Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-12-03

In fair appearances and with hope eate,
And naught suspectng thus he salEes forth
To learn experience in the storms of life.
knew him well-his constituents did not mistake
him-they did not overestimatc his worth. franklin
County has lost able Statesman-we lose the
benefit of his abty-in our legislative councils. \
few years ago, Franklin County lost another of the
same name-he was kinsman of DIR. L. A. Jeffreys.
But who can estimate his loss to those, in whose
circle he lived and moved but few short days ago.
Then there were six brothcrs-four have gone
They have been suddenly cut off in their youth and
usefulness.
DR.. Jetfreys had not been married long, lie
leaves behind those, whose main stay and hope in
consolation. L. A. Jeffrcys is no more! When
his friends write his epitaph, they can only say,
"Happy is he who dies in YOUTH
And whose renown is known"
He is gone!
where millions lie lulrd to their portioned sleep
BY the deep murmuring streams of passing things:
Tear thou that gloomy s!roud-sprit behold
Thy Curious destiny!
Mr.. Battle. of Nash, addressed the Senate as fol-
lcws:
Mr.. SPEAKER: After what has been said by the
Senators from Franklin and Wake, in honor of the
deceased-Dr. Leonidas \. Jeffreys--I beg the in
diligence of the Senate for few moments; and
regret ostseriousy, the circumstances under which
am influenced or actuated to raise myself feeble
in speech as am IN the Senate of North Carolina,
before this aged and honored body of public servants
and guardians of our beloved commonwealth, many
of whom are wearing locks silvcrcd with years
of public service, before time marked the epoch of
my earthly existence.
MIR. Speaker, rise to express and intermingle my
true feelings for, and do that simple and well merit
ed justice to him who is gone, and left many friends
to mourn his loss and for him you will believe me-
when say that have ever cherished the highest
regard, and for whom am panied to acknowledge
ncOmDctenCV iferate Such sentiments of r.iSe
to his name and immaculate character that would
feel proud that l could advance his many plausible
traits as appears too perfect for earthly existence
to where they justly entitled to be meritoriously
ranked in the highest estimation of all present. and
perpetuate his long in the memory of ali friends
and members in this Legislature. with whom, in the
other end of the capitol, the county of Franklin, in
August last, elected him oy an overwhelming ma
jority, to sit and deliberate But find myself in.
adequate to the task have not the language in
control to depict the deceased, to draw that figure
of the man, that Senators might see him and know
him, as have seen him, and have known him. Of
him, indeed, It's pleasant to remember.
Mr.. Speaker, the reading of the resolutions and
other evidences fresh in our hearing must certainly
satisfy beyond doubt, every person within the
sound of my voice, that Dr. Leonidas A. Jeffreys is
no more! He departed this life as we are correctly
informed, the day before yesterday-Thursday the
9th inst, leaving behind to their irreparable
loss, widow and infant child, with large circle of
relations, and numerous eonfidng friends He has
paid the last debt of nature evidently fixed, and
sealed upon the mortality of the SOUL and due the
great God of goodness, and ruler of the universe
Its debt you, Mr. Speaker I, and all that now
exist in this dying world certainly must pay sooner
or later, and should beware that the call is not
made at time when least expect it, while we
are found destitute of the proficiency to meet it,
In this great moment, if we are defenseless, we
have no time to make it, for
Eve must not pluck death from the Makers hands,"
but be resigned to his will. with reverential praise
to his rule over this his mighty empire that when
he calls we must go, and may go in his favor
have every reason to believe, and hopefully trust
that he about whom am talking, in the great strug-
er of his soul to our great benefactor," and that
ne has gone in favor to that spiritual world to enoy
blssful time that will never perish
Dr. Leonidas A. Jefreys some or years nv
senior, and have known him, and worn reciprocally
the highest regard and most unperishable esteem for
him, since the earliest periods of our boyhood We
were schoolmates in 1843 when those sociable ties
OF friendship were formed, which have since been
kept alive, and cherished to the end of his earthly
career, and now left for my continued entertainment
as the survivor of that socable compact of bumani.
ty; for he is gone to his lasting home, while am
yet spared to think of him, and speak to the praise
| OF his time and name.
In him have ever found friend, an adviser, a
genteman and man, as must be admitted by all
VINO knew him; for to know him was to like him-ac-
qu,re the former, and you have the latter.
IN MN We're found the true impulses Of nature
portrayed IN every feature, in every expression. so
consonant with his dignity and address, as to- CON-