, 1859-12-15


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Mr.. McKim was followed by Wendell Phillips,
whose remarks closed As follows:
"Men said Wonld he had died in arms'-God
ordered better, and granted to him and the
slave those noble prison hours-thas single hour
Of death granted him q higher thnn the soldiers
place, that Of teacher; the echoes OF his rifles
have died away in the hills--a million hearts
guard his words. God bless this roof-nake it
bless us. We dare not SAY bless you, children
Of this home; you stand nearer to one whose
lips God touched, and We rather bend for yous
blessing. God make US Ill worthier Of him
whose dust we lay among these hills he loved.
Here be girded himself and went forth to bAttte-
Fuller success than his heart ever dreamed God
granted him. He sleeps in the blessings Of the
crushed aud the poor, and men believe more
firmly in virtue. now that such man has lived
Standing here let rs thank God for tirmer faith
and fuller hope"
The coffin was then lowered into the grave.
Just rs it reached the bottom Of the pit, and as
the first shovel of earth grated barshly on the
ear, the Rev Mr. Young lifted up his voice, and,
in loud impressive tones, exclaimed: have
fought the good fight; hare finished my
course; heneeforth there is laid up for me Il
crown Of righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous Judge will give me at the last day"
The work Of filing in the grave having been
performed, Mrs. Brown and her relatives slow
" wended their way back to the house, but the
great bulk Of the crowd remained gazing on the
mound for an hour or 30 after all was over.
A correspondent Of the Tribune thus describes
the house OF John Brown:
1.-The house is medium. sized fTame building,
such Us is common in that part o. the country.
It has four rooms On the first floor aud cores
ponding space aboye.
The next morning haa an opportunity fo5
the first time Of seeing the place as it appeared
in daylight, and Of behotding the surrounding
county On opening the front door glorious
sight saluted me. Directly in front, apparent
ly-perhaps from the tblnness OF the atuos-
phere-within two or three miles, but really
much further OF, looms up = rugged chain oi
the Adirondaeks; broken, jagged, massive
aud wonderfully picturesque OF TO the LEFT
stands iu solitary grandeur the towering pyra-
mid called white Face'--deriviug its name
from The color of the rock on its summit. The
Sasanac and Ausable flow ut each side Of it;
and just at its base they tell US is Like Placid,
sheet Of wates famed through alt the country
Of fine lakes for its exquisite beauty. On the
right is to be seen in the distance the peak Of
McCrcarv, and on the right Of that again, and
still further on, Mc1ntyte, the lottiest pinnacle
of the Adirondack range, Raises his towering
crest.
'tNr. Brown Ind expressed desire that hia
body should be laid in the shadow Of great
the more striking features Of the kcene just
named, was the first object 10 arrest my attcn.
ton. It stands about tfty feet from the house,
is about eight feet III height, and from fifteen to
twenty feet square, 1t is a very striking aud
picturesque object, and the recollection of il
would not unnaturally suggest to the mind oi
Mr.. IIrown a place for the inteEmcnt Of bis body
"The Brown Farm ut North Elba, is on the
highest arabic spot Of land in the State, if. in
decd, soil so hard and sterile can be called ara,
Bile. The question was asked in my hearing
whr Mr. Brown should have chosen = spot 10
difficult OF cultivation, and Yielding 10 poor a
requital to labor: and the answer was that he
had came there in pursuance Of the great rur.
pose of his life. The land formerly belonged to
Gerrit Smith, and lies near to those large tracts
which Mr. Smith had presented as 4 free g'ft to
certain colored people: aud it WAS to md these
coloEed people, md through them to .enef.
their race, that he originally come to place 10
unpromis:nx 10 the agriculturist-'