The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1880-06-09

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dear 70 HMM memory orin prospect.
The total loss of properly IS something.
The wreck Of houses and villas beauti-
fed BY ones taste, and enriched with
ones treasure Of literature and arts
something Disgrace IS something III
gratitude On the part Of friends IS some
thing. The loss Of AL power Of use
fulness Is something And If 70 all
these causes IF depression was added in
the case Of Cicero, sensitiveness keen,
delicate, almost morbid 50 THAT what
was pain 70 others vas almost death 10
him; and above all that he was destitute
Of that knowledge IN which alone there is
peace, we shall find enough to explain
those expressions Of anguish which mark
the period Of his exile. lii the tangled
maze ofevents and characters brought to
view by the war between Cesar and
Pompey and continued until the deathIof
1 Caesar, Cicero came to match himself
against Antony which opened the last and
brightest scene Of his glory, Il was 4
.tine Of magnificent Of redeeming great
ness. For those few months Cicero was
again what lie had been In the days Iof
Catalina. The sympathy Of the enrapthr-
ga audience, and tie consciousness Of !
recovered dignity reused into fresh life
every energy Of his soul; and when he
/ closed his last effort it was in the tone Of
a man who feels that his work is done.
| Cicero's work was done. Oetavius con-
Guided a@trcaty with Antony and as ! re
suit Cicefo's name stood at the head Of a
list 5of 800 prescribed senator's On the.
arfiyal Of the news Cicero embarked from
Ills home at Astpna and slowly coasted
along that familiar shore. Butzat night
fall, weary Of the sickness and iFresolution
which tornented him he went ashore at
Circii. Again BE resumed his
fight, And again for the last
time determined 70 slese On shore. His
beloved villa At Formal was his last
resting place The agony Of irresolution
Twas now intokrAble, and he implored his
attendants 70 disturb him no more to
suffer him % die ID pesee, if 4 rnust be So
Sinshe land which he had saved For some
hovrs ne slept soundly; then his servants
feplaesd him II III litter and hurried
i through kh< woods toShIls the coast, but
bstofe they reached ths SHIPS aparty Of
soldiers needed BY tribune Jhefn Cicero
md once defended in 4 capital cause
overlook them. His attendants prepared
themselves for action, being determined
! to defend theT master life at the hazard
Of their owr haffs Cicero commanded
them To set down the litter and make 10
], resistance, with his chin resting upon his
Fhaad his. favorite posture in meditation
he fixed his eyes on his murdercrs and
i babe them strike. The head and hands
were severed from the body to bs affixed
~ the front Of the rostrum at Rome. For
the head had planned, ond the hands had
written those words Of power which only
blood could expiate,s and expiate at last
without obliterating. The life Of Cicero
has in a raeasure drawn his character. We
/ are not to deny that he had faults, but no
reasonable man will represent them as
more than drawbacks to the perfection Of
his character. There is always something
painful in hearing great name! dispara
/ ged. We cannot but teel that the great
! men Of earth have not been on any cal
Iculatoin, SO many. that We can afford to-
part with any offthem We can tolerate
fthe descent Of a vain and frivolous mon
!. arch from a pinnacle to which nothing
/ but vulgar adulation had raised him. We
can rejoice in the denial, by a succeeding
generation, of the title Of ''the Great. TO
4 conqueror, who has desolated half the
world for the qualification of selfish am
bition Bit it IS otherwise with man
ofincomparable industry. Of extraordinary
/ talent, Of brilliant eloquence. Of biameless
| life, Of stirling, exemplary integrity, who
has served his country through life. and
died martyr to its liberties. a glori-.
Gus end indeed, was his. as man judges !;
the death Of a patriot, philosopher 4
] hero combining all that is beautiful IN.
resignation with all that is great in cour-
]sage. The very fact that TO Cicero life was
peculiarly .dear-death unspeakably
cherries must add to our admira