The great Ohio Territory, now six imperial States,
was twice saved to freedom by the almost unnoticed action
of a single man. With all respect for the man of letters,
we are not yet quite ready to admit that the trumpeter is
better than the soldier, or the painter greater than the lion.
"There is no need of many words to sum up the life and character
of Cushman Davis. His life was in the daylight. Minnesota
knew him. His country knew him and loved him. He was a good
soldier in his youth, and a great Senator in his maturer manhood.
What can be said more, or what can be said better, to sum
up the life of an American citizen? He offered his life for
his country when life was all before him. His State and his
country rewarded him with their highest honor. The great
orator and philosopher of Rome declared in his youth, and
repeated in his age, that death could not come prematurely
to a man who had been Consul. This man surely might be accounted
ready to die. He had discharged honorably life's highest
duty, and his cup of honor and of glory was full.
"We are thinking to-day of something more than a public sorrow.
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