Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-03-11

NJ Editor Your paper Of last Friday hotl-
ced the death Of Master EUGENE WHIrTEMoRE'
son Of A. G. Whi,temorc of this town. regret
that the writer of that notice did not suo)oin a
brief statement of the character OF that boy
am aware that, ordinarily, the story OF chldrcn's
eccellencies is properly confined within the cir
Gle of relatives and acquaintance; but the case
before US seems to me 10 furnish just ground
for departing from this becoming practice. Per-
nit me then, sir, TO remark, with brevity, upon
the sickness, qualities of heart, aud intellectual
character of this youth.
His disease was scarlet fever, attended thro-
ought by violent vomiting, which, as dissolution
approached produced cxcrnciatng spasms.-
Proper medical aid was in attendance, but the
nveteracy of the disease Knocked all prescrip-
,ons, and proved how powo SIS is the phys-
cian's art when death resolves upon his conquest.
Hence this great destroyer triumphed, and thus
has sent this promising youth to the early rcpose
OF the tomb
In every situation, those intimate with him
pronounce him to have been highly amlable and
agreeable: that with children, he was a child /;
Win inc youth He w DO yOuth, "ho WIN
he was man. In him were strkingly blended
the discreeness and wisdom Of maturity, and
tie modesty and tenderness Of boyhood. In the
family he was not less beloved for his fascina-
ing manners, refined delicacy and sweetness Of
Disposition than for the relation he sustained OF
son and brother. His knowledge on many sub
iects Of general nature, was extensive, owing
70 his intense application to books, very tena-
cious memory and vigorous judgment. What
is remarkable in one of his tender years, he
cautiously INDUCED in the sports Of boyhood,
md associated with his father as matter OF
young, he loved and arden!ly pursued those
more difficult and disciplinary studies learned
aud foreign languages and mathematics. Be
sides very competent insight into the elemen-
tarv branches, as taught in the academies and
schools, he had mastered the French language,
was well advanced in the Latin, had laid a thor
ough foundation for acquiring the Italian, and
had made himself very familiar with two or
thee systems of Algebra. When it is renem.
b.r-d that all tn was accomplished at he elry
age Of thirteen years--a period at which most
youth have hardly begun to think of intellectual
attainmenis-that most of it was achieved in his
fathers Office, exposed to all the interrupt ion.
consequent upon country lawyers business
that during the period he studied here, his fathe
was lis only preceptor,- most vii! join with m,
i'll saying that he was youth of no ordinary in
tenectual character and attanmcn,s. VIVA
true lover Of social and intellectual progress wil
net cherish the recollection Of such bow am
will not mlng!e tender sympathes with his pa
rents. as, in the anguish of disappointed hop
and lacerated affection, they bend over his pre-
mature grave. Surely their justly exalted e,
pectation is blasted in the untiniely departure
shis love y son. Omay they, and all who rea
these lines, see, in this event, the uncertaint
of every expectation not founded on God