Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1873-05-17
En- Neni0riRn.

hA W SElOElRH.
When loved ones die and especially when
ties are severed 10y sudden and appalling
calamity, it is an impulse of surviving
friendship to intcrposo its humble tribute
to stay the march of that inevitable obi-
WON, which awaits without exception all
the inhabitants of earth. Soon or late,
in years or centuries or ages, it must come
alike to the lOwly and the great. Caesars
two thousand years and Homcr's three
thousand are but moments in the past
eternity. Even as in life they strobe above
the dust OF their forgotten peer, in cycles
to come, warriors as mighty and poets as
great who have never heard their names,
will bring its evauescent offerings to the
tomb
On Good Friday, the eighth anniversary
of the assassination of the ilustrious Lin
coin, EDWARD II. 5. CANBY fell by the
hand of a beastly and treacherOus savage.
Neither the pages of history nor the ie-
gends of tradition can furnish parallel
/ to this Cowardly and bloody murder. In
! all future ages let us hope it will stand
/ along in its enOrmity, and unapproachable
/ in the rcl0tne cOstliucss Of the sacrifice.
! An eagle towering in his pride of place
! Was by mousng owl hawked at ami killed.
I lie has fallen in the height Of his useful
. -,
/ in the full vigor OF his unwasted manhood.
. 1t is hard to realize that we shall no more
listen to his counsels nor be chcered by his
! presence. He has passed away forever
| but he has left to us valuable inheritance
| in the memory of his virtues and the bene-
! fits that may grow out of his example.
! II write nothing in his rIaisG, which
{ | have not spoken in his life, shall be uC-
/ quilted of any ailectatou of ofsentiment.
/ \ little while ago he stood among us.
/ grand in stature, peerless in form, cultured
! in mind and high in station. yet shrinking
| lv modest in dcmcanor truthful, brave
and generous Just and mprcitul-spotess
IN character and pure in heart. without
! fear and without reproach," =" an Intellectual
aud moral giant amOug his fellow men.
/ Ordinary business integrity looked like
/ dross beside the gold of his refined and
/ sensitive honor. Rome, in her purest and
prOudest days. could boast no braver
/ soldier nor better citizen. 1t seldom falls
! to the lot of bercaved friendship to describe
( a character at once so strong and 50 bcau-
! tiful. There lives not ON earth to- dGy a
man who can point to stain upon his
name. In the writer's half-century Of life
/ he has never met truer, iuster, nobler
/ mau. lie was living refutatiOn of the
| damnable heresy of knaYes, that every
man has his price" None but a stranger
or a fool would have ventured to cost mark
has honor. In him were blended all the
best attributes of manhood. Fearless of
I danger or fool would have yentured to
I inllic. pain or wrong upon any human
| heart. Regardless of self, he was ever
watchful for others. lie cuitailed his own
wants that he might minister to the needs
OF the poor aud their blessings will follow
him to the grave.
10 little children, though himself child
less, he MAS more gentle than a mother.
His great heart went out to the poor aud
helpless Of every race and color; even the
vile wretches who slew him had no more
patient, charitable friend fhe had enc
mics, they must have hated him for his
virtues. lie bore upon his manly front
the impress of n fearless and honorable
soul, and no one who knew him will say il
was false index TO his character. Among
his friends and associates there is no recol-
lection that is but the thought that they
shall sec him no more. lie will be laid in
patriot soldiers honored grave, regretted
by all who knew him, and regretted most
by those who knew him best.
If our griefis great what must be hers,
who now brocds in lonely sorrow, too decp
for tears, at her woe-stricken hearth. To
her, who for more than thirty years has
been the worthy compliment Of his grand
aud noble life, and the sharer Of his trials
and triumphs, il is useless TO offer the con-
dOlonce of our natural and most earnest
sympathy it cannot reach her crushed
aud broken heart. Alas not for the