Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1874, Page 3

| | Wodotho gonoral choracter of our logislutiyo ¥ THE CHICAGO DAILY .TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1874, e e e e CHARLES' SUMNER. fie Tribute'to His Memory by the Chicago Pulpit. Sermong Preached Yestorday by Load~ ing Ministers of This Citys Wis Qualities as Statesmanm, Oratory ¢« pnd Philanthropist, © Tho Great Work to Which His Lifo Was ; Devoted. < % Romarks by Prof. Swing, Dr. Powers, and the Rev. Mr, Savage. Sormon by tho Rev. Mr. De Daptisto. OHARLES SUMNER. Sermon by tho Rov. 1. N. Powors of St. Jolurg Church, Yestorday ovening tho Rév. I N. Powors, Teator of 8, Jolw's Clurch, pronchod tha fol- lowing sormon, the subject bolng Charles Bumner: § Gront virlues, sesoclated with great talents, and bonaficout sorvica are not a spactacle go fro- quent In our public affairs As to command no speclal obmervation. 1n tho selfish, smbitious, ond politieal intriguos that aro so con- gplcuous in national . annals, it s always iuspiriting and lvstructive to find exatmples of oliaraoter thnt {llustrato dovotion to the highost privoiples of patriotism and tho nobleat typo of citizenehip, Of such is the {llustrious scholar and statesmon In wlose memory wo bring to- night tho tributo of gratitudo oud applauso. And {t {s dus to the causo of civit liberty which hé advocated, to the **fair humanitios™ which ho_reprosented; and fo tho mauly virtuos and rightoous prinoiplos whicl ho ndvanced, that his groat namo bo held up for tho recognition and opproval that it eminoutly desorves, . fow years ago I could nob, proclaim in any 'miscellangous asaembly what now lnportial his- tory will accord to Ar. Bumnor, without provokiug porhaps strong dissont and tha chnrgeof parti~ sunship, But the duy of bittor sectional syupathy and dobate has passad, . Now, that ho lieu stiil in donth, fn the awo ani golomnity of 6o monrnful an ovont, sll gonorona ‘henrts aro prepared to estimate tho vaine of hin character and.the groat place Lio hias filled in the Iustory of,tho Republio, I cannot_oven impoer< foutly portray the sorvices of this distinguished patriot without some rasorences to thoe personal qualitica that made him remarkublo. Ho was endowed by Nature withi a capacious and vigor- ous intolloct, an iron will, and s tomporamont of bigh ond uucopquorablo enorgy. Ilis memory, which was originally zotontivo, wns cultivated to ‘& rave degreo of ower. With tho most indes fatigable industry, onimated by an onthusl- asm-for k““"‘l“dlia' ho Lind gathored informn- tion from all available sourcos, and wus mastor of all learnfug that could utilize s gift for statesmanship. His acquaintance with literatura - was vaat and oritioal in both anclont and modern composition, Ho wns au intelligent lover and patron of art. In soiouco aud philosophy hio way furnished with tho latest practical conclu- sions of tho most oxnct invostigations, Probe ably no man living was more profoundly versod in.tho Iawa of natlous, or moro deoply groundod in tho vitsl principlos of jurigprudence. His studies and ‘moditations led him to tho largest views of tho iuterests of mankind, and to an elovation whero ho could observe tho value and working of doctrines of universal applicability. Tha ntmcaphore in which ho habitually lived, wae that of the schiolar, and if 1o Was aver ac- cused of 1mpracticablo theories it was Lecnuso o would not employ questionable expedionts in striving to promoto tho pormavent inleresty of monkind. A8 an orator Lie stands unrivalod among tho brilliant list in our country who have shed Iugtre on tho bar, the pulpit, aud the halls of logislation. His logical mind, fhe sloganceof Lis oulturo, his voried learning, his profound conyletions, his exnustive rosearels, the mornl attitudo of his position, bis fearloss indepond- euov, aud his wondorful mastery of langungo, in connection with tho cuuses for which b plaaded, mado* him tho oxpouont of somo Of tho noblest spcoimens of cloquence that have gracod tho prosent coufury.’ His specchod on_ **Frocdomn National,” the * Orimo against Knnsas,” the *Barbarism of Slavery,” are among tho groat mastorpioces of claasic ora- tory, aod will stand with the utterances of Pitt, and Fox, and Burko, models of elaborate, digni~ flod, eud convincing speoch, 08 long as the Xin- ghinh languagoe endures, But, however great his accomplishments and talonts, I should notspoak of him hore had he not conscorated themn to thoe serviee of the Rle- public and humanity. Tho timo Lias passed when @ roview of his devotion to thio sirong correc- tions of an unllgh!auul.l})Yli]nulhro];{ cun bo stig- matized ng promotive of soctional dhimonity, He lived long enough, and illustraled sufliciently thd Lreadth of his sympntbice aud the fairuess and wisdom of iy umcnmuuump, to dispel Lhe preju- dices of those who ouco thought his influenco and endoavors woyo inimical to tho intercsts of tho wholo conntry, I'hero i something admirabla Lo o ingonfous mind in that chivalyous magnsnimity that could load » young and giftad scholar, highly brod and edueated, surrouuded by aristocratio conuge- tions, and intimate with the distinguishoed socle- ty of two coutincnts, to accopt, instoad of a- career tunt would ensure ease, presont applause, and happincss, ono_that would cusuro - odinm! opposition, sud poril, aud to pursuo it iu the faco of detraction and violenco, until it was suc- cessful, If thero could bave beon a temptation to o young man of such sploudid prospects to ©chouko su immediate success, to gain' the smiloa of influential politicians aud tho plaudits of tho masses—in o word to socurq worldly favor of a very seductive kind, that tomptation must have como to him, DBut whatover the golicltations ha put it uide for a rough patty aud great brdeu, and & thorny courso of sulfering. Ho showed o8 ‘convincingly a8 nction can show, that ho loved justico moro than plousure; that faith in right was greator than his foar of detraction; thnt Lis passion for liberty was higler than persoual ambition; aud that to prowmoia tio intorcsts of muukind Wwas_the suprome concorn of bia lifo, Vithout secking for ofilcial placo, whils freo in the oxpression of lus political sentimonts, it came to Jiim 0s tho tastimony of confidonco in his patrotism and sbility. But ho did not accept his elcction to the Senato of the United Btates with auy aubscription to party bonds or policy. It ,Wwas only with perfect independenca to nob ac- ‘cording to his bost convictions that ho congented to toko his soat in that digniied brauch of tho Natlonal Logislature. I'ho principle that onimated him in Ll en- trance into publio ifo ho maintained to {ts closo. Ho wos nover sworved from tho psth that ho doomed xight, whatover might bo tho comso- quenced to himaclf. History, I think, aftords uo caue of ono enguged prominontly in civil affairs whoro the convictions of au_onlightened cone _6ciongo _havo beon more striotly adhered to than fn his,—whoro ono hns been loss'infinoncod by popular clemor; whore there has beona lofticr fudopendoneo In_the dischargo of duty ; groater dlgdeiu of wmpnrizlng expodients or por- sonal consoquoncos. L'his phaso of his charac- tor I eannot 1mpross too uh’oufil}y. or hald up too “high for admiring imitation. 1o wos & mau of couvictions, of stroug, -cloar consclonce, s mau Who dared fo do what the omorgency soamed to yonuire, a man who in the support and vindica- tion of priuciplo wap s infloxiblo as Ciosur, ag $ust s Aristidos, ng puro as Cato, Knowing as msgomblios throughout the taa' lock of ndividual consclonco, ‘of. @ ! gonerous disintorastodnoss, of & woul' for tho . publie good, of high-minded (n'.ugru{.-—snemg ! 88 wo havoto see, the alarming ovidoucos of Ignorance; demagoplem, and corruption,—wo country, ‘lh%lnhnrlmr of the right to himsolf and nll that ho'could £alrly win by tho bost use of his faoul- tlop and opportunitics, I do nnthnfi impoagh tha motives of thoso who in c{ood Ialth bpposod Mr. Sumnor's opintous and polioy, and who saw tho-faots na thoy- thon oxistod in differont rola- .tions and monnings from Lis views, Wo gronily orr unless wo make duo allowanco for tho, influonco of education, soctional elnims, porsonil intorcts, the powor’ of political pan~ slons, aud maulfold tnatora thab oporato In the flotd of politicnl controvoray, ’.&m faols no philosophta obsoryer ean ignoroe, and thoso help to oxpliain the impedimonts .with which Mr. Bumuor bad to contond in his earller caroor in the Bonato. . % 1 am not soting tho part of a historian, and thorofora rofor to ovonts only to illustrate morg alonrly tho charnoter thal we nre now contom- plating, It will bo romombiered by somo hero to- night how dificult it was for Mr. Sumner, in thoso cavly that were iuterposed in tho Bonnto to bis intro- duotfon of any Propoull.lon in whoee dlscussion 1hi0 could onunclate tho groat doetrines of human liberty that waro 80 noar Lis hoart; sud how, at lnst, it was only by a piece of ingenious, yot most logitimato, parliainentary tactics thot ho' obtamoed tho floor to-presont tho subjeot of “*EFroodom Natioual, Slavory Sectional.” I shall novor forgot Low the oponing paragraph of thnt spooch thrillod mo, noarly twogty-two yorrs ago, as, ronding 1t, I saw in mymind's oye tho intrepld Hountor risiug amid tho scornful and indignant looks of a hostilo mnjority, aud, with & Voico that Lad boon suppreased by the discourtous advantago of thosoe in power, declaro Boyond all contraversy or cavil it Ja strictly in or! dor,” And now, at last, among fheso Onalorowidod dsyi of our altios hord, but at the carlicat oppurl- nify, T atu td bo hogrd : not na a favor, but as a right, Tho graceful usagoa of this body mny beabandanod,' but tho establishod ussgos of dobata caunot bo abridged, Parliamentary courlosy mny be foryolten, but parliamontary Inw munt provall, The subject 18 Lroadly beforo iho Sanate, Dy the bicesing of God 1t shull bo discussed. But such dovotion ns his to tho dootrines of tho Fathors of the Republio, such a fenrloss ad- 'vocncy of liborty at that timo of intense politionl agitation, could not fail to insure porsonal conso- quences. It was only after provooations that ho wos moved to sovero but suitablo rnr\yA Hia ‘memorablo epecch on the *Vrimo Agoinst Knn- s, roally cost him his_life, for from tho shoole of tho murderons assault that followed he novor fully recovered. Its violonco would havo killod outright oue of loss porfect hoalth and megnifl- cont physique than bis. I om froo to confesn, that onuly in one othor cafo in my lifetime’ un” intontional - pbysical injury to n public man strikes mo with s hurt w0 oxoruciat« g, It soomed that in those blows patriotism, virtuo, liberty, law, the vory heart of the Io- public, were smitten,—for {6 was not tho man morely that I boheld prostrato, but the fdens, tho, symputbles, t Lopos, the justioo that found in Lim 80 eloquent an advocato. . 1 suppose that comparativoly fas arc aware of tho tortures that Mr. , Sumuner endured in the troatmont that was finnlly adopted for us rolaf, or the montal apgulsh that he ecxporionced in viow of duties that prossed for performance. In o lottor, which ho wrote to mo describing his condition about two years after his calsmity and before ho placed himeolf in tho Linnds of forelgn ' plysicians, a lottor dated May 9, 1858, ho says : From tho beginning of my calamity I miscalenlated ita oxient, and lived in weokly, almont dafly, axpeotn- ton of my accustomed strongtly, so thut Tnifght sgsin resumo my nctive dutios, " Ohly six weeks ago I thought myself on tho vorgs of perfoct recovory, when, withiout oxy adequato catse, aftor only & slight oxor- tion,’T found myeclf dobilitated In the extronio, unsbla fo whlk without paln or Hao (rom, my_ clinir’ oxcont Aowly and lkoan old man of 90, Thia_condition 14 oW ngain passing away, 0 that T think of roturn- ing to Washington to vota 'on questions of - intercst, Bat I have loarned that T must rogard myeolf for & Jong timo to come a8 an nvalid, especially avofdin thoso very labors which I_havo most at lourt, and sceking tho restorntion of my shnttered syatem thfough Toposo of thio injurod purt, and incessant oxerciso tho open afr; But I feol's deop disappolutmont at sceing #0 much of 1ifo and precious opportunily pass away unomployed, ' To a great soul liko Lis, spurrad by o high ambition for usefulnoss, to feol crippled in the vory blossom and noon of life, forced, a cogod engle, to the seclasion of tho invalid, whilocagor 1o sorve tho high intercsts of his follow men— was a bittor trial, I sbould fail to noto an awmi~ ablo foature of his charastor, if I did not_roluto that through tho darkest poriod of bis sufforings aod tho yoera tbat followed, no unbecoming word of complaiut passed his lips. He had no mnlediction for the hand that dashed the bright- 1nass aua vigor from Lis manhood. hia for- bearance and fortitude aro revoaled but* another aspoct of his greatness. Other and later trialy hins hio known, sharg and asping to & proud and sonuitive spirit, but they too were borue with dlfinny aund compugure. 'rom the period of bis return to. his place in tho Bonato to tho day that lio breathod lns last, bis careor bias boen o cousistont oxomplitioation of patriotio fidolity, Wo all know with what wisdom aud devotion, during the War, lio sup- ortad tho Govornmeni—bow poteut for good Eis influence on our foreign rolations during cars of disaster aud threatening complications, Blow closs o stood to M. Liscols i lite an death at the Capital, and how gonorously snd disintorestedly, since the settlomont of our civil disoords, hio lins donlt with overy subject that could prgmato pacificatior. and fraternal harmo- ny,.and the genoral goud. Indeod, ono reviewing his public life secs all aloug Liow his labors wora dirccted to practical and graciong onds, When tho slave-powor was menncing the Ropubtio, he sought to quell it. Whon robellion laid itshands upon the ark of the Uniow, ho strove to preserve tho samctuary of Tiberty, When poaco. returnod, he ondoavored to utiliza its advantages everywhere without ro- ard to past ovonts or Jocality. Whon b powor- ul polioy seomed about to precipitate ditticul- ties with a foreign power, he iuterposod in timo toavort the danger. To destroy old fends, to functione throughout ite.wholo jurisdiotion, wns tho end ho labored to promoto, - But indall tho . yoars of Lis devotod publio sorvice, whatover tha eriticism concertdng Lis polioy, e lived sbova {ho suspicion of corruption, Whatover his op- portunitios ,of porsonal emolument, his hands aye closn, Iemight be accused of dictntoyial imperiousnoss of #pirit, and of su_impragticable olitical virtue, but none could impench his honor., . Of all disgraceful imputations thatstain our logislatures, ho was freo. No man ever daro approuch Charles Sumuer with & briba, or over with a proposition that iad a taint of dishonesty. No man could say that ho over ancrificed princinlo for tho enko of guin, or ta cscape . consure, No man conld evor point to a sentonce of his that was impuro, or unbecoming the lips of truth. I shall ot oven seom to strengthon this culo~ glum by compariug him with othor names that, by cloguence, patriotisn, aud statosmanship, ero nobly eminent _in the records of our country. Buy, without detracting In tho lonst from tho fame of thoso whowm wo justly admire and vono- ruto, 1 an ask, without any doubt concorning tho ' raply, if thovo s boon amoug our public BOrvants & charavtor mora luatroua with intogrity thinu that of this groat Tribuno of Luman rights ; it thero has boon an orgtor whosa eloquonce, sprioging from dgepor sourags, will survive to move rowmote gonorations; if thoso loglslativo Lslls, ‘encrad with historia nesociatious, havo contained n naturo of moro horoio mold; if Ioaraing, culturo, tho amonition of gracaful cit- Izonship, bavo hnd & more distinguishod ropre- soutativo; if thoro has beou shown a splrit more sincore, of larger nym}mhy, of puror aim, of lattier “intelligonco,” of intonsior patriotism, of moro comprehionsivo statosmannbip? Xad man had, in tho strugglos nud trials of our nntional axistonca, a moro tiroless aud accomplishad od- vocato? Ouo more smsn of our parlismontary aud legislative record is unsullicd. * Wo oan point our childreu now to an oxample of publia virtue st Lome, without uced. of ro- ‘foranca to Roman models, Awid tho politival dogenoraoy of tho timos, fair nsa whito lly on the sluggish pool ia this clean namo fragrant with. houor, Ela\v puerilo sooms the gabblo of politiclans in tho trumpot-poal of bis Inapiring wspeach, Ilow trivial seer tho ivsipuis of mero ollico, bow empty the highoat political station Losido n lifo ounobled aud congecrated liko hig, Tho grauducsa of . wealth and titla do not of thomsolves toush me. Dub to those whoso charactors and doods aro mossages of light, who move and replonlsh our higher su- orgiog, Who omaucipate 1(fa from its thralls pud burdeus, I justinativaly brlug the tribute of ratitnda and admiration. I yovorod sud loved Lr. Bumuor for o groatucss that was bonignant. Iam not sshamod of any toms jn o grief that roaches this nbtlon's heart and gaeu far hoyond the Atlsntie. Iam indobted to him as to fow in this or jn eny gouoration, and am thankful that ;cannot appreclato too bighly ‘this strong, oon- ‘eclontious, uncompromispg #oul, entering upon ‘tho discharge of dutica that would briug him /into disfavor with tho majority, if not contompt, ‘whilo oven from friends he -could oxpect bu & doubtful or Jukowarm un{npnrt. Ivid the moral .sititudo of-the man to which I liero reter,—his _Togrloss courngo, his indommitable patiouco, his “Intloxiblo purposo, his lotty faith in tha trinph ;of righteous principlo, aud tho “Intropldity with ‘whici bo’ ‘flung’ himsolf into (ho _causo »in . which hie. bolioved deponded tho Louor, utitity, snd the purpotuity of tho opublic, "-Tho tpeatsols {4 reassuring and in- Iring in coutrast with tho dark piotnres of por-- sonal greod, and cowardico, and political degen- I cau cast my poor offering, with the moro ex- pradsive ouds, upon Lis coflin, bofore the dust covors [b.from buman sight forover. Wo thank God for this horofo and usoful lifo. ‘Tt ouo sigu of followlng the Mastar la to suffor “willingly for his * littlo ones,” to accopb tho oross and worm-wood In tho way of daily’ duty, then hora was & token of disciploship,—that lifo for many yoars was & sud oue, I wish it could havo been bopplor, As Ithluk of if, it has & meluncholy graninoess that is pathotio, And yot It was sl wincorely sud. faithfully used to the vory last. A uation mourhy? Yot wo shall not honor our lustrious doud without lmmllug tho lesgong of his lifo, Iow fow aro loft to battlo ation thet mark our times, . 1t waa not bocauss man was black or White, bo- +yange he.wwas of. quofuntionality or another, that | ibe espousad his oauep, but booause e was man, | And by aasixe of Lis_oreation and opdowmonts with duplloity, and peonlotion, and dishonosty in high places, Wharo are we 1o look for new a.lmmleous of pritiolplos, who oan woar the mantle of our dend patriot ? 5 4 It 1 time that we purify onr offlolal atations of corruptiou., It iu time tliak Obrlatisy manlioad, days, to ovarcoma tho obstacles insura the rewords of iudustry, to oxtend tbe eafoguards of _righteous law, to havo - Govarnment dischiargo its propor’ sincoroly, puro, aud bold, ba enthroned m seats’ of truat. I'rom thoso dand lips vooms to como & summons to tho poopio to taka licod loat they bo rulnously doludod and enthralled by tho knavory of domngognos and time-sorvord: and if I lioat any nmlnml from that blor gnarded so lovingly to-dny ln thoStnto-Houro of Anasashusotls, snd to whioh . millions turn ned oyes, Is st 'tho muffrages of tho’ pooplo be givon in intolligont convistion of what 1n rlgbti that the trusts of yolitionl power bo committod to tho Inoorsptiblo, apdyigliane, and wise, who will sorve in the fear of God, nid thint iborty won through so_many ngos of_ strugglo and_sufloring Lo guardod with & uaored jealouisy and tranamitiod to tho Intest gonoration,” Hia carthly caroor Ia ended and his famo ia se« ouro {n thio gratitudo aud affection of the Com- monwenlth,” What tho venorablo Dryant sald of .tho good Lincoln in his death, can bo said of thls groat cinmplon of mant Ty tank in donos tho hond nra froa; Wo bear thoo {0 an honored grave, ‘Whioso proudest monmnent sball ba Who broken fotters of tho slave, i THE IDEA OF NATION. Scrmon by Prof. Swing nt tho Fourth Pres- yeerian Church, . Yoaterdsy morning Prof. Bwing preached at tho Fourth Prosbytorian Otiurch, cornor of Rush and Ontario streots, his toxt boing : Tho powers thiat be, are ordaluad of God. Tho sormon was ns follows : Tho world has nlwaya lovod to spoeak of tho Infiuite Ono as boing the God of nations, bocause thore is o grontnons involved in the idoa of na- tloa which malos it scory worthy of tho atten- tion und lovo of tho Infinito. 1t Is cnsy for the individnal heart possossed of ordinnry humility to fool quito ovorlooked in tho daily administra- tiong'of Provideuce, but & natiou ia no vaat in ita intoronts and in its life which lics over conturies, that into its groat ovents mon can generally soo desconding iu love or wrath the sublime form of God. Notwlithstanding the most claborate and con- slusive argumont that our Hoavonly Fathor fa in all places and times aliko, yob wo all go nway from tho argumont t6 confoss Him sconor nt Watorloo than whera n ohild is pluying or o bird singing, moro visibla whoro slaves are shouting in ® uow liborty than whero tho farmor turns his Turrow ortho lonely woodman swings his ax. Thua roarking tho Liabifs of the humen mind, wo Kmy percolvo, atlognt, how groat n thingis a na- on. ‘What o vast ides it ia that it always claims tho caro of the All\\]fill‘)’ and almost compols tho athirat that thero is at loast o untion's God. A nation is & second world into which wo are all born. The first world i only tho goud greon curth with its scagons and food, and labor, aud national viciseliudos, but thig iso poor birth- pisce for amind or s boul, for into thoso poor rutish arms falls tho Indian child or the young Arnb, - To bo born into earth alove is a fato robs o Dbirthday of all worth. It is that nnly whon somo second world called o *‘nation™ bocomes -the soul's erudlp that it bocomes doesirable to fall hoir to lifo, A nation is a grand aquipment for a ca- reor; it §s food and clothes and frionds first, and oducation and omployment nnd rewards aftor- ward. It §s the atmosphore into which tho many- winged pirit_comes, and a bird might 08 woll sproad {ts’ wings- in o vaouum oa for & human soul to bo Lorn away from the trensvred-up vir- tues of national lifo, When the rude black faco with retroating forehead and gront thick lips moets you on the Bouthern coast, you kuow ho was bors, bub you associato this knowlodgo with tho othor faot that lio was born to annfiu Africa. Great boyond eatimate, thereforo, is the Tuat of nation, for it shapes tha soul, and is tho joy or sorrow of evory being that comes iuto this oxatonco, As whon, in tho sotting sun after & summor showor, nil things, oclouds, hills, and ovon the Very grass nnd tho facos of our frlonds standing iu the refractod light, aro covered with tho tingo of gold; so whon mau ig born fnfo o vation ho i8 instantly bathed in its light, and sots forth in a doublo destiny thut determiucs tuo valuo of life. Whon Bunyau saw a eulprib as- unndiuiz tho stops of tho gollows, ho aaid : * Thet wero 1, but for-tho grace of God.” Dut tho race docs nob busy itelf only with individunis Bioeo and tira, byt 1t matligotit a vaotscalin and mnkay it » gront, freo, civilized stato, and then tho millions that comd to Jifo in its blossed con- fincs can, in their Intor years, when thoy renlize thovalno of tho groat fatherland, sny: * I was [y u:lnxngo, o Cougo nogro, but for the grace of o, Noxt to the grandeur of a star that carriean thensaud wmillion of }monla upon its bosom and whisly thom along Lurough dsy and night, sud summer and wintor, and youtd and old age, is tho grandour of a woll-oquifpped State which fo Imudrods of yeors guards tho libosty, and indus- try, ond cducation, and happinoss of tho dopend- ont millions, crowding its inflwonce in upon them gontly as tho atmosphore lios upon the cheolk ju Juno. Her language, Lior gonins, hor idole, her roliglon, hor fraodom, ouwrap us bot- tor than our motbor's arme, for it enwraps ber too, and wreathos lior forohead with merit thnt warrsuts lor ofico snd hor afection. In tho Btato : o Boverolgn law, that with callocted will Sits eipress, crowsiug good, ropressing ll, smit by lier snered frown ‘Cho lend disonssion liko s vapor siuks, And een thoall-dazzling Crown, Hidos his fajut rays, aud ot hor bidding sinks, . . Whenco comos this grand instrumentwhich, a8 now existing In our continont undor tho flag of, liberty, pours around férty milliona of peoplo such a goldon air ng ne millions aver broathed ba- foro? Who gathored thoso flowors that wroatho oquatly our cradic, our altar, our homos, and our wholo carthly pilgrimage ? This much of a re- ply is given by huumn exporience, Notbing comos tomun of excellonca withont labor. All that man poscues of ari, of selonco, of literaturo, or invontion bas come by regular. payments in bard toil, As tho verdura that waves over tho wholo -enrth ligs gomo from tho encrifico of the sun’s hoat, #o the glory manifold of caoh groat u. tion biay come by tho path of human sacriflco of thought, end toil, aud oven life, aud o valaubla havo boen tho National ilons, thut for all tho good tho world posesscs thers havo boen tlelds: baptized with the hemt's best blood. Young though ‘nny of the moderu freo nutions may bo in thoir prosont namo and form, yot back of ench one lla a thousand yonrs of activa labor, and often of doop agony. As geologists now tell us that beforo God fitted up this earth for man, while the mists wero rising from its heated sons and omulnuu[ng&\lu tha uanr nir, thero werb ofton awinl storms whore tho thundor rollod jucousnut- ly for o Lundred yoars, 1o cach nation which s 800 standing forth now m peaco aud boauty,— Englund, Gorutny, Amorics,~has omorged from o thousand-your storm, whero tho wrathof mun bay rolled in thuuder oud tho cruol skios have rainod blood. -Ono of tho poota says, * A thous fand yoors s0areo borya to form a Stato,” and obl what yasre of toil and vielssitude thoy aro to the brains which stand ot the throne, und to tha hoarts tht stand u tho buttlo, and bo tho widow aud orylhuny Wl Naop whon ' tho smoka rolls away and revenls tho dead, I, then, & groat netion Like our own has como ovar & two-thousand yoar path, uudor a sky of altorunto pouco and storm, como slong from froo Athons and froo Romo, and from saored Pales- tine, thoro must have boon sl along guardinn anedls of It long ouruoy,glorlous Joudors of (ts wilderness maroh ; soula that smoto rooks for its thirety multitudes and prayed dowu manng in tho till night, Tho morals’ of our day can Jook ‘back and soo thoir Soneca, tholr Confuciny, -but ohiofly thoir divino Jasus; tho art of our " ora looks baok and boholds its Phidiag, its Apollos, its Angelo, link tho fu- tiuro aud o paut ¢ postry and all filoraturo Jook back and cast emiles of gratitude to Homer and Thuoydides, aud Dante. The law coufestos the doop Btudies of Cicoro and Justinisn a8 minds who studied justico whon the world soomed young ; and naw, bebiolding this difforontintion of mon by & wise providenco of God, 80 that onch path'of tho soul's vast vineyard may havo somo ono to love its vines, wo ronch tho ocasy conclusion that thio same wisdom will pormit us always to hold in mémory und to love mon who, turnlng aside from othor paths, have found in tho study and love and sorvieo of thoir nation tholr own spooial path batweon tho cradlo and the grave, * O, it is & blessed thought that there have riven'up horo und thore Loarts not only that gould ~ weaye tho wBweob songs of & Virgil, not only hands that could paint the picturos of Parrhasius, or that strike the notos of Mozaré; not only miuds that may Lhrow up & domo of St. Potor'’s, or;that may estonish the world with tholr invoution, but also othor honrts which have loved the idos of Na- tion, and have lived aud died, not in the arms of & friond, but rathor in tho ayms of the country. Out of the the thoughts and lovo snd spoolalizi tion of thowo gront onas wo humblo children of tho Btato huvo all drawn our huppiness sud froo- dom, as tho violots are fuvited to lifo by the all-loving sun, A Iu.tho wook past the grave hns opoued gudden- 1y, and takon bacl oug of thon souls whioh soem_gont of God to kuow nothing elsa but thofr country as I'sul knaw nothing oluo but tho COross, Intd that tomb, which grows wider cach oy, and which has roelvod awny from.sight Washington, and tho Adamsos, and Jefforsou, aud Qlny, and Wobstar, and Lincoln, f Jast kg booy ‘gathered one mora'numo'wreathod as” hoavily as auy with tho glorious idoas of our great Ropub-- s gy, Napoloon loved not & uatlon, buy bis own powor. Ho waa not a studont of justlco, bus of crowns,—how to dostroy othor diadows, and of thelr jowols fashion ono for himsolf, “lia triumph and tho vanity, Tha rapturo of tho strify, ho earthiqunkoyolea of victory, “Fo thoo tlio broath of lifo, Tl aword, tho fcontre, and the away, Whicls man soomod maifo but to oboy Whotowith ronown was rife, All quoi'd! Dark Spirft wiint must be Tha mnducsn of thy momary | » But the momory of that lifa just ondoed has no “madnesa in {t, but Ia n remombrance of honor, ond uhulll{, and pence, It sooms ospuoially fittlng the day snd plnce thot wo should dovate this hour to ehom}hm ovor this freah tomb, for tho groatngss of Mr, Bumuor's caroor is atrango- ly iuwovon with somo of tho noblost idens of Ohristinnity, and this uuion is not neeidontal, but spiritunt aud futollootunl, for 3tr, Bumuor, in Iis lifo dovoled to humanity, so framod all Luis arguments, and 80 basod them upon tha philoso- iy of Chrlst, that the porpotual roturn of tho torina Obriatinnity and Bavior show that much of hin eloguence was the Sormon upon the Mount, applied not to tho future of tha soul, bus to tho trito garthly progress of mankind, It any group of ghllaflnphnm wotd'to slt down with tho %ai(u of Ubrist In thoir hauds, with the desirg to olaborato & constitution from its pugos, among the many principles they would bring out woshould 8t onco cortainly flud those: Tosco, Juatico, sud Eq’unlil . TFrom Justico would instontly come liborty. Now, of thab oventful Jife whose untimoly onding drapes this doy with sorrow, theso threo Ohriatian idoas, poncs, liberty, nnd equality, worotho opening and tlual atraln, the matinand tho ospor. 'Lho publio onroor of Mr. Bumudr bogau by that unrivalled oratlon, spoken thirty yoars 6ga, upon Ponco na the gourco'of najjonnl grandour, and without any doviation, auy faltering, slong tho_ path, ho f found ot lnst, on tho bordoer of donth, asking Oongrous not Lo paint upon its flags of tho pros- ont wnd faturo tho namos of buitlos whero rothors fought, But befora Iask you tothink of thoso throe gront idons, Jn whicit Mr. Sumuor ald groat er- vica for tho Christianity outof which ho took tho idons, and tho Ohrist-liko spirt too, pormit o to apologize, a8 farag it msy bo necossary, for the marblo coldnoss which hns long beon as- socliated with this eminont charactor, A publio man writing in a privato lettor siuco tho donth of tho Senator, says ¢ o was cold a8 o sfatuo, Hbwean ehild of princi- ples und books, and, conagpiuntly, bad Lt fin cony mon with tho lumanities of life, 'y . . . T cannot Apeak of him genorally in this rogard, but, in tho fow tlmes in which Idined with bim af Mr, Licolw's table, ho waa # plcasant dinuor companion, and con- vorsod kinppily and fnstructively, but sucl times wora ouly owtbroske of sunlight, In'tha maiu bo wos bes hind tho eloud, and, whilo full of gentio humanty for moukind, he moved smong individuals evolving an austoro sonso of auporiority, Against the trnth of thoso statemonts from ono who had the opportunity and the discrimina- tion for ronding woll the qualities of this diitin guishod man, wo would soy nothing. Indeod, the portraiture just givon may bo confossod to bo sufliciontly corroct, but I do wish all tho great intollectual developmont which the world hrs avor seen hag beon reachod at tho cost of tho hoart, ‘‘Whoroe the trensuro js," suys tho Bible, Othare the heart will ba also,” and honco when nu old scholar of the dark agosfound his lova of thought incroasing, Lo bogau to withdsaw from the iroots and to fiud in somo monaetio cell all tho world thet any longor romnined in the heatt, and though tho dark nges aro gono and tho mon- astorlea nro dust, yob tho principlo romaing such that whon tho intolleot weda jtself fully to eor- tau paths of study and toil the heart soon sun- dors tho many sweet and boantiful aesocintions of the wido world, and cnats {ts love upon that roalm only to which the intellect bad wodded itself for botter or for worse, for richor or for pooror, It i3 an unconscious sacrifico which gonius is alwaye compollod to mako, but it ia no 1nore visiblo on the grave of Sumper than oyer tho grave of Mill_ in_ philosophy, or Paseal in motaphyslcs, or Aigolo in art, or Cicoro in law and lottors. It is writton on all bistory that & lifo of thought is a constant warforo aginst o lifoof cheerfulness and love. ing the marblo cokiness of past illustrious men a8 0 blemish or fault in their character, wo only indicato o common fact, and wo would bury tho dofoot forever undor tho offarings of gratitude that thero have como horo and thoro souls which, for the dovelopment of groat useful idens, havo Boon ablo to abaudon what we mortaly, in a hum- Dlor vale, call tho varlod pleasires of life. Turning pside now from this apology, ot ua rejoico Luat it was tho fato of the lamanted Sen- ator to liva for only o part of earth sud for only a part of roligion, that it plonsed him to live for o magnificent a part of both politics aud re- ligion ag iu fouud in the words Tence, Justico, and Liborty. 1t was not Mr. Summor,’ you ‘rov ‘mombor, who advised tho portoerslip of Biblos nnd rifles in tho oarly days ot Kansas. No, in all thig forty years of publia 1ife, Mr. Bumnor stood by tho power of vgument,’ of light, of Chuistian civilization alope, His hymn was the poot’s pealin of Yeaco; 3 Wovohalf tho porwEe §¥t fills tho world with terror, Were holf tho wealtl beatowed o camps and colirts Givou to redoem tho human miud from error, Tliro wora no need of.arsonala or forts ¢ Tho warrior’s namo would be a uaino abliorred, And overy nation that should lift agaln It hand ogainst its brothur, on {ts forchead ‘Would wear forovermoro {he cureo of Caiu, Tn the pulpita of the whale land the Gospol dogtrines have for the most part boon applied to ouly thdividaal wolfaro, and chicfly to that wel- faro boyond tho confines of Blatos, beyond tho gravo ; nfraid for tho most part toproach whab thoy called politics snd having to an slorming oxtont such bad politios that it Wwas porhaps for~ tunato thot thoy remained silont ovon by s theo~ logical mistako, tha Christian wministry bad in tho last genorations left tho Goa‘ml of nations to bo proached by tho fow disciples of Willinm Penn aud by such virtaal Quakers 08 Ghasning, snd Whitticr, and Sumnor, the greatest of all. Tpan him thoro was 00 ‘restraiat, no_araed, no polioy, such as intluonced Wobster and Olay. No fonr of yiolenco, No fonr of publio scorn, cither fram Boston or New Orleaus, over held him fu any considerablo chain ; but from him, tho fracst mau our couutry ever bad in its dark day, camo tho Gospet of Jiations, in all its Both- lohem benuty of trath and of spirit, | In tho prosont, and, moro yot in_th ronr fu- turo, the pulpit will confoss. that Chinrlos Bum- ner was the minister at its ultar in tho dark days ‘whon it was afraid, sud in doctrines to the gran- donr of whiol'it had not the intoilect, nor tho courage, nor the hamanity, o nscond. Toun, and Ohanning, aud Bumnor csmo in with thab putt of Christinvity whioh bolougs to the con- stitution of nations ; and, whon wo remombor that o grand, froe, onlightonsd Stato 18 tho land in which tho cross can bo roared with mout suo- coss, tho orators who, upon tho fiold of states- manshup, apply to pociety tho threo Christinn doctrinen of ponce, libarey, ond justico must bo confessed Lo b standing Yory near tho Loliost minlsters of roliglon. " As tho Clurch holpod Mr, Bumver, gavo biw hesrts willing to liston'to his Jong argument, 80 Le holped tho Churdh by souding bock to it men who ovormoro tried to aombng tho chinractor of Ohristian and tho char- aoter of citizon, But Bir, Sumner's pttachment to peaco was no moro absorbing and uubending’ than hls devo- tion to liborty. But liberty ia twin-sluter of poaco, 58 bondago is the companion of forco, A Franklin gloried In saylng, " Whoro liborty in, thoro i8 my country," Yanenor oqually alories o aaying, © Whoro liberty is, therd is my party,” Down .this ohannel of froedom for white slaves In DBarbary aud for Dblack slaves in Amorica, lie pourod a torrent-of oloquonce for twonfy-five yonrs, o strosm of ar- gumont whicls, sutf;m-mg up 'tho wisdom of (reeco and Romo, the oxporience of Lngland, tho battlo-sliouts of Marathon and Bunker IIill, tho blokt vision of all tho poats, tho longings of Washington and Jofferson, and thon badooked with tho flowars of o gorgoous rliotoric growing up oither bant, moved alung like sn Amnzon to- wards tho sea, 1t has boon sald rocently by a public man thet” #3Ir, Swanor surpausod all statosmon in tho love and study of tho right." It wos this deop propossesslon that lod hiin to espouso tho causa of the slave, Worda which ho himwolf applied to Ohsnning thirty years ago, rolurn noW to sottlo upon his own forohuad. “Tollow my whito plume;” sald tha chivalrous monarol of Franco, *Follow tho Ilight, mora zesplondont’ than plume or orilamme,” was tho watchword of Bumnor, Bub all this long: blstory you know whll, for in thiy bour, when death Ly “to quicken our mem- ory and 1ove—an hour which makes an enomy a friond—all that past strugglo for the slaves' froo- dum from tho discord of tho Missouri Compro- miso down fo tho death of Mr. Lincolu—a trog- edy whioh eloged the long, awful drama—flnshon through your hoprty with no detail of sndnosy loft out, * But to-day wa eun only turn sgido from tho usunl {homes of tho snorar ‘desl to bloss tho hoavauly Fathor for this Ohild that caio lu tho namo of thak form of civilization whiok luds ity bost oxpgnont In tho Buvior ‘of mankind, and that thord was ono tongue which for & gonora- tion mado the bost cloquenca of thiw froo land bmm - with the light of Him wlhone Gospol fu'niob only s perfoot salvation, but 8 puifect olvilization, tho vitaljulr not only of & wuint but of o oftizon, But wq canmot closo theso thoughts withont agkiug t¢ rond in this uru of porishablo dust but of {mpexshublo momory, a losson of hopo which may sorjo us all in coming days, porliaps of tho nmmtry[hu: auroly of our own hoarly . Whon qvornijont sud pulplt and press wero voicar oss and hopeless us to atima whon the nation’s flag abdsld bo freed from its laut' n{)rqnuh, thia 1ghat, Yol 18 plosod now, Bety plain {‘.m thp fus 7 when all she Statos would Instead of rocall-’ steosuad 3 when tho natlonal banner would proolaim lib- orty ond Justico whorovar 1t should wave. Il wai & hopefulness which nothing but dcath could abato, aud bloseed with aitol & prophotio slmost inspired, sonao, bd) in all tho yoars ol our olvil war, was calm, and was to dr. Lincoln, npon: whose' mind and hoart a burdon rosta which would have woavied an atlng scoustomod to yuataining tho globo—n daily mossongor of faith and hopo fn man aud Qod. . Porhaps tho marble-liko nntitro of the statesmnn was a Fomm and strongth to o Prosfdent whoso bonrt was always' full of tendorncen and molancholy strongoly mingled, 'That imnieuso power of hopo which Las alwaya atténded mon of {donls —tho angol of tholr nood—nccompanied Mr. Bumpor in all Lours, and bold Lim up far sbove tho dlscord of tho passing timo, A poom which o grontly loved shows us what kind of & bymn sounded in tho aky ovor his daily tolls Thore's a fount ahout to stroam, Theros o light about to beam, {hero’a o warmth abont to glow, Therok n flower about {o blow, Thsoro's u miduight blackness changing m‘v;{nun of actlon, ho woy 1 Oh, why may not_the Pulpit and ench Chrls. tisn rino to thls calm atmosphore of o trust in ad, and, ag this statoeman slways saw liborty and justicq about,to come down out of God's eky, why may not Tho solwor of the Croes daily By ¢ TInto Xen of flwu&hl o oar £ Thiero 48 n ount abont to strosm, “hiero i a Light sbont to boam, 3 and live in this magnificont hopo! But our timo bus passod. Sfuch of our conntry’a montal and ‘moral glor‘y has gono down in past years, Wo soom to hove only an ovening horizon, into which golden suna’sink, but from whick nono arigo, Our molancholy gato of doath sooms wider_thon tho gates of 1ifo by whicl such glo- rious bofngs mnroh toward onr honrta, Db thia apparent trlumph of tho Gravo may como from. the faot that wo can sco tho past inall its doso- lation, but cannot unveil tho futuro and sco ita. componsating good. Wo can only hopo that tho gates of God's moroy are ns wido s tho gates of hig denth, and that the solomn Wost into which theso grent lights aro sluking muy ouly assura us that thoro is'an Enstorn sky also, radiant with Divino love, upon whoso bosom othor orbs will uppoar, rosplondont agaiu with Poace, Justico, and Tiborty. ——— THE DEAD STATESMAN, Sermon of the Rev. M. 3, Snvage, of the Third Unitarian Ohurels Tho Rov. M. J. Bavago, pastor of tho Third Unitarian Church, corner of Laflin and Pauline stroots, pronched, yestorday ovoning, on Charlos Sumner, taking a6 his toxt: S T will mako o man, eatth tho Tord, to be moro yro- - clous than fiue gold; oven o man thau tho goldon wedlgo of Oplifr—Taalah, xild,, 12, ‘Thosormon was a8 follows s ‘I'hoso words aro a part of o throat of dosola- tion sbout to come upon an snoiont country. Destruction wos to riot in morciloss slaughter until mon, the life-sinew of natious, wore to bo 28 rare aud procious ag tho gold of Opbir, and this was rightly rogarded as the culmination and glnstly crown of tuln, Mon aro nations. Tho cltadel of & country may bo granito, and the gronite may bristle with double-shotted jron muzzios ; overy capo and promontory may bo s fort; s doublo Chineso wall may loom heavy sgainst tho sky in tho faco of all mvadors; aud yot the country itself may cramble to dust beneath its own weight for lack of mon to be its plllara; whilo any laod whose lifo-blood is in the hearts of its loyal men, and whoso ramparts are bravo bosoms, strong in tifi'hfi, may stand ‘::Yn foarloss and dofy tho world, 'That, thon, whi takes o nation's mon tales its lifo, ) .But thero mro othor ways than war, or poatilonco, or famine, by which tho men, 'and &0 tho lifo and hope of & country may bo destroyed. Mon may live while manhood dies, and thon’ tho nation, like _corpse galvanize into o sceming life, may go through oll tho mo- tions of existouce, n Elmatl parody on its former solf, DBub this can bo only for o'whils; for the inevitable grave waits for all things that are dond, snd ouly for a littlo will bo cheated of its proy, Thus foll anciont Rome; and thus foll modern France. Men were plonty ss stones of tho stroet ; but manhood was 88 raro as gold, and 60 a8 Precious a8 goms. Iamuotone to prate of degenoraoy and do- any. I beliove that whatover desorves to live doca livo, and witl live. It nas in it tho lifoof Cod. And I further boliove that, though phanes and forms of life, and special types. of govern- monk and eivilization, mny porisb, that yot hu- manity, under God's loadership, morclics on. But this great faith does nob preclude tho fack nor the saduoss of national doterioration ; nd, though our human lovo may ba—as it, ought— suporior to our patriotic, yot would wo oach re- joico to sco tho world advanced by the groat thought and tho great devotion of our country, Sucl'is my dosire, and such the sadnoss of any threatencd disappoiutment ; for it sooms to me o fact tlut, whatover may bo truo of the rank and filo of "our people, wo aro sadly deficiont, uut now, in oficinl leadorn under whom wo may wargh sud not be ashamed. DMen who wear tho rogal orown of manhood—men that are mop— aro now ns raro in Washington as gold is in the civeulation of tho land; and, a8 many there hold and preach tho doctrino that rags sro a5 good as gold, if pooplo would only think 8o, 80 thoro would soomi to bo a provailing opinion, in what are called tho highost circlés, that suc- cossful demagogisin is Just as good, or a little Dottor, than downright principlo and true mane 0od. ‘At such a timo, thoso of us who thivk & man, atruo nan, moro procious than the gold of Ophir, aud who approviato how tho valug s on- haucad by tho sonrcity, know how fo csti- ‘mato and Inmout tho" loss of Charles Bumpor. Of himm_might woll havo been writtou thosa no- blo words of Hamlet: for ho had A combination and n form, indeed, Whoro overy god did scom to sot his sea), To give the world assurauce of a man, Men of Lis_abiliby oro rare in any ago, But mon of such ability and_such character com- bined aro Jiko tho sun, It flls tha firmament, Since the nation wopt for Lincoln, no denth hosi 80 touchad the honrt of tho country, aud whon thio issucs of this conntry are made up, and cach Liistorio form is nesigned its nicho in tho great panthoon of fume, no shapo but that of our (ix['ont Presldent will overiop tho grandour of the Mes- sachusotts Sonator. In some important ro- spects, not oven bo : for porhups I should not say too much in giviug utternnce to the quos- tion aa to whothar it wero not Sumner who made o Liugoln possible, aud If » murtyr's crown is fo halo the hoad of one, 80, alAo, must it thot of tho other: for Sumnor died a yoar-long depih in tho same causo of hnman freodam, It s somotimon thought to Lo raliglous and Clristian to pronch about names and deods that have foupd record in tho Biblo; whils it is socular leoturlng only, aund & quostionablo frecdom iy the pulpit, to step outsldo its limita for a thome, Butif Godbosn living God, and Liave anythingto do withi tlo Listory of to-day, it wooiow to mo thab this division is & purely arbitrary ono. And thore seoms to be some- thlug gspeclally ffing in our studylug tio Biblo that God is writlng mow. It s oxocodingly difiult to bring omg to thie (wnotlor) ago, civilization, and mado of life, the lossous Covar- od up in the sayings sud do\nfzu of Abraham or Jnon":, and, too oftou, mon listen a8 to to ‘*a talo that is told Bomo far-away timo that haa no vital vonnootion with tho -proseut. But our salnts and suges are folk to be of our blood. Thoy filled thoir nontri)s with our air ; they con= quored our tomptations; thoy gave us models of nobility for the presont time,” Wo cannot, thou, aiford to lobn nawo liko Bumnor’s sloop withoub studylng its signiloauce. Tor, uy b was written over nn Eunglish poot's ;imvu‘ “0 rara Tion Jonson,” 80 might wa Sttingly wiite sbove Buwner, for his opltaph, " O roro Oharlos Bumner,” So raro ave lives ke his that thoy becomo excoedingly proclous, and the nation that ig wiso enough to lay up suoh momories in its trensury of jowels shiall live weulth above what o full exelioquor cau bostow, Aud it i8 specinlly fitting that such a man- hood bo studiod mow, becauso the tido and rush of ulfairs that load to the rapid succosses of to-doy aro .go fatally wob [u tho opposite divoction, o judge by those who attain to the quick and flashy succosses of our iimo in Washington, and tue governmontal contros of tho land, it would soawm that lesrning and wisdom were of 110 ospocial valuo, and that Llionasty wero an obstaclo, aud go the quiclk sue- consos monn quick ruing, aud tho eud, If it gaey 3.: “\'x its uatural ond, must bo moraland national ool Lot us roviow, then, thegolden qualitics of this raroand preolousmanhiood, that we inymsla thom models and inspirations, It ia worthy of noto that he wus grand, noble, and manfully beautitul in his physiquo, 1t hushoeu tho fushion through- ant most of tho Oliristian ages to oast contempt upon tho body, and to speak slightingly of the Wyrons,® material park in compnrison with the spiritual. But wo aro alowly gotHug wiso, What wa lmplously onll * gross® pud '*vilo® .18 the wondrous work of God, and wo aro algo loarning that it is so wondrously corrolated o tha nll!u* tual thng thoy must go up or down togethior, A gouud mind in n souud body,” aud if olther Baffor, the othor muat fool tho Tesult, « Bmmi{ thon, I Qivine, and while he who prides Limaal} ou, or ueoks after, prottiucss is aonmnpflblu,lu andyonly one cau whing in - tho ssmo sky at onno." cnati o alight npon the masforplocp of the great artlst who hns no care for form and symmoatry. Right human conditions, will mnke ol things, auc only useful, but sléo *Loautiful in their me,"” While the painteris moro than his brush or his plgments, yot to porfoct work the pig- mont and the Drush nlko must conspiro ; and, though an artiat, with poor taols, will do botter work than tho man with tho {incat imploments, yab tho artlst will do finor work for having finor menna, And go, though noble minds liave done noblework in half-mado and dlscased bodios, what migkt thoy not have dono with bottor ? Thus a firm prosence, noblo mion, tweot-toned voico, and healthy brain are divine tools for n mnn to labor with, Of course o Iool' onn turn thom Into foppory. But I am-not spealing for fools ; T lonvo thoin to God, who alouo i capn~ blo of dolng them nuy good. ‘I'nough now this mattor is vory largely bo- yond our control, so Iar as oursclvos are con= tornad, 1 will auggest & trnth that will bo the thomo of sermons and books {u the future, Wo suall some timo wako up to tho importance of raco culturo; snd wo ghall fool that it is not only worth while to uso our eionco and onr caro in Imposing the typoo? our vinos, and trees, and birds, and enttlo, but that wo should so troat ourgolves that our obildren may bo ablo to in- horlt 8 finishiod, and iheroforo Loautifal, physi- cal lifo, As a port of his magnificont body, Bumner was ondowad with a largo and finely oxganizod brain, aud thls was tho moasure of his mental manifes- tatlon, For whntover o man's mind mny bo, it must o:[rrbuuituolt to othors through tha medt- um of hi# brain, and, as light takos Jtho color, dimnoss or Lrightnoss, of stalned windows through whioh it shincs, so the mind can show itself higher and botter than the inatrument through which it works, And lioro ngain, you may think, st first, that thore la vo loggon for ua because it is popularly supposed that ability is a myatorious gifs over which wo hiavo no control, Wo have no dirot or {mmediato control. But in tho long run, by tho cumulation of tho bost cloments of humanity, throngh tho law of horodity, I bolieve wo have s Tnpro control ; and wo may hiolp Lo lacroaue, not gn{y tho henri-power, but tho hoad-power of the utitro, X ‘Lhosa for thought. I prss on now to what all miny soe to bo direet and pressing practicrl ndods of "tho time. Charles Bummer trusted nob to nativo ]gl[tn of porson, of, proscuce, or brain, ‘Through long yoars, and by patlout toil, snd wisoly-noelng purpose, ke Bought to obtain for himgalf tho broadest and highest culture. 1 hopa it is. not an essontial part of ropubli~ canism,—for, if it s, then farewoll freodom and our future hopel—but it is now tho fashion in ligh political circlos to sncer at_culturg, and exalt in its placo what is mlsulgmcnllud common souso, And so would-bo statosmon go on stu- pidly and ignorantly repeating offolo and ox- ploded blundors; and thinking them the latost discoveries of modern Amerlcan wisdom. It is most wofully common, but the sonso ia loft ont, Culluro is the bighest sonso. Tor what is it? It is simply an athletlo training of tho faculiios to tholr highost ability, and making thom capa- blo of thobost they can do. And next, it is an acquaintanco with tho bost thinking and tho best-work that the race Lias donoin tho past; and then this ocultitre comon to the work of solving prosont -problems with sl tho light of what im bagn attempted and wronght in all agod. 1t is a marvel fo me ‘to soe how stupid and {oolish paoplo cen bo in govornmental matlora, who are yot practicaily wise lu_tho mansgemont of thoir own sffairy. Men like Sumuer and Bclurz are snecred ot in Congross as thoorists and impractical men becanso thoy happon to bo meu of culture, and to thinl 1t wiso to boyo somo prineiples and plans about tho way of sotting up aud running the most delicato nud complicatod ‘machinery known to man—thatis, the machinery of_governmant. ) If a man wants o house built, o thinks it wiso to omploy ona who has caltured himself . m thab direotion—an architoot—to build it. What s his plau but » theory? If a steam-ongine is to be constructod, calturod engincor is thought bost fitted to superintond tho work. But thoge who would think the man a fool who should omploy 8 hod-carrior or a stoker to build a houso or an englue, nct a8 though thoy thought iguorance a rocommoudation to bigh Pplaces in the Govern- mout. Mon at Washington havo raged around the feot of Summner and ridiculed bis eulture, looling, for all the world, like the six-inch Lili- putinns exemining the sliocs of Gulliver, while ho, with hoad abovo the dust of tho squabbles at Lig foot, bng ‘“looked bofoxo and aftor,” and sought to ap) !i tho wisdom of all oges to tho rignt doing o the prosout. This contempt of culture has given s all acea- slon for shamo; and thoso who think dooply will find in it couse for grave alaro. It lms givon us mon at the hend of tho Nationa! 'Trepsury who have not ‘ouly falt, but dared, to oxoross thoir contompt for auy veionco of fluance, and in their bluudoring Iguoranco thoy bavo gone on to reoklessly and wuatofully uso tho reeources of tho nation, It Lus mnde horscs supromo ovor books at the ‘White Houso, It hrs turnod our Civil Sorvico ‘into the corrupt machinery of demugogues. It hns mado our commorcial relations with other countries a euuningl{ contrived aystom of nots and traps and wobs, in which crafty fishora and hunters uud spiders eutrap and fatten on the Tonest men and busiuoss_prospority of tho na- tion. It has mado our third-rato politicians and oftontimes iguoraut farmors thinic that welted hands, sud hay-soed in tho bair, sud the grim of ‘machihe-sliops on_the face, were bottor qualifi- cations in o sttesmsn than law, history, and sociology. Asif ouo wero fitted for a pocutiar .worl in just tho degreo in which lio knaw noth- ing about it, How would farmers #nd machiniats Iiko the nfgliontiau conuernillf theirown aflairs? Suppose I go and urgo my claim to instruct the former in his business on the {:mnnd of my nover baviog been on & furm in all m{ lifo ? What is nooded to-day in our politics boyond all things olso, oxcopt houesly, in culture, As lawyors and doctors and morchants do not find that thoy can know any £oo muchh nbout their ‘Dusiness, so,onlymuchmore,doos a legislator need wide knowledgo. And o8 an iguorant physician 1might 70 on repeuting the mistakes of all thie past, that n&)anor calturo would toach bim to avoid, #0 an iguorant logislator porpotunlly ropeats the blundors of history, And it is somothing that our young men and womon neod to kuow con- ooruing alf tho business of life, that, noxt o the disposition to do right, comes the*nooessity of knowing what 18 tho bost and the wisost, = Ho who trusts to his luck whon Lio can got anything Lotter to trust to, puts confidonco in the atupid- ity of a fool. With all his ability and ctleure, Mr, Sumuor kopt the simplo Labits aud mauner of lifo that cnm&mtl. with tho dignity of a Ropublican man- Lood. Nnt&loflso&smgthnuonvoniuutmuun]oncn that enabled him fo confound the public monaoy with his own, ho kept within the frugal Hmits of his private fortune, Either on foot, gr in tho nbroot-car ho mado his dnily tounds ‘from his liousa to the Uspitol. ITe snid hooould not keop & coxringe, and also havo the books and tmcans of study which both his noeds and hig tastes de- munded. 8o ho choso the botter part, Instead of vulgar ontlay aud digplay he devoted himsolf to bis Lighior wants, aud 60 to tho highor wolfaro of those ho gorved. Ho stinted not his mind nor Dis higher tastes, Hero only was ho lovish. ‘While Socretaries, aud other high functiounrios of the Governmont, woro using the public monoy for private and porsonal convonience and ploas- ure, he was poralutontly goiug without whut o word or o turn of tho hund—and tho death of it consoienco—would have laid ab his foot. And this loads us to ono of the noblost aud—nowadays—ravost qualitios of lus firm and preclous manhood, From first to lest ho carriod with Lim sn intogrity and porsonal purity sbsolutoly sbove the suspicion or ques- tion of lis bittercst foo, Consldering tha sur- roundings of s lifo, tho battles in which ho was & prominout mark, aud tho vulnorability of the common 'run of our modorn * Christinn stutosmen,” thiy ia somothing worthy ot oxtraor- dinary noto. 1lad thore boon & wonk spat in his charaotor, Do sure it would have been found out ; for-his foos walked around him for yonrs, as o wary onemy ciroumvents & fortificution to flud a pluca whoro suceessful breach mny bo made lu lts walls, and though, porhaps, e wns sy hated o man ag any of his time, no one ever dared, oven by u vile ffing or covert insinnation, to enll his oharacter In quostion, and the only way by which ihoy could moat his srgumont and hid ohnractor wad with tho coward cune of & hull_vm?v nesassin, Othors might grow Buddonly rloh with tho prico -of their muuhood, and flaunt tho mnlo of thoir Integrity in tho facos of tho Capital, but no oua over thought of imponchiug tho purily of his conduot or motlvos any mofo than thoy would watch to see if the irt-throwing of a streste squubblo had spottod tha stars, 'Aud ovon in tho ono mattor of hin life through which_the smallent nuubor-of moen huvo ever paskod unsollod, tho divorce from his wifo, 80 fur a8 know, tho purity of his oonduct or motivos has “-noyor boon oveu suspoctod. Ho wtands unimpeachod and uuimpenchabto, Tho most that has over Loon hisped to lus disoradit s tho chinrge soma- tinios made of an undue self-ostoom, But, whon wo cousidor thatany ono who is great must of necosslty bo asquainted with tho fuct, and how worthy lie was of cktecm, aud whon wo further romerabor how many thore ora who chorish & t golf-ostoem witi » minimum of solt-roupoot, g::smgomug:“ of others,. I think we may fnrglvé im this, n > " llnu onk of bia chotaoter, I supposo uowo but iy “utimato “frienda kuew of "his religions thoughts and oxporiences, 1o was not o stroot= cornor Christian. Ifo had no_window in hig breast, nor placard upoen it, 1Ie never neadod tho acrtiflento of Washington olorgymon to show that ho wasa “Clirlatian statosman.” (1 eup- poro Lim tohavo beon by convietlon a Unitae ran.) But ho wos not a_Christian iu any chrchly or technioal senso, Yot, though no ona could look into his hoart, eo no more can acion~ tints look into the hoart of thosun, But both ara known by tholr outshiniug, and Bumrior dis- pinyed in hi# porsonal bistory’ ard {n his statos-, maiship tho vory contral principlos of Ohris- ' tianity,. His courso toward tho Sonth, whon, at tho close of tho War, though ho still carried tho 1ife-long marks of its murdorous hato upon him, ho wont o far to meot and rpconcilo thom, diae ]flnym] to all the world no mean copy of the sib- imost phinsa of tho lifo of Josus wion ho prnyndl “Fntlmr‘ forgivo thom; thoy, kuow not whal thoy do.”" This is a Christinnity boside whioh - tho contosts of sgotarisn zeal, the mummeries of Ritualiem, .and tho blgotry of dogmatiats sbrink to dimonsions that aro boneatn our notico, Iis waa tho kind of Chirletinnity that iy noeded at lenst to sava this world, and, whatever othors may think about anothor kind's. bolug: neoded to save thenext world, L am contont to bellova that saving this {8 tho straightost road to Baving tho other, "Thoro 18 no nacossily that I say many . worda nbout that for which tho will stand out in tho history of his ago in all coming time, snd the nood 18 loss bocauso it ia tho ono thing concern= ing him that nll know, and are in no danger 'of forgotting. 1o wad the consistont and porsiat-] out advocate and dofondor "of human rights, . From tho tima when he doliverad his first groat spoecli on ¥ The Y'ruo Glory of Nations," till ho whisporod in his Inst hours o Judge Hoar * Talo caro of my Clvil Rights LI, Uls course was fin- {linching and mmwnrvlnq. Not toba bribed, or blinded, or Intinidatod, hero ho was ever, truo. * 1o wna mouth for tho dumb, the advocata'of the * noglacted, and o defonder of tho. dofousoloss, * ‘Well mpy the froedmen’gathor in all the citics and "villagos of tho land to do him Louor. No | fittor name oan thoy fiud'for whioli to build a monumont. Howna ag truly their martyr as Lincoln was, . Massncliusotts can novor conso to rojoico thnt ho lived long enough to know of her_rapentanco for tho one fnjustico sho evor did him, Thelr fll-judgod and hasty rosolutions could do him no infury, only 0 it al\ays hurts a_noblo spirit to bo misunderstuod and so abused by its frionds. Bat Lor honor is fairor sinco slo lng given bim his right. Ho conld nfford to walt for tho vindicatlon by time of his brond and fratornal statosmanship. Bub his State, even aftor wift- cat hasto in oxpunging tho record, must nlwayas havo conse to rogrot thatthoro was any such rc- ord made to be oxpinged. Would now that the nation wero wiso enough, and juat enough, and * msguanimous onough to pass ab onoo his resolu- tions aud his Civil'Rights bill, and luy them, as worthy tributes, on tho caskot of him who, tho noblost of thom all, and without his peor, has gono ot of tho Bonnto-house to go baok no more. Thus would thoy honor themselves and raige him tittivg monumiont by pulting o lust stono on the suinmit of the structuro of human rights that he hashelpod to roar from foundation- stone Lo cop. 5 All his lifo long, Charles Sumnor was lod by a (Sce Huventh Ingo.) 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