Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-12-11
Funeral Obscquics Of Horace Greeley



There is no one that dies whose death
not Of moment il we but behold them I
Gods angels do--as the problem Of livin
OF living again. And yet when mon haV
filed the household with their presence, an
society has been made beneficiary by the
kindnessos and by their wisdom death beoom,
still more momentous, and every day hur
drcds and hundreds are borne through you
streets and laid away to sleep in yondc
Greenwood, leaving behind them sorrow an
tears and many revcrcnt thoughts and yC
Of all that have passed through on their wa
TO their long home no one, 1 think, has gone
or for long timc will 60 bearing with hir
so many sympathies so much kindness, $
many tender rccollcctons, so much tha
should be instructive as he who lies here be-
fore us. Who is this man. Bearing upo
him all the civic honors that tho land cou
givo2 None Of that. Who is this man
One whose wealth has made him a prince it
bcnevolence2 IIo was not rich 10 living. no
in dying rich Who is this man? Some on
gifted with all kindness of heart and singuIa
tact Of administration chat should make ey
cry one his friends who should come neal
him But be was a mau Of war, who 70
thirty years has filled the land with the rack
Ct Of various controversies and yet to-day
Without office, without title, without place ex
cept that Of the humbest citizen, the Govern
ment itself stands still, and the honored rep
rescn,ativo and Chief Magistrate of thi
great people is mere to bow his head in un
leigned sympathy Here are the heads, also
Of all the departments aud men of every
style of thought heie are men who hav,
scarcely yet laid down the bow from which
the last arrow has been shot, all gathered to.
day by one impulse the business of the
streets almost stopped private dwellings
showing the significant tokens Of their sor.
row, all gathered in genuine sympathy around
about this man, who can speak no more, walk
in our presence no more, but has gone oui
from US forever. Is il that death has made
US forget all our differences We have no
forgotten them. Is it that strained courtes,
that lays aside criticism in the presence
death as something too august for man to tri
file with? But we differ to-day As much il
theory, as much in philosophy, in the best
methods Of policy as we did month ago
A month ago the whole land was full of clam.
or, a iiItie wniIe ago mcn were In herce
battle. There has been no change in it, but
yet he who was the chief mark on one side
lies before you, and you press around him in
tears to-day 10 40 nun reverence. IL IS De-
cause the man Is more than professional
man not the candidate, not the editor. The
man 'hat lay unuer al these Is honored aud
honorable. ANA When the conflicts OF lie
lntermlt Tor moment, aud you eau take oil
your harness aud look INTO that which belongs
70 essential manhood you do revere him and
love MN ana since the circumstances OF his
gong were so wonderfully dramatic, since
stroke atier stroke resounded through the
land to make his death one which IN every
feature IS calculated most deeply to affect ALL
you are brought together to express here your
nohor ana your reverence ior Horace Tree
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p,Vlue ~, jesus enieny' ana IN iesser measure 10
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nun VINO can wri'e no more ana SPEAK no
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u aooo'uanco WIN every man lee'ing 'o'day
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