Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-12-14

delivered an eloqucn, address ai the Eaa lawn
Of the Capitol, under the grateful shade Of wide.
spread trees, 10 a multitude Of Sabbath School
teachers and children. Before the revolution or
another Iupendsnee Day, they had both eeascd
from among the living, and were entombcd with
the lowly dead. Key, like Pinekncy, OF Mary.
land and WHISPER, OF New Hampshire, died in The
midst Of action. Almos literally were they car
ried from the bar TO the grave; from The high
elevation of mental tot 10 the lfelessl IMAM
hy Of death. But they hal done we'll in their
day and generation, and left m uniarnishcd
name to their friends and country No, only
was the Senate, the Honse, t,u Bar and the Army
visited by the Grea, leveIer but the Judicial Bench
has received a summons MARSHALL, its light
and It's glory, or7amenfum iumen at Deus, as
Cicero would say had no, long DISAPPEARED;
but it was by the slow process Of disease, pre-.
admonishing his friends, tina, they must pre-
pare their minds for the extinction OF that illusri
Gus Ugh, But PHILIP BARBOUR, who sat on
his leh had no warning His spirits run high n,
night. In the morning he was dead No friend
was near TO witness his last agony, to receive his
las, bre hh He WIS found in his bed mass of
caly- Al. spirit gone Save me from Thus DIV.
ing! II kind Heaven will deign to answer that
prayer Oh may my eyes, as they grow dim in
the in the las, struggle look on the face Of those
tina, love me, see perhaps the starting tear, and
read in the expression flhe features Of the living
that sympathy for the dying which is above all
price AT the funeral of Judge Barbour, Rev.
George G Goodman then Chaplain to Congress,
delivered an al lress in his usual style, which was
distinguished for simplicity. pathos and power.
tie delivered his message to the great ones before
him with fidelity. as well as feeling
"Be wise now, therefore," said he, "Oh We Ru-
lers, be instructed We Judges Of the earth, Kiss
the Son, least he be angry, &c" In few weeks
he went down into the depth of the Ocean with all
on board the President. The President! what at
fatal name was that in ls4l Returning from
the Inauguration Of Harrison, met CooKnAx.
He shook me BY the hand, FAREWELL said he'll
ar, of to England am going to visit nv aged
father and drop tear on the grave OF my moth
err Alas be was neither TO gee the one nor
weep over the dust of the other Nor wife, nor
friends, nor sacred home was he again to see
That Tremendous catastrophe bereaved IN bis
case wife and six children of their husband and
father. o Death all modes as well as all sea
sons are thine own" In this way was the con-
queror dealing out his fatal shafts on the right
hand and on the leh when as if to attract good
deal Of attention he had never vet command.
ed since the day that Washington obcyed his
high brhest, he struck at the lofiest victim
he could find, and the nation trembled under the
blow. The Inauguration Of Harrison was sub
lime, but the funeral who shall describe it ? That
was day never to be forgotten. And who was
tina, chief, that rode at the head Of the many brave
men, tried in battles on the land and on the sea,
who in full military dress followed the then Com
mender-in, Chief to that las rctng place Ma
conn, and in few weeks the solemn sepulchral
rites were performed for him. He had when in
health described the peculiar style of,he military
salute to the deceased President as the body was
borne to the tomb The Major Generals salute
was soon paid to him Such is life.
Never did those lines OF Gray appear more
trne and impressive than after reviewing such
history
"The boas, of heraldry the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave
Await alike the inveible hour,
The paths Of glory lead but to the grave"
Edmund Burke not only exclaimed POLITICALLY
"What shadow. we are and what shadows we
pursue" bu, in the homIier prose said. he "would
not give peck Of refuse wheat for all that is call
cd fame in the world" Ifthis was his testimony
in If, what mus, il have in death Shall no,
this nation see in all this the hand OF Providence
IN. ID.