The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-22


with the harness ON, and for acting through
life, as public man, in view of death
and eternity 1t thinks the lesson that
ought to be learned at the funerals of dead
statesmen is the infinite folly of self-seeking,
the infinite wickedness of abusing the power
of lawmaker, and the infinite value of
good record when q statesman stands before
the King of kings.
The Methodist gloriies Mr. Sumner as a
scholar, statesman, orator and philanthropist,
whose life was long war waged against
wrong. but in no sense was that life fragmen-
tary, but rather complete, we'll rounded
whole. He both lived and died we'll. He had
accomplished the ends to which he had con-
secrated his powers, and had filed up the
measure OF great fame. He took hold OF all
subjects by their fundamental principles, and
hence had that wisdom which discerns re-
hottest results. If not without fault, he was
without STAIN No spot remains to defy the
labor Of friendly hands to wash it away 1t
adds:-'From Sumner to Butler! o. what
fail is there, my countrymen
The Evangelist whose editor, DR.. Field, had
lately met the late Senator in this city, is
panied that the last hours of Mr.. Sumner
were spent in regrets that he could not live to
complete his literary work. instead of longings
for or rejoicings in the near approach to him
of the great future. 1t was last confession
of personal vanity, that the editor wishes he
had been spared in the memory of the de-
parted He would have been glad had Mr..
Sumner left some such record behind as
Daniel Webster left. And yet it doubts not
that Sumner, like Agassiz, though he spoke
not much, yet believed in an Almighty
Creator and in the great hereafter.
The Je,oish Messenger says of Sumner
''The death of pure and upright man, who
slled so prominent place in American his
tory as Charles Sumner, creates al impression
which no patriot would desire to have effac.d.
So 10 his rest goes another American whose
public life is wholly worthy of honor and
grateful memory
The Christian LateEigencer is certain that Mr..
Summers place in American history is secure.
His fame is worldwide. The millions of the
colored race in our country feel his loss with
grief second only to that which they poured
out over the grave of President Lincoln. No
such genuine sorrow of this emancipated race
finds utterance at the tomb of Mr.. Fillmore
It could not be. The InteAigeacer regrets,
however, that neither Sumner nor Fillmore left
any testimony behind Of the power and grace
of God or of the Christian religion in their
hearts,
The Catholic press is silent on Sumner
and Fillmore. They treat of the Pilgrimage,
which will include at least three bishops, three
Wears general and twelve other priests, and
of the terminii of that journey. Many pre-
fer Loretto to Lourdes, and some think Paray
le Monial is preferable to either. The Tablet
is convinced that 'Ireand's Mission" is the
propagation of Gods holy faith from end to
end of the habitable globe, and it is the more
certain of this because Of Ireland's allegiance
to the "Vicar of Christ" The Eree,nan's Jour
nal has given up its accommodation of ap-
plicants for the water of Lourdes, because
some silly fellow out West insinuated that the
editor was going into the premium" business
on too small scale. The Catholic Reuieao
applauds ''the priest-ridden Irish voters for
returning fifty instead Of thirty-seven Catholics
to the British Parliament in the last election.
And SO they CO.