The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-12-26
Death ~ r. n. shrevs.


With great regret we learn from the Lou
isville Journal of the death of Thos. H.
Shreve, Esq, assistant editor of that paper.
He died on Thursday last, of consumption
after long illness. We regret his death as
. friend, and a. man of no ordinary ability
His talent has contributed largely to the fame
of the Louisville Journal. We can pay no
better tribute to his memory than to repub-
lish the following fron the pen of Prentice:
All who were well acquainted with Mr..
Shreve, love him with deep, earnest, and
abiding love. We knew him long and in.
timately, fos he acted as our assistant editor
more than ten years, and we can say in all
sincerity that he was one of the purest and
best men upon the earth. We do not believe,
that, even in his most careless and unguarded
moments, he ever had in his secret bosom a
thoughts feeling, a sentiment, era wish,
that would not, If revealed to his fellow men,
have justly been considered as creditable to
him and to human nature. 1t always SEEM
ed TO US that he was nearly free from the
weakness which are the common lot of hu.
mainly. He guarded the truth and purity OF
his soul far more vigilantle than he guarded
life itself. He kept an ever-wakeful senti-
mel at the portable of his spirits who suffered
no guilty or unclean thing to enter there.
He scorned vice and crime in oil their forms,
yet he never scorned the vicious aud the Grim.
iral, for he remembered that they were por-
ton of his race, and the desire Of his heart
was to do them good. His honesty, bis de.
votion to principle, was proof against all al.
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power could induce him to write or to speak
what he did not think, and no human power
could prevent him from writing and speaking
what he felt it to be his duty to God and to
his fellow men to utter. He engaged with
zeal and activity in the promotion Of all OBJ
jects that he deemed calculated to increase
the happiness of society. He directed hi.
best exertions to the establishment of judi
cious and systematic projects Of charity ant
was ever ready to give literally from his own
hand in proportion to his means. He was
true and faithful and earnest in his attach.
ments, and throughout his life he always
gathered around him bands of friends, whose
lofty spirits were congenial with his own
1t is not for jewellers Of the earth to attain tC
perfection, but we conscien tiously believe thai
he was as near to it in all his attributes o
character as human beings ever arrive. Beau
tiful, most beautiful, were all his walks il
life. and, SO far as mortals can have tn,
means Of judging, he was we'll fitted to pas
from the society Of men to that Of angels
There seemed to US TO be but little dross in
his nature, from which he had need to be pu
rified by the angel of death ere he passed in
to the great brotherhood of the blessed in
heaven.
Mr.. Shreve's abilities were of high order
As writer, he was much distinguished be
fore his connection with the Louisville Jour.
nal, and his pen contributed much valuabL
matter to this paper. His taste was pure, hi
humor was rich and exuberant, and he could
when he pleased, write with extraordinary
vehemence, eloquence, and pathos. His min
was richly stored with knowledge, and b.
could always use that knowledge with won
lderful facility. The condition of his healt
was such fer the last two Or three years tina
he wrote very little during that time. but h
has left behind him some produ tons whic
we trust that our generation will not:permi
to be forgotten.