New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-11-23

by letter, and in June of the present year, on his
return from the South, he gave in long in'erVlo"
published in THE TRIBUNE full and frank express
sion Of the results OF his observations. He was sun
full of the necessity of conciliating those who had
left the party--he never seemed to think tbat the
PARTY had left them-and denounced those alarmlsts
who were striving to arouse a new dstrust OF the
South. He insisted that the Presidents letter on
the Third Term should be accepted as final, though
he did not like its language, and summed mp ms
views in saying that he wanted to see the Repuo-
lean party in such a position that THE TRIBUNE
would be compelled TO support it. These opinions
he urged again in letter not long after In pnDnc
letter.
Mr.. Wilson not a great orator. lie had none
Of the tricks and articles of elocuion, but taked
plainly forcibly and well. 1t was the talk OF man
filed with his subject not Of one who filed his sub
ject with himself His clear, practical way OF ap-
pealing to an audience made him a favorite among
campaign orators, so much so that his pohtlcal
epeeches during his whole career numbered more
than 800. Sprung from the people, he was etiil
one of them Though by nature gentleman and by
assidnous cultivation man OF no incon-
siderable knowledge, he never lost aIto-
gether the newness of the self-made man.
He was if anything, too fond OF illusions 10 MS
humble birth and early labOrs. Between MS COL
league, Mr.. Sumner and himself there existed III
once n curious contrast and q curious friendship
Mr. Sumner could boast of aristocratic parentage
liberal education mind not only stored with learn.
ing but enriched by foreign travel and the society OF
the best inteIlects and fortune sufficient to allow
him leisure for research and study. Henry wilson
had none of these things but the two stood on terms
of afIcctionate friendship heightened by the feeling
that they were workers in a common cause. when
wilson was reelected for third time, Sumner gave
him the heartiest congratulation. When Sumner
was degraded from bis Committee to make room Tor
Simon Cameron Wilson felt the insult keenly; and
when the news came that Sumner lay dying IN
Washington. Wilson, at hOmein Massachusetts, SICK
and suffering was only prevented by Trends Hoih
leaving ut once for the capital.
As man, Mr. Wilson was kind and generous. His
early struggles taught him 10 help those who were
irving TO help themselves. From boyhOod he was
man of temperance principles and life, and OF strce
moral habits. About ten years before his death he
united himself with the Congregational Church ~
his home and not long after led in the organization
Of the Congressional Temperance Society, by means
of which h endeavorcd to check the increase OF IN
temperance among members OF Congress. In tiis
work ne met with considerable success.
His death breaks the current OF busy restless
life II disnisses the present, with lts douOts ana
apxieties and carries the mind back to the early
DAYS of the struggle for freedom and against 1t. 1t
removes from earth the last Of the leaders OF that
contest Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward,
Horace Greeley, Salmon p. Chase, Charles Sumner,
John p. Hale-one after another the giants fell.
And now the name Of Henry Wilson is called for the
last time, and the roll is closed forever.