Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-07-21
From the National Era, July :. ]
Gamaliel Bailey.
. Br JOHN G. WHITTIER.


rival from Europe brings US the sad
intelligence that our gifted and dear
friend and fellow -laborer, with whose
name our own has been so long associ-
ated 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 has brother followed brother
| From sunshine to the sunless land.
The death of DIR. Bailey will he
widely felt as public calamity. lie
was one of those men who mold and
shape the age in which they live. To
no one is the cause of Freedom and
Progress, as embodied in the Rcpubli-
can party, more indebted than to him.
Clear sighted, warm hearted, gen
erous to fault, frank in the avowal
Of his opinions-carncst without fa
naticism, bold without temcrity, un-
compromising, yet courteous and char
table, a gentleman always, never
stopping to personal invcctive or con-
troversy-he has been emphatically
the man for his place and time. His
views were broad and statcsmanlike-
he could not wear the badge of mere
partisan-and he held himself ready
always to censure his 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 well, and understood his social
and genial nature. and his strong love
of appreciation, could estimate how
much it cost him to maintain, under
circumstances to which a weaker man
would have yielded as to destiny. his
perfect loyalty to truth. What most
impressed us, in our intercourse with
him, was the total absence Of all cant,
cavil, or subterluge-thet transparent
honesty and Christian manlincsS of
his character.
In that dark period when his press,
in Cincinnati was twice destroyed by
mobs. and in the pcrilous excitement
which at Washington followed the
capture of the Pearl with its cargo of
fugitive slaves. his courage never fall
tered. With every thing he loved in
life at stake, he disrcgardcd alike the
mcnaccs of enemies and the pcrsuasions
of friends, and refused to make any
concession or apology, and strong in
his conscious integrity. challenged the
closest scrutiny of his words and ac-
tions. The future historian of the An
ti-Slavcry movement will find few no
bier pictures for his canvas than that of
the slight figure of the Anti-Slavcry
Editor, alone with his family, unarm-
ed and unsupported in the heart of a
slave-holding city, calmly confronting
an armed and excited multitude, de-
claring 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 ma
lures Of his opponents, until threats
changed to cheers, and the really gen
erous but misguided populacc pressed
toward him, not to maltreat or intim-
idate, but to shake the hand of brave
and honest man.
Personally, we feel assured. DR..
Bailey, had no enemies. His genial,
hearty, healthful nature, his ingcn-
uousness, his delicate regard for the
amenities and courtcsics of life, his un-
grudging admission of the right to
differ, his broad catholic charity, en-
dearcd him to a wide circle of friends,
among the warmcst of whom were
some who totally dissented 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 man has
D laid down to his long rest. after brave
ly fighting the battle of life, leaving
his mark upon the age, and stain
: less and honored name to his children.
5 The world wherein he labored is bet
I ter for his sake. He will be greatly
= = missed in the coming struggle Heaven
grant it may be the last and triumph
c ant one) of freedom with slavery
S But God is over all and no man is in
a dispensable. The broken ranks will
be closed, and younger men. who have
! learned the lessons of liberty in the
school of our lamented associate, will
take up, and carry forward TO its glo.
rious consummation. the great work tc
which his life was devoted.
: Death OF Great Men.
u The world has recently been start
q led by the announcement of the deatf
of Humboldt. He was only about