Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-07-21
Gamaliel Bailey.
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.
From the National Era, July ~

u lEAOii @'uIohai IL SeiJ 81 n.
| The cypress shadows deepen. But few
days ago, we were called upon to lamen
the loss of world-honored and beloved
friend, Joseph Surge, OF Birmingham. Ant
now, the last arrival iron Europe brings u:
the sad intelligence that or gifted ant
dear friend and feilow-laborer, with whose
name our own has been SO long associated
in the National Era, is no longer among the
living.
AS clouds that rake the mountain submits,
| AS waves that know no guiding hand,
So swift as brother followed brother
I From sunshine 10 the sunless land"
The death of DR.. Bailey will be widely
fell as 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.
| Cleur-sighted, warm-hearted, generous to
fault, frank in the avowal OF his opinions
-earDest without fanatlcism, bold without
temerity, uncompromising, yet courteous
and charitable, gentleman always, never
STOPPING to personal invective or contro-
versy-he has been emphatically the man
for his place and time. His views were
broad and statesmanlike-he could not wear
the badge of mere partizan-and he held
himself ready always to censure his politi-
cal friends when, in his view, they were in
the wrong, and to commend his oppo Eenrs
whenever they took step in the right d.
rection. None but those who knew him
well, and understood his socia. and genial
nature, and his strong love of appreciation,
coud estimate how much it cost him to
maintain, under circumstances to which
weaker man would have yielded as to des-
Tiny. his perfect loyalty to truth. What
most impressed Us, in our intercourse with
him, was the total absence of all cant, cavil,
or subterfuge-the transparent honesty and
Christian manIlness of his character.
In the dark period when his press, in Gin
cinnati was vice destroyed by mobs, and
in the periIons excitement which at Wash
ington followed the capture of the Pearl
with its cargo OF fugitive slaves, his courage
never faltered. With everything he loved
in life at stake, he disregarded alike the
menace of enemies and the Persuas ions of
friends, and refused to make any conces-
sion or apology, and strong in his conscious
integrity, challenged the closest scrutiny OF
his words and actions. The future histori-
un of the Anri-Slavery movement will find
few nobler pictures for his canvas than that
of the slight figure of the AntiSlavery
Editor, alone with his family, unarmed and
Unsupported in the heart OF save-hol lding
city calmly confronting an armed and ex-
cited multitude, declaring his determina-
ton 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 touch
ing and manly, to tie better natures of his
opponents, until threats changed to cheers,
and the really generous but misguided
populance pressed toward him. not to
matreat or intimidate, but to shake the hand
OF brave and honest man. az!
Personally, we feel assured, DR.. Bailey,
had no enemies. His genial, hearty.
healful nature, his ingenuousness. his deli.
Cdt0 lUI Tile dtleulllt duu
of life, his ungrudging admission of the
r light to differ, his bread catholic charity,
him 10 wide circle of friends,
among the warmest of whom were some
who totally dssented from his views on
political matters and the moral character Of
slavery.
Many thoughts and memories crowd upon
us, but our heart is too full for words. A
true and good ma1 has laid dowa to his long
rest. after bravey fighting the battle of life.
leaving his mark upon The age, and sta
less and honored name to his children.--
The world wherein he laborsd is better for
his sake. He will be greatly missed in the
coming struggle (Heaven grant it may be
lhe last and triumphant. .one) of freedom with
slavery. But God is over all and no man is
The broken ranks will be
closed, and younger men. who have learned
the lessons of liberty in the school of our
amented associate, will take up, and carry
forward to iss glorious cobsummation, the
rreat wo.k to which his life was devoted.