The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-30
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The Eulogy on Sumner by Senator
Schurg
BosroN. April 20.

The Grafton Of Senator Schurz in culOgy
Of Charles Sumner will fill from eight to
ten newspaper columns, and no telegraph
abstract will do it justice.
The orator began by recalling the sad an
nounccmcnt which inspired a trcmor of
strange emotion over the land "Charlcs
Sumner is dead and then proceeded with
"A biographical sketch of his life, his identi-
fication with anti-slaycry, and his devotion
to the cause of human rights.
Speaking of his characteristics, Mr.
Schurz said: "lTe brought to the senate
studious mind, vast learning, great legal
attachments, a powerful cloqucnce, strong
aud ardent nature-and all this he vowed
to one service With all this, he was not
mere expounder of policy. He was
worshippcr, sincere and levout, at the
shrine of his ideal In no public man
had the moral idea of the anti-slavery
movement such overruling strength He
made everything yield to it. He did not
possess it, 1t possessed him. That was
the secret Of his peculiar power, and what
life was his-a life so wholly devoted to
what was good and noble. There he stood
in the midst Of the graspng materialism Of
our times. around him the eager chase for
the almighty dollar, no thought of oppor-
tunity ever entering the smallest corner of
his mind and disturbing his high endeav-
ors, with virtue which the possession of
power could not even tempt, much less de-
bauch. from whose presence the very
thought of corruption instinctively shrunk
back a life so unspotted, an integrity so
intact, a character so high that the most
most daring cagerncss, of calumny most
wanton or audacity of nsinuation, standing
on tiptoe could net touch the soles of his
feet.
They say that he INDUCED in overweaning
self appreciation. Aye. He did have a
magnificent pride, lofty self esteem.
Why should he not Let wrctches despise
themselves, for they have good reason to
do so-not he But in his self esteem there
was nothing small and mean, and no man
lived to whose nature, envy and petty
jealousy were more foreign. Conscious of
his own merit, he never deprecated the
merit of others ; Nay. He recognized it
and expressed that recognition with that
cordial spontaneity, which can only flow
from n sincere and unenvious heart. His
pride of self was like his pride of country.
He was the proudest American. lie was
the proudest New Englandcr, aud yet he
was the most cosmopolitan American |
have ever seen. There was in him not the
faintcst shadow of that narrow prejudice
which looks askance at what has grown in
foreign lands his generous heart and his
enlightened mind were too generous and
too enlightened not to give the fullest
measure of appreciation that was good and
worthy, from whatever quarter of the
globe it came
And now his home. There are those
around me who have breathed the air of
his house at Washington, that atmosphere
of refinement. scholarship, friendship, and
warm-hearted hospitality. They have seen
! those rooms covered and filled with his pic
lures, his cngravings, his statues, his
br0nzes. his books and war manuscripts
collections of life time-the images of the
richness Of his mind, the comfort and con
ISOLATION of Ii 5 solitude. They have beheld
| his child-lke smile of satisfaction when he
unlocked one by one the most precious of
/ his treasures and told their stories. They
| remember CONVEX sations at his hosptable
/ board generally inspired and directed by
/ him -ona art and books, and momentous
and great times and great men, when sud
denly, Some times by accident. a new vein
of curious knowledge was discovered in
him which his friends had never known he
possessed; or when sun burst OF
tic affeciionac gentlencss of his
soul warmed all hearts around him
They remember his craving for friend
ship las it spoke through the far outstretch
ed hand when you arrived, and the glat
exclamation, Il am so happy you came,
and the bcseeching and almost Gcsponden
tone when you departed, do not leaye m'
yet. do stay while longer, | want st
much to speak with you. II is all gon,
now. lie could not stay himself and ha
left his friends behind, feeling more deepl,
than ever that no man could know hin
well but to love him. Now we have lai,
Inn into the grave in the motherly state o
Massachusetts, which was so dear to him
lie is at rest now. The stalwart, brave oil
champion whose face and bearing was s
austere and whose heart was SO full of ten
derness, who began his career with path
etic plea for universal peace and CHART
and whose whole life was an arduous, in
cessant, Rever-res,ing struggle, which LEI
nothing for him but remember his loft
ideals of liberty, equality, justice, recor
citation, purity, earnestness, courage an
touching fidelity with which he fought fc
for them, so genuine in his sincerity, S
single minded in his zeal, so heroic in III
elevations. oh that we could but for on
short hour call him up from his coffin I
let him see with the same eyes which saw S
much hostility that those who stood again'
him in the struggles of his life al
his enemies no longer. We would sho'
him the fruit OF the conflict and suffering
of his last three years, and that he had M
= struggled and suffered IN vain. We woul
bring before him, not only those wh'
from offended partizan zeal, assailed hin
and who now with sorrowful hearts prais
the purity of his patriotism, but we woul
bring to him that man Of the south,
STAKEHOLDER and a leGder.of secession in h