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which had called forth this display of feeling, and then submitted the fol- 

 lowing preamble and resolutions : — 



" Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father, in His wise Providence, 

 to take unto Himself the Rev. Elisha Mitchell, late Professor of Chemistry 

 and Geology in the University of North Carolina ; we the inhabitants of 

 Chapel Hill, convened in town meeting, for the purpose of testifying our 

 respect for the memory of a good man, who has gone to his reward, — 

 leaving it to his associates to render their appropriate tribute to his ^vell 

 . known scientific character, desire to speak as his fellow citizens, and bear- 

 ing our willing testimony to his worth as a man, have 



Resolved, That in the death of Dr. Mitchell, our whole community has 

 sustained a loss not easily repaired, in the removal of one who, resident in 

 this village for forty years, has, during that period, fulfilled all the duties 

 of an enlighted, public-spirited citizen, with the most exemplary proprie- 

 ty, illustrating in his daily walk and conversation the christian principle 

 by which his life was regulated. 



Resolved, That in no one particular has his example been more striking 

 than in his universal kindness to the poor and suffering. Ever ready to 

 help his fellow creatures, and mindful that his Master went about doing 

 good, while he ministered to the spiritual wants of the blind and erring, 

 he was no less prompt in alleviating bodily misery : and the poor of Chapel 

 Hill and its vicinity, who have been partakers of his silent and unostenta- 

 tious benevolence, will especially have cause long to treasure up the me- 

 mory of their departed friend and benefactor. 



Resolved, That our whole community, of all classes, gratefully recogniz- 

 ing the worth of an eminently good man now removed from among us, and 

 submitting, in humble faith to the dispensation of the Gracious God who 

 has seen fit thus to visit us with sorrow ; do tender our Christian sympa- 

 thy and love to the bereaved family of our departed friend ; and mingling 

 our smaller sorrow with their more grievous and heavy affliction, do com- 

 mend them in our prayers to the merciful goodness of that everlasting 

 God whose chastenings to his children are but proofs of his afiection. 



Resolved, That the individuals composing this meeting will, as a mark 

 of respect for the memory of Dr. Mitchell, wear the usual badge of mourn- 

 ing, on the left arm, for thirty days. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, duly certified by the officers^ 

 of this meeting, be communicated to the family of Dr. Mitchell. 



These were seconded by President Swain who dwelt in terms of strong 

 eulogy upon the long public services of the deceased, lamentingover a loss 

 which to himself, he added, was irreparable. 



Other remarks, appropriate to the occasion, were made by Messrs. S. F. 



