Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-07-25
MISCEL LII ANY.
From the N. Y. Tribune, July 9.
DEATH OF DIR. JAMES MARSH.

Rev. JAMES MARSH d. D., Professor of Moral
and Intellectual Philosophy in the University Of
Vermont, died on the morning oil the 3D. inst. at
the residence of his brother-n-law, David Read,
Esq. in Colchester, VT, near Burlington, in the
forIy-eighth year of his age-afler a protracted
and most painful Illness
When this event was enormously announced
few weeks since, it called forth the expression,
through the newspapers, of general gre-shar-
ed by the great body of scholars who love The SCI
ence to which the abors OF his life were mainly
devoted, but lelt with deeper intensity by the
more limited number of his former pupils and
personal friends. Their hearts were for mo"
ment relieved by the intelligence of his partial re
covery but the event, which was even then daily
expected, has now transpired, and save the living
power which they left behind in the hearts of
those whose lives were moulded by his eac hings,
his high ability, his profound requirements and
the stainless integrity of his character have pas
sed from the earth forever. He will be mourned
by all who have learned anght of his life and his
labors bu, those whose good fortune it was to
witness the purity and truthfulness of the one s. to
receive the benefit of other will feel that, 10 them
selves personally, his loss is one which many
years cannot repair.
His character was one which should not be
rudely praised and yet, in common with ali who
feel in their hearts that they have received good
beyond estimate from his Instructions we feel il
cad and sacred privilege gratefully to express,
though in broken words, our convictions Of his
greatness and his worth.
The events in his life were few and in them
selves of no great significance. He was native
OF Hartford, beautiful little town on the banks
of the Connecticut, on the Eastern border of Yer.
mont lie graduated at Dartmouth-having had
for his fellow students DIR. Wheeler and PROBES.
sor Torrey one now the President and the other
Professor oil Languages in the institution where
the labors OF his last years were spent For a
short time lie was Tutor at Dartmouth, but soon
went 10 Andoyer 10 prosecute his Theological stu
dies Leaving there aud preaching while in his
native town, his failing health made desirable a
residence in Southern climate and he accepted
q Professorship in Hanpden and Sidney College
in Virginia, where he resided several years. On
his return he was elected 10 the Presidency of the
University of Vermont; but finding that the du.
ties of this high office diverted, moro than he de-
sired, his studies ION the Philosophy, TO which
his life was now welded, he resigned it and ac-
cepted the Professorshp which he held at the
date of his death.
The record is brief, and bare of striking Incl
dent; but The life, whose few years it embraces,
crowded into itself more OF personal deveIope-
ment, of profound thought of earnest and fruitful
though tmd endeayor, of genuine WORTH and of
the highest usefulness, than we have ever known
in any other. lis general scholarship, his ac-
qualntance with the Science, Philosophy Litera-
ture and Art OF ancient and Of modern lines was
carried to a hight of which our country has seen
hut few examples. With the works of the divine
Plato he was especially familiar, reverencng
them the highest efforts of unaided intellect
and finding there a refutaIon, clear and decisive
Of almost every false doctrine in Philosophy and