The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-03-22
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oil single verse. MiSc0ncepuOA OF
generic terms, Mr. Campbell always con
tended, had been the foundation OF IN
told errors in biblical science. In all his
debates aud in all conversations, not
less than in these lectures, he therefore,
started 4 proposition, striped OF ever
vistigc OF ambiguity, by compelling
definition of terms These terms he
would trace down to their roots in the
languages. 1t was custom with many
students to leave questions on his desk,
and these were often made the subject
of 4 lecture
But it was in social life, in the midst
of his trends and relatives especially
around his own ever thronged and ever
hospitable freside, that Alexander
Campbell was most truly loved and hon
orcd, and there the vacuum can never be
filed His information derived from
life long study, and from travels in Eu-
rope and America, and from his expert
ence among every variety of life, was in
exhaustible, and always charming by its
exceeding simplicity. His manner to-
ward the bum blest domestic of his house
hold was engaging. Never were Il c in
born characteristics of gentleman
more certainly manifested than III him.
Children loved the very sight of him.
None knew him but TO love him"
He was member of the Virginia Con
stitutional Convention of 1929 30. in
which body he sat rs a member Of the
Judiciary committee along with Chief
/ Justice Marshall. and in which he en-
/ countered Randolph and the most dis
/ tinguished men OF the day in debate 1t
was in that body that he gave prophetic
notice of what would ultimately he the
J Of ~ i,,ia nd Of hot
he lived to see accomplished.
/ In lS47 he Visited Europe, received
marked attentions from our Minister,
/ Mr.. Bancroft, and from many of the 10
litcal and religious leaders of the Eng
/ lish people.
/ Only in Scotland, in the city of Edin
, burg, did anything occur TO mar the in-
hucnce and pleasure of his trip His
position on the slavery question had
been grossly misrepresented by cler
oyman who was desirouS to engage him
, in debate, but with whom Mr.. Campbell
, refused to hold any intercourse, on ac-
count of his questionable character. The
refusal for the cause assigned led to a
recourse before the civil tribunals on the
part of the clergyman in an action for
! libel, the final result of which was a ver-
diet in Mr.. Campbelrs favor. Mr. Camp
pbell never was the champion of Amer
lean slavery He believed, however,
that the relation Of master and slave had
existed in biblical times under the di-
vine sanction, or, at all events. toler-
ance; and while he did not desire to be
regarded as the apologist of American
slavery, he contcnded that il should not
be test question of communion in the
churches This was his position in
i IL, -, Nla IF h.t
country. as it had been here at home be
fore the American people. His own
slaves he had emancipated many years
previous.
For some months past he has been in
falling health but his end was accelera-
ted Nv a recent sewers cold, against the
fatal effects Of which his long overtaNed
energies struggled in vain. He began
to sink very noticeablv more than week
before his decease; bat up to the very
last his wonderful vitality resisted the
approach OF DEATH and in the language
OF one who watched with him, the strug
gle was gigantic to the close. Few men
ever possessed greater strength OF Con
stitution. He had never known until re
Gently what it was to suffer bodily all
ment. For more than forty Years, at any
one time in his life. he had not been con
! fined to his bed by illness for single
day. And Yet no man ever taxed his
strength more constantly or more severe
ly. From his early manhood, and for
more than sixty years of his life, early
: and late, Mr. Campbell was an incessant
worker.
\ niece, writing from his sick chamber
at two o clock on Saturday morning pre-
( ceding his DEATH SAYS:
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mind his senses are as acute and clear
rs ever, and his beautiful nature shows
the same in ell things His gentleness
! and patience amid his sufferings break
! all our hearts. Such passages of Scrip
ture rs have fallen from his lips-such
beautiful soltloquies upon ''the feetness
of time and upon doing good while
we can" &c, are wonderful. very won
derful TO all of us All the records of
great men, and their closing hours, give
no such precious remembrances. To Us
who love him So, he appears the greatest
Of them all. Humboldt, you know.
looking upon the setting sun with his
dying eyes, said, g Light, more light :"
and Goethe. dying at the same hour of
the closing day, raised his hand and
made as though he were writing IN the
air, according to his habit of describing
all his sensations as they came. But these
dying witnesses of the lives they had
led. characteristic as they were, now
tame. how meaningless compared with
what our uncle expressed an evening or
50 ago, in watching the glories of the
departing sun. Its last rays were stream
ing through the windows directly in
front of his bed, and fell upon it. A
group of friends sat around him in ST
lence, and he, repeated that passage
:. from Malachi which had been SO often
on his lips during his life, running thus:
But unto you that fear my name shall
the sun of righteousness arise with heal
ing in his wings" What a beautiful tes-
timony of the work Of his long life was
conveyed in that quotation
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