New-York tribune., 1872-12-07
RELIGIOUS PRESS EULOGIES
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The flags of city hang at half-mast. The
of country prints funeral oratons. Ever GOV
eminent puts on the sober form OF ceIemonlOus grei
On rich mems mansions and settlers cabins Hes tho
shadow Of personal bereavement; and countless owes
grow dim with tears over the loss of friend whom
they had never looked on. -.
Yet tho dead man. lying awfully unconscious of TINS
late-comng kindness, but SIMPLE citizen not rich.
not wen born, not well0red holding netHer oivl nor
military hOnOrs. He has been successful man. as
the world counts success for he died with the dearest
aspirations OF his heart ungraiihed, and, all his life,
went amshing for certain simple joys that most men
nave anu heaven denied 70 nun: nay, az IHo @ is', ~
terness of wlde condemnation that he stepped into the
But in the hour when Horace Greeley died. unjust and
hard Judgment OF him died also For months men have
with vehement hatred and abuse To-day. his friends
hardly gener toward hun than his foes for death Is
benenceut spirit, and, taking away comrade, leaves
an angel sealing his lips that they shall never more ex
plain any thing touches our lips with sweet chaty
and wisdom TO explain all things that had looked dark
IN him. so 1t is given 10 men who had honestly
blamed Horace Greeley as living fOrce' now that ne
has passed away to put aside the arrow aimed az his
faults and to lay with kindly hands wreath upon his
virtues.
who had taught his followers true love OF liberty
for its sake, dire hatred Of oppression and
aud wandering they could follow his high cOunsels
rather tnan himself Is infinitely greater man than the
leader who SIMPLY boasts an array OF personal adherens
Perhaps there Is citizen left 70 us whose greatness
is so dstinctiyey American as was Horace Greeley's
the school and the equality OF men before the
law gave him his chance Born TO grinding poverty bat
he school and tOng away at the hard Old Tesa-
ment nomenclature when baby Of four years old The
and wages small And from the endless labors OF
farm the boy of Is went out to begin life for himself
Five years of Indifferent success in country printing
Offices sent him NewYork toSeek his fortune. Rustic,
awkward boned, h0mey unused 10 society, friend
less pOOr his capacity found work. his simplicity made
friends his ovingness love. He delyed Ia hours
day for Sc week. He lived on Lenen fare. His horror
Of debt kept him independent. lis religious feeling
Iept nm pure Soou % uni tonS T Ten long year of lnbor
t,ad drafu MARI Of W. "A
penny daily To independent thought To social science
TO popular educao9l 10 an causes tftt LIQUID oenens
money was a secondary and trivial pursuit Money
came, however and honor, ana fame. The greatest
American journalist had conquered his place.
with the money the adventurers TO profit by 1t.
1t was said that little understood human ma,
tre as Mr.. Greeley, because he forever imposed
upon by the base and the undeservng Yet no man was
shrewder. He was great observe r. ana he & l2oked 20
be with burden OF lazy shiftessness or OF mean
cunning almost the heaviest curse OF heaven ana
that those of who came into life better equipped,
through desert OF our own, owed these incurabes
he,ef that each new loan would be the lever OF vast
prosperity to the especial pirate WHO OBTAINED IT, Aud
the number Of these beseeching brgands was legion
But his kndLess did not stop there No needy creature
appealed in vain to him for assistance no charity
lacked his good help. The man VINO might nave been
millionaire leaves but moderate fortune To ms chill
drcn because he believed that there were richer posses
siOns than money and higher aims than seeking it.
Aud for his saunch integrity, let US remember now
tcol nreferment which he was said so TO love was
without abatement his inmos thought, and invited the
defeat that followed But If he aggressive and un-
Welding he was tender-hearted as womaH His deyo-
zion TO his sick wife had the conservation OF religious
feryor in it, His love to his daughters was patheuc IN
ia funess. The very nicknames that the people gave
him showed their ipstinc OF his homey hearsoeness
AND the harmless fin they made OF his eccentrices
only brought him into their nearer regard because there
was respect and not contempt in the rdicule
So robust u mind, so vital nature, 40 fresh ana
youthful a presence had this tireess WORKER that
sixfy eened the very prime and flush OF manhood ana
Veaa of labor appeated 20 beckon him. But many grgs
broke the great eaf, sf3 .@ str0Dg p2ly Gg1,p@ed @ "
a day From his life great legacy relialas Tie VAST
influence OF a generation which learned from him that
honesty honor simplicity frugslity, generosity, purify,
temperance above all worldly gains. From us
death gospel OF tolerance takes deeper meaning the
cruelty OF partisanshp looks meaner tine charity t1at
bsleyeth all things seems divine. For the rest DIS
friends will keep his memory green. They are IN inc
arketplace the churches the Wretched tenant homes,
the mansions the frontier shantes the mines The poor
and the ignorant aud the miserable have LETT no DINER
friend 80 powerful That is the story OF his humanity
In every village some heart mOurns him. Ihat Is the
story OF his personal worth. , A..
There bleak skies to watch over the dead ana the
earth offers cold shelter Yet one fancles that ne
whose life fun of storms. whose aggressive spirit
cOuld not rest, thoughts run ever on ana on
should nnd a deeper peace in the rigid hxy of the WIN
Ter slumber in the dangerous thrill aud s'r VI