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Excerpt from Memorial Meeting of the Bar of Indiana Upon the Occasion of the Death of Benjamin Harrison: Held at Indianapolis, Saturday, March Sixteen, Nineteen Hundred One, in the Senate Chamber, Upon the Call of the State Bar Association of Indiana the Indianapolis Bar Association I have never heard a political speaker who impressed memore profoundly. Much, of course, was due to the circum stances. He was a young man, and I some years younger, and just out of college, with professional ambitions which made me the more observant of one who was but starting in his career. He was, as I knew, the grandson of a presi dent, and it struck me then that he might well aspire - per haps was destined - to succeed to the same distinction. As the years went by and he grew in force as an orator and in leadership, and many years before his nomination to the presidency, I became convinced that his elevation to that office was probable. General Harrison, of course, could not escape his environ ment, and necessarily was affected in character and in career by the circumstances of his life. But he was in no sense an accident. Great in ancestry he has been greater in himself. His eminence and success in professional and public life were deserved, because they were earned. They were at once the result and the just reward of great gifts and great attainments, devoted through a lifetime to the thorough performance of every duty and undertaking as he came to them. Of the statesmen and lawyers of his day I know of none whom I would pronounce his superior. Of all the men in public life whom I have known there is none whom I have regarded as quite his all-round equal. In his very nature it was impossible that he should sacrifice or swerve from his well matured beliefs or opinions, when fundamental principles in morals or in government were involved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p