New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-11-30
Buried.
Iron the New Orleans Republican,

! TFrom the New Orleans Republican,
| The final Offices were yesterday paid to the
dead Lieutenant Governor he rests In the st.
Louis cemetery, whittier he was attended by
all the Federal, State, and city dignitares and
thousands of other citizens. His place OF
burial is a sacred charge, which will ever be
held in jealous ward while Louisiana shall have
history to be written. OF this, earnest testi,
mony appeared in the silent grasps by which
vast numbers exchanged the sad VOW, their lips
could not MASTER of devout remembrance
| Hearts were full and eyes were dim, GOD
knows A chair of State is empty. and
tomb has a tenant Little did we suspect on
Saturday last, as he sat in his editorial room,
sanguine for the future of the State, and with
out discharity towards bitter enemies, to whom
his staunch probity had been his only wrong,
that before even week should lapse, this reso.
lutte friend of Louisiana would be summoned
to forego his glad labors in her behalf forever.
We never saw him in better cheer than then
we never saw him alive again. And those
whose shafts of SANDER broke upon his invul-
nerable life followed him to his grave to pick
them up, let US believe, with repentant hands.
They could not harm him in lifc-they may
well covet his honorable memofy in death
The meanest doorway darkens at this cloud,
The poorest poor have lost a personal friend ;
Down to one level are the Hottest bowed;
In the large clasp of nature all hearts blend.
Oscar James Dunn was calm, vigilant SEN
try for Louisiana when sho dreamed it least.
Firmly resisting temptations to sin, which too
often beset official station, he coal never be
made an accomplice with others ,alnst her.
Her lnfiexible integrity was in itself mighty
protest against the shames of the State admin
lstration and commanded such candid respect
even from the Democrats that Of late the au
thors of those shames, in their recourse to Demo
Gratis for the fresh lease of power denied them
by Republicans, were constrained to revive
prejudice Tor a pretext and to charge him wi
instigatng black mans party. There existed
not fact to Justify the charge, but lie was fit
auxiliary to new projects of fraud, and, unhap-
ply, there were itching palms to subscribe
1t per order.
his views were most catholic on the question
OF class. lie wanted amity not jealousy be-
tween the coors, for he recognized all in the
political society as brethren, not as rivals.
lie felt that injustice to any one citizen, white
or black, was, If unredressed, a menace to all
that our interests were in common: our bal
lots, honestly counted, our common consent;
and our influence for good, our common basis
OF endeavor for Louisiana. His aims for his
race were too sincere to embarrass its progress
by provoking anew the old sectional spleen
against it-and he tacitly compelled in his own
case recognition, which any citizen might
well envy. Standing in a high official trust,
and yet IN dark skin, he rebuked with quiet
lnoilensivc emphasis, the miserable heresy that
man is more or less worthy citzea because
OF his color. If any men have had reason to
be ashamed Of their race it is we. rather, whose
complexion has been disgraced not only by the
swarm of white vagabonds subsisting upon
Louisiana. but by certain Democrats In onr
midst who are the pals and apologists Of such
vagabOnds
Confirming them all, and superior to them all
as q true man and true citizen, it is no marvel
that they hated and feared him. And now when
the lrreyerent Democratic possible-scofis at
| his death, let such Democrat first remember
that his interests are less in hazard to day, be-
cause Oscar James Dunn stood persistently and
unselfshy on guard for him. And further
more, that while Heaven, whose service is per-
| feet freedom, is open to all men, whatever their
color, the Democrat will simply belttle him.
self by knocking the memory of SO good man,
who loved Louisiana with his whole heart.
TO the Executive of this State, who visited
repeated indignities upon the dead Lieutenant,
We tender our pity. His marching yesterday
beside the body was meagre> atonement. He
might better have confessed with the Dane
''Give me your pardon, sir. | have done you
wrong.
! What have done,
That might your nature, honor, and exception
| Roughly awake, here proclaim was madness"
But the dead man would have been as deaf to
the avowal as are Republicans to any terms
| from the Governors lips His treatment of
the Lieutenant Governor has been but one of
his many misdemeanors, and can be forgotten
as little they. He was unworthy to touch
the pail of Oscar j. Dunn, from whose death
political and official miscreants in Louisiana mt
once date a new license for their vices. But
their time is short. Gov Dunn's hope survives
Gov. Dunn-reform, practical radical reform.
| is certain.
"Hush, the Dead March walls in the peoples
ears:
| The dark crowd moves, and there are sobs and
tears;
| The black earth yearns; the mortal disap-
pears
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Gone; but nothing can bereave him
Of the force he made his own
| Being here, and we believe him
! Something far advanced in state,
And that he wears truer crown
Than any wreath that man can weave him.
But speak no more of his renown
| Lay your earthly fancies down,
| And in the vast cathedral leave him.
God accept him, Christ receive him"
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