The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-12-21
1.-THE Old ROMAN"

From day to day the ubiquitous
telegraph wires bring tidings alike
Of interest, sorrow, pleasure and re-
greet to the wide world. In this re-
spect they are the brief record and
| epitome4 Of our times. alike the her
aids of evil and of all that poor be-
rumpled and be-deviled human ma
ture Can appreciate for what good
there may lie harbored in the It'd
ings.
| Who to-day in all the broad acres
of the United States, no matter who
he may be or what his politics may
be, so long as he is Providentially
gifted with the natural appreciation
of true genius and humane self-ab-
negation, will not read with feelings
akin to sorrow the few brief lines an
nouncing that Allen Granbury Thur
man is dead-that his noble voice
will be heard no more in the cham
bers of the Senate, in the cause of
freedom, no more in the supreme
| councils of the nation with. tones ut
| tered to but one unvarying patriotic
chord of honor. dignity, wisdom
and manly truth Let the South
be the first to say that Allen Gran
| bury Thurman was a noble man
not of such noblemen as are bred of
so-called old-world patrician fami-
| lies of blood, lust and ambitious
/ guilt, but of such people as honor
able freemen most delight to honor,
and. by SO honoring, do themselves
great honor and make noble profit
able example for their successors IN
the righteous upholding of this great
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larger principles of right to all the
served and wrong justly treated
with contumely.
The South has no'.quarre1 now
man. Had all her foes been as
would have been eliminated from
throat by mercenary swords and
much unregenerated rsncor and am
bition. Thurman in all his public
more generous to a beaten cause
prosecutors could ever affect to be
tions, the accentuated politeness,
cealed, erasping, reta1iatory de-
mands of which were almost more,
bitter than gall and NORWOOD to
of arms had perforce to accept them
for exactly what they were worth,
no more, no less. In Thurman the
even in the darkest days. When the
y ~
by no means the slightest reasonable
cause to feel embittered by the cold
Romans" public policy. If he was
at least an Honorable one, and when
the war was over he proved himself
to be. man with generous soul,
untouched and unin1bruted by either
lust Of conquest or personal alnbi-
ton.
It is for noble reasons like these
that the South can to-day mourn
with the immediate nourners Of AL
len G. Thurman. For years to
come~his lingering shade will sug-
gest feelings rather of sorrow than
of anger in the South. Had he
been Soutkern-born man the same
noble qualities and splendid natural
gus WHICH nc possessed "Ou1u nave
admiration even from those
who felt themselves to be at open
entity towards him and the cause he
He, at least, was one of
the foes Of whose honest sincerity
there could be no just impeachment,
either by friends or foes. He felt
himself to be pursuing the night
rather than the expedient, and in
that position the South, in its hours
of travail, was we'll content to honor
him.
To-day the South has, no cause
whatever to alter its demeanor to-
wards the m memory of Allen C. Thur
man. We are all now members of
the United States family, working
with but one aim and feeling for the
benefit of the whole household, and
ready to league as one man against
a common Outstanding like a
tower, four-square to every wind |
lat blows; and being thoroughly |
Of this grand fact, the
South can feel that it is only doing |
itself an honor in approaching with
bowed head the tomb that now is
about to receive the remains of AL
len Granbury Thurman and hoping
that the world will always produce
foes as chivalrous and honest and
able as he was by voice and action.
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