Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1865-02-08

u the silence Of DEATH lie had passed the allotted
period or three score years and ten, years enough
perhaps for him. but to our backward glance and
to our Iorcbodlng they seem quite too low
This Is not the occasion for extended culogy upon
his character or criticism upon his works, Ger.
wiuly mot tu assign his true mnh. ur the fitting
pucc for him to assume In the awful presence of
/ the expecting dead. The time /, NOT vet. The im-
preston ~ uur Ions Is too lrn'h. ! will venture 90
remark iu general way upon few point, In
/ which he seems 10 me tO stand uut in % striking
light, lie had no speciality Whatever ho attcmW'
ed was done well. lli' uttuiumcuts were both gen
crul and minute; as largo as the stutcsmuns and as
exact rs the schoolmastcrs Mr. Webster said of
him that he had read everything, and remembered
everything he rad 1t i' difficult 10 pass judgment
upon his orotory, The popular standard constantly
lluctuatc according 10 the prevailing fashion set 10y
the living models that happen to bo in vogue As
! % .'.."', "u, i"eu"'H v'thinl he will rurE 'rith
the best English orators. r0s,lhly Ms oratory was
moro English than American in its moderated tone
and reserved power Two features have Away at
traccd my notice. Every Grafton, address or speech
upon the grovrst or the slightest occasion, was AL
ways precisely adapted to that occasion and to no
| other and, apparently a' a corolmry it followed
| that be never used his ideas or his language but
once. What Was once said by him he never re-
/ pcatcd, | may add that he alone Of all our public
/ speakers. betrayed wcon,ciously It may be, the
presence Of foreign audience resulting, no doubt
/ from the knowledge that all his principal efforts
were reproduced abroad, not without respectful at
tcntion in the highest quarters,
The distressed condition Of this part Of our State
ha. been the occasion for displaying another phase
/ of his many-silcd character in series Of hcncyo-
/ lent efforts on our behalf at once emitting him to
our highest gratitude, and rejecting shining credit
/ upon his mstrious name 1t is not saying too
much to affirm that the history Of our people during
the last four years is one Of the most remarkable
chapters in the history of the race, Enough ], all
ready known of it to excite the admiration of all
friends of the country. In Mr. Eycrctts case ittook
Il practical form, resulting in fund of upwards of
one hundred thousand dollars in cash, expended
with sagacity and fidelity that aided by the be-
ncvocnt Of both sexes among our own citizens, will
make thousands of humble sufferers bcs, the mcm-
ory Of their distant and unknown friend. My in
tcrcoursc with hun, in connection with this great
charity exhibited in him familiarity with the
things of every day life, dollars and cents the bal
lance, and the yard-stck That ! comics, | did not
expect in one whose life had passed in the society Of
scholars and statesmen and in the closet of the
/ student
As we follow his retiring form and begin to take
account Of our loss cannot help feeling that from
the aggr gate Of learning the sum total of human
knowledge all that make, up the complex idea of B
civilization, and lends grace to the affairs of men,
he, in departing, has taken away larger measure
than will in like manner be- withdrawn by any one
ll' has lbt ItlllllN lI'IVl'I'' s'''llt N' iN'I-
tions.
COL o. p. TEMPLE said
1t would be prcsumptuous IN me to attempt to
deliver Il eulogy on the great man whose memory
we have assembled to honor But as Il member OF
the Executive Committee of the East Tennessee
Relief Association, having had the good fortune to
read many of the letters addressed by Mr.. Everett
to the venerable President of that Association du
ring the last twelve months, it may not be out of
place for me to say something of his most noble
philanthropy and bcHeyolcncc Highly Hs ! adj
mired him previously for his great goodness and
nobcncss of heart the pcruSal of those letters filled
me with increased admiration, As soon MS the tale
OF the suilerings of our starving people reached
nm i'm his far of home his whole soul seemed to be
absorbed in the generous work of furnishing the
means for their relief A stranger to our people, ut
an advanced age in life, and surrounded by all the
uNurics and comforts that wealth can bcstow, one
would have supposed that he would have sought his .
/ ease amid his books and his friends, rcposng in .
calm dignity upon his great fame and left to Others
younger than himself the task Of distributing the /
splendid donations, raised mainly 10y his influence
for our suffering tcow-Citizcns But not So How
earnest he was in our behalf how he sympathizcd
with u, in our desolation how the sad tale Of weep
ing mothers and dying children moved his generous
heart, how anxious to guard against even the sus-
picon Of msapplication Of those bcneiactions,
and how he watched the minutcst details Of their
alphcatloh' even experimenting IN person the pur-
chase of supplies, will be seen by those letters, II
they should ever SEQ the light What noble specta-
Gle does his conduct present. The whole civilized
world was filed with his fame vet nearly one-half
Of his last year earth was devoted by him to re-
lcying the desttution of people fifteen hundred /
miles away scarcely Onoof whom he had ever known
and to whom he was bound by no tie except<G
a common country common patriotism, cou<
/ humanity, and common religion When
rblo desolutons of war had visited our
hitherto abundant valley, and left ouI
tute, this great orator and piHantL
the cause of the naked and starvind
pie of Boston and Massachusetts
did Boston and Massachusetts +
qucnt appeal. ONE HUNDRED T
were bountcousy given. Noble MI
though her winds and ungenial h
though her soil, and her face sw
slcct and snow, yet within there
warm as if glowing with tropical
say hereafter and especially wh0
that Massachusetts and Tenncssed
linked together by the bonds Of
her roor!c shol not be- throug
woe, our people
OF all the men recently livi
pre-eminent for his honesty Al
well rs for his rare culture and
He STOOD amid the corrtiptions
monument of purity and uns
he expressed himself freely uI]
tions that have for many year
mind he did so with such cou
nifty and candor and with such
that he escaped, in more emil
of his contemporaries, the dctr
partizan strife. lie was SO pur(
elevated above the atmosphere
and mere politician, that even
could point 10 no word or act of
tongue Of calumny. His own
him to the great Washington
when applied to himself as ca
present generation: liz va
GOOD MEN, AND THE BEST OF
has passed away, having filled
his fame. But his memory
sweet, in the hearts of hi. couf
where in the land will il be ~
canonized than by the people of
ley and Of Wonder frownng mod
he did so much, and whom he lot
their name, and with grateful
heart | cast this humble tribute on hin