Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-04-22
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GRAFTON Or COL. CHARLES A
AnmNER. ..

GRAFTON or COL. CHARLES A
SUMNER.
Upon being introduced to the large audi
euce assembled at the Music Hall, consist
ing Of the Masonic fraternity, Odd Fellows
and other societies, Mr.. SUMNER said:
Most Worshipful Master, Brethren, Ladies
and Gentlemen 80.
A Nation mourns to-day. A People are
bereaved. A calamity, most extraordinary
in its character, IS well as great in its gen.
eral magnitude, has stricken and over
vhelmed the citizens OF this Republic. No
language may picture the emotions OF the
hour; and when you and remember that
only the briefest notice was given for fhe
consideration Of remarks to be submitted to
you on this occasion, we may also recognize
and recollect that it is not within the com.
pass of poetic genius to adequately place
upon the canvas Of history the story OF the
day, and the consequences Of the event we
have assembled to sadly commemorate.
I shall speak TO you with breyity, and
could hope and trust with something Of that
simplicity which was the most excellent
characteristic Of him whose loss we deplore.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, late President Of
these United States, was born Of humble pa
rentage, in the State Of Kentucky, in the
year 1909. From early boyhood his was the
common life Of toll, and his instruction was
gathered principally in the avocations Of la
bnr-labor in the stricteSt and most expliei.
sense. To him belongs all that credit which
is the honor and glory of the majority Of
American statesmen. Sprung from humble
circumstances, fighting his way up through
the difficulties which even here-Where 50
many renowned triumphs have been achieved
nyer them-surround those in lowly life, and
attaining tie very summit and pinnacle OF
our political fame, with hand unstained, u
mind unclouded and uneonfused, heart uu-
polluted, and biography unblotted by one
public act which he might blush to own be
fore the judges Of earth in heaven. Let Us
hrst accord to him this merit and dignity Of
his position; let US regard the splendor OF
his political success as viewed and enhanced
from the beginning and the character Of his
endearors. For, to day, every hatboatman
that guides his rude craft down the waters Of
he Mississippi, every blacksmith who swings
mis- sledge over the SQUIRTING anvil, every
farmer who in this seed-time upturns the fur
row in the fertile valley Of the SangEman,
/ every pioneer settler in the mighty forests Of
the west, whose axe-blade CLEANS amid the
thicket, or descending upon some huge.bod-
led hickory, oegets the eehoing notes Of ad.
| vancing civilization, do but repeat in their
bronzing toll the grand disciplininR chapters
in the life Of Abraham Lincoln. And, yes
terday, az il seems, when be stood on ons
Of the porticos Of the capitol, and for Sec
ond tine accepted under an oath, and with
scripturally chosen words, the highest hom-
age this people can pay to felloW-man-an
homage which We say no autocrat can boast-
with sincere modesty, which no one
dreamed Of challenging, he deprecated bis
lnsuticiency for responsibilities which he
had already, and throgh four years Of unex-
ampled tumult, discharged 50 well that the ma.
Jority Of millions re-committed to his hand.
the chief sceptre and the rule. He noonted
\ triumphal dais Of human ambition from the
poorest promise, when adventurous aids are
reekoned; but the day and the year Of his
supreme exaltation witnessed neither q
shame In him at his peasant birth and edu,
cation and long manual service, nor thai
sad exhibition OF vanity which consists in q
constant reminding to all the world OF the
drunkenness Of his childhood, the struggles Of
his youth, and the thence ascending path o.
bis distinction. = :"
How was this man, thus circumstauced
and compelled to physical labor during hi.
minority, drawn from river and field ant
artisan toll, 70 the study and practice Of thu
profession he was subsequently 10 'a6ufn
| Il was the providence which belongs 10 IN
early record Of a large number OF he 80
men Of this nation. Il was the op;cf anr
kindly recognition in him Of the 6ne tslent,
Of noble, intellectual man, BY one Who ~
the power and the disposition TO .neaL ~,
encouraging word and extend the heIpins
hand. Mr.. Lincoln was induced and nr;viI
eyed to enter the profession of The lsw :,
profession which, pursued as he devoted him
self to it, was no less than his former an,
lployment = tax upon every energy of III,
physical system, while, as be has somerhsrs
in hpmely bat unmistakably grateful MIR. !,
expFessed d, it lifted him to those ,phEU,,
CONCENTRATIONS on the relations Of mar !,
each other in their civil capacities. ,Ihfch
|. old in human writ, were all novelty and re
freshment to this young and ardent student
The concurrent testimony and coucesaion, q
political friends and foes which haye an
peared before us Ia newspaper and maaaTin
articles, and in reviews, uttered and reOofte,
/ from the stump By those who knew Bin, Ian
and intimately, and spoke with the lara
freedom OF sach occasions, all sEree In n
forming Us that during Mr.. Lincoln's prac
tce OF the hN, he was never known 70 TAX
the hsoeat OF sny mere tschnicsf adysnhE
10 4 court Of justice. No art Of the petttfo1
rer's Was cultivated o.; adopted By him: an
when, on his Arse nomination for Prssidsr
!, q ths uaitS4 0ssses, sAS sStAaio ~