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But I must be allowed to say, that so rare a combi- 

 nation of wealth of mind and wealth of heart, it has 

 not been my privilege to behold in another. His 

 works will live after him, a monument of his indus- 

 try, vast capabilities, and devotion to the progress of 

 science and literature more solid and enduring than 

 chiselled marble, or wrought gold, they will enshrine 

 and embalm his memory. Who will take up his 

 unfinished work, and complete it, as he began it ? I 

 know not the man. Maryland is rich in historic 

 names. Frederick and Baltimore are both justly 

 distinguished your own society has stars in it, 

 which will % mingle their glory with the stars that 

 have faded. I am to-night in presence of those 

 whom I would praise, if they were not now living 

 to subdue me into silence. Eloquence is hers, such 

 as I think neither Greece nor Rome have excelled. 

 Legal learning, combined with legal logic, is hers, 

 such as never before adorned the courts of judica- 

 ture. In history, and literature, and science, she has 

 achieved much, through her gifted sons, in the years 

 that are past. Her name still lives, and the lustre 

 of her surviving stars keeps undimmed the noble 

 galaxy,, that has faded in the dawning of a brighter 

 day. But she has given birth to another, who, with- 

 out eloquence, or the skill of the rhetorician, or rather 

 without the theatre for their display, will transmit her 

 name to the ages following, one in a century, whose 

 varied and diversified genius was equal to any duty 

 that could have been assigned to it. 



Some of her most honored names live now but in 

 the echoes of the past ; and those echoes are so mar- 

 vellous, that many have deemed them but the crea- 

 tions of a distempered imagination. It may be that 

 much of the brilliancy of the orb that has just set, is 



