Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-05-06
Schurz's EulOgy ON Sumner.

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I and his devotion to the canse Of humaI
rights. Speaking Of his characteristic
Mr.. Schurz said He brought TO the Sen
s.ate a studious mind, vast learning, grea
. legal attachments, a powerful eloquence
+ a strong and ardent nature and all thi'
he devoted to one service. With a. thi.
; he was not q mere expounder of a policy
he was a worshipper, sincere aud devout,
at the shrine of his idol. In 10 public
man had The moral idea Of the auti-slavc-
ny movement such overriding strength,
He made everything yield to i. He did
not possess 1t, it possessed him. That
was the secret of his peculiar power.
Ard what a lite was his-a life SO
wholly devoted to what was good and no.
bic. There he stood in the midst Of the
harsh matcrialism Of our tiiRcs, around
him the eager chase for the almighty dol
lar, no thought Of opportunity ever en-
tering the smallest corner of his mind and
disturbing bis high cndeavors, with a vir-
tue which the possession of power could
not even tempt, much less debauch, fiom
whose presence the very corruption in
stinctiyely shrank back. a life so uuspot-
ted. an integrity SO intact, a character SO
high, that the most daring eagerness of
calumny, the most walton audacity of in.
situation standing on tiptoe could not
touch the soles of his shoes. They saw
that be INDUCED in ovorweening self.ap.
probation aye, he did have IA magnificent
pride, u lofty self.esteem-why should he
not? Let the wrctched despise ITEM
selves, for they have good reason for do.
ing SO, not he. But in bis self.csteem
there was nothing small or mean /; no mau
lived whose nature envy and petty jeal.
ousy were more foreign. Concious of his
own merit, he never deprecated the mer-
it Of others, nay, he recognized it and ex.
pressed that recognition with that cordial
spontaneiiy which can only flow from a
sincere and unenvious heart.
His pride Of self was like his pride of
country. He was the oroudest American,
he was the proudest New Highlander, aud
yet he was the most cosmopolitan Ameri-
can | have seen. There was 10 him not
the ~faintcst shadow of that narrow pred
judice which looks askance at what has
grown in foreign lands. His generous
heart and his enlightened mind were too
enlightened not to give the fullest measure
OF appreciation to all that was good and
worthy, from whatever quarter Of the
globe it camo.
AMI now his homc-there are those
around me who have breatbed the air of
his house in Washington, that atmosphere
of refinement and friendship and warm
hearted hospitality !; they have seen those
rooms covered and filled with his pictures,
his engravirgs, his statues, his bronzes,
his books and rare manuscripts. tho col.
leetlons of a life time, the image of the
richness o. his mind, the comfort and con.
ISOLATION Of his life. They have beheld
his childllke smile of satisfaction when he
unlocked one by one tho most precious of
treasures, and told their stories they re.
member the conversations at his hospita-
BILE board, generally inspired and directed
by him, on art and books and inventions,
and great times and great men, when
suddenly, sometimes by accident, a new
mine of curious knowledge was discover
ed In HIM which his friends had never
known he possessed, or when o sun-burst
OF affeclionate gentleness of his soul
warmed all hearts around him.
They remcmbember bis craving for
friendship, as it spoke through the far
outstretched hand when You arrived, and
the glad exclamation, II am SO happy
you came" and the bcscechiug and al.
most respondent tone when you departed.
"D9 not leave me yet I; do stay a while
l want SO much to speak with you" 1t
Is all gone now. He could not stay himself
and left his friends behind feeling more
deeply than ever that no man could know
him well but to love him.
Now We have laid him into Lis crave
in the motherly soil of Massachusetts,,
which was 20 dear to him, he is at rest
now, the stalwart old champion, whose
face aud bearing was SO austerc, whose
heart was SO full Of tenderness who be.
gan his career with a pathetic plea for
universal peace and charity, and whose
whole life was an arduous, incessapt, ncv.
er-resting struggle, which left him all
covered with scars and we can do moth.
ing for him out remember his lofty ideas
OF liberty and equality and justice and
reconciliation, and the purity and earnest.
hess and courage and touching fidelity
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with which he fought for them, so
genuine in his sincerity, SO single
minded in his zeal, so heroic in his
deviation. Oh that No oo,ld h,,t e..