Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-06-19

I'VE are not here to weep, neither
are we here TO praise. This hour is
given to contemplate q grand exam
pie, rich inheritance, an able life,
worthily ended. We have no right
TO be silent These of Us who stood
near him, even during portion of
his life, who witnessed the secret
springs of his action, the consistent
inward and outward essence of his
life, have no right to be silent The
largest contribution that will ever be
made BY single mans life to the
knowledge of the working Of our in
situations will be the picture of his
career He sounded the depths OF
the weakness, be proved the ulti-
mate strength of Republican institu-
lions. He gave us to know the per-
ills that confronted us. He taught
US TO rally the strength that lies bid.
When ! think of him as Melancthon
said of Luther, DAY by day grows
the wonder fresh,n at the largeness
of the moral and Intellectual life
that God gave him at the very open
ing.
Then, you hear that boys lips an /.
nonncing the statesmsnlike solution
written in words cf light that abso-
lateIy blindeo ,ae peopIe--the great
God given solution of what had con-
fronted the people, blinded the
churches, and made statesmen dumb
with equal, single-hearted deVo-
ton, 10 words that have been 80 of
ten quoted. A few years sfterward
with those dungeon-doors behind
hirl, he entered on his career. l
marvel again at the iustinctives aga.
city. This boy stood alone-utter-
iy alone-at first. There was no
sympathy any where, His hands
were empty. No matter if he star
we'd on bread snd water. He could
command the use of types. That
trade endeavored to crush him. The
intellectual life of America disowned
him. Out of the church Numbered
and ligbtened 9 malignity that
could not find words to express its
hate. AT that moment, boy, with
neither training nor experience
whence came that instructive knowl-
edge? Who're did be get that sound
common sense? Whence did be
summon that almost unerring 50.
gscity which started agitation on
an unknown field, never committing
an error, provoking year by year
additional enthusiasm, gathering as
be advanced helper after helper TO
his side? | marvel OF the miracu-
lous boyl You must remember that
all these years it was an immature
youth, who never had had training,
any administrative experience
never had anything bat ambition TO
launch him into the columns of the
press. He had no means. Where
he got, whence he summoned, how
he created, the elements wbicn
changed 1924 into 1835-that even
made America mob him in every
great city-is a marvel which none
but older men than | can adequate
ly aHalyzs and explain. What
American ever held his hand So long
aud 80 powerfully on the helm Of
social. intellectual aud moral Amer
lea? There have been giants 10 our
day. Great men God has granted
iu widely different spheres-earnes
men-even whom public admiration
lifted early into glad power. shall
venture to name some of them
Perhaps you will Say it is not usua
on an occasion like this, but long
waiting truth needs to be uttered il
an hour when this great example il
still absolutely indispensable to in
spire the effort. to guide the motive
sto cheer the hope of the nation no,
vet on the promised land l want
to show you the vast breadth and
depth that this mans name signifies
/ We have had Webster in the Sen.
ate, Lyman Beeoher in the pulpit
Calhoun at the head of section, q
great philosopher at Concord, with
his inspiration that penetrated the
young minds of the northern States
They are the four men that history,
perhaps, will mention somewhere
near the great force whose closing
| in this scene we commemorate to-
day, and yet, if any one remembers
not the inadequate means erely
at this mans control, not the bitter
hate simply that he confronted, not
the vast work that he must be al.
lowed TO have done, measured by
/ the opposition that he encountered
and the strength he held in his
hands-but, Diminishing all these con.
siderations, measuring nothing but
the depth and breadth of his hold,
his grasp on American character,
social change, general progress,
what mans signet has been set so
deep, planted so forever on the
thoughts of his epoch? Trace home
iutelligently-trace homo TO their
sources-the changes that have come
over us in fifty years--sooial, politi.
cal, intellectual and religious-and
you will fiud. close at the sources OF
the Mississippi, this boy with his
proclamation. If anything strikes
one more prominently thar another
in this career, it is the plain, sober,
unmixed common sense, the robus;
English element which underlsid
/ Cromwell, which explains Hsmp.
der, which gives the color that dis
tinguished 1910 in England from
1890 in France.-plain, robust, WELL
balanced common sense,-no erratic
mistake; no enthusiasm that got be-
you'd the feeling Of earth, rising I'M
supported in the air; no mistake OF
method; no miscalculation of time;
no unmessured confidence in sources,
no miscalculation of opposition.
Whoever mlstook, Garrison seldom
mistook.
| Fewer mistakes 10 that long agi-
tation of fifty years can be charged
to his account than to any Ameri-
can. Erratic as men supposed him,
incorporate in utteranee, mad in
! Judgment, an enthusiast goue crszy,
the moment you sat down al his
side. patisnt in explanation, clear
/ :. s,-,ar.anf ennoA in INDIGNANT