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frame not constitutionally robust, and still unhappily sedentary during 

 a great portion of the year, although relieved by occasional excur- 

 sions, could scarcely fail to exhibit symptoms of diminished health. 

 Some of his favorite habits of a public nature were restrained, as he 

 thought, from mere inclination ; but an insidious malady was gra- 

 dually doing its fatal work almost without being self-perceived. 

 Strength failed him by degrees, and he was compelled to deny him- 

 self the little bodily exercise, to the utility and past neglect of which 

 he had at length become sensible. On the 29th of January his career 

 was closed by the hand of death. His merits will be long preserved 

 in the recollection of his country and his many friends. 



Most men who have lived lives of usefulness, and left distin- 

 guished names, have made themselves remarkable for qualities more 

 or less peculiarly adapted to a particular pursuit. They have either 

 manifested early tendencies for vocation and success in their proper 

 spheres, or have anxiously cultivated faculties adapted to them. 

 While duties uncongenial to their habits, inclinations, or abilities 

 may neither have been sought by themselves, nor selected for them 

 by others, they have entered upon employments accidentally provided 

 for them, with inadequate facility and force, although their general 

 capacities may have been fully equal to them. Faculties will com- 

 monly take their own direction, and in that direction they are most 

 likely to excel. It might be suposed that talents which would make 

 a brilliant advocate, would shine in the office of a statesman or in 

 that which is prepared by the same course of study, of a judge. 

 Such is not at all times the case. Disappointment is often felt by 

 warm friends and long-standing admirers, not only at the beginning 

 of the new career which is always hard, according to the familiar 

 adage, but in the progress, which does not become easy, or the result 

 successful. A lesson of practical wisdom might be learned from 

 daily observation, that should serve to caution against yielding to 

 ambition or the desire of gain, by exchanging a position which time 

 has rendered familiar, and proved to be well adapted to the holder 

 of it, for one of uncertain and precarious enjoyment, and doubtful 

 accomplishment. It was the happy disposition of our late fellow- 

 member, whose name you desire to record with honor, to be suited not 

 to one pursuit alone, but to many. We have seen that in his lite- 

 rary occupations, by which he began to distinguish himself in early 

 youth, and continued to do so throughout his life, he was happy as an 

 eloquent and attractive writer, rendered especially so by his classic 

 style. His professional habits were marked with an industry that 



