The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-16
IN HONOR Of GEN. Butler.
Memorial Services Held by the Boston
City Council.
IN MUSIC, POETRY AND PROSE.
The Euiogy by Hon. n. T. Greenhaise
Pays a High Tribute to the Famous
Soldier and Jarist-Poem by James
jeffrey Roche.

Boston, March lo.-The city council Of
Boston held memorial service In honor
of the late Benjamin Franklin Butler in
fremont Temple last evening The hall
vas flled with thoroughly representa-
AVe audience, which broke into applause
NJ the eulogy offered to the late general by
Hon. Frederick IT, Greenhalge. On the
platform were many prominent citizens of
the city, among them being Alderman
Lee, Postmaster Thomas N. Hart and
others
Conspicuous In the raised seats near the
dig organ was a white-haired old colored
man, and scattered among the audience
were many other colored citizens.
The following program was rendered,
1t the close OF which an eulogy was de-
nvered: Organ voluntary; prayer, the Rev.
Robert 4. Hurley; singing, Blessed Are
They and Into the Silent Land" by the
M. w. Whitney quartet; poem by James
Jeffrey Roche, written for the occasion
and admirably read by Miss Eleanor L.
Sullivan.
The Poem.
The poem by j. Jeffiey Roche is as fol-
BENJAMIN y. BUTLER.
Paint me with every blemisb," said the Lord
Protector grim.
And the face that was limned was real, what
ever the soul Of him.
No gaudy colors to heighten, no neutral tints
20 hide
The strength Of the man self-centered, too
proud TO be touched by pride.
Paint him with honest pigments, lay every
weakness bare;
But the mien Of cant or the hue of fear va
shall not see it there.
Flaw and defect and failure are clear to the
shortest sight;
But your microscope can never measure a
mountains height,
Nor your chemists scales determine by
drachm and scruple nice
The worth and weight TO land or state of a
soldiers sacrifice.
Soldier was he by blrthright, and not by grace
Of school,
He would rather win on the crudest plan than |
lose by the strictest rule.
New Hsmpshire's bosom of granite, by sun
and temptest wooed,
No pigmy bears to the planet, nurses no puny
brood.
Such as he was she made him, tender and
brave and strong;
A'"s UNci-Heth Win tne naughty. not over
weak with the wrong,
Holders Of bonds and Of bondsmen looked on
his deeds aghast;
he broke the bonds, and he mocked M the |
sacred things Of caste.
But the helpless poor OWNED him, and knew
him aye, at his best;
Who needed a friend could find him-he |
spared his foes the quest.
On his country's storied pages his name ia
written large
Citizen, soldier, statesman--faithful TO every
charge!
Following are few excerpts from
The Euiogy.
Benjamin Franklin Butler was born among
ancestral laurels Of luxury, and IL a single
wreath adorned his "dreamless head- that
winter day as he lay In his CONN, II was all his
swn. He W. he son OF widow. Not infre- |
quently povei y walked by his side IN his |
early youth. and taught him her severe but
salutary lessons. No boy in America ever
marched 10 do battle with the world with less
impediments, with less artificial aids and ad-
vantages But he carried in himself, in his
own natural forces supplies sufficient for
every exieincy of life's journey.
He was born In a modest farmhouse on
lonely hillside. 1t was the typical dwelling In
which the greatness Of America has so often
been Graded and nurtured and which. how {
oi haiio" anu crhihped ana poor, somehow ,
shines with greater splendor than castle or
palace, because II is the Illuminated shrine of
genius. The people of New Orleans
expected from him nothing but battle, muir :
der and sudden death, but he saved them from
plague, pestlence and famine;" they ex. !
pected only oppression and wronR-he caye
hem wise firm and just administration.
hey looked for the evils and humiliations of i
'onquest-he fed the poor and gave the citya
,lean bill of health-the first in its history Z
lie was not an invited guest-he could not ex- !
'ect all the courtesy and cordiality which
marks the hospitality OF the South.
II they gave him curses for the blessings ba
IL must be remembered that tho
'urses OF disloyalty are az necessary To the q
anne OF patriots as the plaudits of loyalty (
But !
His Memory VIII Live. 4
[ will cheer and be cherished by the sons of a
'oyerty-by the oppressed, the friendless. the e
Unfortunate or every type. His name will be
N Inspiration 10 them and a. theirs is a per
istent voice, IL will live forever. and no citizen
an hereafter read the history Of his country
or the last half century without perceiving a >,
otent and peculiar influence flaming Ariel! = =
IKE IN the dark and pcrilous moments OF the y
epubllc dazzling and confounding opon-eyed u
opsplracy and lighting the way &c safety: no u
Dung man can hereafter study the constitu. Il
ion and the laws without rejoicing In the n
een hashing intellect which illuminated
glth living light those stately and enduring
ines; no patriot look up NJ the noble fabric OF
he Union preserved. strengthened and elori.
ed-without paying the tribute OF admira- II
on love aud gratitude TO the rare, bright. n;
rave spirit OF Benjamin Franklin Butler. :!
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