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treaty, on the fourth of March, 1853, wherein he enforced a con- 

 tinental policy and refused to prescribe limits to the area over which 

 the principles of our government might safely be extended. 



His position on the Committee of Foreign Relations gave him a 

 breadth of view in regard to our relations with other countries, which 

 was enlarged by personal observation in foreign travel, and in special 

 historic research. His knowledge on this subject was conscientiously 

 applied in the way which he deemed best fitted to advance the com- 

 mercial and financial interests of our whole country. 



He died in the midst of the people of a district where he had been 

 cherished and honored duri'ng the whole of his public life; in a city 

 whose commercial and material improvement was the pride of his 

 heart, and a type of his own character. The maturity of his growth, 

 the fertility of his resources, and his sturdy energy, rendered his life 

 a microcosm of the great section of our country with which he was 

 so closely identified. We may toll the slow bell for his departed 

 spirit, we may drape ourselves in the emblems of grief ; but if his 

 friends and admirers would truly honor his memory, they will en- 

 deavor, like him in his last days, to moderate the heat of party strife, 

 enlarge their views of political science, and emulate his growth in 

 moral character and clear-sighted patriotism. 



