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SENATOR MORRILI/S LIFE. 2i7 iii;
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» age of fifteen he was a clerk in a country store. At twenty-one ‘  
__ he was apartner in the store, and continued in the business until i  
· he was fifty-fiftee, at which time he entered upon his Congress- ,  
- ional career. He served forty—four years in the two houses of  
_. Conress, twelve years in the House of Representatives, and  
`  . thirty-two in the Senate.   A
"He framed the protective tariff bill of 1861 and the — 1  
A great war tariff bill of 1864, which bears his name, A simi—  
A lar measure now, Senator Allison says, would produce a rev-  
A enue of two thousand million dollars.   i
' "He introduced a bill in the Thirty—sixth Congress for the  
t establishment of agricultural and mechanical colleges, en- A i
i dowed by land grants in the several states. The bill passed A
both houses, but perished under the veto of President Buch- _
‘-  anan. It did not cease to live, however, in the heart and
‘ mind of Representative Morrill. In 1862 he introduced it i
_; again, and carried it through both houses of Congress the sec- ..Q .
  ond time, and it became a law with the sanction and approval  
F of Abraham Lincoln.  
  '1`here are now fifty colleges for white pupils and fifteen . A
fg for colored pupils established by this act of Congress and the _
  concurrent acts of the different state legislatures. .`
  "Senator Morrill was the author, too, of the supplement- .
  ary bill of 1866, providing for the additional endowment of
  the Agricultural and Mechanical colleges. ·
  "'We commemorate to-day no mean and ignoble spirit. I
  ‘The hot furnace flame of life searched his heart and tried his
Z  frame’ and stamped him with honor, not with shame. All   r A
  Senator Morrill‘s colleagues bear testimony not only to his .
  ability and patriotism as a public n1an,but to the probity, tem- .
  perance and purity of his private life as well. In this conuec- §
  tion I beg leave to call attention to a matter of supreme im-  
  portance in the education of youth suggested by the worthy  
  life of Senator Morrill. ·l\·fere technical and scholastic instruc-  
  tion is not enough in any of our institutions of learning. All  
  of our schools, from the least to the greatest, should strenu- QS
  ously endeavor to develop in the pupil a sound judgment, if
 . strict justice, temperance, economy, aspiration for the improve  
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