The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-26

,.-. Ns NA Aho sutututE noAS tne only
sttsnasnts on their obseQuies. No
one pus lhe infinite God who knows
everyte'ng, Knows the ten thousand tn
part of the length and bredth and
depth and height OF auguiss of North
esn aud Southern bs,tie-fie,ds. Why
did these fathers leave their children
aud so to tho font, aud wby did these
young men, postponing the narrfags
day, start OUT with the plobabitities ~
never coming back? For the country
they DIED. Lite Tor life. Blood for
blood. Substitution.
but we need not 30 so far. What ia
that monument in Greenwood. It ia
10 the doctors who fell In tho Southern
epidemtcs.. Why so? Were there not
enough sick 10 bo attended In these
Northern iatitudes? Oh, veg; pus Tho
doctor puts u tow medical hooks 10 his
valise,and some phisls OF medicine, and
leaves his patients here in tho bands
0, other physicians, and takes the rail
train' beforo ho gets to the infected
regions he passes crowded rail trains,
regular aud extra, taking the flying
ana anriEhted populations. He ar
rives Ia city over which great hor-
ror Is brooding. He gees from couch
70 eoucn, feeling of pulss and studying
symptoms and prescribing, day after
day, night after uight, until fellow
physician says:
'DooroR, YOU HAD BETTER GO HOME
and rest; you look miserable.n Bnt
10 cannot rest while so many are SUIT
IerinT. On and on, until some
inorning hnds him in o delirlum, in
which lie talks of home, and then rises
auu says no must 10 and look after
thoao patlonta. lie is told to lie down,
put no lights his atteudants until he
iaiis back, and is weaker and weaker.
ana dies tor people with whom he had
no Rinship and far away from his FAM
NY, ana Is haslly put a@av In q stran-
gers tomb, and only the fifth part of a
newspaper line tells us Of his sncrlf,ce.
MS name just mentioned among ii ye.
Yet he has touched the furtheresI
neight OF sublimity in that three weeks
OF humanitarian servica. He goes
straight as IN arrow to ths bpsonl of
HIM who said: "I was sick and Ie
visited me-" Life for Me. Blood ior
blnoo. Substitution.
la Inc lesat profession SEQ tho same
principle of sell-aacril.ce. In 1913.
William Fresmap, d pauperiasd and
lnlotic negro, was at Auburn, Nav
York, on trial for murder. He had slain
the entire Vau Nest family, Thg
iosming wrath OF the community
could be kept off him only by armed
constables. Who would volunteer tD
be his counsel? No attorney wanted
to sacrifice his popularity by such an
ungraleful task. All were silont save
one, a young lawyer with feeble voice.
thaI could hardly be heard outsida thu,
bar, pale and Thin and awkward, II
was William II. Seward, who saw that
tho prisoner WAS idiotic and irrespous.
ible, and ought to be put in mn asylum,
rather than put to death, the heroic
counsel ultsrlng the = . To sutiful words
~ speak now in the hearing of q peo-
pie who have prejudged tho prisoner,
and cordomed me for pleading IN his
benalf. He is.
"a CONVICT, A PAurHR, A NXuRo,
without intellect, sense or emotion,
MY child, With an affectlonate smile
dlsarms my cnreworn face of Its frowr
| whenever cross my threshold. The
oeggnr In the street obliges me TO give
because he says, God bless you'll as
pass. My dog carosses me with fond.
ness III Will but smile on him, Nv
morse recognizes when fill his man.
ger. What reward, what gratitude,
what sympathy and affection, can ex-
pect here? There the prisoner sits.
LOOK at him. Look at the assemblage
around ysu. Listen TO their ill.sup-
pressed censures and their excited
Tears, ana tell me where among nv
heiRhbors or my fellow men, where
even IN his heart, can expect to find
sentiment, a thought, not TO say of
reward or OF Acknowledgement or even
of recognition? - Gentlemen.
you may think of this evidence what
you please, bring in what verdict you
can, but l 9aseverata before Ha-you
| ana you, that to the best OF my lAnowl-
edge and belief, the prisoner &c the bar
does not ~ this moment know whv H.
IL that my shadow fallB on You instead
OF his own" The gallows got its VIC
tim, but tho post mOrtem examination
Oh tne poor Orosture showed to all the
surgeons and To al the world, I'll AZ the
public Were wrong, and William Ii,
seward was right, and that hard slony
step of obloquv in tho Auburn court
room was tho first atop OF tho stairs Of
iaine up which he went TO tho ton, or
TO Within one step OF the top, that last
denied him through tho treachery of
American politics. Nothing sublliper
was ever seen IN an American court
room than William III. Seward, with.
out reward, standing,be,weon st tho fury
VI tne p1puleco and tho loathsome Inn
becile. Substitution.
ln tho realm OF tho fins arts there
waa as remarkable an instance. A
brilliant, but hyporcriticised painter,
Joseph William Turner, was met by "
volley of abuse from all
TliE ART dALLBRfEs OF EUROPE
His paintings, witch havo since won
the ap ouse OF all civilized nations,
"rho Fiitn Plague Of Egypt,n "Flsh
erman on Lee Shore In Squally
weather. "Calais Pior,n "Tho Sun
Rising Through Mist" and DIDO
buiidinR CARTHAGE" w0ro thon targets
ior critics 10 shoot at. In defense OF
thln outrageouslY abused man a young
author of.i years, just ono year out OF
college,, came forth with his pom aud
wrote the nblest aud most famous es-
says on art that tho world over saw, or
ever will Beo-John Ruskin's Modern
Painters, For IL years this author
fought the battles Of tho maltrested
nrtiat, and alter, In poverty and
brokon-h n-heartednoss, tho painter had
died and tho public tried to undo tholr
oruoltios toward him by giving him a
big. funeral and burial nj st. Paurs
Cathedral, his old-timo friend took on.
OIL tin box 1900 pieces Of paper con.
tanning drawings by tho old painter,
ana through many weary aud uncom.
pensated months assorted ani ar
ranged them for public observation.
People say John Riskin In his old days
" orcsh mlsanthropic and morbid.
Whatevor no may do that ho ought
not TO do, and whatever he may say
that he ought not 10 say between now
and his death, he will leave this world
insolvont, as far AZ IL has any capacity
10 pay this authors pom for lts chivsl-
rio and Christian defense Of q POOR
painters pencil. John Ruakin for
William Turner. Blood for blood. Sub.
stitutIon. What an exailing principal
this, which leads ono TO suifor for an.
other. Nothing 40 kindles enthusiasm,
or awal,ens oloquence, or chimes 30.
clio canto, or inoye1 nntlons. That
principle Is tho dominant ono In our
religion-Cbrlst tho Martyr. Chrlst the
Celebrated Hero, Christ tho Defo nder.
n. = y. - "