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- Death of Thurlow W. Brown----
We grieve to learn that Thurlow W. Brown, the able champion of temperance and editor of The Wisconsin Chief, died at his residence, near Fort Atkinson, Wis., on Friday night last. He had been suffering from physical prostration for some months past, and his friends have for some time had but little hope of his recovery.
Mr. Brown was one of the most remarkable men we have ever known. Without any advantages for education in early life, he nevertheless became a powerful master of language, and was a writer of great force and an orator of thrilling power. With the energy of a giant, he combined the simplicity and generosity of a child. The cause of temperance, to which his life was devoted, and in the ardent service of which he became prematurely infirm, never had a more earnest or effective advocate than he, whether with the pen or as a speaker. We well remember when, about twenty years ago, he left his home in Sterling, in Cayuga County, N. Y., and became a resident of Auburn, where he became editor of the Star of Temperance, and where, subsequently, he established the Cayuga Chief, a paper of great influence and respect among the temperance people thoughout the nation. Some years afterwards he moved his printing office to Fort Atkinson, Wis., where, in connection with his sister he continued to publish his Chief up to the day of his death. During the editorship in Auburn and in Wisconsin, he spent much of his time on the stump, traveling into all parts of the country to fill lecture engagements. While possessed of a peculiar temperament, which made him very despondent under discouragement, extremely sensitive of his personal reputation, and as true to a true friend as he was bitter towards enemies of himself and the cause in which he was so heartily enlisted, yet we have never known a man who was more upright in his intentions, more actuated by noble and generous impulses, or against whose name or character so little of reproach can be spoken. A man of geat native powers of mind, in which the poetic element was conspicuous, he wrote and spoke of with vehemence, eloquence and beautiy. Had Thurlow W. Brown been more ambitious of personal fame than he was enthusiastic in his labors for one great and good principal, he would have ranked amongst the illustrious literati and orators of his age. The cause of temperance loses one of its ablest and most self-sacrificing advocates and workers in his death, and American manhood, one of its noblest specimens.
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