Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-12-05
GREELEY.
Earth to Earth and Dust to Dust.
All New York Attend the Funeral.
Grafton of Henry Ward Beecher.
Address of Rev. DR.. Chapin.
The Route to the Grave Lined With
Sad Humanity.
scenes of the MORNING.

sons offered high prices for tickets but
found none. Several prominent journal
lists arrived last evening from Philadelphia
and other cities, among them Col Forney,
20 take part in the obsequies. The crowd
that visited the City Hall yesterday is es'i-
mated at about forty Thousand.
Senators Fenton, Upton, SchuZ and
Trumbull viii be present. Charles sum
ner telegraphs that his health prevents bis
attendance, but that he viii be present In
soul.
The Herald proposes press fund for the
endowment Of The children of the late Dir.
Greeley, and offers 81 600 as its own SUD-
scription.
The National Democratic Committee
have issued an address containing tribute
to the memory of Mr.. Greeley. The nu-
merous club organic zationS yesterday even
ing passed resolutions appropriate to the sad
event.
The distribution of tickets for admission
to the Greeley obsequies was made at the
Common Council chamber this morning to
the distinguished personages previously de-
termined upon, President Grants ticket
being sent him at the hotel, and thereafter
at about half past ten the party took car
riages and left for the church according tc
the programme. Broadway is lined with
spectators awaiting The funeral procession,
and flags are suspended at half mast from
nearly all the Buildings on either side OF
the whole length Of the thoroughfare.
At the Church..
The interior Of the Church of the Di-
vine Paternity where Greeley's Obsequies
were held presented sombrely beautiful
appearance. Grape was suspended in pro
fusion. Exquisite floral offerings were dis
played, having appropriate desig0s. At The
rear of the pulpit is a sheaf Of wheat from
Chappaqua in the form of 3 crown, and sus-
pended over the head is a pen and an sx
A floral wreath left Of the pulpit bore the
letter H in flowers aud ploW from the
Tribune Office.
Outside Of the church were throngs
waiting in respectful silence. The police
stood in front of the church as guard
The church opened about half past ten, al
though ladies had previously been admitted
and filed the galleries. During the bOul
which elapsed before the arrival of the pro
cessinn a strain of music was discOursed by
the choir. Among the first celebrities to ar
rive were Gov. Hoffman and President
Grant. Roscoe Coukiing so)n after en-
tered, and Immediately following them
were Henry Wilson, Minister Washbune
and Secretary Be:knap, VINO sat on the right
IF the pulpit. There were also Gen. Schu-z,
Lyman Crumbull aud Vice President Col
fax, who took seat near the President.
The crowds outside extended as far as the
| eye could reach on either size of Fifth
avenue, waiting the arrival OF the process
| sion.
| The Funeral.
At eleven the fuUei al procession started
| from ttdr- Sincair's hOu.e, Forty Fiftl
| s-rest. Many affecting scanes took plac,
! thera during the morning, Mr.. Greeley
| daughters were unconsolable in their grief
| The corpse was borne by ten men. Mex
! came the chief mourners, then the TribuH
| association, and DCXt the Herald club, theI
/ followed a success on IF military and ciyi
officers according 10 the programme.
At twenty minutes past eleven the pro
/ cession entered the church. The solemnity
! Of the scsue was most impressive. Tn.
| stiffness was such that it seemed that 81
| though the peOpA IN the church scarcel,
Dreathed. Prominently amoQy those whC
/ slowly wound ther way up The central
/ aisle were Thurlow Weed, Wm. NJ
Evarts aud Mayor Hall. There were alsC
/ present Postmaster General Cres veil, Gen.
/ Dix, EX-Gov. Morgan, Gen. Sheridan, Gov
Randolph Of New Jersey, and the commit
tee Of the Union league club.
The clock in the church stood, stopped
| at ten minutes to THE hour that -Greele,
died. The pew will be left empty fo
so days.
. The floral ec0rations were prCfuse, mag
nifyent and unique. The most remarkabl
was "a plow, composed of csmelias ant
while rcsos, with ground work of violets
and other modest blossoms. This beauti
ful design was a gift of the Tribune EN-
pl0yees. Among many suggestive emblem
was simple wreath OF dry leaves With VIC
lets intertwined, sent by WhiteIaw Reid &c
the Misses Greeley, with brief expression
| Of sympathy. The Misses Greeley, Will
their own hands, bound the wreath abou
tho coffin OF their father, as from one Wit
/ 10 the last had his confidence aud love.
Rev. DR.. Chaplin opened the caremonie
by reading an appropriate selection from Jht
! Scriptures. Miss lara Louise Kellogg mex
sung very toUchingly, II know that my Re
deemer liveth," after which Henry War,
! Beecher delivered the funeral oTatien sub
stantiaIly as follows:
The Funeral Grafton.
When men have filed the household O
| GOD with their presence, it is not suTprisin,
that We miss them when they leave us for
ever, and yet they are constantly, like in th,
present case, going from US and others ar
being called upon by. means of heavenly im
/ pulse to take their place in the great Caus
of Gods truth. The occasion, my friends
| is a solemn and sublime one, and We forge
the strife and contest of the world, that strif,
that separated us politically ia the affairs @
the nation, and l join in this meeting L
weep over the remains Of him who is nov
in our presence, soon TO be taken from us
Out whose memory shall live forever in tn,
annals of his country.
Who is this man whom we are here TO
day 10 commemorate? For 80 years he ba:
tilied The land with the greatest controversy y
lie Was man Of war and yet be died with
| out civic honOIs-a private citizen and YET
! we honor him one and all. The President
Of tie United States and his officers are
| here and bow in silence to the will Of God
! In taking from Us our great brother. a 1T
| lie time ago and we were in the midst OF a
fierce battle with tie great dead, tha leader
| ot one side, and yet he nov lies lifeless be-
| fore US. 1t is because the man was some
! thing more than q professional man, so good
aud noble, that ne had few compeers. II is
! tor these reasons that we assemble here to
! mourn the loss of Horace Greeley.
! For 80 years he built for himself no out
ward monument, 10 estate, but here to-day
! between the oceans there is not a man who
| has rot felt the eff.Cts of the labOrs Ct
Horace Greeley. What matters it that in
conflict over political economy he should
| be upon one side and you an
! Other? Isn't it enough that be
/ has given his lite-bUod for the gOoc,
aud to purposes ef nobler manhood?
| The bus0andman reaps his harvest, the
wheaa is garnered; it reappears in the
| school boy aud to future generations, and
| ia it IS the preseBC5 Cf the man. To-day
we are al speaking kind and sorrowfully
! for him. ThiOz Of those conflicts in which
you forget humanity, out of which you
have come, ana summon your charity now /,
! yOl that have been battling another side.
Af.er long and tempestous voyage he has
reached the shore and the angels viii wei
come him to their out-stTetched arms. Let
us hope that when we die the angels will
open th9 gates fer US ard receive
US to the glary Of the Lord.
After the addressed G.rBeeeber, which con
timed bu5 few minu es,-"Sleep the last
Sleep" was rendered IN q beautiful m amer
by GuaTLeJte from ST. Francis XaVier's