Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-25

vE,UyV, 70 Do p03Q II eleOted-tle u0te,
pending his defeat, being held by a mu.
tual friend.
Longfellow.
In the death of Longfellow, the coun-
try and its literature lose our most
widely-known, best beloved and most
characteristic poet. The writings Of no
other have enjoyed such wide circula-
tion at home and abroad. The works Of
no foreign poet have sold SO largely in
this country, and certainly those of no
American writer have had such welcome
and general reception in Europe. The
dead poet had, as contemporary claims
for him, "grandeur as well as grace,
vigor in companionship with exquisite
beauty, affluent imagination with graphic
description of real scenes, rare beauty,
tenderness, pathos and moral power"
More than this need not be claimed
to establish the enduring fame of
any poet, less than this could not be
fairly said of Longfellow. The span of
his life reached over nearly the entire
history Of our distinctively American
literature, and though some Of his best
work was his translations, he did as
much as any of his contemporaries to
give our literature national distinction.
He has been so long in the acquaintance
and favor of the literary public that he
is remembered almost among the earliest
Of our litterateures, and yet in the
sunset of his ripe old age the produc-
tions Of his genius were waited
with eager expectancy. When he wrote
his " Morituri Te Salutamus - he felt
the shadows gathering around him, but
he was spared to us for years after, if for
no subsequent great work, yet for the
moral influence Of his blameless life.
Versed in the love of other countries, and
often setting the works of their litera-
ture in the radiance Of his graceful
translations, he typifed the highest
American citizenship, and the purity of
his style as we'll as Of his character will
long exercise a marked influence on lit
erature. He wrote nothing that, dying,
he could wish to blot, and yet he often
attained the sublime heights Of poetic
genius, and oftener still struck u respon-
sive popular chord and made his produc-
tions the household words OF his coun-
trymen.
Emi0raeit is the incription of the tombstone
where he lies:
Dead he is not, but departed-tor the artist
never dies.
1T is not question whether the weakly
Inquirer lies, but whether it ever tells the
truth.
We are left to infer that our esteemed
Reform Republican contemporary has
parted company with Levi Sensenig and
J. w. johnson, for in its last evenings
issue it says:
All the old bosses who for years reveled
in the carnivals Of frand" have gravi-
tated back to whence they came, and are
all for Stehman and the Cameron spot, +"
which has been formed to defeat Senator
Kaufman. The NsU Era
has got rid of all the bosses who swear by
the political methods of tho corruption
spot and "pool.'
LAMENTCM.
When spring shall Ering each JOY she hath
And robe the North in bloom
These eyes will only see the path
That wends to one lone tomb.
The throstle's notes henceforth must kneli
Like sorrow on mine ear.
Since she who loved his song so well
No more that song shall hear.
Ny beautiful-my snow-white flower.
UnScathed by breath OF sin
alas ! that black-wing'd death should low'r
And fold such whiteness in.
The vernal spring can never wake
For me one joyful dream,
My tears must fow for her sweet sake
-May Iuorrow.
WHEN Longfcllow's poems were first
printed, though Bryant had published his
"Thanatopsis " and Irving his "Knicker-
bocker's History" "Poe," says Dr. Alb
bctt," had not yet issued his first book i
Motley was trying his pen unsuccessfully
at fiction Whittier was just leaving tho |
shoemaker's bench to become tho editor
of tariff newspaper Cooper had yet in
the crucible his stories of pioneer life :;
Hawthorne had hardly touched pen to |
paper except in college exercises, and |
Prescott was unknown save to the limited |
circle Of readers of the North american"
A NUMBER of the Republican members
Of the Philadelphia bar have followed the
example of their Democratic brethren in |
holding public meeting to demonstrate
their opposition to Judge Briggs ell ,ction.
Already far more of the bar have placed
themselves on record as opposed to him
than could be drummed up to certify their
appreciation of his course on the bench,
even though, as usual, "a number of them
have protested that they signed tho latter
petition with the understanding that there
would be no opposition to Judge Briggs"
The opposition to Briggs is based on the
high ground that he is an unfit judge. He
is conspicuously so, as has been OBJ
servable even at this long range from the
sphere of his administration. He has
faults of head and heart, which make him
80 and the best thing he and his friends
IAN do is to take his candidacy out Of the
public gaze and let Boss McAlanes pile the
;urf above it.
Ok our fourth page will be found q BIZ
,graphy Of the deceased poet Longfellow. ;