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favorite animal, lifted up that voice which had filled the 

 arches of Westminster Hall with the noblest strains that 

 ever echoed within them, and wept aloud. 



" This was seen and was heard by the passers-by ; and 

 the enemies of Burke, unappeased by his advancing 

 years, by his failing health, by his domestic sorrow, 

 made it the ground of a charge of insanity. 'Burke 

 has gone mad.' But, sir, so help me Heaven, if I were 

 called upon to designate the event or the period in 

 Burke's, life that would best sustain a charge of insani- 

 ty, it would not be when, in a gush of the holiest and 

 purest feeling that ever stirred the human heart, he 

 wept aloud on the neck of his dead son's favorite horse ; 

 but it would rather be when, at the meridian of his 

 fame, when the orb of his imperial genius rode highest 

 in the heavens, amidst the scoffs of cringing courtiers, 

 and the sneers of trading patriots, he abased his glorious 

 powers to the scramblings and squabblings of the day, 

 and, 



' Born for tlie universe, narrowed his mind, 

 And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.' " 



Mr. Chairman, I have done. If I have occupied 

 more time than I ought, I beg you to charge it to the 

 subject, and not to myself I am anxious that this 

 society should do its duty in every department assigned 

 it; and I especially desire that it should correct, by 

 a wise and judicious devotion to all the interests of agri- 

 culture, any error into which we may have fallen, and 

 raise the entire industry to a high and dignified plane. 



