The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-06
THE DEAD SENATOR.

Senator Chandler were conveyed unde
an escort Of detachment OF city polict
this morning at s o'clock, from his mar
sion on Fort street, TO the City Hall, wher
the Committee Of Arrangements and a de
tachment Of the Light Guards receive,
the body and placed It in the centre O
hall at the foot Of the main stair case
where It laid in state until p. ". At S:l
this morning the Fort street entrance Il
City Hall was opened, when an avalanche
OF people poured into the corridor
AS they passed into the south cor
ridor they were separated into pairs
and IS the casket was reached
the pairs we're separated, and continuou
line OF humanity passed on each side
every person bending aud looking at the
face. The casket OF the deceased wa!
made OF black walnut, covered will
black silk velvet, relieved with drapery
Of gros grain silk. At the head OF tht
coffin was white floral crown and base o
evergreeus, which rested on column
draped with Grape On either side was &
center cross OF red formed OF scarlet
double geraniums. At the foot OF the
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black, on which was placed sheaf OIL
wheat, with white floral sickle, forming
a beautiful and touching symbolism OF the
ripe usefulness Of the deceased before
being cut down by the great reaper,
Death.
On top of the coffin was floral star,
given by the Chicago Veteran Club. At
each end, facing the remains, stood sol.
dier OF the Detroit Light Guard, with rife
and fixed bayonet, at parade rest, each
guard as immovable as statue. Over.
head the remains were covered by can.
opy OF red, white and blue streamers, in.
termingled with folds of costly Grape and
descending in graceful lines to the
tour corners OF the intersection OF the cor.
ridors. The remains were clothed in the
usual black broadcloth suit. The upper
bali OF the body could be seen through
French plate.glass covering. The arms
were peacefully folded across the breast.
and the determined face seemed as natu.
ral as in life. The Ceaseless stream Of
people which passed through the building
in two continual lines, lasted from 8:l5 A.
N. to P. NJ, and it Is estimated that dur
the time intervening not less than $1,000
RCloSAa NLC"Cu ku6 IGL4Alu5s
The body was removed to the Fort street
mansion & little after p. NJ, where
religious exercises were conducted BY
Rev. DR.. Pierson, in which he said: This
is no ordinary occasion which convenes
us to-day. Death however frequent and
familiar by frequency can never to q
thoughtful mind be an event OF common
magnitude. 1t cannot be other than
most august experience to exchange
worlds. This event has about it colossal
proportions. 1t stands out and apart like
mountain in landscape. 1t is recognized
as calamity not only to household but
10 the city, the State aAd the nation. It
may be doubted whether since the assas.
stnation OF Abraham Lincoln single an.
nouncement has 60 startled the public
mind and moved the popular heart as
when, on the first day OF November, it
was announced that Zachariah Chandler
was found sleeping his last sleep.
1t Is no ordinary person who has de-
parted from among US. 1t is not "a SELF
evident truth that all men are created
equal;" II we mean quality OF gifts and
graces, capacity, oportunity or even res.
possibility, but it was needless task to
demonstrate to an assembly Of the people
of Michigan, that Mr.. Chandler was no
common man. He was born leader, en-
dowed with those qualities that mark a
man destined to leadership. He had a
rare business faculty and sagacity, tact aud
talent, and a large capacity for organiza-
tion and administration. His hand was
naturally at the helm. He had
great intensity of nature, and even his
political opponents could not doubt the
posihveness OF his convictions and the
protoundness OF his sincerity and here, as
Carlyle justly says, must be found the
base blocks in the structure OF all heroic
character" " He was peculiarly independent
and intrepid. The determination to be
loyal to his convictions and to his country
inspired him TO bold brave utterance
and invested him with courage and con-
6dence that was almost contagious. He
IVES an example OF political fidelity ex.
pressed by Burke when he said: al obey.
ed the instructions OF nature and reason
and conscience. maintained your inter.
ests as against your convictions"
Few men ever dared to say and do what
he has in the face OF political risks and
even personal peril. Mr.. Chandler was a
plain man, man for the people, free from
all stately airs and settled dignity. He
took hold of every political and national
question with ungloved hands; he under
stood and used the language OF the COM
mon people, not even disdaining the
idiomS Of common life. His speeches
were packed with vigorous Saxon; he
thought more of q short sword, with its
keen point, than OF scholars latinely
with Its diamond decked hilt, and in this,
as in not few other conspicuous traits, he
was master OF the best secrets that gave
the great Irish agitator, 0'Connell, his
strange power Of moving the multitude.
His last speech, even when read and
without the magnetism OF his personal
presence, may well stand as his last utter
ances. In saying these few words oI
honest tribute TO the dead, we reflect
no merely personal partiality-no politi
cal partisonship. We leave to Senators
and Statesmen to pronounce such eulogy
as belts his long and successful career.
am now nothing more than voice giving
utteranCes to the peoples heart. lam a
no exhaustive analysis OF his character a
no comprehensves sketch Of his career, bul
leave such tasks for hands more com
peLentt WuOou hLu6 ID uOIe sutuCleQL M
doubt Mr.. Chandler was not without pre-
sentiment Of his approaching end. II,
has expressed grave apprehensions that |
might not be far of, though he perhap
thought it would come in different form
Just before starting on his last journe,
westward, he said TO me: 'In my iudG
ment the crisis now upon US is more i'm
portant than any SINCE Sumter was Gre,
9 on" Those who knew him best will no
Of the magnitude Of the issues nov beIor
: the American people, he could not spar
: himself, but gave himself without resery
TO his country, sacrificing lie itself on th
! altar Of patriotism. Ny friends, the Dori
r pillar Of Michigan has fallen, and we hay
new lesson on human mortality.
Action OF the Interior Department.
WASHINGTON, November ga meetip
of the officers. clerks and -emnlovea ~ ~,