Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-11-17

pShS'i uouO no oiA A"ihh"A f"itu bhO
form Of Horace GreelY,-with his
smiles so childlike and bland, his white
coat, and trousers tucked in his boots
so it presented grand old Peter Cooper
with attenuated form and air.cushion
under his arm.
But, while the sketch might provoke
a Pickering smile, it could not lessen
the hold the man had upon the hearts
Of his fellows. No man could make |
him ridiculous. Indeed, the fact that
a man can be caricatured is an evidence
he has some strength Of character, o
marked individuality. You cannot
caricature man who is destitute of
these. 1t is the man who makes himself
felt, who impresses himself upon his
age. and forces attention to his ideas
and purposes, whatever may be thought
Of them, who can be and often is repre>
sented in exaggerated form.
However much men differed with
: Peter Cooper, wild and visionary as
many held his political theories to be,
deeply as many deplored his presiden.
, tial candidacy, there was no true Ameri.
can who did not hold him IN honor
who did not love the large.hearted,
simple,mannered, courteous old gentle.
man to the very core. When be died
q throb OF sorrow shot through our
whole land. From North and South
from East and West, the cry came,
"a great man and prince has fallen y
Heaven was the richer for his going
but earth was poorer indeed. Had q
stranger entered this great city Of New
& York on the morning of Saturday,
} April 7th, unacquainted with our
simple republican institutions, what
think you would have been his impress
Is sionsi He enters the harbor, and from
many vessel float the ensigns Of sor
70 row. He enters the streets, but s
- strange hush has fallen upon their
l. busy life. Houses Of business are
" closed, from Overy public building flag
: droop at half mast, and bells in churcl
y, towers send forth muffled toll. III,
80 sees, standing 10 the drizzling rain, 70
hour after hour, opposite an unpretend
. ing.looking church. thousands Of mel
> and women Of all ranks, and ever
face is sad with great sadness, ant
tears glisten like the rain in hundred
" of eyes. The doors open, end SILENT,
: the vast throng begin to pass in. Il
- quiet, orderly ranks they pass up tn
IS aisle, and look with quiveriug lips up
on the face Of an aged man, who lie
!, in his coffin with hand resting upo
= his breast and quiet as the untrouble
. depths ofthe fathomlesS sea upon hi
features. A procession of young wo
- men enter and pass that form in singl
file, and e.ch one as she passes lovins
of ly lays fbwer upon the coffin. A
last the cdhn is closed. The words G
Dro eulogy fol the dead and sympathy 70
"a the living have been spoken. and me
I'VE lift him Up to bear him to the grave.
h;o Some # the noblest of the land ar
there to iollow the old man to tn
- tomb. he highest civic officers of tn
inn city, representatives of commerce an
-; of cultur, with hundreds of the son
II of toll, firm the mourning procession
,,or and thrugh the long lines Of peopl
.or the silene broken only by sobs, he
9th borne tohis quiet home in Greenwood
70 Why, night our stranger ask, this hOr
or 10 thi man? The great statesman
rod whose fsseeingness has enabled natio
.,ar to escap impending peril; whose pr
zoo triotismAas been tower of strengt
non to %eakr men; whose strong word
"a have mime of need stirred the pulse
no, of the different and aroused the couI
age Of te cowardly, is worthy of tn
,oro admiration and homage Of the peopl
.oo, whom B has served. When the wal
w.. rior, wb has successfully defended b
~ countrTrom invading foes, dies,
"Hicomrades in the war,
A"y' With inns reversed and mufled drums,
'Wn' FollE the funeral car.
The They low the banners taken,