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Party, the house at Strafford, and any or all of a thousand matters large or small, the zest had gone out of life for him. He might have said with Wordsworth:

“And yet I know, where'er I go

That there hath passed away a glory from the earth."

When winter approached, he returned to Washington and resumed his place in the Senate. There he took up his usual duties and gave his invariable, assiduous care to the routine of committees and bills and motions. On the 13th of December, he delivered a speech in support of a measure which he had urged several times before-authorizing the purchase of a site for a building for the Supreme Court — and he had the satisfaction of seeing it pass the Senate. A few days later, he fell ill of a cold such as he had many a time thrown off. But this time he could not overcome it. His friends and the general public alike felt a prescient apprehension. As soon as it was known that he was ill, every one caught the alarm. The papers recorded the progress of his illness, from edition to edition, from hour to hour. Soon it was pronounced pneumonia and hope died. He lingered a day or two, but the inevitable end came on the 28th of December.

Of the general mourning; of the impressive memorial service in the Senate Chamber attended by President and Vice-President, justices of the Supreme Court, members of the Cabinet, diplomats, fellow Senators, Congressmen, and a great throng of famous and notable persons, what avails it to prolong the record? The solemn pomp of the obsequies of those whom a nation honors stirs the senses like the ceremonial of the stage, but the heart remains sad. Senator Morril had been and was not. His memory was honored as a faithful servant of his State and his Country; his body was carried in a stately cortège to the Capital of Vermont so that

his fellow citizens and neighbors might pay their tribute of honor and of tears; in due course there were eulogies in the Senate, the House, in the State Capitol at Montpelier, in many churches and colleges and universities, until the tide of honor for his labors and grief for his loss had swept by successive waves across the continent. It was well and seemly, and to the credit of his Country may be said that his memory still lives in many a college founded under his Land-Grant Act. Until this day not a few of them recall him by annual commemorations of his birthday.

With that carefulness of such matters which was one of the special marks of an earlier day, he had planned and provided for a burial-place in the little cemetery at Strafford where lies the dust of many of his race. Long before, he had chosen the place -the top of a knoll from which there is a noble view along the valley and across many hills. It is a beautiful spot. There his tomb stands, solid and durable, of the granite of Vermont, dominating the place.

Below in full view lies the village. There is the spot where he went to school and the pond where he slid in winter. There is the store where he began his course in business. There stretches the road that was familiar to his feet for eighty years, the road he followed when he went out to see the world and took contentedly on his return. There are the descendants of his friends and of his father's friends who climb the slope on Sundays to his grave and bring visitors who know of his life and honor his record. And there it is not difficult to imagine him repeating the words of Stevenson's epitaph,

"Here I lie where I longed to be."

For, after a life well lived, he is gathered to his fathers in the place that he loved, in sight of the spot where he was born, and of the home where he spent his later life, and is at rest.

INDEX

INDEX

Abbott, J. C., M. and disputed elec-| Babbitt, murder, 88.

tion, 244.

Adams, C. F. [1], New Mexico bill,

124; and M. in London, 186.
Adams, C. F. [2], and Imperialism,
345.

Adams, J. Q., on prosperity, 30; pe-

riod of congressional services, 337.
Agostina, C., picture in M.'s collec-
tion, 223.

Agriculture, M.'s farm, 35; M. on
prairie, 46; M.'s interest and ad-
dress, 48-50; M. on European, 200.
See also Land-Grant College Acts.
Aiken, William, in Speakership con-

test (1855), 68.

Aldrich, N. W., as storekeeper, 26;
letter from M. on maple sugar
bounty, 338.

Allen, Ethan, statue for Federal Cap-
itol, 248; M. on self-consciousness,
325.

Allison, W. B., and M., 222, 322.
Alps, M. on, 200.

Amberley, Lord, M. meets, 186.
American Protective Tariff League,

M.'s open letter to, 340.

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Bachiler, Rev. Stephen, immigrant, 3.
Baden Baden, M. on gambling, 197,
198.

Badger, G. F., and Supreme Court,

91.

Banking, M.'s interest, 39.
Banks, N. P., contest for Speakership,
64-68, 73-75.

Barksdale, William, in Speakership
contest (1885), 65; and Keitt-
Grow affair, 69.

Barney, E. L., killed, 132.
Barrett, James, and M., 24.
Batchelder, Mary, M.'s grandmother,
3.

Batchelder, Nathaniel, M.'s ancestor,
3.
Batchelder, Nathaniel, M.'s great-
grandfather, military career, 3.
Baxter, Janette (Harris), 52.
Baxter, Portus, wife, 52.
Bayard, T. F., Napoleonic medals,

311; and M., 314; correspondence
with M. on silver (1885), 314-16.
Beck, J. B., and silver, 316; and M.,
322.

American Revolution, Morrills in, 3. | Beecher, H. W., and Laurence Sterne,

Ancestry of M., 2.

Angell, J. B., on M.'s speeches, 329.
Annexation of Canada, M. and, 151,
320, 321. See also Expansion.
Annis, Prudence, M. visits, 46.
Anthony, H. B., and M., 222, 226.
Antwerp, M. on, 193.
Archer, W. S., and Zollverein Treaty,
255; period of congressional serv-
ices, 337.

Arthur, C. A., removal by Hayes,
291; M. on, and appointments, 299;
M. on candidacy (1884), 306, 307.
Atherton, G. W., and Land-Grant
College Act, letter from M., 276-
78, 284.

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