The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-03-03
VOLUME 5.---N0. 36.
Eulogy by Hon. Robert @. Winthrop at
the Burial of George Peabody.

Eul0gy by Hon. Robert @. Winthrop at
the Burial of George Peabody.
The last ceremonies over the remains
of the illustrious philanthropist, George
Peabody, were performed in the Massa.
ch1setts village which bears his name.
The funeral was attended by nearly TO-.
900 people, including many distinguished
persons. Hon. Robert G. Winthrop de-
livered an interesting and impressive eu-
logy, closing with the following eloquent
peroration:
And so I bid farewell to thee, brave, hon.
est, noble-hearted friend. The village Of
thy birth weeps today for one who never
caused her pain before. The Glover Of
Essex is gathered at thy grave. Massa:
chusetts mourns thee as son who has
given new lustre to her historic page;
and Maine, not unmindful of her joint in
heritance in the earlier glories of the pa
rent State, has opened her Doblest harbor
and draped her municipal halls with the
richest, saddest robes, to do honor to thy
remains. New England, from mountain.
top to farthest cape, is in sympathy with
the scene, and feels the fitness that the
hallowed memories of"Leyden" and ;tPlys
mouth"-the refuge and the rock Of her
pilgrim fathers-should be associated with
thy obsequies. This great and glorious
nation, in all its restored and vindicated
union, partakes the pride Of thy life and
the sorrow of thy loss. In hundreds Of
schools of the desolated South, the chill
dren, even now, are chanting thy requiem
and weaving chaplets around thy name.
In hundreds of comfortable homes, proyi-
ded by thy bounty, the poor of the grand
est city of the world even now are breathe
ing blessings on thy memory. The proud
est shrine of Old England has unlocked
it's consecrated vaults for thy repose.g
The bravest ship of 3 navy whose march
is DER the mountain waves, whose home
is on the deep, has borne thee as con-
aueror to thy chosen rest, and as-it pass
ed from isle 10 isle, and from. sea to sea,
in circumnavigation almost as wide as
thy own charity, has given new signif-
cance to the memorable saying of the
great funeral orator of antiquity: "Of il
lustrious men the whole earth is the Sc,
pulchrc and not only does the inscription,
upon columns in their own land point it
out, but in that also which is not their
own, there dwells with every one an un-
written memorial of the heart"
And now, around thee are assembled
not only surviving schoolmates and old
companions OF thy youth, and neighbors
and friends of thy maturer years, but vo-
taries of science, ornaments of literature,
heads of universities and academies, FORE
most men Of commerce and the arts, min
listers of the gospel, delegates from. dis
tant States, and rulers of thy own.State,,
all eager to unite in paying such homage
to career of grand but, simple benefi.--,
cence as neither rank nor fortune nor
learning nor genius could ever have COM
manded. Chiefs of the republic, represen-5
tatives and more than representatives of
royalty, are not absent from thy bier.
Nothing is wanting to give emphasis to
thy example. Nothing is wanting to fill
up the measure of thy fame. But what
earthly honor-what accumulation q Of
earthly honor-sball compare for amos'
ment with the supreme hopo and trust
which we all humbly and deEoutly cherish
at this hour, that whom tho struggles and
the victories, the pangs and the pageants
of time shall all be ended, and the great,
awards of eternity shall be made up, thou
mayest be found among those who are.
"more than conquerors, through Him who
loved US! !'' And so we bid thee farewell,
brave, honest, noble hearted friend Of
mankind --..-..-,.-.,,,,, 49,