The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-11-17

no soldier can Withstand, and strstagem skill
can parry his assault Nothing but faith In Christ
from the dead, when the last trumpet shall sound
the gave must surrender its prey. aud death
shall be swallowed up in victory am not prepared
to give even synops- OF the history Of deceased His
history Is not yet written He fought In ell the lines
OF the North and In the battle fields Of 1918 we'll
on the plains Of Mexico; and his science. his skill
his courage and manly virtues the items that make
US feel the amount OF nstiopsloss But what does
all the military glory and pomp of the world endin'
The boast OF heraldry the pomp of power,
Ard all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alike tn inevitable hour,
The paths Of glory lead but to the grave.
Worth was not fond of war. Our heroic President
IL not Our first President not. II they fought,
it was to make or keep their country free Wash
irg,on ana Taylor aud even wellington used
horrors Of its carnage. There is time coming, when
there shall be WAT, aud the peace Of univer
sal millennium shall overspresd the earth rs the waters
cover the sea
The grosns OF nature 10 this neither world,
Which Heav'n has heard for ages have an end.
Foretold by prophets. and by poets sung,
Whose fire kindled at the prophets lamp,
The time If rest, the prcmis'd sabbath ooass.
Six thousand years Of sorrow have we'll nigh
Fulfid their tardy and disastrous course
Over . sinful world; and what remains
OF this tempestuous state OF human things,
Is merely as the working OF u sea
Before n calm, that rocks itself 10 rest:
For He whose car the winds are. aud the clouds
The dust, that waits upon his sultry march,
When Sin hath moved him. and his wrath 10 hot,
Shall visit Earth in mercy shall descend
Propitious in his chariot paved with love;
And what HE storms have blasted and d-faoed
For mans revolt, shall with smile repair
would give n soldier his honor and ferat q,i me,rft
poinom is asappcable to General Worth TO Admiral
NelsoD But the lsures OF both warriors dy ed in
blood and the psns Of their victories with
the signs and tears of widows and orphaps Soldiers
of the State of New York too am a soldier. want
to enlist you all In the army Of the Prince Of Peace
You might, like Alexander, conquer the world aud
yet il you did not conquer your own passions, you
would not achieve the great ind for which you were
observations,
&, Gentleman concluded with b.n.diotion
The Masonic Grand Lodge Of ST John then
rounded the remains and Mr. Hesry Atwood, Grand
Ma ter, addressed the brethren. morazipg upon the
les on Of death before them He then threw masonic
apron upon the coffin and then handful OF earth ami
lastly, sPIg OF myrtle, when all ths brethI mi
tated him and shower Of spr'gs fell the coin All
then gave the parting are~e by folding their hands
their bressts in token OF faith and brothery
love then raising them to heaven the Of hope
and to express their sorrrw they let them fall upon
their thighs, with the exclamation OF " Alas our
broi hern
Rev Mr. vrNror then read the episcopal service for
the dead, and the body then laid In the vault
when the band perior med the =" Dead March In SAUL
and the National Guard. which occupied the high
ground above, then fred three vo.eys with besutal
precision The military having then re formed, re-
turned TO the city while the civilians took each his
own way The remains ere to be removed to Battle
hill, wh-re sleep the ssrss Of Baxter Gallagher, aod
other companions in arms; and monument 10 to be
erected to his memory