"7" CHARLES FRANKLIN DUNBAR. 



that newspaper. At fii <• editor, he became in lSGt sole 



tor, and such he remained until he severed his connection 

 with the Advertiser. 



'I'h ■ decade daring which he was thus in charge of the most influential 

 new in N w England was the most trying and perhaps the most 



important in the country's history. Hie position as editor brought 

 him into contact with leading men in every sort of career in New 

 England. Both his conduct of the paper, and his association with 

 men, gradually gave him a position of respect and confidence in t lie 

 imunity, rarelj ned by those in charm' of ephemeral pub- 



lications. He wrote constantly on a great variety of subjects; on 

 political and military affairs as a matter of course, but with special 



and with unusual judgment on the remarkable financial and c 

 nomic events of the period. His editorials were marked from the outset 

 l>y the _ and dignity of style which characterized everything that 



• from his pen. They showed, moreover, the firm and unwaver- 

 ing spirit of the man; never abating by a jot the conviction that in spite 

 of defeat and disaster, in spite of foreign complications and d 

 disaffection, the war must he carried on unflinchingly until the supremacy 

 of the Union should be restored. There is not only steadfast faith, but 



•i inspiring eloquence, in the editorial pages of the Adver 



sor Dunbar conducted them; and not seldom, after a military 

 failure, his courageous words rang through the community like a bugle 

 blast. 



The financial and economic event? of this period were of the most 



.ordinary and varied kind. A huge national debt, anew banking 

 tem, an imi and complicated system of taxation, a high protective 



tarifl he issue of paper money, a wearisome struggle I 



the ad\ of paper money and Bpecie, the turmoil of reconstruction 



in the South. — such were the phenomena to which the editor of 

 the Advertiser was compelled to give daily attention. IIi> inborn apti- 

 tude led him to observe the course of events with 1. gacity, and 

 gave him a fund of i ince invaluable for his later career. Few 

 have been bo fortunate in having Keen brought into unremit- 

 ting contact with the actual affairs of life. Few also have be □ 

 fortunate ii tact with men of all cla d all opinions. 

 I >.iily there came into the office of the editor of the Advertiser persons of 

 ort, bringing advice, exhortation, information. A characti ristic 

 tniit of Profe sor Dunbar's showed itself in th —a 



irkable capacity for silent attention. However certain of his own 



