New-York tribune., 1876-12-05
THE PEINTERS MONUMENT.

Four years ago yesterday the people of
New-Yor voluntarily accorded To Mr.. Greeley
the honors of public funeral. No official
sanction, no elaborate preparation was re-
quired, but spontaneously from all ranks and
conditions of men came the multitude which
followed the phianthropist, the philosopher,
and the statesman to his resting place. Yes
tcrday the occasion was simpler, but no one
present will admit that it, was less impressive.
The day was clear the Winter sky was
brilliant and as the old friends of the jour
nalist gathered once more about his grave
their aifcctionate memories seemed to bring
back for an hour the warmth and color OF the
departed Summer. Far away the magnificent
panorama of the landscape was fifty marked
by the towers and roofs of the great city
which suggested his :" busy life his treless
industry, and the humanity. toil-worn and
troubled for whose release from conventional
impcdimcnts he SO assiduOusly worked and
thought, and was always writing and printing
and speaking. 1t was fitting that those who
knew him best and loved him best should
make this pilgrimage to his twicc-hon-
ored grave. The gathering was large
enough to show in how many hearts
he is freshly remembered. There were old
men. some of them the earliest of his friends,
and others whose presence proved that death
assuagcs all rcsentments. There were those
who had labored under his direction, and who
can never forget the lessons which he taught
them while of the many hundreds who were
there we may safely say that there was not one
who did not recall Horace Greeley with a SEN
timcnt of affection and regret.
The exercises of the occasion were simple,
and in keeping with the character OF the man
who was thus honOred. The poem of Mr.
Stcdman was of kind which Mr.. Greeley
would have liked, nor would he have asked
for any higher culogium than that his &" life
80 was made sublime by service for his brother
" creature.n A manly, honest clegy, with its
sincerity visible in every line, it hardly needed
the poetical graccs with which it was abun-
dantly supplied And what is true OF the poem
is equally true of the short, compact, and
vigorous Grafton of Mr. Bayard Taylor
in which everything proper to be said
at such n time was said simply and
earnestly. A noble opportunity was afforded
of enforcing the truth that " time swiftly re-
"pairs all injustice" and Mr.. Taylor well I'M
proved it. In some respects the character of
Mr.. Greeley, so often delincated has never be-
fore been SO Judiciously presented; and espe-
cially may be noted the point that "he under
Z" stood as few Americans have done the tenn
"per and character of the American people,"
This was the keynote Of Mr.. Taylol's address,
and the thought affords test by which the
intellect and the achievement of Mr.. Greeley
may be best tried and found most surely not
to be wanting
Thus passed an occasion exceedingly graft
flying to all who still cherish Mr.. Grceley's
memory. Ii was pleasant 70 them to see as
sisting by their presence, not only the young
who may so safely in the conduct of life fol-
low his excellent example, but the venerable
editor, like Mr. Weed, and the venerable law