. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. presented in the person of ]\Ir. Butler a remarkable in-stance of a man of position in the community in which he resided,of influence among his fellow-men, of such mind and character andattainments among his fellow-citizens as to exert a wide-spread influ-ence for good or for evil, who, at the outbreak of the rebellion nevertrembled in the balance between Union and disloyalty, but steppedout from associations and from influences calculated to draw him intothe vortex of the rebellion and broke away from such influence, a
. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. presented in the person of ]\Ir. Butler a remarkable in-stance of a man of position in the community in which he resided,of influence among his fellow-men, of such mind and character andattainments among his fellow-citizens as to exert a wide-spread influ-ence for good or for evil, who, at the outbreak of the rebellion nevertrembled in the balance between Union and disloyalty, but steppedout from associations and from influences calculated to draw him intothe vortex of the rebellion and broke away from such influence, andfacing the danger and peril of the hour, actuated by patriotism aspure, as disinterested, as self-sacrificing, and efficient as ever actuatedany gentleman occupying a position where he could make his markor his influence felt in the great struggle through which we have passed. A resolution was passed by Congress relieving Mr. Butler from hisalleged disabilities. In the Fortieth Congress was a member of theCommittee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States. 253. A - St • .,^^^/r^C^0^t ^-^-c-<-^ </ HENEY L. DAWES. ^^ENRY L. DAWES was born October 30, 1816, at Cum- ?\ mington, Ilampsliire County, Massachusetts, among theM*^^ Berkshire Hills, whose inhabitants and interests he hasrepresented in Congress for more than thirteen years. lie is of theEnglish yeomanry stock, and the founder of the Massachusetts family;was among the early colonists, settling at Abiiigton, in the easternportion, whence the parents of Mr. Dawes removed to Cummington,afterwards settling on a small farm in North Adams. Severaluncles served in the Continental army throughout the War for Inde-pendence, tliough his father was too young for }. It was amid these associations and surroundings that Mr. Daweswas reared, attending school in the winter, and working hard, assoon as able, on the hill-side fiirm. At the age of twenty-three hegraduated at Yale College, having, when he entered, ab
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