Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-07-20
THE LATE PRESIDENT.

We have great pleasure in publishing the follow
ing just and striking notice Of the late Presiden
TAYLOR, extracted from discourse delivered i
the Hall of the House of Representatives of tbs
United States, on the Sunday following his death
by the Rev. THOMAS M. CLARK, Of Boston:
nation is shrouded in mourning. God, in His soye
regnty has nteeed to disappoin the hopes
man, and by great national calamity, the faith Of
naton in his ovenulng providence. These are lessons
taught in this sad bereavement which il becomes us reye
ren,y to heed.
An honest and good has been removed the honors
which crowned his le and the laures which grace him
death, bear testimony to the value which men put upon
sincere and trustworthy spirit.
resoute and brave gone, whose courage
peed by genlenes and whose friends loved him far more
than any enemy could hate him his life has taught us that
the herosm is conasted with the peaceful sp
h and the lofiest courage with the humble temper.
and manly patriot sdead, who cared for his
country than for himself and who cared for himself only for
his countrys sake let the elevation which that country
raised him. remind that there is power of discernment
among the people, by which they detect the man who
most likely to do them good service, and for
sound integrity which that integrity its reward
wise and prudent ruler has descended the grave who
had he lived would have lived for his whole country seeking
to promote alike the best interests of every secon and
ing party but that Of truth and right Would God that
this solemn bereavement might soften the aspertes Of pol
cal strife, and make feel that people, that we
have interest," that have histoy-Heaven in
cy grant that may have destiny to the end
Of the world
Our personal in these earthly things will soon be
over but all the good and all the evil that we do lives after
u.s. The words you speak, and then perhaps forget may
shape the dssnies Of countless generations Your actions
and words, as well your souls, immortal. Would
that this thought might be written on these walls and control
the august who occupy these Ofhm
whom much given shall much be required the perpetual
tribunal of earth well in the chancery of heaven Pos
ery will sit in judgment upon you, certainly almost as
equitaby, as Christ will Judge you in the last day.
II is solemn thing to die it is a solemn thing to Eve
Eternal issues suspended upon this brief and uncertain
life As we SOW must reap. Every shall receive
his reward just according his labor. And the
settlement of account with God and the world is not far
off, "Our fathers, where they" In few short years
we shall all lie with them in that quiet restingpace where
high and low meet together 1t matters comparatively little
how soon the summons comes if the work for which God
gave existence has been faithfully performed That
death is premature which finds us in the honest dis
charge Of duty It only transfers nobler sphere of ac
ton, and strikes off the eers which, in this earthly abena
ce obstruct our freedom
He that lives for Chriss glory here shall be gofed here
after Go forth to the tolls of life, consecrating all
your powers to your Savou and then reposng upon
God, labor shall be lghtened conscience queted acon
sweetened life shall be PEACEFUL death victorious and eter
nifty hymn Of perpetual thanksgiving.