EULOGY. 



The treasures of the Republic are to be found in the 

 worth, the virtues, the intelligence, and the integrity, of 

 the citizen. He, alone, sustains the burdens, as he re- 

 ceives the benefits, of all our institutions, our frames of 

 government, our plans of policy. 



The mere citizen, uncontrolled by higher powers, and 

 unaided by adventitious circumstances, has been, in truth, 

 but a recent actor in the affairs of our world. The great 

 instruments of change, in the political condition of nations, 

 have been, principally, the slave and the subject. In 

 the revolutions that have waited upon human affairs, we 

 have witnessed almost every thing dominant, in its turn. 

 The despot, the demagogue, the monarch, the aristocrat, 

 have each and all had their day of trial and of triumph. 

 Let the honest, intelligent, unpretending, citizen, now 

 have his. He claims it in view of his importance in our 

 social, civil, and political, edifice ; in virtue of the policy 

 and spirit of our institutions ; and in consequence of the 

 many examples of real worth and merit which he is ena- 

 bled to bring forward. 



Among the most prominent of these, is the name of 

 the late esteemed and lamented Jesse Buel ; a name, 

 which must ever furnish a fitting theme for eulogy wherever 

 intelligence is prized, or well-directed industry respect- 

 ed, or high moral worth meets with its due appreciation. 

 Since the last annual meeting of your Society, he, who 

 so justly constituted its pride and its ornament, has pass- 

 ed from among us. It has been deemed proper, at this 

 time and place, to pay a tribute of respect to his memo- 



