ADDRESSES. 



The Vice-President. The first address in the order of exer- 

 cises was to have been delivered by Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, a 

 Senator from Maine, and a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Mr. Hamlin having been appointed one of the committee on the 

 part of the Senate to attend the remains of the late Gustave 

 Si hleicher, late a member of the House of Representatives, 

 before leaving requested that I should read the remarks which he 

 would have submitted in person if present; which the Chair will 

 now proceed to do. 



ADDRESS 



OF 



HON. HANNIBAL HAMLIN. 



HISTORY teaches us that in every age and country of the civilized 

 world homage has been paid by the living to the illustrious dead. 

 In all time art has been invoked to preserve the form and features 

 of the great and the good. Monuments of bronze, of marble, and of 

 granite have been erected and dedicated to their memory. In the 

 wisdom of this the judgment of mankind lias concurred. It is a 

 custom honored in the observance. 



The learned and incorruptible judge, with a mind stored with 



legal knowledge, who dispenses justice with an even balance, alike 



to the elevated and the lowly, the rich and the poor; the heroic and 



able commander of armies, who has contributed largely in founding 



or preserving the institutions of his country; and the state-man 



and the executive officer who respectively frame and execute the 



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