The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-01-06
PEABODY.

Johu>on potcy, mas i"'eiN "ri'ieh
s.ttrr in which be offer an explanation
ct the appsrent apathy with which the
'a,e Dir. Geo. Peabody regarded the
-forrs of his f-llow toxusmen OF Dan
vers. Massachusetts, and his fellow
citizens of the North in suppressing the
.nte rebellion of the slave holders Mr.
Weed SAYS that when he went 70 Eng
and with Bi<ho, Mcilvaine of Ohio On
- mission in behalf of the Union during
he war. his first visit was 20 Miuisier
Adams and his second ia Mr. Peabody
Ii- saws that his first in'erview with
The Great Phil.nrhropist" WAS .'un
satisfactory MIR. Peabody expressing
surprise that our country has thus
been plunged in an unnecessary civil
var which might have been aver,-d
thr"ugh the efforts of good snd wise
men. etc etc, tine cid. old tw-ddle.)
Ir Weed called the next morning and
lad long talk with the great banker
and succeeded. as he thinks. in con-
yiucing him this, the Government at
Washington and the people of the
Sor'h were not quite SO much in the
wrong rs be had been led to suppose
Indeed. & do Mr. Weeds letter Justice
&c makes it appear quire ss'i-fsctority
,daI he succe-Ied 10 warming up Mr..
Peabody TO something of a sympathy
With his old toHneys and neightors Of
ESSEX County, Massachusetts.
themselves Injustice. that Mr. Peabody
was spiendidiy lavish with his money
"a the promotion OF charity and the
cause of education. He did. i. short.
what every rich man whose organ of
acquisitiveness exceeds in proportion
all the others Of bis brain ought TO do
Il he would secure for himself postum
nous fame. Ard, while his fame needs
no such al apologist as Thurlow Weed
but, indeed, suffers from tive must
NOT permit the grandeur of ais dOua-
tons to blind US TO other great gifts of
philanthropy. equal IN relative proper
lion TO his own To instance one case
There stands Stephen Girard. man /
who, from the uupopularitv of his man.
ners won for himself quite as much |
uororiery as miser .s he acquired of .
honorable fame for his good deeds of
practical philanthropy and charity.
When a great p-s;t!.uce visited Phils-
deipbis and a, a time when doctors and 4
u lrses and friends and relatives de-
serted the sick, dead and dying. Sre. \
phen G,rari. alien By birth a be was,
r;ch as be WAS, ami sUnrrmely selfish I
as tie was supposed 10 be, Distinguished
himself as The most dauutirss hero OF
lie hour by the courage, the cGn-taacy
.Li the uursmittiog Industry with which
be watched by and waited upon the
victims of the yellow fever. At his
death n great proportion Of his means
" snI to Luild that most uag niticent OF
al oharUy schools (aui one OF the
most m.gaIfceu; OF all schools) I.e
I.rari College. II
But shall We weigh gifts of money I.
#Ith gifts of life? When Mir Weed
<eui TO london and bad those inter-
..ews w,.h DIR. Peabody, had rot ihe
massachusetts, boys been already muir ]
i-rri ia .ir Peshndy's lavorrte city OF
iai.Imore Id not Winthrop and
Ellsworth already laid down iaeir lives
Mas not Lyon niready draCI Did not ,
,aA-r ..e low ia The dus,? Was rot $
lincoln President, and had rot Major
i Gcer>oa already shown his hernisu ?
: here were Mr. PeaboGy's files Of
american newspapers that he needed n
-.oset talk with fl.riow Weed to Re
;sne: aui where Was the patriotic in.
;:aci OF bim. waerr tue quick compre
.ea-:o: of his intellect that he did not
.uow, without being toll. where lay
be right of tue caUset b
Mr. Weed tells us that Mr.. Peabody n
mn sas.,-j that he lIt. not ike the tO.