Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-04
on dissipation he proceeded to do so.

orator had preceded his arrival at the capital he was courted and caressed, fawned on and dattered by both of the great parties: but such was the firm mastery which liquor had obtsin- ca over him. that it was doubtful judging from ms avowed sentiments, to which of tbe nartias he belonged.
 His most intimate friends knew not wbs, ,o make of his political principles. Of one tbirc however, were they certain, and that was that II he ever had any fixed political princi. pies that he had now lost them. So stpr;f od was ne with liquor, that his better judgment entirely forsook him. There was no conf dence to be placed in him, for there was m stability In his resolutions, nor truth in his as. severatlons. Such was the vascillatipg coprso | pursued by him, that he would on one day oppose that which he had proposed on the pre- cedlng. He alternately deceived and betrayed both parties on several important occasions. and long before the session terminated he was deemed utterly unworthy of a seat in the House-he returned home dsgraced miser,. ble, and degraded wretch.
 hen behold genius bright and base. Of towing talents and terrestrial aims. Methinks see. thrown from her Li,.b s,l, | me glorions fragments of a soul immortal "lth rubbish mkt and glitterinr in the dust ,, | continuing the same runous course the same mad career on his return home he soo, found himself without one brief fo, m ono would employ lawyer whose reasoning facul. 'leS were always steeped in liquor. In vain dld he redouble his potations in order to nro- duce non-natural wit and vivacity, it only, like 0 the wings of lcarus, plunged him the deeper in the slough of despondency His friends used every exertion to impede his downward march to rum, but the wretch, bent on self-destruction rejected all of their advice. "Whom the gods doom to destruction they first make mad" was an apothegm of the ancients, nor is it less applicable to our time, for many there are in our day, who pursue their way with as much avldity down 10 the realms of endless desna;r as if they were goaded on in their fearful sten. by all the ministers of hell.
 Georse became such an abicct, mean and de-. based wretch, that even his most intimate friends were forced to abandon him. His aged father and mother after long striving to reclaim their reckless son from the error of his way. with out success; broken-hearted, sunk at last to that home the receptacle of mortas: where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest"
 HaVlng now no one that he cared for, he was doubIy liberal in his offerings to Bacchus It really seemed as if he was hurrying on the wings of dissipation and crime to i,in those drunkards who had already made their advent into the labyrinths of the internal world: for having sent his parents gray hairs in sorrow to the grave, in drunken braw he stabbed one ot hls miserable pot companions, sending his drunken and unannealed soul to answer at the bar of a long offended God.
 He was apprehended, and after beiag incar- cerated in dungeon for some months. he was at length brought to trial, and although he deserved death yet through the tact and in. senuity of his able counsel, who succeeded in picking flaw in the indictment, he was again turned loose upon the world.
 Now mark his course, So far from proftino by his sad experience, he no sooner found him. self free from the demands of injured justice than he entered with hellsh zest into all his former rounds of dissipation. Methinks we can see him now, as with protruding eyes, d1sheveled hair, aud haggard looks, he issues from one ot those sinks of misery not inaptly termed doggeries. He seems the very person. lheation of despair. Do we behold in that fil thy degra led wretch the once manly and talent- ed George Clarendon? Is it possible that E- luor can have made such inroads upon the face of one who was once noted for his mlnliness of features and of form? Alas it is too true, it is no other
 It was but an incredible short time after his liberation, when George having spent the pre-. ceding night in a drunken revel, was found dead in the streets one morning, face down in gutter.
 By tracing his melancholy career, we at once perceive, that
 "hon fortune tlluS has toss'l her child in air.
 SnGtchd from the covert of an number state
 How often have we him dfopl a5 once
 Our m 'rninE' envy. and cur evenings sirhn
 Tn coihn made at the expense of of the corporation, and followed by a few of his boated and disgusting companions; companions who seemed as so many demons in wait to transport his soul to the bottomless pit all that remained of the once gay, talented, but unfor- tunate George Clarendon, was consigned to a di8honorable grave, He who at his outset in life bid fair to become an honor to himself and country; who was endowed with rich and va red talent, whose "eloquence might have charmed if not awed senatc;" whose death under other circumstances night have been de- pored as national calamity, from ar unlaw- ful and unholy indulgence in intoxicating li- quQrs, became the most miserable and degraded of beings, and at last sunk into an untmely and gnominous grave, "unwept, unhonored and unsung."
 Ashley County July 10, 1857.