The North-Carolina standard., 1849-06-27
DEATH OF Ex-PREsIDENT POLK.

DEATH OF EX.PRESIDENT POLK.
With the deepest regret and SORROW we announce
to our readers the decease of James Knox Polk late
President of the United States. He died al his resi-
dence in Nashville, Tennessee, the 5th instant,
of aggravated darrhe, in the 55th year of his age
We shall attempt no labCred eulogium upon the
illustrious dead His great deeds praise him; and
the pen of impartial History will record his
and his virtues along with his measures and his
policy, and together transmit them to all coming
generations. But we, as North Carolinians, have
peculiar property in his fame. He was born and
educated in our midst. Hwas here that ;he imbibed
those high moral principles, and acquired those hab-
its of application and study, which, more than any
thing else perhaps, contributed to elevate him the
heights of renown and power. After somewhat
brief but most useful life to his country, and after
having literally himself out in its service, he
sleeps with the dead. Peace to- his ashes, and inn
mortal honor to his memory! ,.1n.., g,
Upon the reception of the intelligence Of his death
in Washington City, the following OfdsE was issued
by President Taylor: . o. 's''''
The President, with deep regret, announces to the
American people the death of James h. Polk. late
President of the United States, which occurred at
nation is suddenly called upon to mourn the loss
of one, the recollection Of whose long services in its
councils will be forever preserved on the tablets Of
history.
who has been distinguished by the highest honors
which his country could bestow, it is ordered that
the Executive Mansion and the several Departments
at Washington be Immediately placed in mourning,
and all business be suspended during tomorrow.
1t is further ordered that the War and Navy De-
partments suitable military and naval honors
TO be paid, on this occasion, to the menory OF the
illustrious dead 4. TAYLOR.
Washington, June l9, 1919.
The Secretaries of State, the Treasury, War and
Navy Departments, have ordered their Departments
be placed in mourning, and all business suspended
during the day.
The officers OF the Army and Navy will wear Grape
on their left arm for the next six months. Minute
guns will be fired at all the Navy Yards, Naval
tons, and on board all the public vessels IN commits
sion.
The following beautiful tribute to the memory of
the Ex-President copy from the Washington
Union: '.....-
Lines the Death of Ex-President Polk.
JOHN N. PEAsE. ..,.-.
The eagle has stopped from his erie on high
star has gone out from its place in the sky
A Statesman gone down in his blaze of renOwn,
His brow all encirced with fames laurel crown.
Then halow his grave-lay him down in his rest,
Where memory shall water the turf on his breast,
And the soft winds of summer sigh DER his rcPose
In his own Tennessee, where the Cumberland flows !
His career was all finshed-his laurels were won
When the of the foremost is scarcely beguH;;
And the finger Of glory shall point to 'his
AS the youngest in years, but their equal In fame'
While red Buena Vista looms up in the fight nv -, go i
Like a meteor's blaze in the darkness of night;
While the gates of the mountains their unfold
While California oerhows with its rivers of gold;
While the deeds of our fathers are remembered with prde
And the broad of Empire rolls up like the tide;
While States like stars in the heavens shall shne
What shall be brighter en,bIazoned than thine
Then halow his grave-lay him down in his rest,
Where memory shall water the turf on his breast
nd the soft winds of summer sigh DER his repose
In his own Tennessee where the Cumberland flows.
Washington City, June 20, 1S49 ......,.~
MR. Polk. We have had full opportunity of
studying the whole character of James K. Polk. We
have him nearly every day for four years, amid
all the of ofice-when laboriously engaged in
considering and concocting those great measures |
which have excited the astonishment and admiration
of the word-and we do not hesitate to pronounce
him of the ablest statesmen, if not the ablest
whom we haveever known. He had all theeiements
of great statesman. He had that strong Common
Sense which approaches its high object calmly and
regards it in all it's lights gand
ces its remotest consequences in the germ ITSELF He
took his course according to the democratic principles
his eye upon the good of his country alone 1t
his high Office to attain ' noble by noble means'
Having made up his desision, he had the irmness
adhere to his measures. The clamors of the oppos-
ion in out Of Congress, and the thunders of the
press, and their persuasons and remonstrances
could not shake him from his purpose. No man gov
srned him. On the contrary, such the clearness
of his views and such the irmness of his character
IS he went steadily in the path which he had
marked out for himself, that even his anxious and
ioubting friends were frequently inspired with new
energy, and confessed the superiority of his Judgment
Along with these elements of real civic greatness
Mr.. Polk combined another of the high and rarest
qualities of statesman-that magnanimity Of char
cter which torgets wrongs, and does justice even
IN enemy. = -! -.
We have seen Mr.. Polk tried in vafioGs Mutations !;
nut amid all the rockings of the
he storms of party-amidst the various questions
which he had to meet, in peace or in war. gr9ater
10Th in interest and variety than has probably occur
ed any other President he never lost that clear.
less of spirit and equanimity of temper which the
occasion required It was thus that he communicated
confidence to his friends, commanded irequenfly the
aspect of his enemies, and confirmed the propretyl
f his conrse by the brlliancy of his success We
ave uniformly expressed these opinions of Mr.
Folks abilities, and of the value of his adminstra
ion and we see no occasion to withhold them now
hat this distinguished man is no more when our
motives cannot be assailed, nor -. - :.
"Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of DEATH.