Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-03-01
VOL. XIV. NEW Series, VOL. XVIII

he had caught back into the sea, saying
There, 90 tell your grandmother you have
seen a ghost = The chaise be once owned
was always 50 full of ragged children, his
own family could not get seats. But all his
sentiment was the soaring Of common sense.
1t was the weight not Of sparrow, but an
eagle. In the noble Methodist no iot Of
Methodist cant. The little girl, who explain
ed her kneeling at his coffin by saying, He
was my friend, and the orange.woman who
walked up the aisle Of the crowded church
with her basket on her arm, were bis wit
nesses. lie astonished a minister who had re-
fused 10 enter his pulpit because a Unitarian
had been in it,by falling on his knees on the
pulpit stairs and crying out, 90 Lord de-
liver Us in Boston from two things, had rum
and bigotry; thou knowest which Is worst,
for don'tp When Lincoln succeeded Bu-
chanan, he gave Father Abraham an outfit
Of benedictiOn and gracious prophecy. But
. Lord as for this stuff that is going out
We won't say much about that = Reading
proclamation after an election, and pro-
nouncing the words God save the common
wealth. he added, He did that last Tues
dav Mr.. Webster ridiculed the Higher law
comparing it to the Blue Ridge and other
things above all practical concern. Taylor
said, Higher law a ineteoric stone, stand
from under Taylor said to stolid worship
ers, 4 would as lief have so many canes and
umbrellas in the pews ! see some fat peo-
pie, corpulent. That is swine's flesh How
the obesity shrank from his eyes peering
round As visitor concluded his patroniz-
ing survey of the Mariners house, Taylor
said, Now We will hear any other uptown
sinner who wants 10 confess lie explained
the verdict Of the governor on the good wine
kept until now,' by saying it was the best Of
water in the Jars, Of which that Cd slaker
knew not the taste He said to minister,
some of whose young folk new pulpit celeb
rity had taken away, 4 understand he has
had his shovel under your garden flowers
Leaving home this was his picture Of Provi-
dence; He, that gives the whale cart load
of behring's every morning for breakfast, Will
take care of my babes.
lie did not, like oratorical experts, hoard
his good things 10 say over again, 80 that
following him round we had the. same old
fund Of commonplaces and store of jokes;
but went on. his word marvel 70 everybody
and not less u himself, fresh as the morning
OF new-bl3wn rose; because his was not
Everett's art or Philips's genius for elo-
quence. He was fearless Of death. bat stout
ly said he would not give up TIL he was dead.
Being told be was going to the angels;
Folks better than angels he said. lie was
grieved because the last time a friend visited
him he could not wait upon her TO the door.
Shortly before his death he went several
times to the glass and addressed himself as
another man needing salvation, saying, Il
guess You ara not ready; You old man and
infdel, have not made up your mind, then
looked at himself with silent scorn, as if
comparing his reduced estate with former
glory. Ills last audible prayer was. Lord
what am / here for? What am doing here?
IN no use ID anybody. The love my
friends have for me will soon be gone. The
love | have for my friends viii soon be gone.
Now, Lord, some morning suddenly snatch
me % thyselI The Lord heard. The Lord
did lie went, ,as a sailor would, just at the
turn of the tide. lt was ehb-.ide here; it was
fn0d-tde somewhere. The death was a
mighty birth above. such a soul beyond
miracle or prophecy, is proof of immortality.
A brother once said to him. GIVE me = sub
ject. 1T would be too hot for You 10 hold,
be answered. Marvellous such "a flame burnt
so long The fire has not gone out, but the
fuel. Must there be not more fuel for such a
fire ask leave 10 see it burn again He
was restless the last nights and his nurse,
man that slept by him, tried to keep him in
bed. as if with an unconscious hand. 'D1
You know, Taylor said to him, how smooth
ly YOU are SHINING? You are trying 9, cheat
the devil; but he shall find YOU out o.
Shall we not say be was one of the uni
veisal men lie resists all sectarian claim OF
classification. He drew every furrow with a
sub-soil pillow. lie was not a local celebrity,
but an honor u mankind. Unknown TO liter
ature, he viii be tradition in the common
mind. Across the line Of party be stood,
colossus guarding the harkor for humanity
lie was a radical, not born late. out of due
time, as Paul said, but before the time \ et
be was no hereto, but unitor. reaching the
man In all men. He spoke not 70 one set or
sort of persons. but was understood with
equal delight by every class. Fine lady and
scholar-Miss Bremen and Jenny Lind and
Charles Dickeus-mixed in the Bethel, with
the tars that had anchors n India ink on the
back Of ,hoir hands, or clumsy ring- in thoi-
ears, or vertebIa Of sharks to hold the ker-
chiefs round their necks.