JONATHAN CILLEY.

The subject of this brief memorial had barely begun to be an actor in
the great scenes where his part could not have failed to be a prominent
one. The nation did not have time to recognize him. His death, aside
from the shock with which the manner of it has thrilled every bosom, is
looked upon merely as causing a vacancy in the delegation of his State,
which a new member may fill as creditably as the departed. It will,
perhaps, be deemed praise enough to say of Cilley, that he would have
proved himself an active and efficient partisan. But those who knew him
longest and most intimately, conscious of his high talents and rare
qualities, his energy of mind and force of character, must claim much
more than such a meed for their lost friend. They feel that not merely
a party nor a section, but our collective country, has lost a man who
had the heart and the ability to serve her well. It would be doing
injustice to the hopes which lie withered upon his untimely grave, if,
in paying a farewell tribute to his memory, we were to ask a narrower
sympathy than that of the people at large. May no bitterness of party
prejudices influence him who writes, nor those, of whatever political
opinions, who may read!

Jonathan Cilley was born at Nottingham, N. H., on the 2d of July, 1802.
His grandfather, Colonel Joseph Cilley, commanded a New Hampshire
regiment during the Revolutionary War, and established a character for
energy and intrepidity, of which more than one of his descendants have
proved themselves the inheritors. Greenleaf Cilley, son of the
preceding, died in 1808, leaving a family of four sons and three
daughters. The aged mother of this family, and the three daughters, are
still living. Of the sons, the only survivor is Joseph Cilley, who was