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Show j Crown, of Georgia, 1 With the retirement of Senator Joseph Emerson Brown, of Georgia, at the close of his present term, in March', ISO!, drops out of public life another of the strong characters of the civil war. Senator Sen-ator Brown is not so very aged, having been bom in 1S01. Ila is not so old by considerable as either Gladstone or ; Oliver "Wendell Ilolmes, and Senators ' Dawes, Evarts, Morrill and others axe several years older than "Joe" Brown. . But Senator Brown has had a way of looking about 60 or 00 years old nearly ever since he became United States senator, and may bo feels aa old aa he looks. Men with war memories will recall how fiery a secessionist he was, how "Governor Brown's militia" were almost the only troops that opposed Sherman on his march to the sea. Those with more modern memories will remember always how energetically Governor Brown worked for the extension of Georgia railroads rail-roads and for the material development : of the state. Many good wishes will go with him into his retirement. I |