Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-11-17
-- From the Ohio Stut tCsnanr Nov. Sth.
Death Of Governor Medary.

Amid the war of sections, the strife of
parties and the roar of factions--on the eve
of the final struggle between freedom and
despotism - when constitutional liberty
seems about to 60 down again before he old
enemy that has doggcd its footsteps through
five ccnturies--we are called upon to record
the death ofone of its greatest, oldest men,
most ardent supporters =, -, EX-Govornor
Samuel Medary. After an illness of about
eleven weeks, during most of which time he
was strong enough to travel and make u
brief journey for his health, he was attacked
with bis old complaint at his breakfast table
Yesterday morning, and died at FIVE o clock
last evening, surrounded by all but three
members of his family. The exact nature
of his disease remains unknown. He was
among the many poisoned at the National
Hotel in Washington in 1857, and it is be-
| licved 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 delivering
speech on the Court House steps last Au-
gust, and as we have said, never fully re-
covered He died fully conscious Of his APP
preaching disloution 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 Mcdary was born in the year
1901, the day before the Inauguration OF
Thomas Jefferson as President of the Uni
ted States. He lived to see the doctrines
taught by that great expounder of liberty
and justice become the principles Of the
great party under whose auspices free gov
ernmcnt spread over a continent and con-
ferred blessings upon thirty millions Of peo.
pie; he expired as they ceased to be the
controlling principles of the Government.
Gov. Mcdary was Democrat from hi'
boyhood; he was Democrat at his death
He was the intimate fricndo Of General Jack
son; the old hero was his ideal ofstatesman
ship and model Of manhood. In many stri
king pecuIiarities the follower resembled the
leader but in none more than in his firm
ness his impetuosity his integrity and his
Democracy. Warm in his friendship anC
bitter in his hatreds, he loved all that wa,
manly and hated all that was mean. Spring
ing from the people himself he gloried il
his humble origin and dispised everything
like aristocracy. A man of remarkably
vivid and powerful memory, who had wit
messed many of the events OF Importance
in the political history of this young coun
try, his conversation was gently, full o
, graphic interest, and charmed as it instruc
ted these who heard him; while at othe
times he was terrible in his withering dc
nuncations and fiery earnestness. As
e writer he was rugged and vigorous, going
Il point with the drcctness and precision
= "a bullet Gentle and amiable in privat
life, his generosity was without bounds, an
his affection for his family and friends wa
Il ike deep stream perpetually overflowir
1t its banks. His political history would !
vl the political history of Ohio, where for fo
- ty years he has figured conspicuously, NJ
'o without receiving his quota of scars in tt
ID strife, but always with the earnestness Of
ID man whose principles were embodied in h
head and his heart, and were as inscpar
BILE to his existence. He imbibcd them
st his youth; he trusted in them through life
Df they were present with him ut his death bcC
s. lie was dcvout believer in the intclligcnC
~ and rectitude Of the people, and in the e,
-" istcnce of that justice which would at la
Us make all things even. Without belongr
lie to any organized religious society, he Wi
d one of those best of Christians, an hone
man, who in life possessed child like fait
in GoD and dying manifested his confiden'
< in the justice and mercy of Divinity.
l. Forgetting all past. -buryr
is before him the acerbity growing out Of pa
~ =, ties remember only, in the solemn presen'
u of death, the manly virtues and and ste
ling qualities of the man, and in the exc
else of the saddest privilege of friendsh
Land respect, we shed a tear over the r
mains and invoke peace to the dust of
great and good man-Samuel Medary.