Notice of the late Sheldon. Clark. 229 
_ The object was not accomplished without a long course of stern 
self-denial—with great industry and severe economy. . Mr. Clark 
expended very little on his own personal accommodation. The 
plain farmer’s house remained as his grandfather left it, without 
decoration and almost without repair; the furniture was of the 
humblest kind, but'a warm welcome was given to his friends 
and to strangers, with ample provision not only of the produce of 
a farmer’s cultivation and care, but pecapionally, with a free hos- 
pitality in rarer things. 
His policy was, to augment as far and as fast as possible, his 
productive capital; he attempted no improvements in his agricul- 
ture ; he hardly preserved fences and buildings in statu quo; lit- 
tle return of manure was made to his hard worked soils, and even 
his wood and timber, were, to a certain extent, sold for money and 
cleared | away. for faarlae, by other hands. . He kept his money al- 
eee the cash he did not need, (and his personal 
wants were fawe)-reguited his interest and payments at the day 
—but was 
Bt cateahe indented & fiaesifah the mieatis of a superior ed- 
ucation to the children of others, and to jellies yet m po prstaak 
His mind appears to have been constantly active, and he has 
left behind him numerous manuscripts—matter sufficient for sev- 
ral volumes. They are on various subjects: banks, the tariff, 
the sub-treasury, the currency, political economy, commerce, 
manufactures and agriculture, but above all, morals and meta- 
physics ; the nature and immortality of the soul, moral responsi- 
bility, the agency of God in the affairs of the sack. the nature 
of sin and future beware. ei i: panienmeniir with numerous ex- 
tracts from di ] poetical effusions: 
all these, and many cae more, are among his papers. Nota 
few of them are. elaborate productions :—manuscripts, carefally 
copied, sometimes again and again, from less perfect notes and 
sketches,—in general, written out in a fair and legible hand, 
With correct orthography and punctuation, and an appropriate 
selection of words. The writings of Hume, Reid, Stewart, Ed- 
wards, Franklin, Jefferson, and other distinguished men, seem to 
have been familiar to him. ‘The metaphysics of morals appear 
