Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-05-08
COL. BIRCH'S EULOGY
ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE LA TIE
PRESIDENT HARRISON.

over the foes and the which have bathed
other nations in and in blood until outraged humanity re-
cong desoaons which had rendered others great the
glare of their last drove back and overwhea e
man of mere Ambition We are not assembled my friends in
the sanctuary of peaceful and lovely villa IN the Jar
thest garland for the brow OF living con
queror while conceag the upon his esutcheon 6enea
the drapery of fawnng auaon the gnobe fear of part
inoerancebut met together, fellow citizens WIN
regard those differences of political opinion which Tor
me and periodically, array into ects and divisions to
briefly review the @ the services and pass upon the
is now alas alike UNDECIDED and unavailng.
He CouNTRYMAN In the order of Providence ~ De
the history and the pes of the Republic from the struggles Of
immature infancy under its first President until called hmse
and preside over their mutform interests the full stature of
meridian manhood The retrospect which lies before US WI"
hence backward beyond the average period OF the
wears in which we have ourselves acted and events
and trials which we have but heard from the lips OF our faer
or read in the histories of the glorious past. .
The Duty moreover, aerngy imposed upon the citizen
who has been designated to perform task SO grateful put W
signed him He is to speak of the honoed in terms
of inventive euogy or melted Panegyrcbut to a
himself he values the buried friendship OF Grea
and Just man. insult his by word OF mad
vertent undescved doay the exhibition OF an emotion
unbecomng the nobst and the stouest heart that beats
him. 80
Standing before assembly of Democratic Republicans and
address them in reference TO of the Purest most
enlightened and hence most liberal their Sect should doubt
less little the taste and feelings of my auditory as the
sentiments which pervaded the e and actuaed the conduct OF
the deceased occupy considerable por
ton of the time allotted to in tracing and remarkhg upon
geneaogy OF who however noby desCendeu was
himself worthy have been ranked as "the RodoPh OF his
His name and blood 90 back in direct line, distn.
Shed General the army of Cromwell under the Proectora
government of the Commonwealth of England whose me- upon
the caod the ultimate forfeit of his devotion to ms Pa ao
years ago-and the further history of his family
between that period and the early story c OF aao o h SUBJ
jec importance commensurate with the abou euch au
great grandfather of our subject Who although he died
age comparatively early had filled the Char OF the House Oh
Delegates of the Province of Virginia HIS son. me crane
Of
several of whose attained rank and not
in the legislative assembly of the State but in the proEncal
these feel justified in condensing more detailed no.
ce because he the FATHER under whom the czen whose
memory assembled honor received his m and no.
best mpuons of patriotism To large possessions IN the cou-
try he added personal influence sufficiently extensive ana com
mandng secured from the royal government every ea-
sonabe advantage for himself and his family sdeteInnao'
however, rise fall with the fortunes OF America may DC
ferred from pledge Of "hs e his fortune and ms sacred
honor to the glorious He of the Representa-
of Virginia in the Continental Congress- during inc sue
eesve of So and is neither exaSeraoh nor
doay to copy Contemporary declaration of history that
he old State house Philadelphia contained not nober man
He was Chairman of the Committee whose agency brought 10
eur standard the gallant and sefsaciclng Ltdye ana was
subsequently member of the Board Of Var On the loh day
of june l776 he called up the resolutions winch declared e
Colonies of America Free Independent States and which au-
thorzed DECLARATION INDEPENDENCE to be prepared
cordingy-and he that immortal instrument o" the
EVER Memoir july He continued in Congress
until l777 thence elected and chosen speaker or the
of Delegates of Virginia from which he was
to the chair Executive and reelected to that dlsn-
guished station long the constitution would permit lie
died in 1891, whilst member of the Legislature.
The who will be the object of further reflections had
passed his eighteenth having been born on th 9
day February 1773 His scholastic attainment at that day.
are where perpcuousy alluded than as having
deemed sufficient qualify him for entering upon the study OF
medicine his 18th yeaa vagueness Of the less moment
when we shall have traced the habits of his after life and have
seen that he seduous learner from books and from
men, contrary the anpode and too prevalent deterioration
among his contemporaries and associates But for this early
steady victory so sensuay and indulgence the manly
and magnanmous obaon of his life and personal services
shrine of his country had probably been remembered
with the comnged regret that another SO pure and so noble
should have been added the catalogue OF victims IN the mo
ment of Ucory. =,
Even before the decease of his father las evolved by thu
publication of of his letters during the last Presidential
canva the thoughts and ncnaons of the destined Com
Chief of the American army had taken the direction
so naturally suggested by the terrible continuance of the
the vest and find him accordingly commended to Genera
g. n rornteer Soldier in the rank and file of his army
h the snsediy succeeding death of the father and tn
neoson Of next best snd or s1%'t o Iii. e
d t oalant purpose have no where seen mentioned no
is necessary pause in our en ee aO nO
his fathers commentator a Private Either were alke ca
cuated to introduce him that grander species OIL educao
for which he sighed while under the guardlai.
and the preceporshp OF Rush. ana WIZ" s Ts We mean tb
destined all his after neah IN