New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-29

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met as brOthers-that call them henceforth
for ever. One monument serves Tor
Wolfe and Montcafm. l will make only
one exception, The graves of the perpetra-
tors of Andersonville and Libby. The
grave Of any man who ever abused a pris-
persists in making the turf green above
these let salt be sown upon it.
1t ls poetry, and it seems too good to be
true, that the latest words that Mr.. Sumner
| listened to as a Senator were the words of
| the repentance OF Massachusetts for her
| censure OF her son. That was fine ar
rangement, and who was the manager
There is a power not ourselves that makes
/ for righteousness"
lt Is an ungraciOus thing to find fault
with Mr.. Sumner he had, as the French saw,
THE defects Of his qualities" Do men love
him Not SO much as they would perhaps
if he had been less good. He was reproof
to the average politician, and even Christian
statesman. 1t isn't altogether pleasant to
have man who is incorruptible sauntering
around in Washington. few vices would
have made him more popular. He was up-
right and he knew he was upright, was per
haps too self-consciOus. A SOutherner came
home to New Orleans from Washington, and
said: Cursed old -, I'll never forgive
him, ne has made me respect him
he was rather cold, bowed at the foot of
Ideas, and did not 60 out much, to men con-
sldered apart and as men merely. Men
warmed wards him in the temperate way
that they do to an abstract truth.
He was not man of genius exceDt that
he had genius for duty.
There was nothing extempore in what he
dld. His work was all premeditated. Lacked
the charm and spring of impulse. Such a
man does not capture the heart like Henry
Clay. Perhaps we love the generous better
than we do the just.
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in behalf of righteousness. Men have al
ways admired it, but found fault with if
because there was not time enough IN this
HE Tor 1t to win. cunning was quicker. It
has seemed as if we should have 10 wait
I'll eternity, in order to see the Sermon on
the Mount prove itself. But wickedness
rlpens sooner than it did in Dayid's time.
Now. he must be very sprv rascal who
car get out OF life and into his coffin before
ne Is weighed. The drama is in three acts
instead OF five, and the play doesn't drag
as 1t used to- Tweed gets into stripes, and
Sumner among the stars early, while we
can see.
Fine thing for morals to have the last act
here, and SO see what becomes of villains
and the haters of villany
Even a child can discern that righteous
ness tendeth to life.'' We are indebted to
he reporter and the swift press for early.
news concerning men. Senator Pomeroy is
90 smart Tor the days OF the stage coach,
nut not quick enough for the day Of light
ing. 1t is a pleasant thought that honesty
5 good working hypothesis here and now.
l suppose that we shall now hear the
uestion that is asked whenever a good,
reat man dies, "was he a Christian?'
- ytheir fruits you shall know them
avs the best authority. IL will show thee
~ faith by my works" SAYS respectable
uthority.
do not know that Mr.. Sumner said that
would 90 into the vneyard-we have
zen that he went-Was he a Christians?
e dld the will OF God concerning his poor,
nd kept himself unspotted from tie world,
hat will do.