. Reminiscences and memorials of men of the revolution and their families . r illustri-ous friend and ally. We have sought to honor himand perpetuate his fame in many ways, by namingour children for him, by calling streets and townsafter him, by blending his history closely with ourown at very many points. But while others havehad this distinction shown them, not more entitledto it than he, not a single statue worthy of him hasyet been erected in his honor. The University ofVermont proposes (1882), and is the first to pro-pose, paying him this long-delayed tribute. Thesecentennial years should
. Reminiscences and memorials of men of the revolution and their families . r illustri-ous friend and ally. We have sought to honor himand perpetuate his fame in many ways, by namingour children for him, by calling streets and townsafter him, by blending his history closely with ourown at very many points. But while others havehad this distinction shown them, not more entitledto it than he, not a single statue worthy of him hasyet been erected in his honor. The University ofVermont proposes (1882), and is the first to pro-pose, paying him this long-delayed tribute. Thesecentennial years should not all pass without sometestimonial of this kind being at least initiated inthe Capital of our country. Let this be donepromptly and unitedly by this widespread this way — and when our cities and the peopleat large pour out their gifts in this offering to our 336 EEMINISCENCES AND MEMORIALS. foremost friend and helper in the day of our ex-treme need — we shall demonstrate to the worldthat a lepublic can be and is grateful to one of itsnoblest MOUNT VERNON. CHAPTER XX. EMERSON THE PATRIOT. Ralph Waldo Emerson, born May 25, 1803,whose death, April 27, 1882, was so recentlyrecorded, demands a prominent notice in thesepages, partly for his Revolutionary family. Withina half-century the most varying epithets have beenapplied to him. In his early life admired as apreacher, denounced ere long as a heretic, to-dayhis numerous eulogists give him diverse desig-nations. Men of all denominations unite in call-ing him a prophet, and — if not altogether yetalmost — a Christian. Thinker, genius, philo-sopher, poet, essayist, leader, and king in howmany realms, there is one mor-e name which Ithink he richly deserves. He was, by eminence,a Patriot. He stood in the eighth generation, on bothfathers and mothers side, in the clerical line. Hebore marks of this lineage so clear that all whoknew or saw him perceived, in his air and manner,traces, never to be elimina
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