Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-11-26
Bearer
Editors and Reporters of the Union and American


on foot
Family and relations of the deceased in carriages.
Editors and Publishers of the City.
Typographical Union.
Members Of the State Agricultural Bureau.
Members of the Legislature.
Citizens on foot.
------. Citizens in carriages. -sl
The procession was very long-one among the lar
gest ever seen in Nashville and hundreds assembled
at various points along the route to pay last sad
tribute to the memory of who in life had endear
ed himself to all
AT the public vault Of the City Cemetery the beau
tful and impressive rites of the Masonic Fraternity
were performed over the remains Of the deceased.
These services were performed by Mr.. CHARLES A.
FULLER, Grand Secretary of the. Grand Lodge of
Tennessee. During their performance Mr.. FcL-
LER made the following remarks personal to the de-
ceased:
Our deceased brother, whose body we here commit
to the tomb was well known to you all. For many
years his life and public services have been familiar as
household wordso And / am sure but give utter
ance to the universal public sentiment, when say
that the loss of such man great public calanl-
ity. Educated and reared in a profession that af-
forded full scope TO his eminent talents he entered
upon his career with determination that no obsta-
slO could impede, and with an ambition to excel
that no ordinary disaster could extinguish. The
result of his labors before the world and when
the political history Of his adopted State is written
his name and services will assuredly occupy high
and commanding position. But it is not as politi-
ciau however eminent in this respect his services
and labors may have been, that we have assembled
on the present occasion to honor his memory. We
acknowledge no political bias in this demonstration
of public esteem. We prefer rather to regard him
in a much higher and far holier aspeet-that of a
friend and brother in the social relations of every day
life. We forget the politician in our admiration OF
the peculiar and happier traits of character which
conspicuously elevated our deceased brother far
above the petty strifes of political toll and ambition
Personally, have known E. G. EASTMAN long and
intimately For nearly twenty years l have been
familiar with slost every act of his life; but ii
was in the domestic circle, Ground his own reside
and in pleasant intercourse learned to love him in
his true character 1t was there that he exhibited
those finer feelings of human nature that showed
the true nobility of his soul In the sanctuary o.
home we hOnored him as q tender and loving hus-
band kind and afeetionate parent, warm-hearted
and true friend. Generous in all his impulses, no
man had more devoted personal friends and amidst
all the turmoils and sometimes bieH stTifes of par
ty, he hnd no personal enemies. Truly mGy il be
said of him, "none knew him but to love hiIa.'
Even his most strenuous political opponents we're
constrained TO like and admire man. In the home
circle he ever delighted to ingeF, in sacred
treat, from all the tolls and disappsntmeEts Of his
outer life and no man vas better fitted to secure
the love and affection which was ever yielded to
him in rich and gushing abundance by its inmates;
But Death has invaded this once happy family circle
his icy hand has been laid upon one around whom
was cus:errd the hearts hottest affections. To the
bereaved wife spd fatherless children, we have no
words of coincidence 70 offer. We can only sympa-
thise with them in their deep affection, and point
them to the only true source Of ak consolation.
Dark sn6 mysterious may appear this une expected
and sudden calamity, who dare say, in his grief,
that it is not vel. Nay the God of the widow
and the faherless be an ever present shield to pro-
tect them under ali the trials aud trbulateEs Of this
life aud when they too shall be ealle4 70 pass
through the dark valley, may they find happy Ell
trance into that land where all tears wiped
away and once more united with the loved and lost
forever bask in the sunshine of Eternal Peace.