Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1835-08-20

i Elegant Extract. The following pas
sage is extracted from the eloquent speech
Of MIR. Livingston in reply to the toast
drank 10 compliment to him at the public
dinner given to him last week at Phila'
deIphia:
THE occasion which brought you toge
| thcr adds one more to the many preceding
refatations Of the charge Of ingratitude a.
gainst Republics for the people have on
this occasion most generously repaid mo.
derate services, ordinary talents. and hum
bic efforts by the highest Of all rewards
their appreciation and applause
No. Republics are not ungratefulI The
charge is made by the sofdid and vain,
who think nothing valuable but gold, no.
thing honorable but titles, and that gaudy
ribbons are the proper reconnpensc rot me-
rit. No. gentlemen. republics are not I'M
grateful. but they ara judicious in the
Choice Of reward. They do not give her
ed;tary honors to virtue and wisdom,
which may descend to folly and vice.
They do not wiring its earnings from the
hard hand Of labor, that It may be poured
out in pensions on the idle and unworthy.
They do not decorate with stars and span-
pled garters with ribbons, and crosscs
and gewgaws--men who, It they have
done any thing that may seem TO have de.
served these childish toys, may afterwards
prove unworthy OF the decoration. But
they give nobler, a higher recompense
for services they give their conGdcnce.
The seal of their appreciation isa prouder
distinction than any that bangles from the
buttonholo or 10 embroidered on the breast
or the titled courtier, and ! feel myself
more honored, Is well as gratificd. BY the
applsuding voice of my citizens
bv the grasp Of their friendly hands, some
OF them hard with honest labor--by their
countenances bcaming with the firas o. pai-
riotism, infinitely more honorcd, than
could DO by any titular appendage to my
name that monarch could bestow.
Funeral or Mr.. Cobbeti.--The funeral
of this gentleman took place at Farnham
on Saturday last, at half past two o'clock.
TIC this town which Is % miles from Lon.
don, many of those DESTROYS Of attending
the funeral repaired in the first instance.
As. however the procession dill not make
its appearance there until half past Two
o'clock, full time a. allowed to all those
Of inspecting the town Of this cell
ebrated man, and Of visiting the spot on
which he was born. aud which his own
his character, and bis fame
have invested with % deep and lively intc-
rest.
The body had bsen enclosed 10 leaden
coffin. with the inscription, civilian Cob
bett. born March 8. i76a; died. 18Th June
K. ~~hsoh
veyed to tho burial place, WAS followed oy
three mourning coaches. in which We oh-
served the four sons 0f the deceased, Mr.
John Leech, late member for the country
Mr.. Fielding, Mr.. p, (Mr. Cobbetts col
ieague.) MIR. e. Lesch. Capt Donnelans
and other particular fricnds. u was JOIN
ed It intervals by parties 10 chaises. on
foot, and on horseback, ~ different little
green's or corners Of the bye roads that u
nassed. Drawn up on thu side 81 ono OF
these. we observed MIR. o. Council and MIR.
Harvey. whose carriage took its place Ia
n the procession, and shortly SITTER, at an.
other turning il. was joineds BY that OF
Mr.. Williams, nj. p. and Mr.. Wakciy M.
p. The train increased ~ It went on
and by the time It reached FArnbam, thou
sands or laborers with their wives and
children. in their smock frocks and straw
hats joined IN il.
The street Of the town was tnronseo'
and every window seemed to have 10 par
". The ceremony Of iniermens Was. o.
course, the usual one. The coffin, aftef
the service was read over it, was lowered
into a brick vault securely formed, and IN
= part Of the churchyard where . head
stone with the inscription, George Cob
bett. 1902 indicates the grave Of the I'M
conscious grandfather Of this celebrs'ed
political writer. Three large stone hags
were placed over the coffin with view to
greater security.
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