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 DISCOURSE 
 
 
 EDWARD EVERETT, 
 
 BY FREDERIC HENRY HEDGE. 
 
DISCOURSE 
 
 EDWARD EYERETT, 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE 
 
 CHURCH OF THE FIRST PARISH, BROOKLIXE, 
 
 <)N THE TWENTY-SECOND JANUARY. 
 
 By FREDERIC HENRY HEDGE. 
 
 B S T X : 
 
 PBESS "I GEO. C. RAND & IVERY, No. S, CORNHILL. 
 
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DISCOURSE. 
 
DISCOURSE 
 
 " Honor to whom honor."— ROM. xiii. 7. 
 
 ( )vr Commonwealth mourns in these days the loss 
 of its brightest ornament ; the nation, of one of its 
 ablest statesmen, its wisest counsellors, its truest and 
 mosl devoted servants. The death of Mr. Everett, 
 of which last Sunday brought us the tidings as we 
 came to this place of our devotions, is felt to be a 
 national calamity: it shares, for the moment, the na- 
 tional intercut with the great events of the war. 
 
 The man who for half a century, with brief excep- 
 tional intervals, had been in the public service, belongs 
 to the public; his life and character and name are 
 public property; and. when he departs out of our 
 sight, they remain a public interest and concern ; a 
 study for the Church as well as the world ; inviting 
 discussion from the pulpit, as well as the rostrumand 
 the press. 
 
 Ii is not my purpose to present yon with a sketch 
 of this rich and illustrious life. 1 shall not attempt 
 to enumerate the many and distinguished services 
 of our fellow-citizen, nor will I undertake the analy- 
 sisofhis intellectual and moral character, but confine 
 
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 myself to one or two points of special interest, or t<> 
 such as seem to me to possess a moral significance. 
 
 The lirst thing which suggests itself, in our recol- 
 lection of Mr. Everett, is the admirable genius of the 
 man as displayed in public speech. In this particu- 
 lar, he lias had no superior in this country, — per- 
 haps no equal, considering the scope of his rhetorical 
 vocation, the wide variety and great dissimilarity of 
 the topics, interests, occasions, assemblies, platforms, 
 which claimed his advocacy or exercised his powers. 
 Others of our national orators may have excelled him 
 in one or another particular, — some in popular ha- 
 rangue, some in forensic debate. Mr. Clay's impulsive 
 vehemence would tell with more thrilling effect on 
 the passions of a miscellaneous auditory ; Mr. Web- 
 ster's ponderous strength would strike a more amaz- 
 ing blow in the senate or the court. But not to 
 speak of learning and high intellectual culture, in 
 which he confessedly excelled not only these, but all 
 American orators, neither Webster nor Clay possessed 
 the breadth and versatility and mental resources of 
 Mr. Everett. Neither they, nor any other speaker 
 within my knowledge, could vie with him in easy as- 
 cent, in ready association of ideas, in prompt sugges- 
 tion and fertile invention, in facility of transition, in 
 exuberant fancy, in rich and graceful ornamentation, 
 and that astonishing memory, that uniform command 
 of his powers, which made him equal to every occa- 
 
sion, suit to interest every assembly, and equally in- 
 teresting from beginning to end of his discourse. 
 His pinion never drooped, his hearers never wearied. 
 ( Mher orators might excel him in particular instances ; 
 but no speaker to whom I have ever listened, without 
 trick or bait, addressing the reason only, speaking in 
 a "-rave wav on grave subjects, could so command and 
 hold the attention of a crowded assembly for consecu- 
 tive hours. 
 
 But those who have known the great orator only 
 iii bis later efforts can hardly appreciate the fascina- 
 tion which he exercised on youthful hearers in his 
 own youth. A measure of scholarly learning un- 
 common in this country at that time; a poetic fancy; 
 extraordinary beauty of person; the rich tones of a 
 wonderfully cadenced voice; graceful hearing: a dig- 
 nity beyond his years; a certain line and mysterious 
 reserve, which curbed, without impairing, the fervor of 
 his discourse, — all this gave to his appearance and 
 performance an ideal something, which seemed to 
 denote a superior being, distinguishing him from all 
 other speakers, nol only in degree, hut in kind. — 
 something which brought to mind the Greek divini- 
 ties of classic renown. Mv recollection does not em- 
 brace the period of his ministry as a pulpit orator. 
 Bui those who remember him in that capacity will 
 tell you, that, young as he was, — a youth of twenty, 
 — no preacher in this community was heard with 
 
greater admiration and delight. I recall him only as 
 a secular orator. My first experience of his marvel- 
 lous power in that line was the famous oration deliv- 
 ered hefore the University at Camhridge, in the pres- 
 ence of Lafayette, then visiting this country of his 
 early fame ; a performance which made an era in the 
 literary history of the college, as it did in the intel- 
 lectual history of many who heard it. The address 
 to the honored guest drew tears from the veteran's 
 eyes. All present were profoundly stirred. The vast 
 assemhly was fused together in one emotion. I sup- 
 pose there was never an oration, spoken on a similar 
 occasion and to such an audience, which affected so 
 powerfully the sensibilities of those who heard it. 
 
 This first great effort of his early manhood estab- 
 lished Mr. Everett's fame as an orator, and occasioned 
 his nomination and election to a seat in the National 
 Congress, — the beginning of his political career. 
 Then followed in constant succession, interrupted 
 only by his four-years' residence abroad, an astonish- 
 ing number of orations and allocutions, pronounced 
 on all possible occasions, civic, academic, political, his- 
 torical, festive, and funereal, many of Avhich are print- 
 ed, and fill large volumes. They are characterized by 
 perspicuity of statement, skilful arrangement, grace- 
 ful method, massiveness of composition, felicity of 
 illustration, purity of thought, nobility of sentiment, 
 simplicity of diction. They place their author among 
 
the very first orators, not of this age and country 
 <inly. but of all time. 
 
 The remarkable quality in Mr. Everett's genius, thai 
 which underlies and causes the eminent truthfulness 
 of all his performances, is moderation. I call it a 
 quality of his genius. It was equally conspicuous in 
 his moral conduct: it was the quality of the man. 
 Moderation, in ordinary men. is often a weakness. 
 Many, who have it in perfection, have nothing else ; 
 they are all moderation : lint, unfortunately, there is 
 nothing to moderate, no precipitancy, no exuberant 
 force, no enthusiasm, no hot passion, no rushing, eager 
 enterprise. It is the moderation of a dull canal. 
 One would welcome in such characters a little ex- 
 citement, an occasional indiscretion, as a sign of life. 
 But moderation in greal men is a noble quality, and 
 a part of their greatness, like the moderation of 
 tic earth's centrifugal motion liv the countervailing 
 centripetal, [ndeed, there is no real, effective, com- 
 manding greatness without this quality, hut onlv 
 flashes anil spurts, — wild sallies of a lawless force, 
 which may dazzle for the moment, but spends itself 
 without profit, leaves no permanent trace, ami dies 
 of its own fury. This precisely distinguishes genius 
 from the lesser lights that counterfoil it, thai it knows 
 how to discipline and govern itself, to curb its exuber- 
 ant fancy, to restrain its lawless outbreaks, to check 
 and guide its forces to riehl and healthful issues. 
 
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 Self-control, self-possession, it is. that distinguishes the 
 masters in art and the masters in life from bunglers 
 and visionaries and fanatics. The direction to the 
 players, which the great poet puts into the mouth of 
 his hero, — " in the very torrent, tempest, and whirl- 
 wind of their passion, to acquire and beget a temper- 
 ance that may give it smoothness." — is applicable to 
 all the uses of art and to all the business of life. 
 The prevailing vice of American oratory — as, alas! 
 of so many other American doings — is extravagance, 
 exaggerated statement, hyperbolical imagery, over- 
 done sentiment, counterfeit enthusiasm, superfluous 
 verbiage, riotous invective, and all that straining alter 
 coarse effect commonly known as " sensation," prop- 
 erly so called; inasmuch as it aims to astonish, over- 
 whelm, and harrow, and in every way to create a 
 momentary, strong sensation in vulgar minds, and be- 
 cause it awakens a sensation of profound disgust in 
 thoughtful and disciplined hearers anil readers. The 
 public meeting, the deliberative assembly, the floor 
 of Congress, the platform, the stump, in some cases 
 the pulpit even, resound with this kind of rhetoric; 
 the newspapers and popular magazines glister and 
 froth with it. Calm, rational discourse, in which the 
 manner is subordinate to the matter, or rather in 
 which the weight and value of the matter tones and 
 tempers the manner: discourse which derives its 
 beauty and force from within, and not from any trick 
 
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 of garnish or veneer; discourse that aims simply to 
 instruct by reason and facts, or to edify by the justice 
 and nobility of its sentiment, — although not wanting 
 in the ordinary course of professional efforts, is sel- 
 dom heard from American lips that are wont to 
 address large popular assemblies on secular themes. 
 The lips of Mr. Everett uttered no other. His speech 
 is wise and temperate and calm; or. rising with his 
 theme, excited only when the matter and occasion 
 justify more glowing terms and a higher strain. He 
 never deals in superlatives, lint seems unconsciously 
 to have followed the prescription of a celebrated 
 author, who says that "the most universal rule for 
 the writer, as well as the artist, is. that his expression 
 he always beneath the thing which he represents." 
 Not often does he condescend to rhetorical tricks to 
 heighten the flavor and enhance the effect of his dis- 
 course; and never, never, does he indulge in railing 
 and bitter invective, or seek a momentary, cheap tri- 
 umph by heaping obloquy on his opponents. His 
 speeches are free from extravagance, live from vague 
 declamation, from tawdry ornament, from puling sen- 
 timentality ; above all. free from virulence and bitter- 
 ness. They are solid and clean ; and in and through 
 these qualities they will live when the works and the 
 
 very n mass of a hundred contemporary popular speak- 
 ers are forgotten. 
 
 The self-possession which distinguished him as 
 
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 orator, and which formed so striking a trait of Mr. 
 Everett's genius, was in his character as well as his 
 speech : it, was thoroughly inwrought in the man. 
 An imperturbable dignity enveloped him like an 
 atmosphere, accompanying all his ways. Even as 
 a child, he is said to have been distinguished not less 
 by the dignity of his manners than by his shining 
 and precocious gifts. There was nothing loose, un- 
 "irt, or dishevelled, in his bearing. Mr. Carlvle, in a 
 letter to a friend, describes him happily as a " com- 
 pact man." Though given to humor, and apt to in- 
 dulge in playful talk, and though capable of moral 
 indignation like every earnest and right-minded 
 man, he was never unduly excited in the way of 
 anger or of mirth ; never carried bevond himself. 
 No vehement tones, no spasms, no boisterous demon- 
 stration. His habitual self-command extended to 
 his very looks. His face was no book wherein one 
 might read the workings of his mind. Such control, 
 perhaps 1 should say. such immobility of feature, 
 one shall rarely see in so sensitive a man. When 
 not engaged in public discourse, his countenance 
 seemed to lack animation, giving no response by 
 light or shade, by Hashing eye or quivering lip, by 
 heightened or vanishing color, to the passing scene 
 or the words that fell on his ear. No change of 
 feature betrayed his thought, or revealed emotion, if 
 any there were to reveal. Those slow-moving eves. 
 
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 with their burdened lids, — you watched them in vain 
 in the public assembly for any expression of satis- 
 faction or dissent. Did they see what passed '.' Did 
 the soul behind them partake in what passed'.' They 
 gave no sign. 
 
 It follows almost of course, from this predominant 
 trait, that Mr. Everett was not a popular man. A 
 reserve so impenetrable, dignity so severe, would 
 necessarily isolate him. repelling familiarity. What- 
 ever he may have been in the privacy of the family- 
 circle, he was not one with whom a stranger slid 
 into easy relations, — not one to whom a companion 
 would pour himself forth, or who would pour him- 
 self forth to him. "His soul was like a star, and 
 dwelt apart." Though uniformly affable, and inno- 
 cent of arrogance or pride, there seemed to he a 
 near and impassable harrier to intimate communion. 
 Friends, of such as honored and loved him. he had 
 many: friends, in the sense of easy confidential fel- 
 low-hip. he had \\-\v. lie was not popular; per- 
 haps it was a weakness that he was not. — a too icy 
 reserve, a too fastidious shrinking from nearer con- 
 tact with hi- kind. But, on the other hand, it is the 
 
 weaknesses of men, nay, — a certain amount of merit 
 beins eiven, — it is their imperfections, their very 
 follies, thai make them popular, rather than their 
 virtues. It is these that place them on a level with 
 their race, compensating thus the superior ability 
 
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 which had seemed to divide them from the rest of 
 mankind. Men love to feel that the great man has 
 this at least in common with them. The public 
 jester is popular; the jovial, careless liver is popu- 
 lar ; the censor, whether by open reproof or the 
 silent rebuke of an austere life, is not. Clay was 
 popular, Sheridan was popular, Charles II. was 
 popular, Mirabeau was popular ; Milton, Burke, 
 Aristides, Washington, were not. Mr. Everett shared 
 none of those pursuits, was addicted to none of 
 those habits or amusements, which bring men into 
 closer fellowship and facilitate confidential com- 
 munion. He was not a boon-companion, not a lover 
 of games; he took no pleasure in the killing of 
 birds or fishes ; his habits were studious and recluse. 
 He was not popular : by so much the more signifi- 
 cant is the deep sensation caused by his death; so 
 much the more valuable, as testimony to the real 
 worth of the man, is the universal, spontaneous, 
 heartfelt demonstration of respect to his memory, — 
 a demonstration prompted by no superficial liking, 
 but wrung from the grateful heart, and enforced by 
 the deepest moral judgment of the people whom lie 
 served with the strength of his manhood and the 
 last ripe fruits of his age, with his life and with his 
 death, — a tribute such as is rarely accorded to any 
 individual in any age; more unqualified and sincere, 
 it seems to me. than any American has received 
 
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 since Washington. "Call no man happy," said the 
 wise Athenian. " until his death." The death is often 
 the interpreter and key to the lite. What a life 
 must that have been of which such a death is the 
 exponent ! A rich and varied, eventful, laborious, 
 honorable life! That brief compendium of the pub- 
 lic history of its graduates, the Catalogue of Har- 
 vard College, appends to the name of Everett a 
 longer, fuller tale of offices and honors than to any 
 other, in a record which embraces more than two 
 hundred years in its annals. All the honors which 
 this country has in its gift, beside academic and 
 literary honors bestowed abroad, have been con- 
 ferred upon him, — all hut that one which should 
 be the highest, hut from which, as we know, in our 
 div. their very worth has excluded the worthies! 
 men. 
 
 In his public career, as a statesman and poli- 
 tician, Mr. Everett has been singularly self-consisteni ; 
 and though that, in itself, is not the jewel which the 
 current proverb would make it. it becomes so when 
 conscientious action is the stuff it adonis. Thor- 
 oughly and consistently patriotic I believe him to 
 have been, as he interpreted the duty and demand 
 f patriotism in the cases in which he was called to 
 act. Bis interpretation mighl differ from yours and 
 mine; but, such as it was. he acted upon it with un- 
 swerving fidelity. A.bove cabal and intrigue, lie 
 
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 preferred before private or merely party interest 
 what he conceived to be public good. He sometimes 
 erred, as it seemed to me then, as it seems to me 
 now. He erred through excessive caution. He pur- 
 sued that misjudged policy of concession to the 
 insolent claims of the South, which has been the 
 source of all our woe; when resolute resistance, if it 
 could not avert secession, would have crushed it in 
 the bud. His motive, I believe, was as pure in this, 
 it was the same in this, as that which dictated his 
 patriotic efforts in these latter years. It was love of 
 the Union, which he believed might be saved by con- 
 conciliation, not perceiving that no conciliation would 
 avail which left to the North a relic of freedom. 
 
 He was not an antislavery man. 1 regret to have 
 it to say that he was not ; that he placed the letter 
 of the Constitution above the idea and the purpose 
 which lie at the basis of that Union, whose instru- 
 ment the Constitution is. — above the natural rights 
 of man ; that, while his heart was penetrated 
 with the purest spirit of humanity, the theory of 
 humanity in its application to this subject was 
 foreign to his mind. Yet it is my sincere belief, that. 
 if his lot had been cast at the South, he would have 
 I) sen a kinder master, an 1 more likely to have given 
 his slaves their freedom, than some abolitionists 
 whom 1 have known. Though not an antislavery 
 man. anil though pursuing what 1 conceive to have 
 
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 been ;i mistaken policy towards the South, he was 
 not so blind or so indifferenl to the encroachments of 
 the slave-power, nor so regardless of the rights of 
 the North, as to yield without resistance the repeal 
 of the Missouri Compromise, lie entered his strong 
 protest againsl that nefarious measure, — the ruthless 
 violation of a solemn covenant between the two sec- 
 tions, designed to secure their mutual rights. This, 
 too. 1 honor in him, that alter the fatal rupture which 
 divided the land, when the wish to approve himself 
 personally in the eyes of the South could no longer 
 be imputed to him as a motive, and while throwing 
 himself with all his talent and all his influence on 
 the side of the North, he did not. for the sake of 
 popularity with the loyal States, pretend to be in 
 theory more the enemy of slavery than he had been ; 
 he did not pretend to any sudden conversion; lie did 
 not pretend to have held or to hold any different 
 theory on the subject ; although, as a measure of 
 policy, he favored emancipation. 
 
 lli~ whole action is to be interpreted from the 
 point of view of dutiful regard to the common weal. 
 — of conscientious and devoted patriotism. In this 
 he was thoroughly, beautifully, heroically self-con- 
 sistent. It is my deliberate conviction that this 
 country had never a more faithful and devoted lover, 
 never a more patriotic citizen, as certainly it has 
 had few abler. In the service of the Union, with a 
 
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 view to maintain and confirm the sole bond which 
 seemed to him still to bind in one consciousness the 
 distracted nation, referring all sections and factions 
 to a common centre of love, he undertook a labori- 
 ous mission in the interest of the memory of Wash- 
 ington. Soliciting nothing, but using the simple 
 income of his eloquence, traversing the country 
 from east to west, from north to south, "in journey- 
 ings often," ''in labors more abundant," "in weari- 
 ness and painfulness," he collected a sum amounting 
 nearly, I believe, to a hundred thousand dollars. — a 
 fact unexampled in the history of oratory. At an 
 age when, without the stimulus of necessity, most 
 men shrink from incurring literary responsibilities 
 involving rapid and stated production, he entered 
 into an engagement to furnish weekly contributions 
 for a year, to a popular journal, in aid of the same 
 cause. — the purchase, for a national possession, of 
 the Mount -Vernon estate. 
 
 It has been charged upon him as an inconsistency, 
 or even as a recreant act. that he, who in 1860 was a 
 candidate for the Vice-Presidency on a ticket which 
 represented a different policy, should in 1804 allow 
 himself to be an elector of the very man to whom 
 he was then opposed. There was no recreancy and 
 no inconsistency here. So long as there remained 
 the shadow of a hope that the Union might be pre- 
 served by conciliatory measures, and an administra- 
 
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 tion representing both parties, he was willing to sacri- 
 fice every thing but principle and conscience to thai 
 much-desired end. And it was to him a real sacri- 
 fice of personal feeling to allow himself to be u*r<\ 
 for that purpose in that way. But when, in the 
 spring of L861, the die was cast ; when the fatal blow 
 was struck; when Secession, not content with peace- 
 able separation, made war upon the Union, — then at 
 once, without a moment's hesitation, as quickly and 
 as surely as the hall first aimed at Fort Sumter fol- 
 lowed the Hash of the gun that sent it, he made his 
 election, with heart and soul and mind and hand, 
 with counsel and exhortation, with voice and pen. to 
 stand by the Union, by the dear old flag of his alle- 
 giance, by the country of his birth and his vows. 
 And since standing by the country in a time of war 
 was identified, in his logical and conscientious mind, 
 with standing by the < rovernment, ^>y the Administra- 
 tion which represented the country, and on whom its 
 burdens and responsibilities were laid, he became at 
 once the fast friend of the Administration, determined 
 by all means, with all his powers, to strengthen its 
 bands, to plead its cause, and. so far as might he, to 
 lighten its beavj load. With what ability and with 
 what success lie has done this, with what generous, 
 untiring, self-sacrificing devotion, through all the 
 years of this war. he has followed this high ministry, 
 
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 and borne his share of the universal burden, is known 
 to all the citizens of this land ; and known to all is 
 that beautiful episode in his labors, — his persevering 
 efforts in behalf of the suffering Unionists of Tennes- 
 see, which resulted in the contribution of the sum of 
 a hundred thousand dollars to that noble charity. 
 
 Thus did our civil hero, by the strong persuasion 
 of his eloquent lips and the valor of his pen, fight 
 the civil and social battle of the Union, with as much 
 true heroism, I dare to say, and as much self-sacrifi- 
 cing devotion, as any chief on the army-roll who has 
 led his serried ranks to victory in the held. If Web- 
 ster was thought, by his official labors in the Senate 
 of the United States, to merit the title, " Defender of 
 the Constitution," with equal justice has Everett, by 
 his unofficial, voluntary labors, merited the title, "De- 
 fender of the Union." 
 
 For no service which he rendered, official or unof- 
 ficial, as servant of the Stale or as voluntary ser- 
 vant of the people, did he take any bribe. He never 
 mulcted his constituents, nor received a dollar be- 
 yond the stated salary of his office. Far from receiv- 
 ing, it was his better and more blessed privilege to 
 give. A hundred thousand dollars, the fruit of his 
 labors with tongue and pen. he gave to promote tin- 
 ea use of Union through the nation's common interest 
 in the memory of Washington; a hundred thousand 
 
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 more he was chiefly instrumental in procuring as a 
 contribution to the charities of the war. 
 
 His private life was as spotless as his public course 
 was patriotic and sincere. No breath of reproach 
 ever sullied his fair repute; and no duties, according 
 to the testimony of those who know best, were more 
 faithfully and thoughtfully discharged by him than 
 those of husband, father, and friend. Many were the 
 offices of honor and trust which he filled with the 
 lio-ht of his beneficent genius. An ordained minister 
 of the gospel at the age of twenty; professor in the 
 neighboring university, and afterwards its president- 
 a member, at different periods, of both houses of 
 Congress; governor of this Commonwealth; ambassa- 
 dor at the court of St. James ; secretary of state in 
 the national cabinet ; yet noblest and greatest of all. 
 in these latter years, as a private citizen. — his way of 
 life, as 1 survey it in the retrospect, comes to me as a 
 zodiac of luminous progress, -shining brighter and 
 brighter unto the perfect day." 
 
 The closing scene of this life, its last public act. 
 preceding by a few short days its disappearance to 
 mortal sight, was what he himself would have wished 
 it to In-, what every friend must rejoice to remember, 
 — an art of charity ; a plea for the people of Savan- 
 nah, returning to their allegiance, and asking aid for 
 their de-tit ute starving city. 
 
 And hen- 1 notice a striking and beautiful relation 
 
92 
 
 of correspondence between the beginning and the 
 end. Mr. Everett's first public act — I mean the first 
 spontaneous act in which he appeared before the 
 general public, outside of the duties of his profession 
 — was his •• Defence of Christianity ; " a book which he 
 published, at the age of twenty, in answer to an infi- 
 del attack. At the age of twenty, a plea for theoreti- 
 cal Christianity ; and now. at the age of seventy, after 
 an interval of half a century, a plea for practical 
 Christianity, urging his' fellow-citizens to heap coals 
 of the fire of Christian love on the heads of their 
 enemies. '• Do you say that they were lately our 
 enemies'.''' he pleads. "I am convinced that the ma- 
 jority, the great majority, were so but nominally. 
 But what if they were our enemies. ' If thine enemy 
 hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink ; ' es- 
 pecially when he has laid down his arms, and submits 
 to your power." 
 
 Between the theoretical and the practical plea, a 
 half-century of solid, useful, noble work, a hall-cen- 
 tury devoted to the public good, a hall-century of 
 magnificent talent employed like a faithful steward 
 for worthy and beneficent ends. What better legacy 
 than the influence of such a life can a man leave be- 
 hind him when he goes hence'.' What better outfit 
 than the spirit of such a life can a man take with 
 him on his voyage to the undiscovered land '.' 
 
 When the proto-martyr of the Christian Church. 
 
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 on the eve of his death, harangued the people in de- 
 fence of the faith, -all that sat in the council, looking 
 steadfastly on him, saw his Tare as it had been the 
 face of an angel." Those who heard Mr. Everett on 
 that last occasion affirm that his countenance wore 
 an unusual lustre, free from those traces of suffering 
 it so often exhibited in these last years. Was it the 
 transfiguration of the earthly through the forereach- 
 ing heavenly so close at hand '.' 
 
 Blessed be the Father of lights, who gave us this 
 light on our path ! — another guide to patient well- 
 doing, and final victory. 
 
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