ed a permanent peace. He was elected to Congress
as a Territorial delegate in 1857, and sought at Washington as earnestly
as on the Puget Sea the interests of the rising State.

He was a man of great intellect, of a forceful and magnetic presence--a
man born to lead in great emergencies. He carried New England ideas and
traditions to the Pacific, and established them there for all time to
come, creating there a greater New England which should gather to its
harbors the commerce of the world.

Governor Stevens was a conservative in politics, but when the news of the
fall of Sumter thrilled the country, he said to the people of Olympia, "I
conceive it my duty to stop disunion." He went to Washington and entered
the Union service.

He fell like a hero at Chantilly, and under the flag which he had taken
from his color-bearer, who had received a mortal wound. His was a splendid
career that the nation should honor. We recently saw his sword and
historic pictures at the home of his widow and son at Dorchester, Mass.,
and were impressed with these relics of a spirit that had done so much for
the progress of the country and mankind.

The State of Washington is his monument, and progressive thought his
eulogy. His great mind and energy brought order out of chaos, and set the
flag in whose folds he died forever under the gleaming dome of the
Colossus of American mountains and over the celestial blue of the Pacific
harbors of the Puget Sea.

IV.

SEATTLE THE CHIEF.

Seattle was a Dwamish chief, and a true friend of the white race, whom he
seemed to follow on account of their superior intelligence. He gave the
name to an early settlement, which is now a great city, and which seems
destined to become one of the important port cities of the world; for when
in 1852, some forty years ago, the pioneers of Alke Point left the town
which they had laid out and called New York, and removed to the other side
of the bay, they named the place Seattle, from the friendly chief, instead
of New York. Alke means _by and by_ and Seattle is likely to become the
New York of the Pacific, and one of the great ports for Asiatic trade.
With the immense agricultural and mineral resources with which it is
surrounded, with its inexhaustible stores of timber, its sublime scenery
and delightful climate, with its direct and natural water-road to Japan
and China, and its opportunity of manufacturing for the Asiatic market the
kind of goods that En