4 MR. cushing's address. 



opportunities of education and mental formation faitlifiilly im- 

 proved, — scholarly" accomplishments, — a graceful and ready elo- 

 quence, — courteous bearing, — candor of judgment, — a spirit 

 manly and generous, — firmness of tenet, softened by moderation 

 of temperament, — justness of principle, — philanthropy in senti- 

 ment and practice not in loud profession, — religion of the heart 

 as well as of the head and of the outward life, — equableness of 

 general worth, — constancy and uprightness in the performance 

 of all his duties, whether to himself, his country, or his God. 



Add to which, that, in him, conscientiousness of political 

 conviction was free of that bigotry of party, which in the nar- 

 rowness of its myopic perception looks on a difference of sen- 

 timent as a crfme ; and his earnestness of execution in the line 

 of his convictions was unaccompanied by that common form of 

 party action, a calculated and self-interested intolerance. 



Thus it was, that he rose to, and well discharged, public 

 functions of high eminence, first in the domestic government 

 of the Commonwealth, and afterwards for a series of years as 

 one of her Representatives in the Congress of the United 

 States. His premature death, in the vigor of his age and of 

 his faculties, has cut short the career of a wise, good, and pat- 

 riotic man, who, had he been longer spared to us, would have 

 continued to win true glory in the honorable service of his 

 country. 



Of the private virtues of Mr. King as distinguished from 

 those qualities which have marked his political life, — of the ex- 

 cellence of his character as a son, a husband, a father, a fellow- 

 citizen, — it would be unbecoming for me to speak in the mere 

 cold terms of public eulogy, here, in the midst of those, by 

 whom his memory is cherished, and his death deplored, for 

 considerations higher, and more sacred, than all of respect or of 

 admiration, which gathers around the name of the departed 

 statesman. 



But Mr. King was a farmer, also, with a strong predilection 

 for agricultural pursuits, showing by the successful manage- 

 ment of his own ample estates, how science may be combined 

 with practical skill ; and in that, his professional and official 

 relation to you, justly earning the confidence and esteem of 

 the Society. 



