The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-12-14
FROM EARLVILLE.
HORACE GREELEY,

hOnAS6 0nnELEi.
U.rsleating death il still busy in our land.
One after another Of our distinguished citizens
are being pushed from the crowded stage of hu.
man existence, and the places which know them
now will know them, ere long, no more forever.
Tho bloody and spanlsss chasm which divides
time and eternity will soon have been passed by
n oil. The rich, the poor, the high, the low, the
| saint and the sinner, alike will have lain down
in one common sspulehrs. Rsmorsslsss time and
tide wait for No one. On, still on, to the meas.
ursess ocean Of eternity, We ars'all rapidly has.
tening. Over the present generation the waves
OF oblivion will iucontinently close long, for.
ever and ever. The faithful page Of the hsto.
rian, perchaacs, may keep green the memory of
here and there nsme which was not born to
die. When great sad good man dies the PEG.
| pie mourn. Horace Greeley 10 dead. A great
aud good mantle pursst Of the pure-,he
bravest Of the bravs-has sunk 10 rest, with all
his honors thick upon him. Iu the fulness o.
his greatness, and the ripensss OF his usefulness,
he fell sslsep-that sleep which will know no
waking. ua:il the ssa and earth shall give up
their dead, antil tho resurrection Of tho jus. and
unjust. The heart Of great people is throbbius
at the portsls OF his tomb. Life with him was
rsal-lifs WA earnest. Heaven gave him length
ri days, and he Allied them with desds Of great.
ness There vas no need Of presidential Office to
procure for the fallen hero recognition among
bis fellow men. He was rot born great. no,
had he greataess thrust upoa him. He achieved
greatness Schools ssd colleges he rarely entered
In early life Unlike most mea who's. early ed.
usasion IL neglected. from boyhosd to old age he
thought and wrote with . visor aud logical &c.
ouracy rarely squAllsd. He though: no iusipid
thoughts, aud wrote - tame sud insipid plati.
tudes His thoughts were bold, aggressive and
earnest. from brain inspirei by his subject.
A. Minerva sprung from the brain Of Jupiter
fully armed for the battles Of life, 80 grca,
thoughts leaped from the grea. brain of Horace
Greeley. strong and ready for lies terrible con.
aicts. His greatness sprung from no advent.
| tious circumstances Of birth. Place was never
purchased ss the sacrifice Of honor. Brides were
never offered to him: He heartily despised
cripying servility. He now proudly won every
inch of ground he occupied by hard, uurelni,.
ting, earnest labor. "Omna! cinca klJor" wa.
written in letters Of living light upon the cast.
ern horizon of bis whole life Labor with him
was love. He worked on, unremit,ingly, hear.
within and God o'erhsad, inspired, almost d..
vinely inspired, with sincere, earnest convictions
OF duty. Over the door OF his whole life was
written "ProcM, proeul, este prefans." In
the whole cycle Of human virtues he lived
and died without . peer. Patience, no less
than perseverance,, was bis. In the morn.
ing of life he learned how sublime Il thing
it il to labor and to wait. The poor, the
lowly, the humble, he sought and tenderly
cared for. The rich, the proud, the s.ilted arts.
tosrasy, he lsf. to take care Of Themselves The
poor he always had with him; the rich, never.
HI climbed to the hilltop Of human greatness
on no Jacobs ladder. He commenced life a. the
lowest round, and made his own ladder as he
boldly assembled upward. He could sound old
oceans gray and melancholy wasse-measurs
and weigh the floods of unnumbsred worlds
comprehend the rise and falls of Kingdoms and
republics, and the causes thereof-and wocp
like woman at the bedside of dying wife
ani play with his baby, Ida, around the firesida
of home. He was strong as Il giant, and sim.
pie as child. Horace Greeley was tho grand.
est type Of American democracy the last ceutu
ry has Witnessed in this or any other country
As moral and christian statesman, he died
leaving no one to take his place. His iutello,
Z tus', moral and religious character was truly
a Catholic. No Utopian boundary landlooked hi.
i broad patriotism, or damned up the deep, stronu
= currents Of his boundless philan .bropby. Dis
G honest politicians and place hunters hated him
=, the honest hearted people loved him Hi.
:, whole life was ono grand epio. As the lahe,
| clings to the pyramids and the monumental
piles OF tho dead heroes of antiquity, 80 tn,
f scurvy parasite will cling to our fallen states
msn. The ubiquitous John 4. Dix and othe
parasites will buy tickets to the last obscquie
OF the dead hero and statesman, the latchet 0
whose shoes they were unworthy to s.oop dowr
;. and uAloose. The poor and humble will built
!. bis only fitting monuments in the lmperishab
recollection Of his grand life aud heorc tr,
umphs around the fresids and family affairs o
home. When pastsboard show Of kings and presi
" dents, timed BY the stupid applause of parasite