The Portland daily press., 1874-04-30
MASSACHUSETTS,.
CHARLES SUMNER. E
The Memorial Services in Boston.
Carl Schurz's Grafton.
~. A Large Audience. s9r


Boston, April 29.-The city of Boston's COM
memoration of Charles Summers death took
place in Music Hall this afternoon. The wealth
er was rainy and tempestuous, but every avail
to obtain tickets, which were in such demand
that as much as twenty dollars was refused for
a single ticket. .5f flt3tt ff,y 80
The audience embraced the city government
the State Legislature, Executive Department.,
judges of courts and several prominent persons
from other States, The platform presented a
beautiful display of flowers. The programme
OF exercises previously published was carried
out .sr.l,.s,, ~ .t
Wendell Phillips who had just returned from
the funeral of his sister, wife of Rev. DR.. Blag-
den, which took place at noon in Mt Vernon
church, was present, and in a few eloquent
words introduced the orator of the day, Sena-
tor Carl Schurz. The Grafton will fill eight or
ten newspaper columns, and no telegraph alb
stract will do it justice. - tta1t 5a
The orator opened by recalling the sad an
nouncement which inspired a tremor of strange
emotion over the land, "Chares Sumner is
dead" and then proceeded with biographical
sketch of his life, his Identification with the
aDti-slavery movement, and his devotion to the
cause of human rights. Speaking of his char
acterstics, Mr.. Schurz said
When Charles Sumner had been elected to
the Senate Theodore Parker said to him in
letter of congratulation, you told me once
you were in morals, not in politics. Now l
hope you will show that you are still in morals
although IA politics. | hope you will be the
Senator with conscience. That hope was
gratified. He always remained in morals while
in politics. He never was anything else but the
Senator with conscience. Charles Sumner en-
tered the Senate not as a mere advocate, but as
the very embodiment of the moral idea. From
this fountail flowed his highest aspirations
There had been great anti-savery men in the
Senate before him. They were there with him
men like Seward and Chase-but they had
been trained in different school. Their minds
had ranged over other political fields. they
understood politics. He did not. He knew but
one political object to combat and overthrow,
the great wrong OF slavery, to serve the ideal of
the liberty and equality of men. and to estab-
lish the universal reign of peace, justice and
charity. He brought to the Senate studious
mind, vast learning, great legal attanments a
powerful eloquence, strong and ardent nature,
and all this he vowed to one service. With all
this he was mere expounder of a policy. He
was worshipper, sincere and devoted, at the
shrine of his ideal. In no public man had the
moral idea of the anti-slavery movement such
overrulng strength. He made everything
yield to 1t. he did not possess it; it possessed
him. That was the secret of his peculiar pow
Daniel v ebster is thus referred to:
And by his side, Daniel Webster. with that
awful vastness of brain. a tremendous store
house of thought and knowledge, which gave
forth its treasures with ponderous majesty of
ures. and policies, but mighty advocate, the
greatest advocate this country ever knew; a
King in the realm of intellect, and the solemn
embodiment of authority; huge atlas, who car
ried the constitution upon his shoulder. He could
have carried there the whole moral grandeur of
the nation, had he never compromised his own.
The Grafton covered the history of the great
epoch through which the nation has lately pass
ed, and is strikingy interesting from its per-
sonal "reminiscences and general historical facts
for ua1 hap ~s~1.t
much fatigued with his rapid journey from
Washington and the previous labors involved
in his Senatorial duties. His eulogy upon
Sumner had only been commenced, and most of
it, consequently he has had little opportunity
of accepting the private hospitalities of our
citizens. He finished reading and correcting
proof sheets of his eulogy only an hour before
its delivery.
Mr.. SchurZ leaves for Washington tomorrow
morninp