The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-07-19

truth how Old, how tIite, how rapid this
sounds And yet when considered sub
jectivcly by each one of us how imnor-
tant, how awful, how infinite this truth!
Death is a subject with which in kimi
Of abstract way every one acknowledges
an interest-and yet the day will come
TO each individual when it will becomesa
solemn and awful reality, when of his,
il will be briefly written as of the mil
lions past-"a5W I'D ptTjos" TO the md-
vidual il is an almost cruel thoupht-"I
shall die and be forgotten and the world
Will 20 on the same as ever Tomorrow
the world will be TO me as nothing, and
yet after few respectful observances
and funeral solcmnitieS, the symbols of
a resp actful sorrow, more or less deer
and lasting, those who have known anil
loved me will return from nv grave and
go on eating and drinking. MARRYING
and giving in marriage, each following
his own private ambitions and aspi,;,-
tions, the same as if had never been"
Wen, it is the common lot. a few
years more or less, and we shall all be
forgotten. 70 Use the stately language
OF Sir Thomas Brown, "Oblivion is not
to be brihed. The greater part must be
content to be as though they had not
been, to be found in the register Of God,
and not in the record OF man"
But it is ut least Il comfort that with
us who are left behind the memory of
dead friend lives in all its fragrance ard
beauty. This rigid and dreadful death
cdnuot-wlih us-tum one hair OF the
loved and houorcd head to his dread
purposes or make one feature odinus
our thought is not that the hand il
heavy and will fail down when released.
il is not that the heart and pulses are
still, bat that the hand maS open, gener-
Gus and true, the heart brave, warm ami
tender, and tn" pulse n MANS.
Rarely is it the lot Of mortal to leave
/ such void in the hearts of his friends
is that left by the death of Chancello,
Lafayette liaughton. 1t is a @enprallule
that man is known by his enemies. but
TO this general rule there are ilHustrious
exceptions, There are men before tl,a
dignity and sweetness Of whose disposi-
'''l' eu'''l'N Is olSaffheh, whose character
compc.s love and admiration. Our dead
friend was pre-cmiuontlv one of ,,o,a
BY birth, inheritance and education a
/ gentleman, of manly dignity and firm
moss he wu. yitbol a. ca,,tl,, ,s =, ,,.,,,,,a,.
{ nd l. is 90. tat
""' "'S -V"ldl ana social qualities were
| the delight Of all who knew him. one
| ,r,I,.,,u,,., Ii..t t,,,,..i
Wv '''', ''''' ~ "''''''N tH"Iact'iiStlcS
Oh 'halI'oIloT iaugltou was his mex
hau>ubIc fund of humor His was NOT
tha. wi. u,li,.h sI,i,,,,,. ,, A..
/ tnn fn,Ii,T5 ~ ,ti',,,. ct nv 'APtH9e OF
shuft slim, .,,,I ~ " H"S, p'lSpileu
aIiphts uIiI rrno, " t''I gI IL
cnmnnIs ndnirati,,,, . H.i NnIl' II
GENIAL humnr ,.hi,i' Az ~, -, N"s we we
nm gtmosnhr,o ~ l.;,, 1I''i ,t' JUN u
/ shines i'm Ina r,,li,,,i, I'M ~ NhlcIl
with mo ,u,,,,i,, '%,' anu "eathS
| inc owe lis h,,,, ,,d , "i ,ilt l,tu%h
generated itn ln,G,n,'e,,. ~, ~ 81 Se
/ INTO yuytLi,I,, u,,,,n,.ti,. r. "Js'.l'ur''
of me polishnd di,-,iiGi 'r, ~ n,',''
Frw of his frinuds .,,!',, -.
/ GENIAL social ,,nof,,i, i'' 80 ~. T.
/ ruishrd ChonrriI'n, tIn,,Irr, :" "'NvI"
/ which rendered ms hnt,'it,,ii+,,' az
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