Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-04-06
Tho True Grandeur at Last.
te.,h's Latter to the Chicago rriSuns.l

taath's Latter to the Chicago Tribuns.l
The Southern members aud SENATOR
behaved ~ probably no other raoe oil
men but Americans could have dons
at the funeral Of Mr.. Sumner. The
struggle between Jacobltes and Han
overians In England, extended through
the reign Of Ave kings. The contest
between Msnarehlsts and Revolutions
lists In France sill RACES, sftor the OK
plratlon Of eighty years. But at Sum.
ner's bier, In mourning sashes, stood
old Bourbons like McCreary, old slave.
heldlng wings like Stevenson, and
Confederate officers; and, 80 far n
known, no man uttered complaint.
There seemed to DO q feeling that ~
had done his duty as he understood II,
and that, Though they and their people
were the victims, nothing was to b
Imputed to him moro than any othel
thinker or soldier whom an memorable
public sentiment pressed forward
And underneath was the moral light,
never extingulshsd In any scntienl
bosom, that Summers cause wal
Natures law, Liberty's Instinct, ant
| the Worlds intention.
Nothing could suppress this con-
| ylction, syen with Interested men,
Old Mr.. Brownlow must have felt 1t,
though he used both the press and the
| pulpit for years to prove tile piety OIL
slsvsholding. Indeed, how many meu
were there In the American Senate
| who had not ut some time lifted up q
| voice for the equity or right OF the
master? can only flnd one, and ]
presume that he never did, though he
had not the same sense OF nationality
that natives had In prs-slavery days.
mean Carl Schurz. Certainly In the
list do net belong the leaders Of the
party In the Senate: Cameron, who
was q henchman Of President Polk
Boutwell,, who was q Democrat; Car
penter. who did net become = Repub'
licsn till the war was far advanced
Chandler. whose Arherlcanlsm In.
volved slavery as q Legitimate lnsti.
tuition; Conkling, whose affiliations
were with Conservatism ; Edmunds,
whose record on slavery 10 microscopic;
Frsllnghuyssn, who saw nothing wrong
In Clay's repeated concessions to the
humanity and the law Of slavery: Ham,
lin, an old Democrat Logan,
who could llft up hls voice smartly II
an Abolltlonlst came In sight; or Mr..
Morton, whose work for the slave came
In OIL the Ku-Klux bill twenty-five
years after Sumner supported Van
Buren, aud Adams.
In the presence Of that dead man,
every Senator from the North, looking
at the verlest rebel pall.bearer, might
have heard from those pale lips the
rsproof: "Lst him without sin throw
the first stonev"
There he lay, the original anti.
slavery Senator-the only one. Ben
Wads's friends claim as much for him,
but he has not been In the Senate for
years. Mr.. Chase reaches his aboll.
tlonlsm by q sort Of legal %self.persus.
slon-the most gradual and polite
style Of conversion on record. Gid
dings and Loyejoy never got to the
Senate. II they had all been there.
with Seward to boot, the fact would
have remained that Sumner alone
took the blunt Issue up to that select
body, and like o Christian Cicero, led
1t OH to triumph. Lying there In the
state Of frallty, low as any enemy
might wish him, the tenderness OF his
opponents was ggraclous to see. aud
In the title Of his earliest address
We felt that there was "The True
Grandaur NJ tina Nation.D