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the memory does not delight to recall viii
fade away, while only those graceful and
genial and winning qualities which en-
deared him so much to the family, viii
come out into the foreground more prom
inently as the sacred treasures of liv-
ing affection. You will not lose the rec
objection of his. kind words, of his con-
siderate attentions, Of his fatherly acts
and affections. You will remember the
melody of his flute, as it led the voices of
his children in their songs and hymns );
the written prayers, which | am told be
composed for them, to be used morning
and evening in their devotions. And so
long as love has place in your hearts,
this household will not cease to have a
shrine where his memory shall be kept
green and sacred.
But beyond the household, there are
those who recall him as a constant and
valued friend, full of genial emotions, of
varied discourse, and of cultivated and
attractive conversation, who, when ne
left the sterile and whitening realms of
politics, could delight his friends with the
rich stores of an intelligent and thought
full mind, as well as with the affiuence of
a generous heart. He had many friend
at home md abroad, who would gladly
lay tribute upon his tomb to-day.
But still further, beyond the sphere of
personal friendship, he will continue to
be remembered and his influence felt, by
those who never knew him, nor saw the
kindling light of his poetic eye. Full
many song has been borne along, in the
chariot of his words, and come laden
with Measure to thousands of hearst
BEFORE | knew him, nor have | changed
nv opinion, / thought him to be one of
the best lyric poets of our land, and it is
gratifying to knew that the first literary
Journals of England regarded his poems
to be the very first rank of similar pro-
auctions in this country. That he had a
true and ardent poetic temperament his
many ballads and lyrics and poems, will
clearly evinee. And we all know in
what a sweet, sad and solemn strain he
wrote the hymn which was sung in grand
choral, at the dedication Of the Cemete-
nv. five years ago the day of his death,
in whose consecrated dust we shall lay
him this day, to feel
mo balmy summers glad return"
OF him in his political life, l need not
speak. Such life, he felt, he should
have never begun. With his singularly
nervous and sensitive temperament, al
lied to the poets, rather than to the poll
ticians; incapable of treading that rude
and thorny path, without an excitement
that he could not endure, without being
eut and wounded and bruised, so as &c
create even mental distractions and sui
fering, and to set his own faculties tc
work in an unnatural way, it was singu-
lar that he should have condemned him
self to q professional life which he al
ways disliked, and which ever disturbed
more than it delighted him. For the
harsh encounters of partisan welfare, hi
was not fitted. He felt too keeuly, wha
a true politician would not feel at all, an'
was wounded to the death by what h
should have borne with eomposure. AM
no one could read his paper, withou
knowing it to have been edited by pc
etc genius and sincere man, chafe
and fretted by antagonism and annoye
and hampered by being harnessed to tn
dray-cart of political expediences an
rivalries. But in private and social lii
he left his politics out of sight. He neN
er would have his paper in his own house
not because it was not as good as any pr
iitical paper, but because he longed
have one place where he could be hln
self. and not be chased and vexed by II
strifes of the times. Thus his providel
tial circumstances were at war with b
desires and aspirations, and he lived VIII
ne himself said, and what his frien
have said, t,vo RreS, the one appare
and superficial, the other real, deep al
actual in the retirement of his home al
in the region of his thoughts. And
he earned for himself great fame in
party, and has been one among its lea
ers, and friend and adviser in its hie
est oou4.sil=,--:.l. -l4.-es1- irananoa both
home and abroad. But | ought not
allude to a subject, over his remain
which he sedulously excluded from
house.
In respect to his religious views a
convictions, and at such time as tt
these are always the most in place, and
most interesting, viii speak as fully a