The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-06

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/ into hope by his bounty. There are charitie
whose heaven-kissdHg spires chronicle his do
nations to the cause of religion. Schools
claim him as their patron. Hospitals ow,
him as their benefactor. Art has found il
!, him supporter. Science leaned on hin
while her vision swept the inf mite. The fee
of progress have been sandaled with hi
silver. He has upheld invention while she
has wrestled with the brute forces of nature
He was the life of all enterprise, the vigor O.
all progress, the epitome and the representa-
tive of all that is broadening and expansive
and uplifting in the life Of California. Zap
plause
Would you show honor and hospitality tt
travellers renowned in letters, arts or arms
Ralstol was the princely host. Did you wish
to forward public or private charity Raj
ston headed the subscription list Would yor
develope new industry, enlarge the re-
sources of the city, start new manufacture
add wealth to the Srate and furnish hundreds
of husbands and fathers with contented and
well paid toll? You went to Ralston for ad
vice and assistance. He impressed you with
his power; he infused you with his energy; be
touched you with
HIS PRINCELY GENEROSITY.
| He conquered you with his magnetism. His
vitality was like the f ash of steel his eadur-
ing energy was like the steady and swift flow
of cataract; his benefcences were like the
copious and searching philanthropy OF
summer rain. [Applause.1 Of all her pub
lie posse ,sions, the Commonwealth of Cali
fornia never owned any more valuable than
this mans life. [Applause.l Of all ner pub
lie disasters, she mas had hone greater than
his death. [Applause.l Of all her shrines,
there should be none more sacred from desc
Grafton than his memory. Applause And
the people of San Francisco will be false to
every impulse of justice and manly honor if
they allow the
HOUNDS OF TREACHERY, CRUELTY AND FALSE.
HOOD,
who ran hot upon his trail while living, to
now bay their ISLANDERS upon his new-made
grave. Applause and cries of "Never "
1 say with you "Never!" Rather let every
hon. st hand grasp whip to scourge these
merciless dogs into their den, into the edi-
torial rooms of the San Francisco Bulletin
and C4R Applause. 1 say, my fellow
citizens, that William G. Ralston was stung
to death by the blood-sucking vermin OF
the Press. I am not here to question
the verdict of the Coroner's Jury,
but even if Mr.. Ralston had wrought his own
destruction; it, denuded of all earthly possess
sions;if bereft of honor and home: if, wound
ed in spirit; if, shorn of hope, his great heart
left the earth and sought the swift current
that should carry his life out through the
Golden Gate of death into the peaceful ocean
whose shores are the confines OF Eternity; if
this has been so, who shall gainsay his right
or question his decision [Applause]. Or all
his vast possessions he retained nothing,
NOT EVEN A WINDING SHEET.
He went out of the world as he came into it.
He left everything to his creditors. ellis
adj do T hat
tuous as to cali VIM. G. Ralston his debtor?
Applause. The people of California col
lectlvely We him enough to Offset all private
liabilities, and the balance to his credit in the
Eternal Ledger is large enough to acquit him
of all the errors of princely life. Zap
plause.l
We nave heard something tonight of a
guarantee fund to enable the Bank of Califor-
mia to resume business. Many of our honored
and wealthy citizens have, as your previous
speaker has told you, evinced a commendable
and liberal public spirit in contributing to
that fund. Notably has Senator from your
self to hundred thousand hearts by strip
ping the cloak from his shoulders to walk
backward with it to cover the body of his
friend. Applause I doubt not that the
guarantee fund will be filled with ringing dol |
lars, and the great bank will go on. But
where shall our guarantee fund be found ? |
Who shall make up to US the loss of our bene-
factor and friend? Who shall guarantee the |
generous and the great-hearted against
THE vIPERoUs ASSAULTS
Of an infamous newspaper? Who can hope
TO escape after Ralston? Applause star
has been dimmed and quenched by the tire |
less slattern of the slums. [Applausel The |
King of all the animals has been slain by the |
eper of all the reptiles. [Applause.]
The life of William q. Ralston has been |
aiken to crafty the sordidness, the envy and |
he maIignity of a couple of base wretches.
Inn not here to attempt to cast reproach upon
he genius. Laughter and applause And
voice: The genius of the Bulletin! Don't
AXE it back j
The Speaker-My fellow-citizens, am
not here to attempt to cast reproach upon
he genius of a free press. 1t is the great
economic illumlnator of all practical human
.spects, politics, art, religion, society,
morals. It is at once the tribunal of taste
md the articulator of thought. 1t is the
of enterprise, the fortress of or
Ter, the mailed, invincible right arm of
reedom. Applause Like commerce, it
,ives health and vigor to the life of ma
ions like commerce, its scepter stretches
rom the shining temples of the Orient to the
winning forests OF the Thames. It's
hrouds stiffen and its white sheets fill
With the winged gales of progress.
Beating foaming paths through conquered
waters dashing on streets of fire along iron
Ways; harnessing the elements to its chariot
eading the mysteries of the magnet maxim e
courier of the lightning and guides of sun
md stars. it courses its way in majesty, in
power and in glory over boundless sea of
possibilities, and its dominion broadens with
very Yelling of the tide. Applause. Its
many colored fabric is meshed and fashioned
n the bene6cent loom of cumulative enter
rise, and its shifting shuttle marks The pace