Huntsville gazette., 1893-02-18
him the typical American, and de-
scribes him as

"A man upon whose rugged face fear was
afraid TO look: whose heart was big enough 10
gather within its gates everything animate and
tnanimate upon which falls the shadow of our
nag; who loved his country with an affection
amounting TO idolatry and guarded her honor az
his own; who was party man without becom.
ing bitter, purblind politicians politician
without prostituting his patriotism; whose
mind was as deep as Webster's, active as Cal
houn's, and broader than both combined
such q man, OH sons OF America, are We called
upon TO mourn"
The Birmingham (Ala.) Age Herald
says no man of the north has wrung
tribute from unwillingness MS did
Blaine, and adds:
THE foremost American OF his generation il
dead. Strange, marvellous strange
how the south had come to feel toward Blaine;
and above all the deep and wide devotion OF
the masses OF his own party, this southern
sentiment that gathered round him in his last
years is the brightest jewel he ever wore. 1t
was tribute literally wrung from unwillingness,
and bestowed on no other of our ancient enc
mics, living or dead save Lincoln"
The Atlanta Constitution criticises
many of his acts as statesman, but
admits that he was the idol and the
representative of the people.
people without regara to party-instinctively
knew that Mr. Blaine, at his best, was repre-
sentative Americans man evidently in love
with the whole country and its institutions"
The Chattanooga (Tenn.) News
acknowledges that his death was loss
to the whole country:
"But our great statesman has been taken
from US, and there is not an American to-day
who does not feel that the country has sus-
tanned an almost irreparAble loss
The most bitter of partisan papers,
the New Orleans States, which was
never known to find any good in the
north, is compelled to admit that
Blaine was the most magnetic man Of
his day, and it says:
"Mr. Blaine was undoubtedly the most mag
netic man OF his day. His generous impulses
and grace OF manner made him magnetic, but
his greatness as a statesman had serious limi-
tatons, and IL is too soon now to say exactly
where his place in history will be.
The Florida Times Union says of him:
"Blaine was a thorough partisan, perhaps
extreme partisan, but he would have been an
able man in almost any walk of life, if fate had
not made him politician. He will certainly
rank among the great Americans.
New Orleans Picayune admits his
greatness:
Few public men Of his day have made more
impression upon public affairs OF his country,
and none OF his associates and compeer5 in
political life win be remembered longer"
The Augusta (Ga.l Chronicle says;
"The country has produced profounder men
and statesmen of lofter mold, but IL would be
hard to select, perhaps, from the men who have
figured In the past few decades, one who In so
many phases Of bis character ably illustrated
the American politician and Statesman"
The Columbus (Ga) Enquirer-Sun
says:
"The whole nation, north and south. will
mingle tears OF sorrow over his grave, and will
in common hold him in memory as one OF the
greatest of Americans
The Savannah (Ga- News adds:
Although a strong partisan he had many ad'
mirers and friends among democrats In the
SOUTH notwithsta tanding his prominence in his
party he was held in higher esteem than any
other of the republican leaders"
These tributes to Blaine from the
southern papers are but illustrations
that all brave men love courage, even
when it is against them. 1t is only the
coward that hates greatness, and the
only attacks now found on the dead
statesman are from those papers which
slandered him in life. fe.-Chicago Inter