Year: 1859




We find in the n. C. University Magazine, for De-
cember, a Memoir of Judge Nash, by Hon John
H. Bran, of Raleigh from which make the
following extracts:


The writer of this brief SIX etch has heard Judge
Nash relate with pride and pleasure, as among his
earliest recollectioEs, an incident which occurred
| upon the visit of President Washington TO New
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citizens to the President in the old palace. The old
town contributed all that patriotism could suggest
to honor the First President Amid the brilliant
scene the Father of his Country, towering in moral
grandeur, attracted all eyes and all hearts. Upon
none did this noble spectacle produce profounder
or more grateful impression t an upon the gentle
sex who are ALWAYS the disinerested and ardent ad
mirers of all that is great and good. The mother of
~ deceased friend present, and cordially yield
her heartfelt tribute; and desiring that her boy
mould have the privilege of participating in the
homage, she called him up and presented him to the
upon lis head and spoke words of Kindness and en-
couragement reminded him of his gallant uncle
Gen. Francis Nash, and proposed him brilliant
ev nplar. What boy who sat upon the knee
Il Washington and felt on his head the weight of
ras hand could ever do a dishOnOrable act The
collection of such an honor would elevate his heart
and ennOble all its impulses The boy reared
according to the doctrines and principles ofthe "Od
SCHOOL," he was taught to fear his God, to honor
his parents and obey the law ofthe land Hence he
was always eminently conservative a citizen and
cubic man.


Judge Nash good well great man.
He not on y eminent profound jurst and
learned statesman, but he distinguished for his
sterling integrity and true piety, and though his
life long, useful and brilliant one the calm
resignation and perfect confidence with which he
embraced the " King of Terrors'' was his greatest
as it was his last earthly victory. We quote again
from the Memoir


The last public act of Judge Nash was the atten-
d the Synod of North Carolina which assem-
blcd at his native town the autumn before his death
OF this body he jealous and useful mem ber
and cordially uned with its members in the service
of the God whom he loved and adored.


1t is thought that to the fatigue and exposure in
cident to his journey home from this Assembly his
illness is to be ascribed. If So it mus, have
been to him source of JOY that he died in harness
$ a soldier of the


His earthly honors, however great, paled before
the glorious which his death bed presented


Here might be seen how a Christian dies. AL
though conscouss of approaching dissolution, his
tender acxiety for his family was manifested in at
tention to their comfort and health in utter forget
fulness of self


He evinced firmness and calmness in these aw-
full moments unsurpassed The urbanity of the gen
teman sud fingered and was beautifully and harmo-
niously blended with the affectionate kindness of
the father-the tender devotion of the husband was
associated with the and cheerful submission
of the Christian.


A friend called in to see him when his end was
supposed to be rapidly approachidg. To him he
talked so calmly of his future state-so cherfuly
and with trust firm and mistaken i'll his Saw
Jour- that he exclaimed, when he left his bedside
"Thisis glorious termination of life 1t in
deed glorious as end, but still S the be-
ginning of the life eternal 1t was glory, compar-
ed with which, the pomp and triumphs of the battle
recollection of a welspent life was far more consol-
ing to himself and his family, tn if he had been
the victor on hundred fields. He had his triumph,
and a noble one, though achieved upon the loWly
bed of the dying christian


To his family and friends his loss is indeed rrepar
able; but they may well exclaim in regard to such
man


''Tis better to have loved and lost


Than never to have loved at ALL