pated the dark clouds of the disconsolate, or gilded their gloom with the calm sun-shine of peace.

"Great as he was in life, he was still more sublimely grand and majestic in death. See him on his dying couch-calm and dignified in his distress, he has fought the good fight, and death to him has no terrors! With his own firm hand he closes his eyes--and is gone! His form is now no more the terror of the valiant. Din and feeble is the Chief, who travelled in strength and brightness before. He rests in the dark and narrow house of the tomb. The feeble will find his bow at home, but they will not be able to bend it. Fallen is the arm of battle! Deep is the sleep of the dead; low their pillow of dust; damp and cold the couch of their repose. When! O! when will it be morn in the grave, to bid the slumberer awake! Farewell, thou first in every field, farewell! The field shall behold thee no more; no more the dark wood be lightened with the splendour of thy steel. Thou hast left no son; but the song shall preserve thy name. Future times shall hear of thee. The sons of Columbia shall be sad, and the tear of the young virgin will fall! and well may we weep.—

"Quis desiderio sit pudor, aut modus,
"Tam cari capitis ?"—

"But, my countrymen! while we are paying this last sad tribute of respect to the ashes of our dear departed Chief; while we entomb his relics in the earth, and inurn his memory in our hearts;-let us not forget to emulate his virtues in our lives. The husband, the parent, the friend, the neighbour, the citizen, the Chris

tian, or the man, can never deserve higher eulogy than this;-that his deportment, in his appropriate sphere, resembles that of a WASHINGTON.

"A friend to our holy religion, he was ever guided by its pious doctrines, and had embraced the tenets of the Episcopal church; yet his charity, unbounded as his immortal mind, led him equally to respect every denomination of the followers of Jesus. Meek and distrustful of himself, he was liberal and candid to others. Superior to the little prejudices which subsist among different sects, -prejudices which deform the beauty and destroy the harmony of the religious world, he loved, and wept, and prayed for all." Pronounced at OXFORD, Mass. Jan. 15, 1800. By J. DUNHAM, A.M. Captain 16th U. S. Regiment.

"It was to be expected that a man so capable of governing others, would be able to govern himself. We are told, that his passions, by nature strong and irritable, were brought by discipline, into complete subjection; so that he, whom original constitution disposed to turbulence and vindictiveness, appeared the pattern of equanim· ity and forbearance. What modesty, joined with greatness, distinguished this extraordinary man! Alive to character, keenly sensible to virtuous praise, the plaudits of a nation and a world, were yet never known to elicit from him one spark of vanity, or to raise one emotion of pride. The virtues of our departed friend were crowned by piety. He is known to have been habitually devout. To Christian institutions he gave the countenance of his example; and no one could express more fully his sense of the Providence of God, and the dependence of man. . When we acknowledge God in the talents,

virtues, and services of the departed Chief, let us not overlook the hand of Providence in his prosperous fortune, displayed in the many favourable incidents of his life, in the constancy of the public affection and confidence, and in his death." Delivered in BOSTON, Dec. 29, 1799. BY REV. J. T. KIRKLAND.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON.

THE various sketches contained in the foregoing chap. ter, will enable the attentive reader to form a conception of the character of Washington, in the main, accurate and just. That a strong partiality guided the pen of the writers may be readily admitted. The feeling was alike honourable to both the parties. It was a tribute justly due, and herein freely paid, to virtue seldom surpassed. Few persons have lived in our world, whose endowments of every kind were more worthy of admiration, or whose services better deserved a grateful remembrance, than those by which the noble subject of their eulogy had been distinguished and adorned.

The mental and moral constitution of Washington was of the most excellent kind. He possessed faculties and affections in such peculiar combination, as to place him almost alone in that respect.

His mind was of the very best order. The structure thereof was plain, but on a scale of unusual strength and greatness. Its basis seems to have been strong common sense. To this was superadded a discernment

clear and penetrating; a memory of great tenacity; and a judgment as sound as man ever possessed. Imagination had but little place in his mind. His materials of thought were first truths, together with such facts and events in life as were worthy of attention. These he carefully marked and compared with one another, noting their relations with a cool and enlightened comprehension; viewing them in all their aspects and bearings, weighing them in the balances of the mind, till conducted to the safest and soundest conclusions of

reason.

He was alike happy in his moral constitution. Here the elements were mixed up in the finest and most admirable proportions. They were in perfect harmony with the higher powers of the mind. The equipoise was rare and excellent. From hence, in a great degree, arose the force and effectiveness of his intellectual efforts. The action of his mind encountered no hindrance from the waywardness of his affections, or the turbulence of passion. These never cast obstacles in the way of his judgment, or embarrassed its decisions by a conflict between inclination and conviction. With feelings unusually healthy, his understanding, ordinarily, had free and unimpeded course. Unbiassed by mere emotions of the breast, he always regarded objects presented for his consideration, with a steady eye and serene contemplation. No delusive vapour ascending from a selfish bosom, shut out from his mind the bright rays of truth. His perceptions were clear, because in him were united a sound head, with an honest and single heart.

The moral qualities in him were mingled and held