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United States, on the Tariff and the Protective System, were marked 

 with great ingenuity and ability. He was an antagonist whom no one 

 cared to encounter a second time. But his tastes were not for the 

 strifes and contentions of political service, and he always returned with 

 eagerness to the quieter walks and duties of life. He was univer- 

 sally resj^eeted in the community in which he lived, and will long be 

 remembered among our most sagacious and successful merchants, and 

 among our most enterprising, upright, and public-spirited citizens. 



The Hon. Samuel Atkins Eliot died at Cambridge, on the 30th 

 day of January, 1862, in the 63d year of his age. 



He was the third son of Samuel Eliot, Esq., an eminent and wealthy 

 merchant of Boston, whose name is so honorably connected with the 

 Professorship of the Greek Language and Literature at Harvard 

 University. 



Mr. Eliot, our late associate, was born in Boston on the 5th of 

 March, 1798, and was graduated at Harvard in 1817. After finishing 

 his collegiate course, he entered on the study of divinity, but soon 

 abandoned the idea of becoming a clergyman. He did not attach 

 himself, however, to any other profession, but devoted himself for 

 many years to literary studies and pursuits. He was deeply interested 

 in the public charities of Boston, and contributed several elaborate 

 articles in relation to them to the pages of the North American Re- 

 view. He was an ardent lover of music, and was hardly second to 

 any one of his time in his eflPorts to pi'omote the systematic culture 

 of this delightful science in the community in which he lived. 



He was an active and earnest friend to the University at Cam- 

 bridge ; serving it faithfully for more than ten years as its Treas- 

 urer ; adding to its Library a noble collection of works on American 

 History, at a cost of not less than five thousand dollars ; and prepar- 

 ing and publishing (in 1848) a compendious and excellent sketch of 

 its rise and progress. 



His services were often put in requisition by his fellow-citizens in 

 important public stations. He was associated, for a period of five 

 successive years, with the municipal government of his native city, — 

 for two years as one of its Aldermen, and for three years as its Mayor. 

 In 1850 he was elected to Congress as the Representative of the 

 Boston District, and took his seat at a moment when the oi'dinary 

 responsibilities of the longest service were crowded within the little 

 period of an expiring term. Li all these positions he exhibited a 



