The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-24


private friendship. OF his public career it was
not so much our wish to speak. His able
public contemporaries viii do that Justice
Our humber aim was to show glipmses of the
soul, magnanimity and heroism of his orphan
boyhood, the joint effect of inherited honor
and virtue, and the early lessons of piety alb
sorbec from mothers lips, always tremulous
with prayer. His devotion to what he hon.
estly conceived to be the best interest of his
country, and the manly zeal and eloquence
with which he defended it, excited our highest
regard and admiration, but it was his private
virtues which won our whole heart, and made
it a very luxury to love him. Never have we
known one so loveable and SO beloved in the
home circle. With wife, children, sisters and
sisters-in-law. he was almost an idol.
The first week of his fatal illness was passed
at his own residence in the city, while sister
in-law was suffering under fatal illness at
her fathers, two miles in the country. Learn
ing by accident, how dangerously i'll was hisre-
lative, ere his nurse could arrest him, he sprang
out of bed, seated himself in chair, and
asked for his BOOKSELLER father and mother
are exhausted with long watching" said he,
''and must go to their assistance"
While working for the support of bis mother
and sisters, Immediately after his return to
Tennessee, he was some twelve miles distant
from them, but every Saturday evening he
would walk "home" to spend the holy Sab
bath in company with them. Often after SO
long a walk IN. summer, his feet would be
blistered and swollen, and it was happiness
of his little sisters-remembered yet with joy
to battle them until their little hearts were
made to throb with ecstacy, upon his assurance
that they had "made his feet as well as ever"
We know full we'll what trifing elements of
personal history are these viewed from a COM
mon standpoint of the world as such, but they
are far dearer to the heart of the writer than
trophies won in glorious war, though died in
the blood of persisted heroes, or crown of holy
with its cherries red," for the triumps of
a genius legitimately the offspring of inspira-
ton. All these call not up in the hearts
high and holy memory, kindred recollections,
which stir up its fountains from their mighty
depths, till all is peace, and love, and harmony
within. Our friend was born poor, worked
hard, lived hard, and died poor But let no
one suppose that he was consequently unhap-
Ply. We are acquainted with a number of
very wealthy men, the aggregate of whose
happiness during our acquaintance, would not
equal the sum of MoGINTY's for single week
Why, he was a philosopher and a christian,
and could not be unhappy. AS the former, he
expected but little, and was prepared for any
conceivable reverse, while as the latter he was
full of thanks and praises for what he had.
God had given him the best wife that ever
blessed man, and two lovely children, with a
father-in-law whose whole heart went out to
him, and mother-in-law, and sisters-in-law,
who felt it privilege to love him. And there
were still his three sisters spared to him-''his
sensitive sister, his beautiful sister, and his &C.
complished sister," as he playfuly distinguish
ed them while they lived together. Oh no,
rich in grace, rich in love, and happy in the
labor that earned the daily bread of himself
and those he loved SO well, it were a solecism
in language to say that he was poor. When
grace was darkened by an occasional cloud he
would sometimes for a moment fear he might
outlive his usefulness, or what of all horrors
to his sensitive mind was the greatest, that he
might eat bread earned by other hands than
his own. God heard his prayer, and was good
to him, and permitted him, though severely af-
hicted, to earn his support up to the hour of
his fatal attack. And now, spirit of a just
man made perfect, we will see thee no more in
the flesh, and in sickness and pain; and while
we know where thou art, and how hard it is
to reach thee, we are not without hope in the
world that we shall see thee face to face, and
rejoice with thee over the redemption brought
into the world by Jesus Christ, and that this
rejoicing shall be forever and ever.