Eulogy on the Life and Services of Henry Clay
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Excerpt from Eulogy on the Life and Services of Henry Clay: Delivered at the Request of the City Council, in Augusta, Ga;, Nov; 4, 1852 The life of a nation, no less changeful in its aspects than that of an individual, continually invites reflection, and each grand phase is replete with instruction. Contemplate a nation at peace - her governmental operations - her industrial employments - her daily contributions to civilization - her temples and their services. Then turn and view the same nation at war - her ordinary occupations suspended or paralyzed - her artisans forging, instead of implements of labor, (now disused) the artillery of death - her sages in secret council - her legions in the field, now achieving victory, now suffering defeat, leaving everywhere on their march the foot-prints of desolation. How dissimilar the pictures, yet how instructive each. But the course of time is onward, and another spectacle is presented in the vicissitudes of national existence. Peace has re-established her meliorating sway and enterprise resumed her wonted pursuits. The revolving year brings again a day memorable as an historical epoch. Operatives renounce labor, merchants eschew commerce, philosophers forego study; all men, of all degrees, join to lengthen out the pageant - to swell the anthem. Her day of jubilee has come, and the nation exults in its cherished associations. Who so stoical as to look and list, yet feel no thrill. Once again the panorama changes. Now is seen every where the drapery of mourning; deep gloom, like an ecliptic shadow, rests upon the face of society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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