Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1844-05-23

Abe request ofso,ornl Of u. many friends here Of
n. subject Of the following 1elc, we eheerlully
eve place to tho frank and manly tribute paid the
:, p,ry ola decea.d friend by one who. al.
though an Incorporating political opponent,
show, iha, the bonds Of frisafslip, have claims
whh him beyond ihose Of party
From the woodssoct tse
DEATH OF cot EDWARD H. Bill
LiNGS
I, has never fallen to our 10, TO record a death
- Ioeply afilic,ing to the immediate relatives and
ft.rnds Of the deceased and so painful 10 The com.
munny a, large, as thu, Of the individual whose
name stands at the head OF this article Ills loss
is one OF those Affections which the heart Of the
community feels IKE a blow, and IN this case, the
more stunning from the fac, that il came unexpec.
ID and undefeudcd Had he met his fate among
ne. could We have aided him in his struggle for
life and have rendered him such assistance though
never so nnavailng as any one Of us all would
have pefiled has lfe to have done it would in some
moasure have mnigaied The overwhelming grief
with which his uuiimely death has Fl He'd every
individual who bad grnsped bis hand or mingled
in his society; and even reconciied in some meas
ure. those who knew and loved him best 10 their
irreparabe loss So sudden was the blow that his
friends have not, evcn vet, sufficiently recovered
to fully realize the extent of the stuning calamity
and "ii camel be solve shall, we must sec
him again he sciH come back ~ is on every
lin But, il is So They are back who left for
the Convention, all but him-and he----
1t is all over with him, this mysteri-
GUS life, and i, is only left for US 10 feel that his
place can never be filled, to see him laid on
his dreamless pillow, and TO cherish his memory
ill we follow him.
For osrselves--we have no right, and we will
moi speak Of the sorrow pe feel for the loss of a
noble friend and true brother for we have
known hin. from his and our childhood, with whom
we have enjoyed the most intimate association and
with whom we never had disagrecment,,he most
slight or trivial the bereavement is too generally
{et aRl the sorrow too universal There were so
many loveable things about him he was so gen.
erous, so highsouled, so disinterested, so magma
nimous and gen,lemanly in all his intercourse
with his friends so prominent in his character
were all those elements, which constitutes the NO
BlEMAN, and so heart born in his constitution
were all those fine feelings, and lofty and manly
impulses which, in time, would certainly have
made him what his friends hoped and believed he
would be, that il is not strange that the whole
community should, as one man, mourn for him as
few men have ever been mourned for.
Col BILLINGS left home for Baltimore. to at
tend, as delegate, the Wing Young Mems Ma
uUEut COd'tiiiOH anu luoupt, us ~do hHoWu "
his intimate friends not in his usual good health
vet, able, it was believed to sustain the fatigues Of
the journey The result has shown that his
friends were mistaken. He was able to be out bu'
short time on the day ofthe convention, Thursday
and on the Tuesday night following, MAY 7th ,
at IL o'clock, 'the sleep that knows no waking
had hushcd forever, one Of the noblest hearts tina
ever beat
The deceased was born in Charlcs,own, N Fl.
ON the 9th Of April 1918, and was. consequently
but few days past 26 when he dicd He entered
the University of Vermont in the fall of 1881 ane
graduated in the class of 1885. A short time after
he commenced the study ofthe Law in the Office
of O. p. CHANDLER. Esq. in company witt
whom after his admission to the bar to the time
ofhis DEATH he has practiced his profession.