t be found in
the country another bold enough or bad enough to take his
place.

But Mr. Morrill's last days were filled with hope and not
with despair. To him life was sweet and immortality assured.
His soul took its flight

On wings that fear no glance of God's pure sight,
No tempest from his breath.

And so we leave him. His life went out with the century
of which he saw almost the beginning. What the future may
have in store for us we cannot tell. But we offer this man
as an example of an American Senator and American citizen
than which, so far, we have none better. Surely that life
has been fortunate. He is buried where he was born. His
honored grave is hard by the spot where his cradle was rocked.
He sleeps where he wished to sleep, in the bosom of his beloved
Vermont. No State ever mourned a nobler son; no son was ever
mourned by a nobler State. He enjoyed to a ripe old age everything
that can make life happy--honor, love, obedience, troops of
friends,

The love of friends without a single foe,
Unequalled lot below.

He died at home. The desire of the wise man,

Let me die in my nest,

was fulfilled to him. His eyes in his old age looked undimmed
upon the greatness and the glory of his country, in achieving
which he had borne so large a part.

CHAPTER VII
COMMITTEE SERVICE IN THE SENATE

I was appointed upon the Committee on Privileges and Elections,
March 9, 1877, and have continued a member of it ever since.

I was appointed on the same day a member of the Committees
on Claims, Indian Affairs and Agriculture. I made a special
study in the vacation of 1877, expecting to master, as well
as I could, the whole Indian question, so that my service
on that Committee might be of some value. But I was removed
from the Committee on Indian Affairs, by the Committee who
made the appointments, in the following December. This was
very fortunate, for the country and for the Indians. Mr.
Dawes, my colleague, not long after was placed upon the Committee.
He was a most intelligent, faithful and stanch friend of the
Indians during the remainder of his lifetime. He was ready,
at the Department and on the floor of the Senate, and wherever
he could exert an influence to protect and baffle any attempt
to wrong them. His quiet and unpretending service to this
unfortunate and oppressed race entitles him to a very high
place in the affectionate remembrance of his countrymen.

The Committe