Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-05-04


differences, the careful vigilance over public and
pirate rights, these made up the sum OF that old
mans daily contributions to The service of his
country. =. 49,.
And anon from that solitary desk, like sun
beam on a winters day.
That come before the swallow dares, and take
-, The winds OF March with beauty
would steal forth some gem OF poesy showing
that that frai tenement was inhabited by happy,
loveng. and joyous spirit.
And thus from day to day and from year TO year
passed on this good and great mans placid lie; with
powers always fully employed and never overtask-
ed: with Conscientious industry, each week day bad
its appropriate duties, and each sabbath found him
| in the temple of his God Neither too old nor too
wise to learn, he caught with eager ears the truths
of Gods holy word from the hips of the hum
blest of his ministers. Free to the teachings of his
pious parents, his whole life was. inculcation Of
the practice OF morality and religion. Free from all
| excessees of youth, he carried vigorous and un-
impaired intellect to ali extreme old age and when
summoned hence yielded pure and unstalned
| spirit to the merces Of his God.
!. On the 2lst day of February last the angel of
death entered the hall of the House of Represen-
tatives, and brushed with his sable wing the heart
of the old man eloquent. He was found at his
post of duty, and when the members started tn
their feet the patriarch of the house feebly
struggling in the arms of that fearful messenger.
One glance al that pallid face and dropping form,
told that for him time ended and eternity about
to begin. Then was the voice of party hushed in
the presence ofthat dread eveler Of all distinctions
apd tears from every eye, and sighs from every
breast, told how, that pure spirit, now about 10
depart had endeared itself to all who came within
its influence. a.,
This was no fall of a gallant partizan over whom
a W
4 father dying in the midst of weeping family
| Yes death had met the heavy laden labourer in
the busy highways Of life, and he had uncomplain-
ingly laid down his burden albeit it was precious
with all the gems of earth. and camy prepared
himself for rest that TO be eternal. This is
the end ofearth," he feebly said to his surrounding
! friends. He fingered till the 23d, and then the
silver cord was loosed, the golden bowl was bro
ken, and the spirit departed All that remained
on earth, of the Orator, Statesman and Sage, was
lieless corpse, pale and voiceless, as the mar
/ BILE statues that surrounded him. He died IN the
! Capitl Of his country. The monuments of her
| growing greatness were around him. the moGrners
about his dying bed, were the Representatives of
a free and mighty nation Yes, Representatives
able and eloquent, statesmen from Independent
States, which had not name or boundary,
when he commenced his labouls, where the axe
/ of the woodman had not let in the sunlight upon
!
the inheritance of an honorable and stainless name,
to his countrymen, bright example Of the value
/ of industry, fidelity and TRUTH and to his country,
! the results of the abors of a long and aboriOus
! life, devoted to her service.
"And he said unto her. Is it well with thee, is
it we'll with thy husband, is it well with thy child1
And she answered, it is WE'LL, Yes, it is we'll
that death should come to our relie ere the cares
of earth too much subdue the eneebed body, 1t Is
lxl- i
bling hand of the aged minstrel, make dlscoId a.,
mongst its strings 1t is well that we should put
off the flesh, ere the immortal spirit suffers by It's
decay.
/ The builder of monuments, of Physical art,
need that the pilgrims steps should be turned to-
ward his work or it is unknown and unappreclated.
The whirlwind strikes them, or the rush of the
waters bears them down, and they are gone fore
ever. But the Orator and the sttesman, have
for their monuments the intellectual powers of the
living age, their words are stored in millions of
memories, and the National mind is the book,
where their deathless sayings are recorded,
Thus it is that great names so interweaye them
selves with Science, Eoquence, Philosophy and
J Government, that they have deathless existence,
whilst the subjects endure. Thus is it that the sue
| cesful patriot is so recorded upon the monuments
of his country's greatness, that his name will be re-
membered till that nation is scattered abroad.
! And thus In future days wnen the measure OF our
Republics greatness is full. when hardy and en-
terprising population shall have left no solitary pla-
ces between the Atlantic and Pacific when our roll
of fame shall be filed with the names OF the NIGH
ty dead: the eye of the student will still .rarn with
ceght to the story of that boy of the Revolution.
who stood beside the cradle Of his country, who
for the first sixty years of her existence, was part
and parcel of his history, who died in her capitol.
with the glorious flag of our Union, waveing above
his head with an entire Congress for his friends,
and Mighty Nation for bis mourners.
The Term "Lady."
II is strange how things becoms changed with
time. and it is also strange how different terms
are often emnlnyed from Ixhai taev ueIa when,