Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-29
TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY.

When the Pioneers met yesterday at their
hall for the purpose of attending the funeral
services of James McClatchy, the following
tribute to the deceased from the pen Of Judge
J. H. McKuue was read, ordered spread
upon the minutes, and copy furnished the
family and one for publication
Fellow-Pioneers Again has the Angel Of Death
come among US, and this time has touched with his
wing our beloved brother James McClatchy and
carried his soul away across that gulf which, al
though countless millions have passed it, no one has
yet re-crOssed to tell what's doing the other side
50 Yet It's awful thing when, near our journeys
end, VIC have that gulf in view our nature shud.
ders, and fe-striugs bleed TO see, and feel and
know, that soul from body OF friend
linked here closer than welded pair"
NUT part for part they musD, the
soul to enter straight another golden chamber OF
the King of Kings, higher, wider than this it
leaves, and lovelier lighted TO effulgence by tHe
Great Presence. The body we drop in the narrow
chamber fitted for the silent city OF the dead BY
loving hands, which soon or late must lie beside it,
dust with dust mmingling.
Never more we gather around our camp fire
shall we see the genial manly features and form Of
our brother McClatchy and there can be one to
take his place we seat ourselves at our banquet
table, or assemble, as is won't occasions fes-
tive or sorroWful.
May not we mingle our tears with those Of the
family Of deceased also recount some of his viTtuesl
When the High Priest cf Isis stood up in Egyptian
Temple to pronounce the euogy over The dead body
Of one who had filed a large space in the public
eve, surrounded by the friends and aeuuai 1tauces
of the deceased who knew his private virtues and
vices well by those acquainted with his public
acts, the priest inquired Of those surrounding
4" Was the life Of the j ceased virtuous or vicious
Did he honor the gods or scot at the religion OF his
country? Did he in his lifetime take usury Of the
poor and oppres5 the weak, or was his life bless
ing to those in Distress and did he stretch out his
strong arm to protect those in danger from tle op
pressor"
II the deceased in his life time had been evil and
his acts had called down the denunciations OF the
good, the audience bowed their heads IN shame
that a fellowbeing could carry with him through
his life here the spirit of evil but if his life had
been good the audience stood up to testify that in
his pubic acts the deceased kept in abeyance his
selfshness, and sought only the public good In his
private life he fed the hungry, clothed the naked
visited the sick and afflicted, and honored and re
vered the gods.
Brother McClatchy filed that large space in the
public eve OF this city, nay, of this State for the
whole period Of the existence Of our body polite
He was widely known any other man In it his
uttermost thoughts for twenty years have been sent
to your houses and laid upon your tables daily and
yet II the whole people OF the State could be present
and the funeral eulogist should now demand
whether his life had been good or bad, none need
bow his head in shame The whole people would
stand up uncovered, grieftrcken, to testify to his
many virtues
an analysis of his character cannot now be entered
upon, but some Of his most prominent traits ad-
verted to. Our departed brother was not only
lover of freedom for himself but he earnestly sought
it for the whole human race Like Rienz the last
Of the Roman Tribunes, he raised to the eleva-
ton he acquired upon the arms Of the common
people, and would not have accepted position at the
hands Of their oppressers. Born under the flag of
q foreign nation, no one could be thoroughly
American in thought, feeling and action, and mis-
whole life was devoted to the strengthening Of those
principles of freedom which are the cornerstone If
not the whole fabric, of our nation.
ReSolUed, That the Sacramento Society of Cali
fUrnla Pioneers sincerely regret the death Of our
teemed friend and brother. and extend heart
felt sympathy TO his bereayed family