The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-12-12

estate; DuG here today between tt
oceans there is not man who ha
not felt the effects of the labors {
Horace Greeley. What matters
that in the conflict over political ecor
omy he should be upon one side an
4 you another? Is it not enough tha
he has given his lifeblood for the goot
and to purposes of anobler manhood
The husbandman reaps his harvest
the wheat is garnered; it reappear
in the school boy and to future ger
eraions, and in it is the presence c
the man. To-day we are all speakin!
kindly and sorrowfully forhim. Thin
of those conflicts in which you forge
the humanity, out of which you hav
come, and summon your charity, now
you that have been battling on tn
other side. After long and tempes
tuous voyage he has reached the shore
and angels will welcome him to thei,
outstretched arms. Let us hope tina
when we die angels will open tht
gates for us, and receive us to The
glory of the Lord. sac ar
After the address OF Mr.. Beecher
which continued but a few moments
"Sleep the last sleep" was rendered
in beautiful manner by the quartette
from St Francis Xavier's Church.
The Rev. E. H. Chaplin then spoke
as follows:
"One month ago many who are pres
ent met in this place to express ou1
sympathy with one who sat with pal
lid face and quivering. lips, a heart
stricken mouner over his wife. To
day, as In the freshness of his quiet
sorrow, he is to lie by her side. The
shadow of death through which he
was then passing has enveloped him.
Such is providence, that checks all
human operations, and makes life a
continual surprise. I can not at
tempt here, and now, to unfold the
life or state the worth of Horace
Greeley. Such an attempt would on
the one hand bepremature, and on the
other unnecessary Premature be-
cause the traits and lessons ofa great
life can best be reviewed when the
'gliefand excitementha ceased. This
work ought to be done, and I trust
will be done in the utterance of some
public memorial service, which will
demand and receive q much wider
hearing than 1 can give it. To speak
of Horace Greeleys worth is unnec-
essary. It has already been done
There have been but few instances in
our history where the expressions of
regret and regard have been so spon-
taneous, SO universal, and so similar.
These eulogies, that pour SO thick and
fast from every part of the land, are
not made up of artificial rhetoric
They are genuine. The tears are as
freely shed to-day by country fire
sides, and in distant cities, as beneath
the shadowy drapery of this house,
which he is so soon to go out of for
ever. They represent no invisible
sympathy, but represent the peoples
thought, and are twined about the
peoples heart, bearing witness to q
career of honest purpose. And why
this reverential regard for the memo
ry of Mr.. Greeley? 1t is not for his
mere intellectual ability, large and un-
deniable as it was. It is not because
he was a high official, for Horace
Greeley held no official station. The
viii of the people, expressed through
the Electoral College to-day, decides
that he should hold no such station.
To-day the will of God elects him to
a place from which all human ones
look small and dim. Why is it then!
It is the magnetism of simple good
ness. Mr.. Greeley's heart was as
large as his brain. His love for hui
manity was inherent. He touched
all sides of humanity, so to speak.
The hundreds of poor, toil-woIn men
who yesterday pressed through the
crowd to take last look at that worn
countenanee, were moved by no
mere curiosity. They came there, not
to gaze upon the face of the great
journalist or politician, but because
he had always been the poor man S
friend, the sympathetic champion of
the working men, who had struggled
through their experiences, and never
forgot their claims. All his public acts
were directed by the same impulses,
and it enlisted him in the service of
very. many causes. Not only did it
inspire his lifelong war with oppres-
sion, vice, and wickedness of every
kind, but it made him unspeakably
generous. Perhaps he erred on the
side Of mercy against justice, but if
o man must err at all, that is good
side to elr 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 that
characterized his life; and therein is
a lesson for us also. How faithfully
he did his work and led his life, it is
superAuous for me to say. 1t was an
eminently practical one. What vari-
Gus interests of art, of labor, of feduca-
ton, of temperance, ofdomestic poll
ty, offreedom, gomourning for him to-
day! Welding the mightypower ofthe
mightiest engine of the times, placed
in the editorial chair that he was, it