Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-04-29
TRIRuTE OF RESPECT.

Alta public meeting of the citizens
of Clarksyille. presided over BY Mai.
6. A. Henry, held at the Court House
yesterday evening to express their APP
probation of the services, and respect
for the memory, of Mr.. R. W. THOMAS,
the full proceedings of which we are
unable to give, the following preamble
and resolutions we're adopted:
The mortal remains of ROBERT w.
THOMAS, the veteran editor OF Tenn
essee, have been gently laid in the
dust, in accordance with the judge
ment of his Creator, Dust thou art,
and unto dust thou shalt return" kind
friends performed the last sad Office,
and with signs and tears consigned
these remains to sacred repose where
the wicked cease from troubling and
the weary are at rest
The dust of the valley shall be
sweet unto him and every man shall
draw after him, as there sTe innumer-
able before him."
1t is according to the order of nature
and the appointment of the Creator
that the brief period of one hundred
YEARS shall bring the still waters of
oblivion upon the present living world.
ROBERT w. THOMAS has been
blessed with an active life during six
i y-eight years, and though originally
of delicate physical organization, his
determined purpose to meet every
emergency in life upheld him, and his
strength of mind supplemented the
differences of his body and bore him
Through life with the possession of
health and strength.
Therefore Ia laying him down 10 bis
z6naf rest-while with feelings of sor-
1 row We bid farewell to our friend, yet
we desire to honor his grave with a
zehaples of laurel, as one who had a
brave mind and in the battle of life
came off victorious.
Welded in early life to beautiful
and accomplished lady, he laid the
Foundation of that peace and serenity
(which was the chief charm of his life
Having a fine education and an active
mind fully stored with the riches Of
modern literature, his conversation
was agreeable and instructive, and in
I the family circle, where the interludes
consisted of music on his sweet violin,
4 the real grace of his character was
most conspicuous. He was apt at mu-
! Sic from his childhood, aud all of his
family inherited from him a high or
4der of musical talent 1t follows as a
matter of course that his style of COM
position should be, and was, flowing,
easy and pure, his sentences as grace
Rful as if mOdulated by the gentle ca
dences of music. The burden of his
{ life was the giving of popular instruc-
ation through the newspaper, and this
7he did better than any man who has
ever edited paper in Tennessee. He
relied chiefly upon reason to enforce
This precepts, but in attacking his OPP
ponents and in controversy, irony and
sarcasm were weapons ready to his
Inland. While with one he repulsed
land overthrow his adversary, with the
BOTHER he drove him ANONYMOUSLY from
THE field.
q As an instructor of the public he
was able and ffcient. and during his
long public life ne gave assurance of
4entlre and answering devotion to the
public welfare. During his leisure
4hours he published some works of
a6ction-as THE Young Colonel" and
bother stories-which evinced a very
high order of genius. But these were
composed during the minutes snatched
from busy life, and all his care and
SlabOr were conferred in his paper the
7CHRoNICLE, which will always bear
the weight of his influence and the
Empress of his genius.
His labOrs are finished. 1.-THE sill
yer cord is ioosed-the golden bowl
is broken-the pitcher is broken at
4the fountain, and the wheel is broken
lat the cistern." Let the dust return
to the earth as it was, and the spirit
return unto God Who gave it,
aTherefore,
Resolved, That in the loss of Rob-
aERT W. THOMAS, Senior Editor of the
SCHRONICLE, the community has lost
an able and earnest servant, friend
Ito justice, law and order, fearless adj
8vocate of popular rights and repub-
slican government, and an enterprising
land enlightened citizen. We as COM
immunity deeply regret his loss.
NJ Resolved, That we tender to the
members of his family our sympathy
and assure them that we feel the loss
of our leader in public opinion and
our guide in affairs of State
Resolved, That to his bereaved
widow we offer all we can give, our
unfeigned sympathy and this our tes-
ztimony to the character of distin-
guished man.
r. W. HUMPHREYS,
j. Z. RICE,
w. A. QUARLEs,
HI. NJ. DOAK,
j. E. BAILEY,
Committee.