The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-23
DR.. Julius LeMOyne.

10 th0 Editor OIL the ChIeago Tribune.
CHICAGO, October 17.-It would seem
like treason to the sacred cause Of human
liberty for mo to permit DR.. LeMoyne to
pass away from the earth without word
in memory Of his life.deyotlon to her
cause. In the olden times, when few
thousand men were rowing against the
stream ofthat political, pro-slavery corrup.
ton which was fast bearing our Republic
to the doom Of all it's predecessors, DR.. Ju.
Illus LeMoyne was one Of the staunchest
oarsmen that ever planted feet against a
boat-rib and took hold Of a blade with the
determination to reach the shore or die in
the struggle.
He was one Of those stalwart souls that
never dreamed Of drifting, for sake OF per-
sonal ease. That gallant band Of rowers
must not only stem the current OF the pc.
litical turbulence Of the time, but contend
against all the rocks and driftwood placed
in their way by the Garrison party OF nom
resistants, who insisted to the last that
slavery must be overthrow by words and
words alone, and whcih opposed the use
OF ballots quite as much as that OF bullets
in the war against the great iniQuity OF
the age.
In Pennsylvania DR.. LeMoyne was tho
leader Of the political Anti.Slavery party
from It's inception until it had grown into
that gigantic organization which has the
immortal honor Of having emancipated
the American slave, saved the American
Union, and established the American
credit financially, as second to that OF no
nation on earth.
Among the creators OF this organization
Dr.. LeMoyne must ever stand as one Of
tho ablest, and his is name which
should never be spoken without venera.
ton. Asa strong and original thinker he
sought to make our world purer, a more
lifting habitation for man and beast, by
preserving her bosom from the contamin.
alton Of slowlY-decaying corpses, which
poison alike the air and water which we
must breathe and drink. His generation
for the Infinite Creator was too profound
TO lot him think that God should need any
OF our assistance in reclothing the soul at
the last day. DR.. LeMoyne knew that we
need not try to keep the particles ofmat.
Ter composinga body in q separate pack
age in order TO enable Divinity 10 find
them in case He should want them for a
specific, purpose. He knew that Quick
fire could no more put matter out Of Gods
reach than does the slow combustion Of
decay; and, believing that incarceration is
right, he faced irowning world as calmly
In his adoption OF 1t as he had long before
faced that same world in defense of the
freedom Of the slave. r
1t was not his fault that blatant atheists
seized upon his idea, and used it 10
shock the religious sense Of the communi.
ty, and to the bigotry OF atheism, not 10
the demerits Of inGineration, we owe its
failure in DR.. LIE Moyne's strong and
steady hand.
True, It is sad to feel that on no one
spot on the earth he made so much better
for having lived on 1t one may stand and
feel that beneath the sod lies all that she
could retain Of one so truly great and
noble. Perhaps nothing else could more
prejudice the good against this mode OF
disposing OF the dead than that that
honored house Of clay has been SO Clissi.
pated that we have feeling OF vagueness
about its locality, and can never say: Lo,
here he liesl JANE GREY SwIssIiRLM.