The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-16
DEFAMATION OF THE HoSoRED DEAD.
The New York Tribune Of Saturday saws:

iHc New 1orh Irlbune OF clturuAl says.
Senator Norris is dead This gentleman represented
New Hampshire in the Senate of the United States for only
brief period but yet long enough disgrace both himself
and his State. He of the northern who voted
for the Nebraska BILL though he had proessed ultra
sentiments for years previously and but short month
before the bill passed the Senate for which he gave his ready
voice. he declared brother upon the steps of the
Capitol that than vote for that of humiliation
and iquy he would suffer the amputation of his right arm
Upon the ashes of the dead would tread lightly
the death of Mr. Norris have shed
hypocritica encomums to bestow He has quietly gone
his long home after aiding to give the wound upon
freedom which his high position United States senator
enabled him to nfct The meage details of his public
reer may be found in our congressional resars."
When we hear Of Staying his own father
or mother destroying her children we inyoun-
arily ask ourselves have these monsters no idea of
God, and no thought of hereafter Has the human
form been given to such hends to startle mankind
with some proof of human fbility to shock So
cety into the erection of other safeguards against crime
Rare however, such exhibitions are it is still rarer
occurrence when human maligny follows its victims
beyond the grave. To the dead mangled and mula-
ted even by those who have struck the fatal blow is
barbarity for which the barbarian is not always pre-
pared In the wild heat of infatuated and hacyi-
lied troops have been known torture the dying and to
acerate the dead but these in their turn have been shot
down for their cruelty by their own unutored compan-
ions Your hyena of the press is deliberate imator of
this the dead For the honor our country we
rejoice that theresbut one in the United States and
he is the editor of the New York Tribune Not con-
tent with pouring the walls of wckeness and of wrath
upon every man prominent in the democratic party
while that man lives among us, his magnity survives
its object and ne whes his dagger of defamation
on the tomb itself His appetite for revenge-Go not
for revenge, for he strikes deepest where he has been
least injured but for the qualification of other bad pas
sonscan only lie satiated by repast upon the dead
by that fell anatomy which searches through the pulse
less frame for evidence to crafty malevo-
lent feeling INDUCED during the life of his victim
to excuse some calumny upon the departed.
Not the spectacle of weeping y-of mourning
rends-of Senaes craped in token that brother has
gone-of State grieying over the bier of son who
served her so well these stay this ackal of the
presshs ghou who open the grave and riots in
his inhuman banquet.
The remains Of Mr. Norris were passing through New
fork when Greeey instincts induced him to rush to this
feast of SANDER Moses Norris had earned much credit during
his public He had never offended Greeley except by
differing from him in politics lie was quiet unpretending
rueheared gentleman lie calm and sefposed in the
expression of his convictions He never INDUCED in bit
ter epithets against his enemies while his friends he
returned warm faith and an honest ZEAL made oil the
more marked because unaccompaned with noisy profess
sons disturbed by inconstant moods lie had passed
through the whole range of the high stations in the gift
of his State State full Of intelligent and upright men,
and when he died he believed be without an enc
my Ar Greeley has resolved to seize the sad occasion to
insult the unoendng dead and to write his own name in
the volume which the of those who
would rather be immortal in inamy than known at all
We commend to Mr.. Greeley the following passage from
Washington Irving
oh, the grave! the grave 1t bures every error GOV
ers every defect exnguishes every From m
peaceful bosom spring but fond regrets reco
lccon Who look down upon grave even of an enc
my and not feel compunctous thFob that he should
have varied with the poor handful Of earth lies mould
ering before him ~