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concise and vivid ; his judgment was remarkably correct ; he 

 reasoned with calm deliberation, and examined a subject with 

 a prodigious grasp of mind in all extensive bearings. If it 

 embraced numerous and various particulars, he directed his 

 attention to each, and suspended his decision until he had ex- 

 amined them all. 



Having thus with a well-balanced mind looked through a 

 subject, he rarely had occasion to retrace his steps, or renounce 

 the conclusions to which he had arrived. A correct and 

 refined taste enabled him to see and appreciate whatever 

 was sublime, and beautiful in art or nature ; and his memory 

 retained with fidelity that rich variety of facts and sentiments 

 which his reading and observation had committed to its charge. 

 Such, my hearers, were some of the principal traits which dis- 

 tinguished the character of our lamented companion and friend. 

 With his immediate relations I had not the happiness of being 

 acquainted ; but from all I can learn, he was a dutiful and 

 grateful son, a kind brother, and a faithful and affectionate 

 husband to the now widowed partner of his bosom. 



I have thus briefly and imperfectly touched upon the cha- 

 racter of the lamented Underwood. 



It only remains to say of the much-loved companion 

 of his untimely fate, that many of the traits which Under- 

 wood possessed, belonged to Henry, with a due reference 

 between them in age and experience in the service. The 

 loved and lost Henry — the cherished object of affection of 

 his widowed mother — was deservedly dear to us all. He 

 was a youth, manly beyond his years. He possessed in 

 an eminent degree, that propriety and dignity of demeanor 

 which commanded the respect of all his inferiors, and won and 

 retained the esteem and confidence of his superiors and asso- 

 ciates. He was distinguished for zeal and devotedness to the 



