The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-30
N)nUR2 ON SUMNER.
The Final Tribute Of Massachusetts
% Her Late Senator.
Interesting Services at Music
Hall, Boston.
WENDELL PHILLIPS REMARKS.
Laments Of a Fellow Worker in
the Cause Of Abolition.
SCHURZ'S GRAFTON.
A Brilliant Addition to Contem-
porary History.
sUMNBR's BARLY STRUGGLES IN THE SENATE
His Services to the United States
and the World.
PATRIOT, SCHOLAR. STATESMAN.
sCHURz's GRAFTON.
A Brilliant Addition to Contem-
porary History.
sUnNER's BARLY STRUGGLES IN THE SENATE
His Services to the United States
and the World.
PATRIOT, SCHOLAR. STATESMAN.

BOSTON, Mass, April 49, 1874
The city of B0ston's commemoration OF Charles
Summers death took place In Union Hall this alter
noon. The weather was rainy and tempestuous
but every avaiiabe space was filed by those fortu
nate enough to obtain tickets. which were In such
demand that AZ high as $40 was refused
Tor single ticket. The audience embraced
the city government. the state Legis-
nture. executive departments Judges OF courts
and several prominent persons from other states.
The platform presented a beautiful display OF
mowers. lhe order OF exercises were commenced
by an organ voluntary followed by prayer and
the hymn, "Hear us, Almighty One," by male
voices. Another prayer was offered by the Rev.
Philips Brooks and special hymn Tor the occa-
sion was sung by male voices to a Holland national
air, and commenced, "Cnce more, ye sacred
towers'
Wendell Phillips, who had Just returned from the
auneral OF his sister, the wife OF the Rev. Dr. Blag-
den, which took place at noon at Mount Vernon
church. was present, and in a few eloquent woi Dis
introduced the orator OF the day, Senator Carl
Schurz as iollows:-
ADDRESS OF WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Mr.. MAYOR AND FELLOW ClTrzENS-The Com.
Monweaitn has met with an ifreparable loss-a
loss which II tasks our language to describe.
A coDsecrated lie bravery and s0iemniy ended.
great work left, in the providence OF God, untn-
ished-the completion OF Which not many OF u.s. /
lear, will now 1--we to see. We meet to pay another
tribute Of respect to the memory OF the greatest
man and the purest that Massachusetts has lent
a. oe na a during TINS ms gen
she nation more service and earned the State
more honor tnan any other. II we measure great
ness by rare abiteS 10 ty purpose, grand achieve
ment and sp0tless lie, Then neither this genera
tion nor the last has: in MASSACHUSETTS, any civil
ner, the last martyr-nteraily martyr-in the
cause 81 free speech and personal liberty.
we t. a ~
Ship begun in boyheod and grown closer year
Sy year VIII hoa s1s pencil sa NJ city o. State
Il we'll For sumner belonged not to Massachu-
(. setts alone, but to the nation and The world
dwelling in Q isr on state, one who shared our
great Senator's oficiai laDofs, and was ms com
the yerdlct-the solemn. the sober and dlspassion-
ate verdict which the world and p0Sterity will rem
der-wnicn history, proud OF her trust, VIII carry
love justice and hate oppression, as long as they
value the devotion OF Rleat powers TO the welfare
battle Tor liberty is TO be won when fought against
almost hopeless odds, SO long we may be sure they
torian, in thus Sad, proud hour Of bereavement. I
have the honor to introduce MI. Schurz, Of Mis-
souri,.
THE GRAFTON OF SENATOR scHURz
When the news went forth, s'Charles Sumner is
dead" tremor OF strange emotion was felt all
over the land. II was as II magnificent star, a
had been wont to behold fixed and lmmovable
above their heads, mad all at disappeared from
darkened by the sudden absence Of the familiar
hgnt. On the 10th OF March funeral procession
passed through the streets Of Boston. Uncountcd
bled to see 1t pass. No uncommon pageant had
attracted them no military parade with nlittering
dignivaries in oricial robes nothing but carriages
and hearse with . comm and In 1t the
= multitude Unreasonable to the eve. rich and
poor, white and black, old and young-in grave
and mournlul silence, to bid q last sad farewell to
MIN who was being borne 10 his grave. And every
breeze from every point OF the compass came
loaded with sigh ofsorrow. Indeed, there was not
not have surrounded that funeral procession with
the same spectacle OF profound and universal
gratitude or the services rendered 20 the people
was 1t the banned expectation Of greater service
still to come; was it admiration OF his talents or
ssoo rom the multitude the 'f friendship ssaSp
many he had appeared distant seif-satisfied and
cold. his public life had been full OF bitter con-
nlcIs No man had aroused against himself nercer
many, the pubic services Of no man had been
more acrimoniously questioned by opponents.
sept MS integrity had been S'A the subject ss
den death snatched him rom US, friend ana Toe
bowed their heads alike. Every patriotic citizen
t na s Gay sne EVERY true Amer
tine Republic had lost something 1t could
" spare: Even from far distant lands,
iheif sympathetic grief with our own.
The American people take pride in saying that
sell made men, VINO. without the advantages Of
wealth and early opportunities, won their educa-
tlon raised themselves TO usefulness and distinc-
hon, and achieved their greatness through
0 ragged hand-t0-hand struggle with adverse
fortune. 1t is indeed So. log cabin;
10 a lowy country schoolhouse or sometimes no
school-house at ALTA lad, after days hard toll
on the larm Or IN the WORKSHOP, poring greedy.
HISTORY, or travels;--a iorl0rn looking youth,
with elbows out applying at lawyers office
young man q successful practitioner attract
ing the notice OF his negnbors then men,
sentative IN congress- senator may Be Cabinet
Minister or even President. such are the pictures
presented by many proud American ni ,n r;
he proud OF 1t, for such biography c0ndenses
IN The compass OF single lie the great
ieebeness and misery OF early settlements in
the bleak solitude It advanced to the subju-
ration OF the hostile forces OF nature; plunged
INTO an arduous struggle with dangers ana dini-
c sltles only known to itself, gathering strength
from every. conflict and experience from every
range OF. it's experiments and creative action,
az. ansid .ro ~ last ~ stands there as one OF
ore fond Of seeing their image rejected IN the
AYES OF tneir foremost, representative men. But
MOI sucn ne was that OF Charles sumner. He
was descended from good old Kentish yeomanry
stock men stalwart OF frame, stout OF heart, who
asea 20 stand In the front OF the fierce battles of
Od Englund; and the first OF the name who
came to America had certainly not been exempt
from tnc rough struggles Of the early settle
p,ents. But already from the year l723 n long line
vi summers appears on the records of Harvard
college, and II is evident That the love OF study
had long been hereditary In the family. Charles
Pinckney sumner, the Senator's rather was n
graduate OF Harvard, lawyer by profession. for
fourteen years High sheriff OF Suffolk county.
SUMMERS FIRST AMBITION
In the exuberant vig0r OF manhood Charles snn