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Show DAVID B. HILL. The New York legislature had a memorial meetiirg the other ni(tht in honor of the memory of the late David B. Hill. Some uplemlid eulof;i(?s were delivered by Mich men a' Oovernor Dix, Alton B. i'arker and other. The burden of the speeches was that while Mr. Hill was a politician, he never nought personal advantage at the expense of his party; he never answered calumnies against him. but was wont to say, "It will all come right in the summing up." And, we. suspect that is all just. The only Jrou- ble with it is that Mr. Hill whs never a great man. He was in the empire state, a fair lawyer and devoted de-voted party man, and he serve'l a term as governor and senator with reasonable credit, and was, in his surroundings, a big man ; but never a great man. Iti point of intellect he did not compare at all with Samuel J Tildvn Martin Van Burwu or tlnnw chiefs who so long held New York under the Democratic Demo-cratic banne.v He was a shrewd politician, never a (Trent statesman. |