Eulogy Upon The Life Character And Services Of Henry Clay

Author : Samuel Lisle Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9781330890288
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Eulogy Upon the Life, Character and Services of Henry Clay written by Samuel Lisle Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eulogy Upon the Life, Character and Services of Henry Clay: Pronounced Before the Common Council and Citizens of Chicago, July 20, 1852 "In Rama there was a voice heard lamentation and weeping, and great mourning: - Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not." Mourn, Sons and Daughters of America! mourn. A great light has gone out. A bright star has disappeared from the horizon. A glorious Sun has gone down in the West - never again in our world to rise. Mourn - Statesmen of America! - mourn! One of the wisest and most experienced (of your number, ) that have graced the annals of our history, has joined the great and the good, in the world above. Mourn - Patriots of America! The soul of one of our country's noblest sons, has winged its flight to the Spirit land. Mourn Philanthropist and lovers of Liberty throughout the world - a great benefactor of his race has been gathered to his Fathers. Mourn - for Henry Clay is dead! Already have the chambers of our Legislative Halls been clad with the drapery of mourning; - already have the associates of his trials and conquests, in the great arena of his intellectual conflicts, paid the last tribute of affection to the memory of the mighty dead. Already has the solemn procession wended its way through our crowded cities, our busy towns, our smiling Villages - amid tolling bells, and booming cannon; and with thousands of torches illuminating the darkness of midnight, bearing the lifeless remains to the silent city of the dead. Already have thousands, and tens of thousands of freemen gazed upon the lineaments of the great departed, and fain would "beg a hair of him for memory." Already has the full heart of the American people exclaimed - "Bear hence his body, And mourn you for him. Let him be regarded As the noblest corpse that ever herald Did follow to his Urn." 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.