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RANITE neNTHLY.

A NEW HAMPSHIRE MAGAZINE.

'Devoted to Literature, 'Biography, History, and State Progress.

��Vol. X.

��JULY, 1887.

��No. 7.

��HON. DANIEL CLARK. By Hon. Isaac W. Smith.

��New Hampshire has always taken a pardonable pride in the prosperity of her children who go forth to other states, and, achieving distinction in the land of their adoption, reflect honor upon the state of their nativity. Their names in life, and memories when dead, are cherished with affec- tion on every hill-top and in every valley, from the sea to the lakes and the mountains. But she also looks with parental pride and affection upon that larger and almost innumerable list of other sons and daughters who have won distinction in life and a place in history within her narrow limits.

The remark is not altogether an infelicitous one, that the chief prod- ucts of New Hampshire are granite, ice, and men. Webster said (vol. 2, Webster's Works, p. 499), "Its soil is sterile and stubborn, but the reso- lution to subdue it is stubborn also. Unrelenting rocks have yielded and do yield to unrelenting labor ; and there are productiveness, and health,

��and plenty, and comfort, over all her hills and among all her valleys. Manly strength, the nerved arm of freemen, each one tilling his own land and standing on his own soil, enjoying what he earns and ready to defend it, — these have made all com- fortable and happy." The rugged discipline enforced upon her children in their struggles for success has de- veloped a t3'pe of manhood and wom- anhood mentally, morally, and phys- ically equipped to grapple success- fully with the duties of life. It is in the history of him whose name stands at the head of this article, and whose life has been spent upon her soil and largely in her service, that we find a marked example of that large com- pany of her sons, who on her rugged hills and in her narrow, prosperous valleys, amid the grandeur and sub- limity of her mountains and lakes and beneath her healthful skies, have achieved distinction not circumscribed merely by state lines.

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