The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1854-07-21

" v bclcNcd the Inhabitants oi Indiana
will at no very disian, day, fnd ample
remuneration for temporary priSaiicn
OF labor and emigration"
lle was against slavery. and by his
viii, both manumit,ed and provided for
the hundreds which he held. But he
was against foreign interference with
his rights. his feelings or bis duties I;
and never failed to resent and rcbuke
such interference. Thus he was one
ot the most Healous OF the opposers Of
the proposed Missouri restriction and
even voted agains, the divisional line Of
thirfy-six thirty" IN the House when
the term STAKEHOLDER would bc re-
pncaci,fully used, be would assume \ =,
and rcfer TO member, not in the par
t'amensary phrase Of colleague, bat in
the complimentary title of "my fellow
stakeholder" And. in London, when
the consignees Of his tobacco, and the
slave factors Of his father, urged him to
iiberate his slaves, he quieted their in
trusive philanthrophy ON the spot by
saying, Yes you buy and set free TO
the amount of the money you have re-
ceived from my father and his estate for
these slaves, and will set free an equal
number"
In his youth and latter age. he fought
dueis In his middle life he was against
them and for while, would neither
give or receive challenge. He was
under religious convictions to the con-
trary, but finally yielded (as he believ.
ed to an argument Of his own, that a
duel Is private war and rested upon The
same basis as public war; and thnt both
were allowable when there was no 9th.
er redress for injuries. That was his
argument; but l thought his relapse
came more from feeling than reason
and especially from the death of Deca-
tur TO whom he was greatly attached
and whose duel with Barron long and
greatly excited him. He had religious
impressions, and vein of piety which
showed itself more in private than ex-
tern"l observances. lie was habitual
IN his reverential regard for the diyini-
ty oil our religion and one of his beau.
tiful expressions was that, .If woman
had lost US paradise, she had gained us
heaven" The Bible and Shakespeare
were, in his hitter years, his constant
compan'ons--travelling with him on the
road--remaining with him in the cham =.
ber. The last time | saw him lin that
last visit to Washington. after his re.
turn from the Russian mission, and when
he was in full view of death,) I heard
HIM read the chapter in Revelations (of
the opening Of the seals,) with such
power and beauty of voice and delivery
and such depth Of paihos, that / felt as
had never heard the chapter read
before. When he had got to the end
OF the sixth seal. he stopped the read-
ing, laid The book (open at the place.
on his breast, as he lay on his bed, and
began discourse upon the beauty and
aublimity of the ScripturaI writings,
compared to which he considered all hu.
man compositions vain and empty
"o'ng over the images presented by the
opening of the seals, he averred tha,
their divinity was in their sublimity--
mat no human power could take the
same images and Inspire the same awe
and terror, and sink ourselves into such
no'h'ngness in the presence ofthc "wratl,
OF the Lamb that he wanted no proof
OF their divine origin but the sublime
feelings which they inspired.