Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1844-01-13

Such was Senator Linn, in high par
ty times, here among US. And what
he was here. among us, he was every
where and with every body. At home.
among his friends and neighbors; on
the high road, among casual acquaint-
ances; in foreign lands among strangers
in all, and in every of these situa-
tons, he was the same thing. He had
kindness and sympathy for every hui
man being; and the whole voyage of
his life was one continued and benign
circumnavigation of all the virtues
which adorn and exalt the character of
man. Piety, charity, benevolence,
generosity, courage, patriotism, fdeli-
ty, all shone conspicuously in him, and
might extort from the beholder the inn
pressivc interrogatory, For what place
was this man made? Was it for the
Senate, or the camp? For public or
private life? For the bar or the bench?
For the art which heals the diseases of
the body, or that which cures the in
frmities of the State? For which of
all these was he born? And the answer
is, For all.
He was born to fill the largest and
most varied circle of human excel
lence; and to crown all these advanta-
ges, nature had given him what the
great Lord Bacon calls perpetual let
ter Of recommendations countenance
not only good but sweet and winning
radiant with the virtues Of his soul
captivating universal confidence; and
such as no stranger could behold-no
traveller, even in tbs desert, could meet
without stopping to reverence, and say
ing: Here is a man 10 whose hands |
could deposit life, liberty, fortune, hon
or. Alasi that so much excellence
should have persisted so soon! that
such man should have been snatchcd
away at the early age of forty-eight
and while all his faculties were ripen-
ing and developing!
In the life and character Of such
man, SO eXuberant in all that is grand
and beautiful in human nature, it is dll-
ficult to particularze excellences, or TO
pied out any one quality, or circum-
stance, which could claim prominence
over all others. If ! should attempt
it would point, among his measures
for the benefit Of the whole Union, to
the Oregon Bill; among his measures
for the benefit Of his own State, to the
acquisition of the Platte country; a
mong his private virtues, to the love
and affection which he bore to that
brothcr-the half-brother only-who,
only thirteen years older than himself,
had been TO him the tenderast of faith
ers. For twenty-nine years l had
lsrown the depth Of that affection, and
never saw it burn more brightly than
in our last interview, only three weeks
before his death. He had just travel
led a thousand miles out of his way TO
see that brother; and his name was
still the dearest theme of his converse
tion--a conversation, strange TO tell!
which turned, not upon the empty and
fiectng subjects Of the day, but upon
the empty and fleeing subjects Of the
day, but upon things solid and eternal
Upon friendship, and upon death, and
upon the duties Of the living 10 the
dead. lie spoke Of two friends whom
it was natural to believe that he should
survive, and TO whose memories he in
tended to pay the debt Of friendship!
One of these two friends now dischar-
gcs that mournful debt TO him: the 9TH
or has written me letter, expressing
his ''deep sorrow for the unlimely death
Of our friend, DR.. Linn"
Mr. Benton then offered the custom
airy resolutions.
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