The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-09-28

| which calls us together strong as they are.
! The assassination of Col. Moody is among
the blacklist deeds ever recorded the
/ pages of historic crime. A few days ago no
one was SO credulous as to suppose the conf
mnnity held monster who could have thus
| imbrued his hands in the blood of Il human
| being. No man feels his life as secure. or
! the peace of society as well protected, as he
did week ago. Night comes with its
/ brooding shadows, and the thought steals
over us that they slIroud some desperate
1 spirit at war with the highest and hottest
/ interests of social life-and with life itself
/ Such deed il the madtlcst extreme of mo-
/ bocFacy; the essence of the highest cTimi-
nalify in law abiding land. The laws of
I God and men are alike defed and the rcpe-
/ tition of such deeds would soon precipitate
4 society into barbaric chaos. Hence, while
/ we deplore this sad calamity, as good citiz-
4 ems, we are called upon to Use the most eff
| Gent measures for the detection and punish
/ ment of the dabolieal murderer Anything
4 short of the highest efforts in that direction
| will be unworthy of the good citizenship of
/ this people. No pains, no expenses, no self
denial should be left unconsecrated to the
pursuit, the discovery, and the sacred and
/ Aforementioned Arrangement of this tragi-
cal outrage. We may not, we viii not, sit
down in silence, and by our silence offer u
premium for assassination, and so bid the
wretched slayer of his fellow man God
speed"
Let us turn, however, from these reiiec-
| tons TO the character of the deceased. We
/ should regard the death of such u man at
any time, and in the quietest manner, a
| great public loss. But little past fifty years
| of age his training had been varied and in
the school of adversely had disciplined him
| as an object of peculiar care Such rough
| experience is essential to the full disclosure
! of the talents, and capabilities Of an eat,
! good and useful men. Our friend v,ssz pos
| sesScd of large, active, intellectual faculties
all marked, strong, distinctive Few men
| were characterized by higher moral and rt-
/ ligious susceptbilities, And withal. he was
/ studious, growing, and kept ,tirvast with
the cultivated minis of the times. uhiel.
/ his early education ~sf7Tt5.st- him to do. He
/ knew how to make the best use~9f. rs he
| relished the best books. Some of them lie
Oh bis table half read to-day Law, liter
allure, science, theology, politics, govern
ment, al received a share Of his Studies, and
with their vast treasures lie enriched his
mind.
The great temptation of the learned pro-
| fessions--I4aw Medicine Theology, is to
| idlencsS. Many young Preacher of great
| early promise, has, after few years, ceased
to study, aid fallen into the repetition of
stale, insipid spiritless commonplace mani
ties +; grieving his friends wronging the
church, disappointing the expectations OF
his kiusmen, and betraying the highest trust
| with which man can be invested
How small per eeptage OF the host of
| young medical practitioners, on whom the
hopes of Science and Sorrow have been fond
! IN fixed, ever allow those generous hopes to
be realized! Everywhere may bc found
physicians whose minds have not advanced
degree on any dial of progress for many
years. Science pushes its researches, and
developes its discoveries in right lines and
onward movements; but these drones OF
1Esculapiau failure creep round in narrow
ing circles without increase of skill, OF
growth OF medical or general knowledge, and
die forgotten.
Law Schools, annually pour out, like
swarming bees, their hundreds of diplomael
graduates the future attorneys, cOunselors
and orators of orr country. They are also
the prospective Judges, eonservators OF
Liberty, politicians and statesmen What
becomes of them all! Where goes that logi-
cal power! Where the love of the great au
thors? Where the purpose to rise, to excel
To gain alike, as is manly, Just and becom
ing, the honest loaf and the imperishable
name! | have seen stream that might
have turned mill, sweep over cliff and de
scend i'll powerless spray. So have | seen
these streams of professional promise and
real power, and superior worth and splendid
prospects, swept ont of sight, out of fame
| honor and usefulness, and only a noble few
of the silvery threads utilized and made to
bless the world.
Our dead citizen belonged not to this
class. While many, from year To- year, veal
ont the patience of the Bench, and bore en-
during iuries with the neagerest and most
monotonons repetitions of empty phraseolo
gies, mouldy fancies and inconSequentia
rhapsody, intended for reasoning, he came t.
the investigation OF his cause SO fresh Sc
all alive, with such enthusiasm, without
which is no greatness or success-that Court
jury, Bar, and spectators alike, bestowed OF
him the need of profound attention, which
genius and merit eau alone command.
Occupy till | come" So God commands
No mau has right to be drone III society
He must improve. "No man liveth unto
himself" No man may claim exemption
from the requirements 20 make the worl,
better than he found it, My friend saw, felt
confessed, aud acted on the supremacy o
this great truth. Men may act quite dissnl
ilarly with equal sincerity, and honor The
age of which they are Il part, each III hi.
own special way, and all alike render yalu
able services; and to his own master ht
standeth or fallcth' Who diSsents wheI
we say the death of such a man is Il great
loss-a public calamity! Such man coult
not BE- wanting in the great virtue of public
spiritcdness He felt the force of the new
condition OF our country. 1t was with hin
a great patriotic desire to see the crushed
South Fehabilitated. He rejoiced in what
ever gave promise of improvement in acri
culture, mechanism, transportation, genera
education, and social happiness. He was
unseltish. None could know how really un
selfish, and how many noble traits were wei
untolded in his nature, till they had bivou
acked with him in the inclement winter
seen him i'll the trials of campaigning As
soldier, witnessed his gushing kindness Il
his sick, or weary men, or known him in The
horrible prison life of many months OF
agonislng prlvation-where his foes learned
to love and honor him, and where he minis
tered to his fellow-SuffeTers with true mag
nanimity-of what he possessed. In tn,
late war he felt that the South was entitled
to her independence. For the purpose of Sc
curing that object he laid aside every othel
duty and engagement, raised an artillery
company, and right calamity and bravel,
fought on many we'll contested field anC
showed his manly faith by his heroic deeds
He seemed born to command, and had tho
war lasted few more years, great promo
ton, and great fame awaited him. No his
tory OF our contest no volume on our home
and State affairs, will he complete, hereafter
II ashlniug page docs not preserve the mem
DRY of the soldieriy virtues of the gallant
Moody! His tomb, with those Of other and
kindred souls, who carried their lives il
their hands to the field of nationa
combat, will hereafter he honorcd as a shrin,
generous homage to the genius of tho
brayest OF the brave. 1t were impossible
that such a man should live without foes
1t belongs to the softer natures, In the
gentler sex, to secure the need, that
None knew them bat to love them
None named them but to praise
but that is no eulogium of Il grown man
with manly cares, public duties and soldier
~ responsibilities. 1t is absurd. He had
enemies. His character was too open, frank
bold, not to provoke AT times. lie formed
his own opinions-judged of his own actions
planned his own schemes and arranged
his own methods of controlling them He
was hasty of temper; often rash in expires
sion; always outspoken-often too much
/ so.
To some he was mystery Men who
carry their hearts on their tongues always
are. He was too unsecretiye to be insincere
If he loved, it was with the full measure OF
his soul if he hated, he told it on the house
Ftop. 1t was So at the bar. His clients case
at once became his own, no matter who the
client If the humblest negro, or the