Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-27
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inended in Mlton's proSr-wcll compacte,g, fall.
Of meaning, tit vehicles for great Thought.
But he does not deal exclusively in those
ponderous sentences. There is nothing nf the
artificial JohnSonian balance in his Stvlc. II is
las often marked by-a pregnant hrevitv as l,v a
S"norous amplitude He is sometimes. salts
lett, IN concise cpigraIamatic clauses, to skir-
miSh with his light troops and drive in tho
eneny's outposts. It is only on lifting occa.
9lonS, when great principles are to be vindcatcd
and solemn truths told; when some moral or
polltca' Waterloo or SolterinO is to be fought
that he puts on the entire panoply of his gor
geonS rhetoric 1t is then that his majestic
sentences swell to the dimensionsoC his thougkt:
ulat you hear alar Oft the awful roar of lis
rilied ordinance; aud when he has stor.ned the
heights, and broken the centre, and tr3uipIed
thsGSQuaresi and turned the Staggering wIuss. of
the adversary, that lac sounds his Imperial
clarion along the whole line of Gn,tle, and
moves forward with all his hosts. in on. over
~hetmins charge. Enthusiastic appiauSt,
Our trlehd was, in all the personal rulatInlS of
lite, the most uaselfSh aud dsin;ere>tcd of ,nen.
COMMANDING from an carly pcrnd IL valuable
cilcnteinge, and rising rapidly 10 the snmnit of
MS profession, and to the best practice in the
%Snfts 1! 9i MaSSnchusetts and iu the Snprerne
court Ct the United States, with no extensive
tastes or habits, aud manner of life highly os
tentationS and simple, advancing yearS overlook
MN with tut slender provision for their decline
lie reaped little bnt fanc, where hc uOght to
hnve rcaped both fame and fortune 4 career
which in England wOuld have beer, crowned
with aftinence, and probably with distinguished
rank aud office, found him at sixty chained to
the trearnill Of laborioms practice.
lie might, indeed be regarded as a martyr to
MS profession. lie gave 10 il his time, his
strength, and negiectmg due care 0r regular
bodily exercise and occasional entire relaxation
ne =, might be said to have given TO it his liie.
lie assumed the rackimg anXrteS and fcve.ish
eXcltementS OF his clients From the cnnrts
where he argued the causes entrusted to him
With all the energy Of his intellect rousing into
corresponding action an ovrrtaskGd nervous
'y$teIn, these cares and auXieties followed him
10 the WEAKNESS Of his midnight vigilS, and the
unrest of his steepiesS pillow. In this way, lie
ted long professional career, worn and haraSS
added years ot professional usefulness TO the in
tcnsity with which TIC threw hinSclf into the
discharge OF his duties in middle life
There are other rccOilctiOnS of our friends
career. other phases of his character, on which
would gladly dwell; but the hour has elapsed
nnd 1t Is not necessary. The gentlemen who
preceded me, his professional brethren, his pas
tor, the press Of. ttsc country, generously allow.
ing past differences of opinion to be buried in
has grave, have more than uIadc up for any def
cheney IN my remarks. His work is dIue-
n0btE, w0rthily done. Never more in the tenn
pies ol JnShce--ne"er more III the Senate cham
oer-nevcr more in the crowded assembly
never more in tliis consecrated hall, where he
50 often held listening crowds in rapt a,imira-
ton, shall we catch the uncarthly' glance Of his
eye, or listen to the StIaugc, sweet music uf his
Voice. Tomorrow snail follow hiin-,he
pure Patriot-the MS inmate jurist-the cl,,-
qlent o'ator-the houorcd citzsn-,hc boiuycl
''iend, to the last resting place; -and who will
not feel as we lay him there, tinat 81 brighter
genius and a warner heart are not left anDng
living men!