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Excerpt from An Oration Delivered at Bedford, New-Hampshire, February 22, 1815, at the Request of the Washington Benevolent Society
The man, whole name we this day honor, was an exception from mofi of his fellow creatures. Such were the powers and mechanifm of his mind, that he needed not artificial expedients to impel him to the molt generous and ufeful deeds. A love of his country and a fenfe of duty actuat ed his foul. If his liable mind never became giddy by the greatef't applaufe; yet he was not infer fible to the love, the gratitude, and refpeet, which his fellow c1t1zens repeatedly offered him on this day of his nativity. If he was not in different to the afperfions of his enemies; for even Walkington had enemies, yet he never was propelled from his courfe by their virulence. The powers of his great mind were too well balanced to ?uctuate on the popular breeze; to rife by applaufe, or finkhy calumny. Often has this day been dillinguiihed with joy on account. Of the birth of lo illufirious a charae'ter; and once, throughout this nation, has it been clouded with grief and badges of mourning at the te membrance of his death. It is not necelfary to dwell on his charae'ter. It is well known. The bef't defcription, the highefi eulogy, cannot equal the original.
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