The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-07
Ghf 1ailg Ateas.
Mdependeaat IN Eyergthaaaq.
SUMMERS HOME.

A9lo ioiloWldg Is Tue eloquent ana aIIacG-
ing peroration of Senator Schurz eulogy
on Sumner. Few will be able to read it
without moistened eyes:
And now his home There are those
around me who have breathed the air OF
his. house in " ashington-that atmosphere
OF refinement and scholarship, friendship
and warm hearted hospitality They have
4 seen those rooms covered and filled with |
This pictures, his engravings, his statues. |
his bronzes. his books and rare n anuscripts
the collections of a life time, the image of
the richness of his mind, the comfort and I
consolation of his solitude. They have be-
held his child like smile oil satisfaction |
when he unlocked, one by one, the most
lprecious of his treasures and told their
! stories. They remember the conversation
at his hospitable board, genially inspired
and directed by him, on art, and books,
and inventions, and great times. and great
men, when suddenly, some time by acct
dent, a new mine of curious knowledge
was discovered in him, which his friends
had never known he possessed. As sun
burst, the affectionate gentleness of his
soul warmed all hearts around him. They
remember his craving for friendship as it
spoke through the far outstretched hand
when you arrived, and the glad exclama-
ton, Il am so happy you came; and the
beseeching aud almost Respondent tone
when you departed. DO not leave me
yet; do stay while longer | want SO
: much to speak with YOU 1t is all gone
now He could not stay himself, and has
(, left his friends behind, feeling more deep
ly than ever that no man could know him
well but to love him. Now we have laid him
into his grave in the motherly soil of Mass
Iachusetts, which was so dear to him. de
n is at rest now. The stalwart, brave old
= champion, whose face and bearing were SO
u austere and whose heart was so full of ten
derness; who began his career with a
e- pathetic plea for universal charity, and
ed whose whole life was an arduous, incessant
d. never resting struggle, which left him al
covered with scars; and we can do nothing
, for him but remember his lofty ideals O
liberty, and equality, and justice, and rec
onciliation, and purity, and the earnest
ness and courage and touching hdelt.
with which he fought for them-so genu
! inc in his sincerity, so single minded IN HI
= zeal, so heroic in his devotion. Oh! tina
we could but tor one short hour call hlr
up from his coffin, to let him see with tn
same ewes that saw so much hostility tina
- those WHO StODu dEdtilSG ulLI III thC oSi uS
giles of his lite are his enemies no longe
ent We would show him the fruit of the cor
"A fiict and sufferings of his last three year
mt and that he had not struggled in vail
! We would bring before him not only tho:
. who from offended partisan zeal assalle
ET' him, and who now. with sorrowful heart
praise the purity of his patriotism: b.
we would bring to him that man OF Il
u South, STAKEHOLDER and leader OF sece
n sion in his time, the echo of whose word
~, spoken in the name OF the South in t
halls of the Capitol, we heard but yeste
arg, day-w0rds Of respect, OF gratitude,
- tenderness. That man of the Sou
should then do what he deplored not ha
b, at ing done while he lived. He should |
his hand upon the shoulders of the {
-, friend of the human kind and say to hiI
III LII is it you whom l hated and who, a
, thought, hated me. | have learned n
the greatness and magnaninity of yo
= soul and here | offer you my hand "a
20 heart" Could he but see this with tn
:, eyes, so weary Of contention and strl
how contentedly would he close tn
IN again, having beheld the greatnes of
victories.
inds, People of Massachusetts,, he was
ham son OF your soil, in which he now sleeps,
All he Is not all your own he nelohSs u
unite of US to the blacks he helped to nj
Il get free, and to the whites ne stroVe u III
brothers again. Let on the grave of
tnan who was by so many thought to be IL
''''' enemy and found to be their friend,
gents hands be clasped which so bitterly war
Il against each other. Let upon that, gr
Tork rfIe youth OF America be taught by
story of his life, that not only genius, p
7ssEfs er and success, but more than these.
triotic devotion and virtue, make the or
ness of the citizen. If this lesson be
OtS derstood, more than Charles Sumner 5
= ing word could have done for the glor
America will be done by the inspiratio
l1ow his great example, and it will truly be
that although his body lies molderin
the earth. yet in the assured rights OF
E. in the brotherhood of reunited people
-PHlA' in purified Republic, he still lives.
hr0,' will live forever.