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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 LIFE AND CHARACTER 
 
 (JONATHAN T. IJpDEGRAFF, 
 
 (A REPRESENTATIVE FJIDil OHIO) 
 
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 FORTY-SKVEXTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION 
 
 PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF COMiRKSS. 
 
 WASHINGTON: 
 
 (ION Kit N ME NT PRINTING OFFICE. 
 
 1883. 
 
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JOINT RESOLUTION to provide for the publication of the memorial addresses delivered 
 in Congress upon the late Jonathan T. Updegraff. 
 
 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
 America in Congress assembled, That there be printed twelve thousand copies 
 of the memorial addresses delivered in the Senate and House of Representa 
 tives upon the life and character of Hon. Jonathan T. Updegraft , late a 
 Representative from the State of Ohio, together with a portrait of the de 
 ceased ; nine thousand copies thereof for the use of the House of Representa 
 tives and three thousand copies for the use of the Senate. And a sum 
 sufficient to defray the expense of preparing and printing the portrait of the 
 deceased for the publication herein provided for is hereby appropriated out 
 of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 
 
 Approved February 23, 1883. 
 
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 ADDEESSES 
 
 ON THE 
 
 DEATH OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE. 
 
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 
 
 December 4, 1882. 
 
 Mr. HERBERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to announce that since the 
 adjournment of this House in August my colleague, Hon. WILLIAM 
 M. LOWE, died at his residence in Huntsville, Alabama; and mak 
 ing to-day simply this sad announcement that he has gone from 
 among us forever, I give notice that on some future occasion a 
 motion will be made to fix a day upon which this House shall pay 
 appropriate honors to his memory. 
 
 I now yield to the gentleman from Ohio, who has a similar an 
 nouncement to make. 
 
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 
 
 December 4, 1882. 
 
 Mr. EZRA B. TAYLOR. Mr: Speaker, with feelings of the deepest 
 personal sorrow I have to announce the death of my honorable col 
 league, JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF, late a member of this House 
 from the State of Ohio. The experience of Mr. UPDEGRAFF in 
 this Hall, his fidelity to the public service, his integrity, and his 
 ability cause his loss to be deplored by this body and by the coun 
 try. His private character and social qualities give to his death 
 ground for peculiar grief to those who knew him best. 
 
 I ask the action of the House on the following resolution. 
 
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4 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with sincere regret the announcement 
 of the death during the late recess of Hon. WILLIAM M. LOWE, late a Repre 
 sentative from the State of Alabama, and of Hon. JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF, 
 a Representative from the State of Ohio. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate the foregoing resolution to the Sen 
 ate. 
 
 Sesoltedj That as a mark of respect to the deceased the House do now ad 
 journ. 
 
 The resolution was unanimously adopted ; and accordingly the 
 House adjourned. 
 
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 
 
 January 20, 1883. 
 
 Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR I ask unanimous consent that Tues 
 day, February 6, at 2 o clock p. m., be fixed as the time for the 
 consideration of suitable resolutions of respect, and for paying- ap 
 propriate tributes to the memory of my deceased predecessor, the 
 Hon. JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 
 
 February 6, 1883. 
 
 Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR. The hour assigned for exercises dedi 
 cated to the memory of the late Hon. JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF 
 has now arrived, and I am directed by my colleagues to present for 
 the consideration of the House, the resolutions which I send to the 
 desk to be read. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, TLat the House of Representatives has received with profound 
 sorrow the announcement of the death of Hon. J. T. UPDEGRAFF, late a Rep 
 resentative from the State of Ohio. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended that suitable 
 honors may be paid to the memory of the deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House do communicate these resolutions to 
 the Senate of the United States. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect the House, at the conclusion of 
 these memorial exercises, shall adjourn. 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR, OF OHIO. 
 
 Address of Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR, of Ohio. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : The dark .shadow of death ha* fallen heavily 
 upon the Forty-seventh Congress. Xine times has the sable mes 
 senger glided across the floor of this House, bearing from the busy 
 scenes of its activity Fernando Wood, of New York ; Michael P. 
 O Connor, of South Carolina ; James Q. Smith and William M. 
 Lowe, of Alabama; Robert M. A. Hawk, of Illinois; Thomas 
 Allen, of Missouri ; JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF, of Ohio, Godlove 
 S. Orth, of Indiana ; and John W. Shackelford, of North Caro 
 lina. And they passed away in the order in which I have named 
 them. 
 
 Mr. Smith, of Alabama, whom the House, July 20, 1882, ad 
 judged elected to represent the fourth district of Alabama, died 
 in this city pending the contest of his election, and before the de 
 cision of the House in his favor. 
 
 To this list of mortality must be added Senator Burnside, of 
 Rhode Island ; Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin ; and Senator 
 Hill, of Georgia. 
 
 Ohio has been singularly fortunate during the eighty years of 
 her history as a State. In this long period but seven of her mem 
 bers of Congress, including both Houses, have fallen at their posts 
 of duty: 
 
 In 1821, Senator Trimble; in 1844, Representatives Brinker- 
 hoff and Moore; in 1850, Representative Wood ; in 1867, Repre 
 sentative Hamilton; in 1870, Representative Hoag ; and in 1882, 
 Representative UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 We are here to-day to pay tributes of respect to the memory of 
 my honored predecessor, the Hon. JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF, 
 and the delicate and responsible duty of opening the remarks of 
 this occasion has been assigned to me by my colleagues. 
 
 On the oOthday of November last, when the flowers of summer 
 had faded and when the leaves of autumn had fallen, there came to 
 the home of Dr. UPDEGRAFF, in the picturesque village of Mount 
 
6 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 Pleasant, Ohio, a messenger which no human power can turn away. 
 On that day of national thanksgiving, when family greetings and 
 domestic joys were filling other homes and other hearts, the dark 
 ness and desolation of death settled upon the home and hearth 
 stone of that once happy family. The silver cord was loosed, the 
 golden bowl was broken, and the husband, father, neighbor, states 
 man, friend, closed his eyes forever upon the scene of his earthly 
 struggles and triumphs and was numbered with the dead. I do 
 not rise here to indulge in any fulsome adulation of our deceased 
 brother. No meed of eulogistic praise can add to the measure of 
 a life rounded up, completed, the volume ended, the record closed, 
 and sealed with the clasp of death. I may but bring my tribute 
 of memory to cast with yours at the dead feet of one whose famil 
 iar form we shall see no more until we too shall pass 
 
 At God s commandment through the shadowy gates, 
 To reach the sunlight of the eternal hills. 
 
 The observance of ceremonies of this kind is not a recent cus 
 tom. The ancient Greeks and Romans were wont to gather about 
 their fallen heroes and recount their virtues and the trophies they 
 had won. Memorials in brass and marble, in undying verse and 
 imperishable utteranc.es, have comedown through all ages to inspire 
 the ambition of youth and stir the pulses of manhood. More 
 than three thousand years ago a monument was erected by divine 
 direction, on the shores of the Jordan, of stone taken from the- bed 
 of the river where the feet of the priests had stood, which should 
 be for a memorial unto Israel forever. And, sir, it is fitting that 
 we should pause a brief moment, amid the absorbing cares of daily 
 life, and mark the foot-prints of those who have attained a worthy 
 prominence among men ; and while we weave a garland of flowers 
 to deck the grave of our friend who has gone from among us, we 
 should take note of those circumstances which press upon us the 
 lesson of our own mortality and the claims of our spiritual nature. 
 
 Dr. UPDEGRAFF was born in York, now called Updegraff, in 
 Jefferson County, Ohio ; was the son of David Updegraff, a min 
 ister of the Society of Friends, and a grandson of Nathan Upde- 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR, OF OHIO. 7 
 
 graft , one of the framers of the first constitution of Ohio. His 
 father moved to Ohio about the beginning of the present century, 
 and of his eight children two only survive David B. Updegraff, 
 an eminent minister of the Society of Friends, who resides in 
 Mount Pleasant and is the owner of a farm about a mile distant, 
 where the Updegraff family have their bury ing-ground, and Mrs. 
 Sarah Jenkins, who is a lady of culture and a prominent member of 
 the same society. The devoted wife, whose kindly presence is well 
 known in Washington circles, still resides with her two little boys 
 at the family homestead in Mount Pleasant. Of his other chil 
 dren three survive him two sons and a daughter, the eldest being 
 Judge R. D. Updegraff, of Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 Dr. UPDEGKAFF S boyhood was spent on his father s farm until 
 his nineteenth year. He was educated in the common schools and 
 in Franklin College, one of the oldest and most respectable insti 
 tutions of learning in Ohio. Having chosen medicine as his pro 
 fession, he entered the office of Dr. Flanner, of Mount Pleasant, 
 completed his course of studies, and graduated at the University 
 of Pennsylvania. 
 
 He began the practice of medicine and surgery at the early age of 
 twenty-one, and soon became an eminent and successful physician, 
 adding much to his reputation and usefulness by completing his 
 studies, in 1851 and 1852, in the medical schools of Edinburgh and 
 Paris. Toward the close of the war, following still in the line of 
 his profession, he served as a surgeon in the Union Army. 
 
 In 1872 he was Presidential elector in the electoral college which 
 gave the vote of Ohio to General Grant. In 1872 and 1873 he 
 was a member of the Ohio State senate. In 1873 he was tempo 
 rary president of the Republican State convention of Ohio. In 
 1875 he was chairman of the State Republican central committee. 
 In 1876 he was a delegate to the national Republican convention 
 at Ciucinnati which nominated President Hayes. And in 1878 he 
 received the Republican nomination for Representative to the 
 Forty-sixth Congress and was triumphantly elected. He was re- 
 nominated and re-elected two years later to the present Congress, 
 and in October last, only a few weeks prior to his decease, he was 
 
8 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 re-elected to the Forty-eighth Congress. But Death, the inexor 
 able destroyer, cut him down in the midst of his public career and 
 in the zenith of his usefulness. 
 
 His record in this House I shall leave for those who were asso 
 ciated with him here, and who can speak from a more intimate 
 knowledge of his career since he became a member of Congress. 
 His speeches upon education, temperance, agriculture, and the tariff, 
 attracted the attention of the country, and greatly added to his 
 popularity. His decision of character and unconquerable will 
 made him a tower of strength in anything he undertook. When 
 he once resolved to do a thing no power on earth could deter him. 
 Opposition and obstacles which would induce most men to abandon 
 an undertaking seemed only to inspire him with increased vigor. 
 And hence it is no wonder that his ambitions were always gratified 
 and his successes always assured. He was a man of great indus 
 try and wonderful tenacity of purpose. 
 
 His scholarly attainments, his extensive reading and travel, had 
 given him breadth of thought ; and his contact with men had added 
 a knowledge of human nature that aided his judgment and made 
 him quick to grasp an idea and carry it out to its logical sequence. 
 
 From an honored and liberty-loving ancestry he inherited an 
 uncompromising hatred of oppression in every form, and through 
 all his life, public and private, he cherished a regard for the poor 
 and the down-trodden, and whenever and wherever they needed a 
 champion he was ready in their defense. 
 
 He was active in the organization of the Republican party, and 
 was its firm and faithful adherent through all his public life. In 
 his own and in other States he gave much time to the discus 
 sion of its principles. Among his most prominent characteris 
 tics was his faithful allegiance to his friends, and especially to those 
 whom he had known in his earlier years. And it may be men 
 tioned here, a one of the commendable features of human nature, 
 that the friends of his youth, and those for whom he had been per 
 mitted, in the exercise of his large opportunity, to do acts of public 
 and private favor, remained his firm and steadfast friends through 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR, OF OHIO. 9 
 
 all the vicissitudes of political life, and stand to-day a sorrowing 
 multitude around his fresh-rnade grave. And if there are those 
 among his constituency who feel that their personal desires w r ere 
 overlooked, they should remember that it was because it was im 
 possible for him to meet all the demands that w r ere made upon him, 
 and not because of any indifference or neglect upon his part. 
 
 With his strong and aggressive nature it was inevitable that the 
 friction of political life should provoke some resentments, but in 
 the hottest contest he was frank and open in his opposition, and 
 never descended to that vindictive calumny so often resorted to by 
 those who manage the political campaigns incident to a Republic 
 like ours. 
 
 If he had faults and who has not? let him who is without 
 any cast the first stone. There has never been but one perfect life 
 lived on earth, and faults and frailties are the common heritage of 
 humanity. " But the grave covers every defect, extinguishes 
 every resentment ; from its peaceful bosom come only fond regrets 
 and tender recollections." 
 
 If we err, in human blindness, 
 
 And forget that we are dust; 
 If we miss the law of kindness 
 
 When we struggle to he just, 
 Snowy wings of peace shall cover 
 
 All the pain that hides away, 
 We shall know each other better 
 
 When the mists have cleared away. 
 
 To the farmers of Eastern Ohio his death comes with a sense 
 of personal loss. He was long identified with that class of nature s 
 noblemen, the honest labor of whose hands is hallowed bv the 
 sacred promise of the God of Harvests, whose long line of descent 
 runs back through the circling ages to the days of the patriarchs, 
 and who stand to-day throughout the length and breadth of our 
 land, on hillside and prairie, in sloping valley and blooming 
 meadow, the coadjutors of a benign Providence, making the solitary 
 places glad and " the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose." 
 
 Dr. UPDEGRAFF was not a man to be lightly forgotten. His 
 was not a negative nature, to sink into oblivion when the grave 
 
10 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 closes over it. His positive qualities stamped themselves too legi 
 bly upon the events of his time to be lost sight of or ignored ; but 
 in the sacred precincts of his home, among the loving circle of 
 kindred and friends, will the finer qualities of his character find 
 their most fragrant immortality. For nearly two years he suf 
 fered from the malady which resulted in his death, but he was uni 
 formly cheerful and bright, and bore his sufferings, which were at 
 times intense, with remarkable patience. No gloomy shadows 
 hovered about his sick chamber. During the six weeks of his con 
 finement to his room he arranged his business, received his friends, 
 and as the scenes of earth receded, he grasped with a firmer hold 
 and a more triumphant faith the enduring realities of the life to 
 come. 
 
 He was reared in the peace-loving principles of the Society of 
 Friends, that noble denomination of Christians, who for more than 
 two hundred years have kept the simple tenor of their quiet way 
 in the midst of the rushing din of the world s clashing conflicts, un 
 daunted by persecution, unspoiled by flattery, bearing with meek 
 ness alike the fury of fanatical hate and the seductiveness of worldly 
 favor. 
 
 In his last illness he gave much time and thought to the life that 
 is beyond. He talked frequently of death and invited his Chris 
 tian friends to read the Scriptures and pray with him. He realized 
 better than his friends that his work was done and that the end was 
 drawing nigh. A few days before his death the people of his dis 
 trict were cheered by hopeful words from his family and physicians, 
 and many thought that he would certainly recover, but his strength 
 was too nearly exhausted, and the vital currents of life ran too low 
 to be permanently rallied. While he had himself the gravest ap 
 prehensions of the result, he was anxious that nothing should be 
 left undone that might afford a hope of benefiting him, yielding 
 only when the inevitable was upon him. 
 
 For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, 
 
 This pleasing, anxious being e er resigned- 
 Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, 
 Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR, OF OHIO. 11 
 
 Though clinging to life with all the vigor of a strong and suc 
 cessful man s interest in its activities, he yet faced death with a spirit 
 of calm submission, and breathed his last in the assured faith of 
 immortality, 
 
 His funeral was one of the largest and most impressive gather 
 ings that has been known in that part of the State. A solemnity 
 brooded over the village of Mount Pleasant, a hush as of the still 
 ness of death. Emblems of mourning floated from every dwelling, 
 places of business were closed, flags draped in black swayed in the 
 chill air, and every face was tearful and sorrowing. Slowly the 
 long procession, headed by the Congressional escort, moved out 
 from the home he had loved, bearing the inanimate form of him 
 who should return to it no more. Upward of two thousand people 
 gathered in the spacious Friends meeting-house to take a last look 
 at the features, lately so familiar, now stamped with the mysterious 
 nobility of death. The beautiful burial casket bore upon its silver 
 plate the words : " Dr. J. T. UPDEGRAFF, died November 30, 1 882, 
 aged 60 years." 
 
 Appropriate addresses were made, and he was laid away to rest 
 in the burial-place of his fathers and close beside the play-ground 
 of his boyhood. 
 
 There the flowers of spring will bloom in beauty above his 
 sleeping dust. There the snows of winter will weave about his 
 lowly bed a covering of spotless purity. The years will come and 
 go; other feet will press the sod of his familiar home; time and 
 change will write their inevitable legend upon all nature ; the earth 
 itself will shrivel and decay and the heavens be rolled together as 
 a scroll, but his immortal spirit will live when the universe shall 
 be no more and when time itself is a forgotten thing. 
 
 The sun is but a spark of fire, 
 
 A transient meteor in the sky 
 The Soul, immortal as its Sire, 
 
 Shall never die! 
 
12 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 Address of Mr. ATHERTON, of Ohio. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: On the 30th day of November, 1882, the people 
 of the United States, responding to Executive proclamation, were 
 rendering thanksgiving and praise to the Giver of all good for the 
 bounties and blessings of a most fruitful and prosperous year. 
 
 In terrible contrast to the general rejoicing on that very day our 
 brother whose life and virtues we pause to commemorate on lay a 
 bed of suffering and death. 
 
 His well-beloved family surrounded him with loving but suffer 
 ing hearts and fain would have snatched him from the grim mon 
 ster, but all human aid and sympathy were powerless and unavail 
 ing, and in the early evening of that day he was released from his 
 suffering and slept the quiet sleep of death. 
 
 The sad news flashed over the wires while many of us were on 
 our way to the national capital. 
 
 Pursuant to the request of the Speaker of this House, and 
 prompted by an earnest desire to pay a last tribute of respect to all 
 that remained of our distinguished brother, I formed one of the 
 number composing the Congressional delegation who attended his 
 obsequies. 
 
 Leaving Washington and passing the grand scenery of the Bal 
 timore and Ohio Railroad we in due time arrived at Wheeling. 
 
 We there took carriages and crossing the Ohio River we ascended 
 the glorious hills of my own native State. Arriving at the sum 
 mit a scene of beauty was spread out before us in magnificent pan 
 orama. 
 
 On one side the Ohio River wound through the valley like " a 
 ribbon of silver," and away beyond us were high hills and deep 
 valleys decked with large and beautiful farm-houses and covered with 
 the richest products of agricultural wealth. 
 
 The whole scene illustrated the character of the inhabitants. In 
 dustry, virtue, and intelligence had joined together and laid their 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. ATHERTON, OF OHIO. 13 
 
 talismanic hands on the rugged hills and covered them with prosper 
 ity and rural wealth. 
 
 We moved on a few miles, and looking other miles ahead beheld 
 a beautiful little village crowning the summit of a distant emi 
 nence, overlooking the country for a long distance on all sides. 
 
 Crossing a deep valley and making a slow and laborious ascent 
 we at last reached the town. It was Mount Pleasant, the life-long 
 home of Dr. UPDEGRAFF, the home of his boyhood, of his profes 
 sional career, and his riper manhood. 
 
 Its location, its surroundings, the intelligence and virtue of its 
 people, its proud elevation and pure atmosphere, its clean streets 
 and grand perspective made it seem what its name imports, Mount 
 Pleasant. Almost on the summit of the town stood the home ol 
 Dr. UPDEGRAFF. Large and commodious and yet attractive, 
 erected for utility and comfort rather than display, it contained 
 every mark of culture and refinement. 
 
 In this little hamlet of perhaps three hundred inhabitants stands 
 an immense church, of unique design, capable of seating two thou 
 sand inhabitants or many times the whole number of the residents 
 of the village. It belongs to a denomination of Christians that 
 discard the fashions and " haberdashery" of the world and yet con 
 tain more of the essence of real benevolence, goodness, and pure 
 religion than any other the Society of Friends. 
 
 Of this church Dr. UPDEGRAFF was a member, and in that 
 church his funeral was preached and the last honors paid to the 
 lamented and illustrious dead. 
 
 To that church the teeming inhabitants of all that region wended 
 their way to pay a parting tribute of respect to a citizen who, when 
 living, was most illustrious, most loved, and when dead the most 
 lamented, 
 
 I have given this hasty and imperfect sketch of the home and 
 surroundings of our brother not without a purpose. It reflects the 
 character of the man. Who could arrive at social, professional, 
 and political distinction with such surroundings and breathing such 
 an atmosphere without honesty, truth, true manhood, and a high 
 order of intelligence? There was no place there for the sluggard, 
 
14 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 the vicious, or even the man of mere selfish ambition. He would 
 necessarily breathe purity from the clear air and acquire industry 
 from the busy scenes. He would imbibe true religion from both 
 the precept and daily example of those surrounding him who be 
 lieve in and practice honesty and religion seven days in the week 
 instead of one. 
 
 The life and character of Dr. UPDEGRAFF illustrated the benefi 
 cence and value of his fortunate surroundings. He was born 
 without great wealth and at the same time free from the privations 
 and rigors of poverty. His birthright of fortune was the golden 
 mean. It furnished him with a full opportunity and means to suc 
 cessfully pursue the study of his chosen profession without alluring 
 him into the tortuous paths of vice or dissipation. He selected the 
 practice of medicine and surgery as his life-work. He studied it 
 faithfully and with great success in America and in the schools of 
 Edinburgh and Paris. He practiced it with great honor to himself 
 and profit to his people. 
 
 But eminence in his profession did not fill the measure of his 
 honorable ambition. 
 
 He entered the political arena. He worthily represented a con 
 stituency in the senate of Ohio, when his talents made him a con 
 spicuous member. He was elected to the Forty-sixth and Forty- 
 seventh Congresses, and, after the most memorable and exciting con 
 test for renomination ever known in the political history of Ohio, 
 was at the end triumphantly reindorsed and re-elected to the Forty- 
 eighth Congress. 
 
 At the date of his death he was in the very zenith of his pros 
 perity and usefulness. He had served long enough in Congress to 
 have gained reputation and a position of influence. He had passed 
 the period of Congressional probation and had just arrived at the 
 point where he could demand a hearing and be valuable to his con 
 stituency. 
 
 He had one session of the present Congress before him assured 
 and a whole Congress besides. 
 
 He had already left his mark on the legislation of the country. 
 On matters relating to agriculture he was authority. While his 
 
ADDRESS OF MB. ATHERTON, OF OHIO. 15 
 
 past Congressional life had been largely probationary, the coming- 
 time was the promised years of fruition. 
 
 Touching his life-work I do not intend, if I could, to deal in 
 glittering eulogism, but simply to state the facts as they appear to 
 me. 
 
 He was industrious and faithful to his noble profession, with a 
 conscious regard to his duties and responsibilities, as one who as 
 sumes to assist nature in restoring from sickness to health the won 
 derful organism of man. He sought faithfully and diligently all 
 that modern learning and science unfolds, both as to the cause of 
 human ailments and the remedy for human ills. How well he 
 succeeded the mourning thousands who flocked to his funeral and 
 lamented his death will bear witness. 
 
 When he entered politics he pursued a like course. He faithfully 
 conned anew both the fundamental and statute law of his country. 
 He earnestly studied the philosophy of proposed legislation. In 
 the discussions of the last session on the tariff question, physician 
 as he was, a comparatively new member as he also was, he so treated, 
 and discussed this important but threadbare subject that he ar 
 rested the attention of the country ; and (as I know from a modest 
 statement from his own lips) the first copies of any document ordered 
 for distribution by the Congressional committee of his party for that 
 year, were 10,000 copies of that speech. It was a manly, noble, 
 earnest, and eloquent effort. It displayed deep thought and great 
 power of penetration. As old as the subject was, as much as it had 
 undergone discussion by the master minds of the ripest statesmen 
 of the world in some points of view and in some of its phases at 
 least, it seemed clearer by his discussion of it. Certainly no better 
 exposition of the question from his stand-point was ever addressed 
 to or more fully brought within the comprehension of the common, 
 untrained mind. Its clearness of statement and its lucid logic con 
 tributed largely to that end. 
 
 I believe our deceased brother to have been thoroughly honest 
 and incorruptible. Although his very antipode on most political 
 questions, I always believed his real power as a speaker arose largely 
 from the thoroughly honest conviction he brought to the discussion 
 
1G LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 of all questions. He always spoke and acted from what to him 
 were the very promptings of truth. 
 
 But at the very noonday of his success and usefulness disease 
 laid its heavy hand upon him. With the monster he battled man 
 fully. Delusive hope held out to his imagination the benison of re 
 turning health. In the midst of the most paiaful disease came the 
 period of renomination. Others coveted his place. Hoping for 
 health and battling with pain and agony, he made his memorable 
 campaign. His resolution was undaunted. 
 
 One convention was called, and after a contest lasting for days 
 dissolved. It was the doctor against the field. He could not be 
 nominated nor could he be defeated. The delegates surrendered 
 their powers to the people and relegated the question to them. New 
 primaries were held, new delegates selected, a new convention as 
 sembled, and with unconquerable resolution he and his devoted 
 friends continued the battle and at last victory perched on their ban 
 ners. He was elected to the next Congress against all opposition. 
 
 But there was an- enemy that no human resolution could conquer 
 and no human power withstand. Cruel and insatiate he visits the 
 palace and the hovel, he knocks impartially at the gates of the rich 
 and the poor, and strikes down the high and the low. The dread 
 reaper reaps the stocks of the ripened golden grain, " and spares not 
 the flowers that grow between." 
 
 My memory reverts to the memorable word I heard so oft re 
 peated in the quaint old Quaker church at Mount Pleasant : 
 
 "God moves in a mysterious way 
 His wonders to perform." 
 
 How they now echo in the chambers of memory ! 
 
 In the mysterious dispensation of His providence, for reasons hid 
 den from the wisdom of man but of the highest wisdom when 
 viewed in the light of that intelligence that spans all time and all 
 space, the Master permitted the reaper to come. Our brother was 
 not unprepared. The visions of earthly ambition vanished, the 
 bright hope of future achievement melted into air, but in their stead 
 he saw the dawning light of blissful eternity. The sun of that 
 
ADDRESS OF ME. McKINLEY, OF OHIO. 17 
 
 Thanksgiving Day went down in darkness. All the morning 
 seemed to bring to earthly eyes was death, a coffin, and a shroud ; 
 but let us hope as well we may 
 
 "That when the sun, in all his state, 
 
 Illumed the eastern skies 
 He passed through glory s morning-gate 
 And walked in Paradise." 
 
 Address of Mr. McKiNLEY, of Ohio. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: I cannot permit this occasion to pass without 
 arresting the attention of the House to bear testimony to the worth 
 of my departed friend. " There is nothing certain in man s life but 
 this, that he must lose it," JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF, who par 
 ticipated in the deliberations of this House at its first session, and 
 who last August parted company with his associates in robust health 
 and full intellectual strength, is dead. I will not detain the House 
 with a history of his early life and public achievements ; these have 
 been fully recited by his successor [Mr. Taylor] and others who 
 have preceded me, more in detail and better than I could possibly 
 do. I shall content myself with a brief statement of some of the 
 features of his personal character which impressed me during an 
 acquaintance of many years. 
 
 In public station, whether in State or national affairs, he was 
 respected and honored ; in private life, beloved by a large and in 
 fluential circle of friends. He was simple in his habits and tastes, 
 strong in his friendships, tender and devoted in his family rela 
 tions, generous and confiding in his nature, firm and unyielding in 
 his convictions of duty. He hated shams and despised preten 
 sions, and his simple nature esteemed candor and sincerity above 
 everything else. He regarded any labor or sacrifice for principle 
 a religious duty, and he would go out of his way to help a friend. 
 
 He had the advantage of early and thorough instruction, and 
 
 through his whole life was an apt student of men and affairs. 
 
 He was literary in his tastes, fond of the best books and best 
 
 thoughts, old and new, and his library at home evidenced the dis- 
 
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18 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. VPDEaRAFF. 
 
 cerning hand of a man of culture. He was interested in general 
 education ; not the technical merely, but that broad and enlight 
 ened instruction which makes good men and intelligent and self- 
 respecting citizens. 
 
 He was well equipped for the trust to which an admiring peo 
 ple elevated him in 1878. Possessed of great intellectual force, ripe 
 attainments, experience in public matters, and integrity of character, 
 he was splendidly prepared for public life and official trust. He 
 was a positive man a nature full of convictions and with a cour 
 age to utter them. He therefore had his antagonisms, and was not 
 without opposition in his own party ranks, but these were fully 
 compensated by the devotion and steadfastness of friends by 
 whom he was always surrounded, and whose loyalty to him 
 never lagged and whose devotion never abated. In this House 
 he was a careful, studious, painstaking, intelligent Represent 
 ative, seldom, if ever, absent from his post of duty, watching 
 with interest and intelligence the course and effect of legislation ; 
 and while he did not often participate in debate, he never spoke 
 without adding something to the subject under discussion. 
 
 He was a staunch friend and an earnest advocate of the agricul 
 tural interests of he country, and to him we are indebted, in a 
 large degree, for some of the best legislation of the past four years 
 touching that interest. A farmer himself, he knew their needs, 
 and never hesitated to advocate and en force them. He was closely 
 identified with the agricultural interests of his State, and his fre 
 quent addresses upon that subject made him well and favorably 
 known, and gave him a high place among that large and intelli 
 gent class of citizens. His most notable speech on the floor of 
 this House during his four years of service, and the one which 
 will be most remembered, was made at the first session of the pres 
 ent- Congress on the general subject of the tariff. That speech was 
 comprehensive and statesmanlike, and elicited deserved applause 
 from his associates and the country at large. It was circulated in 
 large editions in many of the States, and proved a valuable contri 
 bution to the volumes of tariff debates. 
 
 Large-minded, unselfish, and generous, lie commanded the re 
 spect and esteem of both sides of this chamber ; men of all parties 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. WILLIS, OF KENTUCKY. 1<J 
 
 believed in his honesty of purpose and fidelity to convictions, and 
 we all miss him from these halls. 
 
 He was a member of the Friends 7 Society, and conspicuous in 
 that strong and influential body of Christians. They, too, will 
 miss him. His own friends and fellow-townsmen cannot supply 
 his place. The love of his neighbors was demonstrated on the oc 
 casion of his funeral ; every business house in his village was closed ; 
 tokens of love and sorrow were seen on every hand ; every house 
 bore its badges of mourning. The little village of Mount Pleasant 
 was strewn with the emblems of sorrow, and the neighborhood as 
 sembled without distinction of sect or party to pay a final tribute 
 to their deceased friend, brother, neighbor, representative. 
 
 During his illness the nobleness of his character appeared at its 
 best. Uncomplainingly he suffered, and so sensitive for the feel 
 ings of his friends that he denied most of them presence in his sick 
 chamber lest his suffering might give them pain. He was patient 
 and brave in his great affliction, submitting with Christian faith to 
 the call of death. He closed his life with messages of love to pre 
 sent and absent friends, confident of friendly greetings beyond from 
 those who had passed on before. From one who was nearest to him 
 I learn that he daily and hourly repeated the words of the Psalmist : 
 
 "The Lord has chastened me sore, but He hath not given me over unto death. 
 Open to me the gates of righteousness ; I will go into them and praise the 
 Lord." 
 
 The nursing of a devoted wife could not save, him. The prayers 
 of friends could not restore him. 
 
 " God s finger touched him and he slept. 
 The gates were opened and he entered in. 
 
 Address of Mr. WILLIS, of Kentucky. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : We pause to-day in the midst of busy duties to lay 
 the laurel wreath of memory and affection upon the grave of a de 
 parted colleague. 
 
 Half a year ago, at our midsummer adjournment, I parted with 
 Dr. UPDEGRAFF in this hall. Erect in form, of strong physical 
 
20 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 constitution, and the most temperate habits, glowing with health and 
 vigor, length of days seemed to be as surely his as if held by a bond 
 to fate. We exchanged friendly words of good-will and of fare 
 well, and separated with the mutual hope that we would soon "meet 
 again." 
 
 But a few short months had passed; the green meadows upon the 
 high and fertile plateaus which encircle his far-off Western home 
 were yet fresh and beautiful when we did " meet again." But how 
 sadly changed, how different the circumstances from what we had 
 hoped. The heart whose generous ministrations had won my regard 
 and the regard of all who knew him had ceased to beat ; the hand, open 
 as day to " sweet charity," whose warm grasp I had so recently re 
 laxed, was cold and pulseless ; the voice whose persuasive eloquence 
 had so often charmed was mute forever ; after a brief but painful 
 illness Dr. UPDEGRAFF had answered the solemn and mysterious 
 summons, and joined the " pale nations of the dead." 
 
 Dead in the vigor of his manhood and in the hour of his greatest 
 political triumph ; dead in the bosom of his family ; dead in the 
 midst of faithful friends and admiring fellow-citizens. 
 
 Dead, did I say ? And yet has not the poet well and truly de 
 clared 
 
 To live in hearts we leave behind 
 Is not to die. 
 
 And to quote the chaste and eloquent words of Dr. UPDEGRAFF 
 himself: 
 
 Is not influence immortal? Shall not a worthy example, a true thought, 
 a noble act, no matter how humbly born, wear its life and do its work through 
 all the years to come. It was a beautiful thought of a great scientist that 
 every sound which ever stirred the air went on vibrating to eternity. It is 
 true, at least, of all moral and spiritual forces. 
 
 Never did I realize more fully the truth and beauty of these 
 words than when, as a member of the funeral cortege, I gathered 
 with his friends and loved ones at the bier of him who spoke them. 
 When I witnessed the deep sense of personal bereavement which 
 pervaded that circle and the entire community how the humble cot 
 tage and the little workshop, as well as the more stately mansion, 
 were robed in the habiliments of sorrow ; when I heard there and 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. WILLIS, OF KENTUCKY. 21 
 
 everywhere the tender and appreciative words which came from 
 full hearts, I felt that though dead he yet liveth. The golden bowl 
 of a true and noble life may be broken, but the gentle virtues, the 
 kindly deeds, and great purposes which have filled it with beauty 
 and value will remain, and, like incense from an altar, will sweeten 
 and consecrate the air, and that, too, for unnumbered years. 
 
 What those virtues were what the noble ends which marked the 
 career of Dr. UPDEGRAFF, and what the means by which he se 
 cured those ends, I might here give in detailed particularity. I 
 might speak of him as a man, courteous, amiable, brave, and gen 
 erous ; as a citizen, full of energy, enterprise, and patriotism ; as a 
 public servant, repeatedly honored with the responsibilities of high 
 station and always upright, conscientious, and faithful to the trust. 
 I might refer to various measures with which he was identified here 
 and elsewhere as illustrative of his broad, liberal, generous states 
 manship. As a Representative of that part of our country most 
 vitally affected, I might especially mention his active and intelli 
 gent support, as a member of the Committee on Epidemic Diseases, 
 in behalf of the bill to prevent the introduction and spread of yel 
 low fever that fearful pestilence which " walketh in darkness and 
 destroyeth at noonday," whose consuming breath has destroyed so 
 many of the bravest and best of our land. 
 
 Nor would I forget his equally earnest and unselfish efforts, as 
 chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, to secure 
 the passage by Congress of the bill to prevent the growth and 
 spread among our people of ignorance that curse more enduring 
 in its effects and more blighting to the happiness and prosperity of 
 a country than either war or pestilence. For his support of these 
 two measures alone Dr. UPDEGRAFF will always be held in the 
 grateful remembrance of our people as a benefactor and wise law 
 maker. Such legislation redounds to the best interests of the whole 
 Union; it bears "healing upon its wings" for political as well as 
 physical ills, and will ever be welcomed by our people as the mes 
 senger of fraternal affection the witness of enlightened, generous 
 statesmanship. 
 
 But it is not my purpose to recount at length the virtues and char 
 acteristics of our lamented associate they are known to his friends 
 and to fame they have been embalmed in our memory by the 
 
22 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 affectionate hands of his immediate colleagues. I could not, if I 
 would, add a single line to the tender and beautiful, but most accu 
 rate, portraiture they have placed before us to-day. But their voice 
 nor mine can " provoke the silent dust/ or " soothe the dull, cold 
 ear of death." Fortunate, however, will each of us be if we shall 
 so imitate the virtues which adorned his life that when death comes 
 we may be, like him " at rest " until our freed spirits awaken to 
 the pure light and blissful scenes of immortality beyond the grave. 
 And how soon, Mr. Speaker, to all of us will that unseen world 
 be revealed ? How often during the past year, unbidden and un 
 heralded, has the weird spirit of the glass and scythe entered this 
 hall. Hardly a month has passed that the half-masted flag and the 
 vacant chair, clad in its " vestments of woe," have not reminded 
 us that another colleague had heard his dread summons and gone 
 hence forever. Since the Forty-seventh Congress convened eight 
 of these United States have stood as mourners around the open 
 graves of their chosen representatives. How suggestive this of the 
 uncertainty, the instability, the utter helplessness of life and of life s 
 highest hopes and dearest ambitions. And how solemn the ad 
 monition so to discharge our duties here as to secure the rewards of 
 the great hereafter. 
 
 Yes, the shores of life are shifting 
 
 Every year, 
 And we are seaward drifting 
 
 Every year, 
 
 Old places, changing, fret us, 
 The living more forget us 
 
 Every year. 
 
 But the truer life draws nigher 
 
 Every year, 
 And its morning star climbs higher 
 
 Every year, 
 
 Earth s hold on us grows slighter 
 And the heavy burden lighter, 
 And the dawn immortal brighter 
 
 Every year. 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. SKINNER, OF NEW YORK. 23 
 
 Address of Mr. SKINNER, of New York. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : The summons which must sooner or later come 
 to us all has again been heard, and this occasion reminds us anew 
 how frail is our hold upon that strange thing called life. Once 
 more this great department of the Government stops its accustomed 
 work, the ponderous wheels of legislation cease their revolutions, 
 and we gather here to pay fitting tribute to the memory and to 
 speak kind words of a brother who has finished his work and gone 
 home. 
 
 But yesterday these halls resounded with the inharmonious tones 
 of excited discussion. There was the hurried confusion of heated 
 debate, the almost angry conflict of party strife, the busy commin 
 gling of contrary opinions, and the earnest grappling for personal 
 or party advantage. Words were not at all times rounded with 
 charity or good will. 
 
 To-day there is the invisible presence of a spirit all about us 
 which hides the excitement of partisan feeling, and words of pas 
 sion pass away in the hush of sympathy and in the memory of 
 grief. 
 
 Kind words alone are spoken now, tempered by feeling only ; 
 words which seek to paint on in visible canvas the virtues of a well- 
 spent life, words of praise for the honored dead, of consolation to 
 living. 
 
 How often in reading the eloquent eulogies which have been pro 
 nounced in this chamber have we wished they could have been 
 heard by the living ears of those who have gone. Alas, too often 
 we wait until our friends have left us forever before we tell their 
 virtues. And we ofttimes wonder if the words here spoken will 
 have life beyond their utterance. May we not hope that like the 
 fragrance distilled from the flowers, which floats upward on the 
 balmy air, like incense from the burning oil, they will rise into the 
 celestial region of eternal rest and reach the ear of him we mourn, 
 who sits near the great white throne and sends us back greetings of 
 gratitude and brotherly love. 
 
24 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 Those who knew Dr. UPDEGRAFF best in life, who followed his 
 public career with the interest which close friendship imparts, who 
 were associated with him in fraternal intercourse, who knew him as 
 a public servant in his own great State, have fittingly told of his 
 busy life and how well he lived it. Those to whom his friendship 
 was just unfolding as a new possession, who were learning to value 
 his acquaintance as something to be treasured among pleasant mem 
 ories, who could see and admire the ability, the industry, and the 
 intelligence which he threw into his work among us those who 
 were the recipients of his cordial greetings and kindly advice, can 
 only hope to lay a small tribute of regard upon this altar of good 
 will. It is not the length of man s friendship which gives it value ; 
 it is, rather, the life-long impressions which it plants and the good 
 that grows out of it. A few months were sufficient to impress one 
 with the height and breadth of Dr. UPDEGRAFF S culture and worth. 
 They will live far beyond the life of the man, to inspire those who 
 felt the influence of his example and who learned the true worth of 
 the precepts which always governed his actions. It was a grand 
 thing to know such a man and to count him a friend. 
 
 It was a privilege to visit the place where he lived and died. 
 Over the mountains to a pretty village went one December day those 
 who had been designated by you, Mr. Speaker, to participate in the 
 funeral ceremonies as representatives of this body. There were seen 
 the beautiful village wearing the garb of mourning at the loss of a 
 respected citizen ; a stricken household, where wife, children, and 
 relatives gathered in mutual grief, and bemoaned the lost love of a 
 husband, father, and brother; a church filled with sad faces of 
 Friends who had lost a friend indeed ; a community mingling its 
 tears together at the death of one who had made the world better 
 for his living. 
 
 There were heard the glowing and affectionate tributes of pastor 
 and friends paid to the finished life and character of him whom we 
 mourn to-day the testimony paid to his virtues and varied accom 
 plishments of mind and heart by those who knew him so well, and 
 among whom he had steadily grown in strength, influence, useful 
 ness, and honor. The tears which followed these testimonies to his 
 worth spoke as eloquently as the words from the lips. There was 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. SKINNER, OF NEW YORK. 25 
 
 universal proof of the loss which family, and village, and State, and 
 country had sustained. An upright man, an earnest Christian, an 
 enterprising citizen, and an honest public servant had gone to his 
 reward. In the record he had made for himself we know 
 He wore the white flower of a blameless life. 
 
 Just as the Congress in which he had already proved his useful 
 ness was about opening its second session the last honors were being 
 paid our departed friend. After a hard struggle with a mighty pain 
 he lay at rest in a peaceful sleep which has no waking this side the 
 shores of the dark river. 
 
 Nearly fifty years ago these words were spoken in the halls of 
 Congress of one whose work had just ended. They seem to befit 
 ting now : 
 
 His name should be his epitaph ; and however blank it may appear to the 
 vacant eye of the passing stranger, it will always have the power to call up 
 the recollections of his virtues in the bosom of friendship and the tear of uu- 
 dissembled sorrow in the eye of affection offerings more grateful and con 
 genial to the disembodied spirit than the proudest monument which human 
 art can erect or the most studied eulogy which human eloquence can pronounce. 
 
 Dr. UPDEGRAFF left his impress upon this House ; he left it upon 
 the world. It was always for good; and is there not a creed which 
 holds that nothing good is ever lost? Is not his influence still over 
 and about us ? Is not the example of upright life and earnest action 
 eternal always pressing forward to the accomplishment of noble 
 purposes ? We know that he held this belief. In an address de 
 livered before the young ladies of the Steubenville Female Academy 
 a few years ago his theme was " A Purpose in Life," and he gave 
 expression to the following graceful thoughts : 
 
 If your life shall have a true and noble purpose it shall so enlarge your ca 
 pacity for enjoyment that your deeper joys shall contrast with the mere 
 pleasures of youth as the rapture of a seraph is higher than the prattling 
 laughter of a child. The joy of a conscious dedication to some worthy 
 work exalts the whole being. It makes plain the beautiful thought of an 
 eastern fable: "I was common clay till roses were planted in me." An abso 
 lute consecration to a purpose becomes inspiration and commands victory. 
 
 In speaking of influence he said : 
 
 In the immortality of influence there are no trifles. A worthy example, a 
 true thought, a noble act, no matter how humbly born, shall wear its life and 
 
26 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 do its work through all the years to come. It was a beautiful thought of a 
 great scientist that every sound which ever stirred the air went on vibrating 
 to eternity. It is true at least of all moral and spiritual forces. 
 
 In closing his address he makes this beautiful wish and prayer, 
 almost prophetic of the eternal joys which now must be his own : 
 
 May life in the nobleness of its purposes, in the beneficence of its results, 
 in the richness and glory of its rewards be for each of you only fit prelude and 
 preparation for the ineffable fruition of changless joys. 
 
 To those of us who remain, occasions like this may well seem 
 like admonitions. To-day our brother sleeps. It is we who speak. 
 To-morrow our lips may be silent and other voices speak as we are 
 speaking. In the lottery of death there are no blanks. 
 
 It is a part of life to mourn. Death is a rest in peace. Those 
 who live must grieve. Those who leave us have no sorrows. With 
 them all is over and the eternal problem solved. 
 
 Unless we anchor our hopes in the hereafter we find the sum of 
 earthly happiness borne down by its sorrows. This is only one sad 
 chapter in life s history. The dread moment is sure to come when 
 the happiness of a life-time melts away in one sad hour. Yester 
 day it was the child just unfolding into the beautiful mysteries of 
 life, and whose death breaks our hearts and spoils our lives. To 
 day it is the middle-aged, just ready to reap the fruit ripening un 
 der his culture ; to-morrow the aged go, full of years and useful 
 ness, whose light goes not out in darkness but burns to the socket 
 in a well-rounded life. 
 
 Our friend is dead. And yet what is death ? 
 
 To live in hearts we leave behind 
 Is not to die. 
 
 Whether we shall see him face to face in that undiscovered country ; 
 whether we shall know him there as we knew him here ; whether 
 body and soul separate here to be again united " over there ; " whether 
 that better life is a commingling of kindred spirits, while the body 
 returns to dust ; whether it is all of life to live or all of death to 
 die ; whether his pure soul is hovering around us still or marching 
 on to glories which we cannot see, and which with him are just be 
 gun, are problems which we shall all solve in God s good time. 
 
 Until then it is happiness to trust that we shall all live again. 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. NEAL, OF OHIO. 27 
 
 With us, as with his loving family, it is a blessed hope, a comfort 
 ing belief, yes, a happy conviction, that it is not all of death to die, 
 that it is but an entrance into eternal life. To those who are soothed 
 by this " unfaltering trust " 
 
 There is no death ! What seems so is transition. 
 
 This life of mortal breath 
 Is but a suburb of the life elysian 
 
 Whose portal we call Death ! 
 
 Address of Mr. NEAL, of Ohio. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : " Earth to earth, dust to dust, ashes to ashes." 
 Thus all that was mortal of our late associate, colleague, and friend, 
 Dr. JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF, was by his bereaved family, sor 
 rowing friends, and neighbors who thus did homage to his private 
 virtues and public worth, consigned to the dark and silent tomb, the 
 final resting place of all the races of mankind. 
 
 I shall not attempt to make any extended statement of his life 
 and public services. Others who have known him longer and more 
 intimately than I, have already discharged that loving, yet melan 
 choly, duty most appropriately and eloquently. Suffice it, then, 
 for me to say that the distinguished deceased parted from us upon 
 the adjournment of the first session of this Congress in August 
 last, full of life, in the expectation of a pleasant sojourn at his 
 country home which he loved so well, during the brief vacation in 
 tervening before the commencement of the present session of the 
 Forty-seventh Congress. 
 
 Like all of us, he confidently expected to return hither and per 
 form his part in the great and important work of legislating for 
 the 50,000,000 of human beings who now inhabit the territory of 
 this free and mighty Federal Republic, happily once again united, 
 not only by the strong bonds of law and order, but the still stronger 
 ones of patriotic allegiance, fidelity, and love, from the pine-clad 
 forests of the North to the everglades of the South, from the rock- 
 bound coast of the East to the Golden Gate of the West. 
 
 There was no outward appearance of the insidious disease which 
 
28 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. VPDEGRAFF. 
 
 was even then preying upon his vitals. No one of his associates 
 upon this floor, I apprehend, had any suspicion that the great enemy, 
 or shall I say friend, of the human race, Death, had then selected him 
 for his own, and ere the expiration of ninety days would take him 
 hence. On the contrary, many of us would gladly have exchanged 
 his chances of earthly existence for our own. How our expecta 
 tions perish ! How our hopes are disappointed ! Behold him, the 
 strong man, the man of heart and brain, the man with the mind to 
 conceive, the will to dare, and the hand to execute ; the man of 
 force and of action, animated by every high and holy aspiration, 
 controlled by every right impulse, cut down in the meridian of an 
 active and useful life, with his armor girt upon him, and, sword in 
 hand, battling manfully for the right. Once again we are reminded 
 that the battle is not to the strong nor the race to the swift. But 
 death is not an eternal sleep, a never-ending, always enduring 
 Nirvana; it is rather the approaching of our night to be followed 
 by a day more brilliant, the fading of the transient flower of our 
 life, that it may rebloom in another world of joy resplendent and 
 of happiness supernal. 
 
 Cicero, the wise, grand man of ancient Rome in her golden days 
 of history, philosophy, and of poetry one of the world s most sin 
 cere seekers after truth and after God, in contemplating this inter 
 esting subject of bodily dissolution thus discourses : " Some men 
 make womanish complaints that it is a great misfortune to die be 
 fore one s time. I would ask what time? Is it that of nature? 
 But she indeed has lent us life as we do a sum of money, only no 
 certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain 
 if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition we re 
 ceived it." 
 
 It was thus our friend died. Not with blenched cheek, with un 
 manly fear in his heart, dreading to meet the King of Terrors face 
 to face; but fearlessly, as the brave man dies who has performed 
 well his part, saying in his heart, if not by voice, " It is the will 
 of God ; His will be done." 
 
 No doubt he loved life, as we all love it. This beautiful world, 
 with its green fields and blooming flowers, was attractive to him, as 
 it is to every well-ordered person who lives a true life. He could 
 
ADDRESS OF MB. BUTTER WORTH, OF OHIO. 29 
 
 look upon the past without blushing for time unprofitably spent, 
 or charging himself with having been slothful or insincere ; and 
 the future was glowing with bright hopes and high expectations. 
 Why, then, should he not have desired to linger longer in his earthly 
 tabernacle ? When death came 
 
 " It was to him but as another life. 
 We bow our heads at getting out ; 
 We think, and enter strait 
 Another golden chamber of the King s ; 
 Larger than this we leave, and lovlier, 
 And then in shadowy glimpses disconnect. 
 The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves, 
 And God is all in all." 
 
 Mr. Speaker, our late friend and associate has disappeared for 
 ever from our earthly view. We shall see him no more with mortal 
 vision. If our lives are as earnest, sincere, truthful, and useful as 
 his was, we will go to him. He comes 110 more to us; but while 
 forever gone he will not be forgotten, for in the ocean of memory 
 there is an island upon whose shores the waves beat with ceaseless 
 roar. 
 
 Address of Mr. BuTTERWORTH, of Ohio. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER. We are charged to speak nothing but good of the 
 dead. I doubt the merit of that maxim. It draws no line between 
 those lives that were worthy and those that were barren wastes. 
 
 But if the maxim is wise and humane, the life and character of 
 Dr. UPDEGRAFF were such that we would not invoke the shield 
 which an observance of the maxim might afford. 
 
 He was one of those who well might challenge even his enemies 
 to scan his record closely, released from the restraints of the char 
 itable maxim mentioned, and speak nothing but the truth. 
 
 If our late colleague could have left an injunction which should 
 bind those who speak of him here to-day, it would have been, 
 " Speak of me as I was. Speak of me as you knew me. Say the 
 truth or say nothing. 7 A worthy life may challenge praise, while 
 
30 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 that one which presents to the world a desert waste is entitled only 
 to the charity of silence. Men s vices teach as well as their virtues, 
 and if we must learn from each let the instruction be such as may 
 give profit. For a single moment I will speak of Dr. UPDE- 
 GRAFF as I knew him, as I think he was. 
 
 I knew him well; his strong points and his weaknesses; his 
 manner of study and his mode of thought. He first squared his 
 purpose to the requirements of a clean, clear conscience. The work 
 his judgment and his conscience approved he addressed himself to 
 with a will inflexible and unyielding. He resolved all doubts in 
 favor of the end he sought. He did nothing rashly, but all things 
 with care. He never recognized the possibility of discomfiture or 
 defeat. He considered carefully before he acted; but once em 
 barked in an enterprise he seldom failed to accomplish what he 
 undertook. Strong in will power, great in moral courage, he had 
 no patience with cowardice, and held the vacillating in contempt. 
 
 He was of a race that possessed those great qualities of serious 
 earnestness and dogged continuity of purpose which characterized 
 the Dutch and made that people more than a match for the tower 
 ing strength and boundless resources of Spain at the zenith of her 
 glory and power. He was unpretending in his life and manner. 
 He was the embodiment of thoughtfulness, of earnestness, and en 
 ergy. His natural endowments were excellent; his mental furnish 
 ings suggestive of strength and usefulness, rather than grace and 
 ornament. 
 
 He was, while serious and reflective, a wit, and when in the so 
 ciety of congenial friends a most delightful conversationalist. He 
 was a careful student. He never wasted a minute reading or coin 
 ing a sentence that was barren of mental nourishment. He was 
 very fond of studying the English classics. He read over and over 
 again the works of Bacon and Macaulay ; was especially charmed 
 with the style of the latter. UPDEGRAFF never read a line which 
 contained or suggested some great thought that he did not commit 
 it to memory. His mind was a storehouse well filled, nor would 
 an examination of that store reveal the waste and rubbish that is 
 found in the invoice and effects of common minds, He obtained 
 
ADDRESS OF ME. EUTTERWORTH, OF OHIO. 31 
 
 knowledge for use, and as the foundation of wisdom unto which he 
 was growing. 
 
 In the storehouse of his mind he was methodical. Every fact 
 he learned, every utterance he treasured up in his memory, every 
 thought he cherished, was ever at his command and available to 
 grace his conversation or strengthen his argument. He studied 
 history less to ascertain the facts recited than to learn the philoso 
 phy they teach. The labor of his life was to attain for himself and 
 mankind to the better things, to improve the conditions with which 
 he was surrounded, to lift men up to a higher and more rational 
 plane of enjoyment. His disposition to have the better things was 
 apparent in all that he did, even in the corn he raised and the cattle 
 he cared for. 
 
 He was frank and candid, sometimes painfully so, and his honest 
 and forcible manner of stating plain truths tended to write him 
 down as an unamiable man. True it is that he had little patience 
 with that disposition of society which is so much concerned about 
 the graces of social intercourse that it prefers polite insincerity to 
 blunt candor, and rather tolerates polished hypocrisy than plain, 
 plodding truth. 
 
 UPDEGRAFF was honest, stubbornly honest. It was a rugged 
 honesty that did not wear away by use, as much of modern hon 
 esty does. His integrity was for all times, all places and occasions, 
 such as could ride out the storm of temptation even with rasping 
 poverty for its companion. How much our country needs that 
 type of honesty ! I say this because it must be apparent that in 
 our day there are more who are worshiping with Aaron the golden 
 calf at the foot of the mountain than are in spirit with Moses at the 
 top worshiping the true God. 
 
 No man could mistake Dr. UPDEGRAFF S honesty for that too 
 prevalent and all-pervading spirit of accommodation which leaves 
 no margin between that which is right and that which is purely 
 expedient. Neither in his public nor his private life did he do or 
 sanction that which tended to blur, much less obliterate, the line that 
 marks the boundary between right and wrong. He was a fearless 
 champion of the former. He never compromised with the latter. 
 
 The consequence to him of profit or loss, of preferment or defeat, 
 
32 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEORAFF. 
 
 formed no important factor in shaping his conduct in the matter of 
 recognizing and discharging his just moral obligations. He knew 
 that " Duty is ours, results are God s." 
 
 When the path of duty led away from that of profit or pleasure 
 he never hesitated. With him duty was supreme. He was a suc 
 cessful business man. He was successful as a physician, successful 
 as an agriculturist, successful as a politician ; for in all those call 
 ings he had the elements which insure success, the qualities I have 
 mentioned. He always took aim; had no confidence in luck. He 
 said success was for him who deserved it. His faculties and pow 
 ers matured slowly but healthfully. He was stronger at fifty 
 than at forty-five. He was not of the type of that school of men 
 who ripen early and then rot. 
 
 In religion he was a "Friend," called in common parlance 
 a Quaker. His connection with that society threw us much to 
 gether. His membership in the society had ceased, but he was still 
 in the faith. And the injunction of that religion to "walk in the 
 light" was ever present with him. "Walk in the light" was the 
 injunction of our fathers. Dr. UPDEGRAFF did not forget it, 
 having faith that his way would be lighted by the spark of divinity 
 within him. 
 
 His philosophy taught him that this life is but the beginning, 
 not the end ; that after death he would open his eyes in another 
 sphere of existence. In that faith he lived ; in that faith he died. 
 
 His thoughts were clean and his language fitly chosen. He 
 appreciated the power of right words. He scorned flattery and 
 despised flatterers. He was not slow to rebuke the fawning syco 
 phancy that would pay him compliment to win his favor. He was 
 sincere and constant in his friendship and too outspoken in his 
 enmity. He was a stoic in many things. He suifered the most 
 acute pain for many months before his death, but no ear heard a 
 murmur escape his lips. He was of the material of which martyrs 
 are made. Dr. UPDEGRAFF would have walked to his death with 
 calmness and without a murmur to save a cause to which he was 
 devoted as a matter of conscience. 
 
 He was not, in the generally accepted sense, a brilliant man. His 
 qualities of head and heart were for a lifetime, not for an occasion. 
 
 The light of his intellect was constant and sure. It is said that 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. BUTTERWORTff, OF OHIO. 33 
 
 the world is made better by the constant efforts of a few and the 
 fitful efforts of a few more. Dr. UPDEGRAFF was of the constant 
 few >the constant few to whom the world is so greatly indebted 
 for facts accomplished, for labors done. He did not know how to 
 dodge an issue or shirk a responsibility. He never had occasion 
 to suddenly remember that he had an engagement which called 
 him away from this floor just as an important vote was about to 
 be taken. 
 
 I do not criticise those who have such memories, since, of course, 
 it is a mere matter of memory, and the fact that it awakens at such 
 a moment is the merest coincidence. I only note that UPDEGRAFF S 
 memory was not of that kind. Do you think I have been too kind 
 to the memory of my deceased friend ? If so, you do not know 
 him as I did as one who furnished an anchor for the society in 
 which he lived, one w T ho never drifted from the moorings of right, 
 whose soul was large and a fit receptacle for pure and noble emo 
 tions, and unlike some in which such sentiments are cramped and 
 crippled by the dwarfed dimensions of the tenement. 
 
 He was so constituted that the thoughts that drift through vul 
 gar minds found no open way to his. This Republic could better 
 spare ten thousand meteors that flash constantly across our polit 
 ical horizon than one fixed star. This country in her political sky 
 has a vast milky way of twinkling orbs of doubtful magnitude, 
 the- uncertain reflection of which tends rather to make obscure 
 than to make clear the highway of public duty. In the presence 
 of such conditions we may well regret the eclipse by death of a 
 single luminary whose light, if not brilliant, was certain and con 
 stant. Dr. UPDEGRAFF will be missed more than some who have 
 filled a larger place in the public eye. Those who study healthful 
 precepts and profit by wise example will regret him whom we 
 mourn. His influence for good will be felt when the memory of 
 many of his contemporaries who deemed him plain and plodding 
 is forgotten. 
 
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34 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 Address of Mr. PEELLE, of Indiana. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : Having been one of the committee appointed to 
 attend the funeral of the late Dr. UPDEGRAFF may account some 
 what for the propriety of my saying something on this occasion. 
 My acquaintance with Dr. UPDEGRAFF began with this Congress, 
 and in that brief acquaintance I found him to be a man of decided 
 conviction, possessing that courage which is essential to enforce it. 
 His speech in this House at the last session on the tariff will long- 
 stand as a model speech, as it affects especially the agricultural in 
 terests of this country. 
 
 He was a man of large experience, and, as I take it, a close ob 
 server and a student. He must have been both, as his storehouse 
 of knowledge was full. His speeches, both in this House and else 
 where, entitled him to high rank as an original thinker and as an 
 analyzer of thought, always keeping close to those eternal truths 
 which make a man formidable in debate and as a speaker, while 
 at the same time it poises a man for good citizenship. 
 
 He died without complaint and with that bravery which always 
 characterizes the life of a man whose courage rests in the wisdom 
 and in the goodness of God. 
 
 As the committee approached the little village of his residence 
 we discovered the town filled with citizens, young and old, while 
 every house was draped in mourning. Sir, are not these higher 
 tributes to his memory and worth than can possibly be paid by any 
 one on the floor of this House ? The large Quaker church where 
 the funeral was held would not hold the multitude which came to 
 pay the last sad tribute of respect. To each he was esteemed a 
 friend, and his large heart and kindly nature always responded to 
 the wants of the needy and the oppressed. These are jewels in 
 the crown of immortality, and well worthy the imitation of us all. 
 
 But, Mr. Speaker, the life and public services of our late friend 
 have been so fully pictured by his colleagues and others that I can 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. PARKER, OF NEW TORE. 35 
 
 add nothing. The poet Burns has given the proper epitaph on 
 our comrade and our friend, and with his lines I will conclude : 
 
 An honest man here lies at rest, 
 As e er God with his image blessed ; 
 The friend of man, the friend of truth, 
 The friend of age, the guide of youth. 
 Tew hearts like his with virtue warmed, 
 Few heads with knowledge so informed. 
 If there s another world, he lives in bliss; 
 If there is none, he made the best of this. 
 
 Address of Mr. PARKER, of New York. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : It was my fortune to first answer to a roll-call as 
 a member-elect of this Forty-seventh Congress in that hall at the 
 fair city of Cleveland where the meeting was held to prepare to ac 
 company to its last resting-place the sacred body of James A. Gar- 
 field. Many of the members now present first met on that day, 
 and none who there met will ever forget the impressive associa 
 tions of that solemn occasion. All hearts were melted in the con 
 sciousness of personal and national loss in the presence of the dead 
 President and of a people s mourning. Those who had been op 
 ponents met as friends, and strangers met as brothers. Every man 
 realized that his companion bent under the same disappointment 
 and unavailing sorrow. The prizes and the honors of life seemed 
 but trifles indeed in the presence of the universal affliction and of 
 the calm sleeper there. 
 
 By fortunate chance my position in the funeral procession fell in 
 companionship with the honorable JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF, 
 whose decease we now mourn. Of all the vast throng no man 
 could have been a more sincere, a more unselfish mourner than this 
 good, honest friend, who has now himself passed over the one broad 
 pathway where the foot-prints of all of us must finally disappear. 
 
 The conversation was upon, and only upon, the deceased, and many 
 an affectionate and touching tribute did he whom we now mourn 
 pay to the great departed. He told us of their labors and their 
 services together ; of the close and sympathetic intercourse of years; 
 
36 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 of the simple grandeur of lii.s great-hearted leader ; of the affec 
 tion and absolute confidence with which the people who had wit 
 nessed his every-day life had trusted that leader ; of the tender 
 ness of his friendship; of the exalted nobility of his mind. 
 
 And the pure human goodness of the man glowed in his face 
 and a tear dimmed his eye while describing how the great leader, 
 then the idol of his party, of national fame, and conscious of his 
 almost irresistible strength, in the considerate kindness of his heart 
 turned back as he was leaving the hospitable home of his old Quaker 
 friend to call for, and bid good-by to, and shake hands with the 
 poor uncultured colored domestic. 
 
 He exhibited his sense of justice, for, physician as he was, and 
 well aware of the criticisms visited upon his brothers of the med 
 ical profession who had borne the fearful responsibility of seeking 
 to save the life of his friend through the long months of agony, 
 he yet fearlessly commended their faithfulness and skill and resign 
 edly said that they had done all that they could do and all that 
 men had a right to expect. 
 
 From the acquaintance thus formed, and because of the qualities 
 and characteristics he disclosed, and by reason of the frank, genial, 
 and kindly nature of the man, I came to feel better acquainted 
 with the deceased than with almost any other member of the House 
 I had not previously known. More than once I had occasion to 
 be grateful to him for a good word and a kind act. He was the 
 very spirit of kindness and good-will. He was so plainly and 
 naturally honorable that no one ever thought of it as possible for 
 him to be otherwise. 
 
 He was a plain man, unassuming, but always clearly seeing and 
 doing his duty. He was especially watchful of agricultural legis 
 lation and ready to lead or follow to secure the rights of the farm 
 ing interest. He was faithful and attentive, always in his place in 
 the House, doing his whole duty intelligently, but without ostenta 
 tion or self-seeking. He was a man of quick judgment and strong 
 sense, and upon adequate occasion an eloquent speaker. He in 
 stinctively touched the hearts of the common people, for he knew 
 them, he was from and of them. His political addresses delivered 
 in the State of New York will not soon be forgotten. 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. TOWNSEND, OF OHIO. 37 
 
 Knowing this man as one of pure and blameless life, honest and 
 true, faithful and without guile, I claim the privilege to-day of 
 joining those who were his neighbors and long-time associates in 
 doing honor to his memory, and beg to place reverently upon his 
 coffin my sprig of northern evergreen. 
 
 Address of Mr. TOWNSEND, of Ohio. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER, as we stand by the casket in which lie the remains 
 of a loved friend we cannot but contemplate the uncertainty of hu 
 man life and the certainty of death. We are reminded of the des 
 tiny that awaits us all. Without any effort of our own there arises 
 in the breast of every beholder one question: " What is death ?" 
 It is the unsearchable mystery which every man, from the dawn 
 ing of the world to the present day, has tried in vain to penetrate. 
 This feeling of the infinite and dark beyond caused the ancients to 
 speculate upon the life of man on earth compared with the uncer 
 tain time beyond. " Life appears for a while, but what/ 7 ask 
 they, " is the time which comes after, the time which was before." 
 
 Such shadows of human existence scarcely darkened the path 
 way of JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. " Life is real, life is earn 
 est, 7 says Longfellow, and so it was interpreted by our dead friend. 
 He strove to live well, not to live long. 
 
 Of the events of that busy life he lived I need not speak. They 
 have been more fitly pictured by those who have preceded me. I 
 can only speak of a few of the noble qualities of his character as 
 they appeared to me during a long personal acquaintance. One of 
 the most noticeable of his traits was his ambition. His ambition, 
 however, was an unselfish one. He sought position and power 
 that he might do good and use it for the benefit of his fellowman. 
 
 He was a man of robust mental and physical energy, capable of 
 long-continued application to any task to which he set himself. 
 So untiring was his energy that he seldom failed to attain the ob 
 ject for which he sought. No labor discouraged him, no contin 
 gency appalled him, no disadvantage disheartened him, no defeat 
 
38 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 depressed him. Possessed of indomitable will, he had courage 
 equal to his convictions, and was ready to express them upon all 
 proper occasions. Scrupulously honest, he was conscientiously de 
 voted to the discharge of his duties. Whatever he undertook to 
 do he did well. 
 
 He was well educated and thoroughly read on all subjects He 
 had enjoyed unusual advantages in preparation for his career as a 
 physician, and was a successful practitioner. But not alone for 
 pecuniary reward did he labor. His poorest neighbor could ex 
 pect the most patient and careful treatment without money and 
 without price. Agriculture was his favorite pursuit, and to its 
 service he devoted many pleasant hours, looking upon it as a branch 
 of science contributing most to the immediate wants of man. 
 
 His Congressional career, too, was one characterized by deep de 
 votion to duly. He was always present in his seat, and few votes 
 are to be found in the records while a member of this body where 
 his name was not recorded upon the one side or the other of a 
 question. In the Forty-sixth Congress, as a member of the Com 
 mittee on Invalid Pensions, he devoted a great deal of time and 
 labor to the investigation of claims referred to him, and many a 
 poor and maimed soldier and many a veteran s widow and orphan 
 children are indebted to him for the relief they now enjoy. While 
 painstaking and upright in these investigations, his sympathy for 
 the soldiers inclined him to the side of the applicant for the pension. 
 His professional knowledge of diseases and medicine made him a 
 most valuable member of the Select Committee on the Public 
 Health. 
 
 His speech upon the tariif last session from the stand-point of 
 the farmer was able, exhaustive, and original, and gained for him 
 a wide reputation for ability. It clid much to place before the 
 formers of the country that greatly misunderstood subject in its 
 true relations -to agriculture. He was an enthusiastic practical 
 farmer and a loyal adherent to the principles of protection. His 
 was one of the very best tarrff speeches made, for the reason that 
 it was wholly original in its conception. 
 
 In his treatment of his fellow-members he was kindly, courte 
 ous, and commanded their confidence and respect. What a sunny 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. TOWNSEND, OF OHIO. 39 
 
 nature was his! Though he suffered from a fatal malady, be bore 
 it with heroic courage and without complaint. The same even 
 temperament characterized his demeanor; frank, open-hearted, there 
 was that in his countenance which harbored not deceit. 
 
 In the undemonstrative teachings of the Quaker belief he found 
 the rule and guide of his religious life; yet there was the most 
 liberal toleration of the views of others. He could truly say that 
 " none of his fellow-citizens were compelled through any act of his 
 to put on a mourning-robe." 
 
 In the domestic circle he found a source of great comfort. He 
 was the father of five children, all of whom were tenderly raised 
 and well educated, and he lived to see his family useful and hon 
 ored citizens. 
 
 Dr. UPDEGRAFF reached the summit of his ambition, and after 
 an active and eventful life and one of great usefulness, crowned 
 with more success than usually falls to the lot of man, weary and 
 exhausted, surrounded by his family and friends, almost in sight 
 of the farm where he passed so many happy years of his life, his 
 soul obeyed the summons ; in full possession of his faculties, with 
 words of cheer and comfort to sorrowing friends, he calmly passed 
 away. Time will roll his ceaseless course, the moments will hurry 
 by like the shadows of a passing cloud, generations will come and 
 go, but the lessons taught in the life of JONATHAN T. UPDE 
 GRAFF will endure for all time. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The question is upon the adoption of the reso 
 lutions which have been submitted. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously adopted and the House*ad- 
 journed. 
 
. PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE 
 
 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, 
 
 December 5, 1882. 
 
 A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. McPher- 
 son, its Clerk, communicated to the Senate the intelligence of the 
 death of Mr. WILLIAM M. LOWE, late a member of the House 
 from the State of Alabama, and of Mr. JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF, 
 late a member of the House from the State of Ohio, and transmitted 
 the resolutions of the House thereon. 
 
 Mr. PENDLETON. Mr. President, I ask the Chair to lay before 
 the Senate the resolutions just communicated from the House of 
 Representatives. 
 
 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair lays before the Senate 
 resolutions from the House of Representatives, which will be read. 
 
 The Acting Secretary read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the House h#s heard with sincere regret the announcement 
 of the death, during the late recess, of Hon. WILLIAM M. LOWE, a Eeprcsent- 
 tative from the State of Alabama, and of Hon. JONATHAN T. UPDKGRAFF, a 
 Representative from the State of Ohio. 
 
 Hesolccd, That the Clerk communicate the foregoing resolution to the Senate. 
 
 Kesoh ed, That as a mark of lespect to the memory of the deceased the 
 House do now adjourn. 
 
 Mr. PENDLETON. Mr. President, as a mark of respect to the 
 memory of these deceased Representatives, I move that the Senate 
 do nt>w adjourn. 
 
 The motion was agreed to ; and (at 1 o clock and 58 minutes p. 
 m.) the Senate adjourned. 
 
 IN THE SENATE OF THP; UNITED STATES, 
 
 February 6, 1883. 
 
 A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. McPher- 
 son, its Clerk, transmited to the Senate the resolutions adopted 
 40 
 
A DDK ESS OF MR. SHERMAN, OF OHIO. 41 
 
 by that body concerning the death of JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF, 
 late a member of the House from the State of Ohio, and ROBERT 
 M. A. HAWK, late a member of the House from the State of Illi 
 nois. 
 
 The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Senate 
 resolutions from the House of Representatives. 
 
 The Acting Secretary read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the House of Representatives has received with profound 
 sorrow the announcement of the death of Hon. JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF, 
 late a Representative from the State of Ohio. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended that suitable 
 honors may be paid to the memory of the deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of this House do communicate these resolutions 
 to the Senate of the United States. 
 
 Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. President, I submit resolutions and ask that 
 they be read. 
 
 The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolutions will be read. 
 The Acting Secretary read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the announce 
 ment of the death of Hon. JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF, late a Representative 
 from the State of Ohio. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the Senate be suspended in order that the 
 friends of the deceased have opportunity to pay iittiug tributes to his public 
 and private virtues. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary trtiusmit a copy of these proceedings to the 
 family of the deceased. 
 
 Address of Mr. SHERMAN, of Ohio. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT : The message of the House of Representatives 
 conveying to us the formal notice of the death of JONATHAN T. 
 UPDEGRAFF, late member of that House from the State of Ohio, 
 imposes upon .me the duty of adding a brief tribute to the memory 
 of a colleague who had been thrice elected to represent in Con 
 gress the people of the district in which he was born, and among 
 whom he had spent his entire life. 
 
 It is not marely to perform this formal duty to a colleague that I 
 
42 LIFE AND CHAEACTER OF JONATHAN T. VPDEGRAFF. 
 
 now address you, but also to express my profound sorrow for the 
 loss of a personal friend whom I have known for many years in 
 private life, and to whom I was deeply indebted for the highest 
 marks of kindness, courtesy, and support. 
 
 He died at his home at Mount Pleasant, in the county of Jeffer 
 son, in the State of Ohio, surrounded by his family and neighbors, 
 two days before we assembled at the present session of Congress, 
 in the full maturity of his mental powers, and when he was 
 cheered by success in an eagerly contested political canvass. 
 
 He had hoped to meet here with us. Though the disease of 
 which he died was that enemy of human life so fatal in our day to 
 vigorous manhood, yet during his last illness he was hopeful and 
 confident that his strong constitution would enable him to live to 
 carry out cherished maasures of public policy to which he was 
 committed. But the fatal journey was not to be avoided, and all 
 we can do is to mark the departure of a colleague and* a friend 
 with a few kindly words that will soon be said for each of us as 
 we yield in our turn. 
 
 Dr. UPDEGRAFF S life was tranquil, useful, and honorable. 
 He was born of a highly respected Quaker family of Virginia, a 
 member of which, in the early history of Ohio, settled a few miles 
 from the banks of the Ohio River, then the outer verge of the 
 white settlements. His grandfather was a member of the conven 
 tion which framed the first constitution of Ohio. His kindred 
 were members of the Society of Friends, and he was reared, lived, 
 and died a member of that society. His early life was spent on 
 the farm where he was born. But he had the advantage of a good 
 education in the common schools and at Franklin College in that 
 State. He studied medicine and graduated at the University of 
 Pennsylvania, and afterward at medical schools at Edinburg and 
 Paris. 
 
 He made a protracted journey through Europe, Egypt, and the 
 Holy Land. Afterward he practiced his profession for several 
 years, but devoted his leisure time and his energy and capital to 
 agricultural pursuits, which gratified more than any other his 
 natural tastes and inclinations. He manifested his love for the 
 country rather than the city, for the cultivation of the farm rather 
 
ADDRESS OF ME. SHERMAX, OF OHIO. 43 
 
 than the practice of his profession, in his daily life, in his studies, 
 and in his conversation. Few men were better informed on the 
 subject and history of rural life than he. He always insisted that 
 the arts of husbandry had been more carefully studied and prac 
 ticed among the ancient nations than in later times. He yielded 
 only to our o\vn age superiority in labor-saving mechanical 
 devices, which he contended had changed for the worse the moral 
 tendency of country life. He supported his theory by many in 
 teresting descriptions of Judean and Egyptian farming. With 
 hi 111 Job was the great farmer, not only as the owner of vast 
 herds and flocks, but as the farmer who employed five hundred 
 yoke of oxen in plowing, and "a very great husbandry." The 
 Egyptians exceeded all nations of modern times in the extent and 
 perfection of the tillage of the soil, by which they were able to 
 support a vast population and to send food supplies to surrounding 
 nations; thus by gainful industry obtaining the means of building 
 the monuments which to our day excite the wonder of mankind. 
 
 He was fond of quoting the poets and statesmen of Rome in 
 honor of the dignity of the first and noblest employment of man. 
 He looked upon the devices which in our day enable owners of 
 land by mechanical implements to dispense with the labor of thou 
 sands of husbandmen as of doubtful benefit, tending to concentrate 
 capital in the hands of the few and deepening the poverty of the 
 poor by .lessening their employment. 
 
 Though Dr. UPDEGRAFF loved best the vocation of a farmer, 
 he practiced his profession in his neighborhood, and during a part 
 of the late war served as a surgeon in the Union Army, and bore 
 a high reputation as a skillful and successful physician. He has 
 always, since I have known him, taken an active part in political 
 affairs as a Republican, and has frequently engaged in political dis 
 cussions. From his boyhood, in harmony with the Quaker ideas 
 of his ancestors, he was an earnest opponent of slavery, a member 
 of the Freesoil party, and cordially sympathized with the most ad 
 vanced views in opposition to slavery. He has always been iden 
 tified witli the temperance cause. In life and speech he did his 
 utmost to check the evils of intemperance and to restrain the traffic 
 in intoxicating liquors, and was a member of various temperance 
 
44 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 organizations. As a speaker he was universally kind and cour 
 teous, and illustrated his argument with quaint humor. Neither 
 pretending to be an orator, or using the arts of an orator, he was 
 an interesting speaker, and as such was much sought for in the 
 public canvasses in several States. He served as a Presidential 
 elector, and voted for General Grant, in 1872. He was an influ 
 ential member of the senate of Ohio in the two following years. 
 He took an active part in the campaign of 1875, Avhen President 
 Hayes was elected governor of Ohio, and was a delegate to the 
 national convention in 1876 which nominated President Hayes. 
 
 Dr. UPDEGRAFF was first elected to Congress in October, 1878. 
 He was re-elected in 1880 and 1882. When he entered Congress 
 he was in apparently robust health, large, strong, full chested, 
 and vigorous botli in mind and action. The party to which he 
 belonged was then in a minority in the House of Representatives. 
 With the wise caution and modesty of a new member he took but 
 little part in the debates of that session. He, however, made one 
 speech on the bill providing for the appointment of a commission 
 on the subject of the alcoholic liquor traffic, which illustrates the 
 strong moral convictions which governed him in all matters of 
 legislation. 
 
 If a measure was right, or tended to promote morality, good 
 order, or temperance, he was sure lo be for it, whatever obstacles 
 stood in the way. He always acted upon the saying of Mr. 
 Gladstone, that " it is the duty of government to make it as hard as 
 possible for a man to go wrong, and as easy as possible for him to 
 go right." His plea for temperance was not affected in the least by 
 doubts as to the power of Congress over the subject or the resulting 
 dangers of extreme measures. It was enough to enlist his earnest 
 support for him to believe that the measure, so far as it could be 
 executed, tended to banish from the state that which is fitted only 
 to corrupt the morals of the people. The same moral tone is ob 
 served in everything that was said by Dr. UPDEGRAFF while a 
 member of Congress, and it was shown without cant, pretension, or 
 reproof to those who differed from him. In his conduct also he 
 observed the same moral standard that he sought to enforce by 
 legislation. 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. SHERMAN, OF OHIO. 45 
 
 He took an active part in securing liberal pensions for the sol 
 diers in the Union Army, and stated strongly their claims upon the 
 Government ; for without their success " we should to-day have no 
 Congress of the United States, no national Treasury, no nation." 
 The speech of Dr. UPDEGRAFF that more than any other states 
 his convictions is that made by him in February, 1881, on the bill 
 for the creation of the Department of Agriculture. It is a strong 
 and earnest plea for a national recognition of that great industry. 
 He was not contented with quoting the favorable opinions of Wash 
 ington and others, but demonstrated that such a department ought 
 to be and could be made a cheap instrument of immense national 
 benefits. He said : 
 
 The social and intellectual condition of the rural population of any country 
 is no uncertain measure of its high civilization and progress. The thought 
 ful statesmen of Europe now admit that our system of land-holding is one of 
 the great sources of enterprise and thrift, as well as of popular content, and 
 gives to industry the chance of permanent reward, and to lahor the dignity 
 of freedom. Popular education brings general intelligence. Industry, energy, 
 and physical health combine to produce the elements of character which 
 make good citizens and successful men. Loving their homes, the love of 
 country is easier and stronger. Schlegel, in his Philosophy of History, says : 
 " Perhaps it is not too much to assert that many of the qualities which fitted 
 thoEomans for conquering the world and perfecting their so celebrated juris 
 prudence were acquired, or at least nourished and matured, by the skill, 
 foresight, and persevering industry so needful for the intelligent and success 
 ful cultivation of the soil." And in this country, since the dawn of the Revo 
 lution, when at Concord Bridge 
 
 "The embattled farmers stood, 
 And fired the shot heard round the world," 
 
 this hardy and patriotic class has been, in every conflict, a chief source of 
 the nation s triumph, as it is to-day a large element of the nation s strength. 
 
 During the last session of Congress Dr. UPDEGRAFF made a 
 speech of remarkable ability upon the policy of protective duties 
 as they affected the farmer. It attracted attention at the time, and 
 may be read with benefit now as presenting the strongest statement 
 of the benefit of this policy to the farmers of every part of the 
 country. This was the last speech made by him in Congress, and 
 it is safe to say no other made during that able debate is more 
 marked with intelligence and ability. The two speeches referred 
 to, with short remarks made on pensions, education, and kindred 
 
46 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. UPDEGRAFF. 
 
 topics, indicate the bent of Dr. UPDEGRAFF S mind. He had 
 charity for all. All he did and all he said was to relieve, improve, 
 or advance some portion of mankind. No unkind ness marked his 
 speech; no bitterness could be distilled in his brain, but only good 
 will and charity Quaker virtues which he inherited and honestly 
 maintained. 
 
 Dr. UPDEGRAFF was nominated last summer for his third term. 
 During the canvass it became apparent to his friends that his physi 
 cal strength was passing away. His usual buoyancy and energy 
 were gone ; the palid hue of decay was on his countenance. Still 
 he was hopeful, and when his friends believed and announced that 
 his death was sure and imminent he believed that he would recover. 
 On the day after his election his death was prematurely announced, 
 but he rallied and improved. Thus for six weeks he lingered on 
 the verge of the great change of life to death, suffering greatly but 
 complaining not, carefully arranging his worldly affairs, with wife 
 and children around him, a whole community sorrowing. Then, 
 fully conscious of his condition, earthly hope failed and life ended. 
 While we were journeying hither he journeyed where no guide can 
 aid him except that revealed to us in the Christian s hope. 
 
 We can say of him that he filled honorably all the obligations 
 that he undertook in life, to father, mother, wife, and children, to 
 those who confided in him as a physician, and to friends, whom lie 
 never betrayed. To constituents who trusted to him political power 
 he returned duty honestly performed. I believe also he discharged 
 that higher duty to the Supreme Ruler of the universe which rests 
 upon all of mortal mold. He did what he could by example to 
 benefit those who survive him. We are atoms in a moving pano 
 rama, changing, oh, how rapidly. If it can be truthfully said of 
 any man he has done in his life more good than evil, then is the 
 world better for his having lived. Dr. UPDEGRAFF may not have 
 made so conspicuous a mark upon our time as some others, yet all 
 that he did do was useful, honorable, and good. 
 
ADDRESS OP MR. PEXDLETOX, OF OHIO. 47 
 
 Address of Mr. PENDLETON, of Ohio. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: My colleague [Mr. Sherman] has fittingly de 
 scribed the useful and honorable career of Mr. UPDEGRAFF in his 
 profession, in the Army, on the farm, in the political contests of his 
 native State. He had the advantage of close personal association 
 and warm and long-sustained friendship. I knew Mr. UPDEGRAFF 
 only by reputation until I met him here at the extra session of Con 
 gress in 1879. He was then for the first time a member of the 
 House of Representatives. 
 
 Afterward my intercourse with him was not intimate or daily ; 
 but it was enough to enable me to perceive and to appreciate 
 those qualities of mind and character which made his life useful 
 and worthy in all the various relations to which my colleague 
 has alluded. He was affable in temper, genial in manners, 
 firm in his convictions, frank in their expression, temperate in their 
 assertion, tolerant of all differences. He was fast in his friendships, 
 just in his antagonisms, an agreeable companion, an educated, cul 
 tivated gentleman. 
 
 A touching letter, written from his bed of death to his late op 
 ponent in his last heated political contest, in response to solicitous 
 inquiry as to his health did equal honor to both. 
 
 When I last saw him he seemed in perfect health ; but even then 
 the fatal disease was secretly consuming his vital powers. In the hour 
 of his greatest political triumph he obeyed the command of a victor 
 stronger than he, and trod the mysterious pathways which, through 
 the portals of the tomb, lead to the " undiscovered country." 
 
 Mr. President, men who achieve commanding influence and 
 stamp the character of the age in which they live are the product 
 of the centuries. It may well be doubted whether the order of 
 advancing society, the progression of our race, the attainment of the 
 better and the purer to which the insatiable longings of the human 
 soul forever aspire, are not more promoted by the active, earnest, 
 
48 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JONATHAN T. VPDEGRAFF. 
 
 faithful, modest lives of those who in less conspicuous station always 
 to their own selves are true. 
 
 Compute the chances, 
 
 And deem there s ne er a one in dangerous times, 
 Who wins the race of glory, but than him 
 A thousand men more gloriously endowed 
 Have fallen upon the course ; a thousand others 
 Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance 
 Whilst lighter barks pushed past them ; to whom add 
 A smaller tally of the singular few 
 Who gifted with predominating powers, 
 Bear yet a temperate will and keep the peace, 
 The world knows nothing of its greatest men. 
 
 The PRESIDENT pro teinpore. The question is on the adoption 
 of the resolution presented by the Senator from Ohio [Mr. Sher 
 man]. 
 
 The resolutions were agreed to unanimously, and the Senate ad 
 journed. 
 
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