The Kanzas news., 1859-08-06
. Gamaliel Bailey.


The cypress shadows deepen But few
loss of world -honored and beloved friend,
Joseph Surge, of Birmingham And now.
the last arrival from Europe brings us the
intelligence that our gifted and dear friend
and fellow-laborer, with whose name our
own has beea so long associated in the Ma
tso7adt Era, IS no longer among the living.
As clouds that rake the mountain SUBMITS.
AS waves that know no guiding hand,
SO swift has brother followed brother Is s
From sunshine to the sunless land.
The death of DR.. Bailey viii be widely
felt as q public calamity He was one of
those men who mould and shape the age in
which they live. To no one is the cause of
freedom and progress, as embodied in the
Republican party, more indebted than to
him. Clear-sighted, ,warm-hearted, gener-
Gus to a fault, frank in the avowal of his
opinions-earnest without fanaticism, bold
without temerity, uncompromising yet
courteous and charitable, a gentleman al
ways, never STOPPING to personal invectiye
or controversy-he has been emphatically
the man for his place and time. His views
were broad and statesman-lke--he could
not wear the badge of mere partisan-and
political friends when, in his view, they
were in the wrong, and to commend his
opponents whenever. they took step in the
right direction. None but those who knew
him welk and understood his social and
genial nature, and mis- strong love of appre-
baton, could estimate how much it cost
him to maintain, under circumstances to
which a weaker man would have yielded as
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What most impressed us, in our intercourse
with him, was the total absence of all cant,
caVil, or subterfuge-the transparent hon.
esty and Christian manliness of his char
acter.
In that dark period when his press, in
Cincinnati, was twice destroyed BY mobs,
Washington followed the capture of the
courage never faltered. With everything
alike the menaces of enemies and the per-
suasions of friends, and refused TO make
any concession or apology. and strong in
his conscious integrity, challenged the clos
est scrutiny of his words and actions. The
future historian of the anti-slayery move
ment will find few nobler pictures for his
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anti-slavery editor, alone with his family,
unarmed and unsupported in the heart of
slaVeholding city, calmly confronting an
armed and excited multitude, declaring his
determination to live and die free man,
and to speak and print his sentiments freely
and fully, subject only to the laws of his
country; and closing with an appeal, at once
touching and manly, to the better natures
of his opponents, until threats changed to
cheers, and the really generous but misgui-
ded populace pressed towards him, not to
maltreat or intimidate, but to shake the
hand of brave and honest man.
Personally, we feel assured, DR.. Bailey
had no enemies. His genial, hearty, health
full nature, his ingenuousness, his delicate
regard for the amenities and courtesies of
life, his ungrudging admission of the right
TO differ, his broad catholic charity, endear-
ed him to a wide circle of friends, among
the warmest of whom were some who to-
tally dissented from his views on political
matters and the moral character of slavery.
Many thoughts and memories crowd up
on US, but our heart is too full for words.
A true and good man has laid down to his
long rest, after brayely fighting the battle
of life, leaving his mark upon the age, and
stainless ana nonoreo name 10 nIS cnlluren
The world wherein he labored is better for
his sake. He will be greatly missed in the
coming struggle Heaven grant it may be
the last and triumphant one } of freedom
with slavery. But God is over all, and no
man is indispensable. The broken ranks
will be closed. and younger men, who have
learned the lessons of liberty in the school
of our lamented associates, will take up,
and carry forward to its glorious consuma-
ton, the great work to which his life was
devoted. J. G. w.