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all subjects, carried deserved weight. 1 owe it to can- 

 dour, therefore, to say, that I have always under- 

 stood he agreed in sentiment with those who have held 

 the government, since the presidency of Mr. Adams. 

 But the harmony in which he lived with friends of 

 both parties, and the respect and affection whicli 

 friends of both parties entertained for him, afford a 

 memorable example, well worthy the serious reflec- 

 tion of those who suppose that political intolerance 

 is essential to political integrity. 



1 turn with pleasure from the field of politics to 

 objects of a more delightful nature ; the piety, the 

 goodness, the philanthropy of our lamented friend. 

 Vain is the splendour of genius without the virtues 

 of the heart. No man who is not good, deserves the 

 name of ivise. In the language of scripture, folly and 

 wickedness are the same ; not only because vicious 

 habits do really corrupt and darken the understand- 

 ing, but because it is no small degree of folly to be 

 ignorant that the chief good of man is to know the 

 will of his Creator and do it, Wistar lived and died 

 in the religious principles of those who have adopted 

 the modest and endearing name of Friends. The 

 people of this respectable society have preserved 

 more of ancient simplicity in dress and manners, than 

 any among us. They once outnumbered all other re- 



