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rently uncovered. When it is remembered that with great inconvenience 

 and trouble and upon very short notice the Bishop had come from his dis- 

 tant home on the banks of the Mississippi, every one is assured that he 

 spoke the truth when he said, that gratitude and love caused him to be 

 there to pay the last honors to the instructor and friend of his youth — 

 surely such a tribute to friendship has been seldom offered in this selfish 

 world. "We scarcely knew whom more to admii-e — him who inspired, or 

 him who felt such undying friendship — him who was eidogized or him 

 who spoke the eulogy. 



Upon motion of Gov. Swain a vote of thanks, that seemed to come from 

 the inmost heart of the audience, and a request for a copy of the address 

 for publication were unanimously adopted and were but a feeble testimony 

 to the general appreciation of it. Though composed chiefly of people of 

 the surrounding counties, Mountaineers, whose lives had been spent far 

 from schools and academies of learning, the whole assembly seemed most 

 deeply interested and impressed. And when the Rt. Rev. Orator spoke of 

 the zealous and untiring labors of his departed friend, for forty years, in '~ 

 the cause of religion and science and in the instruction of hundreds of 

 the youth of this State — of all the Southern States, and of his tragic death 

 in verifying in his old age measurements and observations made by him 

 on that mountain long years before. I am sure there was not one of his 

 hearers too young or too ignorant to feel that in the death of Dr. Mitchell, 

 North Carolina lost one of her noblest sons, one of her brightest ornaments. 



f The able President of our University then, after paying a graceful com- 

 pliment to the address we had so much admired, in words eloquent though 

 unstudied, added his testimony to the truth and justice of its eulogy ; and 

 alluding to the eminent appropriateness of the place of burial he expressed 

 an intention on the part of himself and his friend N. W. "Woodfin, Esq., of 

 Asheville, as owners, to present the ground on which they stood, the top 

 of the high peak, to the Trustees of the University on condition that it 

 shall be called Mt. Mitchell — alleging very truly, that the right of proper- 

 ty is not more theirs than the right to give it a name. Of the propriety 

 of this name, it seems to me, no one who has had the opportunity as we 

 had on that accasion of interrogating Dr. Mitchell's guides to the different 



^ peaks in 1835, can entertain the slightest doubt. If the word of man, cor- 

 roborated by independent circumstances, is to be believed, Dr. Mitchell > 

 was on the summit on which his remains noiv rest, with William Wilson and 

 Adoniran Allen in 1835. 



At the conclusion of ex-Governor Swain's address, which was extempo- 

 raneous, James W. Patton, Esq., moved that he be requested to write it 

 out for publication ; and R. Don Wilson, Esq., of Yancey, Col. Washington 



