He acquired a national reputation, and has written his name in indelible characters on the scroll of his country's history.
By this devotion to his adopted country and the perpetuity of her institutions Michael Hahn made fitting recognition of what she had done for him. His career furnishes another illustration of the beneficence of our beloved land to all her children, native and adopted.
Coming to our shores a fatherless boy, the doors of the public schools of the country opened to receive him. Without money and without price, competent teachers guided his tottering feet into paths of learning and opened to his youthful mind store houses of knowledge. He emerged from the public school well equipped to enter on the study of that most difficult and intricate science, the law. At the age of manhood that same country placed him on a stage of action where all men were equal, equal under the law, equal in opportunity, equal in the inspiration which American representative government breathes into all her children. How well he availed himself of these privileges is clearly written on the pages of his life, and will long be treasured in the memory of those to whom he was a true friend, a faithful adviser, and a devoted public servant.
Address of Mr. Pettibone, of Tennessee.
In the late months of 1863, after the fall of Vicksburg and the surrender at Port Hudson, when the Mississippi was again opened from its source to the sea, it became my fortune to arrive at New Orleans with a large contingent of the Federal Army; and then and there I first made the acquaintance of our late associate, Hon. Michael Hahn. He was then in power in the great city of the South, New Orleans; but I believe that they who will recall that time, the citizens of Louisiana in the dread period of the civil war, will always remember that when in power he so bore himself and carried his faculties so meek, with such just and scrupulous equity in looking after the rights and interests of all, as that the whole of
