St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09
Capt. Castles Address.

The next address was by Capt. Henry A.
Castle, and was as follows:
The sun of this sorrowful day looks down
on an unprecedented spectacle. Funeral
pageantries, betting the globe and fianked but
by the zones of b2rbarlsm, testify the uni
versatility OF homage paid to n fruitful life
and an imperishable renown. A stricken
nation weepS at the bier of its most ilustrious
citizen, while the civilized world bows in re-
spectful communion of bereavement. Few
men have ever been more widely worthy such
grand apotheoses of honor. He has gone to
his rest and his reward, but he is dead only
TO earth'S pains and woes. The towering
granite above his breast will always throb
with the unStilled pulSngS of his patriot
heart. and the statue which crowns It's sum-
NIT will speak to us forever, in accents tune
full as the song of immortality upon the lips
of cherubim.
The veterans of the Grand Army of the Re
public, the sharers of his battles, his marches
and his triumphS, now trebly bereft, appro-
priately lead in the ceremonies OF this mourn
full observance. 1t was their extreme felicity
and his TO live ard act in that tremendous
epoch, when their knightly daring ana his con-
summate skill contributed so much to the
preservation Of the Union, the emancipation
of the slave, and the regeneration of the
country.
SOMETIMES WE HEAR THE PRAISE
for this emancipation and regeneration ell as
cribed to the fearless and heroic handful of
agitators, who, before the contest of arms, had
long stood for the immediate unshackling of
the bondman, and refused to be silenced by
brides or prosecutions. But it is error to
credit a single class with this splendid
contamination. Slavery persisted because its
death-doOm had been sounded on the
celestial chimes; because the nineteenth
century had come; because the fly
ing engine and the speaking wire had
come; because the school book. the newspa-
per and the open Bible had come; because
WilberfOrce and Garrison and Harriet Stowe
had come; because Lincoln and Seward and
Stanton had come; because Grant and Sher-
man and Sheridan had come: because 2,000-
boo gallant boys in blue had come; because
the great and terrible day of the Lord had
come-and not ali the powers OF hell could
longer buttress and bulwark the browning
infamy of the ages.
CONCEDTNG ALL THIS,
aye, glorying in it. there is enough in the
career and character OF the great man gone,
life and nature not fiawless, but heroically
grand to freely Justify the sables, which so
heavily have draped our marts and homes
for few, indeed, in such exalted spheres. have
displayed abilities more sufficient virtues more
commendable, or defects more inconsequential
He seemed to live unconsciously on high
level, to which others mounted but with pain
full toll; to spontaneously evolve strategies
and combinations beyond the grasp of asso-
ciates Or adversaries, confounding all science
by their amazing simplicity. and only COM
prehensibe in the light of invariable success.
Hence, lifted above envy or malice, he was
Jealous of no comrades advancement, while
those jealous of him were farthest removed
from all possibilities of rivalry.
HE WAS THE RED RIGHT ARM
OF the philosophic spirit of the century. He
added to the infexible precision of resist
less mechanical force. the insight and gener-
alization of hidden, but guiding intellec-
tuality Thus his Will was modified into eff
fective energy. and his sturdy common sense
was sublimated into lofty genius. This the sol
diel In civil administration, stainless purity
of purpose and an answering courage of
conviction piloted an unframed and not I'M
erring Judgment amid breakers innumerable
and whirlpOols Unfathomable, to firm anch-
orage in the confidence of the people and the
laudation of history. The future will more
clearly discern the impress of his policies
upon our laws and institutions, and posterity
will preserve for him a broad approach of
fame and eyer-ringing avenues of song.
PAINS AND REvERsES
clouded his last lingering months, yet through
them all CLEANED the radiance of his daunt-
less soul Having instructed conquerors in
the art OF war, and rulers in the science OF
government, it was his final task to teach the
suffering Christian how to die No summons
ever found MIN unprepared, and to the last
recall his clear and ready answer rang like
the gladdened greeting of a brother in a
foreign land. As during the conflict
O'NtJ '''iO AouEi" anu victory won was dn
expression of1ts great ideas, union, liberty,
equanty-so this word-encircling pomp,
which attends our departed chief to his home
with the immortais, is the expression of a
regard, limitless as the planet and deathless
as the stars, for the cause he champioued
and the heroes he led. Through him we
renew allegiance to the Union fagl Through
him we honor once again the memory of
our martyred comrade marshaled rank
beyond rank to greet him on the shin
ing shore. They did not die in vainl Every
crimson globule of their priceless blood
every voiced and voiceless grooming of their
agony every precious teardrop of the loved