An Oration on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams
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Excerpt from An Oration on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams: Delivered Before the Citizens of Cincinnati I enter, fellow citizens, upon the performance of the part assigned to me these solemnities, with a painful consciousness of my inability to give utterance to what all of us feel to be due to the occasion. I have found it impossible to put my own conceptions into words. How then can I hope to give adequate expression to yours? For what is the event we thus commemorate? The angel of Death, ever hovering over these regions of mortality, to execute his dread commission from the Almighty Throne, has struck down the most aged, the most venerable, and the most illustrious of our public servants, John Quincy Adams. Dust thou art, and unto dust shall thou return. This inexorable fiat, pronounced upon all the human race, has taken him from among the living. So far as such a man can die, he died on the morning of the 23d of February last. To him, in his last sublime and solemn words, that was the end of earth, and he was content! His work was done, his audit closed, and the balance struck for time and for eternity. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord; for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them! Yes, that weather-beaten, toil-worn frame now rests from its labors, in the last long repose; while the ever living soul, fraught with riches of wisdom seldom acquired on earth, has winged its flight to the Father of Spirits. But why are we therefore met here together? What is this mans death to us? Was he of our kindred? No. Few of us, perchance, had ever spoken to him. With none, probably, had he consanguinity. Nor is it simply because another man has died - another drop been taken from the great ocean of existence; for death, as Hamlet says, is common - the most common as well as certain of all events. Oftener than our own pulse throbs, the pulse of some other mortal, somewhere on the globe, ceases to throb. Every second of time bears witness to the extinction of some human life. 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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