was characteristic of the man: "I shall favor it; I think it will assist in developing the resources of my State, and I shall not only vote for it but I must speak for it, even if I am a new member here." And he did speak and made an eloquent plea for it. When he sat down, with his usual distrust of himself he asked, "Did I make a fool of myself and hurt the cause?" While he was thus modest and distrustful of himself, there was one phase of his life of which he was justly proud, and of which he was wont to speak, and that was the friendship and confidence of Abraham Lincoln. With what pardonable and justifiable pride did he use to exhibit to his friends the autograph letters of that great man to him, asking his advice upon questions of reconstruction and commending his patriotic and judicious efforts in that direction!
The career of our departed colaborer is one of which his friends may well be proud. The man who, under the peculiar circumstances surrounding our country during his active life, with all the disadvantages of foreign birth, could live a lifetime in a community which was necessarily opposed to him in sentiment on almost every question, and sustain himself and retain the entire confidence, support, and esteem of everybody, was no ordinary man.
He has gone. In his death his adopted country and State have lost a patriotic, devoted, and useful citizen, his city and district a faithful and earnest Representative, and his friends a steadfast ally. Peace to the ashes of Michael Hahn. Let all that is mortal of our dead companion rest in the quiet tomb to which loving hands have consigned his remains, until the trump of the resurrection morn shall call us all to appear before the great Judge to give an account of the deeds done in the body; and if he shall then rise to a future as happy as his life was useful to his country and to his fellows, his warmest friends can desire no better fate for him we mourn.
