Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-02-22

| attention of the country, and greatly
added to his popularity. His decision
of character and uncOnquerable will
made him u tower of strength in any
\ thing he undertook. Opposition and
/ obstacles which would induce most men
/ to abandon an undertaking seemed only
4 to inspire him with increased vigOr.
And hence it is no wonder that his am
bitions were always gratitied and his
successes always assured. He was
man of great industry and wonderful
tenacity Of purpose.
His scholarly attainments, his exten
sive reading and travel, had given him
breadth of thought; and his contact
with men had added q knowledge of hu-
man nature that aided his Judgment and
made him quick to grasp an idea and
| carry it out to its logical sequence. s-o
| From an hOnored and libsrty-loving
ancestry he inherited an uncomprising
hatred of oppression in every form, and
| through all his life, public and private.
| he cherished a regard for the poor and
down-trOdden, and whenever and wher-
ever they needed champion he was
ready in their defense.
He was active in the organization of
the Republican party, and was its firm
and faithful adherent through all his
public life. In his own and other States
The gave much time to the discussion of
its principles. Among his most promi-
nent characteristics was his faithful al
legiance to his friends, and especially to
these whom he had known in his earli-
er years. And it may be mentioned here,
as one of the c0mmendable features of
human nature, that the friends of his
youth, and those to whom he had been
permitted, in the exercise of his large
opportunity, to do acts OF public and
Iprivate favor, remained his firm and
Isteadfast friends through all the vicis
situdes of political life, and stand to-day
la sorrowing multitude around his fresh
made grave. And If there are those
Eamong his constituency who feel that
ftheir personal desires were overlooked,
Ethey should remember that it was be
Ecause it was impossible for him TO meet
Fall the demands that we're made upon
Ehim, and not because ofany Indifference
on his part. F..s af ...a
With his strong and aggressive nature
lit was inevitable that the frictions of
political life should provoke some re-
sentiments, but in the hottest contest he
was frank and open in his opposition,
and never descended to that vindictivs
calumny so often resOrted to by those
who manage the political campaigns in
cident to Republic like ours.
| If he had faults-and who has not?-|
let him who is without any cast the first
stone. There has never been but one
perfect life lived on earth, and faults
and frailties are the common heritage of
humanity. "But the grave covers every
defect, extinguishes every resentment;
fr0m)its peaceful bosom come only fond
regrets and tender recollections." 4
To the farmrrs of Eastern Ohio his
death comes with q sense of personal
loss. He was long identified with that
eaass ofnature's n0blemen, the honest
labor of whose hands is hallowed by the
sacred promise of the God Of Harvests,
whose long line of decent runs back
through the circling ages to the days
of the patriarchs, and who stand to-day
throughout the length and breadth of
the land, on hillside and prairie, in slo-
ping valley and blooming meadow, the
coadjutors of a benign Providence, ma
king the solitary places glad and "the
desert to rejoice and blossom as the
rose" ta ..-
DR.. Upegraff was not man to be
lightly forgotten. He was not a mega
tive nature, to sink into oblivion when
the grave closes over it. His positive
qualities stamped themselves too legi.
bly, upon the events of his time to be lost
sight of or ignored but in the sacred
precincts of his home, among the loving
circle of kindred and friednds, will the
finer qualities Of his character find their
most fragrant immortality. For nearly
two years he suffered from the malady |
which resulted in his death, but was
uniformly cheerful and bright, and bore
his sufferings, which were at times in |
tense, with remarkable patience. No
gloomy shadows hoyered about his sick |
chamber During the six weeks of bis |
confinement to his room he arranged his
business. received his friends, and as the |
scenes of earth receded he grasped with |
a firmer hold and more triumphant |
faith the enduring realities of the life
to come.
Thoug clinging to life with all the Wig
or of a strong and successful mans in
terest in its activities, yet he faced death
with spirit of calm submission, and
breathed his last in the assured faith of
immortality.
Mr.: AThEKToN. MT. Speaker' on the
Sotn day OF November, 1857, the people
OF tne Onlted otates' responding TO Ex-
eeutlve prociamatlon, was rendering
THANKSGIVING ana praise TO the Glver OF
an gooo, ror tne Dountles and blessings
OF "a = most IrutIui ana prosperous year.
II terrible contrast 10 the general re-
gDiictng, On tnas very oay our Drother
5Wnose ltn HIe ana virtues we pasle 10 COM
2 Msn2Iate ll, iay On ssDed OF suHerlng and
oeael. ss.,
3 f1as Meis-leaeye9 aa as Iamlly surrounded
sstn ~ q pus nearts ana
lAin WQat4 H&4e sn3tGneu sBlm from the