The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-02-11
Mysterious Disappearance OF Mast
from the New York SUM-

Mysterious Disappearance OF Mast
from the New York SUM-
Few men will be more missed from
literary and artistic circles than the lat
Mr.. Thomas Mast. He had great tai
ent. In the line Of his specially he wa
unequaled. Harp1's Journal of Civil
isasion will hardly be able to get along
without him. Mr.. Mast has been one
of its most brilliant contributors
When he was alive he was very handy
with the pencil. The characteristic o
his work was vigor. He pursued the
enemies OF his country and Of Harper i
Brothers with . great deal OF power
The Journal Of Civilization attained
large circulation through his eforts.-
The Harper Brothers were very fond Of
him. II is strange-snd yet it illus
trates the cupidity of publishers and the
selfi.hness that pervades mercantile
circles-that they have offered no re-
ward for the recovery OF his body.
Unappreciative people said that the
manner in which Mast pursued Horace
Greeley to his grave was brutal beyond
anything 10 the history Of our politics
thew said thst his caricstures Of Schurz
we've the offspring Of malignant hate tor
a successful fellow-countryman; and
that his representations OF Sumner and
Trumbull and others were only such
things as suggested themselves to a
coarse and vulgar mind as means OF
turning an honest penny by panderlng
to the passion and prejudice engender-
ed in political strife.
But it was not 20. Oh, no! He was
a sincere man, the late Mr.. Mast was.
He meant we'll. 1t was necessary that
be should do some things that were
just little questionable, or seemed 40,
in order to save the Government from
such corrupt men as Greeley, Sumner,
Schurz and Trumbull, and keep the
pure and patriotic Grant and Wilson
and Colfax and Cakes Ames and POM
eroy and other Christian statesman In
power. Yes, be had 10 do it.
But be ia gone. Poor fellow, we miss
him now. The Weekly Journaiot Civil
isation says nothing about him. Mr..
George William Curtis doesn't write
any obituaries of him; but we know he
is gone: If he were living now, he
would 20 for Cakes Ames, and Schu yler
Colfax, and Henry Wilson, and Harlan,
and Pomeroy, and all that crowd! OF
course he would. For every body knows
he was an earnest man, and q sincere
man, and free from partissuship. He
could make these fellows who held
Credit Mobilier stock and didn't hold it,
who took dividends and didn't take
them, who borrowed money aud forgot
it, and these fellows who bought and
are buying seats in the Senate, and
these Civil Service Reform professors
who pardon couvicts imprisoned for il.
legal votiug-he could make them kind
OF cattle step round lively. He might not
kill them, a. he did Mr.. Greeley, for
they are not 90 sensitive; but he could
make them uncom portable, and show
them up to the public pictorially with
great power.
1t does seem such a pity that Mast il
Dead tor this would have been his op'
portunity. Nothing would have pre-
vented bis selling it except sDeaking
and dishonest desire to cover the crimes
O: his friends, and Mast never had that.
Oh, no!
We are looking for Nasts obituary
in the Journal of Civilization.