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cause, and of the peaceful years which closed his long 

 and useful life. » 



Passing from the distinguished founder of our Society, 

 along the line of worthy Presidents, Howes and Mosely 

 and Duncan and Kittredge, I come to the name of one 

 whom many of us remember as the genial gentleman, 

 the fervid orator, the honest statesman, the pacific law- 

 yer. The sixth President, Leverett Saltonstall, was 

 one of the most admirable, and stands nearest in our 

 history to the first and greatest. " Pickering and Sal- 

 tonstall " — said Mr. Daniel P. King in his eulogy of the 

 departed statesman — " worthy names, worthily associat- 

 ed ; no encomium of ours can add one green leaf to 

 their ever fresh chaplets ; their deeds, their talents and 

 their virtues, have secured for them an enduring fame." 

 And he adds — " Descended from a Puritan family, Mr. 

 Saltonstall made an honored name more honorable ; of 

 New England stock, he was worthy to represent the 

 stern virtues of New England ; they were his pride and 

 his only boast. Truth, honor, and virtue, he worshiped 

 always, not because of the sure and adequate reward 

 which they pay, nor because it is fashionable occasion- 

 ally to make a pilgrimage to their altars, but because 

 for their own sakes, he loved truth, and honor, and vir- 

 tue. The beautiful language applied by President Kirk- 

 land to Fisher Ames, is no less true and beautiful when 

 applied to Mr. Saltonstall : '■ Happily he did not need 

 the smart of guilt to make him virtuous, nor the regret 

 of folly to make him wise.' Liberty, religion and holi- 

 ness he loved, and his reverence for God was habitual 

 and controlling." 



Mr. Saltonstall won high honors in the State and in 

 the nation ; and death alone, which laid its icy hand on 



