Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-05-08

truly COulu u pdtTldTCn ike lnlS cxClalIn,
after his inward parting blessings had com
mended his far off loved ones to God and
his Country, and as impellcd by the strong
est and latest current that impressed itself
upon his declining faculties--"l ASK MOTH
ING, nut THAT THE TRUE PRINCIPLES or
THE CONVENIENT DE UNDERSTOOD, AND
CARRIED OUT.
MY CoUNTRYMEN Having wept for the
loss of a Citizen and Magistrate, who had
thus lived for his Country and died in its
service, let us not unthankfully remember,
that eternity seemed TO have fingered at his
threshold, as if in miraculous coincidence
or pre-destined favor, no longer than to
permit the name he had won and the vir-
tues which adorned it, to reclaim and TO
SAVE THE REpUB1lC. Who that does not
no,O feel, that we had reached crisis as
Nation, when the proudest, the noblest, and
the most gifted beside him, identified with
the violence and the preludiccs Of the past,
would at best but have rendered the contest,
which, in his name, has settled the princi-
pies of the public administration upon the
basis of the fairest and most honorable COM
promise, at least so doubtful and indccisive
as to have afforded no pause to the strug-
giles which were cxhausting us. Estimat-
ing thus the condition of the country, at a
uncturc when his name alone presented a
rallying point, unobnoxious to the then lin
gering preiudices even of portions of the
oppressed, and consequently "a bow of
promise" to all, was it idolatrousy or with
reason, that we had regarded him for years
as the hope of his Country
"a Star on Desoaton's brow,
All glorious and alone"
The principles of the public administration
thus affectionately fixed upon the mind OF
the Country--another and genial asso-
cate in his triumph and his sentiments now
peacefully honorcd with the high and CRATE
full duty Of carrying them QUIT must suf-
flee for the honor of the Nation, that hav-
ing stood by it in its perls, and died in its
SERVICE the oil go not dry an his ,1idows
cruise: for the Metropolis. that it paid to
his memory the first mourniul obscquies of
the obitual day. His ashes revert to the
West, and the Sopulchral Monument from
the banks of the Potomac shall be unhewn
for him. For those cut down at midday,
or before their fame, like his, is full to over
flowing, mausoleums and pyramids may
be reared hereafter, as in the past: while
reverence and gratitude TO the Washington
Of the West shall be portrayed in the foot
steps Of the pilgrims and strangers who
seek out his grave by the side Of his chill
dren and leave the memorial of tear upon
the slab which encloses his ashes. I'm
carved with word or figure, the events
which for half a century had animated the
now silent dust beneath it. in the paths of
honor, proprietary and true glory-these,
and these only, shall be sufficient to invig-
ate anew the tagging purposes of despond-
ing patriotism, and to excite afresh to the
noblest sacrifices, for the country and man
kind.
Ics--'tis mcte he shall be buried on the
banks of the Ohio--not when its mighty
volume Of waters are upturned and dashed
in dcsolating wavcs--but at even-tide,
when its bosom is unruffled and tranquil,
as his own pure spirit when he resigned it
to his God. Reposing there from genera
ton to generation TO come. the stream that
glides at his feet shall typify to the pas8cn-
ger on its bosom, the simple, and natural
and unadorncd grandeur of his life; and
anon. when Spring, and Summer, and Au-
tumn have fed, the dignity and sublimity
with which he bowed himself 10 the Winter
of his death. That river shall not more
surely yield itself again to the genial sun
shine of the returning seasons, than the
mortal tenement which rcposes beside it
shall joyously obey the trump of the Arch,
angel, when summoned To flourish again
in immortal YOUTH with Washington, anc
Franklin, and other just made Perfect
in the fields, and streets, and mansions O.
Paradise.