The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-06-23
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HENRY J. RAYMOND.
A Beautiful and Touching Tribute
From the Tribune: of Saturday.

In the great newspaper Offices, in the
Club. Houses, in Wall-st., in committee
rooms, in all places where men of cul-
ture and of affairs meet together, Il little
whisper OF news came yesterday which
awed the braVesG aud saddened the
lightest heart. 1t WAS only the news
that is told every day OF some mar
we'll known to bis fellows; only the
news that Kindly face would be nc
more seen among them, heartsome
voice be no more heard. n firm step nc
longer ring down familiar ways. And
yet few faces could be more missed
than this one lying upturned in such
dreamless sleep: lew voices die out
of more listening ears. few steps
suranCe of friends approach to a
greater host of friends. Gov. Raymond
is dead, said tn brief report. Bat no
man who heard it repeated 1t In that
form. "a great journalist is dead, u
said one voice; IAN able politician is
gone" said another. And SO multi
tudes remembered him, each giving
him honor for some distinctive power,
but all adding in softer voice, "nDd he
had no enemies" 1t is good record
TO have left. a young man still. an
over.wOrked, OVer-anXiOus, OVer-eAger
man, ambitious, liking position, liking
money, liking all the prizes aud all the
warm, sweet gifts of life, in close rela-
tiOns with hundreds OF men of most
different capacities and purposes, he
yet leaves no personal enemy, not one
who shall say: "he was false friend" !"
In his life there WAS much bitter speech
about the politician, the officer, the
legislator, the editOr-none concerning
the man. Now that he cannot explain
ways that seemed unwise or tOrtuous,
his bi!terest detractors, touched by the
a
tho gift of Death when he takes
away one we have known, will
be first to explain the unWis-
dom or the crookedness. They will
see that what they called dislngeui-
BUSINESS and timidity might have been
an eagerness to behold the truth from
all sides, an incapacity to regard any
step, or declaration, or triumph, AS
conclusive. a poor boy from the
country, brown handed, rustic, he
achieved college training, and came
alone to a great city to conquer his
place among men. He worked as no
His place was low, his wages was
small; but he bent Hls genius TO the
occasion as II he had been premier, and
the applause of the SRorld his garden.
By and by the obscure name was in
mems mouths. BY and by, again, he
was himself a recognized power, and
and graduated from Journey work into
the mastership OF his own newspaper.
He had conquered his place. Money,
aud influence, and applause were his.
And in these prosperous days no one
was so ready 10 help him who WAS
down, to serve Il friend at some cost to
himself, TO make the places OF his assO-
ciates pleasant and honorable, to do
distasteful tasks which other men hes
itated at.
While his hands were full of busi-
ness and his life full of activities, the
strange, swift order came to him to
leave all this for large occupation.
There was no time TO say his larewells
to old associates, but they crowd to say
a tender farewell to him. There is no
journalist to take his place: the epi-
tome of his power is written thus.
There is no friend to take his place:
the epitonie of his kindness and 10y atty
is written thus. Pure sunshine floods
the earth this morning, and filters down
in mist of gold on the cool, sweet sward
of Greenwood, where his eyes last
looked or it. The golden mist will
float above Il new grave, where he Shall
lie beside the lad he loved 80 much,
and, shimmering in the sun, will seem
to make II ladder through the shining
air whereOn the angels OF the Lord
shall ascend and descend.
His hands are fold ed on. his breast:
There Is no other thought expressed
Than long dlsqulet merged Ia lest.