New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-17

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Then might the houses be properly deco
/ in honor Of the grest decessed.
7he speaker concluded with tie apt quo.
| tation: ...:
t shss tsy a. ssiss ssn:1s ao- f.n..
- One Of tho few, tn immortal nane's
That were not born to die.
Tho next speaker was Judge b. c. Dibble
! who spoke substantially - follows:
1t vas great cause Of qualification that IN
| tho midst Of the sinfulness Of this world
| there was always tound some one great and
| good man who would step forward and
I achieve great purposes. Prominent among
| the men who have devoted their lives to the
| great cause OF freedom will be pre-eminently
| recorded the name Of Charles Sumner. He
| devoted his life to the relief from bondage
| of people. You all know what he did.
| You have heard tonight the record OF his
| life. Though he labored so long, so earn
estly and SO well, yet he was called away
| from this life before he had finished mis-
work. AS proof of this he would adduce
| the last words of Charles Sumner, addressed
to ex-Attorney General Hoar, do not let
| them crush my civil rights bill Nuew.
when | say that Charles Summers work is
not yet done, l speak advisedly. The
black race is not vet free, and Charles
Sumner knew ie 1t has been said that
free dom is the perfection OF personality,
that complete freedom consisted in every
| man having equal rights, civil political and
religious. So long as any people is restricted
from the perfect exercise OF any of those
rights the people could not be said to be
free. But the freedom of othe BLACK man is
in Gods hands to perfect, and God works
in His own unfathomable ways. He uses
sometimes such instruments as Charles
Sumner. In the inscrutable ways of Provi-
dence is found set forth the necessity that
blood should be shed. We find this in
stanced tine and agSin IN all history, both
sacred and profane. IN our own land this
had been notably shown. But few years
ago slavery existed. First came the MARTYR
Brown, and close upon his death Game the
war. He recalled to their minda the war
song Of tho soldiers Of Freedom. 'tllst bis
bod wss nouldersns 10 The gsouna. but bis
soul waa marching on"
And the echo OF that war song Ias not !
yet died away. John Browns soul is sti!! !
marching on, ind the bleck man shall yes
be foe. The death Of Lincoln, great ca
lannity "a i. appeared. might stiN be Re.
eafded As 4 ~ nanjfeatstion Of the nY YstArious
wAys of Psovidence. The martrrdona Of
that great man had served to awaken the
people, and bad, withou: doubt. fastened
the froition Of freedom, entire aud perfect,
to the eolored race.
The president then introduced Hon. David
Young Of Concordia.
Mr.. Young said lie had not intended TO |
make any speech, and had asked TO withs
draw his name, but the committee had in |
sisted hs he was one of ehe millions who |
bad sutfegea sH slavery, and, like the |
apostle Paul, could tell Of what had passed |
The great and good man who was now no
more had donated his life, from the time he |
succeeded the Lion of the North" to the
day CT his death, to the accomplishment Of
the end of human slavery and to obtain for
us the rights and privileges enjoyed by the
white people. When he made his fierce
attack on the fugitive slave law l was
boy in Kentucky, and suffered from that
law which compelled the people of
Ohio to send me back from o the
liberty / thought l had gained to
the slavery l fed from. Even in death
he did not relax his efforts for my race, for
with his latest breath he said, Take care
of my civil rights bill" 1t is fitting that
the colored people should meet to mourn
his death, for to his life are we indebted
more than to any one else for the privileges
we enjoy. No marble tomb or granite shaft
can be erected to his memory that will be
more enduring than the gratitude he has
awakened in the hearts of those whe once
were poor downtrodden slaves, like my
self. When we tell the tales of our youth
ful sutferings to our children and grand
children we shall tell of the man
whom God himself raised mp to strike
he shackles from us. Not while the
sun rolls in the heavens shall we see
scholar, statesman and Christian like him
He raised the millions of oppressed and
lown-trodden from the dust, and made
hem free men and women; and now that
le has gone his memory will be loved and |
herished by them, and transmitted as a
egaoy of honor through succee ding genera
ions to the end of tinoe.
Mr.. Young said he would then yield to
Governor H. c. Warmoth, who was present.
nd who, on being announced by the presi-
ent, was received with cheers.
Governor Warmorh said:
did not intend to make any address this
vening, II or to raise my feeble voice TO add
, the regrets of the nation and ourselves
feel deeply and sincerely the great loss
ne nation, the loyal people of the South,
nd humanity throughout the length and J
readth of the land have sustained. Charles
umner stood, while he lived, among the
lightiest of living statesmen the purest '
nd noblest of them all. No influence
ould purchase or control him, and living he
ad not his equal in the politics of his coun-
Y. / knew him but slightly, having met G
inn but few times, but on one Of these a
,caslons he related to me an anecdote O
hieh is interesting as illustrating the fact | !,
lat at that time there was among the | .
,uthern Statesmen one who appre- II
ated the advocate of the rights of b
IN and freedom. He said that in 1856, ! .
think, the first man who grasped his {
,ainst slavery was Pierre Soule, of i
,nia;ana and ha eYClaimo1 to him stVour | j