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 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE 
 
 DPON TBB DBATH OF 
 
 HON. HORATIO B. HACKETT, 
 
 LATE A SENATOR FROM THE EIGHTH DISTRICT 
 
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RESOLUTION. 
 
 Id the S«nate, 
 February 14, 190€. 
 On motion of Senator Gable the following resolution was twlc« read 
 considered and agreed to, viz: 
 
 Resolved, That one thousand five hundred copies of the memorial 
 proceedings of the Senate upon the death of Honorahle Horatio B. 
 Ha«kett, a member of the Senate from the Eighth Senatorial district. 
 be printed and bound in cloth, for the use of the Senate. 
 
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE 
 
 UPON THB DEATH OF 
 
 HON. HORATIO B. HACKETT. 
 
 In the Senate, 
 Friday, February 9. 1906. 
 
 On motion of Senator Gable the following resolution was twice read, 
 considered and agreed to, viz: 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of eight members of the Senate be 
 appointed to draft suitable resolutions on the death of the lato Senator 
 Horatio B. Hackett, who died July twelfth, one thousand nine hundred 
 and five, and to present such resolutions at a special meeting of the 
 Senate to be held on Wednesday, February fourteenth, at three o'clock 
 post meridian. 
 
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MEMORIAL RESOLUTIONS AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 In the Senate, 
 Wednesday, February 14, 1906. 
 
 Afternoon Session. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment, the Senate was called to order 
 at three fifteen o'clock post meridian. Mr. Fisher in the 
 Chair. 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Prayer was offered by the Reverend Edward J. Knox, 
 Chaplain of the Senate. 
 
 We come, our Heavenly Father, into Thy presence at this 
 hour and ask that Thou wouldst guide our thoughts and turn 
 them from the hurry and bustle of this life of activity, to 
 consider the life of one who has belonged to us and has passed 
 from us. 
 
 Help us that we may feel what shadows we are, what shad- 
 ows we pursue; that in the midst of life we are in death. 
 O, satisfy us early with Thy mercy. 
 
 We rejoice in the thought that in the midst of weakness 
 and helplessness at the same time we can ever stay our souls 
 on Thee. 
 
 We thank Thee for the assurances that come to us from 
 Thy word of a life that is beyond this. We thank Thee that 
 we can come to Thee trusting in that larger hope. 
 
 "For still we hope that in that larger scope, 
 What here has faithfully been begun, 
 Shall be completed, not undone." 
 
 We pray that Thy blessing may rest upon the associates of 
 the departed ; that as they cherish his memory, that as they 
 recall his virtues, and as with tender words and with beating 
 
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 hearts, they recount the hfe that he hved here among them, 
 that as they teh of that which he did that was worthy, that 
 they may address themselves more earnestly to life's work 
 while the day lasts, knowing that the shadows of the night 
 are gathering in which no man can work. 
 
 We pray that in a special way Thou wilt be near to the 
 household from which this father, this husband, has been 
 taken. We pray that to them may be given the consolation of 
 Thy grace, that in their hours of bereavement and loneli- 
 ness that they may feel that Thou, the eternal God, art their 
 refuge, and that underneath Thine everlasting arms they 
 may find shelter and support and feel that Thou dost not for- 
 get them, that Thou dost not forsake them, and we pray 
 that this family may be so united together in Christian love, 
 and in the Holy faith of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ 
 
 that 
 
 "When soon or late they reach that coast 
 On life's rough ocean driven, 
 May they rejoice, no wanderer lost, 
 A family in Heaven." 
 
 We ask it for Christ's sake. Amen. 
 
 Mr. GABLE. Mr. President, your committee appointed 
 to draft resolutions of respect to the memory of the Honor- 
 able Horatio B. Hackett, reports as follows: 
 
 RESOLUTIONS. 
 
 Whereas, Since the last session of the Legislature it has 
 pleased the Almighty Ruler of the Universe to call to His 
 eternal home the Honorable Horatio Balch Hackett, late 
 one of the members of the Senate from the Eighth district of 
 Philadelphia; and 
 
 Whereas, Senator Hackett, by his long life devoted to the 
 interests of his country, as soldier, citizen and public official, 
 both in the administrative and legislative branches of the 
 Government, has endeared himself to his associates, and ob- 
 tained the respect of the people of his city and of the State, 
 and, by reason of his kindly and affectionate qualities in his 
 home circle, he was regarded by his kindred and neighbors 
 as a model husband and father; therefore, be it 
 
HON. HORATIO B. HACKETT. 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate, conscious of the loss it has 
 sustained in llic death of Horatio Balch ilackett, expresses its 
 appreciation of the hig-Ji character and attainments of our 
 late member, and its profound regret upon his death, and 
 that we extend to the family of the deceased Senator our sym- 
 pathy with them upon their bereavement ; and be it further 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, with the action 
 of the Senate, be forwarded to the family of the deceased by 
 the Clerk of the Senate. 
 
 VIVIAN FRANK GABLE, 
 CHARLES L. BROWN, 
 WILLIAM C. SPROUL, 
 HENRY GRANSBACK. 
 J. A. STOBER, 
 JOHN M. SCOTT. 
 ARTHUR G. DEWALT. 
 EDWIN M. HERBST. 
 
 Committee. 
 
II MEMORIAL SBRVICBS. 
 
 ADDRESSES. 
 
 Mr. GABLE. Mr. President and Members of the Senate : 
 Wc are met to-day upon one of those constantly recurring 
 occasions of sadness which mark the passing of human kind 
 to the limitless beyond. It is fitting that, amid the busy ac- 
 tivities of life, whether engaged in the cares of legislative 
 duties or the every day struggle for existence, we turn aside 
 to inscribe a page in memory of those who before us or 
 alongside of us have borne well and manfully their part and 
 have entered into their reward. 
 
 Horatio Balch Hackett, who was suddenly summoned by 
 our Creator since the last regular session of this body, is the 
 most lately broken link in the golden chain of the Senate of 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 While I had not the pleasure of a close personal acquain- 
 tanceship with Senator PJackett, for many years I had known 
 of him as a man of those sturdy qualities of honesty and in- 
 tegrity and fixity of purpose which, coupled with an uncom- 
 mon geniality of manner and personal charm, made for him 
 a host of friends of unswerving loyalty. Born of good New 
 England stock — his father having been a man of unusual 
 literary attainment, the master of not less than seven lan- 
 guages, I am told, and his uncle. Professor Horatio Balch 
 Hackett, for whom he was named, of Newton Theological 
 Seminary, Newton. Massachusetts — Senator Hackett was en- 
 dowed with a heritage that equipped him for the important 
 positions to which he was chosen throughout his long career. 
 He was born January eighth, one thousand eight hundred 
 and forty-four, at Lower Penn's Neck. Salem county. New- 
 Jersey, and when but three months old, his father's family 
 removed (o Philadelphia, where his entire life was spent in 
 the old Kensington District. He enjoyed the benefits of an 
 education in the schools of Philadelphia until he attained the 
 age of thirteen years, when reverses in the fortune of his 
 parents compelled the lad to strike out for himself. At the 
 age of sixteen, we find him working upon a farm at Gibbs- 
 town. New Jersey, when the war for the preservation of the 
 
HON. HORATIO B. HACKBTT. 11 
 
 Union broke out. The patriotism and indomitable spirit, 
 which were ever characteristics of the man, prompted him 
 at once to enter the service of his country, and we find him 
 enlisting in Company "B," Eighty-first Regiment of Penn- 
 sylvania Volunteers, on July twenty-fifth, one thousand eight 
 hundred and sixty-one. 
 
 Hackett was but four feet eleven inches high and weighed 
 eighty-nine pounds, but his services as a private in the ranks 
 of his company, and later in Company "C," throughout the 
 Peninsular Campaign, under General McClellan, showed him 
 to be of the stuil of which heroes are made. While in the 
 performance of his duties, he suiYered from a severe attack 
 of fever and after his reco\ery, he was assigned to the drum 
 corps throughout the remainder of the term of his enlistment, 
 but upon its termination in one thousand eight hundred and 
 sixty-three, he re-enlisted and became a veteran when but 
 nineteen years of age, a record which has few\ if any, equals 
 in our military annals. He became known to his comrades 
 throughout the army as "Rash Hackett, the Little Drummer 
 Boy," a term of endearment which attached to him through- 
 out life, and although he was repeatedly and signally honored 
 by his neighbors and constituents, no title of honor could 
 better express the feelings of love and respect for him than 
 this with which he was baptized amid the fires of the Civil 
 War. 
 
 Pie participated in the battles in front of Petersburg and 
 was promoted to Orderly Sergeant and recommended to 
 Governor Curtin for promotion for gallantry on the field of 
 action, receiving in quick succession commissions as Second 
 Lieutenant, First Lieutenant and finally Captain. In the 
 closing days of the war, on April seventh, one thousand eight 
 hundred and sixty-five, at Farmville. V^irginia, in a bloody 
 engagement, his Regiment escaped with only a Colonel, two 
 other officers, thirty-six men and the flag. Captain Hackett, 
 himself, was captured by the Confederates but was recaptured 
 by the Union soldiers two days later with Lee's Army when 
 it surrendered at Appomattox. He served throughout the 
 war with his regiment, which stands on the records as second 
 of all Pennsylvania commands and number seven of the entire 
 
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 Union Army in the number of battles and the severity of its 
 losses, bearing, it would seem, the protection of a charmed 
 life, for he never received a wound. 
 
 After the ending of the Civil War, Captain Hackett re- 
 turned to Philadelphia and entered upon the service of the 
 Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, with which 
 he was engaged for a period of five years, leaving it to accept 
 an appointment as letter carrier in the Philadelphia post 
 office. Subsequently he became an attache of the Custom 
 House and then State Appraiser in the office of Register of 
 Wills of Philadelphia county. In one thousand eight hun- 
 dred and eighty-seven, he was elected a Magistrate for the 
 city of Philadelphia and was re-elected in one thousand eight 
 hundred and ninety-two and again in one thousand eight hun- 
 dred and ninety-seven. In one thousand eight hundred and 
 ninety-eight, he was elected to the office of Register of Wills 
 and shortly after the expiration of the term of his office, he 
 was prevailed upon to accept the nomination for State Sena- 
 tor from the Eighth district of Philadelphia. He was elected 
 by an unusually large majority in the district, an evidence 
 of the popularity of the man and of approval of his long 
 record of public service. 
 
 As to the record which he made as a member of this body, 
 there are Senators present who sat with him, and who are 
 well qualified to speak and it is unnecessary for me to call 
 to mind the modest and unassuming, yet genial and withal 
 determined character of the man in safe-guarding the inter- 
 ests of his constituents and the welfare of the Commonwealth. 
 
 It is sometimes difficult to understand how a man who has 
 given so much of his time to public affairs, can develop the 
 character of a man of family. But with all his political and 
 social activities. Senator Hackett was most delightful in the as- 
 sociations of his home and family. He was married in April 
 one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, to Jane F. 
 Lukens, who with three sons and one daughter, survive him. 
 
 Senator Hackett suffered a stroke of apoplexy in the year 
 one thousand nine hundred and three, after the session of the 
 Legislature of that year, from which he slowly recovered, 
 although he was left with a physical infirmity of lameness. 
 
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 lie was enabled, however, to resume his ofticial duties in the 
 Senate ui one thousand nine hundred and live and after its 
 adjournment, while touring the Pacific coast, was stricken 
 with his fatal illness, while on the Northern Pacific Railway, 
 en route from Tacoma, Washington, to Yellowstone Park. 
 He was taken to Spokane, in which city he died on the twelfth 
 day of July, one thousand nine hundred and five. The fu- 
 neral services over the body of the dead Senator will be long 
 remembered by those who were present. 
 
 The obsequies were attended by thousands who bore trib- 
 ute of respect to the memory of him who had been friend and 
 counsellor for many years. Many were there who had re- 
 ceived from him assistance in time of distress, and his death 
 disclosed numbers who had been the ([uiet beneficiaries of his 
 generosity. Senator Hackett, never letting his right hand 
 know what his left hand did, freely gave of his means and in- 
 fluence for th^ alleviation of the condition of those who were 
 in sore need. While an exemplification of the principle of 
 self help, he w^as ever ready to extend help to others. 
 
 While none may claim justification before the great bar of 
 the Eternal Judge by reason of his ow-n attainments and ac- 
 complishments, and all are imperfect instruments in the Di- 
 vine plan, Horatio B. Hackett leaves to his family and friends 
 a precious memory, and the goodness of his heart and life 
 consoles them with the thought that he has been approved 
 by his Maker and in "that bourne w-hence no traveler re- 
 turns," peacefully awaits their coming. 
 
 Mr. HERBST. Mr. President, This is the fourth time 
 since I have entered the Senate of Pennsylvania that I have 
 been called upon to join in these solemn ceremonies. Os- 
 bourne, Magee, Vaughan, Kemmerer, Harrison and Hackett. 
 all colleagues of mine since the session of one thousand nine 
 hundred and one, have answered the stern call of the "pale 
 messenger that with impartial footstep knocks alike at the 
 palace gate and the poor man's cot." 
 
 There is peculiar fitness that we should again meet in this 
 Senate chamber, so often the scene of party conflict, and of 
 debate upon great questions that affect the w^elfare of our 
 State, and with due solemnity and seriousness moralize upon 
 
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 the greater questions of life and death that are brought home 
 to us by the demise of one of our number, the Honorable 
 Horatio B. Hackett. 
 
 The mystery of death is even yet, as it has been through 
 all the ages, an unsolved problem, whether we meet it with 
 the hope and promises of the Christian's faith, or the blind 
 bravado of the Agnostic. 
 
 "Sure 'tis a serious thing to die! My soul, 
 
 What a strange moment must it be, when near 
 
 Thy journey's end, thou hast the gulf in view, 
 
 That awful gulf no mortal e'er repassed 
 
 To tell what's doing on the other side. 
 
 Nature runs back, and shudders at the sight, 
 
 And every life-string bleeds at thoughts of parting; 
 
 For part they must; body and soul must part; 
 
 Fond couple! linked more close than wedded pair. 
 
 This wings its way to its Almighty source, 
 
 The witness of its actions, now its judge; 
 
 That drops into the dark and noisome grave 
 
 Like a disabled pitcher of no use." 
 
 I first met the Honorable Horatio B. Hackett when he 
 entered this body in the session of one thousand nine hundred 
 and three as the successor of his lifelong friend and political 
 associate, the present Insurance Commissioner of Pennsyl- 
 vania. I therefore did not know him when he was at his best 
 physically. To me as a physician, he then showed the symp- 
 toms of a serious lesion of the nervous system. The drag- 
 ging of the one leg, and the limited motion of the arm, were 
 signs that the naturally strong physique had received a serious 
 shock in the form of a paralytic stroke. His native strength 
 of mind and energetic vigor of intellect no doubt, as in all 
 such cases, too, had suffered some abatement, and deterred 
 him from the activity in his senatorial duties which he would 
 have shown had he come to this body earlier in life. 
 
 His biography bears record of a brilliant career as a soldier 
 of the Republic, and the many positions of trust and respon- 
 sibility which he occupied, prove the high regard and respect 
 in which he was held by his fellow citizens. 
 
 My relations with him were pleasant. He always greeted 
 me in a kindly, fatherly manner. The brave fight he made 
 
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 for life when disease with its inexorable clutch was upon him, 
 evidences the heroic nature of the man. 
 
 He was a brave soldier, a useful citizen, a gentlemanly col- 
 league, and I desire to-day to express this tribute to his 
 memory. May we who remain learn from the dead lessons 
 of unswerving fidelity to duty and the living. 
 
 Mr. DEWALT. Mr. President and Fellow Members of 
 the Senate: Success in life is graded by different standards. 
 To those who believe the accumulation of great wealth is the 
 greatest good that can be obtained in life, the building up of 
 a great fortune seems to be most desirable; and after they 
 have achieved that, they seem to be content, although expe- 
 rience has taught that riches have wings, and that the golden 
 fruit often turns out to be, like the apples of Sodom — mere 
 dust. There are others who believe that great learning is 
 most to be desired, and their lives are spent in seeking to 
 improve the condition of their fellows by acquiring stores of 
 useful information. From the ranks of these come philoso- 
 phers and savants, who by their teachings have much bene- 
 fited their times and the world. Still others there are who 
 believe in fame, and the honors that come through politics; 
 they, like Alexander of old, sigh for more worlds to conquer; 
 and from this class come our rulers. Again, there are many 
 who believe in martial glory. Their sole end and aim is to 
 become the rulers of men. not by thought, but by action ; and 
 from this class come not only the rulers, but also the tyrants 
 of their fellows. Then there are many w^ho believing in what 
 has been called the simple life, think that the greatest good is 
 to be obtained by doing the greatest good to their fellow men. 
 Their lives are lives of devotion, for them it is not a seeking 
 for wealth, or power, or fame, or personal aggrandizement — 
 it is for the bettering of the condition of all men. Their lives 
 are lives of sacrifice ; and though many of them are in humble 
 station, and never rise above that, they have lived close to 
 the teachings of the Great Master who said, "Do unto others 
 as you would have them do unto you." 
 
 Judged by these standards, how has this man of whom we 
 to-day speak lived his life? Born in lowly station, without 
 the advantage of wealth, or exalted position, he, in his period 
 
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 of sixty odd years, was citizen, soldier, magistrate and legis- 
 lator; and in each one of these avenues of activity he played 
 well his part. What greater praise can be given to any man 
 than to say of him, "He was a good citizen, a brave soldier, a 
 just magistrate and an honest legislator." 
 
 From a drummer boy of seventeen to a captain of veterans 
 in a Pennsylvania regiment, the record of which is second on 
 that roll of honor, is a long step in martial valor. One would 
 think that after a career so full of merit the individual would 
 be unfitted for the arts of peace. Yet the career of this man 
 shows that when the war was over, and the Great Commander 
 said ''Let us have peace," he assumed the labors of a brake- 
 man and a fireman upon a railroad ; thus showing that al- 
 though he was able to fight, he had not forgotten how to 
 work, and that he was willing to do that which first came to 
 his hand. He was faithful in little things, and those who 
 knew him best made him ruler over many. Those who be- 
 lieved in him took him from the humble station which he had 
 chosen for himself, and gave him elective office ; and for six 
 years he was a dispenser of justice as magistrate in the locality 
 in which he lived. 
 
 The people, recognizing a faithful public servant, in the 
 largest city in the Commonwealth, thereafter elected him 
 Register of Wills, and for three years this office was under 
 his administration ; and then, to round out the honors of his 
 career, they sent him where we so w^ell knew him — to this 
 honorable body, and in the year one thousand nine hundred 
 and two he became a Senator of this Commonwealth. From 
 the humblest of beginnings, he thus rose to positions of which 
 any man might well be proud. 
 
 It is not the loudest bird that sings the sweetest song. 
 And so it can be said that it is not the man who makes the 
 greatest professions who accomplishes most good. The Sen- 
 ator was not a man of great professions, but he was one who 
 did things, without proclaiming his intentions so to do. 
 "Deeds, not words." was his motto. The inherent strength 
 of his character, his fidelity in small things, and his faithful- 
 ness in every station, commended him to all who knew him; 
 and results in his life teach us that honesty, sincerity and sim- 
 
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 plicity are traits of character which at all times work to the 
 greatest good. Temporary success may be gained by arti- 
 fice, or perhaps by appeal to popular prejudice, but lasting 
 good for ourselves, and for those about us, can only be ob- 
 tained by adherence to the three traits just mentioned. 
 
 It is not given to all men to be great rulers, or to make such 
 marks upon the dial of time as will last in the memory of many 
 generations. But it is given to each and all of us to act and 
 live according to the best there is in us, and to make the best 
 use of such talents and advantages as God has given us. 
 Doing this, we have done all that is required, and though 
 we may not, in so doing, become great, or famous, we be- 
 come in our small way the center and nucleus of influence 
 for great good by example. 
 
 If the life of Senator Hackett is reviewed from its earliest 
 days to its end, it says to all, that in this great country of ours 
 there is, generally speaking, an equal chance for all ; that 
 though some may be favored by the accident of birth, in 
 wealth, or power, or influence, in the end water will always 
 seek its level, and those who are deserving of merit, if they 
 persevere in honest efforts, will succeed. Failures and mis- 
 fortunes come to every man ; but that man is greatest who 
 profits by the knowledge which misfortune and failure have 
 given him, and who is able to rise above these mischances. 
 
 So it may be said that the life of the late Senator was an 
 epitome of honest efforts in the right direction ; and that the 
 result of those efforts was not only honor to himself and his 
 family, but benefit to the community in which he so long 
 lived. Were I to write his epitaph. I would inscribe it thus: 
 "Here lies a man who lived simply, fought bravely, and died 
 as he lived and fought." 
 
 Mr. STOBER. Mr. President, the saddest, yet most ex- 
 alted duty to be performed on the floor of this Senate is to pay 
 a tribute of respect to the memory of a deceased colleague. 
 
 This sad duty has been exacted from me at every session 
 since I entered this body and I had hoped that death would 
 withhold his deadly shaft long enough to exempt this extraor- 
 dinary session from such solemn proceedings. But death 
 is no respecter of persons, loves a shining mark, and struck 
 
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 the Eighth district of Philadelphia and laid low Horatio B. 
 Hackett. Had we the power, that shaft would have been 
 halted in its merciless flight ere it touched one so loved, one 
 so great, and one so brave as Senator Hackett. We mourn 
 his departure, but do not believe him dead, and with Spraguc 
 
 say: 
 
 "Thou are not in the grave confined, 
 Death cannot claim the immortal mind; 
 Let earth close o'er its sacred trust. 
 But goodness dies not in the dust." 
 
 And Campbell further says that : 
 
 "Cold in the dust this perished heart may lie, 
 But that which warmed it once shall never die." 
 
 Of his private life I know nothing ; others who were more 
 closely associated may extol his virtues. His public career 
 as a Senator is remembered by his associates. Who, now 
 present, does not remember the unobtrusive, courteous, gen- 
 tlemanly, silent, yet ever watchful Senator, who after that 
 dreaded monster of disease, paralysis, had laid his deadly hold 
 on him, still with pain-racked frame, and soft, sad smile, at- 
 tended to his official duties. 
 
 As Horatio B. Hackett was a soldier, I shall confine myself 
 principally to his soldier record. In my imagination, I can 
 see a boy of seventeen years of age standing in his home in 
 the city of Philadelphia, on the twenty-fifth day of July, in 
 one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. His country 
 calling for volunteers, brave men marching forth to battle, 
 drums beating, bugles calling, the spirit of patriotism per- 
 vading every home and inspiring every citizen with love of 
 country and admiration for its flag. That spirit struck the 
 heart of young Hackett and he enlisted in the Eighty-first 
 Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, In the words of the 
 poet: 
 
 "No fearing, no doubting, thy soldier shall know, 
 
 When here stands his country, and yonder her fo€; 
 
 One look at the bright sun, and prayer to the sky, 
 
 One glance where our banner floats glorious on high; 
 
 Then on, as the young lion bounds on his prey; 
 
 Let the sword flash on high, fling the scabbard away; 
 
 Roll on, like the thunder bolt over the plain; 
 
 We come back in glory, or we come not again." 
 
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 Thus was his military career begun. 
 
 He served in that regiment for ahnost four years, continu- 
 ously in the field and always at the front. 
 
 Enlisted as a private, discharged for promotion on the 
 twelfth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and 
 sixty-four, re-enlisted the next day and promoted to second 
 Heutenant upon a special recommendation to the Governor 
 of this State for "gallantry upon the field of battle." Pro- 
 moted to first lieutenant on the nineteenth day of April, one 
 thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, again promoted to the 
 rank of captain on the nineteenth day of May, one thousand 
 eight hundred and sixty-five, and mustered out honorably, 
 with that rank, on the twenty-ninth day of June, one thou- 
 sand eight hundred and sixty-five. 
 
 His regiment, the Eighty-first Pennsylvania, was attached 
 to the .\rmy of the Potomac, assigned first to the Third, and 
 afterward to the Second Army Corps, it participated in 
 twenty-two general engagements, and in the memorable as- 
 sault at Fredericksburg lost one hundred and seventy-six 
 men out of two hundred and sixty-one engaged, including 
 eighteen officers; a loss of sixty-seven and four-tenths per 
 centum, being the second highest of all Pennsylvania regi- 
 ments during the war, and sixth of all others. 
 
 After being mustered out of the United States service, he 
 served as a working captain in the line of the National Guard 
 of Pennsylvania for four years. He commanded the Veteran 
 Guard of his Post, No. 51, of the Grand Armv of the Repub- 
 lic. On the fourth day of February, one thousand eight hun- 
 dred and nmety-one, he was elected to the Military Order of 
 the Loyal Legion of the United States, Class one. Insignia 
 eight thousand four hundred and fiftv-five. Such in brief is 
 the military record of Captain Hackett. No need to speak 
 of his loyalty and patriotism. A record such as this speaks 
 louder than any language of mine. His deeds of valor are 
 inscribed m letters of gold upon the immortal roll of fame and 
 honor, and any effort of mine to elaborate thereon would only 
 detract from that glorious and immortal scroll. Captain 
 Hackett was a good citizen, a brave soldier, a faithful repre- 
 sentative, an honest man. 
 
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 After his return he became n useful citizen. Labor and ser- 
 vice had no terror for him, and he became a brakeman and 
 fireman on the Reading Railroad, and after five years of hard 
 labor, Captain Hackett was called to other duties and served 
 as letter carrier, inspector in the Custom House, clerk to the 
 Register of Wills, State Appraiser, Register of Wills and State 
 Senator. His party saw his worth and made him a delegate 
 to State and National Conventions. The Grand Army of 
 the Republic and the Loyal Legion and high social organi- 
 zations recognized his military and social qualities and gave 
 him all honor. I repeat that death is no respecter of persons. 
 There is no aljiding place here. Our days are numbered. 
 They are as 
 
 "The dream on the pillow, 
 That flits with the day, 
 
 The leaf of the willow 
 A breath wears away; 
 
 The dust on the blossom, 
 The spray on the sea; 
 
 They — ask thine own bosom- 
 Are emblems of thee." 
 
 In conclusion let me bid farewell to Senator Hackett by 
 paying a tribute to the f^ag for which he risked so much, and 
 which he so dearly loved. 
 
 "Who wears for the flag that freedom blessed, 
 
 Though it wanders afar from home, 
 By the winds caressed, to the east or west, 
 
 Wherever its sons may roam? 
 In the calm of peace or the storm of ware. 
 
 On land or the bounding seas, 
 With its silver stars and crimson bars — 
 
 It is always the flag of the free. 
 
 Far from the cradle where liberty reared 
 
 Its brood of free born men. 
 That banner fared and has onward dared 
 
 Full many a league since then. 
 Like a strong, young eagle, on wings elate 
 
 It has followed its destiny 
 From the Old Bay State to the Golden Gate, 
 
 The fetterless flag of the free. 
 
HON. HORATIO B. HACKETT. 21 
 
 South, where the fair Antilles lie, 
 
 It smiles to the glowing dawn, 
 It soared on high in the sunlit sky. 
 
 On the hill over San Juan; 
 It has followed its well loved ships away 
 
 To the uttermost alien sea. 
 And it floats to-day in Manila Bay 
 
 The conquering flag of the free. 
 
 God speed the flag that has never quailed, 
 
 Though it rose o'er the Spanish Main; 
 When by foes assailed, that has never failed 
 
 Humanity's need and pain! 
 It shall bless the slave whom its valor frees. 
 
 And its glory shall 'round him be; 
 On its own loved breeze or the Orient seas 
 
 It is always the flag of the free." 
 
 The PRESIDENT. The question is on the adoption of 
 the resohitions offered relative to the late Senator from 
 Philadelphia, Mr. Hackett. 
 The question being, 
 Will the Senate agree to the resolutions? 
 They were unanimously agreed to. 
 
 ADJOURNMENT. 
 
 Mr. WHITE. Mr. President. I move that the Senate 
 do now adjourn until five o'clock post meridian. 
 
 Mr. STOBER. Mr. President, I second the motion. 
 
 The question being, 
 
 Will the Senate agree to the motion? 
 
 Tt was agreed to. 
 Whereupon, 
 
 At four fifteen post meridian the Senate adjourned to meet 
 at five o'clock post meridian of Wednesday, February four- 
 teen, one thousand nine hundred and six. 
 
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