Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-02-25

Memorial Resolutions to the Late George
Peabody-sPeech of Governor Graham.
On the last day of the session of the
| Trustees of the Peabody Fund suitable
resolutions of respect were adopted to the
memory of the great philanthropist.
In seconding the resolution, ex-Gov-
ernor Graham, of North Carolina, spoke
as follows
Although funeral ceremonies and honors
at the command of two great nations, with
the cordial appreciation of the people OF
both, have been already paid to the foun-
der of this charity and although, by
yourself and others, the language of eulogy
| upon his great act of beneficence has been
exhausted, yet, beg to detain you mo
ment in seconding the resolutions Of the
committee reported by its venerable chair
man. AS the sole member of the Board
| who happens to be present from the vast
region between the capital and the Rio
| Grande frontier-a region for the relief
and assistance of whose inhabi tants
his last and greatest donation was
| made-I feel that silence would be an in
justice approaching in criminality to be-
| trayal of my trust, and that the thousands
of parents, and tens of thousands of chill
dren, not few of them orphans, in this
territory who are the objects OF his bounty
would feel that their voices had been sup
pressed in the general tribute of praise to
his memory, and that they had no proper
representatives in the Board of Trustees.
In his name, and in their behalf, regret
ting the absence OF our colleagues, Judge
Bradford and Governor Aiken. of South
Carolina, both, as [ regret to learn, from
i'll health, give my hearty consent to the
declaration that for his well-ordered phi
lanth1opy and princely munfcence George
Peabody deserves to be ranked with heroes
and sages, the inventors Of useful arts and
the founders of States-thOse benefactOrs
of our species whose labors or contribu-
tons have signalized eras IN the progress
of mankind-and that his name and mem
DRY should be cherished among those OF
the great Americans who have given re-
nown to their country and done good for
it's people. Assuming further to speak III
their name, thank the Governments OF
Great Britain and the United States, rep
resenting the sincere and generous feelings
of the people of both countries, and the
State and municipal authorities Of Maine,
in which his remains first reached the
American shore, and OF his native Com
monwealth Of Massachusetts, in which, by
his patriotic direction, they were destined
to final repose; as well as to you, sir, and
the other members Of this Board, who at
tended his final obsequies for the appro-
his character which were paid in the long
progress from Westminster Abbey to his
native town, which furnishes his MausOle
UNI, and shall perpetuate his name. Such
offerings do honor to the living as we'll
as to the dead. They manifest the
public and universal sense of his noble
charities, and encourage others TO do like
good works. They tend, moreover, 10
curb the worse elements OF our nature,
L $loo Of FNf on
among men. And as in his death two great
Powers, of common language and kindred
blood, have found O common subject of
mourning, and, as it were, vOyaged abreast
and marched hand in hand to his tomb, SO
let us trust that in she dispensations of
Providence the lately warning sections of
our country will be chastened OF any pas
sions and jealousie5, and be Joined in Ter
bonds of peace and union by a common
admiration of his example and gratitude
for bis benefcenco in all future time. II
the North shall indulge in commendable
pride in the reflection that he was their
countryman, the South will venerate him
as their neighb0r, benefactor and friend,
who poured oil into the wound Of desc
lating war, and provided for the moral and
intellectual wants of their children in the
day of impoverishment and afliiction
Life in south Carolina.
A correspondent from South Carolina to
the New York World gives the following
incident:
I must give you some idea of the dig
nifed manner in which business is now
occasionally done in our Legislature.-
The other day a circus company visited
Columbia. AS is usual in other places,
it paraded through the streets on the
morning Of the night fixed for the first
performance. AS the cavalcade ap-
preached the State House. where 1.-The
assembled wisdom of the State" were de-
liberating on the destiny Of the republic,
one Of the grave and reverend seignors,
one of our noble and approved good mas
tiers, hearing ''the shrill trump, the spirit
stirring drum, the ear piercing ffe,'' could
not restrain himself, so rising in his place,
addressed the speaker thus las reporter
statesl:
II say, de show is coming, L moves dis
here resOlution-dat dis honorable BODY
moves to the aCi1ader TO see de shOao pass.
The motion was carried. OF course,
neaniyae c0ntradicente, and the members of
the Legislature of the proud State of
South Carolina, with one consent, imme-
diately moved to the windows ''tO sec de
show pass - Such burlesque on the
name Of the government as may3daily be
witnessed at this time in our State, the
history Of the world can produce no par
allel to.
The impositions OF our carpet-bag gov
eminent exceed ordinary endurance
What is to be the end [ know not. OPP
pressed as the South is by agencies we
cannot control, and saddened as we are
by the memory Of the past, how low
we have fallen from our oacs high es-
tate, we cannot look with a confident
spirit from the present to the future
It is indeed night-a dark night-with
US; so rayless, look which way L Will, I
cannot discern in any direction the faint
est CLEAN Of the coming day. I believe
the only hope remaining for the South
the down-trodden, insulted South-to es-
cape from the potent influences of the po-
Iitical tinkering to which we are now SO
mercilessly subjected is by the triumph of
the Democratic party. There must be
strong, united effort, then, at the next cleo
ton, to achieve ''a contamination so de-
voutly to be wished