The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-04-22
0RITuARY.

D - ~ - y
It is the duty of all men, sanctioned by
religion and prompted by humanity, to mourn
over the loss of departed friends. But who
can speak ofthe sorrow of the heart, or meas
ure affection by language3 Even when we
utter or muse over the inspired admonition,
"In the midst of life we are in DEATH, wei
fail to appreciate the awful truth; and it is
only when visited by the frown Of Heaven.
and the deathly shaft strikes in our little
group, at the fre-side or in the social circle,
that we can realize and know of the fatal
reality that we are born to die.
Our little city is afflicted-deeply afflicted
in the sudden demise of one of the most
valuable citizens it ever had.
MALACHI B. Manner, Esq died at his
residence, in this city, on Monday evening
last, of apoplexy, after an illness of but al
few hours, in the seth year of his age. His
death is public calamity, and has occasioned
public and universal mourning.
Itwould seem to be proper, and may, per
haps, be expected, that in this place some
thing should be said of the subject of these
feeble remarks. We can only remark, in the
fulness of human language, that Mr.. Hamer
was a gentleman and an honest man.
Polished in manners and kind and amiable
in his disposition, he drew around him large
circle of friends who loved him for the worth,
sincerity and kindness Of his nature.
We knew him well bat, yet always wish
ed to know him better. Like the miner who
strikes his shaft into the rich ore is eager to
plunge deeper and deeper until he has secur-
ed the hidden treasure Of the mine;-so with
Mr.. HAMER-one interview only led you to
desire another, that you might enjoy the
full richness of character which first i'm.
pressions convinced you was both solid and
attractive.
But the graces Of private life were not
the only qualities which adorned his charac-
ter-his heart was always open to the best
impulses of humanity, and in all those
schemes for the improvement of his fellow
men which find their sanction in patriotism
science and religion, he was always jealous,
intrepid and foremost.
His, indeed, was q life Of usefulness
But he who was the pride of his friends and
the ornament Of the society in which he
lived, is now cut off in the full vigor ofman
hood.
He was q native Of Mississippi, born il
Warren county,a and was one of the oldest citi
zens Of this city. By his own industry, ant
his own virtues, he had acquired an enviabl'
Dosition in society. None knew him but Il
respect him-none knew him well but t
love him. He was a man Of talents-of
literary disposiIion-and although, if the re
mark may be allowed, he was too modest an
retiring for a writer of display, yet he ha
left behind him the evidences of great genius
and well balanced mind.
He had been for many years President Q
the Commercial Bank of Manchester; and
since it's formation, the President of the L
brary Association of this city. He left an {
miable wife, youngest daughter of the LAT
Rev. N. Wick, whose PROSTATE grief and in
expressible anguish cannot be told. Their
is holiness about such sorrow, that seen
70 forbid the rude pen an entrance upon i
sanctity.
The extreme suddsnness of Mr. Hamer
death adds q peculiar and vivid interest
the mOurnful occasion.
His cold coffin was on Wednesday last a
companied TO Vicksburg, to be inferred Their,
by the heart.stTicksn partner Of his life an
home-by his brother, c. F. Hamer, Esq