But each brought to the service of the State what she most needed in each generation.

The constructive statesman, the framer of the Constitution and statutes, the financier, the debater, the lawyer, the man of business, the diplomatist, the reformer, the orator, are all there, and all are there at their best.
"It is enough, and not too much, to say of my colleague that, as he lays down his office, the State that has been proud of them is proud of him.

The State that has been satisfied with them is satisfied with him.

In all this illustrious line, there is none other who has more faithfully and more successfully discharged every duty of Senatorial service, and who has more constantly represented the interests and character of the dear old Commonwealth, who has maintained a higher or firmer place in her confidence and respect than he whom we greet and with whom we part to-night.

Mr.Dawes was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1847.