Hon. Asahel Huntington: Memorial Address Delivered Before the Essex Institute, Tuesday Evening, Sept. 5, 1871Salem Press, 1872 - 34 páginas |
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Página 3 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Página 15 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 27 - ... substantially in accordance with those, with whom he was accustomed to worship — the orthodox congregationalists. They were tolerant and catholic. He was opposed as well to the bigotry of exclusiveness, as to the bigotry of liberalism. His religion was a religion of thought and action rather than speech. He never proclaimed that he was a lighted candle, but those who approached him saw the light, which could not be hid. In reference to the fundamental principle of Christianity, he believed...
Página 27 - How deep stained with blood, how reckless in crime, how deep in depravity may it be, and yet retain innocence? The law is made, if we would speak with entire accuracy, to protect the innocent by punishing the guilty.
Página 21 - ... by the evidence in the case. On the contrary, the evidence was entirely satisfactory to the Committee, that Mr. Huntington had devoted himself with extraordinary zeal and untiring industry — even to the peril of his life, to the discharge of his official duties. And that he had thereby rightfully acquired, and has a just right to retain the wide spread — and well founded confidence of his fellow citizens in the intelligence, integrity, fidelity and ability with which these duties have been...
Página 31 - ... was manifested. In its normal condition — in the ordinary intercourse of life — there was a quiet repose of mind — an indisposition to obtrude his own reflections upon others — an apparent inattention which the phrase may properly characterize. In no other sense, however, is it true. He was a thinking man. His mind was constantly active. Indeed, it could not be otherwise ; for it was healthily constituted — constantly nurtured — and well sustained by a vigorous and Ill healthful physical...
Página 20 - in. conformity with the desire of the respondent a committee be appointed, to meet during the recess of the Legislature, to examine the charges which have been preferred against the said Asahel Huntington and to make their report at the next session of the Legislature. And further, that said committee have authority to send for persons and papers." This report was accepted. The committee appointed were the late Hon. Joseph Bell, an eminent lawyer of Boston, the Hon. George S. Boutwell, the present...
Página 21 - ... could not shake. Foremost among them was the late Hon. Rufus Choate, the friend of his early manhood and of his whole life ; who, in probably the last letter he ever indited, said affectionately " I am quite competent to pronounce for myself that I love 'and esteem you and * * * and brother Huntington quite as much as ever and for quite as much reason. Pray accept for yourself, and give them all my love, and be sure if I live to return, it will be with unabated affection for you all.
Página 27 - Philosophy could offer nothing but a "pleasing hope," — a "fond desire," — a "longing after," — and that by Eevelation, and by revelation alone, the truth of the immortality of the soul was, with certainty, promulgated ; and to deny an authentic and infallible revelation was, with him, to uproot all confidence that the condition of man differed from that of the beasts which perish. He was not of those who rejected what was old in belief, because it was old ; nor was the consentaneous judgment...
Página 13 - Newbnryport was then a town, and her public affairs were discussed in that most perfect of all democracies, and that strongest of all citadels of civil liberty — town meeting. Mr. Huntington being "of age" and resident at Newburyport, did not fail to attend the town meeting.