Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-19
A Tribute to the Memory Of Horace
Maynard.

At a meeting in Columbia, Tenn,
last Saturday to pay respect to the
memory of Horace Maynard, Maj
". j. Sykes made the following re-
marks:
As enough has already been said
as to the personal character and pub
lie career of Horace Maynard, | will
only make few remarks suggested
by or appropriate to the occasion.
To pay tributes of respect and
honor to the worthy and illustrious
dead encourages the living to walk
in the paths of virtue, and stimulates
them to the accomplishment of noble
deeds. By uniting in these demon.
STATIONS of regard towards those
from whom we differed sharply liz
the stern conflicts of life, we do hon
or to ourselves and rise above mar
row or degrading feelings, above the
mists of prejudice to the dignity of
true heroism.
The great and active workers, in
the stirring scenes from 1860 to 1865
are fast passing away. We can now,
with calm and unclouded judgments
do Justice to men whom in the bitter
ness of strife, and in the heat of
passion, we had greatly misunder-
stood andperhaps violently assailed.
Time and reason have softened the
asperities of our feelings, and remov
ed the film from our eyes, so that
with undimmed vision, we can now
see, not as through glass, darkly,
but face to face. The grave has
covered the faults, and frightened
the virtues of the men on both isides
of that terrible struggle the like of
which, God grant, we may never see
again. The first who passed away,
beloved by all and mourned by the
whole nation, and to whose lofty
character and sterling virtues, not
only our country irrespective of par
ty or OF section, but the whole evils
zed world pays tribute, was the man
who had no superior, and in our
estimation, perhaps, no equal.
Robert E. Lee, next in order of
time, fell at his post in the discharge
of his duty. The ''great commoner"
Andrew johnson, who, whatever
may have been our views as to his
course during the civil war, pos
sessed many noble qualities, was
bold and fearless in the performance
of what he considered his duty, and
was shining example of what pa
thence, perseverance and indonritable
will, aided by great intellect, can
accomplish.
Fresh In our memory is the death
of our noble President, James A
Garfield, whose sad fate the whole
nation mourned, and whose untimely
death shrouded every heart with sor-
row; and in none was the grief more
deep and lasting than in those OF his
countrymen with whom he contends
ed in war but loved in peace.
Now comes the distressing intelli-
gence of the sudden and unexpected
death of another of the great men,
not only of Tennessee but of the
whole country, who has passed away
in the meridian of his fame and in
the splendor of his intellect-Horace
Maynard. OF him as a politician
and OF his private virtues it does not
becomesme to speak, because I am
not so conversant with his political
history and domestic life as many
now present. His faults, if he had
any, were the faults OF the times,
and his virtues shine resplen
dent in the estimation of his
friends, and are heightened by the
trials through which he passed and
by the courage he exhibited in the
defense of a cause which was dearer
to him than. life. A great man has
fallen, and we mourn.
AS these great and illustrious men
are passing away, let us bury in their
graves all the animosities, all the
prejudices and all the bitterness
which we may ever have felt, and as
our loved ones sleep in peaceful
graves side by side in many in.
stances, and as we hope happy to-
gether in better world, may we
wash out with the tears shed over
their graves all remembrance of for
mer strife, and be indeed here as
friends and brethren.