r of the Constitution and statutes, the
financier, the debater, the lawyer, the man of business, the
diplomatist, the reformer, the orator, are all there, and
all are there at their best.

"It is enough, and not too much, to say of my colleague that,
as he lays down his office, the State that has been proud
of them is proud of him. The State that has been satisfied
with them is satisfied with him. In all this illustrious
line, there is none other who has more faithfully and more
successfully discharged every duty of Senatorial service,
and who has more constantly represented the interests and
character of the dear old Commonwealth, who has maintained
a higher or firmer place in her confidence and respect than
he whom we greet and with whom we part to-night. Mr. Dawes
was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives
in 1847. Every year since, with one exception, he has held
some honorable public station from the gift of his native
State. Everywhere, at the Bar, in the State Legislature,
in the Representative Chamber, in the Senate Chamber, he has
been a leader. Some great department of public service has
depended upon him for a successful administration. He has
always been appointed to some special service or duty or difficulty
which he has discharged to the entire satisfaction of his
constituents and his political associates. His work has been
as remarkable for its variety as for its dignity and importance,
or the length of time for which it has continued. He has
proved himself fit for every conspicuous position in our
Republican army except that of trumpeter. When the duty
was done, he has not sought for personal credit or popular
applause. His qualities have not been those for which the
people manifested their regard by shouting or clapping of
hands, or stamping of feet in public meetings; he has had
no following of ambitious politicians whom he has sought to
repay for their political services at the public expense.

"But he has had a place second to that of no other man in
the solid and enduring esteem of the people of the Commonwealth.
He has been content to do a service, and has left the other
men who sought for it the credit of doing it. His official
action has tended to make or unmake great industries. Great
fortunes have depended upon it. He has affected values of
millions upon millions, and yet he retires from office with
unstained hands, without fortune, and without a spot upon
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