The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-11-16
From the Ohio Statesman, Nov. 3.
Death Of Governor Medary.

Amid a war Of sections, the strife Of par
ties and the roar of factiOns-on the eve of
the final struggle between freedom and des-
notism-when constitutional liberty seems
about to 60 down again before the old enc
my that has logged its footsteps through five
ccnturies-we are called upon to record the
dea h Of one of its greatest, oldest and most
ardent upporters-Ex- Governor SAMUEL
MEDARY. After an illness of about eleven
weeks during most Of which time he was
strong enough to travel and make a brief
journey for his health, he was attacked with
his old complaint at his breakfast table yes
terlay morning. and died at five clock last
evening, su! rounded / y all hut three mem
hcrs of his family The exact nature of his
d!sea remains unknown. lie was among
the many poisoEed at the Natioi al Hotel in
1857, and it is believed that some remnant
Of the old poi.on promoted his death. An
other thsory is that, cancer in the stomach
was his disease. He was taken suddenly i'll
while delivering speech on the Court
House steps last August, and. as we have
said, never fully recovered. lie died fully
conscious of his approaching dissolution,
and met his fate with the serenity Of one
who falls to sleep after a long and weary
journey, where there was nothing to disturb
him or make him afraid
Governor Medary was born in the year
1851, the day before the Inauguration of
Thomas Jefferson KS President of the United
States. He lived to kee the doctrines taught
by that great expounder of liberty and JUS
tice become the principles of the great party
under whose auspices free government
spread over continent and conferred bless
ings upon thirty millions Of people; he ex-
pired as they ceased is be the controlling
principles of the Government.
Gov. Medary was a Democrat from his
boyhood; he was Democrat at his Death
He was the intimate friend of Gen. Jack
son; the old hero was his ideal of statesman
ship and model of manhood. In many
striking peculiaitieS the follower resembled
the leader but in none more than in his
frmness his iinpetuosity, his integrity and
his democracy. Warm in his friendship
and bitter in his hatrcds, he loved all that
was manly and hatedsall that Was mean.-
Springing from the people himself, he glor-
led in his humble origin and despised every
thing like arstocracy. A man of rcmarka-
bly, vivid and powerful memory, who had
witnessed many Of the events Of importance
in the political history Of this young coun-
try, his conversation was gentle, full of
graphic interest, and charmed as it instruc-
ed those who hemd him; while at other
times he was terrible in Lis witheling de-
nunciations and fiery calnastness. As a
writeg he was rugged and vigorous, going
to point with the dircctnass AMI precision
of bullet. Gentle and amiable in private
life, his generosity was without bounds, and
his affection toE bis family and his friends
was like a deep stream, perpetually over
flowing its banks. His political history
would be the political history of Ohio, where
for forty years, he has figured conspiciousy,
! not without receiving his quota of scars, in
the strife, but always with the earhestness Of
man whose principles were embodied in
his head and his heart, and were as insep-
arabic to his existence He imbibed them
in his youth; he trusted in them through
life; they were present with him at his death
bed. He was devout believer in the in
telligence and rectitude of the people, and
in the existence of that justice which would
at last make all things even. Without be
longing to any organized religious society,
he was one of those best of chlistions, an
honest man, who in life. possessed child
like faith in COP and dying manifested his
confidence in the justice and mercy of Di-
vinity.
Forgetting all past MISUNDERSTANDING
before him the acerbity growing out of party
contests-tho rancorous weeds of politics.
remembering only, in the solemn presence
of death, the manly virtues and sterling
qualities of the man, and in the exercise of
the saddest privilege of friendship and re-
spect, we shed tear over the remains and
invoke peace to the dust of great and good
man Samuel Medary.