The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1889-12-12

MIS-. BLACK, MISSES Maude and GStRlle'
Harris, Messrs. Frank IF. Harris, and W.
r. Glover sang "A Requiem, Mrs.
Black singing the soprano and the others:
Joining in the chorus This beautiful,
md appropriate song was as follows:
Immortal Chief his sun has set,
And shadows dark succeed the light,
Perchauce 10 future sun will bring,
4 bris nter day, darker night
In tented fields with starry domes,
Is heard low, sad, Wailing cry.
From Southern hearts, in lovely homes,
Is heard to heag'n deep drawn sigh
CHORUS:
Immortal chief his sun has set
And shadows dark succeed the light,
Perchance no future sun will bring
A brighter day, a darker night
Pelchance no future sun will bring
a brighter day, darker night.
Ye mournful winds, back to your caves,
Aud there your midnight wailings keep.
When Boreas with his noisy aids,
Doth rock the lestless, Graded deep;
But let the South-winds zephyrs play,
Mid forest trees and clinging vines,
Such solemn music as he loved.
When whispered thro his native pines.
CHORUS:
Immortal chief, his sun has set
And shadowsdaIk succeed the light.
Perchance no future sun will bring
A brighter day darker night.
Perchance no future sun will bring
A brighter day, darker night.
MIR. A. L. GROWERS ADDRESS.
Next on the programme was the ad-i
dress by Mr.. A. L. Groover, who spoke
las follows:
LAD Es AND GENTLEMEN:-We meet to day
s'neath burden of grief-bowed DOM 10y a
.p' ofouud and august sorrow. "FOr behold,
ltie Lord the Lord Of Hosts has taken away
rsll Jerusalem and from Judean the stay
hand the staff the mighty man and the man
! & i;tr the honorable man, the counse Her
go tie eloquent orator. At ths hour, in a
- ,tant southern city, marches tnu IuneI q,
,{,roceasion OF our departed ruler, and we
,haye come us mouners at the open grave.
Though We see not the dark mourning of the
gloomy city, though We look not upon the
;oot1ined form, thoagh we hear not the Woe
weeping sobs Of the devoted wife, We mourn
I'm deepest and purest grief.
Only a few months ago, standing upon
This stage and speaking of him without the
s2if: OF prophecy uttered these now seeming
;insly prophetic words: Deep and sore as our
.grief will be in that sad day when his mortal
shall put on immortality there will be CON
ISOLATION III the thought thay no rival monarD Ii
1saye the wound Or hostile millions pressed
:lim to the ground, but that he approached
st1e end in the Lords own appointed time
sand way, like one who draws Lhe drapery o
snis couch about him and lies down to pleas
int dreams ~ And 50 the end came
Well might il be said Death fell upon him
i ke shadow from passing cloud" 81
3peayefuiy and restfully we thought him
ID, ing when he slept and sleeping when he
3died"
And how We'll appointed was the time:
with his lie work finished, having lived to
See his people, once torn and bleeGiag, pass
sthrough the valley of the shadow OF death
sald emerge prosperous and happy, with
spcace and conenunent about him, his earth
iy mission ended. And what stormy, sub
Slme and beautiful mission it was! Viewing
snis life in all OF its monentous changes and
sphases, standing out, as it does, without a
9parallel or prototype in the annals o. history
] I'VE can but eXclaim ''there is, there was, no
greater man.
Having received military education, POS
sseseed of an Inherently brave and intrepid
sspirit, he laid the corner stone of his Won
sdrous career as soldier on the frontier OF the
Northwest and in Mexico. Later, he
S2ained distinction as Senator and cabinet
soticer, displaying in each Of these positio: {
sHarked executive ability, a mind of strong
sconvictions, and a character of unyieldine
sintegrity. But it was not until the st III
aclouds of war began to gather and threaten
sed the homes and happiness of his people dic
smountain chain Of greatness-then it was
srising in the fuless of his strength of MIND
sand character, he stood towering aud grand
sthe custodian of the destinies of nation
sNo man ever took the sceptre amid more
strying and tempestuous surroundings. Beset
\ by the fierce clamors of ma1dened and out
ragged people, for time facing ferccst op
position within his own party, even exposed
ito the shining lance Of our own knightly
aToombs, more dreadful far than the darts
sof Jove, he bfaveIy, resolutely and fearlessly y
amet the advancing terrors of war
Despite such tremendous difficult $, we be.
Five and feel he ruled Alright, rs best human
smind could rule; and though the cause was
Host, when passion and disappointment
cleared away, his sovereign subjects admitted
l his wisdom and integrity as a ruler, and later,
accorded to him reverence as private citi-
sze;:. As his public life was signal, so was
shis private life beautifully simple and sur
spassingiy beautiful. Leaving the high
spheres of official life, accepting defeat
with Spartan fortitude and manly resgna