The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-04-26
TRIBUTE 10 MORSE.

/ EclllOiN 81 tue great ul4llLCi VI CIV
tricity, we have seen none so grace
fuI and eloquent as the following
1t is an editorial of the st, Lous
Republican:
"Al0RSE"
'Werc William of Germany or
Victoria of England dead to-day,
the streets OF great capital would
be througcd with mourning multi
tudes. the air would rock with the
reverberations of thunderous minute
guns, aud a stricken nation abandon
itself to all the pomp and circum-
stances Of majestic woe. Under a
quiet roof tree in New York sur
rounded by little company of weep
ing relatives and friends, a plain,
untitled old man lies in his coffin.
No crowds will gather in the me-
ropolis because lie has gone no
loud mouthed artillery will vex the
heavens in his behalf; no funer-
al garments will drape the land for
his sake but centuries after the
Emperor and the Queen are forgotten
amid a vortex of revolutions, the
name of old man will shine in lottcrs
Of living light, and his memory,
radiant with the hues of eternal
youth, be cherished and honored
throughout,the habitable globe.
Cooking at this coffin, what a
wealth OF meaning and oftruth there
is in Millions splendid and familiar
Iine-"Peace hath her victories no
less renowned than war y What
victorie won on our bloodstained
planet, from the instant it launched
into space uuiil the present hour, can
compare with that uusullied triumph
Of mind over matter whose author is
sleeping his last sleep 2 What lau
rel that ever circled human bro%s
can match in untading freshness the
simple garland of glory which mes
ties under the gray hair of him wuo
will so soon rest beneath the grass
and flowers of dawning spring
What hero of the camp, what minis
ter Of kings, what master of gold,
what favorite Of fleeing fortune,
has such sure heritage or vast inn
mortality as this modest, unpretend-
ing citizen whose inventive genius
has harnessed the lightnings to the
car of thought, and sent it abroad in
in the world to sweep onward in
endless circuit forever and forever ,?
Even literary fame, the most death
less of all, is overshadOwed by his;
for books are more or less limited
to the confines of single language,
and their voice reaches only tho
intelligent ear-but the miraculous
machine born from his brain, speaks
in every language, and forces knowl-
edge inio the dulliest mind. Never
while earth retains the habitation of
the human race, can the achieve
ments Of him who gave to electrici
tv a soul and an utteranee, be suffer
ed to lapse into ungenerous oblivion.
He needs no shaft of soul ptured
marble, no monument of artistic
bronze, no STORED bust or ANNA
ted urn, to rescue him from the
clutch Of devouring time these
telcgrapb.c columns which the daily |
press builds each morning and eve
ming, will secure for h.m grateful
remembrance when the arch of III
tus shall have gone back 10 dust,
and the stones Of the Pyramids are
dissolved into the sands Of the des
elt.
at seems, too, as if Providence
had made Morse the recipient of its
supremest favors. Other inventors
have been chilled and discouraged /
by the rebuffs Of the ignorant and |
preiudiced, and died without wit
Messing the Accomplishment Of their
labors Others still have been robbed |
Of the credit which belonged to them
by unscrupulous rivals, and died in
poverty and despair-but his cup
has been filed to the brim with the
wine of the gods. He has lived to
see the wonderous wire which first
throbbed to his touch, stretching
across continents and under oceans,
and binding all people together in
a common brotherhood of mutual
Intelligence he has received the
recognition and reward of every
civilized nation, and in the fullness
Of his years and the consumation of
his honor5, he has gone down to the
grave leaving no spot to tarnish the
lustre Of noble reputation. Death
to him is simply an apotheosis.
THE POWER OF THE SOUTH.
The Southern States contribute
more of wealth to the exports of the
country than all other sections com
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