Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-18

made up OF artificial rhetoric. They
are genuine. Tears are as freely shed
to-day by the country fresides and in
distant cities as beneath the shadowing
drapery of this house from which he is
soon to go out forever. They represent
the invisible sympathy, but represent
the peoples thoughts, and are twined
about the peoples heart, bearing wit
ness to a career of honest purpose.
And why this deferentiaI regard for the
memory of Mr.. Greeley! It is not for
his mere intellectual ability, large and
undeniable as it was. It is not be-
cause he was an high official,
for Horace Greeley held no Off
cial station. The will of the people,
expressed through the Electoral Col
lege ito day, decides that he should hold
no such station; to-day the viii of God
elects him to a place from which all
human ones look small and dim. Why
is 1t, then? 1t is the magnetism of
simple goodness. Mr.. Greeley's heart
was as large as his brain. His love for
humanity was inherent. He touched
all sides of humanity, SO to speak. The
hundreds of poor, toil-worn men who
yesterday pressed through the crowd
to take last look at the worn face were
moved by mere curiosity. They came
there not to gaze upon the face, of a
great journalist or politician, but be-
cause he had always been the poor
mans friend, the sympathetic com
panion of the workingmen, who had
struggled through their experiences and
never forgot their claims All his pub
lie acts were directed by the same
impulses, and enlisted him in
the service of very many eau
ses. Not only did it inspire
his lifelong oppression to vice
and wickedness of every kind, but it
made him unspeakably generous. Per
haps he erred on the side of mercy
against justice, but if a man must err
at all, that is good side to err on.
Whatever may have been the mistakes
of him who lies dead before us, there
was no mistake in the main current of
the principle which characterized his
life, and therein is a lesson for us also
How faithfully he did his work and
led his life it is superfuous for me to
say. 1t was an eminently y practical one
What various interests of art, of labor,
of education, of temperance, of domes-
tic pollty, of freedom, go mourning for
him to-day. WELDING the mighty
power Of the, mightiest engine of the
times, placed in the editorial chair
that he was, it is no light thing to say
that, however strOngly-sOme may
think severely-he used his pen as an
instrument of his thoughts and princi-
Piles, he never debased it as the stimu-
lus of impurity, on made it the vehicle
of a single social wrong.
While Horace Greeley had many an
tagonists, he had few, if any, enc
mics and may now, without violat-
ing any of the proprieties of this oc-
caslon, express my satisfaction that
while political differences lay within
those unclosed lids, the highest repre-
sentative of the nation to-day, here
bows his head in honor of the thinker,
the worker, the patriot and the man. ;"
Attempted applause, which was sup
pressed.
The address was followed by an earn
est prayer and another hymn, ''Angels
ever bright and fair.n
Rev. Mr. Chaplin then pronounced
the benediction, and the choir sung a
most beautiful and touching chant 80,
what is life 2"
THE PROCESSION
moved down Fifth avenue in the fol-
lowing order, the police having pre-
viously cleared the roadway from curb
to curb:
Mounted Police Broadway Squad.
! Superintendent Kelso, Mayor Hall, Inspectors
Dilks and Waling.
Fourth Precinct Police, Capt. Ullmann.
! One hundred members of the Fire Department
under command of Engineer Shay.
Rev. DR.. Pullman, officiating clergyman at the
The Pail bearers.
Hearse.
! Lizzie, Ida and Gabrielle Greeley, and other
Mourners, in carriages.
The President Of the United States, Vice Pres
ident Colfax, and Vice President elect
Henry Wilson, in an open landau,
surrounded by fifty Police as
Guard of Honor.
! Governor Hoffman and Governors of adjoining
states.
The Tribune Editorial and Reportorial Staff
Typographical Society.
Union League Club.
Members of the Common Council
Heads of Departments.
Distinguished Officials from adjoining cities III
carriages two deep to the number of
eighty-fiye.
Members OF the Liberal Republican General
Committee.
Union Republican General Committee.
Tammany Hall General Committee.
The Simon Cameron Association
Sons Of Temperance.
Delegations from the Arcadian, Lotus, Farm
ers' and Rural Clubs and American In
Stitute.
Citizens generally.
THE PAIL BEARERS.
The following gentlemen were pail
bearers Chief Justice Chase, Senator
Trumbull, Thurlow Weed, J. Chamber
lin, Rev. Dr. Bright, VIM. Orton, D.
W. Bruce, Sinclair Tousey, Dudley S.
| Gregory, Fl. J. Johnson, Hon. VIM. VI.
Evarts, John E. Williams, Senator Fen
ton, Hon. Erastus Brooks, Robert Bon
ner, r. NJ. Hoe, Peter c. Baker, J. G.
Lightbody, Charles Storrs, John r.
Storrs.
No music was in line, but the pro-
cession, as it slowly moved down the
avenue, presented a grand and impos-
ing appearance. The doorsteps of the
houses along the avenue, without ex-
cept1on, were thickly crowded, and the
windows and balconies were full. The
hotels and club houses and public
buildings OF all kinds presented a sea
of human faces. The gathering was
greater than the multitude which well
coined the Grand Duke Alexis or the
funeral of Abraham Lincoln. From
DIR. Chapin's Church to Madison
Square, distance of just mile, the
avenue was nearly blockaded. On the
outer edge of the sidewalk the crowd
were huddled two and three Deep on
thn walk within tho araa tbaro yuoo
i barely room to pass.
In Madison Square and ON the space
before the Fifth Avenue Hotel the con-
course was still greater. All along
Broadway from 14th street, through
which the procession moved, to Ham
ilton ferry, there was dense mass of
people. About Bowling Green and
the Battery and the Ferry House, the
crowd still stood patiently waiting
On the Brooklyn side the same scenes