Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-10-15
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A Beautiful Tsibuse fson = Father T. .
George D. Prentiee, The. able and &C.
complisbed editor OF tho LouisviIle
Journal, the poet sne. Union patriot,
thus mentions the lite domestic attic
ton which be has sustained. The ar
ticle is worthy Of I he warm and gener.
our heart Of M, Prentice, and Of the
finer feelings Of the soul. What com.
ment 10 this notice upon the sad and ter.
rible contest in which the country is
eugaged--ho'~ it supders families and
the dearest domestic ties. The Jour-
nat says:
"OBrruARv. - William Courtlaod
Prentice died on Monday last, At Au-
gus,a, KY, Of wounds received 10 the
conflict at that place on the preceding
Saturday. He persisted in the cause OF
the rebellion.
ut is not 10 the columns Of a news
paper, it is only in the family circle or
10 the hash Of solitude, that the emo
tons Of parent over such an event
should have utterance. The tears OF
weeping eyes and The fast-tricking
| drops of bleeding hearts are not for the
public gaze. The deepest agonies should
10 content to fold their sombre wings
in the soul. Consolation could not
come from the worlds sympathy; it
can be looked for only from God and
and his angel Time. Nay, there are
| griefs that time itself has no power to
alIay or soothe, griefs that like running
streams are deepening their channels
forever.
"Wm. CORTLAND Prentice was no
common young man. lie was remark
able in his powers and in his tempera-
ment. A model Of manly beauty, he
had extraordinary intellectual energy, a
strong thirst for strange and curious
Knowledge, aud deep passion for all
that is sublime and beautiful in poetry
and nature. He was generous, manly,
high hearted, and OF courage that no
mortal peri, come in what form it might,
could daunt. He exulted in looking
destruction face to face in all It's ways.
He loved wild and dangerous adven-
lures for the very dangers sake. His
eagle spirit lived among the mountain
crags and shouted back to the shouts OF
the storm. Although kind, unsetiIsh
and humane, he was impetuous, pas
sionate and Of unconqucrabie prtjudices.
He was not unfiequcntly unjust 10 bis
judgments, and he permitted nothing to
stand between him and the execution OF
his purposes.
"This young man, if he had always
directed his energies judiciously, could
have made himselfa distinguished or.
nament in any profession OF life. He
might have been an able and hon ored
statesman in the service of the Republic
But an intense southern sympathy, In
spite OF the arguments, the remon-
strances, and the entreatics Of those
who dearly loved him, made him
an active enemy agains. his country.
And, after brief five weeks service
in the rebel ranks he fell ,soon to breathe
out his fiery life, receiving, meanw bile
far away from his family, the kindly
ministrations of those against whose
cause his strong right arm had been
raised. Oh, if he had fallen in bis
country's service, fallen, with his burn
Il ing eyes fixed in love and devotion upon
the flag that for more than three fourths
of century has been star Of worship
to his ancestors, his early death, though
still terrible, might have been borne ~
fathers heart, but, alas, the reflection
that he fell in armed rebellion again
that glorious old banner, now the en
blem Of the greatest aud hottest cause
the world ever knew, is full Of desola.
ton and almost of despair.
"And, yet, we shall love to think Of
CORTLAND Prentice, that brave and no
bic, though misguided youth, during
the little remnant of our lives. Our
love for him, undimmed by tears and
grief, is and will remain an amarantbine
flower upon the grave of oar buried
years."