XX EULOGY. 



ment ; an extensive circle of warmly-attached and devot- 

 ed friends, to deplore their loss ; a whole community, 

 deeply to regret his removal ; and an entire interest, con- 

 stituting the keystone in our social and civil arch, to lose 

 the benefits of his untiring efforts. Such a death, suc- 

 ceeding such a life, occurring at such a time, and under 

 such circumstances, most forcibly exemphfies that beau- 

 tiful sentiment of the poet, that 



•' Life lies in embryo, never free. 

 Till Nature yields her breath ; 

 Till time becomes eternity, 

 And man is born in death.^' 



All that remains for us, is, to cherish his memory ; to 

 imitate his virtues ; and to avail ourselves of his labors. 

 He was himself a practical illustration of republican sim- 

 plicity. Always plain in his dress and appearance ; un- 

 assuming in his manners ; unostentatious in the extreme ; 

 he was hospitable, without display ; pious, without pre- 

 tension ; and learned, without any mixture of pedantry. 

 His was a character of the olden time, and formed on a 

 noble model. With a proper estimate of what was due 

 to others, he united accurate conceptions of what he was 

 justly entitled to receive from them. His principles of 

 politeness were not learned from the writings of Lord 

 Chesterfield ; nor were they derived from those higher 

 circles in society, where, too frequently, artificial rules 

 chill the warmth of social feeling, and the play of our 

 faculties, which, beyond all other things, should claim ex- 

 emption from restraint, is reduced, under the worse than 

 iron bondage of heartless forms ; where a mistake in 

 manners is even less pardonable, than a fault in morals. 

 His politeness flowed directly from his character, and was 

 the natural expression of a happy combination of facul- 

 ties. He was frank in his communications, because he 

 was so constituted by Nature, and had, in fact, nothing 

 to conceal. Although more than threescore years had 

 passed over him, yet the consciousness of a blameless 

 life removed all restraint upon the freedom of his inter- 

 course. 



The character and general habit of his mind was, in 



