The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-08
" Our Fathers. Where Are They I"
From the Philadelphia American

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| while their evil works live after then
And if so, i adds to our interest in th
final chapter of all human biography
that found among the winding passage
| of the Catasombs, the tombs of Yves
minister Abbey, the ststues of Valhall:
| 1t would be curious study to deIv
among the burial lists of mankind
Those of US who live at the moment ar
but a small section of the innumerabl
caravan of population which the woIl
has had. A late writer on Egypt est
mates the number of murmied bodie
existing in that country at from thre
hundred 70 four hundred millions; III
living Inhabitants are about FIVE and
quarter nillions
And where do the bones of our ancos
tors lie, other than in the Egyptian
linens! The details are striking. The,
throw a strong side-light upon the reali
ties of life. The worlds forgetfulness
In some eases, and its remembrance il
others; its neglect of some who de
serve its honor, contrasted with the un
merited monuments it has raised t
many; its cowardice when Pestilenot
smites, its selfshness when Famine
stalks, its cruelty in battle, its count
less treacheries in time of common dan.
ger-all these, betraying its fear of the
death that is inevitable, and showing its
weakness under circumstances of trial,
make poor human nature seem less
worth study in its life, than when it
lies in repose at the end of living.
And if the tree fall toward the South
or toward the North, saith the Preach
er, sin the place where the tree falleth
there it shall be-" True it is; but vet
abundantly qualified. Napoleon's bones
were brought home from St. Helena to
repose beneath the dome of the Inva-
lides, and from the wilds of Zululand
his grand-nephew's body came back to
the English tomb. A feet of British
ships served as the funeral train for
George Peabody's remains when they
retcrned to the place of his birth from
the scene of his successes in the COM
mercial metropolis of the world On
the ether hand, John Howard Payne
lies buried h.r from "Home, Sweet
Home, at Tunis, in Africa. Benjamin
West, the Quaker boy of the Pennsyl-
vania farm house, is entombed in St.
Paups Cathedral, and Lindley Murray,
another Pennsylvania Quaker, died and
was buried at York, in England. Baron
5teuben was buried in the wilds of
western New York. General Greene
lied suddenly in South Carolina, after
he close of the Revolutionary War.
His remains were placed in a vault, left
here, forgotten for time, and after
ward could not be identified. Columbus
vas buried first at Valladolid, in Spain,
hen at Seville, with his son; then both
we're removed, in 1886, to the cathedral
n San. Domingo; lastly, in 1895, when
he island was ceded to the French, the
emains were carried to Havana, and |
nee more entombed. Contrasted with |
his, Shakespeare's remains lie undis-
urbed at Stratford. ''Cursed be he |
hat moves these bones" cries the pro-
Getting tablet.
Vast is the cemetery of the sea.
and tens of thousands have
escended into it, by wreck, by bat
lie, by death on the voyage. In the
1ystery of its breadth, the ocean has
wallowed up legions, and given US no
ign when and where they went down.
'heodosia Allston, the passengers on
he President, and the City of Glasgow
re of these-''never heard of. Mar
aret Fuller was wrecked within sight
f home, and Shelley's body, washed to
ne shore, was buried there, on the
Italian sands.
The Presidents of the United States
no are dead, are nearly all buried in
le neighborhood of the homes which
ley occupied. Washington's tomb, at
[ount Vernon, is known to all the
orld. John Adams and John Quincy
dams lie beneath the Unitarian Church
. Quincy, Massachusetts. The cofins
re of lead, placed in cases hewn from
lid blocks of granite. Their wives are
lried with them. John Adams died
1 the same day with Jefferson,
range coincidence itself. but, stranger
i'll, it was the Fourth of July, 1926,
st half a century after the declaration
Independence which they had joined
making. Divided bitterly in their
YES, but reconciled in some degree as
leir years drew to a close, they quilted
le stage of action side by side. Jeffer- ,
N, like his compatriot, was buried in
IS family ground-by his home at
-onticello. He had set down on the
7-leaf of an old account book, his
ishes concerning it. ''Choose," his
said, "some unfrequented {
lie in the park, where Us no sound to
'eak the stiffness, but brook that
Ibbling winds among the woods. -.
ct it be among ancient and venerable l
ks; intersperse some gloomy ever
'eens. Appropriate one-half to the {
,e of my family. the other to strangers, s
rvants, etc. Let the exit look upon |
small and distant part of the Blue {
These directions were sub
carried out A little enclos- {
e, containing some thirty graves,
ands amongst the woods on the road ,
lat leads from Charlottesville to Mon
cello, and a granite obelisk, much
tipped by relic-taking visitors, marks
e grave of the ex-President. Il
In the same part of Virginia, in a {
nall enclosure near his home of Mont
,lier, lies the successor of Jefferson, /;
adison, the fourth President. Beside
m is buried his wife, who died in 1849, 4,
him almost thirty years, and
70 nephews. Two othe:- Virginia
Monroe and Tyler, lie within {
few feet Of each other in the fine cem-
cry of Hollywood, at Richmond.
enough, Monroe's death, ike !
ose of John Adams and Jefferson, /
II upon the Fourth of July. He, too
in 1881, FIVE years after his great ]
ders,-marked the nations birthday
! his close. He died in New York, a {
,or man, and his remains were en- !
mbed there until, in 1858, the Legis-
tune Of Virginia removed them to |
ollywood, and placed them in a sub !
antial vault, marked By Gothic tenn
e on a foundation Of Virginia granite.
gler's grave, near by, is scarcely !
arked at all; little mound with a
agnolia tree at the head, is pointed !