New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-15

abored so zeaousy to promote to the very end OF MS
long and useful life.
Alderman Morris yesterday sent letter 70 mayor
Ely asking that he would be the custodian OF fund TO DO
rasad 70 erect statue of Bryant Central Park The
Alderman proposed that the money should be raised by
popuar subscriptions in of Ave cents and upward
The Mayor expressed himself willing to 40 anything
that he could to aid such project
MR.. BEECHER'S EULOGY.
Mr.. Beecher, at the prayer-meeting last night
paid tribute to Mr.. Bryant wish to speak" nc
said of the passing away OF that venerable citlzen'
Mr. Bryant Most Of us from childhood nave
known him. His name is indeed a house
hold word. month ago he babe fair TO
GO on to the hundreds far as health aud appear
ance were concerned But suddenly be has gone TO MS
reward. There is no melancholy about his death. He
was shock OF corn fully ripe. We feel that
he has lived an unusually long and prosperous
life 1 commend to you DIR. Bellows discourse
delivered to-day. 1t is an excellent analysis OF every
side of his life and character and shall look to 1t in It's
completed form as one OF our literary treasures
:" Mr. Bryant has been q citizen. He has not hidden
behind his literary reputation In bis literary taste nc
was fastdious and in his ideas OF manhood and honor
he was fastidOus. II any might have shrunk from
the turmoil of life che might. But be dld
not. He felt 1t his duty to take part
in everything that concerned humanity. For
more than fifty years he was active and engaged In
everything pertaining to the welfare OF society Nhen
he to the me OF life when most men say thatt
have earned the right TO rest ne sald DO 20
such thing lie Went on T VII" ran,embsr T To% he
the end Of his me- you desIfoer prescinS
and speaking The last OF his lite to deliver
public address For the past ten or fifteen years Whsn
old age would seem to Justify ms qulesGenee, ne
worked nobly and TO the last. HIS whole exam
pie IN these respects Is 10 he commended 10 our YOUNG
sensitive man ana naturally irascble from the begin
nng TO the end Hof his career while he may now sind
then have exhibited an OF vim ana Oc-
casona seventies he could look back on his career as
as editor and that he had pursued straight course
and had nothing 20 regret except sucn mstahes anu
acerbites incident TO humanity. He was never
bribed by honors. He was guided by bis Judgment
which was piyoied on his moral sense.
&" His activity exerted during period OF great
struggles, which tried mems sons Hnd damned me SOUS
of q many men. From 1880 10 1900 was ule cru
eia period OF our history during thls TINE many mlu
ruined, aud lawyers ana not wish TO suggest
the thought OF uDeiSi anu puDllsioiS Al 80
only eyiscerated books. and businessmen dld nor
%!s .cd to s e sont and caneses and political
parties careful not IN be stained win antsIaNtry
dcas-iuring all this time Mr. Bryant conducted
newspaper and he never sweryed; he was stralght
antl-slavery man, pronounced KNOWN, uHequVoCab
changeess 1his IS a great thing to say OF any man.
AS 20 his literary eharac efstlcs II Is great tnink
20 have IL said OF HIM that he has not written line that
he would wish 20 have obiterated on moral grounds
There Il nota casuistca line not false ne IFS poetry
Is pure IN morals and exalted manhood. In sense ne
saDcunen literature by his example When we contrast
him win the owlnbuthes tle mooits ana me byiOns
whose phOsphoreseBce - the pnosphoresence OF rot
tenness, and see no lue which mother might
not read by the sue OF hef uylhE ehIu Vi
IN the presence Of virginia. puriy, Is
noble thi1g. lie was not theological poet although
he wrote some ymns nut ne was rainier he leIPtct
OF Nature In tins he II allied 10 the old lsraeutes
Greece has trait or trace OF THIS KIND the creeks nau
particular sympathy win nature 10 sense OF lOVns
H. From tue Hebrews We come down 10 NofuswOrth
ana Cowper before this spirit broke out again II was
caught up ON THIS side ana Bryant Was one 81" inc hIst
To bird the waterfowl tue mountain and the forest
he has gwen interest that VIII NOT de lie has lald
all who come alter hun under obligations 20 him.
" His dust Is laid away, bat ais spirit goes on. HIS
worl ID not ended IL just begun You aud slall dle
but bis work shan 80 on lie VINO WORKS Tor III o" !,
and for ali time Is the most blessed OF Gods sons