The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-09-24
THE HERO MANNING.

The following beautiful tribute is
paid to the memory of the lamcnted
DR.. Manning through q special dis
patch TO the News. The history Of
the heroism displayed during this
fever scourgc, win never be fully re-
vealed till the last great day, but at
that time, among the mighty hosts
marshaled before the Judge of all
the earth, the sublime devotion of
those who have with touching and
unrivalled heroism, offered up their
lives MS a sacrifice for their fellow
men, will not be forgotten. Let
those who are wont TO lament over
the degcneracy of the times,and
laud a mythical Golden Age, wlio
see in the present all to deplore, and
in the past everything to, approve,
who are prone TO undcr-ratc the good
of these later centuries, in magnify
ing their evils, contemplate for a
moment the numbers of those who
in spirit of self sacrifice. so bcauti-
full because so unostentatious, have
voluntarily given up their lives and
hopes and all that men hold dear in
the dreary charnel houses Of New
Orleans, Grenada and Memphis. Let
them also contemplate great nation
melted to pity over their fellow
creatures in distress, and pouring out
over them n gearing sympathy and,
alike from generous stores and hard
earned savings, the means of relief.
There is much in the present for re-
greet, but in those virtues which en-
noble the race, in..charity, generosity
and heroic bravery, no age was ever
richer. All honor to the brave dead
and the equally brave living who
rushing into the black tempest Of
death, have fought its untold hor-
rors with cheeks unblanched and
hearts mistaken. They have added
lustre to humanity and ennoblcd the
race for which they have risked their
lives. The earth is richer that they
have lived and gained a heritage of
splendor from their beautiful graves.
Texas clarifying as she does with
jealous solicitude the heroes of her
liberty who fell in the cause of free
dom at the Alamo and San Jacinto,
will not forget the hero who hasgiven
to her an equal glory in the broader
cause of humanity. She will hold
the memory of Manning sacred and
teach her children to lisp his name
with reverence:
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, Sept. 81.
Mississippi and Texas weep side
by side. Manning is gone! Texas
will never send truer son into the
grand fight of human suffering than
was he. His fine blue eyes bespoke
the soul that was i'm him, and his no.
Bile work here should secure him d
monument that should last while
good and true are loved and respect
ed. With his life in his hand hc gave
it, with unseliish grandeur. We have
lost the best of our people; but when
Manning went down, the stranger
who had come here so heroically,
there were moist eyes unlisued to
weeping. lie had charge of the hos
pital, and the writer knew him be-
cause he had hourly communication
with him. His whole soul was in
his work, and he performed it as i'll
he understood that he came one
thousand miles to serve this people |
ut the command of those who had |
sent him. The Texan can never pay
tribute to a iruer man than this one.
Texas lad IN Manning representa-
i've she should delight to honor.
Every attention was paid. He want
ID nothing. All the physicians did
heir par, but DIR. Swearingen
him with more than n iilial
Election. Ills death, like his life,
vas so beautiful. lie conversed be-
ore lac passed away. He convcrsed
IS one in the spirit. Those who
leard him will never forget il, and
lever cease to honor the heroic con-
luct of one so worthy. Tell the
,eople of Texas Holly Springs hon
'rs the good, the true and the brave.
Manning shall never be FORGOTTEN.