Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-06-04

which Isaiah's burning denunciations of OPP.
preston were voiced, when Mr.. May paid a
brief tribute to his lifelong friend, who, he
said, still lived in the great example of un-
selfish devotion to duty. The tributes which
followed from Mrs. Lucy Stone, Samuel
johnson, Theodore ID. Weld, and Wendell
Phillips occupied two hours.
During the service in church the follow
ing poetical tribute of John G. Whittier to
his departed friend was read
wHrTrIER's TRIBUTE.
The storm and peril overpast.
The bounding hatred siamcd and STILL
Go, Soul Of Freedom take at last
The place which thou alone canst Ill.
Go mp and on thy day well done,
Thy morning promise well fulfilled,
To boiler tasks that God has wIed.
Go leave behind thee all that mars
The work below Of man for man;
with the white leglons Of the stars
DO service such as angels can.
Wherever wrong shall right deny.
or suffering spirits urge their plea,
BE thine a voice to smlte the lie,
hand to set the captive freei
WENDELL PHILLIPS EULoGY.
No life closes without sadness We never part
hands that have been clasped lifelong In loving
not come here to weep. In the spirit OF the great
life which we contemplate, this hour IL for the
utterance of lesson Those Of us who stood
near him, even during portion Of his life, have
no right to be silent and 10 my mind there arc
these peculiarly remarkable elements In this
career One Is singular among great men. Out
Of his own unaided moral existence came the mo-
tive which consecrated himself to great idea
1t could lie said Of him more than Of any other
American in our dav, that he did not need cir
cumstances or outside influences to provoke him
into thought, to kindle him into enthusiasm. His
moral nature seemed tn be born fully equipped
other agitators have leaned upon some support
but this man stood alone, utterly alone, at first
There was no sympathy anywhere. Trade en-
deavored to crush him; the intellectual life Of
America disowDed him; he had no means. How
he created the elements that ever made Amei-
cans mob him in every great city Is a marvel
which none but older men than can adequately
explain Moreover, during all his trials there
was fastened on his daily life a malignant scn-
tiny from the moment he uttered the God-given
solution of the problem to the moment when he
took the hand OF the nation and wrote ont the
statute that made 1t a law. Malignity searched
those forty years with candles and yet II is on
record that even that never lisped suspicion Of
anything mean, dishonorable dishonest Then
look at the work he did. What American ever
held his hand so long and so powerfully on the
helm Of intellectual and moral America? | want
to show you the vast breadth and depth that this
mans name signifies We have had Webster in
'lo pchtt'' We nave lltu Lyman DttCNtT III tnt
pulpit; we have had Calhoun at the head Of a
section we have had great philosopher at Con-
cord with his inspiration that penetrated the
young mind of the northern states They are the
four men that history perhaps will mention some
where near the great force whose closing in this
scene we commemorate to-day. And yet II any
one remembers not the Inadequate means merely
at this mans control, not the bitter hate simply
that he confronted, not the vast work that he
must be allowed to have DONE measured by the
OppOsitOu he and m atranuth IN
held in his hands; but, Diminishing all these ton
sderations, measuring nothing but the breadth
and depth of his hold his grasp on American
character, social change general progress hat
mans signet has been set so deep, planted So for
ever on the thoughts of his epoch' And then
look at the unquaing courage with which he
laced the successive obstacles that confronted
him. Modest believing at the outset that America
could not be as corrupt as she seemed to exhibit
herself, he waits at the door OF our churches,
kneels to the leading clergymen, beseeches avoice
from the sanctuary, consecrated protest from
the pulpit To his utter amazement, COMPOUNDED,
he learns by proving it that the church can give
him no help, but on the contrary surges into the
movement in opposition Gull, il you pease,
from the statesmen who obeyed him, whom he
either whipped into submission or summoned into
existence, the men whose career fairly examined
exhibits fewer miscalculations and fewer mistakes
than that career which Is just ended. Here lies
the brain and the heart here lies the cody
gifted, statesmanlike intellect logical rs Jona-
than Edwards, brave as Luther, who confronted
the logic OF South Carolina with assertion direct
and broad enough to make an issue and neces-i-
tate conflict of two civilizations. 1t is true, as
New Orleans complains to-day in her journals,
that that man brought upon America everything
that can be called the disaster of the last twenty
years. and it is equally true that il you seek
through the hidden causes and unheeded events
for the hand that wrote emancipation on the
statute book and on the flag, it lies sti, there
to-day.
dare not enter that home. There Is only one
other marked, and, as it seems to me, unprece-
dented, element in this catalogue of qualities.
His was the happiest life that | ever witnessed
No need for pity. There need no tear fall oven
his life No man gathered into his bosom fuller
sheaf Of blessing, delight and joy. In his seventy
years, there was not arrows enough in the whole
culver OF the church or state 10 wound him. Al
Guizot said once from the nights of the tribune
" Gentlemen, you cannot get high enough Il
reach the level of my content" So Garrison
from the serene level OF his daily life, from the
faith that never faltered, was able to say Il
American hate, " You cannot reach M to the
level that can Affect my home mood, my daily
existence" | have seen him intimately for q
score Of years. when raining on his head was the
hate OF the community, when In every possible
form of expression malignty let him know that
it wished him all sorts of harm. never saw hin
unhappy never saw the hour that gloom poi
sOned his existence ] never saw the moment that
serene, overiiowng Astounding faith in the rec
titude of his motive, in the certainty OF his sue
cess, did not lift him above all possibility of being
reached by any of the camor about him. stand
here To affirm what think every friend Of his
intimate life will say, this is the happiest life thai
God has granted in our day to any American
standing in the foremost rank OF men Of milu-
ence and effort. lie had perpetual flow OF
genial sympathy that could hold up the weak
champion the most dismal Of causes, cover with
its regard the helpless, the wrecked by intenper-
ance, the hunted whose heart trembled at every
lift of the latch, and you could have his heart
melt and be poured out like water with sympathy
for such a victim; and yet there was enough lett
ever for the serenest gratitude to God for life
that no opposition could darken, for treasure OF
strength and sympathy so inexhaustibe that
although it never shut the door, nor refused the
lifting of the hand nor failed to empty out, more
lavishly than prudence would dictate, the means
never reached the point where he himself in lis
daily mood was cloudy God held over him IN
full sight unclouded the sunlight Of his cUun
tenance.
Serene brave, all-aecomplished, marvellous MIN
! sit down to contemplate the makeup of hii
qualities. ] remember he was mortal, and yet
where shall we find one among those waging elr
nest, unceasing effort to que sin 10 reform erIDr
to enlghten darkness, to bind up broken heats
his equal?
Farewell, for very little WHILE noblest o
| Christian men! Leader brave tireless, unseisl
| The ear that heard thee, 1t blessed thee the ey'
that saw thee gave witness To thee. More trtl,
than 1t could be uttered since the great patraIsl
WrOte IL, inc dressings Oh nun tnht was ready u
perish was thine eternal great reward
Though the clouds rest for a moment to-day 81
| the great work that you set your heart to &c
| complish, you knew, God in his love let you see
| without a mistake, that your work was done
| that through clouds and darkness one thing, b.
| the favor under God OF thy efforts, is fixed be
| yond the possibility, AZ mortils would say u
| change. While that eye was open, while tina
ear could listen, God gave what has been 50 rarel
| given to man, the plaudits and prayers Of iiy
| millions Of victims, thanking him for emancipa
| ton, and through the clouds OF to-day, no matte
how dark nor how heavy, his heart, as it cease
| to beat, felt certain, certain, that whether on
| flag or two rules this continent In time To com,
| one thing is settled-it never henceforth can b
trodden by slayel
REV. HENRY KENDALL, ID. d., secretar
of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions
and Rev. Sheldon jackson, Bishop of tn
Rocky Mountains" have received an inviti
ton to report to the government at Wasl
ington the condition of the Indians in Soutl
eastern Alaska. These men, from their lare