The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-05-07
1ngersoll On Whitman.


The orator pays a tribute to tn
virtues of the poet at Camden, New
Jersey. Colonel Ingersoll spoke in par
thus
Again in the mystery of life are W,
brought face to face With the great my
stery of death. A great man, grra
Amerfcan, one ofthe eminent CITIZEN
ofthis republic is dead before US. Anc
we have met to pay tribute to hi,
greatness and WORTH I know that be
needs no words of mine. His fame il
secure. He laid the foundations of il
deep in the human heart He was,
above all that have known, the poet oil
humanity, of sympathy. Great he was
scgreat that he rose above the greatness
that he met without arrogance, and so
out condecension. He never claimed
10 be lower or greater than any other
OF the sons Of men. He came into our
generation free, untrammeled spirits
with sympathy for all.
His arm was beneath the form of the
sick. He sympathized with the inn
prisoned and despised, and even on the
brow of crime he was great enough to
place the kiss of human sympathy. One
Of our greatest lines IN our literature is
his speaking of an outcast and the line
10 great enough to do honor to the great
est genius that has ever lived. He said.
SHOT until the sun excludes will I ex-
elude." A charity as wide as the sky
and wherever there was human suffer.
ing, human misfortune, the sympathy
of Whitman bent above it as the frm-
ament bends above this earth.
He was the poet also of that divine
democracy that gives equal rights TO the
sons and daughters of men. He uttered
the great American voice, uttered a
song worthy of the great republic.
He has uttered more supreme words
than any other writer of our century,
and possibly of almost any other. He
was above all things man, and above
all genius, above all the snow capped
peaks of Intelligence, above all of art,
arises the true man-greater than all.
He was trne man, and he walked |
among his fellow men as such. He |
accepted and absorbed all theories, all |
crseds, all religions, snd believed in |
none. He had philosophy and religion
or his own, broader, as he believed
and as | believe-than others. He was
willing that all the sons of men should
be absolutely acquainted with his heart
and brain. He was not afraid to speak
his thought. Neither was he afraid to
die. For many years be and death lived
near neighbofs. He was always willing
md ready to meet and greet this thing /
called death. And for many months
ne sat in the twilight waiting for night.
n his brain were blessed memories of
he day and in his heart were mingled
he dawn and the dusk of life. He was
lot Enthusiastically every moment, the ,
o"khihk ny iDP PUG VI uhy UIu HOG ueSeTC
lin. They remained that they might
lasp the hand of the yelled and silent /
listers of night when they should come !
nd when they did come. Walt /,
Whitman stretched out his hands to .
10Th, day on one side, the nymphs of !.
sy; and on the other, the silent sisters =
I the night. And so, hand in hand :
midway between smiles and tears he :
eached his journeys end. From the !,
-ontier Of life; from the Western wave =
Used shore be sent us messages OF con- !,
snt and hope. And those messages seem =
ow like strains of music blown by the
lystic trumpets from DEATHS pale :,
balm.
To-day we give back to mother nature -
} her clasp and kiss. one ofthe bravest, y
Yeetest sonls that ever lived in human :,
ay. And thank him for the brave -
ords he had said on the subject of
cath. Since he had lived, death is less
arful than he was before, and thous-
,ds and millions will walk into the dark
'lley of the shadow holding Walt =,
'hitman by the hand long after we are g
'ad. The brave words he has spoken =
~ b. trumpeis to the diving. =,
And SO lay this ,oor wreath uron d.
2 great mans tomb. I loved hin,
ing and ! love him still.u m
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