third of a century and who had participated in the active contentions of early California life stood by the bier with moistened eye. Some of them had differed from Senator STANFORD in politics and some had opposed him in other respects, but all were emphatic that he was a man whose heart was no less reliable than his brain. If the expressions of these most competent witnesses could have been perpetuated, they would have constituted a far more eloquent tribute to his memory than anything which will be uttered in this Chamber. He was laid to rest in that beautiful principality, bewildering in its charms, which he had selected for his home.

Senator STANFORD was not without his trials. The loss of the son whose name the university carries was a blow that a less determined organization would have failed to resist; and while in this Chamber those who were associated with him utter words of regretful sentiment, let it not be forgotten that his companion and truest friend, the partner of his cares and his oys, still survives; that upon her shoulders is cast the burden of carrying out the great projects which she and her husband designed, and to which they consecrated their later years. That she has the power, and that she will realize their anticipations, no one who is acquainted with her or at all familiar with her attainments for a moment doubts. I know that the sincere and undivided condolence of this Chamber goes out to her, and she can rest in assured possession of the sympathy and good will of her countrymen.

Senator STANFORD'S death was not altogether unexpected. His once robust constitution yielded to the pressure of business and time. His transition to another world is but an additional notice to us all suggesting the inevitable.

As the amber of the clouds

Changes into silver gray,

So the light of every life

Fades at last from earth away.

ADDRESS OF MR. DOLPH, OF OREGON.

Mr. PRESIDENT: The history of this country affords many examples of brilliant success in every branch of human endeavor; biographies of those who from humble beginnings, unfavorable surroundings, and adverse circumstances have arisen by force of their native powers, their self-reliance, and patient industry to the most exalted positions, to the control of great industrial establishments, to the highest usefulness and distinction in science, art, and literature. Among all these examples, which show the possibilities of the American youth under our form of government and our industrial and educational systems, there is probably not a more conspicuous example than that of the late Senator STANFORD, and there have been few men in this country the story of whose lives truthfully written would be more fascinating.

Like myself he was born and reared upon a farm in the State of New York. In labor upon a farm he laid the foundation of bodily vigor, acquired habits of industry, and learned the value of money; and in the district school he laid the foundation of an education. His advantages were not superior to those of thousands of other boys of his age. The difference in their careers was not caused by their early advantages or training or their opportunities, but by the difference in themselves. To Senator STANFORD'S ambition, his moral character, his good judgment, his enterprise, energy, and industry must be mainly attributed his success. Like many ambitious young men, as a stepping stone to something else he taught a country school. Knowing that the legal profession had often proved a means of political preferment and a road to wealth, he read law and was admitted to the bar.

When gold was discovered in California and the great rush to the New Eldorado began, Mr. STANFORD joined the immigration to that State to seek his fortune there. It is unnecessary to trace his career in his new home step by step. The qualities which had before enabled him to steadily advance toward fortune and position enabled him to embrace the better advantages offering there. They also attracted the attention and commanded the respect of the practical and enterprising pioneers of the new State, and his nomination and election as governor of the State naturally followed.

Neither Mr. STANFORD nor his associates were the first to propose a transcontinental railroad. What others had dreamed of they undertook and accomplished. It was an undertaking which by its magnitude appalled more timid men. The enterprise proved to be a great success. The faith and courage of its promoters were rewarded and the foundations of great fortunes laid.

The wealth thus acquired made the subsequent career of Mr. STANFORD possible, enabled him to promote and control great enterprises for the development of his State, to liberally patronize the arts and sciences, to scatter broadcast the blessings of charity, and to accomplish the last crowning act of his life, the founding and endowment of the great university that bears the name of his deceased son. His knowledge of the value and use of money, and his power of rightly judging men and measures were largely acquired by his early experiences and struggles, and were the efficient means which enabled him to accumulate his great wealth. It would be idle to deny that unusual opportunities were opened up to him, which enabled him to reach the topmost round of success, but too much of the results of his life should not be attributed to his opportunities. Some men seek out and create opportunities. Senator STANFORD did so.

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He carved out for himself a place which any man might envy. At a time when it required courage and enterprise to cross a continent through a wilderness and desert, encountering hardships and dangers, he left the civilization of the older States and cast his lot with the pioneers of the Pacific coast. In that new country, where the foundations of civilization and of a great State were being laid, his good judgment, his enterprise, his interest in his fellow-men and in public affairs soon made his presence felt and enabled him to greatly aid in the establishment of organized society.

In the important position of governor the same qualities which had brought him to the front and made him a leader of men made his administration successful and enabled him to embrace the opportunities offered for the development of his State and the advancement of his private fortune. No one but a self-reliant, enterprising, public-spirited man would have ventured upon the great and hazardous undertaking of constructing a railroad across a continent, over almost impassable mountains, and through trackless deserts. The success of the great enterprise justified the expectations of its promoters and proved the soundness of their judgment.

í But it is not the fact that Mr. STANFORD was governor of California during the war of the rebellion and saved his State to the Union, or that he was one of the promoters of the great corporation which built the pioneer railroad across the continent and bound together the Atlantic and Pacific with bands of steel, or that the people of California twice honored him with an election to the United States Senate, that makes his name to-day a household word and causes his praise to be on every tongue, and that will perpetuate his memory through coming years. It is the fact that he came to fully recognize the claims of humanity upon those endowed with great wealth and to regard his wealth as a trust, to be managed and used

for the glory of God and the good of his fellow-men. His character was like that described by Shakespeare when he wrote:

For his bounty

There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas

That grew the more by reaping.

The calls upon him for aid to religious, educational, and charitable institutions and to individuals were so numerous and constant that it is not improbable that sometimes his liberality was imposed upon and his benevolence misapplied, but in the main his charities were bestowed worthily and with good judgment.

Of his career in this body I need not speak at length. He was never intrusive or self-asserting. He was willing to leave the work of the Senate mainly to other and younger hands. Although largely occupied with other cares and duties, and especially with the plan for his great university, and afflicted with bodily infirmities, the interests of his State in Congress were never neglected. His counsel was always valuable, and his kindness of heart, his benevolence, and his love for humanity, which was manifested in all he said and did, made his presence among us a blessing. Coming to the Senate at an advanced age, without previous experience in legislative bodies, with other great cares and responsibilities, and with enfeebled health, he did not assert himself or take that commanding position in the Senate which he would naturally have done if he had entered that body at an earlier period in his life and when in the full vigor of manhood.

Confessedly, the idea of founding and endowing a great university grew out of his great bereavement in the loss of his only son. The stricken parents appear to have transferred the solicitude, time, and labor which had before been given to the promising object of their affections to humanity.

The declaration of Senator and Mrs. STANFORD, made while