Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-11-09
From the Ohio Statesman.
Death of GOV. Medary.

Amid the war of sections, the strife Of par
ties and the roar of factions-On the eve oi
the final struggle between freedom and des
potism-when constitutional liberty seems
about to go down again before the old enemy
that has logged its footsteps through five cen.
turies-we are called upon to record the
death Of one Of its greatest, ablest and most
ardent upporters-Ex Governor Samuel Me.
dary After an illness OF about eleven weeks,
during most of which time he was strong
enough TO travel aud make brief Journey for
his health, he was attacked with his old com
plant at his breakfast table yesterday morn
ing, and died at five o clock last evening, sur
rounded by all but three members of his fam
ily The exact nature OF his disease remains
unknown. He WAS among the many poison
ed at the National Hotel in Washington in
| 1857, and it is believed that some remnant of
the old poison promoted his death Another
theory is that cancer in his stomach was his
disease. He was taken suddenly i'll while de-
livering a speeoh on the Court House steps
last August, aud, as we have said, never fully
recovered. He died fully conscious Of his ap-
proaching dissolution, and met bis fate with
the serenity of one who falls to sleep after a
long aud weary journey where there was
nothing to disturb him or make him afraid,
Governor Medary was born in the year,
1901, the day before the Inauguration Of
Thomas Jefferson M President of the United
States. He lived to see the doctrines taught
by that great expounder of liberty aud justice
become the principles of the great party un
der whose auspices free government spread
over a continept and conferred blessings up
on thirty millions Of people; he expired al
they ceased to be the controlling principles
OF the Government
: Gov. Medary was a Democrat from hi
boyhood he was a Democrat at bis death
he was the intimate friend OF Gen. Jackson
the old hero was his ideal of statesman nshiI
I aud model of manhood la many striking
peculafites the follower resenbled the lead
er, but in none more than in his frmness
y his impetuosty, his integrity and his demoC
Taey Warm IN his friendships aRd bitter il
his hatreds he loved all that was manly an
;, hated all that was mean. SpFinging from III
i people himself he gloried in his humble or
gin aud dsspised everything like aristocracl
A man OF remarkably vivid aud powerlr
It memory who had Witnessed many OF th
A events Of Importance in the political histor
of this young country, his conversation WI
gentle, full OF graphic interest, and chsrme
10 as it instructed those who heard him; while
other times he vas terrible 10 his witherin
denunciations and fiery earnestness As
's writer be was rugged and vigorous; going
10 a point with The direetness and precision Of
bullet. Gentle and amiable IN his private lit
u his generosity was without bounds, and b
p affection for his family and his friends WI
, like deep stream, perpeiually overhowir
- its banks His political history would be Il
OF political history of Ohio, where for forty yea
he has 6gured conspieuously not without 7
ceiving his quota OF scars in the strife, b
always with the earnestness Of a man who
j. principles we're embodied in his head aud
heart, and we're as insepareble to his exi
lv euce He imbibed them in his youth
= trusted in them through life; they we're pr'
d ent with him at his death bed He was d
OF won't believer in the intelligence aud reclitu
on of the people, and 10 the existence Of th
II. Justice which would at last make oil thin
:, even. Without belonging to any organia
~ religious society, he was one OF those beat
no Christians an honest man, who ia life posse
81 ed child-like faith in God, and dying ma
- tested bis confidence in the justice and m
he oy Of Divinity.
10 Forgetting all past iffsrences-buryi
'H' before him the aceFbity growing out OF pa
his contests--ths rancorons weeds Of politics
re remembering only, 10 the solemn presence
.ss death, the manly virtues and sterling quI
ties OF the man, and in the exercise OF
on saddest privilege OF friendship ane resPs
he we shed tear over the remains and invo
he peace to the dust of great and good man
ee- Samuel Medary.
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