The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-14

adjourning court at Winnsboro. in ho-
nor of Horace Greeley, delivered the fol-
lowing eulogy:
The motion made by the learned coun-
sellor, Col. J. 81. Rion, on behalf OF the
bar OF the Sixth Circuit, and the terms
in which that motion was 30 eloquently
prefaced, meet with q hearty response in
the breast Of the presiding Judge. The
aohieyepents Of. men. who have by their
self-directed efforts extended the area of.
human knowledge or diminished the
sum of human suffering, are the pro.
perty of thoir country. When such
man dies, the light of his great virtues
is reflected upon his oountrymen, and in
paying. tributary honors to him they
distinguished American. to whose death
the motion relates, died after brief
illness at Tarrytown, New York, on the
night of the 29th ult. His career fur
nishes an impressive example Of the be-
nefioent nature Of our free institutions,
which accord to ali men, however hum
BILE their origin. an equal chance in the
race of life. He sprang from the loins
OF the people--born sixty.one years ago.
of parents who belonged to the hardy
and independent yeomanry OF the coun-
try, his early life was passed in poverty
among the hard-handed tillers of the
soil. He graduated in a country COM
mon school, an institution which is the
enduring bulwark of the State, and to
which New England OWES much OF her
great and deserved renown, as leader
OF EAmerioan OF vilization. He entered
upon his manhood as printer, and,
after years OF arduons effort, lie arose to
eminence as journalist among the peo-
pie whose intellectual standard Of Jour
nalism was OF the very highest. For
masy years, and up to the period when he
died, in the full ripeness of his intellect,
he was the recognized leader Of the Ame-
rican press. That was no common dis
ttnotion; the press in our day is our
great mental force, which guides and
controls the public opinion which it
only seems to reflect, as the cord bends
the bow which it seems only to obey.
Indeed, the influence Of the newspaper
press upon events, and upon the progress
of society, may be compared to that ex.
cited by the great laws Of attraction and
gravitation upon our planetary system,
silently restraining while irretistibly i'm
peling each orb in its appropriate
sphere. The great editor of the New
York Tribune know that influence, and
welded it with matchless power and
skill. Sir Edward Coke we'll said, that
''sparks of all sciences ara gathered up
in the ashes of law" This is especially
the case with the profession of the
editor. Elitorially, Mr.. Greeley was
the most elegant aud formidable debatcr
of his time. Whenever occasion re-
quired, the most extraordinary array OF
facts and figures followed the march of
his splendid diction, just as the baggage
wagons and the ordnance and supply
trains OF great army move in rear Of it's
waving plumes and glittering standards.
Ho did not attain his vast and varied
knowledge from the schools. That he
possessed nnd so utilized such extensive
learning, suggests to the mind of the
scholar the fabled ring of King Pyrrhus,
which is said to have borne upon the
stone that formed its setting the figures
of the Nine MUSES., engraved by the haod
of nature. He claimed always to mnin-
tain what he believed to be right, and he
sometimes struck for it with pitiless in
tolerance. Yet, although often 6erco
partisan, it cannot bo said of him, as was
TOO truly said Of the iilustrious Burke, to
whose genius his own was closely allied.
that ho
~ party lshVo up What Was meant tor man
Ills bene7olence was wide rs the habit
able globe itself Man, wherever he
dwelt in sorrow, was its subject. AL
though M ardent patriot, who looked
with the eye Of devotion upon our great
republic, whose advancing glory and
power he did 80 much to promote, yet
he loved his race US if he had no conn
try. He was always upon voyage of
discovery for objects OF charity. He
loathcd even the semblance of oppres-
sion with an unutterable loathing.
Wherever man in bondage struggled or
hoped for liberty, there he gave the
free service of his powerful pen. He
stood up for the Greeks when they rose
against the mercilcss thraldom of the
Turks. He raised his voice for Hun
gary. still PROSTATE nnder the iron heel
Of the house of Hapsburg. He ever
plead for Ireland, the land loved by the
exile. whose unhappy children find
home for their independent spirits in
every country save their own. He spoke
for the independence of Cuba, that
"Gem OF the Antilles" whore the slave
still groans beneath the bloody scouroe
OF Spain. To the slaves of our own
Southern States. he was. through many
long years of obloquy, an unfailing and