Eulogy on the Life and Character of William Henry Harrison
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Excerpt from Eulogy on the Life and Character of William Henry Harrison: Late President of the United States; Delivered Before the Citizens of Savannah, in the Independent Presbyterian Church, on Wednesday, May 12th, 1841 On this bright and vernal day, when Nature, all around us, is robed in gladness - when the sun, in mild splendor, is careering through the heavens, rejoicing in the brightness of his course, and giving life and light and happiness to man - our eyes are resting sorrowfully on the emblems of our mortality, and sounds of sadness break upon our cars. The funeral drapery of this sacred temple, the minute gun, the tolling bell, and this array of mourning citizens, the silent sadness which pervades this assembly, the hush of the passions, the stillness of all unkindly feeling, the deep emotion of each patriot bosom; - all these, my friends, are calculated to remind us of the nothingness of man, of the vanity of life and all its too engrossing pursuits. They tell us that God alone is great; and, as we ponder the melancholy occasion of our assemblage, make us feel that His judgments are abroad in the land. A patriot statesman, a gallant soldier, a virtuous man, has fallen among us. We meet together lo-day, to unite in expressing our admiration of his virtues, our sorrow for his loss. A Christian people, bending under affliction, have come to mingle their griefs, seeking solace in the communion. Here, in this holy temple consecrated to the sen ice of Almighty God, we meet to offer our tribute of respect and gratitude to the memory of the departed, and if God will, to learn, from this awful dispensation of His Providence, the monitory Lessons which it is calculated to impart. The occasion is a solemn one. There is a sacredness in sorrow, when even a solitary bosom throbs with its emotions, however humble may have been the station, or limited the sphere of action, of him who awakens them. But ours is no ordinary sorrow - no solitary anguish - no merely individual grief. A Nation Mourns. 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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