Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-04-14
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OBITUARY
Departed this liz, On !, = lillca
lay the 4th Of March IN ls % aoaiP
or number Of years =. lhaus
Enquirer, in the sixty . ..e 'fSsR
Fu'l t Of years. and Of sIory, Issa
a mourning nation .gaa.la ~.
reaved family and Ii. s., ~
weep over the end of = tasCoass.
while the hirelings of a !, 'fongs
rejoice and reyel around , =
i e. est I foe. The Cause 1 e,.'.
:, na. no less less singular, aaIan ~'
years s,no'' the exact tine : ~
beree, he wssbitten bve - : a''' ~
tns, an ASol.tionist Thesa.e . 'a q.
were not for sous tine ' ri.5s'. .. 7.
might never have been Ia ,I. l.,, d
ned fair, but sn13.-, 40 Lis Essa
gan to blow a tempest, and s.,Il ~ s,''s
which had 50 long lurEed n "A b. =, =.
to show its disastrous s i : W
gained on him, notvilb,t,n5 ~ Ii
assiduOus attention Of h. t,-. 'as
ding physicians, Dr.. PI.s ~ ls. .aat
and Green, Of Washington = u ! 4;
called in by an afflicted eop.,. - 10 !
this great distress, besides r.' !, ! !.
various other physicians, & -.
ability who occasionally rola,.. -
vices. He was seized with a s,,,.-.
that slavery is a great poIiiic,I -
hgiOus evil; and with fs.ss, -
Virginia, through her slave y,.l,.
He called upon Heaven !, -, -,
soul utterly abhorred any lin, -
posed to the freedom Of the nj.
and he hoped that the dsy vans.
when this stain on the hoD9rafT,.
be blotted out. The dissssst -
50 violent as to excite tssgn1sl
Urge portion ofthe people q hi y
at one time it had taken such sw
the Legislature, thatthey eamep,
Of abolishng slavery IN the O3Dr
But, as We have said, one Of the
lures of this disease is, that il WIS
fected by the state of the wesibs:
the iCind changed again, and as sass
ther, and an entirely opposite sal,
Ger the colour OF his disease,and,st r.n
it was more violent thanh its in
Before, he had anticipated the doE1s.
gina, through the continuance dts
slavery; now, al his fears came from
ste source. He, now, looked upon s
tae bulBork ofrepublican liberty, and
that it might be pulled down, by h4,
gious. He looked towards the non
his thoughts by day, and IN his 1
night, he could see whole armies q
ists,marching to inuendate the peacr
the South, and wash her sunny pla
He had formed a strange cOncet,
Van Buren,, a man Of some note an
tam set, is the greatest, and the
land; and all who did not agree V
this hallucination, were by him &
those constant objects Of his EoSt
Abolidonists.
On this account he fell out VII
; clans, and dismissed them his Sc
ever after his rancour against them
. bitter. Bat we must draw tbs
, close we have already extended i
7 Their than we intendid, and Mr Rte
/, acter is above any praise whch#ee
: The disease progressed, and,
summer, he was observed to be M
: state of mental excitement; butno
: entertained for his life Until some tn
! ! Presidential election in November
mediately upon the receipt Ofths
1 of that contest; lie was taken vi
? stage otthe disease,the blOOdFshsls
extremities, and settled arouniihs
! the heart, causing fears ofai17il''
: The quacks, who had been corHaa-
? him with their foul nOstruns sd
: physicians had been dismissed ven
king matters worse, by paEalsns
S ofnature and day by day his stTsn:
: ed from him, until on the morning o
: of March, when he expired IN gFel'
! The fears which had 50 oppressed
: living, clung to HIM IN the hOuF . ! !
: his last dying exclamadons TeFs'-f'
Green--Harrison-ADOlidOn.- 10
ofthe republic F.! Peace be Wit. hIn
the federal wings sO0a find one ="
7 shall dread, as they did nm
j McLroD-A NEW aoyE.-A latsl
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