The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-05-06
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The He's. Carl SeAarz's<osaiIsSS -
the Great Massachusetts, Senator.
The city of Boston's commemora-
ton of Charles Summers death took
place in Music Hall, April "a The
weather@1 Txains1 esd teauestson,
but every available space was flied 81
those fortunate enough to obtain tick
cts, which were in such demand that
as high as $50 was refused for single
e1teket. The audience embraced atks
City Government, the State Legisla-
ture, executive departments, Judges
of courts, and several prominent per-
sons from other States. Wendell
Phillips, IN few eloquent words, in
trodueed the orator OF the day. Sena-
tor Carl Sehdrx - = ~ - ~
The orator opened by recalling the
sad announcement which inspired a
tremor of strange emotion over the
land, Charles Sumner is dead" He
then proceeded with a biographical
sketch of Mr.. Summers life, his idea
LITIGATION with anti slavery, end his
devotion to the cause of human rights.
The orator Continued:
When Charles Snnscr had been
elected to the Senate, Theodore Park
er said TO him in letter of congratu-
lasion. Yon told me once that ypu
were in morals, not in politics. Now,
| hope you will show that you are, stiu
in morals; although in politics, hope
you will be the Senator with con
science. That hope WIS, gratitied.
He always remained In morals while
in politics. He neyes was ,spYthia9
else but the Senator with consciencc.
/ Charles Sumner entered the Senate
not as mere advocate, but as the
very embodiment of the moral idea.
From this feun tain flowed his highest
aspirations. There had been great
t.nti-sla very uen-n the 5enste tnpre
him; they We're there with him-men
like Seward and Chase; but they had
been trained in ditfercnt" school;
political fields. They understood pol
political object-to combat and over
serve the idea of the liberty and equal
ity of men, and to establish the uni
versal reign of peace, justice, and
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studious mind, vast learning. great le-
gal attainments, powerful eloqnence,
a strong and ardent nature; and all
this he vowed to one service With.
all this he was not mere expessnderi
Of a policy; he was a worshiper,A sim
ccre and devout, at the shrine of his
ideal In no public man had the NOR
al idea of the anti-slavery movement
such overruling strength He made
everything yield to it, He ! didcnot
possess it; it possessed him. That
was the secret of his peculiar power.
Daniel Webster is thus referred
to:
And by his side Daniel Webster,
with that awful vastness of brain a.
Tremendous TIstorehouse of 1thoaght
and knowledge, which gave forth It's
treasures with ponderous majesty Of
utterance; he not an originator of
measures and politics, but mighty
advocate, the. greatest this country,
ever knew-a king in The realm. of in
tcllect and the solemn embodiment of
authority-a huge Atlas, who carried
the Constitution on his shoulders.
lie could have carried there the whole
moral grandeur of the nation had he
never compromised his own.
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Our Troubles and Crops.
That troubles never come singly is a
saying which long since assumed the
form and force OF proverb. In the
case of our poor State this proverb
has been most sadly verified. Disas-
tors hav6 followed each lother in all.
sorts of protean shapes, till there is
but little left on hich eyen tosorgm-z
ize a new departure. Our industries
were first trampled down by the iron
heels of war; then came peace which
proved a knocking delusion, and then
reconstruction which was but anoth-
er name for chaos. These causes,
perity impossible until this year of
grace. 1874. We did, however, think
that the lowest deep had been reach
brighten under the benign influence
of the traditional clouds silver lining,
when the whole face of the sky grew
black again, the windows of heaven
opened upon us. and fears of new
sdiluvian dispensation were stirred in
to abnormal activity. s,tye ..s..--
Our troubles by water are by no
means confined TO lateral outbreaks
from the great draining river of the
Mississippi Valley. The overflow
from crevasses has indeed been ex-
.tremely widespread and direful, hut
the drowning rains-its unfortunate
accompaniment-wer scarcely less
disastrous on grounds above the reach
of overflow, and especially. in our hill
country.
The evidences of wide spread and
unusual rainfall may be found every
where throughout the cotton belt, in
the debris of bridges along all our
railway lines, and in washed and gull
lied ridges where cotton had been
planted. What with the overhows
from our <lowland rivers, which have
almost without an exception burst
through the barriers intended to con-
fine them to their channels, and the
waste and bhghted promise conse-
auent on the extraordinary rainfalls
by which we have been beset, there
can be no question of the fact that
our crop statistieians will be forced TO
materially modify the expectations
they entertained but a single month
ago. 5IsssF7s sss@ xszsse.#
The low price of the cotton crop of
last season left planters indebted
to their factors, and not only the
ability but the inclination to plant
largely were thereby diminished.
Messrs. Smith, Edwards & Co, in
their men hly Liverpool circular,
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