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cratic party, a party to which Dr. Smith did not belong — he was 

 too well aware of the undeniably very large part that General 

 Mifflin had in the " Conway cabal," of his hostility to the Com- 

 mander-in-Chief, and of that commander's opinion of ///;//,* to go 

 into much eulogy either of Governor Mifflin's integrity or his 

 valor. Dr. Smith asks many questions, but answers none; he 

 states many general truths, but leaves the hearer to apply them if 

 he pleases. He is indeed amusingly cautious, saying very little 

 more about the subject of his discourse than this: 



If we were called to power, rule and government over our fellow- 

 men, then shall it be known whether we bartered our favors away for 

 vile gain ! Whether we were open to the allurements of vi-ce, the blan- 

 dishments of flattery, and the snares or seductions of party ! Or whether 

 we made use of our influence and authority to support justice, to pro- 

 tect innocence, to encourage virtue and to reward merit. 



I add no more. To this test of the use of power and exercise of gov- 

 ernment, I may leave the character of the deceased. The honor done 

 to his name by this public funeral, and the vote of a monument by the 

 Legislature, to perpetuate his memory, will rescue his public virtue from 

 public censure. Private frailties he had, as a man ; but if they were in- 

 jurious, it was only to himself — never to his friends or country! 



Haste we, then, to commit his mortal part, with its mortal frailties, 

 to its destined place — that yawning grave, where they will at last find 

 rest — a safe asylum from worldly distress, the shafts of malice, and the 

 persecutions of party. 



" His worth we seek no farther to disclose. 



Nor draw his frailties from that dread abode — 

 Where they alike, in trembling hope, repose — 

 The bosom of his Father and his God." — Gray. 



After the funeral Dr. Smith was removed to the Falls of Schuyl- 

 kill, where he remained, more or less incommoded by indisposi- 

 tion, during the year. It was at this time that Gilbert Stuart 

 painted his celebrated picture of him. This picture is now (1880) 

 in the possession of Dr. John Hill Brinton, of Philadelphia. It 

 has been copied a number of times on canvas. In 1820 two 

 copies were made in Lancaster, by an artist named Icholtz, for 

 Richard Smith, Esq., of Huntingdon. A copy was also made by 

 order of Dr. Perigrine Wroth, for Washington College, Chester- 



* See Sparks's Writings of Washington, Vol. V., pp. 483-518; 371. 



