EULOGF. XIX 



and reason here teach the same lesson : — to observe, 

 adore, and submit. 



He had accepted invitations to dehver addresses be- 

 fore the Agricultural and Horticultural Societies of Nor- 

 wich and New Haven, Connecticut, on the 25lh and 27th 

 of September last. About the middle of that month, he 

 left this city, for that purpose, accompanied by his only 

 daughter. On Saturday night, the 22d of September, 

 at Danbury, Connecticut, he was seized with the bilious 

 cholic. This was extremely distressing, but yielded, 

 within three days, to the force of medical treatment. A 

 bilious fever then supervened, unaccompanied, however, 

 by any alarming symptoms, until Friday, the 4th of Oc- 

 tober. His disease then assumed a serious aspect, and 

 a change was obviously perceptible, particularly in his 

 voice. He had occasionally, during his sickness, ex- 

 pressed doubts of his recovery, although his physicians, 

 up to the 4th of October, entertained no serious appre- 

 hensions that his disease would terminate fatally. He 

 retained, throughout, the full possession of his mental fac- 

 ulties, and expressed his entire resignation to the will of 

 Heaven. He continued gradually to decline, from Fri- 

 day, until about three o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, 

 when, after faintly uttering the name of his iibsenr com- 

 panion, with whom he had shared the toils, and troubles, 

 and triumphs, of almost forty years, he calmly, and with- 

 out a groan or a struggle, cancelled the debt which his 

 birth had created, and " yielded up his spirit to God who 

 gave it." 



We involuntarily pause, at the termination of the good 

 man's earthly career, and almost imagine ourselves enti- 

 tled to catch some feeble or imperfect glimpse of his de- 

 parting spirit, as it speeds its way to the source of light 

 and of love. He died in the very field of his labors ; in 

 the midst of his usefulness ; in the full maturity of his 

 mental faculties. No symptom of decline had evidenc- 

 ed a waning spirit, nor had the touch of decay impaired 

 the strength, or disturbed the harmony, of his mind. 



He left behind him the companion of his earlier and 

 later years, and four children, to mourn their bereave- 



