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Story of an Emigrant.
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noble manhood; his fine mental and physical endowments
made him an object of love and veneration among the
people. Though a man of the purest character and exemplary
life, he was a pleasant, boon companion, fond of a joke and
a good story, liberal and charitable in his judgment of
others, easy and polite in his manners, open-hearted and
kind toward all. He was a large, broad-shouldered man,
weighing over two hundred pounds, with a high forehead,
dark eyes, and smoothly shaved face. As a speaker he was
earnest, though quiet, fluent and humorous. He never used
tobacco or spirits in any form. We traveled together in all
sorts of conveyances, and held meetings in country stores
and school houses; ate and slept in the lowly cabins of the
farmers, but everywhere Mr. Windom felt at home, and
made every body else feel at ease also. I was afterward
with him often and in many places,—from the executive
mansion in Washington to the frontier cabin in the west,—
and for the last time in New York city, when he went there
in August, 1890, to save the nation from a financial crisis,
but never did I notice any difference in his conduct toward
the humblest laborer or the highest in power. In sorrow
and adversity he was a tender friend; in manners he was a
Chesterfield; in the senate a Roman, and in the treasury
department a Hamilton. By his death the nation, the state
of Minnesota, and his numerous friends, among whom for
many years I had the honor to be counted, sustained a heavy
loss.
Soon after the close of the campaign I commenced to
publish a Swedish weekly newspaper called Minnesota Stats
Tidning, in Minneapolis, to which place I had just removed
with my family, and continued as its chief editor until the
summer of 1881.
In 1877 friends in Chicago and myself started another
Swedish weekly, called Svenska Tribunal, in that city, and
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