Have they always been the possessors of certificates declaring them to be educated or highly trained? How many of you have met depraved men or vicious men in the great tide that rolls every morning from humble homes to some scene of industrial activity? If I were asked to name the man who of all my acquaintance came nearest to filling my ideal of a gentlemanand my acquaintance has been pretty extensive. covering every class and description of men. from the culprit awaiting his doom to the Pontiff on his throneI should say it was an unlettered naturalized day laborer. who lived for fifty years in the village where I have passed the. last twenty summers. who with no peculiar advantage whatever. so impressed every one who met him. from the laborers who worked with him and the neighbors who lived near him. to the foreman who directed him and the employer who paid him. with such a sense of his excellence and native dignity that he was always addressed personally and referred to in his absence as " Mr. Carey." He is dead now and I can speak of his as a completed life. He was a citizen of Port Washington. a constituent of the gentleman from New York [Mr.
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