Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-07
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We leave him, said he, in wonder quiet vii
lage chirchyard, to your keeping and tho
keeping of the Great fudge. There he will
remain in his long last sleep that knows but
one awakening, and we turn our faces again
to the busy world. not to forget the dead. but
to dedicate ourselves anew to the work he
loved, remembering always the lesson of his
life and realizing the vanity, the utter vanity,
of all our human aspirations. Soldier, patriot
companion and friend, farewell May thy
sleep be sweet, and may thy ashes find always
loving hands which shall mark, in the centu-
rles to come. with care, the spot where
patriot and soldier sleeps.
Gee. v Mas es, Esq made the closi' g
speech. He spok. el0guently, saying, how
@ tr, that there are sea ons Shan j Q se
comes more eloquent tnhn sp cch lie
dwelt briefly upon General T.rb, rt's pun
lie fe, his liiuslrlous military record auo
his sueGess e- n diplomat.
In all his relations with his neighbors and
associates, he then said, our deceased friend
will be peculiarly remembered for his quiet,
courteous and kindly temperament and bear
ing, and Ills readiness always to lend a help
ing hand to those who needed his assistance,
regardless of their position or past or present
station i'll life. His unconscious nobility of
purpose and bravery were exhibited i'll the
most marked degree by the last act in the
drama of his life When the face of an ordi-
nary man would have blanched with terror,
my FRIEND in the midst of that frightful tenn
pest, when the waves and the elements com
bined were howling and raging around him,
when the gallant ship on which he was was being
deluged by the mountainous waves rolling
around her, amid creaking timbors and falling
spars, our deceased friend, although then him
self wounded, calm, cool, collected, apparently
undistuDed, was engaged in encouraging that
ships company and rousing them from the
lethargy Of despair by which they had become
enshrouded.
Mr.. Massey pictured the etforts of Cen
eral Torbert to save the lives of those
around him, and especially of the paihet C
story of his noble exertious to save the
little boy, ''ready to sacrifice his life, if
need be, to save that child, to him COM
paratively unknown"
In that act he has erected a monument to
his memory, more lasting than all the shafts
! ever chiseled by human architect. He has
left us an example that shall live through all
time to come and one which we would do well
| TO emulate
| Gone, gone, gone But nothing can bereave
| him. and we believe he now wears a truer
crown than any wreath that man can wreathe
him. So,
! Speak no more of his reGompensu,
| Lay your earthly fasces down,
| And in yOndcr churchyard leave him,
God accept him CHRIST receive him
The services then closed with the hymn,
"Immortal honor, endless fame, by the
quartet. and prayer and benedletion by
Rev. j. b Quigg.
Al 3. 55 p M. the train, which hRd been
generously placad by the Z. W, ~ b. Co.
at the disposal OF the Committee of
Arrangements free of charge, left Milford
and coached Wilmington al . o'clock.