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Excerpt from Eulogy on the Life and Services of Henry Clay: Delivered at the Request of the City Council, in Augusta, Ga;, Nov; 4, 1852
But the course of time is onward, and another spectacle is presented in the vicissitudes of national existence. Peace has re-established her meliorating sway and enterprise resumed her wonted pursuits. The revolving year brings again a day memorable as an historical epoch. Operatives renounce labor, merchants eschew commerce, philosophers forego study; all men, of all degrees, low to lengthen out the pageant - to swell the anthem. Her day of jubilee has come, and the nation exults in its cherished associations. Who so stoical as to look and list, yet feel no thrill.
Once again the panorama changes. Now is seen every where the drapery of mourning; deep gloom, like an ecliptic shadow, rests upon the face of society. The nation bows down under the weight of a common sorrow, uttering novoice but of lamentation, filling the air with the dirge's solemn tones. She mourns because one, aye a single one, of the multitudes in whose lives she lives, has passed away to be numbered among the dead. A great man in Israel has fallen, therefore all the host of Israel lift up their voices and weep. Such was the spectacle presented by this people but a few months since, when the lightning, (man's trained messenger) took up the heavy tidings, and ere the shrouding was done, announced to many millions of his countrymen, that the sage of Ashland was no more.
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