Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1843-06-30
OBITUARY NOTICES.

The subjoned obituary notices, which
we copy from the National lntelIigen-
Ger, of the l7th inst. are not of that
class Of articles which usually occupy
our first page; but, ifthe perusaI OF these
notices make impressions on the minds
OF our readers, similar to those made
upon US, no one will condemn the Sc
lection:
Death Of the Hon BARKER BURNEIL, NJ C
OF Massachusetts.
With all the sympathy which high
worth and sense and private relations
the most amsbls can inspire, it is our
painful duty to communicate to the pub
lie the loss OF This excellent public SER
van! and most exemplary man. He
expired at his lodgings in this city, at a
few minutes before 10 O'Clock night be
fore last, at the age OF As years, q vic
tim, in the very prime of maturer life
and of what seemed vigorous frame,
to the painful and wasting disease Of
consumption; which first declared itself,
in decisive form. just at The close Of
the late session Of Congress; and has
ever since held him here in its fatal
grasp, far from the consultations Of home
the soothings OF that general affection
with which he would there have been
surrounded, and every thing that could
soften the sure approaches Of death, ex
cept the kindness Of circle OF friends
who had learned here to know his value,
The still warmer attentions of a few as
sociates Of his early life, and that one
consolation, dearer and surer than all
other human ones-the devoted care
The unexhausted tenderness and courage
ol one to whom his earliest attachment
had united him, and whose love sup
ported him to he last of the life which
she had adorned and blest.
A native, and all his life an inhabi
lant of that hardy island (NantuckeI,
where yet linger in perhaps greater
vgor than any where else the Virlue'
OF the New England race, Mr.. BurneL
was an admirable specimen of that re-
markable lineage Without the slight
est ringe of their austere spirit, Iht
gloom and The hardness of mind upOr
which their first colonists bordered, ht
had their force of character. their in.
domitabIe adhesion to what they 6eIev
ed right To their robust, their musCu
lar practical sense, which every whert
makes them serViceable in public affair
and successful in private ones, he join
a truth and simplicity OF heart the mos
entire. No man had ever better pre-
served the integrity, the faith, the dis
interestedDess of private life, in mixln
with those ambitious schemes whc
usually make such havoc among men
individual virtues. 1e came into put
lie life as alone one should come. witt
, out q reproach: he remained in it, 10 III
, last, thai admirable thing an uncorruT
politician,
, Such we're the qualities Of which W
, know that he had ever maintained th
: repule among his own people. or
which we have ourselves been able
: mark the display here upon ihealr
, where. 10 observant ewes, no man ca
pass for what he is not. Al home, h
, excellent abilities and the confidenc
which his just and saRacious mind crea
, ed in all about him, had rendered bin
{ almost in his youth, the common un
pire Of the difficulties and disputes oi a
his neighbors and townsmen. Men VIII
had quarreled, or who could not age
upon heir rights said, Come, we wi
leave il to Barker BwneH;" and the
we're sure 10 have justice done, wrhou