The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-17

Mr.. Lyman published an octave volume on Italy,
and compiled two useful volumes on the Diplomacy
of the United States with Foreign Nations. In 1884
and 1895 Mr.. Lyman was mayor of the city of
| Boston. He brought TO that Office the manners of
a refined and polished gentleman the independence
of man of spirit and of honor; true regard for
justice and the rights of all men; lofty contempt
for all time-servng policy; talents Of highly re-
spectacle order; mind well stored and well bal
anced; and cordial desire, exempfed in his own
personal and domestic relations, and by his encour-
aging word and open hand, of promoting the best
interests OF the great temperance reform. IL ls
truly surprising TO perceive how charmingly we get
along at present. in the absence of all these quali-
cations! Ns
To the duties OF this Office, in which there is some
thing less of glory than of toll he devoted himself,
during those two years, with great personal sacri-
| flee and privation to those whom he loved most.
The period of his mayoraty was, by no means, a
period of calm repose. Those years were scored,
by the spirit of misrue, with deep, dark lines of in
fanny. Those years are memorable for the Vandal
outrage upon the Ursuline convent, and the CARR
son riot; in which portion of the people of Boston
demonstrated the terrible truth, that they were not
to be oudone IN fury, even by the most furious abo-
litionist who ever converted his stylus into har-
pooh, and his inkhorn into vial of wrath.
Mr. Lyman, even in comparatively early life,
filled the offices of brgader and major general of
The temperament Of Mr. Lyman was peculiar.
Frigid and even formal before the world, he was
one of the most warm-heared men, among the
noiseess paths of charity and in the closer relations
of life. have sometimes marvelled where he be-
slowed his keen sensibility, while going through
the rough and wearying detail of official duty In
the spring of lS4O we met accidentally at the
South--in the city of Charleston. He was III. His
mind was i'll at He seemed to me, at that
time, pr 'ccal illustration of the TRUTH that j, is
not good for man to be alone Yet he had been
long stricken then, IN his domestic relation. His
chief anxiety seemed to be about the health of his
little boy He told me that he fingered there on
his account. never knew more devoted father.
A gentleman, well known to the community, by
his untring practical benevQence, to whom APP
Piled for nformation has sent me reply, from
which must be permitted to extract one passage,
for the benefit of the world-"l have known much
OF his benevolent acts, having been the frequent
amoner of his bounty, with the injunction, Keep
ii TO yourself He often called and spent one or two
hours, to converse on temperance and the poor, and
would spend long winter evening in my office, to
learn OF me what my situation enabled me to COM
municate, and always left check for fifty or a
hundred dollars, to give the Howard, or some other
society. In the severe winter weather, remarked
that he would say, This ,ceaher makes one feel for
the poor He often sent his man with provisions
to the house of the destitute and had heart to feel
for others woe'
He has gone! But the memory of this good man
shall never go 1t shall be embaImed in the CRATE
full tears of the reformed, from age to age. Thou
sands, now unborn, shall be snatched like brands
from the burning, through the agency of this hca-
venly charity; and, they turn from the walls Of
this noble institution, in moral sense regenerate
they shall bless the of their noble benefactor
and thus raise and perpetuate, to the memory Of
THEODORE LYMAN, the monumentum acre perenai,ls
SEXTON OF THE OLD SCHOOL.