinkle in the eye he used 
 to troll forth, in a clear and flexible barytone voice, 
 the amusing ditty of '"The Straw Bonnet:" — 
 
 " A buxom young damsel a stage-coach was passing 
 Near the court of St. James with a bonnet of straw." 
 
 Or the late Mr. Charles G. Etistman's admirable serio- 
 
 " The farmer sat in his easy-chair, 
 Smoking his pipe of clay ; 
 While his hale old wife, with busy care, 
 
 Was clearing the dinner away. 
 A sweet little girl, with fine blue eyes, 
 On her grandfather's knee was catching flies." 
 
 V. Duyckinck's Cyc. Am. Lit., ii. G94. 
 
 Or how, rising in the rapture of devotion, he would 
 chant in sweetest notes, his eye brightening just as 
 if he caught the echoes of the joyous tongues of the 
 
30 N. E. lllSTUUIC-liENEALOGICAL SOCIETV. 
 
 responding angels, the soul-moving strophes of his 
 favorite Ivric : — 
 
 " Ye glittering orbs that roll above 
 In golden splendor, ])ower, and love, 
 Your silent language ne'er can tell 
 The glories of Immaxl'el ! 
 
 Tall mountains that becloud the skies, 
 Airl all the hills that round you rise, 
 Wiile time endures, yii ne'er can tell 
 The glories of Ijimanuel ! " 
 
 In the memorable Presidential campaign of 1840, 
 lie, still adhering to the conservative political prin- 
 ciples of his father, advocated in many effective 
 public addresses the election of Gen. William Henry 
 Harrison, of "North Bend," to the supreme Executive 
 chair ; and, on a certain occasion, wrote imjjromptu 
 one of the most stirring songs of that somewhat 
 musical contest. The occasion was this : At a meet- 
 ing of a political club in Cambridge, the chairman 
 called on Mr. Andrew for a song. He modestly 
 declined, but said, if he could obtain a pencil, he 
 would try and write a verse or two for him. A pencil 
 was procured ; when he wrote out upon a sheet of paper 
 on his knee seven thrilling stanzas-, which the com- 
 pany sang as rapturously as their fathers at an earlier 
 day the grand old national hymn of "Adams and 
 Liberty" from the glowing pen of Eobert Treat 
 Paine, Esq., and which rang as a clarion peal through 
 the Harrisonian assemblies of that day : — 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 31 
 
 " Tlie trumii of Fame in storied song 
 The ];)atriot's deeds shall tell, 
 And Freedom's voice the strain prolong, 
 The gladsome chorus swell. 
 
 The gladsome chorus swell, my biys, 
 
 The gladsome chorus swell : 
 We'll join to-night the merry song. 
 
 The gladsome chorus swell. 
 
 The hero, who long years ago 
 
 Once wore the warrior's mail. 
 Now comes to beat the yeoman's foe, 
 
 The farmer with his flail. 
 
 The farmer with his Hail, my boys. 
 
 The farmer with hi-! flail : 
 They'll get a right good thrashing yet 
 
 From the farmer with his flail." 
 
 In 1844:, Mr. Andrew delivered an eloquent oration 
 before the Athenian Society of Bowdoin College. 
 Havino; closed hi.s connection with Mr. Fuller in the 
 autumn of 1846, he entered into the law-ofiice of Mr. 
 Theophilus P. Chandler at the commencement of the 
 following year ; and, by untiring devotion to his 
 profession, continued to extend his practice and to 
 gain position as an able and successful advocate. 
 Though now in full sympathy with the progressive 
 party, he was too deeply engrossed with his profes- 
 sional labors to assume any very prominent political 
 position. He was, however, by thought and study, 
 ripening for conflicts yet to come. 
 
32 N. K. HISTIIIMC-r.KNKALOGKAL SOCIKTV. 
 
 In 1848, his keen, prophetic eye foresaw the in- 
 abihty of the Whig party to meet the exigency 
 of the country ; and he openly allied himself *to the 
 rising political organization, with which he ever con- 
 tinued in the liveliest and most cordial sympathy. 
 
 On Christmas Eve, December, 1848, he was mar- 
 ried to the beautiful and accomplished Miss Eliza 
 Jones,* only daughter of Mr. Charles and Eliza 
 (Jones) Hersey of Hingham, whom he had first seen 
 sustaining a part in a tableau at an antislavery 
 fair in this city. 
 
 From this period he resided chiefly, during the 
 summer months, in that ancient, sea-board town, 
 which is pre-eminent alike for its picturesque scenery, 
 its historical associations, and the intelligence and 
 culture of its people ; and here, in the bosDm of his 
 family, or in social intercourse with his friends 
 and neighbors, — the Rev. Joshua Young, in whose 
 church and Sunday school he laljored lovingly ; 
 
 * Charles Hersey of Iliugliam, son of Laban and t'elia (Barnes) 
 Hersey, was born May 23, 1794. He was a lineal descendant of William 
 Hersey, one of the early settlers of Hinphani. Eliza C. Jones, daiifrhter 
 of Tliomas and Elizabeth (Loring) Jones, was born in Hull, 1798. Her 
 ancestors, also, were among the early settlers of Hingham. Charles 
 Hersey and Eliza C. Jones were married in August, 1823. Children : 
 1. Eliza Jones, born Sept. 15, 1824; married to John A. Andrew, 
 Dee. 24, 1848. 2. Mary Wiusor, born Sept. 2, 1826 ; died July 1, ISSfi. 
 3. Thomas Jones, born February, 183C; died May 8, 18(kS. Mrs. Eliza 
 C. Hersey died May 3, 18.58, aged fifty-nine years. Charles Hersey died 
 Nov. Ifi, 18o8, aged si.xty-tbur years. 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 33 
 
 the learned naturalist, Thomas T. Bouve, Esq. ; the 
 Hon. Solomon Lincoln, the elegant and accurate his- 
 torian of the town, — or in drives along the shady 
 lanes, or by the waving fields of grain, or over the 
 pebbly shore of the resounding sea, singing some 
 merry song for very gladsomeness, and beating time 
 upon his knee while moving on, our late lamented 
 President passed many of the sweetest and serenest 
 hours 'of his mature and busy life. Hingham was to 
 him Les Champs Elysees, — its verdant meadows, 
 sunny slopes, and winding vales, the home of his affec- 
 tions, and his warm heart's terrestrial paradise.* 
 
 By his unflinching opposition to the Fugitive-slave 
 Law, in 1850, Mr. Andrew came more distinctly into 
 the eye of the public as a persistent advocate of 
 
 * His attachment to this town is beavitif uUy exhibited in an impromptu 
 address to the citizens assembled in front of his house on the evening 
 of Sept. 3, 1860, wherein he says, " How dear to my heai't are these 
 fields, these hills, these spreadins; trees, this verdant grass, this sounding 
 shore before you, where now for fourteen years, through summer heat, 
 and sometimes through winter storms, I liave trod your streets, rambled 
 through your woods, sauntered by your shores, sat by your firesides, and 
 felt the warm pressure of your liands ; sometimes teaching your children 
 in the Sunday school, sometimes speaking to my fellow-citizens ! . . . 
 Hsre t30, dexr friends, I have found the home of ray heart. It 
 was into one of your families that I entered, and joined myself iu holy 
 bonds of domestic love to one of the daughters of your town. Here, too, 
 I have first known a parent's joys and a parent's sorrows." 
 
 The story of the Rev. Peter Hobart's resistance to the magistracy of 
 Boston (vide Mi-. Lincoln's History of Hingham) is effectively told in 
 this address. 
 
34 N. i:. HISTOIilC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 antislavery measures : and b}^ liis powerful argu- 
 ments, in 1854, in defence of the parties indicted for 
 the rescue of Anthony Burns; on behalf of the 
 British consul, against the charge of violating the 
 laws of neutrality during the Crimean War; and for 
 a writ of habeas corjyvs, testing the legality of the 
 imprisonment of the free-State officers at Topeka, 
 1856, — he made a still higher and nobler record at 
 the bar. 
 
 In the autumn of the following year, the Sixth 
 Ward of this city .sent him to the lower body of the 
 General Court. In reference to his special course of 
 legal practice, he was here appointed Chairman of 
 the Committee on Matters of Probate and Chancery ; 
 and he girded himself at once to meet great issues 
 which were expected to arise in that legislative 
 department. 
 
 He took his seat, as the young and eloquent 
 Antoine Barnave in the old French National Assembly, 
 totally unused to parliamentary debate ; but, after 
 two or three discussions, came to l^e acknowledged 
 as the fearless and intrepid leader of the Republican 
 party. 
 
 His task was arduous. The leader in the opposi- 
 tion, Mr. Caleb Cushing, was an astute lawyer; a 
 veteran legislator and diplonaate ; master of the arts 
 of logic, rhetoric, and parliamentary practice ; cool, 
 keen, calculating, and perfectly collected. 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 36 
 
 The •champions met, and crossed their hinces on 
 the question of granting the use of the hall to the 
 Antislavery Society, at the very commencement of 
 the session ; and we may well imagine, that when 
 the Democratic chieftain, somewhat chafed by the 
 impetuosity of his young antagonist, said, a few days 
 afterwards, " It is necessary to jump pretty quiclv to get 
 the floor after a gentleman who moves the previous 
 question, after first making a speech upon the merits 
 of the question," — we ma}- well, I say, imagine that 
 he looked down upon his inexperienced opponent 
 somewhat as Sir Robert Walpole looked on William 
 Pitt when he first confronted him with a new style 
 of eloquence in the British Parliament. 
 
 But the leading disputants came into closer and 
 sharper collision as they met upon the successive 
 questions of that stormy session ; and . when, moved 
 by the glowing eloquence of the young barrister, 
 the House, in February, decided on the removal of 
 Judge Edward Greeley Loring (by address), as hold- 
 ing two offices incompatible with each other, it was 
 most clearly evident that the distinguished states- 
 man of Newburyport (if I may again avail myself 
 of his own language) "had not jumped quite quick 
 enough to get the floor." 
 
 Mr. Andrew's speech at the closing hour of this 
 memorable session abounds in passages of touching 
 pathos, tenderness, and beauty ; and, like the rain- 
 
36 N. K. ms'l'l)KIC-(:i:NKALO(!TCAL SOCIETY. 
 
 bow bending over ti()ul)led waters, points away to 
 skies serenely blue, when storms are ovei-. 
 
 In the autinnn of 185D, he most intrepidly re- 
 asserted his principles by procuring counsel for the 
 defence of the heroic and uncompromising Capt. 
 John Brown : and when, in the presence of ridicule, 
 scorn, and contumely (whose scathing blasts held 
 some stout hearts in sympathy with him at ba}-), 
 our late undaunted President took the chair at the 
 celebrated meeting, held in Tremont Temple, for 
 the relief of John Brown's suffering family, Nov. 
 18,1859, and said, "There is an irresistible conflict 
 between freedom and slavery," and then made the 
 fearless declaration, that whether the enterprise at 
 Harpers Ferry were wise or foolish, right or wrong, 
 "John Brown himself is right," the heart of this 
 great Commonwealth quivered at the sentiment, and 
 then, rebounding to the right, exclaimed, " Master, 
 go on ; and we will follow thee to the last gasp with 
 truth and loyalty." 
 
 Appointed delegate to the Chicago Convention, 
 May, 1860, Mr. Andrew threw the whole weight of 
 his influence in favor of Mr. Lincoln, who received 
 the nomination. The irrepressible conflict between 
 freedom and oppression was approaching. The 
 President had proved false to his momentous trust, 
 and the smoifldering fires of sedition were beginning 
 to break forth. 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW.' 37 
 
 Free speech, free labor, tree siiftrage, free men, or 
 the domination of the slave-power, was the question : 
 the declaration of independence, our blood-bought 
 constitutional liberty, the salvation of a government 
 which we and our fathers had regarded as the best 
 beneath the broad canop)' of heaven ; or the 
 bands of our national strength and beauty rent 
 asunder, the Corinthian capitals of our imposing 
 temple of freedom crashing down, and the wild 
 blasts of anarchy howling over the desolation, — 
 this was the momentous issue. Those who bent the 
 ear attentively could catch the far-ofl' mutterings 
 of the thunder-peal, could discern faint flashes of the 
 quick cross-lightning gleaming athwart the impend- 
 ing storm. 
 
 To the sons of Massachusetts the qiiestion now 
 came up, Whose sure and steady hand shall lead our 
 ancient Commonwealth, with unsullied flag, "trium- 
 phant through the coming tempest? 
 
 The response from city, town, and distant hamlet, 
 reverberating from the hill-tops on the western bor- 
 der to the rock-bound ocean on the east, was, " John 
 Albion Andrew,"* the intrepid Boston lawyer, who 
 had dared in face of most defiant power to stand like 
 an anvil to the convictions of an honest heart; the 
 eloquent and rising advocate, who, in the face of the 
 
 * He was elected by a majority of 39,4-15 over tlie three other candi- 
 dates. 
 
38 N. E. HlSTOKlC-UENEALUtJICAL SUCIETY. 
 
 Ave.iltli, fashion, and prkle of tlii.s ancient city, had 
 dared for more than twenty years to chisp the blis- 
 tered liand of the plain day-laborer in his own, to 
 defend the cause of the penniless widow, and to take 
 the orphan child the busy world went tramping over 
 on his knee, and bless it ; the learned counsellor, 
 who out of the friendliness of his great loving heart 
 sat down, when Sunday came, to study God's holy 
 word with little children in the parish church, sang 
 over their sweet hymns with glistening eye, and wept 
 as mothers weep when any little flower was folded 
 for the Silent Land ; the able jurist, who, though he 
 had the heart of a lion, had still the warm tear of a 
 mother for the prisoner in his dark abode, for the 
 poor bondman toiling hopelessly beneath the broil- 
 ing suns of tlie South ; the immaculate statesman, 
 whom bribes could not buy, nor threats intimidate, — 
 John Albion Andrew, God-sent minister for the crisis 
 and the occasion ! 
 
 On the fifth day of January, 18G1, Massachusetts 
 inaugurated him as her twenty-first governor from 
 the adoption of the Constitution; and she never did 
 a nobler nor a wiser thina;. 
 
 Did he meet the expectations and the emergency ? 
 His prophetic eye saw war. He prepared the " over- 
 coats and the muskets," — none foo quick or lib- 
 ei-ally. Soon the black flag of rebellion fluttered 
 at the mast; the thunder -cloud came rolling on. 
 
JOHN' ALBION ANDREW. 39 
 
 You all remember it. The rebel fires were flaming- 
 on the heights of Arlington ; the telegraphic wires 
 were cut ; the railway track was torn up ; the 
 President was pent up as in a prison at the capital, 
 -■ — treason within, treason without ; and strong hearts 
 failino;. 
 
 The solid framework, of this republican goveini- 
 ment was shaking as the giant oak before the Alpine 
 thunder-oust. Was Gov. Andrew readv for the ini- 
 pending peril ? 
 
 By his quick combinations, his executive energy, 
 his enkindling enthusiasm, this Commonwealth was 
 brought to a war-basis, and the immortal Sixth 
 Regiment was moved with almost inconceivable 
 celerity to the scene of action ; and when Baltimore 
 had been baptized with Massachusetts blood, and 
 this regiment stood at the doors of the capital, the 
 administration breathed ag-ain. And is it not because 
 this great war-governor foresaw and met that peril 
 at the front that four million slaves are free to-day, 
 and that we exult in a country saved ? 
 
 This was but his initial step. When the mortal 
 combat deepened, when the minds of millions were 
 confounded by the audacity of the Rebellion, our 
 undaunted Governor, as a lion shaking the locks of 
 his strength, rose up majestically to the occasion. 
 
 By message after message of electric power to 
 the General Court ; by soul-stirring and patriotic - 
 
40 N. E. HISTUlUC-GKNKALOfaCAL SOCIKTV. 
 
 addresses to the people ; by words of cordial sym- 
 pathy and support to the President of" the United 
 States; by the rapid enrolment and ecjuipnient of 
 volunteers; by earnest conference with the loyal 
 governors; by sage counsel in camp; by quick de- 
 cision in cabinet ; by administrative activity seldom 
 or never equalled, — officering troops, furnishing the 
 munitions of war,* organizing colored regiments,-j- 
 caring for wounded soldiers, inspiring hope, repelling 
 insolence, — ho held this Commonwealth in her true 
 position ; and so breathed his own unquenchable 
 fire into the breasts of our brave men, that, as they 
 met the surging myriads on the ensanguined field, 
 they fought as if John Albion Andrew stood 
 immediately at their side, cheering, praising, and 
 sustaining them. 
 
 But, in the midst of these almost superluunan la- 
 bors for the maintenance of a patriotic and loyal 
 position for his State in this great war, he devoted 
 himself to the advancement of education, literature, 
 science, religion ; to the encouragement of industrial 
 and commercial enterprise ; to the improvement of 
 
 * He made a mi'morable address before tlie loyal governors assem- 
 bled at Altoona, Penn., Sept. 24, 1862, iu which he urged with great 
 ability more vigorous action in the conduct of the war. 
 
 f After the Government determined to form negro regiments, Gov. 
 Andrew organized the Fitly-fourlh Massachusetts, which was the first 
 i-eeruited under State authority ; altliough one was alread}- in service 
 in Soutli Carolina, and another in Kansas. 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDRKW. 41 
 
 the charitable and correctional institutions of the 
 Commonwealth, — moving from point to point with 
 such astonishing celerity, that he seemed to be 
 almost ubiquitous : now examining a normal school 
 at Framingham ; now addressing a camp-meeting 
 at Martha's Vineyard;* now inspecting the exca- 
 vations at the Hoosac Tunnel; now delivering an 
 oration at the centennial celebration of a town ; now 
 speaking to the farmers at an agricultural fair ; now 
 exhorting the sons of ocean at a jJi'^iyer-meeting 
 in a seamen's chapel ; now counselling a gr'aduat- 
 ing class of medical students;! now electrifying the 
 alumni of a university by his patriotic fervor ; anon 
 listening to the recital of some poor woman's wrongs, 
 or talking to a company of colored people in a 
 church, or helping some unfortunate debtor out of 
 trouble, or delivering an oration on the 4th of July 
 to the inmates of yonder penitentiary, and causing 
 himself to be locked up with a felon in his cell that 
 he might experience what incarceration is, and thus 
 extend a brother's sympathy, and so somehow fulfil 
 that touching word, "I was sick and in prison, and 
 ye visited me." You know tliese labors : I will not 
 recount them. They tlnow some gentle radiance 
 
 * Aug. 10, ISiVi. 
 
 •f He dalivei'ed aii ailmiiMble address to the graduating-class of the 
 Medical School in the University at Cambridge, on Wednesday, March 9, 
 1864. It w.as published by Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, 1864. 
 
42 N. K. HISTOIilC-tiKNEALnCK'AL SOflETY. 
 
 over tlie atrocities of war ; they send some assuasive 
 notes of nuisic out over the great moaning ocean of 
 our common sorrow. 
 
 But it were long to trace him through the bright 
 lustrum of his gubernatorial career. It must be left 
 to the historic pen ; and beautiful as the inscrijition 
 on the temple Chebar's. holy prophet saw will be 
 the record. It will be the history of Massachusetts 
 in her day of glory; it will be the history of your 
 own patriotic hearts. 
 
 On retiring from the executive chair of tlie State, 
 Mr. Andrew resumed the practice of the law. and 
 came immediately into the front line of his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 He was elected President of this Society on the 
 third day of January, 1866 ; and on the fourth day 
 of the same month, 1867, delivered before you a 
 most eloquent and pertinent anniversary address. 
 
 On the third day of April, of. the same year, he 
 made his elaborate argument on " The Errors of 
 Prohibition : " and, in the summer following, visited, 
 in company with his friend Mr. Cj'rus Woodman, the 
 British Provinces; spent several diiys in the ancient 
 city of Halifax, where he enjoyed the hospitalities of 
 Sir William F. Williams, the hero of Kars ; and, return- 
 ing, passed over the beautiful hills and dales of the old 
 French Acadie, rendered ever memorable bv Lon<r- 
 fellow in the fascinating pages of his "Evangeline."' 
 
JOHN' ALBION ANDREW. 43 
 
 Lingering a few dixjs in New Brunswick, be arrived 
 at Portland on the 8tli of August, greatly delighted 
 and refreshed b^^ the excursion. He drove from 
 Portland out to the home of bis boyhood ; cast a 
 wreath of flowers, and shed tears- of tender aiFection, 
 upon the grave of bis beloved mother; and returned 
 to this city. 
 
 He continued bis labors of love and mercy till the 
 30th of October, when God his Father spoke. The 
 folds of heaven parted, the shining angel came, 
 the " silver cord " was loosed, the i' golden bowl " was 
 broken ; and John Albion Andrew walked beneath 
 the morning beams of immortality. 
 
 The tirst strong point that strikes us in the charac- 
 ter of our late President is this : he had beneath his 
 genial flow of wit and cheerfulness a most profound 
 negard and reverence for God. With eagle eye he 
 watched his stately goings in the uprising and the 
 downfixU of the nations, and especially his wonder- 
 working ways with this vast empire of the West; 
 with gladsome heart he gazed upon the splendor 
 of his love, unfolded in the marvels of this material 
 creation ; and, when momentous questions were at 
 stake, his word invariably was, " We ought to obey 
 God rather than men." 
 
 He loved the study of the Bible, and to its sacred 
 pages made his ultimate appeal. His letters, mes- 
 sages, proclamations, are all spangled over as the 
 
44 N. K. HISTOUIC-CiHNEALOUICAL SIXIKTV. 
 
 heavens, '-thick inhiid with patens of bright gold," 
 with scriptural quotation and allusion. His Thanks- 
 giving proclamation of 1861 rings like the beat of 
 Miriam's timbrel over the dark sea.* It braced the 
 public heart for action. 
 
 He early connected himself with the Churcli of 
 the Disciples, in Boston.-j- and proved himself a 
 living, loving, working member to the end. When 
 others left, he clung the closer to it; holding rightly, 
 that the proper way to convince men of error is 
 to stay amonrj, instead of going from tliein : and 
 hence he once made the memorable declaration, 
 " Brethren, I do not believe in the principle of come- 
 outisni. I am not a come-outer ; I am a slay- 
 hmer : " and in he nobly staid, till God removed 
 him to that fold where earth's poor distinctions fade 
 beneath the beams of the effulgent day. 
 
 Like Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Andrew had a great, 
 warm, loving heart. Profoundest tides of sympathy 
 for human sorrow went ever beating through its 
 secret chambers. You saw it gushing up sponta- 
 neously when he telegraphed the Mayor of Baltimore, 
 on the nineteenth day of April, 1861, to let the 
 
 * " To me," .saj's the liev. Dr. J. P. Thompson, " it was like an army 
 with banners; it was like a trumpet of resurrection : it brought a new 
 host into the field." — Vide his speech at the Union League Club, 
 New York, Xov. 11, 18«7. 
 
 t Sept. 30, 1S41, he became a member of this vhunh. under the 
 pastoral care of the Rev, .Jame.-* Freeman Clarke, P.l). 
 
JOHN' ALBION ANDREW. 45 
 
 bodies of the Massachusetts soldiers be tenderly sent 
 to him by express.* You saw it overflowing charm- 
 ingly in his love of little children; in his solicitude 
 for the proper treatment of the insane, the blind, 
 and the idiotic ; in his bitter grief for the sufferings 
 of our heroic soldiers ; in his bending, as the great, 
 good God above- him, to the humblest person, black 
 or white, that had a tale of Avoe to tell. " What is 
 the matter here?" said he one day, in coming late 
 into the council-chamber. •' What is the trouble 
 now ?" A poor woman, with her children, had come 
 in, and stood with tears, imploring the liberation 
 of her husband, who had been incarcerated for 
 abusing her. " But three of us remain," observed a 
 councillor ; " and nothing can be done." The Governor, 
 after listening patiently to her story, as if the fate of 
 empires were involved, said, smiling through the tear- 
 drops, "I take the responsibility. Set the husban'd 
 free ! " 
 
 It was this glowing sympathy for the unfortunate 
 that led him to contend so earnestly for the abolish- 
 ment of the death-penalty, and to toil so manfully 
 to break the fetters of the bondman. 
 
 It would most certainly have warped his judg- 
 
 * The telegTam was in tliesu words : " I pray you to let the bodies 
 of our Massacliusetts soldiers, dead in Baltimore, be laid out, preserved 
 in ice, and tendei-ly sent forward by express to me. All expenses will 
 be paid by the Commonwealth." 
 
46 N. K. IIISTOURMUCNEALCKilCAL SOCIKTV. 
 
 mcnt, and weakened liis executive authority, liml 
 he not at the same time possessed the very keenest 
 sense of justice, and a soul firm as the granFte rock 
 tliat stays the surge of ocean, when tlie riglit was to 
 be guarded. This will, I think, explain the reason 
 why, from a strenuous advocate of peace, he came 
 suddenlj' to throw himself with such tremendous 
 energy into the exigencies of the war. The eternal 
 principle of equity was trampled under foot ; and 
 then it was the very soul of clemency to appeal to 
 solid shot. 
 
 As Shakspeare of King Henry V., you well may- 
 say of him. . — • 
 
 " He hath a tear of jiitv, and a hand 
 Open as day for niehinj;- charity; 
 Yet notwithstanding^, being inoen?cd, he's _f1i>it." 
 
 • And this was the glory of his tender-heartedness, 
 that, like the graceful vine, it clambered over, breath- 
 ing its sweet aroma, and covering with its gentle folds, 
 the rousi'h and ruscged seams of law. 
 
 Mr. Andrew was distinguished for republican sim- 
 plicity. He lived without ostentation, and had but 
 slender faith in forms and ceremonies. 
 
 Independent, yet not arrogant, he was open, frank, 
 cordial, and accessible to the very humblest citizen. 
 
 " Wlio were below liiui 
 He used as creatures of another place." 
 
•JOHN' ALBION ANDRKW. 47 
 
 And when he said, in 1862, Aug. 10, " I know not 
 wlmt record of sin awaits me in the other world ; but 
 this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise 
 any man because he was ignorant, or because he was 
 poor, or because he Avas black," the quids; response 
 of the vast' audience was, " Those words are true." * 
 
 He was an incorruptible patriot. The gold of 
 Croesus could not buy, the honors of the Caesars could 
 not seduce him. His heart was wedded to his prin- 
 ciples as the sheet-anchor to the rock ; nor could the 
 wildest storm that ever swept the waves of the politi- 
 cal sea break up his moorings. For almost twenty 
 years, he ran against the poj^ular current with a 
 party having no hope of immediate success; and tlie 
 world well knows it was not plot nor counterplot, but 
 the stern loo;ic of events, combining with his eminent 
 personal qualifications, that brought him into such 
 a lofty position of influence and power. 
 
 * " On his Inst visit to liis native place, in August, 1867," says a 
 gentleman of Gorham to me in a letter, dated March 25, 1868, "having 
 looked over the old homestead and other places of interest to him, he 
 returned through Gorham, where he took tea with my mother. He was 
 then remarkably cheerful and affectionate, making man/ inquiries in 
 regard to his mother, and giving repeated evidences of his strong attach- 
 ment to o'.d places and old Irieuds. When my mother addressed him 
 as ' Governor,' he begged hi'r to call him ' Albion,' and said he was so 
 glad to feel that he could throw off the restraints and conventionalities 
 that were so fi-equently about him, and indulge in a' familiarity which 
 revived the memory of early days and cherished friends, and which made 
 him feel like a bov again." 
 
48 ^'^ 1- IIISTOltlC-CENKAMXJICAL VOCIKTV. 
 
 He loved his oouulry with intense affection, based 
 upon a Inoad phihmthropy and an enlightened states- 
 manship : and no man ever toiled with mightier 
 force than he to save it ; no man rejoiced more 
 heartily when redemption came. Incorrnptible as 
 John Hampden, George Washington, and Abraham 
 Lincoln, no spot of political obliquity obscures the 
 broad disk of his glory. 
 
 As a lawyer, he studied his cases with unsparing 
 assiduity, arranged his arguments with consummate 
 skill, and threw his whole soul, panting as a war-steed 
 for the onset, into them. If he did not possess that 
 masterly power of generalization which characterized 
 Daniel Webster, or that affluence of language and of 
 learning which rendered Rufus Choate preeminent, 
 he had, nevertheless, a good knowledge of the law, 
 and the power of identifying himself intensely with 
 his client, which, together with a lucid order, and a 
 kind of impetuous, and not unfrequently pathetic, 
 fervor of speech, exercised remarkable influence over 
 the minds both of the jury and the court. "But 
 for the prestige of the name, I had as lief intrust a 
 case to Mr. Andrew," said a prominent lawyer once 
 to me, ''as to Mr. Webster; for he studied more, and 
 put more soul into his reasoning." 
 
 Mr. Andrew continued to improve unio the last; 
 his most remaikable argument, perhaps, being on 
 " The Errors of Prohibition," before the Joint Special 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 49 
 
 Committee of the General Court, in April, 1867; but 
 from the main premises and conclusion of which, 
 though a,bly and sincerely stated, I mnst here beg 
 leave to express my unqualified dissent. 
 
 His judgment was clear : he seldom made mis- 
 takes, especially in respect to the character of men 
 with whom he had to transact business. His mem- 
 ory was enriched with the finest passages of the 
 great English poets, Shakspeare, Milton, Burns, and 
 Scott, which he repeated with most singular beauty 
 and effect. His imagination, compact, glowing, crea- 
 tive, and constructive, loved to picture forth the con- 
 sequences of a noble private, social, national life ; 
 and hence his public addresses, his ordinary conversa- 
 tion even, were instinct with inspiration, moving men 
 most mightily, delighting as it moved them to a lof- 
 tier resolve and to a higher course of action. 
 
 The style of Mr. Andrew is ornate and fervid, 
 glowing even in his State pajiers with half-suppressed 
 emotion. His first message to the Legislature, 1861, 
 has the rinu; of a clarion sunnnoning to the battle- 
 field. His addresses to the troo[)s, especially to the 
 Sixth, Eighth, and Fifty-fourth Regiments on leaving 
 for the war, his brief eulogy on the death of Mr. Lincoln, 
 his words on the reception of the war-worn and bloody 
 battle-fliags, and in the oration at the consecration of 
 the Ladd and Whitney monument, are instinct with 
 true poetic fire, and with a glow of eloquence that 
 
30 N. i:. HISTOKIC-CiKNEALOGlCAL SOCIETY. 
 
 comes spontaneously from tlio man and the occasion, 
 and constitutes what Webster has so well denomi- 
 nated "action, — noble, sublime, God-like action." 
 
 His memory was retentive, his imagination bril- 
 liant, his wit quick, keen, trenchant. On festive 
 occasions, he was remarkably happy in his thought 
 and diction ; sometimes sending forth flashes like 
 the weird streams of the aurora borealis ; sometimes, 
 as an orb of fire, emitting vivid sparks, and kin- 
 dling into magnetic sympath}- every heart in the 
 assembly. 
 
 " So on the lip of his subLluinrj; toniiiie 
 
 All kind of arguments, and question deep, 
 All replication prompt, and reason stron<r, 
 
 For his advantage still did wake and sleep. 
 To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, 
 
 He had the dialect and different skill, 
 Catching all passions in liis craft of will ; 
 
 Tliat he did in the general bosnui reiun 
 Of young, of old ; and sexes both enchanted." 
 
 But his pathos was perhaps his most extraordinary 
 power. His soul was a fountain of love : he put 
 that soul into his public speeches, into his State 
 papers ; and the heart of the people responded to 
 its pulsations, beat for beat. 
 
 " .Si vis m.' Here 
 Dolendum est ])viuiuni ip>i tibi." 
 
 He was the (irst to feel, and his own tear filled 
 every eye in the assembly. It was the genuine old- 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDRKW. 51 
 
 fasliioned eloquence of the heart. His manner is 
 most admirably described in these elegant words oi 
 Cicero : — 
 
 •' A principio statim, quod erat apud eum semper 
 uccuratum, expectatione dignus videbatur : non \n\\\- 
 ta jactatio corporis, non inclinatio vocis, nulla inam- 
 bulatio, non crebra supplosio pedis; veheniens et 
 interdura irata et plena justi doloris oratio ; multa? 
 et cum gravitate facetia^ : quodque difficile est, idem 
 et perornatus et perbrevis" — De Claris Oratorlbus, 
 cap. 43. 
 
 As a governor, carrying the State of Massachu- 
 setts throuo-h the most fearful conflict of modern 
 times ; making more than fourteen thousand military 
 appointments ; raising, equippiug, and sending into 
 the service, nearly a hundred and sixty thousand 
 men ; disbursing more than twenty-seven million 
 dollars from the public treasury ; and maintain- 
 ing; our civil institutions and oiu- financial credit, — 
 he will ever command the respect aud admiration 
 of mankind. His final message to the Legislature 
 exhibits the maturest statesmanship, marking with 
 clearest vision the true course to be pursued in the 
 reconstruction of the rebel States, and the restoration 
 of tranquillity to the Union. He was accustomed, as 
 Julius CiBsar, to read, write, and dictate at the same 
 time ; and the intensity of his labors during the war 
 is thought by many of his friends to have abbreviated 
 his life. 
 
OJi N. E. HI.STllUK-(iKM:ALO(;iCAL SOCIETY. 
 
 On couiparing him with proviou.s distinguir^lied 
 chief magistrates ol' tliis Commonwealth, you will 
 perceive in him a lare and cinnous combination of 
 many of the pecidiar excellences of them all. In 
 addition to the- prophetic wisdom of John Winthrop. 
 to the tolerant spirit of the chivalrous Sir Henry 
 Vane, to the learlessness of John Endicott, to the 
 piety of Jonathan Belcher, the warm, poetic tem- 
 perament of William Shirley, he had the patriotic 
 ardor of John Hancock, the executive ability of John 
 Brooks, the plain, sterling common sense of George 
 N. Briggs, the educational zeal ot Edward Everett. 
 
 To m^' mind, however, he most resembled in his 
 taste and temper, life and deeds, the incorruptible 
 patriot Samuel Adams, the war leader of Massachu- 
 setts thi'ough the old Eevolution. 
 
 Like Mr. Adams, he was simple in his style of 
 living, and averse to personal display. Like him, he 
 loved to study the manners and the customs of the 
 old colonial days; like him, he had a pleasant humor 
 and a sparkling wit ; like him. he cultivated vocal 
 music, and made the word of God his law. Both 
 of these great men were earnest friends of popular 
 education ; both liberal in their benefactions to the 
 poor. 
 
 Alike desultory and discursive in their studies, 
 they still co-equally possessed a masterly power of 
 concentration ; and it wei"e hard to tell, where both 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 53 
 
 were eloquent, which swayed with greater ease the 
 mind of a vas^t popuhxr assembly. 
 
 If the temper of Mr. Adams were more severe, 
 the temper of Mr.* Andrew was equally persistent ; 
 and, if the one made a point by logical acumen, 
 the other reached it quicker by prophetic intuition. 
 Divesting the halo which encircles the name of 
 Adams of those warm tints which time has gradually 
 blended with its beauty, I do not hesitate to declare 
 that the aureola of Andrew beams with brighter 
 lustre, since, while in eloquence, statesmanship, 
 patriotism, and integrity, he is hot eclipsed by the 
 great Revolutionary civilian, in broad and liberal 
 culture, in executive labor, and in Christian activity, 
 he unquestionably excels him. 
 
 Both of them were of unconquerable honesty. 
 Both performed exalted service for the country, — 
 Adams in achieving, Andrew in perpetuating, liberty ; 
 and so their names must be intwined together, and 
 forever blaze upon the arc of triumph and the bande- 
 role of fame. 
 
 Now, gentlemen, what was the secret of Mr. An- 
 drew's eminent success ? I reply, that one impor- 
 tant element in it may be traced to the influence 
 of his extraordinary mother. " The future destiny 
 of the child," observed Napoleon I., " is always the 
 work of the mother." 
 
 She is that power behind the throne that moves 
 
54 N. K. HI,ST01UC-Cit;.Ni:ALUUICAL SOCIETV. 
 
 the wheels of empire : her gentle Hiiger, as the rod 
 of Hermes, touches secret springs that turn tlie 
 moral enginery ol' the worM. It is tlie mother's 
 voice that rings in every patriot's trmnpet-tongiie 
 for liberty; it is her silent l)ut invinoihle might 
 that strikes in every l)lo\v. 
 
 " In dignit}' of manner, mental cultivation, ease 
 and fluency in speech," says one who knew her well, 
 " the mother of Gov. Andrew forcibly i-eminded 
 me of Lady Madison;'" and to her, " no doubt, the 
 son was largely indebted for prominent qualities 
 which fitted him for the faithful discharge of the 
 duties which were laid u[i()U him in his subsequent 
 life." 
 
 It was that mother's sunny temper, cultivated 
 taste, and genial piety, that fanned and fixed the 
 " glowing thought " of her distinguished son. 
 
 Another element of his success was the grand, 
 heroic determination, adopted in early life, to devote 
 his enei'gies, not to the selfish ends of personal am- 
 bition, but to the alleviation of the sorrows and suf- 
 ferings of his fellow-men. In the development of 
 the shunbering forces of his soul, he set a shining 
 mark Ijefore him. and resolved to press with indomi- 
 table energy to attain it. Triumphant siicce.ss 
 crowned his persistent labor. 
 
 His golden temper was a power. One-half our 
 strength we waste in fret fulness, then die of it at 
 
JOHN" ALBION ANDRKW. 55 
 
 last. He looked upon the brightest side of things, 
 and made the wheels of life run smoothly through 
 the crystal grooves of cheerfulness. 
 
 " What impels that locomotive engine ? " said the 
 celebrated Stevenson to the Dean of Westminster 
 one day. " Steam, to be sure, sir." — " No," replied 
 the great inventor: ''it is the sunbeam God sent 
 into the flowers." 
 
 It was the sunshine God sent into Mr. Andrew's 
 happy heart that bore him through the battle-march 
 of life. 
 
 ItUR ad ASTRA LABURE KT AMORK. "The stCps tO 
 
 heaven are labor, love." 
 
 By intense labor,* though not exactly in the line 
 of other men; bv o-iwantic labor, often running on 
 till evening met the morning; by that herculean 
 labor which brings the golden apples from the gar- 
 den of the Hesperides, — our late President brought 
 himself steadily up to the front line of eminence as a 
 lawyer, and carried Massachusetts so triumphantly 
 through the late bloody Avar. You who toiled with 
 him can bear me record, that this was one essential 
 secret of his astonishing success. 
 
 Was this enough ? No : one more element was 
 needed to complete the rounded form of a resplen- 
 dent life, to place the diadem of beautv on the 
 
 * " He worked," the Kev. Dr. Clarke observes, " like the great engine 
 in the heart of the steamship." 
 
56 N. !■:• iiisi'iihi('-(m;nku.ih;i(ai. sdciinv. 
 
 dviiii;' l)r()\v. ami make the grave, men so much ih'ead, 
 a fair, hive-lighteil portal, opening to the magnificence 
 of the upper temple. lie aeceptcd Christ, ami I'ol- 
 lowt'il iiim as his exiunple.* lie shed something of 
 his tenderness, somethint"' of the i-oval heautv of his 
 lo\e. upt)n the sorrows and misfortunes of our eom- 
 nion lot. 
 
 Here, then, are the secrets of his greatness: 
 maternal inlluenee, high re.solvo, love. lal)or, Chris- 
 tianity, — moifilied, it is true, by many attending eir- 
 e u instances, nnfolded hy the lit oeeasioii. But. mainly 
 and most strikingly, maternal inlluenee, noble aspira 
 tion, love.- lalioi'. (.hristianity. eoudjining. made the 
 man. 
 
 Mr. President and gentlemen, 1 should liiil to do 
 justice to him whose life and services we this day 
 connnemorate. did I not refer to his deep interest in 
 the welfare and the progress of this Society. 
 
 To cherish the germs of patiiotism by rescuing 
 from oblivion the pi-risliing memorials of the depart- 
 ed; to strengthen the ties of kindred by tracing the 
 lineage t)f our ancestors; to garner up the fast-fading 
 mementoes of the olden times, — the books, the imple- 
 ments of war. the costumes, the musical instrnnicnts 
 which incited them to battle or .■softened the asperi- 
 
 • " Ni'vor'liavo 1 kiiciwii a man," said Mr. 'l"lu'ii|iliiliis T. C'liaiidUM' to 
 mo tlic other day (ami he liad Iviiowii liim intimately tor nearly twenty 
 year."), " wlio lived so near the golden rule of Christ as "Slv. .Andrew." 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 57 
 
 ties of their hard life at home, — he beHeved would 
 tend to deepen our love of country and of republican 
 institutions, and to consolidate the whole framework 
 of our social fabric. 
 
 He saw the prospective grandeur of the country 
 looming up sublimely through the principles and 
 blood of our father.?, and that more and more, as the 
 wheels of empire rolled along, the minds of the mil- 
 lions would be directed to the- historic records of our 
 ancestors ; and he therefore predicted a noble fifture 
 for this institution. • It came home to the bosoms and 
 the life of the people, to the dearest interests of the 
 nation ; and therefore it commanded his respect and 
 love. 
 
 At the time of his decease, he was jJt'eparing a 
 paper to read before you on the chivalrous expedition 
 of Sir William Pepperrell to Louisburg,* in the study 
 of which he was profoundly interested ; since it 
 
 * The fortifications of Loiiisburf!:, f.alled from its strength the Diw- 
 klrk of America, co.st the French thirty millions of livres; and the town 
 was deemed impregnable. Gen. William Pepperrell with about four thou- 
 sand New-England troops, in concert with the naval forces under Commo- 
 dore Peter Warren, invested the town early in May, 1 745, and, after a 
 siege of between six and seven weeks, reduced it to capitulation. Seventy- 
 six cannon and mortars, besides other property to an immense amount, fell 
 into the hands of the victors. Our loss was but one hundred and tliirty 
 killed ; while that of the French was upwards of three hundred. The 
 capture of Louisburg filled Europe with astonishment, and America 
 with joy. — Vide Usher Parsnns's Life of Sir Williiin Pepperrell, Bari., 
 p. 97. 
 
58 N. E. HISTOHir-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 seemed to him one of the* most remarkable events in 
 our colonial history, that a few undisciplined New- 
 England troops should so easily reduce a fortress 
 upon which millions of money had been expended, 
 and which was held by ninnbers and by reputed skill 
 so far superior to our own.* 
 
 * As another instance of Gov. Andrew's historical taste, it may be 
 mentioned that he was engaged on another paper, whose subject was tlie 
 oriifin and antiquity of a mufical instrument, called fi-om the Latin Sjimce 
 (i[uillf), the Spinet, \('hicli he inteudcil to read before this Society. Like 
 the harpsichord, which was derived from it, the spinet consisted of strings, 
 case, sounding-board, keys, jacks, and a bridge. It was originally 
 called la liarjie couclic'e, and its history is involved in great obscurity. In 
 a letter to a friend, dated Nov. 10, 18GG, Gov. Atldrew says, " I take es- 
 pecial interest in it, because it is the first instrument of music I ever 
 heard in my life ; and I clearly remember, when about six years old, one 
 pleasant morning, calling with my father and mother at Mr. Anderson's, 
 and seeing N., now Mrs. ^,\'., in a while muslin gown, and hearing her 
 play a tune on the spinet." 
 
 He also made the obsarvation, tliat though, since this, he had been 
 present at the concerts of many distinguished musical performers, both 
 vocal and instrumental, such was the impression made upon his childish 
 ears and heart, that he had never beard any music since so delightful 
 and afTecting as that. The time then played was Burns's " Bonnie 
 Doon." The instrument itscltj which had long been an heirloom in the 
 family of one of his liiends, is said to bear this inscription, " Thomas 
 Hitchcock, Londini fecit, A.D. 1390." ' 
 
 Gov. Andrew had entered into the work of discovering and giving the 
 history of the spinet with his characteristic zeal and enthusiasm, having 
 engaged the services of several eminent German and Italian scholars 
 in aid of his researches, and hoping to assert and defend the disputed 
 antiquity of this once-popular instrument, out of which came the harpsi- 
 chord, and thence the piano-forte, and around which some of his earliest 
 and sweetest associations were intwiued. 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 59 
 
 His plans for the enlargement' and increased ef- 
 ficiency of this Society are clearly sketched in his 
 admirable address to you on Jan. 2, 1867: and, had 
 he lived, he doubtless would have lent his strenuous 
 aid to carry them into full effect ; for he loved this 
 organization, and fondly hoped to give it, when the 
 pressure in his business should abate, more of his 
 personal attention. 
 
 His work is done, — magnificently done. And I 
 rejoice with you, that a gentleman of large expe- 
 rience, liberal views, and eminent standing in this 
 Commonwealth, has consented to accept this execu- 
 tive chair, and that on you, Mr. President, devolves 
 the sacred trust of carrying into effect the plans 
 which our late President so happily suggested ; and, 
 on behalf of the members of the Society, I pledge 
 to you our most cordial co-operation and support. 
 
 And now, gentlemen, as we singly or together 
 beat anew the engrossing fields of historic literature, 
 1 feel assured we shall not foil to let the glowing 
 lio-ht that shines from Gov. Andrew's character some- 
 what irradiate our devious pathway. 
 
 He was a grand impersonation of the advanced 
 and progressive ideas of Massachusetts. In him we 
 behold the spirit, power, aspiration, of the people ; in 
 him, the genius of our institutions ; in him, the 
 majesty of our laws, enthroned as God's eternal law 
 with mercy. Hence we hold him in our hearts, and 
 
60 N. K. HISTOmC-GKNEALOGICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 cherif^li his virtues in the most sacred recesses of 
 memory. 
 
 He has lived ; and therefore it is given us by the 
 light of his great life to make our own lives more 
 bright and beautiful. To this end he was sent ; and 
 so his name will shine with perennial lustre. 
 
 His monument is embedded in the strong heart of 
 humanity. It has a broad foundation, and it rises 
 grandly by the " golden rule " of the celestial Archi- 
 tect. The earliest beams of morning will hasten to 
 bathe it in glory ; the last rays of evening will linger 
 lovingly as they leave it; the golden urns of heaven 
 will pour their soft light over it ; and millions of 
 freemen will crown it witli garlands of praise. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 BRIEF GENEALOGY OF THE ANDREW FAMILY. 
 
 Like tbat of most other New-England fiiniilies, the name has been 
 variously written. Andrews, Andrew, Andress, and Andross are found 
 in the early records. Beginning with the third generation, the spelling 
 has since been uniformly Andi-ew. Robert Andrews of Rowley Vil- 
 lage, now Bosford, is the earliest ancestor in this country to which the 
 family can be traced. 
 
 Robert Andrews of Ipswich, whose will was proved in 1644, does 
 not mention any .son Robert : but the proximity of residence, and simi- 
 larity of several names in the second generation, suggest that they 
 were kinsmen ; but no absolute proof has as yet been found. 
 
 1. Robert Andrews of Rowley Village died May 29, 1668. His 
 
 wife's name was Grace . In his will, he requests to be buried 
 
 at Topsfield. His eldest son Thomas, unmarried, was to have the 
 homestead and land bought of Zacclieus Gould ; son Robert, unmar- 
 ried, to have eight score acres of land, e.xtending from Pie Brook to 
 Clay Pits, Falls Meadow, and Fishing-brook Meadow ; John, under 
 twenty-one years of age, to have the " Seller Lott ; " Joseph, also 
 unmarried, to have the land in Topsfield bought of John Wildes, 
 sen. Daughters, — Mary, wife of Isaac Cummings ; Elizabeth, wife 
 of Samuel Simonds ; Hannah, wife of John Peabody (from her is 
 descended George Peabody, the celebrated banker of London). 
 Daughters unmarried, and under twenty years of age, — Rebecca, 
 Sarah, and Ruth. 
 
64 N. E. IIISTORIC-GENEALOr.irAL SOCIETY. 
 
 '2. Jo.SKi'ii, bom 18tb September, 1057 ; ilioil about 1732. Settled 
 in Topsfiold. Kemoved to Salem about 1704, whore he ever after 
 resided. Married, first, Sarah Perley, Feb. 1, 1081 ; and had 
 Jcsepli, John, Sarah, Ilepzibah, iMary, lijdia. Married, second. 
 Widow Abigail Walker, daughter of Jolin Grafton, and grand- 
 daughter of Joseph Grafton, who was a freeman, 1037 : by her he 
 had N.\THANIEL, born Aug. 10, 1705 ; and Jonathan, born Aug. 
 
 12, 1708. 
 
 3. Nathaniel, born 10th August, 1705 ; died 4tli February, 1702. 
 Married, Sept. 20, 1729, Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Higginson, 
 grand-daughter of Hon. John, great-grand-daughter of Rev. John, 
 great-great-grand-daughter of Rev. Francis, who wa.s the first minis- 
 ter of Salem ; who died there Aug. G, 1030. He married, second, 
 Widow Abigail Peele. His children, all by his first wife, were, 1. 
 Nathaniel, born June 11, 1731 ; died March 28, 1731-2. 2. Mary, 
 born April 5, 1733. 3. Joseph and Abigail (gemini), born Feb. 7, 
 1734 ; died in infancy. 5. Hannah, born May, 1735 ; died young. 
 0. Jonathan, born Feb. 6, 1737. 7. John, born Sept. 27, 1747. 
 He left a considerable property, devised a sum to the poor of the 
 parish, and provided that the poor indebted to his estate should not 
 be " distressed." 
 
 4. John, born Sept. 27, 1747. Married Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Abraliam and Elizabeth (Pickering) Watson of Salem. Elizabeth 
 Pickering was daughter of William, grand-daughter of John, and 
 great-grand-daughter of John Pickering, who was in Salem as early 
 as 1G37. John Andrew was a goldsmith and jeweller in Salem ; 
 kept at the " Sign of the Gold Cross " in 1700. lie removed to 
 Maine. His children were, I.John. 2. William. 3. John. 4. 
 Elizabeth. 5. Nathaniel. 0. Mary. 7. Hannah. 8. Jon.^th.vn. 
 9. Pickering. 10. Anna. 11. Abraham. 12. Isaac Watson. 
 
 13. Josiah. 
 
 5. Jonathan, born in Salem, 10th Sopterabor, 1782 ; died 27th 
 December, 1849. Removed to Maine early in life, where he married 
 
JOHN ALBION ANDREW. 65 
 
 Nancy Green Pierce, who was born at Westmoreland, N.H., July 
 
 27, 1784; and died Marcli 7, 1832. He was a man of few words, 
 sound judgment, firm will, strict and conscientious in matters of 
 business, modest, simple, and domestic iu his habits, warm-hearted, 
 and beneficent to the poor. He acquired a considerable property, 
 paid the expenses of his son's education through all its stages, and 
 gave him necessary aid even after he entered his profession in Bos- 
 ton. His children were, 1. John Albion, born May 31, 1818; 
 died Oct. 30, 1867. 2. Isaac Watson, born Aug. 11, 1819. 
 
 3. Sarah Elizabeth, born Sept. G, 1822. 4. Nancy Alfreda, born 
 May 21, 1824. Isaac Watson Andrew married Eliza 0. Peabody, 
 has children, and resides on the ancestral estate in Boxford. 
 
 6. JouN Albion, born May 31, 1818 ; died Oct. 30, 1867. Married 
 Eliza Jones, daughter of Mr. Charles and Eliza (Jones) Hersey 
 of Hingham, Dec. 24, 1848; and had, 1. Charles Albion, born Oct. 
 
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