Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-03-16
SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH lG, 1852

wou'u W unlattHlul 10 nls supreme ObllSa-
ton if he failed to maintain, in all their
vigor, tho constitutional rights and digui.
ties of this great otIioe. lilo believed this
in oil the convictions of conscience when
in sound and vigorous health, and he be-
lievcd it in his suffering and prostration in
the lust conscious thought which his woa-
ried mind bestowed on The transitory struc
giles of life.
More than this ueed not bersaid. Less
than this could not DO said. Justice to the
dead, the highest obligation that devolvcs
upon the living, demand tho declaration
that in all the bearings of the subject, NO
tual or possible, the President was content
in his mind, justified in his conscience i'm.
movable iu his conclusions
La speaking Of his religious principles,
Mr.. Blaine rcmarkcd
The crowning characteristic of Gen.
Gar6eld's religious opinions, MS, indeed, of
all his opinions, was his libcrality. In all
things lie hud charity. Tolerance was of
his nature. lie respected in others the
qualities which he possessed hmsef-sin-
certy of conviction and frankuess of cx,
preston. With him Il @ inquiry was not
so much what man believes, but does he
believe it? The lincs of his friendship and
his confidence encrolcd men of every
creed, and men Of no creed, and to the
end of his life, on his vcr-leugthenipg list
of friends, were to be found tho names of
plous Catholic priest aud Of on honest
minded aud very generous hearted Free
Thinker.
IN CONCLUSION.
In closing tho culogy, Mr.. Bunc spoke
as follows:
Great in life, he was surprisingly great
IN death. For no cause, in the very frenzy
OF wantonness and wickcdncss, by tho rcd
hand OF murder, he was thrust from the full
ttdc OF this worlds interest, from its hopes,
its aspirations, its victories, into tho visible
presence of death-and he did not Quail.
Not alone Tor the one short moment in
which, stunned and dnzcd, he could give up
life, hardly aware Of its rciuquishment but
through days of deadly laueuor, through
weeks of agony, that was not less agony be-
cause silently borne, with clear siyht and
calm courage he looked into his open grave
What blight eud ruin met his upgnished
eyes, whose lips may tcll-what brilliant,
broken ll,ns, what filed, high ambition,
what sundering of strong, warm mauhood's
friendships, what bitter rcnding of sweet
household ties! Behind him a proud, OK.
pectant nation, great host of sustaining
friends, a cherished and happy mother,
wearing the full, rich honors of her early
toll and tears; the wife Of his youth, whose
whole life lay in his; the little boys not vet
emerged from chiIdhuod's day of froc: the
fair, young daughter; the sturdy sons lust
springng Into closest companionshp, claim.
ing every day and every day rewardiny
fathers love and care, and ia his heart the
eager, rejoicing power to meet all dcmand.
Before him, desolntion aud great darkness!
Aud his soul was not shaken. Ills coun.
trymen were thrilled with instant, profound
and universal sympathy. Mastcrfu in his
mortal weakness, h, bec,me tho centre Of
nations love, ems hrined in the prayers of n
world. But ulI the love aud ali the sym-
pathy could not share with him his suffer :
ing. lie trod tho wine press alone. With
unla!ering front he flrod death. With
unfaiiing tenderness he took leave of life.
Above the demoniac hiss of the nssassp's
bullet he heard the voco of Cod With
! simple resignation he bowed to the Divine
decree.
AS the end drew near, his early craving
for the soa returned The stately mansion
Of power had been to him the wearisomc
hospital of pain, and he begged to be ia
ken from its prison walls, from ita opprcs
slge, sitting air, from its homclessncss and
ITS hopeessness Grnliy, silently, the lore
| OF great people bore the pale sufferer to
the longcd for healing of The sea, TO live or
to die, us God should will, within sight of
OF its heaving bilIows, within sound of its
manifold voices With wan, fcvered face
tcnderly lifted to the cooling breeze, he
looked out wis'fully upon the oceans
changing wonders; on its far sails, whiten.
ing IN the morning light; on its restless
waves rolling shorcward to break and die
beneath the uoonhay sup, on the red clouds
of evening, arching low to the horizon, on
the serene and shining pathway of the
stars Let us think that his dying eyes
read mystic meaning which only The rapt
and parting soul may know. Let US be-
ievc that in the silence of the rcce ding
world ho heard the great waves breaking on
further shore, and felt already upon his
wasted brow the breath of the ctcroal
morning.
A river swollen to the proportions of an
inland sea, its waters spreading fifteen miles
or more beyond its banks, Icvees and tops
OF ridges clustered with people and cattle,
mules and cattle in the Railways and
porchcs of houses, negroes hiding in gin
lofts or croucled on rats exposed to rain
and cold, the newspaper carriers of an Ar
kansas town going over their routes iu
skiifs, State sovereignty Governors appeal,
ing to tho Federal Government to send
down food, and lard headed planters ob-