The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-07
NON PaIKlt X WALSH,
His Monument In The Peopl' Is Hearts
Newberry, S. c., March -.

| nOunCptnput O1 Nlr. walsh = death
rea he'd Nowbrrry it cast deep
shade Of sorrow over tho city, for he
had many warm friends and admirers
here He was known to an,unber of
our citizens before his recent visit rs
the guest and orator of the State
Press Association, but when he stood
before the large and representative
body of our people in the opera
house to make the Grafton, it was
then that he captured the common
heart of Newberry and won golden
opinions for himself as man Of af-
fairs- 4 brave and brainy man---who
| Likewise had heart and conscience.
1t could easily be perceived that the
imperial traits Of his character were
truth, honesty, sympathy and sin
cerity, and that all who came within
the radius Of his kind, frank and af.
| fectiOnate nature must be his friends.
His Newbcrry friends knew that
ho was ILL., and they also knew the
superinducing cause, yet trusting to
his strong physique, and the uplift
ing heart and soul within it, rs we'll
RS to the endcarmonts Of home, the
skill and devotion of his physician
and the mighty protection Of heaven,
they rested in the hope that he would
be restored to the conscientious dis
charge Of bis unfinished work.
1t was otherwise ordered by Him
who doth not err and who kno :, 9th
the end from the beginning. But
his work is finished; other toilers
will reunito the broken threads.
The Hon. Patrick Walsh, editor of
The Augusta Chronicle, one of tho
most venerable and influential Of tho
daily papers in the United States,
and mayor of the good old city Of
Augusta, was great, man and Il
good man and ueeds no panegyric,
for his monument is firmly fixed 10
tho common hraft of the State he
loved and served SO Loyalty, devot-
edly and continuously. He had
learr' ed the "sweet uses Of advcrsitv"
as poor printer boy aud mapped
out his course upon the principle
that sits most refined realization was
to be found in the service Of human
ity," and that, without deviation,
would be found both grace and gran
denr in "the life worth living" He
was "a martyr without the palm and
Il conqucror, yet not without the tri-
umph."
In the death Of Mr.. Walsh the
mind reverts to the comparatively
recent departure Of other great con
temporary journalists: Mr. John For.
sythe, of the Mobile Register; Capt.
T.. w. Dawson, of the Charleston
Nows and Courier. and Mr.. George
W. Childs, Of the Philadelphia Press.
Great men, these-and great mould
ers, creators and leaders Of thought
and opinion, and some of them mar.
tyrs in their peculiar sphere of action.
The Hon. Patrick Walsh had a grand
potentiality. He was profound
thinker upon practical and progress,
i've lines, calm and unimpassonod in
manner, yet ever rcsonrceful and
ready, and in his delivery fluent and
forceful, tnd worked with enthusiasm
and continuity Of effort beyond his
strength or endurance. He laid his
life down for the State and city he
loved SO well. As was tho case with
Captain Dawson and Mr.. Childs, he
died IN the meridian of his day anG
long before he had reached the noon
tide splcndor Of bis years. A per.
missivo providence which we neither
question nor understand.
1t was Cato of old who said that
"thcy who suffer wrong without cause
and beat back their just indignation
and forgive, approach nearest to the
gods" Thus was it with our de
ceased friond. He recognized no
only tho freedom Of speech and O
} the press, but likewise the liberty 0
conscience aud the right of private
Judgment in all his dealings will