The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-24
ALEXANDRIA, La WEDNESDAY, AUGUST a 1859
A BEAUTIFUL EULOGY.
EDWARD EVERETT ON RUFUS caoA7r.

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meeting in Faneu;l HAN IL honor &c p,t,s cboo, !.
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4 beautiful eulogy delivered by Edward Everett
i Mr. Mayor and FELLOW. Citizens: obey thu
only call which could with p,opriety have drawn
me at this time from my retirement. in acceptipe
your invitation to unite With YOU in the melancholy
duties which we are assembled here to nerform.
i While speak, sir, the lifeless remains Of our
dear departed friend are expected itmay be, have
already returned to his bereayed home, We sent
him forth, but few days since, in search of health
the exquisite bodilysorg anization oYertasked and
shattered but the master intellect still shining in
unclouded strength. Anxious but not responding,
we sent linn forth, hoping that the bracing air OF
the ocean, which he greatly loved the respite from
labor the change Of scene the cheerful intercourse
which he was SO well calculated TO enjoy, with con.
genial spirits abroad, would return him to ia re.
treshed and renovated he has come back to us
dust and ashes, pilgrim already on his way to
1.-THE undiscovered country from whose bourno
No traveller returns" o.
4 How conld refuse 10 hear NV humble mart l. tho
tribute Of respect which W, are asserhIad - n.r
to the memory Of such man. ! man NIT univ
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u,rar a1rnuugu with, !, !, :,,,u ,,..,. , IN
the duty you have deyolyed upon me I cannot
but feel how little remains to he said Il 10 Int
echoing the voice, which has been. heard from
every part Of the couptry--from the bar from the
press from, every association from which It could
with propriety be uttered to say that he stood at
the head Of his profession in this country II, in
his own or in any other part Of the Union, there
was bis superior in any branch of legal knowledge,
there was certainly no one who united 10 the same
extent profound Learning in the law, with range
almost boundless Of miscellaneous reading, reason
ing powers of.the highest order, intuitive quick
ness of perception a wariness and circumspection
never taken by surprise, and an imagination, which
rose on bold and easy wing to the highest heav-
en- of invention. These powers, trained by dill
igent cultivation attachments, combined and
applied with sound judgment, consummate skill,
and exquisite taste, necessarily placed him at the
head Of his profession of his choice, where, since
the death Of Mt. Webster, he shone without rival
With such endownlents formed at the best schools
professional education, exercised with unwearied
assiduity, through long professional life, under
the spur of generous ambition, and the heavy re-
sponsbility of an ever growing reputation to be
sustained--f possible to be rased-he could fill no
second place.
But he did not. like most eminent iurists, con-
tent himself with theslearning or the fame Of his
profession. He was more than most men in eny
profession, in the best sense Of the word, man
oflife He did not think il the part Of either WIS.,
dom or good taste to leave behind him at school,
or at college, the noble languages Of the great PEG.
pies Of antiquity but he continued throughl life to
read the Grecian and Roman classics. He was
also familiar with the whole range of English liter
ature, and he had respectable acquaintance with