Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-06-03
TIE LA1E MIR. T.tSeuLpff.

TIE LA1E MIR. RstNRuIpff.
We copy, in this mornings paper several no,i-
ces of the life and death OF tins remarkable man--
remarkable no less for the mighty grasp of his ir-
telect than for the purposes TO which it has been
applied. We purposey decline a, present adding
any thing of our own, either by say of eulosy or
of Notwithstanding however with the Ma
uonal Gazette III the sentiment that false pane
gyre Is nearly as had as unjust disparagemen,-
1t IS too soon VERY justly adls the Gazette) to
trent of tue memory of John Randolph, SO as to fur
nish d true representation AMI estimate of his dc.
sorts dement's. lie was an extraordinary
man, sinsuary gifted, whose career and habits
wcrc peculiar, and whose intellectual qualities
even could no, be properly judged without nice
discrimination, and the npaniality that time and
the future changes of interests and actors in our
political drama can alone produce"
The National nte!igeucer thus closes a brief
nohro of MIR. Randolph d" In some respects he
was one of the most rcm9rkablc men of the age
and, IN few particulars, perhaps, tic most rcmar-
kable. II, IN the course fhis long career the pc
culiariY of his temper and his propensity for sur
c'9m IN adc hIn eaemles, no man, ON the other
Md, II warner 1.r,paal iteals ami tn time
has been whoa few would have disputed the JUS
tee Of the high compliment which was paid him,
when he was pronounced 10 be as eloquent rs
Chatham-a, Cato ncorruptble"
Among his last words, (says the Richmond
TImesl vas heard the name of " " aM ms IeigA,n
whose image was doubtless conlurcd up and pre-
scented to his mental vision by some of these pecu-
cul'ef circumstances which illustrate 50 many
death.bcd scenes, when the brain is loilcd into
sleep" generally tranquil sleep (says the Lon
don Quarterly Review in cri,que on SIR Hcn-
ry lialford's Essays and Orations " filed with
dreams which impol the dying lip TO r,urmur out
the name of friends and .he occupations ADD rccol-
lectlons of past life: the peasant, habbles OF green
fields, and Napoleon expires amid visions o. bat
tie, tutoring with his last breath, teie d'a,aec'
Although Mr.. Randophs death has been long
cpated, yet The tcnseity with which tie vital
principle seemed to cling to his diseased, emacia-
ted and cnCeehled frame, had induced his friends
TO hope that he might yet Inst several years. The
! news Of his DEATH therefore, created something
like shock in the public mrd not usual when
Death has seized ueon que whom Disease had
long ago apparently brought 10 the verge Of
! he grave. Acute observers, however, had disco
vcred, during Mr.. Randolph's recent visit to
Richmond, that his las, hou, rapidly arprosch-
| ing. The Richmond Compiler tor example
speaking Of his late visit TO tina, city, says
The 0nmc WAS then evidently expiring in the
socket His most intimate friends had never seen
! him more emscrted-and in truth some of them cal
cuatcd that he would never be able TO leave the
city.-lIc slightly rallied, however, and set out
| for the North. and rcuc he'd Baltimore on Sunday
week Here he was seen 10y Or. Chapman, o.
Philadelphia, who wes so much struck by his
rearful Appearance that he wrote to Mr. +. Bd,Ile
his bro,her-in.sw in Philadelphia, requesting hl'
kindesi Offices for Mi Randolph--una in case o
his death, which he satisfied would take illac,
in few days, or perhaps hours, he besought him
10 have all due honors paid to his remains The
Compiler adds =" Mr. Randolph. intention when
| he left Baltimore, was to embark in the London
packet from Newcastle. The packet, however, had
sailed, OF his plan was changed from oonsid-
Grafton or othcr-and he repaired to Philadelphia,
whore he expired. Pence to his ashes
gar The remains of Mr. Randolph reached
! Richmond on the 2Sth and were carried to Mrs.
Duvnls boa ding house, where the funeral service