of New England. I think of him as a kind of tall pillar,
on a foundation of such granite solidity as to quiet all fears
of possible moving therefrom. He was an example--and became
by his S. Carolina mission a conspicuous one; by his attitude
and demeanor, opposing the whole moral power of the North
to the despotic and insolent assumptions of Slavery.

Yours very truly,
SAML MAY.

My father, in everything that related to his own conduct,
was controlled by a more than Puritan austerity. He seemed
to live for nothing but duty. Yet he was a man of strong
affections, unlike what is generally deemed to be the character
of the Puritan. He was gentle, tolerant, kindly and affectionate.
He had all his life a large professional income. But he never
seemed to care for money. In that respect he was like one
who dwelt by the side of a pond, ready to dip up and to give
its waters to any man who might thirst. He never wasted money,
or spent it for any self-indulgence. But he was ready to
share it with any deserving object. Starr King said of him
that "he lived all the beatitudes daily."

Mr. Hoar was, I suppose, beyond all question, the highest
authority in New England, indeed in the whole country, on
the difficult and abstruse questions belonging to the law of
water privileges and running streams. He was declared to
be such by the late Judge Benjamin R. Curtis. The great Locks
and Canals Company was organized and all the arrangements
for the ownership, management and control of the water-power
of Lowell were made under his advice and direction. The same
methods have been followed in substance at Lawrence and Woonsocket
and other manufacturing places.

He preserved his vigor of body until he entered his seventy-
seventh year, taking walks of five or six miles without fatigue.
About that time he took a severe cold at a neighbor's funeral.
An illness followed which seriously impaired his strength.
He died, November 2, 1856, two days before the Presidential
election.

He was six feet three inches in height, erect, with fine
gray hair, blue eyes, of graceful and dignified deportment,
and of great courtesy, especially to women and children.

He held a few simple beliefs with undoubting faith. He submitted
himself to the rule of life which followed from these, and
rigorously exacted obedience to it from all for whom he was
responsible. He accepted the exposition of Christian doctrine
given by Dr. Channing. Th