Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-01-19
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My DEAR SIR: My fathers painful
life was ended yesterday, at two clock, in
perfect tranquility of mind and body, and
have not q shadow Of doubt that he is
enjoying the eternal happiness which is
the sure reward Of such faith and repent
ance as his. What his suferings were no
one viii ever know, but l believe no hu-
man being ever endured more intense or
prolonged suffering. am sure no one
ever bore them with reader aequiescence
10 Gods will, or sWeeter cheerfulness to
those around him he had acquired q
frame Of mind 80 wholly set on heaven,
that the only thoughts which ever put
aside religion were those that the unhap-
py condition Of the country forced upon
him. II, as presume, your friendly con-
nection with him constitutes you the pro-
per person 10 notify the House Of Repre-
sentatiEes Of his death, / think only car
~ out his wishes in asking you to state
distinctly the clear, decided religious opin-
ion be held, and the anxiety he expressed
80 often that his former associates in pub
lie life might know the certainty with
which he trusted in his belief. If he had
lived, it would hsve been his effort to make
practical exhibition Of this; and now that
he has gone, think it my duty to make
this request Of you"
In the Senate, remarks were made upon
his death by Messrs. Kennedy OF Mary
land, Bayard of Delaware, and Fessenden
Of Maine. In the House, BY Messrs. Girls
field, -Crittenden, Mcpherson, May, Riddle
and Merrill. The remarks Of Mr.. Riddle
we quote below:
"MR. RIDDLE. Mr.. Speaker, it may be
said that the touch Of death dissolyes the
form and figure with which man, in artih-
cial life, is clothed, and reduces him to his
bare, essential self; strips him him to his
unclothed individuality, SO that, for once,
he is estimated for what he is, disconnect-
ed from all that ever pertained to him.
It matters nothing where the journey be-
gan; on what mountain or in what valley;
nothing at all through what regions his
pathway conducted him, and still less
what he gathered or scattered by the
way be lies down at the end, empty
handed, naked and alone, the type Of
all The living, and the peer Of all the dead.
It avsils nothing how he was estimated in
life; through what mists he was seen, how
lasded or how decried; the simple man
lies before you now, and the unaided soul
instinctiYely estimates him at his value
an sYful and inevitable ordeal. What a
grand monarch is death; and how his sub
iects are halloWed and elevated By the
touch Of his seepter. What lines Of soft
ened beauty it traces upon ehangeless IA
ces, while the angels Of charity hide with
/ their wings the harsh lineaments, and vail
the unlovable memories. And how, too,
the living are changed, as they reverently
enter his silent court. Folly and pride,
passion, ambition and its needs, hate and
| It's prejudices, die within US, and leave
4 Justice, truth and mercy TO speak; and 50
I the dead living contemplate the living dead
/ And so come /, the living descendant Of
the Puritan pilgrims, into the presence Of
I the dead descendant of the Cavaliers, tc
speak, If may, fitting word over him
Springing from these antipodal sources
educated in opposite schoOls'Of politics that
had come to be intolerant and coming from
sections that had grown into hostility with
the disparity ofyears, and neither disposed
/ to lay aside the mental habits Of a life
( time, the incidents Of this queer cOngres.
sional life threw the departed and myself
for many months together. That inter.
course taught me, at least how much Of
political hatreds and enmities, Of party
..strifes that shake continent, and Of sec
itional snimosity that threstens to dismem
Der tt are due to the prejudice that eannO
4 see, the Ignorance that VIII not know, AMI
the bigotry thar does not allow for differ
snees in education, habit Of thought, ant
all the surroundings thst impregnate tn
atmosphere Of social life, moral training
and political sentiment. I also came t
know that true nobleness Of soul, purit.
Of heart, elevation Of sentiment, and th
refined cultivation Of the gentlest human
tiles Of our best nature, might find thei
amplest home in phase Of our civiliza
tion, not, as supposed, favorable to thei
growth; showing, at least the native rich
n ness Of the nature in which they grew
, If Sometimes fancied that some one
these qusntes found expression in en- NJ
Wonted way incident to warm and ger
erOus temper, knew that.
: "Like sunshine broken in q rill,
] Though gone astrayi 'tTss sunshine sHll'