Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-05-13
HUMILIATION DAY IN RICH
MOND.
An Address by Chief Justice Chase.

An Address by Chief Justice Chase.
RICHMOND, May 4.-ro-day all the
churche, were filled, and the city pre-
sented n Sabbath appearance. In the
United States Circuit Court, to-day,
the Chief Justice of the United States,
at the meeting of the Court, in res
ponse to the resolutions Of the Rich
mond Bar, regarding the late calamity,
said:
Human emotions are but poorly cx-
pressed by words. When the first
vague rumors Of the terrible event in
this city, which has been so fifty named
the "Great Calamity" went through
the land 4 few days ago, all hearts felt
q shock like that Of q sudden and awful
personal bereavement.
Then, as the tidings came more dis
tinctly over the wires and the fearful
disaster took shape and form in the
minds Of the people, it seemed for a
time to oppress all hearts like 4 night
mare, and human utterance failed
under the crushing sense of sorrow
which pervaded the land. Soon the
currents of feeling began to flow, and
now for many days heartfelt expires
slons of coincidence and substantial
manifestations of sympathy have beer
flowing toward Richmond like a great
tide.
No right-minded and true-hearted
mar can help feeling this vast devel-
opment of unaffected goodwill, so
strikingly devoid Of everything like
sectional or party feeling, as one OF
those CLEANS of radiance which, In
Gods good providence, so often bright
n the darkest clouds Of human grief.
When two days since we took our seats
upon this bench, u eyes Il hearts
alike missed familiar faces from the
Bar. Let us thank God that those
whose voices were o(teneSt heard here
yet survive.
NAV the Great Physician comfort
their Borrowing households and give
them speedy and complete restoration.
But there were other members of the
Bar who will never again join i'll hon.
orable contentious. One has gone i'll
the ripened fullness of honored years;
another with the distinctions Of his
profession clustering thickly upon him,
having already won those nights of
public estimation from which the as
cent to the highest seemed easy and
sure; another younger, yet mature,
treading with firm steps the upward
paths Of usefulness and honor.
How terrible does such a calamity
az this rebuke our vain expectations.
How impressively does 1t admonisll
every one of us to look beyond the
shadows Of time to the realities Of eter-
nifty.
1t Is said that among those dying,
crushed under that mass of ruins, there
were some who could yet exchange q
few faint words with their companions.
None of them which have been re-
lated BY the rescued have impressed
me so much as that of one mangled
and broken sufferer, who still found
strength to eXclaim, 30, grave, where
Is thy victory 0, Death. where Is thy
sting" What n triumph was that.
What . testimony to the Incompatible
worth Of Christian faith. So, In the
very depth of this awful distress
and anguish, open springs of human
sympathy and fountains of sublimist
heavenly comfort.
Let us take these lessons to IL
hearts. This Is u day Of humiliation
and prayer. The churches will be
filled with worshippers. Lut us carry
unto them not merely the burden Of
sorrow, but also the consultations Of
faith, evsr remembering that all is
God. IL He but. wave His hand the
rains collect, the winds blow shrill and
loud, till with q smile OH sea and land,
10! lie looks back from the departing
cloud, His will be done.