A Discourse On the Occasion of the Death of William Henry Harrison Ninth Presi
A Discourse On the Occasion of the Death of William Henry Harrison Ninth Presi
George Putnam
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I think we know enough of the man to understand how that epithet, the beloved^ came to be so frequently applied to his name in former years, and why it still cleaves 19 to him, outshining his fame, and outHving the col- hsions of party and the grandeur of office. From contemplating these traits of a great and good man, I return with a pang to the thought that he is gone, and that these are his funeral honors. And yet, why should it be with a pang ? There is a fit and beautiful, though tender an...d sad association, between goodness and death, patriotism and death, love and death. No death is so melancholy as an unregretted, unwept one. We would not that his life had been less valued and dear, that his death might be less lamented. We will bear it with sub- mission, that the career of the Magistrate should have been cut short, and left undistinguished by public measures, in order that the character of the Man may be his chief, as it is ever the highest and most precious, legacy and lesson to his country.
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