“Later in 1789 he was appointed by Washington, his affectionate friend and admirer during his whole life, as Judge of the United States District Court of New Hampshire, an office which he held with honor to himself and the Judiciary until his death in January, 1795. “I have thus briefly sketched the outline of a life which deserves an autobiography perfect in every detail and of the highest grade. History shows this man in more varied and brilliant lines than almost any character in Revolutionary annals. Consider him, my friends, as a young lawyer, prompt, keen, resourceful and competent, and you have a model of early professional life. Mark him as an active officer of the line, reckless of danger, ready to dare all that could be dared, willing to do all that he had dared. Mark him again as a commanding general, reliable, faithful, prudent and dauntless, unswerved by passion, unstained by chagrin, unmarred by envy and uninfluenced by clamor, steady and well-poised in the hour of peril or in a moment of undeserved injustice. Consider him again, my friends, when after years of fierce combat he is chosen for the command of such an expedition as I have indicated, which needs great skill in combination and with such resources in provision for the needs of a frontier army that his success seems impossible. [Illustration: HON. THOMAS H. CARTER. United States Senator from Montana. One of the Founders of the Society. ] “And here let me digest for a moment words which, in my own hearing, fell from the lips of the distinguished General Slocum, speaking of General Sullivan’s great Indian campaign in the presence of General Sherman thirty years ago on the one hundreth anniversary of the same. General Slocum said: “‘As I have sat listening to the speeches today, I have drawn a parallel between those two expeditions. Sherman’s march was the longer of the two, but, in many respects, he had greater advantages. While he had a great distance to travel he had roads made for him by the enemy; he had his produce brought by mule trains; while General Sullivan made his march through trackless woods and carried his provisions upon the backs of his soldiers. Sherman had good arms; General Sullivan had the old flintlock musket. But after all, the spirit which prompted both expeditions was the same. It was bold and daring, and, although there was no great loss of life in either, yet the results of both were far greater than many battles in which lives by the thousand and tens of thousands were lost.’