The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-03-10
INGALLS, EuLoGY ON HILL.
Tribute from Republican 10 a
Democratic senator.


Ben Hill has gone 10 the undiseov-
cred country. Whether his journey
perce ,,tlDie frontier, or whether an
inlermiuaDie ocean, black, unnuclu-
ating anu VoIceless, stretches between
these earthly coasts anu those mvisi-
bic shores, We do not know. Wnelher
OH tnat August morning, after death,
he saw more GLORIOUS sunrise, Win
nnlinaginaDls splendor above celes-
tial horizon, or whether his apatuelIc
aud unconscious asnes sull sleep III
cold oOstruc ION aud insensiile oJlly-
ion--we do not know. Whether his
s.rong and subtle energies found IN
slant exercise IN another forum,
whether ms acNirous and ipllned
faculties are NOW eontend ng Ia "A
hi her Sena,e than ours ior suprem-
aeJ or whether his powers we've dis
sipated or dispersed WITH his parting
bfeath-we do not know. Whether
his passions, ambitions and affections
will sway, attract anu impel, whether
he yet re ne ahbors Us as Nc feneln-
Lered him We DO not know. IAese
are tn unsos s1, the insolaDle ptoD
lens OF mortal life aud human dest.-
ny, which prompted the tloaOieu
patriarch To ask al inomen Gus
question to which tile centuries nave
gn en- no answer: III man die, snail
he live again?' Every man Is tnJ
center wuoss fatal cir, umfsrease be
- a. D
its he /, potential; b you'd II lie ier-
isbes. And II beyond Immortality =
s,lendid 1ut de.u usiye dream; u The
incOnpletenes> Of every career, even
the longest and most fortunate, be
not supi'lemented AMI perfee,e1 afler
its termination here. tnen be VINO
dread to die should fear to live, for
life is tragedy more desolate and n
explicaBe than death.
VI all he uead whose obsequies We
have paused 10 solenn.ze in this
chamber. recall 10 ons who's un-
Timely fate seem so iamentIble aud
Yet ~ reh IN lrophe. Y as that oil
Senator Hill. lie had reached the
meridian OF his years. lie oo1 up
OH The hign plateau of middle life, il
that serene atmosphere where Tempt
ations no longer assail where tn.
clanlprous passions no more distract.
and +" "here the conditions are mo t ia
vorable for enduring achievement.
His upward path had been through
adversely and contention such as in
frequently falls To the lot of men.
Though not without the tendency To
meditation, revere and introspeetion
which accompanies genius, his tenn
y ranent WAS palestrie. lie was
co npetitiye and unpeac, full. lie was
born p0lemie and cOntroversiali,t,
intellectually pugnaeious and com
Dalative, 40 that he was compelled TO
defend any position that might be a
sailed, or attack any pos ton that
might be entrenched, not because the
defense or as ault were essential, but
because the positions were main
Ained, and that those who held them
became by that fact alone his natural
ai'ersAries. This tendency OF his ma
tur- made his orbit erratic. lie was
lneteoric rather than planetary, and
hashed with irregular spleudor rather
s"an shone with steady ana peheirat-
ing rays. HIS advocacy OF any cause
Was fearle ~ to the verge of -emerity.
lie appeared 10 be indifferent to ar-
plause or censure for their own sake.
lie accepted intrepidly any concln-
sion he reached.
To such spirit parlisanship was
unavoidable, but with ) ndtor Hill IL
hid not degenerate Into bigotrv. He
was caIabie OF broad generosity, and
extended 10 his OPP oncnts the same
unroserved candor which he demand
ed Tor himself Ills orltory was i'm
pe'uous aud devoid OF arthce. lie
was not postltrer nor phras mon
ger. lie was too intense, too earnest,
10 employ the cheap and Altry deco
Eations Of discourse. lie never recon-