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 Chancellor IVillard Sanlsbury. a newspaper published in his State, the "Lewes Pilot," refers to this as follows : — '' Delaware has always been proud of her public men, and it would be difficult to name one who has justified and called forth that pride more than the man to whom the last of earth's honors will be paid this afternoon at Dover. Attorney-General, Senator, Chancellor. — how she loved to shower her gifts upon him, and how well did he repay her for all she gave him! At the bar, in the Senate, on the bench, it was the same, — new lustre added to the brightness of the fame of this little State. Delaware was proud of him, but here in Sussex it was something more than pride. To the younger generation the hold that Willard Saulsbury had upon the hearts of the men of Sussex during the time of his active public career is something in comprehensible. It was a personal loyalty that is absolutely non-existent at the present day. There are gray-haired men in Sussex whose voices quiver and whose eyes glisten with the enthusiasm of boyhood as they talk to you of Willard Saulsbury. It was here that he entered upon his profession, and it was here that his earliest triumphs were achieved. And he never forgot old Sussex. To the day of his death his thoughts turned kindly to the honest, faithful hearts that had never failed him. And so at Dover among the throng that gathered there to pay the last sad tribute to the dead Chancellor, there were no sincerer mourners than the old men of Sussex who honored and loved him in his life, and who will tenderly cherish his memory." For twelve years, from 1859 10 1871, he represented his native State in the National Senate, and there maintained his great repu tation for learning, eloquence, and statesman ship which he had acquired at home. Though overborne by the weight of numbers of the opposition; though during those times of the greatest excitement this country has ever witnessed, he was often threatened with personal violence for the absolute fearless ness with which he opposed many of the popular measures of the war, — he never hesi tated to combat those radical measures which he believed subversive of the Federal Con stitution. His bold and eloquent speech against the suspension of the Habeas Corpus

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was delivered against the protests of his friends, who believed his life would be im perilled thereby, and against the earnest objections of his colleague. The slightest element of personal fear was unknown to him. Though always a stanch supporter of the Union, his political opinions as to methods were opposed to those in power at the time. One of his greatest writings was an open letter to the people of his State, published about the time of the beginning of the war. in which he declared that Delaware, the first State to ratify the Constitution, should be the last to do aught to cause the dissolution of the Union; but if, alas! the Union should be destroyed and the federal compact broken, he declared his firm conviction to be that she should never again enter into a compact to which either South Carolina or New England should be parties unless the whole Union should again be indissolubly restored. When files of soldiers were stationed at each polling-place in his native State, he was as courageously outspoken as in time of peace. In the greatest forum of the time he proved himself in statesmanship, learning, eloquence, and courage the peer of any who dared combat him. Being one of a helpless and almost hope less minority in the Senate, he directed his efforts chiefly to ameliorating the hard con ditions imposed upon the States and people in rebellion; and the following graceful and touching tribute clipped from the Charlotte (N. C.) " Observer" shows that the people of the South still cherish his memory in grate ful recollection : — "The recent death of Hon. Willard Saulsbury, ex-United States Senator for the State of Delaware, has received that notice for an hour or a day which the bus;, world accords to the passing away of a man conspicuous in life and illustrious in public service. But we of the South think of him as something more than the broad statesman and wise lawgiver whom the people of his State de lighted to honor, and to whom they proffered their choicest gifts. There are men among us —