"No two of these men were alike in the quality they brought
to the public service. Their mental portraiture is as different
and as individual as the faces painted by Titian or Van Dyke
or Holbein. But each brought to the service of the State
what she most needed in each generation. The constructive
statesman, the framer of the Constitution and statutes, the
financier, the debater, the lawyer, the man of business, the
diplomatist, the reformer, the orator, are all there, and
all are there at their best.
"It is enough, and not too much, to say of my colleague that,
as he lays down his office, the State that has been proud
of them is proud of him. The State that has been satisfied
with them is satisfied with him. In all this illustrious
line, there is none other who has more faithfully and more
successfully discharged every duty of Senatorial service,
and who has more constantly represented the interests and
character of the dear old Commonwealth, who has maintained
a higher or firmer place in her confidence and respect than
he whom we greet and with whom we part to-night.
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