Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-23
THREE CENTS.

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This man, so stern and infexibe in tbn
Oi OH purpose SO rigorous in his demands Of other
@ on III @ pqnat 5 OF prlnclple so Indifferent to prefer
tor TO whom he always gave an open ear and a @ nom
assent 1t was no demon like that which attandpSI
like that to which Faust resigned himself 40 % Head
OF light and light aid beauty fitted ever paIpabIy
before him and wooed him to the perpetual servics
Of the good and true. The memory Of a pions and
beloved mother permeated his whole moral bei1g
and kept warm within him the tenderest affection
My mother was a lady of graceful and simple
manners Galr complexion, blue eyes, and auburn
hair with rich and exquisite voice that still thrills
my memory with the echo of its vanished music She
was highly educated for her day. when Annapols was
the focus of intellect and fashion for Maryland and
its fruits shone through her conversation and coored
and completed her natural eloquence which nv
father used to say would have made her an orator If
IT had not been thrown away on a womang She was
the incarnation of all that is Christian in life and
hope, in charity and thought, ready for every good
work, herself the example of all she taught"
1t was the force of her precept and example that
formed the man, and supplied him with his shield
ana pucBier. His private life Spotess His hah-
US were regular and absemiOus, and his practicein
close conformity with the Episcopal Church. of which
l; ne was member He invariably attended divine
service on sunday, and confined himself for the re-
maInder OF the day to course of religious reading
II from ms father he drew courage and fierce de-
termination before which his enemies fed in copfI-
slon from his mother he inherited those mider anal
ltes that won for him friends true and devoted as
man MAJ eyer po:seSsedi some have said he was hard
resolve had fired his breast, and when the rleam Of
battle had lighted his countenance. His friends saw
deeper, and knew that beneath the exterior he os
sumed in his struggle with the world there beat n
heart as pure and unsullied, confdng and as gen
tie as ever sanctifed the domestic circle, or made
loved ones happy. His heart reminded me of spring
among the hills OF the Susquehanna to which often
Tes9rted IN my youth; around part of it we boys
haq punt stone wall to protect it from outrage,
whilst on the side next home we had left omen q
path. easily Travelled by familiar feet, and leading
straight to thesweet and perennial waters within
He lived to hear the salvos that announced. after
more than two centuries of bondage the redemptiop
OF ms native State. He lived to for that grand
act of entranchisement that wiped from the escutch
con of the nation the eprous stain Of slavery; and
to know that the Constitution of tbe Tnited State5
no longer recognized and protected property in man
He lived to witness the triumph of his Ountry in It's
DESPERATE StTugge with treason and to behold all its
enemies; either wanderers like Cain over the earth
or suppants for mercy at her feet Ho lived to catch
the first glimpse of the coming glory of that new era
OF progress that matchless valor had won through
lie lived, through all the storm of war, to see at
last America rejuvenated rescued from the grasp of
uesHetlSm, ana rise victorious with her garments
nurlhed and her brow radiant with the unsullied
llignt & 2l @ liberty. ne lived to greet the return of
upon her bosom and breathed out there his noble
spirit.
The sword may rust in its scabbard and so let il:
but free men with free thought and free speech will
wage unceasins war until truth shall be enthronfd
and sit empress of the world Would TO God that ba
had been spared to complete life of threescore and
ten years for the sake of his country and posterty
When think of the good he would have accom-
plshed had he survived for twenty years, can say
in the language of Fisher Ames, My heart penera2
ted with the remembrance of the man, grows LIQUID
as speak, and could pour it out like WATER
At the portals Of his tomb we may bid farewell to
the faithful Christian in the full assurance that a
blessed lie awaits him beyond the grave. Serenely
and trustuy he has passed from our sight and gone
down into the dark waters.
80 sinks the day star in the ocean bed
And yet anon uprears his dropping head,
And tricks his beams, and with sparkling eye
Flames IN the forehead Of the morning sky"
From this hall, where as scholar, statesman, and
orator he shone brightly, he has disappeared for
ever. Meyer again will he answering to the roil-ca
from this desk, respond for his country, and the
rights Of man. Nc more shall we hear his feryid eO-
qqence, IN the day OF imminent peril, invoking us
who h 3ld the mighty power of peace and war to
dedicate ourselves, if need be, to the sword but to
accept end of the conflict but absolute triumph
for our country. He has gone to answer the great
ro-call above where the "brazen throat of war; is
yoiceieSS in the presence of the Prince Of Peace
Let us habitually return to his recorded words and
gather wisdom as from the testament of departed
age and since we were witnesses of his treleSs de-
that on the monument which loving hearts and will
ling hands will soon erect over his remains there
shall be deeply engraved the figure of a bursting
shacBie, as the emblem OF the faith IN which ne lived
and died.
| For tho Christian. scholar, statesman and orator
+! al good men are nournerS; but what shall l say Of
that greet which none can share the grief of sincere
| OH my friendl comforted by the belief that vor,
whilst living, deemed mc worthy to he your cCp,6Gn
| l9n and loaded me with the proofs of your esteem r
Sha IOhdy treasure, during my remainiI wears tha
recollecton Of your smile and counsel Lost tn me
Is the strong arm Whereon | have so often leaned.
but in that path, which in TING past we trod most
J9ytuily together, | shall Continue, as God shall
| give me to see my duty, with unfaltering though
end. " i'' A7' ""'' " '"o
Admitting his brilliant intellect and varied acquiro-
ments; his nTiucibe courage and unsyerviHg f1rti-
tude gloi$tng in his good works and fair renown
out more than all tOUtRa the maH, / shall endeavor
70 assuage the bitterness of grief by applying to him
| tneSe words of proud, though fearful satsfaction
from which the faithful Tacius drew consolation for
honor:
Quidquid ex Agricola amavimus, quidquid mirati
sunus, manet mansurumque est, in animis hominum;
IN @ternitate temporum fama rerum."