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MEMORIAL 
 
 OF 
 
 CHARLES H. MARSHALL. 
 
 NEE Wor yy OR Ky: 
 eee Pik tON AND COMPANY. 
 1867. 
 

 
Iw collecting the various notices of the death of the 
 late Cuartes H. Marswatt, it may not be amiss to pre- 
 face them with a sketch of his life and character, drawn 
 from more intimate sources than were accessible to _ 
 those who took part in the public tributes to his mem- 
 ory. ‘The rare and noble traits, commemorated with 
 so much sincerity and warmth in the proceedings and 
 addresses, which this memorial volume is chiefly de- 
 signed to perpetuate, had their main source in the 
 discipline of a laborious, self-reliant life, whose early 
 training was in the rough school of the sailor, but 
 which was always shaped and guided by high and in- 
 telligent aims. It was a life of no more incident or 
 adventure than naturally belonged to the career of an 
 American seaman of the early part of the present 
 
 century, gradually identifying himself with the grow- 
 
6 MEMORLAL. 
 
 ing commerce of the country, active in all grades. of 
 its service, aiding in its large development, and sharing 
 in its full success. The record of such a career has in 
 it, for all readers, something of the interest which at- 
 taches to every life-struggle in which an honest, manly 
 purpose grapples with destiny, and succeeds against all 
 odds; but it is chiefly for those who will read these 
 pages with the sympathies of kindred or of friendship 
 that they have been written; and if they include inci- 
 dents and traits which might otherwise seem too minute 
 and personal, it is because they are meant for that inner 
 circle in which the memory they seek to keep alive and 
 
 to illustrate is already cherished as a household treasure. 
 
E 
 
 CuarLtes Henry Marsnatt was born at Easton, 
 Washington County, in the State of New York, April 
 8, 1792. _ Both on the father’s and mother’s side, he 
 was of Nantucket descent. His paternal grandfather, 
 Benjamin Marshall, a Quaker by faith, followed the 
 sea, like most of the men of Nantucket, during a long 
 life, and died in his home on the island. — He left a son, 
 Charles, who also began his active life on the deck of a 
 whaler, and for some time. sailed out of Nantucket. 
 The Revolutionary War, breaking out about the time | 
 of the death of the elder Marshall, greatly interfered 
 with the prosecution of the Nantucket whale-fisheries. 
 The English men-of-war, cruising off the American 
 coast, would often intercept the vessels seeking to make 
 their way into port laden with the fruits of long years 
 of labor and exposure in distant seas, while to send a 
 ship refitted and equipped on an outward voyage was 
 to risk its speedy capture. The hardy islanders, thus 
 blockaded on the side of the ocean by an enemy whom 
 they had no means of resisting, turned their eyes to the 
 main-land. New England, from which their ancestors 
 
8 MEMORIAL. 
 
 had been driven by persecution a century before, was 
 not thought of as an asylum, but the border counties of 
 New York offered a good climate, and cheap land, capa- 
 ble of being easily cleared of the forest and reduced to 
 cultivation. In 1779, a number of families broke up 
 at Nantucket, and crossing to New Bedford, made their 
 way to the Connecticut River, and thence northward, 
 through its valley, to Vermont, and across the Green 
 Mountains to the State of New York. They took up 
 a section of land lying between Troy and Whitehall, in 
 what was then known as the Saratoga Patent, embracing 
 a portion of what is now the richest part of Washing- 
 ton County. This exodus embraced the heads of some 
 fifteen families with their children and household goods. 
 It was six or seven years in advance of the emigration 
 to Claverack Landing, which transferred to the banks 
 of the Hudson so much of the enterprise and wealth of 
 the people of Nantucket, and laid the foundations of 
 the city of Hudson. 
 
 . Charles Marshall came to the Saratoga Patent in the 
 year 1785, after his father’s death. He was yet a young 
 man, and his occupation as a sailor having been de-— 
 stroyed, he turned farmer, and in 1786 married Heph- 
 zibah, daughter of Nathan Coffin, one of the first emi- 
 grants to New York. Nathan Coffin had been a 
 contemporary, perhaps a shipmate, of his father, Ben- 
 jamin Marshall. After a life of adventure on the ocean, 
 he had set out, in an ox-team, with his wife, his son, and 
 his daughters, for a new home in a northern wilderness 
 He had experienced something more than mere appre- 
 
MEMORIAL. 9 
 
 hension of peril from British cruisers. Before the Revo- 
 lution, he had succeeded in saving from the earnings of 
 some prosperous voyages a moderate sum of money, 
 which he put into a common stock with some of his 
 Nantucket neighbors, and, going to London, engaged 
 with them in the venture of chartering a small vessel, 
 which they freighted with a cargo of assorted merchan- 
 dise for a home port. The war was already imminent, 
 and, fearing trouble, the copartners procured a permit 
 from the English admiralty authorizing them to enter 
 any port on the American coast. They sailed with their 
 cargo and crossed the ocean safely, but as they neared 
 Nantucket were boarded by an English man-of-war : 
 their pass was disregarded ; their vessel and cargo was 
 seized as lawful prize, and the whole company, stripped 
 of every thing, were taken to Martinique, and from there 
 to New York, where they were thrown into the prison- 
 ship “Jersey,” of infamous memory. In this wretched 
 hulk Nathan Coffin lay for eleven months, sharing the 
 privations and insults which made so many martyrs to 
 the cruelties which disgraced the British occupation of 
 our harbor. The vessel was anchored in the East River, 
 and from time to time was visited by a lieutenant of the 
 British navy, who approached many of the prisoners 
 with offers of commissions in His Majesty’s service, pro- 
 vided they would renounce the cause of the rebels, and 
 give in their adhesion to the crown. To Nathan Coffin, 
 who was an able and experienced shipmaster, he made 
 liberal promises, tendering him a command and large 
 pay. The reply of the stout-hearted sailor contained 
 
10 MEMORIAL. 
 
 the whole spirit of the struggle for independence: “ You 
 may hang me to the yard-arm of your frigate, but do 
 not ask me to turn traitor to my country!” Isaac Coffin, 
 an own cousin of Nathan, also an able seaman, - but 
 lacking the patriotic ardor of his kinsman, yielded to 
 the tempting offers of a commission, rose to the highest 
 naval rank in the British service, and figures on its rolls 
 as Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin. His loyal cousin, plain 
 Nathan Coffin, never forgave what he deemed desertion 
 from the flag and treason against the government of his 
 native country. He persisted in his own choice of 
 steadfast adhesion to the doubtful cause of the colonists, 
 and, after suffering the privations of the prison-ship for 
 eleven months, was at last released. He at once made 
 his way to Nantucket, and shortly afterward, as we have 
 seen, joined the party of emigrants to the colony in 
 northern New York. 
 
 ‘Nathan Coffin settled upon a tract of one hundred 
 and eighty acres, lying near the present town of Easton, 
 Washington County, and there spent the rest of his life 
 as a farmer. He lived to see the full triumph of the 
 cause of Independence, and to enjoy many years of 
 peace. He survived until 1813, when he died, at the 
 age of seventy-nine. The War of 1812 was then in 
 progress, and the old man attested his ruling love of 
 country and his hatred of British supremacy in his last 
 moments by uttering the fervent hope that there 
 “might be an honorable peace, or none.” 
 
 The family of Nathan Coffin had become permanent- 
 ly attached to their new homestead. But the instincts of 
 
MEMORIAL. 11 
 
 their Nantucket lineage led his boys to a seafaring life. 
 One of them, Charles Coffin, left Easton at the age of 
 sixteen, and went to Nantucket, retracing his father’s 
 steps, like the sons of the early patriarchs, not like 
 them in search of a wife, but of a ship, the first object 
 in the affections of a born sailor. He served his ap- 
 prenticeship by sailing on a whaling voyage, and soon 
 showed that the old Nantucket blood had lost none of 
 its vigor in the uplands of New York. While the 
 british navy were practising the impressment of Amer- 
 ican seamen, which led to the War of 1812, Charles 
 Coffin was chief mate of a ship sailing from New York, 
 called the “Melpomene.” On a voyage from New 
 - York to Amsterdam, near the entrance of the English 
 Channel, the ship received some damage, and put into 
 Portsmouth, the principal naval station of England, 
 for repairs. She was soon repaired, and got ready for 
 sea. On the day of sailing, the master went ashore for 
 a few hours, leaving the mate in charge, and during the 
 day sent orders to him to “heave short” and be in 
 readiness to get under way. The mate accordingly 
 manned the windlass, and was heaving in the anchor, 
 when a man-of-war’s boat was rowed alongside, and a 
 young lieutenant came aboard. He advanced to the 
 windlass and ordered the men to stop heaving. The 
 mate, who was looking out for the cable as it came in, 
 had not noticed the boat or the arrival of the lieuten- 
 ant, and on seeing the windlass stop, gave the order to 
 “heave away,” and turning to the men ‘asked why 
 they had stopped. The lieutenant, with his hand on 
 
12 MEMORIAL. 
 
 his sword, stepped forward rather briskly, and said, “I 
 ordered them to stop!” On this, young Coffin, who 
 was a man of great size and strength, quietly took the 
 lieutenant by the shoulder, turned him round, and 
 marched him to the gangway, through which he un- 
 ceremoniously tumbled him into his boat. In the 
 shortest possible space of time the “ Melpomene” was 
 revisited by the boat, manned this time with an armed 
 crew, and officered from the guard-ship of the fleet. 
 The mate was summarily taken from his deck and put 
 in irons on the guard-ship. He was afterward taken 
 to the flag-ship, and there arraigned before the admiral 
 and his officers. The admiral asked the young man his 
 name. He answered, “ Charles Coffin.” ‘“ Whose son 
 are you?” asked the admiral. ‘‘ Nathan Coffin’s.” The 
 admiral hesitated a moment, and then remanded the 
 prisoner, saying that he could not be tried until the 
 next day. The same afternoon the admiral came on 
 board the guard-ship and sent for the prisoner. He 
 said to him privately: “I am Admiral Coffin, your 
 father’s own cousin. You have thrown overboard one 
 of His Majesty’s officers, and there is nothing to pre- 
 vent your swinging from the yard-arm, but I will try 
 to clear you.” He then instructed his belligerent kins- 
 man to express regret for his hasty conduct, and to 
 make what reparation he could by apologizing for his 
 rashness and violence, and to leave the rest to him. 
 The mate readily acquiesced, and, after appearing the 
 second time before his judge, was sent back to his ship 
 unharmed. Afterward the admiral paid him a visit, 
 
MEMORIAL. 13 
 
 and invited him to dinner. Doubtless he hoped that 
 the part he had taken to protect his gallant young 
 kinsman would prompt kindly thoughts toward him in 
 the heart of old Nathan Coffin. 
 
 - Hephzibah, the sister of this bold sailor, Charles 
 Coffin, and the daughter of the old patriot, Nathan 
 Coffin, after her marriage with Charles Marshall, be- 
 came the mother of a family of seven children, of 
 whom Charles Henry, the subject of this sketch, was 
 the third. The farm on which Charles Marshall had 
 settled was a tract of about one hundred acres, lying 
 ten miles north of the clearing of his father-in-law, 
 Nathan Coffin. It was new land, covered with a forest 
 which had never felt the axe, and the log hut which he 
 built was the first sign of civilization which disturbed 
 the solitude of the wilderness. It was a rude structure, 
 about fifteen feet by eighteen, containing two rooms on 
 the ground floor, and one room above, under the roof. 
 The seven children were born in this log cabin, which 
 was, in process of time, replaced by a frame house of 
 ampler size. 
 
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 Tue sons of Charles Marshall and Hephzibah Coffin 
 all developed the instincts of their N antucket lineage. 
 It does not appear that their parents intended either of 
 them for the sea; but one by one, as they grew in years, 
 all their thoughts, conformed by nature to the calling of 
 the sailor, just as the oaks and pines of their native 
 forests were conformed to the framework of the ships 
 into whose structure they were destined to enter, turned 
 in that direction. ‘The sea stories told around the cabin 
 _ fires, among the snow-drifts of the Saratoga Patent, by 
 the old Nantucket sailors, who looked back wistfully to 
 the calling from which they had been driven, the dan- 
 gers and excitements of which formed the staple of 
 many a winter’s tale, filled the minds of the chil- 
 dren who listened to them with all the restless desires 
 which prompt to a sailor’s life. The story of his early 
 home training, and of his departure from home at the 
 age of fifteen, is told by Captain Marshall himself, in 
 an incomplete narrative found among his papers, which 
 contains many interesting particulars of his early ex- 
 periences in “seeking his fortune” before the mast of a 
 
MEMORIAL. 15 
 
 Nantucket whaler. It is an unfinished paper, breaking 
 off abruptly in the midst of his first voyage; but as far 
 as it goes it presents a truthful and vivid picture of his 
 early life, and, with a few verbal alterations, is printed 
 as he left it. | | 
 
 “In the autumn of 1806 my parents, who were re- 
 siding on a small farm inthe: same town with my 
 grandfather, about two miles distant from him, were 
 in very straitened circumstances, having to support a 
 large family by what they could raise from their farm. 
 This made it necessary that they should labor from day 
 to day; but, notwithstanding their very limited means 
 and the hardships they had to undergo, they manifested 
 a great desire that their children should have some ad- 
 vantages of education. To accomplish this was a mat- 
 ter that seemed full of difficulty; there were no good 
 schools then in the country—and, in fact, no schools 
 at all, except that now and then one was got up by 
 the neighborhood for three or four: months during the 
 winter season. In December of the above-mentioned 
 year my parents conceived the idea of sending myself 
 and elder brother from home toa school about five miles 
 distant, kept by a Quaker lady from. New Bedford, 
 Eunice Brown. How was this to be done? My pa- 
 rents had no money to pay for our board, and scarce- 
 ly sufficient to pay.for our schooling. My excellent 
 mother, who was a spirited:and ambitious woman, soon 
 hit upon a plan that would enable us to have the ad- 
 vantages of this school. There were two persons 
 
16 MEMORIAL. 
 
 known to us living in the same neighborhood with — 
 Eunice Brown, farmers, who, on inquiry, were found 
 willing to receive us as boarders into their families on 
 condition that we would work night and morning in 
 doing such chores in and around the house as might be 
 required of us. Thus, the terms and conditions being 
 completed, we took our small stock of clothing and 
 started for our new residence. We had been accus- 
 tomed to work on a farm, and therefore it was no 
 burden to us to enter upon the duties that were about 
 to be assigned to us—chopping wood, taking care of 
 horses, cows, etc.; and as we were both at the same 
 school, we were together daily. The winter passed 
 pleasantly, our employers expressing themselves fully 
 satisfied with our services as compensation for our 
 board. We remained through the winter, and re- 
 turned to our father’s house in March, having bene- 
 fited as much as could be expected. We had been 
 kept at the plain English branches, such as reading, 
 writing, arithmetic, and geography, in all of which 
 we seemed to make respectable progress. It is proper 
 to remark that for some two years previous to my leaving 
 home on this school expedition, I had conceived an idea 
 of going to sea. My grandfather had been a sailor, and 
 his adventures during his sea life I had often listened to 
 with much delight, so that my desire to see something 
 of the world became very ardent, and occupied most 
 of my thoughts. How was this to be brought about? 
 I was almost too young to go away alone, not having 
 attained my fifteenth year; still I was anxious to do 
 
MEMORIAL. 17 
 
 so if I could get the consent of my parents, which, 
 considering my early age and total ignorance of the 
 world, never having been twenty-five miles from the 
 spot where I was born, was a matter not likely to be 
 accomplished without serious consideration on their 
 part and a great trial of feeling on my own part. Still 
 I lost no opportunity to urge them, promising good be- 
 havior and the utmost diligence and industry in every 
 thing that I might undertake. My mother finally con- 
 sented, but it was with a condition that I should go to 
 an eastern port and join a whaling ship that we had 
 some knowledge was fitting for such a voyage. This 
 ship, the ‘Lima,’ of Nantucket, was commanded by 
 Captain Solomon Swain, who had a nephew, some two 
 or three years older than myself, living in the same 
 town with my parents. All things being prepared, my 
 mother packed my sea-chest with such articles of sail- 
 or’s clothing as she could procure, together with a 
 quantity of ‘prog,’ consisting of a ham, a loaf of 
 bread, pies, and crackers, and this, with thirteen dollars 
 in money, which my father with much difficulty had 
 raised, constituted my whole stock. The 15th day of 
 April, 1807, was fixed for my departure. 
 
 “As the day approached, the idea of leaving my 
 home, humble as it was, and parting with my affection- 
 ate parents, sisters, and brothers, for an indefinite pe- 
 riod, and perhaps forever, required all the firmness that 
 I could possibly summon to my aid; I felt at times 
 that I could not endure the trial; but I was ambitious, 
 and my Bade had been excited, and I determined to 
 
18 MEMORIAL. 
 
 make a bold push and overcome every difficulty. At 
 last the day arrived, and the wagon which was to con- 
 vey me to Troy made its appearance at the door; my 
 elder brother was appointed to accompany me so far on 
 my way; we were summoned to the breakfast-table, 
 which we surrounded with heavy hearts. The silence 
 that prevailed, and the tears that were now and then 
 seen trickling down the cheeks of parents, brothers, 
 and sisters, made our parting a trial of feeling almost 
 beyond my power to endure; but, taking fresh courage, 
 I took my leave of all that I held most dear, to seek my 
 fortune I hardly knew where or how. We proceeded 
 to Troy that day, and on arriving, in the afternoon, 
 my first object was to procure a passage in a vessel 
 leaving for New York, which, on repairing to the dock, 
 I secured, without much difficulty, in a sloop that was to 
 sail the following day. My next object was to settle 
 the passage-money with the captain, which I found, to 
 my surprise, would cut very deeply into my limited 
 finances; he said the passage, if I found myself in 
 provisions, would be three dollars, and as that was the 
 plan I started upon, having my ham, bread, and pies 
 to depend on, we soon settled the matter, and after 
 taking leave of my brother I found myself regularly 
 booked and afloat upon the waters of the Hudson. 
 _ Having recovered somewhat from my excitement and 
 painful feelings, my thoughts began to run upon my 
 future destiny and to realize the fact that my only de- 
 pendence now was on myself; that I had voluntarily 
 left my home to enter upon the world’s stage, deter- 
 
MEMORIAL. 19 
 
 mined, God willing, to make my own way to fortune 
 and fame. The beginning, young and unused as I was 
 to mingling with strangers, and the low state of my 
 finances, rendered my condition at times not only 
 gloomy, but discouraging in the extreme. I could 
 not, in spite of my fixed determination to persevere, 
 keep my thoughts from wandering homeward, and now 
 and then, in my melancholy moments, my heart would 
 almost fail me; but I had put my hand to the plough, 
 my pride was up, and my motto was ‘ Onward!’ 
 
 “The next day we hoisted sail and proceeded down 
 the river, the bustle and confusion in getting under 
 way, and trimming the sails to the breeze, the orders 
 from the captain, in a loud voice, and the ‘heave oh!’ 
 from the sailors when pulling the ropes, struck this poor 
 child of Nature with amazement. Every look from. the 
 captain, or sailors, although they were of the fresh-water 
 character, filled me with emotions of fear and trem- 
 bling ; occasionally the sailors would speak to me, asking 
 me questions as to where I was from, whither going, 
 ete., all of which gratified me, as it enabled me to 
 familiarize myself with them, and in doing this I ob- 
 tained some valuable information as. to how I was to 
 pursue my journey from New York. The vessel oc- 
 cupied about four days in reaching her destination, 
 during which time my mind was occupied in the pass- 
 ing events and the manceuvres of the vessel, so that I 
 quite began to recover from my melancholy mood. 
 There were several other passengers on board, who 
 seemed to be of the higher order, and who dined at the 
 
20 MEMORIAL. 
 
 captain’s sumptuous table, while I, at the same time, 
 partook of my humble fare of ham and pies, from my 
 sea-chest, often casting a wistful eye toward the rich 
 plum-pudding and sauce that formed a part of the 
 luxuries of his table; these were altogether new sights 
 to me, and the thought would now and then steal upon 
 me, boy as I was, that the captain might be touched 
 with a small spark of sympathy, and extend the trifling 
 civility of ordering the steward to give me something ; 
 but I regret to say that during the whole passage down, 
 my heart was never cheered by any act of kindness 
 from the captain, and my only share of the luxuries 
 with which his table abounded was in seeing others 
 enjoy them. There is one incident I must not forget to 
 mention, which occurred on the passage down, proving 
 the necessity, even in that early day, of a Maine liquor 
 law. It seemed to be a custom on board among the 
 hands to exact a tribute from those who had never 
 passed down the river, in other words, from “ green 
 hands;” this practice was generally put into execution 
 when abreast of Pollopell’s Island, near Newburg, and 
 well do I recollect the time when I was called upon to 
 settle my account, in the shape of a quart of rum, to 
 the men belonging to the vessel. They addressed me 
 very politely, saying that this was a fixed custom, and in 
 the event of a refusal to comply, they were in the habit 
 of ducking the person so refusing by making a rope fast 
 to him and gently throwing him overboard. I thought 
 this a hard case, and remonstrated against so flagrant a 
 piece of injustice, saying to them that my finances were 
 
MEMORIAL. 21 
 
 limited, and that it was an insult that I could not sub- 
 mit to. This bold stand seemed to enrage them, and 
 one of their number, a man standing about six feet in 
 his shoes, came with a rope to put around me; this 
 brutal assault, which the captain should have prevented, 
 operated upon my fears, and I gave up the struggle and 
 satisfied them by saying I would pay the quart of rum, 
 which I would buy from the captain. This secured me 
 their friendship ; I immediately went to the captain and 
 asked him if he would sell me the required quantity of 
 liquor; he ordered the steward to measure it for me, for 
 which I paid him three shillings and sixpence. Nothing 
 further occurred during our passage down worthy of 
 notice; we came round the Battery about four o’clock 
 in the morning; I was on deck at the time; it was 
 scarcely daylight; in casting my eyes up the East River 
 I discovered a forest, which at first appeared to be trees; 
 I was not a little puzzled at this, but on the approach 
 of daylight, my mind was relieved, as it proved to be 
 a forest of masts. We hauled in at Coenties Slip, and 
 while I had a curiosity to penetrate into the city, I 
 dared not, lest I should not find my way back to the 
 vessel. The captain was kind in allowing me to re- 
 main on board until I could get a passage on some 
 other vessel. After looking about the slips I found a 
 sloop bound to New Bedford, to sail in a day or two. 
 I soon arranged for my passage by paying the captain 
 four dollars, finding my own provisions, still relying on 
 my ham and pies; I found it necessary (as the time we 
 were likely to occupy in the passage was longer than I 
 
99 MEMORIAL. 
 
 contemplated) to use economy in the consumption of 
 my stock. This last payment reduced my cash to five 
 dollars. After a passage of about five days we arrived 
 in New Bedford, having had head winds, and spent a 
 day or so in Tarpaulin Bay. My next object was to find 
 a vessel that was going to the place of my destination, 
 Nantucket. I was admonished by the low state of my 
 provisions that dispatch was necessary, and, after cruis- 
 ing along the wharf a short time, I found a small Nan- 
 tucket vessel loaded with nuts. I soon made a bargain 
 with the captain for one dollar and fifty cents for my 
 passage, and the next day we sailed. We left in the 
 early part of the day, and in the afternoon I found my- 
 self safely landed. The captain permitted me to eat as 
 many nuts as I pleased during the passage; this was a 
 favor of no small moment, as my stock was all ex- 
 hausted, except a small piece of dry bread, and here 
 and there a mouthful which was attached to my old 
 friend the ham. Speaking of the ham, I always re- 
 gretted that I did not preserve the bone, by way of 
 commemorating the good service it had done me. 
 However, my mind has often recurred to it with feel- 
 ings of great pleasure. Having now landed at the 
 place where I expected to ship for a Cape Horn voyage, 
 my funds being at a very low ebb, my next anxiety was 
 to procure a place on board a vessel or to find some 
 kind friends to take me on credit for the time I should 
 have to remain, and allow me to pay on my return. I 
 was not long in finding a resting-place. A kind Nan- 
 tucket lady not only admitted me as one of her family, 
 but often sympathized with me in my gloomy moments, 
 
MEMORIAL. 93 
 
 furnished me with such articles of clothing as I still 
 needed for my long voyage, and agreed to wait the re- 
 sult for her pay. J must not pass this over without 
 expressing my heart-felt gratitude for her kindness. 
 ‘A stranger, she took me in, fed, and clothed me,’ 
 may she meet with that reward in heaven which is 
 prepared for the just! She lived a good Christian wo- 
 man, and died at the advanced age of ninety-five years. 
 The next day after my arrival I repaired to the dock in 
 pursuit of the good ship ‘Lima’ and Captain Swain. 
 I soon found them, and told the captain who I was, 
 and my desire to ship with him. He looked at me and 
 said, ‘I want young men, but you are a mere boy, and 
 too light for my purposes.’ This answer, though ut- 
 tered in the kindest manner, shocked me very much, 
 and operated upon my feelings in a manner I could not 
 disguise. The captain, perceiving my embarrassment, . 
 immediately relieved me by saying, ‘I will take you, 
 my lad; I dare say you will make up in smartness 
 what you lack in size.’ Thus I was made happy, 
 and the next day mounted my tarpaulings and re- 
 ported myself on board the ship for service. The ves- 
 sel was undergoing a thorough overhauling, and being 
 newly coppered, which, with the loading, occupied 
 about one month, so that it was not until the 2d day of 
 June, 1807, that all hands were mustered on board, and 
 we set sail for the Pacific Ocean, to cruise for the great 
 sperm whules. The weather was fine, and, with a 
 smooth sea, we sailed out of the harbor, and a tolerably 
 fine breeze soon carried us to the open sea. 
 
24 MEMORIAL. 
 
 “Tt would be difficult to describe my feelings when 
 the last speck of land was lost to our view, and, casting 
 my eyes round the horizon, I saw nothing but one vast 
 expanse of ocean. As the ship began to roll and pitch 
 a little, I was reminded of certain premonitions which I 
 had experienced in coming through the Sound on board 
 the sloop, and I made my way to my bunk, and there 
 enjoyed a sound sleep. 
 
 “ Time passed on, and nothing of importance occurred 
 till we made the Island of Flores, one of the Azores, at 
 which place we stopped for a few hours to obtain vegeta- 
 bles, hogs, and goats, articles very necessary to preserve 
 health on a long voyage. From that island we put 
 away for the Cape De Verde Islands. Nothing mate- 
 rial occurred during many days of pleasant sailing and 
 fine summer weather, until we made land, which proved 
 to be the Island of Fogo; during this time my sea- 
 sickness ebbed and flowed according to the motion of 
 the ship, and I was never a moment really well. We 
 remained at this island but a very short time, pro- 
 cured a few pigs and fowls, and then shaped our 
 course for the Pacific. We made rapid progress, 
 the weather being fine, and a steady trade-wind 
 in a few days brought us up with the equator. To 
 cross the equator at that time of the world was a 
 matter of no little interest, especially to young be- 
 ginners. Fresh as I was from a country wilderness, 
 scarcely knowing enough of the geography of the 
 world to understand the meaning of the equinoctial 
 line, it was not difficult to discover my extreme igno- 
 
MEMORIAL. 25 
 
 rance in these matters, and the more experienced amused 
 themselves by telling me all sorts of stories of what 
 would take place when we struck the line; that old 
 Neptune would appear in a car and come on board in 
 the character of some great high admiral or commander 
 of the seas; that he would demand of all the young 
 men and boys to appear before him; and in the event 
 of their not having crossed the line before, he would 
 subject them to a peculiar kind of shaving, the lather 
 being made of tar and slush, and the razor a piece of 
 iron hoop. All this was seriously set forth by many of 
 my older shipmates, and although I had some mis- 
 givings as to the truth of their statements, I confess it 
 made me fear that some folly might be enacted upon 
 greenhorns. We, however, passed the line, and no 
 Neptune appeared. I found, years afterward, that this 
 attempt upon my ignorance and credulity was no idle 
 tale, but founded on a practice of the English merchant 
 marine, and many times carried to a ridiculous and im- 
 proper extent. 
 
 “We continued our course southward, enjoying most 
 charming weather, with favorable breezes. My sea- 
 sickness was fast leaving me, and my ambition to be- 
 come familiar with the duties which I was expected to 
 perform, and which I was desirious to excel in, soon 
 took the place of my despondency, and although 
 neither time nor space could wholly cure my home- 
 sickness, still, as my health arid strength improved, and 
 as I became interested in my duties, which I very soon 
 discovered I could by diligence and industry accomplish, 
 
26 MEMORIAL. 
 
 I became a happy and contented boy, ready at all times 
 to do the bidding of my superiors, and to do any duty 
 which a greenhorn of my size and strength could rea- 
 sonably be called on to perform either below or aloft. 
 My ardent desire was to stand well with my captain, 
 who was a gentleman and a sailor of the old school. 
 His starting in life was somewhat similar to my own. 
 He was a thorough disciplinarian, stern in his manner, 
 always maintaining the highest order on his ship; yet 
 he had a soft and kind word for me, almost without 
 exception. Thus we sailed on southward till we 
 reached the Falkland Islands, a group situated be- 
 tween forty-six degrees to fifty degrees of south lati- 
 tude. The weather became rather cold and boisterous 
 as we advanced southward, and as we wanted a fresh 
 supply of water, our captain entered a harbor in one 
 of those islands, a beautiful, smooth bay, almost en- 
 tirely landlocked, were we cast anchor and remained 
 about two weeks. During this time a part of the 
 crew were employed in filling the water-casks and 
 floating them to the ship, while the remainder were 
 roaming over the island in pursuit of wild hogs and 
 geese, which were found here in great numbers, and of 
 which we obtained an abundant supply. Having ac- 
 complished our objects in touching at this island, we 
 lifted our anchor and made sail for Cape Horn. 
 
 “The ship, being stanch and tight, our vigilant 
 captain and officers put: her in the best condition to 
 encounter the stormy weather and high seas generally 
 prevailing off Cape Horn. Our approach to the Cape 
 
MEMORIAL. OT 
 
 was not marked by any thing noteworthy. We had 
 favorable winds and no very violent gales to report. 
 We came very near the land in approaching the Cape, 
 and passed through the straits of ‘Le Maire,’ in full 
 view of the Horn, which was an event of no small 
 matter in those days. Thus we sped our way down 
 the coast until we made the Island of Mocha, near the 
 coast of Chili; the next land we made was the Island 
 of St. Mary’s, near the Bay of Conception, a port fre- 
 quently resorted to by whale-ships for supplies. Since 
 that period it has been mainly destroyed by earth- 
 quakes, and is now known by the name of Talcahuana, 
 On leaving St. Mary’s, we proceeded down the coast, 
 expecting soon'to reach the ground of operation among 
 the whales, which we were all anxious to gain. We had 
 not sailed far before our wishes were gratified; the cry 
 from aloft was ‘ Jonah!’ which indicated that whales 
 were near the ship. On looking round, it was very 
 soon discovered from the deck that a large lone sperm 
 whale was quite near us. The next thing was to lower 
 the boats and give him battle. Every thing was done 
 in the quickest possible manner, and all the boats, three 
 in number, were soon in full pursuit. The whale was 
 found to be heading in a certain direction, and throwing 
 up his spouts, which were easily seen from the boats. 
 We were fast approaching her, when in a moment she 
 peaked her flukes, and was lost to our view. 
 
 “There is something remarkable in the movement 
 of the sperm whale, especially when found alone, or 
 when only two or three are together. They are sup- 
 
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 posed to continue the same course under water which 
 they were pursuing before peaking their flukes, and to 
 remain a certain time, when they rise to the surface 
 and commence spouting. The boats row on moderately 
 in the direction the whale is supposed to be going 
 while out of sight, so as to be near him when he next 
 makes his appearance. This course was pursued by 
 our three boats, and the greatest excitement and inter- 
 est was manifested in the officers and crews of each as 
 to who would be nearest the whale when she made her 
 appearance. For myself, being but a boy, and the 
 lightest hand in the boat, I was placed at the after- 
 oar in the second mate’s boat; and while we waited, in 
 breathless anxiety, the monster broke water quite near 
 our boat, and by shoving round and pulling a few 
 strokes, we came within close darting distance. Our har- 
 -poonsman, who was very clever at the work, jumped 
 upon his feet and plunged both harpoons into that part 
 of the whale where there was no fear of their being 
 readily hauled out. The other boats were fast ap- 
 proaching us, and the great anxiety on the part of our 
 young and vigilant officer was to complete the killing 
 of the whale before the other boats could reach the 
 scene of action. So eager was he to secure that honor, 
 that he very imprudently ordered the boat hauled di- 
 rectly upon the back of the whale, when he com- 
 menced sitting upon her with his lance, which he soon 
 drove to the vital part. The whale, in his paroxysms, 
 floundered to such a degree as to knock our boat almost 
 into flinders; the other boats being quite near, we were 
 
MEMORIAL. | 29 
 
 soon extricated from our perilous condition, and safely 
 taken on board the ship, having accomplished our pur- 
 pose of striking and killing the first whale, which was 
 considered a great honor. This was a good beginning; 
 the whale was a large one, making nearly one hundred 
 barrels. For myself, who had never witnessed such a 
 scene, I felt that if this was a fair specimen of what we 
 had to go through to fill our ship, there was little 
 prospect of my ever revisiting the scenes of my child- 
 hood; but we very soon met with more whales, and 
 being more successful in their capture, my fright passed’ 
 off, and I soon felt that interest which dissipates fear, 
 and every thing went on satisfactorily.” 
 
 The “Lima” made a successful voyage, and the 
 spring of 1809 found her safely anchored in the harbor 
 of Nantucket. Young Marshall received his “lay,” or 
 share of the proceeds of the cargo, according to the 
 established rule of distribution on whaling-ships, took 
 leave of his friendly captain, and set out for home. He 
 had grown so tall and stout during his two years of 
 sailor-life, that his own brother, meeting him as he 
 came up the road toward his father’s house, did not 
 recognize him. He was warmly welcomed home ; the 
 story of the voyage was told and retold, and he counted 
 into his father’s hand the sum of three hundred dollars, 
 his first earnings, and the earnest of his success in the 
 calling of his choice. After a stay of only two or 
 three weeks, he left home again, and shipped at New 
 York as ordinary seaman on the “ Alexander,” Captain 
 
30 | MEMORIAL. 
 
 Reuben Bunker, for a voyage to Hull, in England, re- 
 turning home early in the autumn of the same year. 
 During the winter of 1810, Charles remained on 
 shore, and, with his elder brother Benjamin, entered 
 the academy at Johnstown. They pursued their 
 studies until spring, when they made the journey 
 homeward to Easton, a distance of fifty miles, on 
 foot, and Charles then went to New York, where 
 Captain Bunker, who had exchanged the command 
 of the “Alexander” for that of the ship “ William 
 ‘Jane,’ was glad to secure his services as seaman, 
 and he shipped with him for a voyage to Riga, in 
 Russia. The captain was a Nantucket Quaker, a man 
 of sterling character, and his crew was mainly com- 
 posed of young men who, like Charles Marshall, fol- 
 lowed the sea as a profession, and not as mere adven- 
 turers, and who looked forward to becoming, as many of 
 them did in due time, masters of their own vessels. A 
 voyage to the Baltic at that time involved the risk of 
 capture by the armed Danish cruisers, which, under the 
 operation of the paper blockade of the Berlin and Milan 
 Decrees, committed constant depredations on our com- 
 merce, capturing merchant-vessels wherever they could 
 find them, and carrying them into port, not so much in 
 the expectation of condemning them as prizes as of 
 forcing a ransom or compromise from the owners. The 
 “ William Jane” did not succeed in reaching Riga with- 
 out molestation. While passing through the Little Belt, 
 before entering the Baltic Sea, she was overhauled by a 
 Danish man-of-war, which demanded her surrender. 
 
MEMORIAL. 31 
 
 The Quaker captain had no guns on his ship, and after 
 expressing the wish that he and his crew could break the 
 fingers of their captors with the ship’s handspikes, he 
 was compelled to strike her flag without a blow, and 
 was carried into Collenburg, a port on the northern coast 
 of Denmark. Here the “ William Jane” was detained 
 nearly a year. The summer went by, and the autumn, 
 and still Captain Bunker and his men were imprisoned 
 on their vessel, and through all the long cold northern 
 winter they were frozen in in this hostile harbor. But 
 the young men did not waste their time in repining over 
 their misfortune. A school was formed in the fore- 
 eastle; the studies begun in the Johnstown Academy 
 were continued in the little Danish seaport, and the 
 crew divided their time between skating around the 
 vessel on the thick ice by which she was hemmed in, 
 and learning their lessons and reciting them to one 
 another on shipboard. When the spring opened they 
 obtained permission to clear, and finally sailed for Riga, 
 no proceedings having been taken to forfeit the vessel 
 or her cargo. 
 
 _ After discharging cargo, the “ William Jane” set 
 out on her homeward voyage, and came through the 
 Baltic under convoy of a British fleet. After being out 
 a few days she encountered a terrific gale, which during 
 the night scattered the vessels of the fleet, so that when 
 the storm cleared away in the morning, not one of them 
 was to be seen from her deck. No further mishap was 
 met with, and she reached New York in safety; but it 
 was not until February, 1812, that the young Marshalls, 
 
39 MEMORIAL. 
 
 after the varied experiences of this unlucky voyage, 
 found themselves at home in Easton. 
 
 Before Charles Marshall could find another vessel, 
 the war-cloud, overhanging the relations between the 
 United States and Great Britain, began to discharge its 
 thunders. Early in April, 1812, Congress passed an act 
 laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports 
 of the United States, by which the sailing of any Amer- 
 ican vessel for a foreign port was prohibited. This 
 was preliminary to the declaration of war which fol- 
 lowed in June of the same year. It put an end to all 
 thoughts of sea-service on the part of Charles Mar- 
 shall, and he turned to farming during the summer 
 and fall of 1812, and in the winter went to school 
 at Easton. These forced periods of study, during 
 two successive winters, first in the distant, ice-locked 
 harbor of Collenburg, and then among the hills of 
 Washington County, were of the greatest value, 
 enabling young Marshall to lay the foundations of 
 a good English education, and to form a taste for 
 reading, which he retained through life, and which 
 formed one of the most pleasurable occupations of 
 his later years. The spring and summer of the fol- 
 lowing year were chiefly spent on the farm. This year 
 the boys were all at home. Their father had just sold 
 the tract of one hundred acres where he had first set- 
 tled, and on which they had all been born, at the price 
 of twenty-four dollars an acre, with the improvements, 
 and had purchased of Nathan Coffin his farm of one 
 hundred and eighty acres, with the frame house which 
 
MEMORIAL. 33 
 
 he had built. This arrangement united the two fami- 
 lies; and the old people, Nathan Coffin and his wife, the 
 grandfather and grandmother of the household, lived 
 during the short residue of their lives under the same 
 roof with their son-in-law and his children. 
 
 3 
 
TIT. 
 
 THE autumn of 1813 saw the war still lingering on 
 the frontiers and the seaboard, with varying fortunes, a 
 prospect less encouraging to the American cause than 
 that foretokened by its brilliant opening victories. The 
 dying prayer of Nathan Coffin, which I have already 
 quoted, “that there might be an honorable peace, or 
 none,” uttered about this time, was inspired by appre- 
 hension as well as by hope. The British successes along 
 the Niagara frontier, and the loss of the “ Chesapeake ” 
 off Boston harbor, were hardly counterbalanced by the 
 victory of Perry on Lake Erie; and the young men who 
 waited on shore, hoping to resume their peaceful occu- — 
 pations at sea, saw little hope of a speedy cessation of 
 hostilities. Charles Marshall remained at home until the 
 close of the season, and then, having no further duties on 
 the farm, and having exhausted the resources of the vil- 
 lage school, took up the new vocation of a teacher. Hear- 
 ing of a new settlement in the wilderness, fifty or sixty 
 miles northwest of Easton, called Sollenadagah, now 
 the town of Northampton, he set off on horseback, ac- 
 companied by his younger brother, Frederick, to offer 
 
MEMORIAL. 35 
 
 his services as schoolmaster. The place proved to be a 
 clearing with a cluster of log-houses, and among them a 
 school-house, in which Charles Marshall was duly in- 
 stalled for the winter months, and there eee some 
 thirty scholars in the ‘‘ rudiments.” 
 
 At the opening of spring in 1814, he returned home, 
 and hearing of an opportunity of employment on one 
 of the few steamboats then plying on the: Hudson 
 River, the “ Paragon,” commanded by Captain Samuel 
 Wiswall, of Hudson, he served on her for the summer, 
 going back at haying-time. Later in the same year he 
 went to Sackett’s Harbor, on Lake Ontario, where his 
 maternal uncle, Elisha Coffin, had engaged in trade. 
 A division of the army was there in winter quarters, 
 and Commodore Chauncey’s fleet lay in the harbor, 
 giving to the place, which was but a rude settlement, 
 quite the air of a seaport and naval station, as well as 
 a military post. Charles Marshall formed a partner- 
 ship with his uncle, and remained with him until the 
 spring of 1815. This first mercantile venture was not 
 unsuccessful, and the profits were fairly divided. 
 
 At last the war ended, and the ships in all our 
 ports bent their sails for new voyages. Ch rrles Mar- 
 shall hastened to New York and shipped as second mate 
 on the ship “ Mary,” Captain Peter Fosdick, bound for 
 Oporto. On the return of the ship to New York, Cap- 
 tain Robert Waterman was made master, and young 
 Marshall promoted to be mate. They made a second 
 voyage to Oporto, where the ship was sold. and the 
 officers came home in another vessel. 
 
36 MEMORIAL. 
 
 His next voyage, in the fall of 1816, was as mate in 
 the ship “ Albert Gallatin,” owned by Jacob Barker, and 
 commanded by Captain Charles Clark. His brother 
 Frederick went as second mate. The voyage was from 
 New York to Savannah, and thence, with a cargo of 
 cotton, to Liverpool, which port he then visited for the 
 first time. After returning to New York, he was made 
 mate of the new ship “ Courier,” commanded by Captain 
 William Bowne, and owned by Isaac Wright and Jere- 
 miah Thompson, and sailed in her on his second voyage 
 to Liverpool. On his return to New York he was 
 offered the command of the “Julius Czesar,” a smart 
 ship of three hundred and fifty tons, built in New 
 York, and owned by Philetus Havens and Gabriel 
 Havens, a position which he gladly accepted, and found 
 himself, after nearly ten years of patient effort, on the 
 roll of American shipmasters. Captain Marshall took 
 command of his ship, and loaded her for Charles- 
 ton, S. C., where she was to take a cargo of cotton for 
 Liverpool. He sailed from New York in November, 
 1816. The ship was well manned with a crew of 
 twelve men, his brother Frederick again accompany- 
 ing him as second officer. 
 
 At Charleston he lay until March, 1817, waiting for 
 a cargo, which was at length secured, and the ship was 
 got ready for sea. As this was his first voyage as mas- 
 ter to a foreign port, the young captain, entering with 
 spirit into the rivalry which belonged to the merchant 
 marine of that day, was ambitious of showing what his 
 ship could do under his command. An opportunity 
 
MEMORIAL. 387 
 
 presented of testing the merits of both vessel and mas- 
 ter, of which he was not slow in availing himself. The 
 ship “ Martha,” of New York, a fast sailer, lay at 
 - Charleston ready for sea, and intending to clear for 
 Liverpool about the same time as the “ Julius Ceasar.” 
 She was commanded by Captain Glover, a bachelor, 
 fond of society, and known among his shipmates by 
 the sobriquet of Beau Glover, but equally well known 
 as an experienced sailor and shipmaster, who knew how 
 to handle his vessel, and make the best possible time 
 from port to port. The “Julius Cesar” was a new 
 ship, and both she and her master had their reputations 
 to make. Philetus Havens, one of the owners, came to 
 Charleston just before she sailed, and learning that the 
 “ Martha” was bound on the same voyage, promised 
 his new captain a suit of clothes, the favorite expression 
 of a shipowner’s appreciation, if he would beat the 
 “Martha” into Liverpool. Captain Marshall accepted 
 the challenge, and took from his owner a letter to the 
 consignees of the ship in Liverpool to provide the suit 
 of clothes at the ship’s expense if she won the race. 
 The “ Martha” sailed one day ahead of the “ Julius 
 Cesar.” It was well known to all hands on both ships 
 that the two vessels were entered for a race across the. 
 Atlantic, and every nerve was strained on each ship. 
 The “Julius Cesar,” which had the disadvantage of 
 losing a day at the start, was kept under all the canvas 
 she could bear. It was boisterous March weather, high 
 winds and rough seas, but the captain, mates, and sail- 
 ors all worked with a will, and drove the ship night and 
 
38 MEMORIAL. 
 
 day, the seas breaking over her so that there was hardly 
 a dry man on board during the whole voyage. She 
 was in the Channel:in eighteen days from the day she 
 left Charleston. Here the weather was very thick and 
 rainy, and they could not make out land or lights. But 
 all risks must be taken, and the captain crowded on sail, 
 running through the fog at full speed, giving the course 
 according to his best judgment, and fortunately steering 
 clear of all danger. On the twenty-second day out the 
 vessel was off Point Linus, at the mouth of the Mersey: 
 Here she lay to, and signalled for a pilot. At day- 
 break the next morning a pilot came aboard, and to the 
 first question put by the captain whether the “ Martha” 
 had gone in, answered “No,” to the infinite delight of 
 all hands. The next day, as the “ Julius Ozsar” neared 
 Liverpool, the fog, which had prevailed for some days, 
 lifted, and Captain Marshall perceived a vessel astern 
 coming up the river. He seized his glass, and looked 
 at the distant vessel. It was the “Martha.” She was 
 beaten by eighteen hours, exclusive of her day’s start. 
 Captain Marshall lost no time in presenting him- 
 self at the office of his consignees, who could hardly 
 credit the story of his voyage ; they had not looked for 
 him until after the arrival of the “ Martha,” and were 
 astonished at his audacity in distancing her. The suit 
 of clothes was fairly won and proudly worn. 
 
 This story of his first ocean-race Captain Marshall 
 used to tell with great gusto. It was, in truth, more 
 than a mere feat of seamanship. . It showed the energy 
 and determination of the man, and his settled purpose 
 
MEMORIAL. 39 
 
 to excel in his profession. It was the thorough training 
 and the high character of the shipmasters of that day, 
 and their active competition, which gave to the Ameri- 
 can merchant marine its preéminence on all the seas, 
 and won for it the respect of the world. To stand in 
 the front rank of master mariners was no small distinc- 
 tion. It was gained by Captain Marshall on his first 
 voyage in his first ship. 
 
 The “ Julius Cesar” returned to New York, and 
 was dispatched by her owners to the East Indies. 
 Captain Marshall sailed on the 18th of August, 1817, 
 and made a successful voyage to Caleutta, where he 
 had an opportunity of acquainting himself. with the 
 commerce and affairs of British India, and enlarging 
 his stock of information in many useful particulars. 
 On his return voyage his ship sprung a leak, and was 
 dismasted in a gale of wind. He put into the Isle of 
 France, and, after remaining at Port Louis for several 
 months repairing damages and refitting, pursued his 
 voyage, and reached New York in safety. 
 
 This was Captain Marshall’s last voyage in the 
 “ Julius Cesar.” She was sold, and he took command 
 of the “Thames,” a larger vessel, rating four hundred 
 tons, and in her he made two voyages to London. 
 
 About this time the enterprise of a few shipping- 
 merchants in New York led to the establishment of 
 the line of packets between New York and Liverpool, 
 which, under the names of the “ Black Ball Line,” and 
 the “ Old Line” of Liverpool packets, was, until the era 
 of ocean steam navigation, one of the chief means of 
 
40 MEMORIAL. 
 
 communication between the Old World and the New, 
 and which still maintains its place as an important 
 vehicle of commerce. In the conveyance of cabin- 
 passengers the packet-ship has been long ago super- 
 seded by the ocean steamer, just as in the transmission 
 of news, the ocean steamer is now in its turn superseded 
 by the Atlantic cable. But in 1817, when the “ Black 
 Ball Line” of packets was formed, it was a movement 
 of no little vigor and enterprise, and was a marked 
 step in the advance of our commerce. Before the war, 
 and up to the year 1817, the passenger from New York 
 to Liverpool, or Liverpool to New York, was compelled 
 to find a place on a merchant-vessel, having at best but 
 a very small cabin, poorly furnished, and inadequately 
 supplied. ‘There were no passenger-vessels, and the 
 idea of encouraging or providing for travel on an ocean 
 route was unknown; the stray passengers who crossed 
 in the merchantmen accepting the discomforts of the 
 voyage as the inevitable conditions of going to sea, and 
 the master and crew regarding the passengers as a 
 species of live freight, entitled to little more con- 
 sideration than the rest of the cargo. The circular 
 which announced the formation of a line of passenger 
 packets, to sail interchangeably from New York and 
 Liverpool on a certain day in every month, throughout 
 the year, was a novelty and an experiment. The ship- 
 masters were divided in opinion as to its practicability, 
 many of them doubting whether it was possible to dis- 
 patch the vessels with any regularity. The line was 
 originated by Isaac Wright & Son, Francis Thompson, 
 
MEMORIAL, AY 
 
 Jeremiah Thompson, and Benjamin Marshall, a mem- 
 ber of a different family from that of Captain Marshall. 
 The prospectus, signed by the proprietors, was dated 
 “New York, Eleventh Month (November) 27th, 1817,” 
 and stated that in order to furnish frequent and regular 
 conveyances for goods and passengers between New 
 York and Liverpool, they had undertaken to establish a 
 _ line consisting of four vessels, the “ Amity,” the “ Cou- 
 rier,” the “ Pacific,” and the “ James Monroe,” each of 
 about four hundred tons burden, fast sailers, with un- 
 commonly extensive and commodious accommodations | 
 for passengers, and declared their intention to dispatch 
 these vessels monthly, one to sail from New York on 
 the 5th and one from Liverpool on the 1st of every 
 month. Contemporaneous with this circular were an- 
 nouncements by other enterprising New York carriers 
 of a new line of post-chaises to Philadelphia, and a tri- 
 weekly steamboat line to Albany ! 
 
 The Liverpool packets proved a success, and Captain 
 Marshall was soon called into the corps of shipmasters, 
 who, by their skill and fidelity, gave to the vessels of 
 the “ Black Ball Line” their high reputation on both 
 sides of the Atlantic. The first ship of the line which 
 he commanded was the “James Cropper,” built as a 
 Liverpool packet, five hundred tons burden, and re- 
 garded at that time as quite a prodigy of size. In the 
 same year in which he took command of this ship, 1822, 
 he married Fidelia Wellman, daughter of Dr. Lemuel 
 Wellman, of Piermont, New Hampshire. She was a 
 woman of rare personal beauty, and of most lovely 
 
49 MEMORIAL. 
 
 character, a true wife and a faithful mother, devoted to 
 her husband during the eighteen years of their wedded 
 life, and now sleeping by his side. “e! 
 
 Captain Marshall commanded successively the “ James 
 Cropper,” the “ Britannia,” and the “ South America,” of 
 the “Old Line,” during twelve years of constant service. 
 The last-named of these vessels was a ship of over six 
 hundred tons, the maximum size which had then been 
 reached in the art of ee Ue for the esp i 
 trade. 
 
 The eighteen years which had passed from the time 
 when Captain Marshall took command of the “Julius 
 Cesar” to the close of his service as a shipmaster, 
 covered an eventful period in our commerce. These were 
 bright days for the American merchant marine. . Every 
 wind that blew brought fresh fortune to its unfurled sails. 
 It has been claimed that the War of 1812 settled nothing, 
 that the whole question of impressments and neutral 
 rights, the ostensible cause of the war, was not disposed 
 of by its issue or by the treaty of Ghent, which settled 
 the terms of peace; but in fact the war settled the whole 
 question of the rights of the American marine and of 
 the freedom of the seas as definitely as if every advan- 
 cing step in the progress of our commerce had been pro- 
 vided for by treaty stipulations. The war, as fought and 
 finished, was as decisive on every point involved, al- 
 though the decision was not formally embodied in pub- 
 lic records, as the recent struggle with rebellion, al- 
 though no traitor has been tried, convicted, or hanged. 
 It did the work which was needed. It swept away 
 
MEMORIAL. 43 
 
 oO 
 
 every hinderance from the path of our shipping in 
 all the seas, and the new impulse which it gave to our 
 commerce was felt in every fibre of the national life. 
 The long, dull years between the breaking out of hos- 
 tilities and their close, during which American seamen 
 were pent up in foreign ports, or exiled to the wilderness 
 in search of a livelihood, were not lost ; they were years 
 of preparation and training, in which strength and 
 courage were gained for the great work which was to be 
 done, and we have seen with what alacrity the well- 
 trained seaman sprang to his post the moment it could 
 be regained. . The rapid advance in the size and capaci- 
 ty of vessels, the growth of our registered tonnage, and 
 the reputation gained and kept by our ships, were due 
 to the character of the men who commanded them and 
 who manned them. The packet service, which, with its 
 system and order, replaced and superseded the irregular 
 voyages of the merchantmen, was brought to its per- 
 fection by the labor and fidelity of those who vied with 
 one another in winning for the commerce of their native 
 country the supremacy of the ocean. The packet-mas- 
 ter was not a mere carrier of passengers and freight, nor 
 a mere instrument of the traffic in which he was en- 
 gaged. He was the representative and exponent of the 
 enterprise and patriotism which sought expression in 
 every effort to raise the commerce of the United States 
 to its predestined height. And his ship, stanch and 
 thoroughly appointed, well officered and manned, a 
 model in build and rigging for sea-service and for speed, 
 furnished with comforts and luxuries before that time 
 
44 MEMORIAL. 
 
 unknown in ocean travel, was more than a mere vehi- 
 cle of merchandise or passengers; it was the medium 
 of communication between the two worlds, the Old and 
 and the New; it brought the news after an interval of 
 ten, sometimes twenty, or even thirty days from all 
 Europe to America; while the limited number of pas- 
 sengers which it conveyed embraced a large proportion 
 of cultivated and intelligent persons, foreigners visiting 
 our country, Americans indulging in what was then the 
 comparatively rare luxury of European travel, busi- 
 ness men engaged in operations important enough to 
 require the long passage across the ocean, or the repre- 
 sentatives of our own and foreign governments, passing 
 and repassing to and from their posts of duty. The 
 master of such a ship, if he were capable of discharging 
 his duties and equal to their high responsibilities, de- 
 served the success which usually followed faithful ser- 
 vice in so difficult and perilous a career, and it was a 
 natural transition for him to step from his ship’s deck 
 into the most important commercial relations on shore. 
 
IV. 
 
 Caprain Marsnatt left the seain 1834. Besides his 
 whaling voyage, his East India voyage, and his coasting 
 voyages, he had crossed the Atlantic Ocean ninety-four 
 times. After this long apprenticeship he took his place 
 among the shipping merchants of New York. The con- 
 trol of the ships of the “ Old Line” had passed into the 
 hands of Messrs. Goodhue & Co., and other owners, in 
 whose behalf Captain Marshall asumed their entire man- 
 agement. Subsequently he purchased the interest of 
 Messrs. Goodhue & Co., and became the principal 
 proprietor and active manager of the line. The under- 
 taking was, to a great degree, an experiment with him, 
 as up to this time he had acquired but little experience 
 in mercantile affairs, and the business required large 
 resources and constant vigilance. A favorable arrange- 
 ment with the house of Messrs. Baring Brothers & Co., 
 who became the consignees of the ships in Liverpool, 
 aided in placing the enterprise upon a satisfactory foot- 
 ing, and it went on with great success. Captain Mar- 
 shall retained the management of the line for thirty 
 years, identifying himself during all this period with 
 the leading movements of commerce in this city, and 
 
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 bringing into practical exercise the experience he had 
 gained in his long training as a seaman, and in his 
 varied intercourse with men. He superintended the 
 building of new vessels to replace the earlier and 
 smaller packets of the line, and many of the finest 
 carrying ships in our port were constructed and equip- 
 ped under his practised eye. The vessels thus added by 
 him were the “ Oxford,” “ Cambridge,” “ New York,” 
 “ Montezuma,” “ Yorkshire,” “ Fidelia,” “Isaac Wright,” 
 “Tsaac Webb,” “ Columbia,” “ Manhattan,” ‘“ Harvest 
 Queen,” “ Great Western,” and “ Alexander Marshall,” 
 ranging from six hundred tons to fifteen hundred tons 
 burden. Under his administration the ships of the 
 “Old Line” made eight hundred voyages to Liver- 
 pool. He carried the packet service to its highest 
 point of utility and profit, and, as he had seen its first 
 beginnings, and brought it to its fullest development, so 
 he saw it gradually superseded, first as to cabin passen- 
 gers and the transmission of intelligence, and then, to 
 a large extent, as to freight and steerage passengers, 
 ‘by the ocean steamers and propellers. He built one 
 steamer, the “ United States,” a first-class vessel, of 
 two thousand tons burden, costing about $300,000, 
 and placed her on the route between New York and 
 Southampton, but after a few voyages she was sold to 
 the Prussian Government during the contest between 
 Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein. 
 
 Captain Marshall brought into his dealings as a 
 merchant, the positive qualities which were the natural 
 fruits of the life whose successive stages we have traced 
 
MEMORIAL. AT 
 
 on sea and shore. I have dwelt with more minuteness 
 on the incidents of his seafaring life, not merely on ac- 
 count of the interest which belongs to them, but chiefly 
 because they furnish the key to that part of his career 
 in which he was best known in our commercial com- 
 munity. His independence, his decision of character, 
 his circumspection, his singleness of purpose, his fore- 
 sight in all matters within the range of his calling, and 
 his eminent public spirit came from the prudent self- 
 reliance which was developed in his early contests with 
 fortune and with the elements, and from the largeness 
 of the views which he had gained in his world-wide 
 circuits on the seas. He interested himself in all move- 
 ments relating to commerce, entering into them with a 
 degree of earnestness and intelligence which made his 
 cooperation doubly serviceable. His sympathies were 
 specially drawn toward seamen and every thing affect- 
 ing their interests. The legislation of Congress and of 
 the State relating to our foreign commerce, to pilotage, 
 _ to emigration, to the care of disabled seamen, to the 
 
 institutions of charity in behalf of the children of 
 seafaring men, he watched with a jealous eye, and aided 
 in establishing upon a proper basis. From 1851 to 
 1855, he was one of the Commissioners of Emigra- 
 tion, and rendered most efficient service in that impor- 
 tant trust. As president of the Marine Society for 
 twenty years, he was, ex-officio, one of the trustees of 
 the Sailors’ Snug Harbor, an institution over which he 
 watched with the most unremitting assiduity, spending 
 many hours within the walls of its hospital, and giving 
 
48 MEMORIAL. 
 
 much of his time to its affairs. The kindred and neigh- 
 boring charities of the Seamen’s Fund and Retreat, and 
 the Home for Seamen’s Children, shared with the Sail- 
 ors’ Snug Harbor in his constant care. In 1845 he was 
 chosen one of the Board of Commissioners of Pilots of 
 this port, and continued to serve in that capacity until his 
 death. This trust is wisely delegated by our existing 
 State laws to a body of practical men selected from 
 among those who have had personal experience as ship- 
 masters, and, by a singular coincidence, the Commission 
 embraced among its six members, for upward of eighteen 
 years, three who had been shipmates in the “ Courier ”’ 
 when she sailed out of New York on the voyage we have 
 noted, in 1817—Charles H. Marshall, Robert L. Taylor, 
 and George W. Blunt. The proceedings, which form a 
 part of this memorial, in the Board of Commissioners of 
 Pilots, the Chamber of Commerce, and other institutions, 
 fitly present this part of Captain Marshall’s career, and 
 show the impression which he made on his associates in 
 these public relations. They are sincere tributes to his 
 memory. 
 
 A. marked trait in Captain Marshall’s codperation in 
 these public bodies was his fearlessness in exposing and 
 resisting whatever seemed to him a departure from strict 
 fidelity to the trusts committed to their keeping, or from 
 a rigid administration of affairs. He was always on 
 the alert to detect and correct abuses, and unflinching in 
 his adherence to what seemed to him the proper line of 
 duty. This brought him often into collision with con- 
 flicting views and interests, sometimes into opposition to 
 
MEMORIAL. 49 
 
 friends and associates. He encountered these storms as 
 he would have met a head-wind in the Chops of the 
 Channel, or a gale off the highlands of Nevisink, 
 never giving up the end he had in view, though some- 
 * times obliged to yield for the time to forces which he 
 could not control. 
 
 One other trait must be noticed as belonging to Cap- 
 tain Marshall’s career asa merchant. He never yielded 
 to the temptation, often so strong and overmastering in 
 its hold upon self-made men, of using his means and his 
 credit either in those speculative combinations which ~ 
 are among the modern highways to fortune, or in those 
 bolder schemes by which great public enterprises and 
 interests are made the crooked conduits of private gain. 
 He kept to his simplicity of habits, his integrity of pur- 
 pose, his self-discipline, firmly and consistently to the 
 end. He never loved money, nor gave in exchange for 
 it the sterling virtues which were his early and ances- 
 tral portion. 
 
 In the fall of 1851 the five sons of Charles Marshall 
 and Hephzibah Coffin, with their only surviving sister, 
 met in their native town of Easton for a brief reunion. 
 Forty-one years had passed since they had all been to- 
 gether at home. Most of the ancient landmarks had 
 been removed. Their parents had passed away, the 
 father in the year 1837, and the mother in the year 
 1836, both in a good old age. The wilderness in which 
 the sons had been born, and which they had helped to 
 clear, was changed into a garden of verdure and plenty. 
 
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 The twoscore years which had flown since they had 
 commenced the ocean life, whose strange attractions had 
 drawn them all away from their quiet inland home, had 
 brought a change over every thing except the seas on 
 which they had sailed. They reckoned the united 
 terms of their ocean service, and they amounted to 
 ninety-seven years; they summed up their several 
 voyages across the Atlantic, and found that they had 
 together traversed it more than three hundred times. 
 Each of the others, as well as Charles, had his separate 
 tale of a sailor’s experience to tell. Benjamin, the 
 eldest, had sailed to Europe and to Asia. On a home- 
 ward voyage from Canton he had been captured by a 
 British cruiser, carried to England, and thrown into the 
 Dartmoor prison, where he lay dangerously ill at the 
 moment of the shameless and unprovoked massacre by 
 their inhuman captors, of sixty-three of his defenceless 
 fellow-prisoners. Frederick had followed the sea for 
 nineteen years, during eleven of which he had been a 
 shipmaster, thirteen times he had sailed to the Baltic 
 and to the Northern Ocean, one hundred and twelve 
 times he had crossed the Atlantic, and among his varied 
 adventures was a hair-breadth escape from pirates, only 
 made good by the superior sailing of his vessel. Alex- 
 ander had spent twenty-six years at sea, and had been 
 in command of a vessel for fifteen years. His voyages 
 had been along the coast, to the Gulf and South Ameri- 
 ca; on the Pacific, where he had been in a boat which 
 was shattered to pieces by the blow of a whale, turning 
 upon his pursuers; and afterward on the Atlantic. Ed- 
 
MEMORIAL. 51 
 
 ward had passed twenty-two years of seafaring life, and 
 had been thirteen years a shipmaster. In all their voy- 
 ages and perils, neither of the five brothers had ever been 
 wrecked, nor lost a ship, nor had either of them ever 
 been maimed or injured in any way. Not one of the 
 five had ever used tobacco in any form. Of the five 
 brothers the only survivor is Captain Frederick W. 
 Marshall, still living at the homestead in Easton. His 
 accurate recollection has supplied most of the facts and 
 incidents narrated in the foregoing pages. 
 
vs 
 
 Tue last few years of Captain Marshall’s life covered 
 the eventful period of the rebellion, and were full of 
 earnest and effective patriotism. Though never a 
 politician, in the partisan sense, he had always been a 
 thoughtful observer of public affairs, and an intelligent 
 participant in the popular action by which they are 
 controlled. He was by temperament and by habit con- 
 servative in his views, and, like most of the New York 
 merchants of his time, acted and voted with the Whig 
 party while it retained its national organization. In 
 the canvass preceding the election of General Taylor, 
 he was warmly enlisted in favor of his election,. but 
 more from admiration of the personal qualities of 
 the man than from any strict adherence to party ties. 
 Gradually, as all other issues were absorbed in the con- 
 test between the slave-power and the growing spirit of 
 resistance to its extension, all his sympathies and all his 
 convictions ranged themselves on the side of freedom. 
 In 1854 he accepted a nomination for Congress, and 
 declared himself against the repeal of the Missouri 
 Compromise, but he took little interest in the can- 
 
MEMORIAL. 53 
 
 vass, and was absent in Europe when the election oc- 
 curred, which resulted in the choice of his opponent, 
 who, having voted in the interest of freedom in the 
 preceding Congress, was more effectively supported on 
 that account. In 1856 he gave an unhesitating support 
 to the Republican ticket, and cast his vote for Fremont 
 and Dayton. The Presidential contest of 1860 enlisted 
 all his energies in favor of a nomination which should 
 be free from any deserved reproach on the score of past 
 political affiliations, and should unite the free North in a 
 final and successful stand against the encroachments of 
 the slave-power. These requirements were met by the 
 nomination and election of Abraham Lincoln. Captain 
 Marshall, like so many other sagacious and disinterested 
 Northern men, unversed in the machinations of party 
 leaders, and unconscious of the treason which had been 
 plotting in secret for so many long years, did not be- 
 lieve the oft-repeated threats of the outvoted leaders of 
 the South. He could not think the Union in danger 
 until the fatal purpose for its dissolution, and then the 
 mad effort for its destruction, stood revealed in actual 
 secession and rebellion. The great uprising of the 
 people in the spring of 1861, after the attack on Sum- 
 ter, found him foremost among those who sprang to the 
 support of the Government, in the conviction that it 
 must be nerved and strengthened for the work of sus- 
 taining the integrity of the Union at all hazards and at 
 any cost. The grand meeting at Union Square, held on 
 the afternoon and evening of April 20, 1861, at which 
 the voice of New York was sounded like the blast of a 
 
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 trumpet calling to the rescue, spread out its vast and 
 tumultuous concourse before the windows of his house, 
 to which, from its vicinity to the place of the meeting, 
 the old flag that had waved over Sumter, just lowered 
 by the retiring garrison, was brought for preservation, 
 and from whose roof it was raised during the exciting 
 days which followed while the first regiments were being 
 hurried to Washington. He was one of the most active 
 members of the Union Defence Committee, organized 
 at that meeting for codperation with the Government. 
 From that beginning, through all the long, weary, and 
 varying struggle to its glorious end, there was not in the 
 whole land a more loyal, devoted, whole-souled lover 
 and servant of his country, in his own peculiar sphere 
 and within the measure of his ability, than Charles H. 
 Marshall. The support which he gave to the Govern- 
 ment was of a kind which few men could give, and 
 which for that reason was all the more needed. It was 
 outspoken, unqualified, unhesitating, by a man of long 
 experience, who had well earned the prominent place 
 which he held in the respect of the community, who had 
 no selfish or sinister ends to serve, who was known to 
 be sincere, and whose words and acts carried a moral 
 weight, and exerted a social influence, which served to 
 strengthen the cause where it was most in danger. 
 
 . Among the many phenomena, North and South, 
 which marked the progress of the rebellion, were the 
 extraordinary social contrasts which it evoked. In the 
 South the spirit of secession, of rebellion, of hatred to 
 the North, was domesticated in the interior life of so- 
 
MEMORIAL. BR 
 
 ciety, and breathed through all its forms. Men or 
 women who were loyal, who favored the Union, or re- 
 spected its flag, or acknowledged its authority, were 
 under a social ban, and in danger of losing liberty and 
 life, as well as caste. But in the North sympathy with 
 rebellion was not branded as a social crime, and loyalty 
 to the Government was not recognized as an indispensa- 
 ble civic virtue. At Washington, in every department of 
 the public service, there were men, higher or lower, in 
 official position, drawing their monthly pay from the 
 Treasury, and eating the bread of the Government from 
 day to day, and yet in sympathy with rebels in arms for 
 its destruction, justifying their pitiful treachery by the 
 plea of some remote tie of Southern kindred or association, 
 which held them with a stronger grasp than the oaths by 
 which they kept their places. While Union men in 
 the South were hiding from their rebel persecutors, 
 leading clubs in New York refused to expel from their 
 membership men who were holding office under the 
 Confederate Government. Thus, while the life of the 
 rebellion was nourished by a sentiment which throbbed 
 in the very heart of its perverted social structure, and 
 whose subtle influences circulated everywhere, at the 
 North the great cause of the Union, strong in argu- 
 ment, in facts, in the faith and courage of the people, 
 and in the devotion of enlightened and determined 
 men, did not demand that the sympathizer with its ene- 
 mies should become a social outcast. This was evidence 
 of strength as much as of weakness, as the issue showed ; 
 but. it made it all the more necessary that the Union 
 
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 cause should be everywhere reénforced by thorough and 
 decided individual sentiment and by organized social 
 effort. | 
 
 The Union League Club of New York; formed in 
 1861, owed its existence mainly to this necessity. It 
 supplied a central rallying-point for those who regarded 
 unconditional loyalty to the Government in time of war 
 as the best test of true citizenship, and the surest basis 
 of united effort in support of the imperilled liberties of 
 the country. Captain Marshall took an active part in 
 all the various measures set on foot or aided by this pa- 
 triotic organization, which in manifold ways gave a 
 steady and efficient support to the Union cause. He 
 was elected as its third president, and held this posi- 
 tion at the time of his death. Those who resorted to 
 the rooms of this club during the eventful days and 
 nights of the rebellion, through those seasons of alter- 
 nate hope and fear, exultation and despondency, by which 
 the progress of the wat was marked, as its successive 
 campaigns went on, will not soon forget the keen in- 
 terest and the intense anxiety with which he watched 
 the struggle and waited for the issue of every new 
 movement; nor will they soon forget the energy and 
 decision which inspired all his utterances. . 
 
 He had no sympathy with any of those refinements 
 by which the crime of the rebellion was condoned in 
 advance, as a mere difference of political views adjourned 
 from the polls to the cannon’s mouth. He knew no 
 middle line between loyalty and treason, and wherever 
 he went he made this manifest. His opinions and his 
 
MEMORIAL. Bi 
 
 sentiments on all the points involved in the struggle, ‘as 
 it grew in magnitude and intensity, were as plainly 
 shown as the signals at the mast-head of one of his own 
 ships. The deep conviction of the popular heart in its 
 protests against whatever was weak, or vacillating, or 
 half-way in the measures of the government, in the civil 
 or military service, found a strong and clear expression 
 from his lips, and often, in matters of which he could 
 speak from long experience, an authoritative and com- 
 manding expression. He believed in the reserved right 
 of the citizen to scrutinize and criticise the acts of public 
 servants, and he exercised the right without fear or favor, 
 especially in his constant and vigilant scrutiny of the 
 movements of our navy, and the various plans and ex- 
 penditures of the Navy Department. The disaster in 
 Hampton Roads, by which the “Congress” and the 
 “Cumberland,” with their gallant crews were sacrificed, 
 drew forth from him in the Chamber of Commerce an 
 indignant denunciation of what he believed to be the 
 dereliction of duty which led to the catastrophe ; and his 
 views, thus expressed, were of great weight in forming 
 the public sentiment on this and kindred iopieg con- 
 nected with the naval service. 
 
 But these were minor points compared with his 
 ardent desire for the supremacy of the righteous cause. 
 He believed that the monster of rebellion should be 
 pursued as the Nantucket whalemen in the North Seas, 
 from whom he learned the art of the sailor, had fol- 
 lowed the fighting and floundering leviathan of the 
 deep, striking their spears with a home thrust to the 
 
58 MEMORIAL. 
 
 vital part of its huge and shapeless bulk. Accordingly, 
 he labored with all his might toward the end which 
 was reached by the emancipation proclamation, which 
 he accepted no less as a legitimate military measure 
 than as an act of justice to the millions whom it en- 
 franchised. 
 
 The remarks made by Mr. Jay, the successor of 
 Captain Marshall in the presidency of the Union 
 League Club, at the meeting convened immediately 
 after his death, contain so comprehensive and accurate 
 a survey of his character in those aspects which connect 
 themselves with his patriotic devotion to the cause of 
 the Union, that I insert them here as a fit presentation 
 of this closing period of his life: 
 
 “The sadness caused among us by the death of Captain Marshall 
 should be lessened when we remember the great work he accom- 
 plished, and mark the public appreciation of his services and char- 
 acter. 
 
 ‘Men of similar wealth, gathered through lives equally indus- 
 trious and marked by the same unsullied honor, die week by week, 
 and their departure scarce stirs a ripple on the surface of popular 
 feeling. But, to-day, city and country mourn the loss of Marshall, 
 not as the enterprising ship-builder and the prosperous merchant, 
 but as one who, from the beginning to the end of this rebellion, 
 exhibited not simply the unselfish devotion and unflagging energy 
 that belong to the purest patriotism, but the clear common sense, 
 the quick discernment of the right, and the fearless determination to 
 pursue it, which lie at the basis of the truest statesmanship. 
 
 “¢ We know well that Captain Marshall, with the simple honesty 
 of his nature, would have rejected all claim to so high a eulogy, for 
 his modest estimate of his own abilities was a conspicuous trait of 
 
MEMORIAL. 59 
 
 his character; we remember his hesitancy, on the score of merit, 
 to accept the presidency of this club; but our long and intimate 
 acquaintance with him enable us, now that he has gone to his rest, 
 to speak of his virtues and his services in the language, not of eulo- 
 gy, but of truth. 
 
 “ Captain Marshall did not, like too many of our foremost states- 
 men, wait for the rebellion to learn the dangers threatened by sla- 
 very to the liberties of the country. In January, 1854, he gave his 
 cordial codperation in calling the first great meeting in the free 
 States to protest against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, 
 and thus he assisted to evoke that national spirit of freedom 
 which defeated the bold design of the slave-power, through 
 Pierce and Buchanan, to force slavery upon Kansas and Ne- 
 braska, and which later called into existence the Republican party, 
 to maintain at once the principles of the Constitution and the rights 
 of humanity. 
 
 “Of Captain Marshall’s services in the national cause, from the 
 day that the echoes from Sumter roused loyal citizens to arms, I 
 need not speak, for they illustrate the history of this club. We re- 
 member his untiring zeal when the Baltimore bridges were burned, 
 Washington cut off from communication with the North, and our 
 private citizens assumed the responsibility of chartering ships and 
 furnishing supplies. We recall his cheerful, active energy through 
 the gloom that followed Bull Run, and the weary months of sham 
 war and shameful failure. .We remember his early demand for an 
 emancipation policy, and his joy at its proclamation; his hearty 
 assistance in raising troops for Hancock’s Corps, and also the col- 
 ored troops, at whose head he marched on that memorable day 
 when the Twentieth Regiment left us for the field. We remember 
 his telegram from Washington on the passage of the Constitutional 
 Amendment, ‘Glory be to God! ’—his reverential joy at the fall 
 of Richmond, and his profound grief at the murder of Mr. Lincoln. 
 These and a thousand other incidents are fresh in the memory of 
 us all. 
 
60 MEMORIAL. 
 
 ‘‘ Hopeful as he was under the most trying circumstances; firm 
 and manly as he was in the expression of his views, whether in de- 
 nouncing the traitors who would have destroyed us of their malice, 
 or the cravens who were betraying us by their fears, I recall one 
 occasion when, overwhelmed for the moment with dangers that 
 threatened us, and which it seemed almost impossible to avert, he 
 showed that with the sternness of asailor he blended the tenderness 
 of awoman. I had gone to him, in regard to a petition to the Pres- 
 ident in favor of an emancipation proclamation a long time before 
 Mr. Lincoln had reached that crowning point in his career, and I 
 found him impressed with sadness at what he regarded the mis- 
 management and imbecility of the government in the prosecution 
 of the war, its strange tenderness to traitors seeming almost like 
 complicity with treason, and its apparent inability to comprehend 
 the exigencies of the crisis and its own great duties to the loyal peo- 
 ple: and this at a moment when the people themselves were exhib- 
 iting a devoted and intelligent patriotism. Sympathizing with Cap- 
 tain Marshall’s views, and struck by his sorrowful look, I said, ‘It is 
 enough to make one weep.’ He replied: ‘Weep! My God, Mr. Jay, 
 it makes me weep like a child. I think of it by night and by day, 
 and when I try to read the morning paper, I find my eyes blinded 
 by tears.’ But that sorrow, born in a great part of indignation, 
 only nerved him to more vigorous thought and more independent 
 utterance. Recognizing his first duty as to his country, he declined 
 a servile allegiance to factions or parties, or even to the Government 
 itself, and he never hesitated to express himself with frankness when 
 he disapproved of the policy pursued at Washington. He repro- 
 bated as both a crime and a blunder the assurance, early given to 
 Europe by those charged with our foreign relations, that the rebel- 
 lion was without a cause, without a pretext, and without an object, 
 and that whether it should succeed or not the condition of slavery 
 would remain just the same. He felt that such an assurance was 
 calculated to muddle the American question in the minds of Euro- 
 pean statesmen, to alienate the natural sympathies of European lib- 
 
MEMORIAL. 61 
 
 erals, and to create the only danger that was likely to exist of Euro- 
 pean intervention. He felt that if the Government had said in the 
 beginning what Mr. Seward so well said at a later day, that ‘ Afri- 
 can slavery had audaciously risen up to overthrow a government 
 the most equal and just that has ever been established, and to erect 
 a new one exclusively upon the basis of human bondage, and that 
 the United States refused to be destroyed or divided by such an 
 agency for such a purpose,’ even Lord John would hardly have ven- 
 tured on the sneer repeated by Lord Derby with such questionable 
 delicacy in his speech on the death of Mr. Lincoln, that ‘the North 
 was fighting for empire, and the South for independence.’ He felt 
 that the sympathy of the working-classes in England and France 
 in behalf of freedom would in that case have forbidden even a 
 whisper, on the part of the aristocratic classes, of intervention on 
 the part of slavery. 
 
 ‘‘ Captain Marshall disapproved equally, as affording every encour- 
 agement to the rebels in the beginning, of the unaccountable assur- 
 ance so strangely given, that the President accepted. their dogma 
 that the Federal Government could not reduce the seceding States 
 to obedience. He more than regretted the humble tone and bated 
 breath with which we persistently besought from England the with- 
 drawal of her ill-timed proclamation recognizing the rebels as bel- 
 ligerents, as tending to excite toward us a feeling of contempt, and 
 emboldening the British Government to view with small concern, 
 if not with complacent indifference, those memorable violations of 
 international neutrality which England will sadly appreciate if ever 
 the positions are reversed, and she feels the force of her own pre- 
 cedents. 
 
 ‘¢ Captain Marshall, interested as he was as a ship-owner, in the. 
 piracies and burnings with which English iron-clads have illustrated 
 the law and illuminated the ocean, never encouraged the idea of 
 war to recompense those great wrongs after they had been com- 
 mitted ; but he noted the fact that the policy of the English Govern- 
 ment, in permitting the out-going of the new iron-clads, although 
 
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 definitively settled and announced, was suddenly and completely 
 reversed the instant our Government, obeying at last the voice of 
 the people, distinctly said to them, ‘This is war.’ 
 
 ‘cA glance at the career of Captain Marshall during the rebellions 
 and the recollection that true-hearted citizens throughout the coun- 
 try thought and acted as he did with one common pervading reso- 
 lution to save the Republic, teaches us how it was saved and how it 
 must always be saved when threatened with dangers from within or 
 without—not by a blind trust in the administration, however intel- 
 ligent or virtuous, but by the eternal vigilance of a free people, 
 exercising free speech and rejoicing in the blessings of a free press. 
 This thought gave to Captain Marshall his only hope in regard to a 
 matter about which some of our citizens seem to have abandoned 
 all hope. I mean the monstrous and unutterable profligacy, which, 
 even during the life-struggle of the Republic, and confronted by all 
 the heroism of the army and the virtue of the people, has flaunted 
 itself with matchless insolence in the Legislature of the State and 
 the Common Council of our city, and which assumes to control the 
 policy of both parties. We know to our cost the disloyalty as well 
 as the dishonesty of this element, and we felt its deadly power when 
 it assisted the sympathizers with rebellion to defeat Wadsworth 
 and prolong the war. If we now find ourselves living under a sys- 
 tem of legalized robbery, where all decency is discarded, and re- 
 placed by the easy morality of thieves, powerful and unconquerable 
 as may seem to be ‘the ring,’ who smile defiance at those whom 
 they plunder, the power to remedy this evil Captain Marshall 
 believed to exist in the virtue of the people, and his example in this 
 warfare remains for your guidance and encouragement. 
 
 ‘Though never again are we to welcome, in the accustomed 
 place, his cheery presence and cordial grasp, his venerable form and 
 features will linger in our memory, and his name will be transmitted 
 to posterity as synonymous with love of country. Amid our sor- 
 row for his loss, let us remember, with gratitude, that our friend, so 
 
 late a wanderer in foreign lands, was graciously permitted to recross 
 oY 
 
MEMORIAL. 63 
 
 the ocean and breathe at home his last breath upon his native soil, 
 beneath the flag which he had helped to save; and with the thought 
 to gladden his dying hour, that wherever on this broad continent 
 that flag shall wave, the sun will shine*upon a united and free peo- 
 ple, nor see in his path from ocean to ocean the lash of a master or 
 the fetters of a slave.” 
 
VI. 
 
 Captain Marsuattz did not long survive the success- 
 ful issue of the war. After the full triumph of the 
 Union cause, secured in the fall of Richmond and the 
 final collapse of the Confederacy ; after attending at 
 Washington with a large deputation of loyal citizens, 
 on the occasion of the passage of the constitutional 
 amendment forever abolishing slavery ; after seeing the 
 nation sustain unshaken the heavy blow of the assas- 
 sination of President Lincoln; after taking part in the 
 mournful but imposing ceremonials which marked the 
 passage through this city of the remains of the martyred 
 Chief Magistrate, he left his home for a brief tour in 
 Europe, partly for the benefit of<his health, partly to 
 exchange congratulations with old and tried friends in 
 England and on the Continent, who had been true to 
 our cause abroad. 
 
 He visited England and France, and spent a short 
 time at Wiesbaden, in the hope of there recruiting his 
 strength, on which the excitements of the last four years 
 and the effects of an acute disease had made serious in- . 
 roads. But it was too late. His strong frame and iron 
 
MEMORIAL. 65 
 
 constitution, which had withstood so many years of toil 
 and exposure, and which seemed endowed with the vital 
 energy of the longest term of life, began to fail, and he 
 hastened home to set his house in order and die. He 
 arrived in New York on the 5th of September, 1865, and, 
 after spending a day or two in his ordinary pursuits, was 
 seized with a fatal attack. Almost his last care given to 
 worldly matters related to a public welcome to be ex- 
 tended to a prominent English gentleman, whose warm 
 sympathies with the Union cause were deserving of such 
 a recognition. But his thoughts were soon turned away 
 from all earthly concerns. He knew that the end of his 
 life was near at hand, and looked forward to death with 
 patience and resignation. His prayers for two years 
 past, he said, had anticipated this event, and it did not 
 take him by surprise. The inward preparation which, 
 perhaps unconsciously to himself, had preceded this 
 final hour, had left upon him that subduing and soften- 
 ing touch in which so often, in the retrospect of a finished 
 life, we trace with reverence the workings of that divine 
 grace whose transforming power must needs set over the 
 _ most solid human virtues the crowning seal of penitence 
 and faith. 
 
 The patient, uncomplaining endurance of the severe 
 pain which he suffered, the fervor with which he united 
 in the prayers which encircled his dying pillow, the 
 devout expression of his resignation to the will of God, 
 of gratitude for the mercy which spared him to die in 
 his own home, surrounded by all his children, and of 
 faith in “ Him who is able to save sinners,” belong to 
 
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 the sacred recollections of this parting hour. His death, 
 on the evening of Saturday, September 23, 1865, was 
 the gentle breathing away of an exhausted life. It was 
 one of those calm, peaceful scenes, so many of which 
 have impressed our memories with their hallowed touch, 
 recalling, in their solemn sweetness, the truthful picture 
 drawn in that most tender of sacred lyrics, chanted 
 above his bier, in which the loveliest images of Nature 
 are woven like a garland around the brow of Death.— 
 
 ‘“‘ Sweet is the scene when virtue dies, 
 When sinks a righteous soul to rest ; 
 How mildly beam the closing eyes, 
 How gently heaves the expiring breast! 
 
 “So fades a summer cloud away, 
 So sinks the gale when storms are 0’er ; 
 So gently shuts the eye of day, 
 So dies the wave along the shore.” 
 
 Captain Marshall’s grave is at Greenwood Cemetery, 
 on the eminence known as Ocean Hill, overlooking, to 
 the east, the open sea, just beyond the entrance to the 
 harbor of New York. In this spot, selected by him- 
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 REV. GEORGE L. PRENTISS, D. D., 
 
 ON THE OCCASION OF THE FUNERAL OF CHARLES H. MARSHALL, IN THE FOURTEENTH 
 STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 26, 1865. 
 
 Ovr lamented friend, who has just left us, represent- 
 ed one of the strongest and most honorable types of 
 _ American character. He belonged to the class of ener- 
 getic, clear-headed, practical men, who, in making their 
 own fortune in the world, help also to make the fortunes 
 of their country. Our free institutions have produced 
 a host of such men; New York abounds and has al- 
 ways abounded in them; but I do not believe she has 
 one living of a more honest and robust stamp than was 
 he whose mortal remains lie before us. And a glance 
 at his early life and training will go far to explain, not 
 only his successful career and the eminent position 
 which he attained in the community, but also some of 
 the best traits of his character. He was born at Easton, 
 Washington County, in this State, April 8, 1792. His 
 parents were natives of Nantucket; and in emigrating 
 to Northern New York, they seem to have carried with 
 them to their new home, and early to have infused into 
 
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 the mind of their son, both the religious and commer- 
 cial spirit of that famous old nursery of hardy and ad- 
 venturous American seamanship. He was brought up 
 to habits of industry and virtue by an excellent mother ; 
 and, while working on the farm, attended a school 
 taught by a worthy Quakeress from New Bedford, who 
 had also settled in the neighborhood. At the age of 
 fifteen he determined to go to sea, and making his way 
 to this city, and from here to Nantucket, he shipped 
 before the mast for a whaling voyage to the Pacific. 
 He followed the sea until the War of 1812 broke up 
 our commerce, and then, returning home for a while, 
 betook himself to teaching a school in a region which 
 was then almost a wilderness. Upon the restoration of 
 peace, he resumed his sailor’s life, and rose, in due time, 
 to the command of an East Indiaman. He became 
 ultimately a proprietor and master in the line of vessels 
 plying between this port and Liverpool, known as the 
 “Old Line of Liverpool Packets.” And it is no slight 
 testimony to his skill and vigilance that in his many 
 voyages, during almost a third of a century, he never 
 met with a disaster. On quitting the sea, he assumed 
 the management of his line of ships, and commenced 
 his career as a merchant, which continued until his re- 
 tirement from active life in the spring of the present 
 year. Of his long connection with the commerce and 
 commercial marine of New York, or of the great ser- 
 vice he rendered them, I need not stop to speak to you 
 here. 3 
 
 From this brief review of the circumstances and 
 leading incidents of his life, it is plain that Captain 
 Marshall had a rare opportunity for the development of 
 whatever was vigorous and manly within him; and he 
 made the best use of his opportunity. A genuine son 
 
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 of the soil—of our free Northern soil—he was also a 
 true child of the ocean; and under this twofold disci- 
 pline, at once mild and rough, he became one of the 
 most marked men of his day and calling. Few of his 
 contemporaries can have passed through such.a varied 
 experience. ‘Trained up in a secluded Quaker home, 
 while yet a boy going to chase the monsters of the deep 
 over the wide expanse of the Pacific, and amidst the 
 tumbling icebergs of the Northern seas; then retiring, 
 under stress of war, to the occupation of a country 
 schoolmaster; only to set out again, upon the dawn of 
 peace, on a course of long and brave seamanship be- 
 tween two of the great commercial centres of the world; 
 and then, again, changing from the veteran sailor to the 
 sagacious and honorable merchant—such was his out- 
 ward career; and, as I have said, it explains, while it - 
 illustrates, some of the best traits of his character. It 
 made him self-reliant and independent in thought and 
 expression; and yet at the same time cautious and cir- 
 cumspect, and never willing to venture where he was 
 not sure of his way. Like all true sailors, he was 
 thoroughly sincere, frank, and outspoken, with little 
 respect of place or person. As a merchant and man of 
 business, he was a model of uprightness, veracity, and 
 scrupulous fidelity to trust. He kept through life the 
 native simplicity and moderation of his early years and 
 associations. ‘The wealth which he acquired never led 
 him into luxury or ostentation—those natural and pes- 
 tilent vices of worldly prosperity. He walked in his 
 integrity, and his feet did not slide. Though eminently 
 a practical, matter-of-fact man, he was by no means 
 lacking in the most generous, tender, and kindly affec- 
 tions of our nature. He was a firm, fast friend to every 
 one who gained his confidence. His sympathies for 
 
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 those who, like himself, had passed much of their lives 
 on the sea, were especially active and beneficent. In 
 the various institutions and charities for the benefit of 
 seamen, particularly for the sick and disabled, he was 
 prominent and untiring. 
 
 I have spoken of him as a successful man of busi- 
 ness, both upon the sea and on the land. But Captain 
 Marshall was far more than a mere man of business. 
 He was an enlightened American citizen, and a most 
 devoted patriot. It was this character which crowned 
 his life with its highest honors, and especially entitles 
 him to our grateful and lasting remembrance now that 
 he is dead. It would be doing a wrong to his memory 
 and to this occasion, not to lay emphasis upon this point. 
 I believe he himself would have regarded the last four 
 and a half years, which he spent almost wholly in labors 
 for the support of the Government, as the most impor- 
 tant and the most highly privileged of his life. His love 
 of country was at once a profound conviction and a ru- 
 ling passion of his soul. Based upon a thorough com- 
 prehension of the general principles of liberty, justice, 
 and equal rights, which lie at the foundation of our 
 democratic institutions, it was inspired also by that 
 enthusiastic devotion to the flag of our Union which 
 has always marked the intrepid sailors of the Republic. 
 Having sailed under that glorious banner in all the seas 
 for thirty years; having seen it, full high advanced, un- 
 furl its ever-widening folds, and glittering with new stars, 
 in a thousand ports, stretching round the world from the 
 farthest orient to the setting sun ; having learned thus to 
 reverence, to love and confide in it as the symbol of his 
 nation’s life and sovereignty, is it strange that when he 
 saw it assailed by traitorous hands, his whole heart was 
 inflamed with the zeal of ardent and indignant loyalty ? 
 
MEMORIAL. 43 
 
 Of this portion of his life I can speak with the assur- 
 ance of an eye and ear witness. From the instant that 
 the first gun against Fort Sumter reverberated through 
 the land, announcing to the astonished nation what was 
 coming, Captain Marshall girded up the loins of his mind, 
 and took his stand on the side of the Government with a 
 firmness, a courage, and a determined energy which only 
 waxed in power and intensity until the struggle was 
 ended. You need not be reminded how indefatigable 
 he was in the movements in this city in aid of the war, 
 giving freely of his time, his influence, his means, and 
 his invaluable experience. In every effort for raising 
 men and money, whether for the relief of the soldiers 
 in the field or their families at home, and for helping 
 forward in any way the cause of the Union, he was 
 among the foremost. His patriotism was as pure and 
 unselfish as it was fervent. He believed that God had a 
 great purpose of beneficence toward this nation, and 
 through this nation toward all mankind; and in this 
 faith he went through the struggle, never bating a jot 
 
 “Of heart or hope; but still bore up and steered 
 
 ” 
 
 Right onward 
 
 
 
 In the memorable days of the summer of 1861, and 
 at later periods when the great ship of state, caught by 
 the Euroclydon of rebellion, and unable to bear up 
 against it, was driving furiously before the tempest; 
 when neither sun nor stars appeared, and all hope that 
 we should be saved had forsaken thousands of hearts, he 
 still walked the deck with unfaltering step, and, like 
 Paul, in the midst of the panic-stricken mariners, bade 
 all on board to stand firm and be of good cheer. Some- 
 times, it is true, upon hearing of new disasters to the 
 Union cause, he would weep like a child; but that the 
 
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 sacred cause would triumph, sooner or later, he never 
 for an instant doubted. He was very frank, and some- 
 times unsparing—perhaps impatiently and inordinately 
 so—in his criticisms of the policy of the Government; 
 but, however severe, his censure was always that of 
 manly jealousy for the cause and for his country’s hon- 
 ors. rom the first he regarded the contest as involving 
 vast moral as well as political issues; and at every step 
 by which the Administration and the people rose to the 
 height of the great argument—as in the Proclamation 
 of Emancipation and in the Constitutional Amendment 
 prohibiting slavery forever—he gave glory to God. 
 When the armed rebellion, assailed on every hand by 
 the victorious armies of the Republic, at length suc- 
 cumbed and fell dead to the ground, no man in the land 
 rejoiced with a truer joy than Captain Marshall ; and when 
 our wise, patient, and beloved President—that good and 
 faithful servant of the nation—was killed by the assas- 
 sin’s hand, he received a shock of grief and horror from 
 which he never fully recovered. 
 
 After the final triumph of the Union arms, he made 
 a visit to Europe, partly on account of his health, and 
 partly for the satisfaction of acquainting himself with 
 the change of public opinion and ‘of feeling toward this 
 country since his last visit, which was in the height of 
 the struggle. His tour was brief, and he came home 
 suffering from the illness which, in a few weeks after 
 his return, ended his life. It was the privilege of all his 
 children and of his nearest friends to be with him dur- 
 ing the closing scenes, and to minister to his comfort in 
 his last hours. Though prostrated by a disease which 
 had gradually enfeebled his entire system, he retained 
 to the last his consciousness and his strong mental facul- 
 ties. He was advised by his physician, some days be- 
 
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 fore his decease, of the fatal character of his malady. 
 Bowing in submission to the divine will, he met the 
 approach of death withthe candor and simplicity which 
 had marked his life. He spoke of it as an event to 
 which he had been looking forward, adding that for two 
 years past he had prayed from day to day in anticipa- 
 tion of it. He was especially grateful for the mercy of 
 God in sparing him to die in his own home, and not ina 
 foreign land. On the day of his death he said, with 
 most touching earnestness and pathos: “ Great Father 
 of mercies, I thank Thee that Thou didst preserve me 
 through that dangerous voyage and permit me to return 
 to my home.” He fervently joined in prayer with 
 those about his bed, uniting with broken voice in the 
 petition. I shall not soon forget the pressure of his 
 strong hand just stiffening in death, or the emphatic 
 manner in which he followed me in saying the Lord’s 
 Prayer on the day before his departure. His hope for 
 eternity, as he himself expressed it, centred in Him who 
 is the only Saviour of sinners. He gave instructions 
 which showed that his mind was wholly occupied with 
 the thought that his end was at hand. His heart over- 
 flowed with tender affection toward his children. “I 
 love you,” he said, “with an affection which knows no 
 bounds.” He died in the seventy-fourth year of his age ; 
 but to those who are familiar with his erect form, his quick 
 step, his unwrinkled brow, from which he brushed back 
 the hair hardly sprinkled with gray, he did not seem so 
 old by ten years. The fruits of a sober, moderate, and 
 upright life were manifest here, and rien he died « his 
 eye was not dim nor his naira force abated.” His end 
 was full of peace. He sank to rest at last as gently as 
 an infant to its sleep. 
 
 I think you will agree with me, my friends, that the 
 
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 memory of such a man is worthy of grateful honor and 
 not to be forgotten. During the war, many—alas! how 
 matiy—of our noblest youth—aurore filii—the morn- 
 ing sons of the Republic, were taken away from us; and 
 had they not fallen in so sacred and good a cause, we 
 should have called their death most untimely. Now we 
 are losing, and are going to lose faster and faster, the 
 noble old pilots, by whose prudent counsels, long ex- 
 perience, resources, skill, and authority we were taught 
 and enabled to weather the storm. Such men become 
 almost institutions in the land, and especially in the 
 community where they dwell. We ought to take care- 
 ful note of their departure, and instruct our young men, 
 upon whom such immense tasks are devolving, to ponder 
 well their wise example, and learn from it the inestima- 
 ble and impressive lesson that, however the frivolous and 
 selfish may gain wealth, place, notoriety, or pleasure 
 while living, it is only the man of disinterested devotion 
 to the public good—to the great cause of loyalty, truth, 
 justice, and humanity, of whom society keeps a grate- 
 ful record when he is gone, and whose actions 
 
 ‘¢ Smell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust.” 
 
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PILOTS. 
 
 New York, September 25, 1865. 
 
 Art a special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Pilots, 
 held this day at their. office, No. 69 South Street, the President, 
 Russert Srureis, Esq., communicated to the Board the death of 
 Cures H. Marswart, Esq., one of their members. 
 
 He spoke of Captain MarsHatr as one of the original members 
 of the Pilot Commission, having sat with them some twenty years, 
 and drew the attention of the Board to the fact, that notwithstand- 
 ing their varied and arduous duties (having to administer several 
 State laws for the regulation and protection of the harbor, in addi- 
 tion to their duties as Commissioners of Pilots), there had been a 
 remarkable unanimity in all their deliberations, an important differ- 
 ence of opinion never having arisen upon any of the complicated 
 questions brought before them. 
 
 He also spoke of Captain Marsuatt in his official capacity as 
 one always desirous that the actions of the Board should be guided 
 by moderation and justice, and as always using his influence to 
 sustain the dignity and decorum of the Board; of his well-known 
 strong love for his country, and that he had proved himself an un- 
 conditional Union man; and offered the following resolutions: 
 
 Resolved, That this Board learn, with deep regret, the death of 
 their fellow-commissioner and companion, Cuartes H. MARsHALL, 
 Esq., so well known in this community as a distinguished merchant 
 and a liberal man, and who, during the days of our country’s trial, 
 has proved himself an earnest, efficient, and unselfish supporter of 
 the Government. 
 
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 Resolved, That in the death of Captain Marsnatt this Com- 
 mission has lost one of its oldest and most efficient members, who, 
 from the first organization of the Beard to his last illness (a space 
 of twenty years), was unremitting in his attention to its duties; 
 whose counsel was always sound, and ever heard with interest, and 
 who was firm in the cause of justice, while he strove that its de- 
 cisions should be tempered with moderation. 
 
 Resolved, That by his death we have lost a personal friend, be- 
 loved and esteemed by each member of this Commission, as he was 
 by all who enjoyed the privilege of familiar intercourse with him. 
 
 Resolved, That this Board, in a body, attend the funeral of our 
 lamented associate, and that the Secretary be instructed to transmit 
 to the family a copy of these resolutions. 
 
 Messrs. Grorce W. Brunt, Rosert L. Tayzor, Ezra Nye, and 
 Wru1am O. Tuompson, in commenting upon the resolutions offered, 
 spoke of their long acquaintance with Captain Marswatt, and his 
 many estimable and endearing traits of character, and his uncom- 
 promising loyalty and love of country; after which the resolutions 
 
 were unanimously adopted. 
 F, PERKINS, 
 Secretary. 
 
PROCEEDINGS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 
 
 ON OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF 
 
 CAPTAIN CHARLES H. MARSHALL. 
 
 Monthly meeting, Thursday, October 5, 1865, A. A. Low, Esq., President, 
 in the Chair. 
 
 Mr. Joun D. Jones called the attention of the Chamber to the 
 death, since its last meeting, of Captain Cartes H. Marswatt, the 
 chairman for many years of its Executive Committee, and addressed 
 the members in the following words: 
 
 Cuartes H. MarsHary was an extraordinary man, and possessed 
 the elements of greatness which were manifest in all his actions. 
 
 He was an original character. He did his own thinking, and 
 acted upon his own conclusions. This was exemplified in his youth, 
 when he left home as a boy to earn his daily bread—poor in money, 
 but rich in energy. 
 
 The sea had attractions for him, and he shipped as a sailor be- 
 fore the mast; but no inferior position satisfied his ambition; he 
 soon, by his own merits, became an officer and then commander. 
 
 Next we meet with him as a leading merchant of this city, and 
 owner of the line of ships in which he had previously served as an 
 officer. Here commenced our acquaintance with him. 
 
 He was the liberal, public-spirited merchant, aiding and urging 
 on every measure intended for the general good, whether that 
 measure was to provision the starving operatives of Great Britain, 
 
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 or to relieve the suffering, wounded soldiers of our own armies of 
 the Republic. | 
 
 His powerful will has greatly aided to build up and maintain the 
 commercial marine of this port, and his practical mind has con- 
 tributed to shape and mould and put together those timbers which 
 have given to the New York built merchant-ship a world-wide 
 fame for strength, speed, and beauty. 
 
 In all measures and efforts to benefit and elevate the nautical 
 profession, he was energetic, and contributed with his experience. 
 
 The sailor before the mast received his attention, and the cap- 
 tain who commanded, his aid and protection. 
 
 The harbor of New York also claimed his attention. He as- 
 sisted to establish the harbor lines to prevent encroachments upon 
 its navigable waters, and he contributed so to systematize the pilot- 
 age as to make it one of the safest harbors for vessels to enter from 
 the sea. 
 
 As a citizen, he was a good neighbor and a true friend. 
 
 To his country he was devoted and patriotic, and during the war 
 was zealous and active with his advice and assistance to the officers 
 of the Government for the creation of a navy equal to its emergency, 
 and which he had the satisfaction of living to see accomplished. 
 
 This, Mr. President, is but a dim portraiture of that merchant, 
 whose active usefulness has been terminated by the unchangeable 
 work of Time. 
 
 It was our good fortune to have him our friend and associate ; 
 and it is proper for us to make some record of appreciation of his” 
 worth and merits. I therefore offer the following resolutions for 
 entry upon the minutes: 
 
 Resolved, That this Chamber has sustained an irreparable loss in 
 the death of Captain Cuartes H. MarsHAtt, one of its most dis- 
 tinguished members. As a merchant, by his inflexible integrity, 
 untiring energy, and remarkable ability, he had, despite early dis- 
 advantages, achieved a fortune and a commanding position in the 
 commercial community ; and his influence was always wielded to 
 promote the best interests of commerce. As a leader in our com- 
 
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 mercial marine, his courage, skill, and honorable ambition had 
 largely contributed to its success and prestige among the merchant 
 navies of the world. He devoted himself with enthusiasm to the 
 elevation of the nautical profession, in every grade of which he had 
 faithfully served ; and his enlightened judgment and generous sym- 
 pathies were constantly and wisely directed to the protection and 
 welfare of all its members. 
 
 Resolved, That we sadly miss from our councils the regular 
 attendance, the wise judgment, and the magnanimous spirit of our 
 lamented associate. 
 
 Mr. Peter Cooper seconded the resolutions. 
 
 REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 THe Prestwent, Mr. A. A. Low, said that, before putting the 
 question, he would like to join a few words to the common tribute 
 to their departed friend. He had been a witness of his fidelity in 
 every thing to which he put his hand in this Chamber, and he had 
 also to bear testimony to the vigilance and attention which he had 
 brought to the exercise of his duties in the Board of Direction of 
 the Sailors’ Home. It was characteristic of him that he was con- 
 stant, punctual, and attentive wherever his services were invoked or 
 pledged. And he seemed to have a peculiarly affectionate regard 
 for those with whom he was associated, whether in any effort of 
 philanthropy, or in those works imposed on patriotic citizens in 
 these later days. 
 
 REMARKS OF HON. GEORGE OPDYKE. 
 
 Mr. Prestpent: Before the question is taken on the resolutions 
 commemorative of the virtues of our deceased friend and associate, 
 I desire to add a few words of tribute to his memory. I have felt 
 with you, Mr. President, that those who have known Captain Mar- 
 sHALL longest and most intimately are entitled to be first heard in his 
 praise. Yet there can be no one who appreciates more highly than 
 I do his many virtues, or who will testify more sincerely to the 
 truthfulness of their portraiture in the terse and expressive resolu- 
 
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82 MEMORIAL. 
 
 tions before us. Eulogistic as these resolutions are, I feel that they 
 are strictly within the limits of propriety and truth. 
 
 Captain MarsHaLi was no ordinary man. He entered upon 
 the active duties of life at an early age as a sailor before the mast. 
 Even in this humble position his sterling qualities soon became 
 known and appreciated, and secured his rapid advancement. Soon 
 after attaining his majority he found himself at the head of his pro- 
 fession in the mercantile marine as commander of a ship in the first 
 line of packets established between this port and Europe. After 
 serving for many years in this capacity with the highest distinction, 
 he abandoned the sea and established himself as a shipping merchant 
 in this city. In this new vocation he was equally successful, his 
 house ranking both in character and financial strength anes the 
 first in that line of business. 
 
 A success so uniform as his could only result from great busi- 
 ness capacity combined with integrity of character and an indomi- 
 table will. These qualities Captain Marsnaty possessed in so large 
 a measure as to be universally remarked. 
 
 Nor were these the only virtues for which he was distinguished. 
 He was a man of great public spirit, and of large and active benevo- 
 lence. But, above all, his memory will be gratefully cherished by 
 the members of this Chamber and by his fellow-citizens generally, 
 on account of his earnest, devoted patriotism. In this he had 
 scarcely an equal. 
 
 Throughout the whole war, which has just terminated so glo- 
 riously, Captain Marsan exerted his whole heart and energies 
 on the side of the Government. 
 
 He eagerly, on every possible occasion, devoted to the cause of 
 his country his whole personal influence, his untiring efforts, and 
 liberal contribution of means. 
 
 His noblest services in this noblest of causes were the fit crown- 
 ing efforts of his useful life. 
 
 His services in this Chamber have been of great value. He was 
 a constant attendant at its sittings, and always took an active part 
 
MEMORIAL. 83 
 
 in its deliberations, displaying his wonted earnestness and sound 
 judgment. His convictions were firm and deep, so much so, that 
 he has, at times, seemed dogmatical. This, combined with a certain 
 austerity of manner acquired in his early calling, may have led 
 some to suppose him deficient in general social feelings. But those 
 who so judged Captain Marsuatz, did not thoroughly know the 
 man. 
 
 Those who won his friendship and shared his confidence can 
 only realize the kindness of his heart and the warmth of his 
 feelings. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. S. DE WITT BLOODGOOD. 
 
 Mr. Presipent: I wish to support the resolutions offered by 
 Mr. Jones, but not for the purpose of pronouncing a eulogy on the 
 deceased. I leave that to more competent persons, competent to 
 do fitting justice to an able seaman, an enterprising shipmaster, an 
 honorable and prosperous merchant, a true patriot, an active and 
 useful citizen, and, above all, an honest man. 
 
 T rise particularly to give an instance of the patriotic disinterest- 
 edness and the liberality which marked his conduct. When the 
 - rebellion broke out, it became necessary to look carefully after the 
 condition of the revenue naval service, and a commission was ap- 
 pointed to examine into its organization, especially with regard to 
 appointments to office. The Secretary of the Treasury selected, 
 with others, Captain Marsnatt to perform that duty. 
 
 He accepted the trust, and faithfully performed its duties for 
 many months. At its conclusion he was informed that he was 
 entitled to compensation, amounting to fifteen hundred dolllars. 
 We know there are many persons always in readiness to serve 
 their country, but, as far as my observation goes, they are equally 
 ready to receive their pay. Captain MarsHaty, however, was an 
 exception to that class. He refused to receive any compensation 
 for what he had done, giving as a reason that the necessities of the 
 Government were greater than his own. 
 
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 Sir, we are always ready to admire the conduct of men of 
 genius, and regard their lives with interest. We never hesitate to 
 praise those military chiefs who achieve glory for themselves and 
 do honor to their country; but we are also called to esteem and 
 venerate the good and upright man whose example strengthens 
 sound public opinion, sustains morals, and gives confidence to com- 
 mercial dealings. Such a one was Captain MarsHatt, 
 
 ‘* A wit’s a feather, anda chief’s a rod; 
 An honest man’s the noblest work of God!” 
 
 In my judgment, these lines would be an appropriate inscription 
 upon the marble which marks the resting-place of our deceased 
 friend. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. ELLIOT C. COWDIN. 
 
 Mr. Prestpent: After the eloquent and impressive remarks to 
 which we have already listened, it is hardly necessary for me to add 
 any thing to the eulogiums upon our late honored and lamented 
 friend and associate, Captain MARrsHALL. 
 
 But there was one other trait in his character to which I will 
 briefly allude, that of gratitude, and with which I was forcibly im- 
 pressed during the last week of his life. Only three days before 
 his decease, when he had scarcely strength enough to hold a pen, 
 he wrote me a note, requesting me to call upon him. I found him 
 prostrate and exhausted, but with a mind clear and active, and with 
 a heart full of gratitude to God for the blessings we enjoy, and 
 especially for the overthrow of the great rebellion. He was pro- 
 foundly grateful to those of our friends in Europe who have so 
 zealously defended the cause of the Union, and desired me to unite, 
 with a few other friends, in showing particular attention to an emi- 
 nent and eloquent champion of the liberal cause in Great Britain, 
 Mr. Hanpet CossHam, of Bristol, England, who was about to visit 
 New York, and who has ever been one of our warmest and best 
 friends. He gaye me a copy of one of Mr. Cossham’s speeches on 
 
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 the American war, and accompanied it with expressions of deep 
 gratitude for the service it had rendered in aiding to ward off 
 British recognition of the so-called Confederate States, a speech 
 which President Lrycotn praised so highly that he wrote to Mr. 
 Cossnam, thanking him for it. 
 
 Captain MarsHaty was particularly desirous that all our friends 
 abroad, and especially our noble champion Joun Bricut, whose ad- 
 mirable portrait, I rejoice to see, adorns our walls to-day, should 
 feel and know that the American people appreciate and are grate- 
 ful for all they have done, not only in behalf of our country, but 
 of constitutional liberty throughout the world. 
 
 Our departed friend was indeed a generous patriot; no one 
 could be associated with him, without in a measure partaking of 
 his zeal and devotion to our common country. His very presence 
 gave energy and courage in the darkest period of the national con- 
 flict. Never, for one moment, did he question the final result. 
 Relying upon the justice of our cause, he felt that God and good 
 men would not let it perish. 
 
 In his death, New York has lost one of its most excellent citi- 
 zens, the mercantile community, and especially this Chamber, one 
 of its oldest and most valued members, and the nation a true and 
 devoted patriot. 
 
 All honor to his memory. 
 
 It is alike our privilege and duty to hold up his example to the 
 young men of America as worthy of praise and imitation. 
 
 From his ample means he gave to every good object with a free 
 and generous hand. Many institutions and individuals will mourn 
 at the recollection of his kindness and bounty, for they lost in him 
 a friend and benefactor. The whole community honored him while 
 living, and all sincerely mourn his loss. 
 
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 REMARKS OF MR. PETER COOPER. 
 
 Mr. Presipent: I desire to add a few words in confirmation of 
 all that has been said in honor of our friend, the lamented Captain 
 MArsHALL. 
 
 His unwavering support of the Government in the darkest hour 
 of our nation’s peril, his patriotic devotion to the cause of our 
 country, was manifest to all who knew him. He regarded the war 
 of rebellion as war against the rights of our common humanity. 
 So ardent was he, that on one occasion I heard him say no man 
 should give more than himself to maintain the Union and defend 
 the Constitution and the laws that made us a nation. 
 
 Mr. Cooper added, referring to the allusion made by Mr. Cow- 
 pin to the presence, in the city, of Mr. Hanpret Cossnam, that this 
 distinguished gentleman would address the citizens, the next Satur- 
 day evening, at the Cooper Institute. 
 
 The question upon the resolutions was then taken, and they 
 were unanimously adopted ; and it was 
 
 Ordered, That the proceedings of this day be entered at length 
 upon the minutes of the Chamber, and a copy be transmitted to 
 the family of the deceased. 
 
 A true copy, from the minutes of the Chamber. 
 Joun AvstIN STEVENS, Jr., Secretary. 
 
 ————— 
 
 Resorutions adopted by the Huecutive Committee of the Chamber 
 of Commerce (of which Captain Cuartes H. MarsHati was 
 Chairman) at a meeting held October 4th, 1865. 
 
 This Committee having, since our last meeting, been bereaved 
 by death of its late honored Chairman, Onarrtes H. Marsnatt, Esq., 
 
 Resolved, That we desire to record our testimony of his great 
 worth as a merchant and a man, and to his steadfast and exemplary 
 adherence to the dictates of sound and enlightened principles of 
 
MEMORIAL. 87 
 
 patriotism and of duty, in all his relations and acts, as a member of 
 this Chamber, and as the Chairman of this Committee. 
 
 Resolved, That his honorable and successful career affords en- 
 couragement and example to those who shall follow him in the 
 walks of mercantile life. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the 
 family of the deceased. 
 
 A true copy: JoHN Austin STEVENS, JR., 
 
 Secretary. 
 
88 MEMORIAL. 
 
 TRUSTEES OF THE SAILORS SNUG 
 HARBOR. 
 
 At a meeting of the Trustees of the Sailor’s Snug Harbor, held 
 at the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, on Monday, Septem- 
 ber 25th, 1865, the death of Cuartes H. Marsnatx being an- 
 nounced, it was, on motion— | 
 
 Resolved, That it is at once a duty and a privilege to express to 
 the family of the deceased, the profound sorrow which this event ex- 
 cites in the mind and hearts of his former associates and co-laborers 
 in this institution ; that every member of this Board feels a personal 
 loss in the departure from this life, of one who has been long dear 
 to them—the friend of his fellow-men, and especially of the unfor- 
 tunate sailor, who was here the object of his care. 
 
 Resolved, That we will ever cherish the memory of Captain 
 MarsHatt, because he was faithful to the trusts reposed in him— 
 an example of punctuality and constancy in the discharge of his 
 various duties, generous in his impulses, prompt to relieve suffer- 
 ing, a good citizen, a fervent patriot; and testify our admiration of 
 his character, as a man and a Christian, by inscribing the above on 
 our book of minutes. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing be sent to the family of 
 the deceased, in whose great bereavement we sympathize and 
 mourn. 
 
 By order of the Board: 
 W. L. Greeniear, Secretary pro tem. 
 
MEMORIAL. 89 
 
 CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK. 
 
 At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Conti- 
 nental National Bank, held on the 25th day of September, 1866, 
 to take action in regard to the death of C. H. Marsuatt, late Vice- 
 President of that institution, the following resolutions were adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That while we recognize the fact that our late asso- 
 ciate and Vice-President, CuarLes H. MArsHatt, was well known in 
 this city and throughout this country as a merchant of the strictest 
 integrity and honor; as a citizen watchful of the public interests, 
 and active in well-directed efforts to promote the public good; asa 
 patriot whose love of country made him an influential leader in her 
 cause during the great struggle against rebellion; as a friend whose 
 counsels and sympathies were followed by generous aid to the 
 worthy in times of need; and as a Christian gentleman who desired 
 and was ever ready to promote the highest interest of mankind, 
 while in his personal intercourse with men he was careful to avoid 
 
 ‘or quick to redress an injury, we feel that this is no occasion for the 
 language of eulogy; but while we bow in submission to the will of 
 Him who does all things well, and has removed our late associate 
 and friend from us forever, we here record our great sorrow at the 
 separation, and our sympathy with his bereaved family. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing resolution be communi- 
 cated to the family of the deceased. 
 
 ; U. A. Murvocn, President. 
 ©. F. Tupson, Cashier. 
 
90 MEMORIAL. 
 
 UNION LEAGUE CLUB, OF THE CITY OF 
 NEW YORK. 
 
 At a special meeting of the Union League Club of the City of 
 New York, held on the evening of September 25th, 1865, to 
 take action in regard to the death of the late Cuarrzs H. Mar- 
 SHALL, President of the Club; Mr. Samur, B. Roaerxs, Vice- 
 President, in the chair— 
 
 The Vice-President spoke briefly on the early life of Captain 
 Marsnatt, and of his first voyage in the ‘‘ Julius Casar,” when the 
 Captain received his first impressions of slavery on the Isle of 
 France (the home of Paul and Virginia), where the slaves were 
 flagellated and branded. Ever since that time the deceased was a 
 consistent and persistent opponent of slavery. He made many 
 pleasing allusions to the course of Captain MarsnHarr and his 
 unswerving loyalty. 
 
 Dr. Franois Lizser made a brief address, of a similar import. 
 
 Mr. Grorcse W. Brunt moved the following resolutions, which 
 were adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That the Club have received with deep regret the 
 intelligence of the death of Captain Cnartes H. Marsnatt, our 
 much-esteemed President, and will attend his funeral as a body, to 
 render their united tribute of respect to his memory. 
 
 Resolved, That the Club now enter on their record their high 
 appreciation of the merits and virtues of Captain MarsHatt, from 
 his early boyhood, as a sailor, working his way steadily and honor- 
 ably onward and upward, to the high position he occupied among 
 the most active and successful commanders in our mercantile 
 marine, and his eminent standing as one of the most influential 
 
MEMORIAL. 91 
 
 shipowners of the United States; they take pleasure in bearing tes- 
 timony to his energy and professional skill, to the dignity of his 
 personal bearing, to the kindness and generosity of his private life, 
 to his manly resolution of purpose, and his outspoken and fearless 
 independence on all occasions. They particularly recognize his con- 
 stant and zealous devotion to the interests of our seamen and ma- 
 rine, peculiarly illustrated in the efficient aid, at a former period of 
 our commercial history, in managing the fleet of packet-ships with 
 which his name has been so honorably connected, and at a later day 
 vigorously codperating in abolishing the pilot monopoly in the har- 
 bor of New York, and establishing in its stead the present efficient 
 system of pilotage through which the value of our great national 
 city as a safe and accessible port has become so firmly settled. 
 
 But it is ina national point of view that the Union League 
 Club would more emphatically attest their sense of the unwaver- 
 ing devotion of Captain Marswatt, from his early manhood to the 
 day of his death, to the great cause of human freedom ;-and, above 
 all, would they express their appreciation of his resolute and un- 
 compromising adhesion under every emergency to the American 
 Union, manifested by his generous and energetic support of the 
 Government in all its efforts to sustain the great national authority 
 in putting down the late rebellion. 
 
 Finally, we rejoice that our lamented friend was permitted by a 
 gracious Providence, in the evening of his days, not only to live to 
 see the national Union, to which he had exhibited such fidelity, 
 reéstablished in the plenitude of its undisputed power, but also to 
 exchange on both sides of the Atlantic his personal congratulations 
 with the friends of American nationality, on the preservation of the 
 great political structure so important to the peace and happiness 
 of the human race. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, duly attested, be 
 transmitted to the family of our departed friend and associate. 
 
99 MEMORIAL. 
 
 MARINE SOCIETY. 
 
 At a meeting of the Marine Society, held at the underwriters’. 
 room, corner of Wall and William Streets, October 9th, 1865, the 
 following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted : 
 
 Whereas, it has pleased our heavenly Father, in His inscrutable 
 wisdom, to call from our midst by death our much-esteemed Presi- 
 dent and associate, Captain Cuartes H. Marsuart, whose name 
 was widely and everywhere favorably known in connection with the 
 commercial marine of this port, and whose codperation and counsel 
 in the management of the affairs of the different sailors’ institutions 
 have been invaluable, and whose truly Christian integrity of char- 
 acter and kindness of heart has endeared him to us all: therefore 
 
 Resolved, That in the death of our late President and co-laborer 
 we recognize the hand of Him who doeth all things well, and we 
 desire to acquiesce in the dispensation of Divine Providence, in per- 
 mitting him, our President, to remain so long amongst us. 
 
 Resolved, That in the death of Captain Cuartes H. Marswatz, 
 who was for twenty years our presiding officer, and by whose con- 
 stant care and watchfulness we have greatly increased in members 
 and funds, we have suffered a great loss, and that it will be difficult 
 for the Society to fill the place made vacant by his death; and that 
 every widow of this Society has thereby lost a guardian and protec- 
 tor; and that every sailor in the land, from the cabin-boy to the 
 master, has lost a kind and good friend. 
 
 Resolved, That this Society do deeply and sincerely lament and 
 deplore the decease of our esteemed and valued President, associate, 
 and friend, and that we cordially and tenderly sympathize with the 
 greatly stricken and afflicted family and relatives of the deceased, 
 and that we ask for them the blessing of Him who alone can bind 
 up the broken in heart, and comfort the stricken in sorrowing. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary cause a copy of the foregoing pre- 
 amble and resolutions to be suitably engrossed, authenticated, and 
 transmitted to the family of the deceased, and that they be pub- 
 lished in the daily papers. 
 
 JOHN M. Ferrier, First Vice-President. 
 
 JOSEPH TINKHAM, Secretary. 
 
MEMORIAL. 93 
 
 SHAMEN’S FUND AND RETREAT. 
 
 Art a regular monthly meeting of the Board of Trustees of the 
 Seamen’s Fund and Retreat, held on Thursday, October 12th, 1865, 
 at their office, No. 12 Old Slip, the following preamble and resolu- 
 tions were offered by the President, R. J. Taorne, and unanimously 
 adopted : 
 
 Whereas, we are again called upon to recognize the hand ef 
 an overruling Providence in the removal by death of Captain 
 Cartes H. MarsHary, who was at the time of his decease and for 
 many years preceding a member of this Board, and well known to 
 and justly appreciated by every one of us: therefore 
 
 Resolved, That we cannot but lament as a public loss the depar- 
 ture of one who was so long and so prominently a servant of the 
 public in the various offices which he held with so much credit to 
 himself and advantage to all concerned. 
 
 Resolved, That we cherish the recollections of his many excel- 
 lent qualities of mind and heart, his promptness in responding to 
 the call of duty, his large charity for the suffering, and his earnest 
 sympathy with every thing which promised to ameliorate the sad 
 condition of seafaring men, with whom the larger part of his 
 active life had been spent. 
 
 Resolved, That the career of Captain Marswatt illustrates the 
 glory of republican institutions. Having sprung from comparative 
 poverty and obscurity, by the force of his indomitable will and his 
 devotion to business, he raised himself by his own exertions to a 
 position as a successful merchant second to no one in all the ele- 
 ments of integrity, force of character, and practical wisdom. 
 
 Resolved, That we cherish with special pride and gratitude the 
 memory of the earnest patriotism which led him joyfully to accept 
 of any personal sacrifices which might contribute to strengthen the 
 
94 MEMORIAL. 
 
 hands of the Government in its late fearful conflict with armed 
 treason, and that we rejoice that his life was spared to witness the 
 triumph of the loyal arms and the reéstablishment of free institu- 
 tions over the length and breadth of the land. 
 
 Resolved, That we tender to the family and relatives of the de- 
 ceased our sympathy with them in their sore bereavement. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing resolutions be sent to the 
 afflicted family of the late Captain Marsnatt by the Secretary of 
 this Board, signed by the President and Secretary. 
 
 R. J. Toorne, President. 
 
 Doveras Carrns, Secretary. 
 
MEMORIAL. On 
 
 SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE DE&- 
 TITUTE CHILDREN OF SHAMEN. 
 
 At the monthly meeting of the Board of Managers of the So- 
 ciety for the Relief of Destitute Children of Seamen, held at the 
 “Home” on Staten Island, on Friday, October 6th, the death of 
 their warm friend and able adviser, Captain MarsHatt, was men- 
 tioned by the First Directress, and the following resolution was 
 passed, with directions to the Secretary to send copies to the family 
 of Captain Marsuatt, and to several of the daily papers: 
 
 Resolved, That this Board has heard with great grief of the 
 death of their warm friend, their able and reliable adviser, their 
 liberal contributor, and their successful advocate, Captain Cuartes 
 H. Marswatt, who has, from the commencement of this Society, 
 been untiring in his efforts in our behalf; who, understanding the 
 wants of the sailor and of the family of the sailor, has never hesi- 
 tated to give them his warmest sympathy, his conscientious advice, 
 and his generous assistance ; and it is their earnest prayer that the 
 same kind Providence that made him their friend, may raise up for 
 us those who will possess the same noble spirit, and exercise the 
 same active benevolence. 
 
 By order of the Board: 
 S. I. Bement, Secretary. 
 
96 MEMORIAL. 
 
 DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA, AND WEST: 
 ERN RAILROAD COMPANY. 
 
 At a meeting of the Board of Managers of the Delaware, Lack- 
 awanna, and Western Railroad Company, at the Office, No. 35 
 William Street, New York, on Friday, September 29th, ae pate 
 other proceedings, the following took place: 
 
 It having pleased Almighty God, in the exercise of His wise 
 dispensation, to remove, by the hand of death, our esteemed asso- 
 ciate, Mr. Cuartes H. Marsnaty, and this Board being desirous 
 of expressing its sense of the loss it has thus sustained: be it there- 
 fore unanimously 
 
 Resolved, That, while bowing to the inscrutable wisdom of that 
 Providence which has taken away one of our most devoted mem- 
 bers, we entertain a profound sorrow for so great a privation. As 
 a manager of this Company, Mr. MarsHatt always labored to dis- 
 charge the trusts and promote the interests committed to his care, 
 uprightly and faithfully. As an associate, he has earned our high- 
 est respect and esteem, by the exercise of those qualities which 
 serve to cement friendship and lend a pleasure to business inter- 
 course. As aman, his character for patriotism, integrity, and devo- 
 tion to duty, secured for him an enviable position among his fellow- 
 citizens, who, in his death, will find a common grief. 
 
 Resolved, That we sincerely sympathize with his family in their 
 bereavement, and that the Secretary be instructed to transmit to 
 them a certified copy of these proceedings. 
 
 Resolved, That these resolutions be entered at length on the 
 minutes of this Board. 
 
 A. J. Ovex, Secretary. 
 
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