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| THOMAS OABRETT. 627 la time the war came, and aa be remarked, the nation went into the business by the wholesale, so he quit his retail operations, having, after he commenced to keep a record, helped off over twenty-one-hundred slaves, and no inconsiderable number before tbat time. In time, too, he came to be honored instead of execrated for his noble efforts. Wilmington became an abolition city, and for once, at least, a prophet was uot without honor in bis owii city. Mr. Gatrett continued his interest in every reform up to his last illness, and probably his last appearance in any public capacity, was as president of a Woman Suffrage meeting, in the City Hall, a few raontlis ago, which was addressed by Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, and Henry B. Blackwcll. He lived to see the realization of his hopes for Universal Freedom, and in April last on the occasion of the great parade of the colored people in this city, lie was carried through our streets in au open barouche, surrounded by the men in whose behalf he had labored so faithfully, and the guards around his carriage carrying banners, with the inscription, " Our Moses." A Moses he was to their race; but unto hirn it was given to enter into the promised land toward which he had set his face persistently and almost atone for more than half a century. He was beloved almost to adoration by his dusky-hucd friends, and in the dark days of the beginning of the war, which every Wilmingtonian will remember with a shudder, in those days of doubt, confusion, and suspicion, without his knowledge or consent, Thomas Garrettis house was constantly surrounded and watched by faithful black men, resolved that, come weal come woe to them, no harm should oome to the benefactor of their race. He was a hero in a life-time fight, an upright, honest man in his dealings •with men, a tender husband, a loving father, and above all, a man who loved his neighbor as himself, and righteousness and truth better thaa ease, safety, or worldly goods, and who never let any fear of harm to person or property sway him from doing his whole duty to the uttermost. He was faithful among the faithless, upright and just in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation, and lived to see his labors rewarded and approved in his own life-time, and then with joy that the Right had triumphed by mightier means than his own; with thankfulness for the past, and with calm trust for the future, lie passed to the reward of the just. He has fought a good fight, he has finished his course, he has kept the faith. From the same paper, of January 30th, 1871, we extract on account of the funeral.obsequics which took place on Saturday, January 28th. • FUNERAL SEEVICS OK SATURDAY. The funeral of Thomas Garrett, which took place on Satardaj, partook almost of the character of a popular ovation to the memory of the deceased, |