HOx\. MARSHALL P. WILDER. 3 1 



General Joshua L. Chamberlain, Ex-Governor of Maine, 

 and late President of Bowdoin College, was called upon, 

 and responded as follows : — 



Mr. President, — I should be sorry, indeed, if 

 words were such bad servants as to desert me when 

 the call is to express the pleasure I feel at being so 

 opportunely in this house as to be invited to join 

 you in paying this tribute of respect to a citizen 

 whose ofood deeds are so various, so extensive, and 

 so long continued, and whose character is as widely 

 honored as it is well-known. 



The name of an " old Boston merchant " is a title 

 of honor the world over. The preserver of historic 

 character and fame who transmits the high virtues 

 of our ancestors to the present and future genera- 

 tions, renders a service for which his country owes 

 him thanks. It happens, however, that within the 

 circles most familiar to my younger days, the name 

 of our venerated guest is associated with another 

 service which it is not too much to say is more 

 widely felt and scarcely less widely known and hon- 

 ored than either of the others. His is a household 

 name where choice fruits and flowers gladden the 

 gardens and the home-circle. 



This work of our friend is a high art. Merely to 

 imitate Nature is but an humble form of art. But 



