Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-12-13

but because he had always been the poor
mans friend, the sympathetic companion of
the workingmen, who had struggled through
their experiences and never forgot
their claims. All his public acts were di-
rected by the same impulses, and it enlisted
him in the service of very many causes. Not
only did it inspire his lifelong war with OPP
preston, vice, and wickedness of every kind,
but it made him unspeakably generous. Per-
haps he erred on the side of mercy against
Justice, but il man must err at all that is
good side to err on. Whatever may have
been the mistakes of him who lies dead be-
fore US, there was no mistake in the main
current of the principles which characterized
his life, and therein is lesson for us also.
How faithfully he did his work and led
his life, it is superhuous for me to say. 1t
was an eminently practical one. What
various interests of art, of labor, of educa-
tion, of temperance, of domestic policy, OF
freedom, go mourning for him to-day
WELDING the mighty power of the mightiest
engine of the times, placed in the editorial
chair that he was, 1t is no light thing TO say
that however strongly some may think that
severely he used his pen as an instrument of
his thoughts and principles, he never de-
based it as stimulus of impurity, ormade
1t the vehicle of single social wrong.
While Horace Greeley had made many an
tagonists, he had few, if any, enemies. And
may not, without violating any OF the pro-
prieties of this occasion, express my satisfac-
ton that, while political differences lay
sealed within these enclosed lids, the high
est representative of the nation to-day here
bows his head in honor of the thinker, the
worker, the patriot, and man.
attempted applause, which Was sup
pressed.)
The address was followed by earnest
prayer, and another hymn, "Angels Ever
Bright and Fair"
The Rev. Mr.. Chaplin then pronounced
the benediction, and the choir sung a
most beautiful and touching chant, 90,
what is life?" after which the procession
moved down Fifth avenue, the police
having previously cleared the roadway
from curb to curb.
No music was in the line. The process
sion, as it slowly moved down the avenue,
presented a magnificently imposing ap-
pearance.
The door. steps of all the houses along
the avenue, without exception, were
thickly crowded. The windows and
balconies were full, and the hotels, club
houses, and public buildings of all kinds
presented sea OF human faces. The
gathering was greater than the multitude
which welcomed the Grand Duke Alexis,
or watched the funeral of Abraham Lin
COLI. IOm LII. Ondpiu OhuiSh w
Madison Square, distance of just mile,
the avenue was nearly blockaded. On
the outer edge of the sidewalk the crowd
was huddled two and three deep, and on
the walk within there was barely room to
pass. In Madison Square and on the
space before the Fifth Avenue Hotel, the
concourse was still greater.
ALI along Broadway, from Fourteenth
street, through which the procession
moved, to Hamilton Ferry, there was
dense mass of people. About Bowling
Green, the Battery, and the erry-honse,
the crowd stood patiently waiting.
On the Brooklyn side, the same scenes
were repeated. Along Union street to
Fourth avenue, and down the avenue to
the cemetery, stretched the wonderful
double lines of watchers. AT Greenwood
there was a still more surprising sight.
Here an enormous concourse had gather
ed, standing about the entrance gates,
and fringing the winding roads, and con-
centrating about the open grave, so that
the mourners, when they arrived, had the
greatest difficulty in following the hearse.
About one hundred and twenty car
riages followed the remains to Green
wood. The body was deposited in Mr..
Greeley's lot. There were no ceremonies
of any kind further than laying the body
in its last resting place.