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Excerpt from In Memoriam: Born March 4th, 1797, Died January 11th, 1861
We ought not, perhaps, to emit a circumstance that delicacy might forbid as from relating of the living. Commercial affairs are full of' vicissitudes, and Mr. Conner, in early life, had met with reverses; but more than twenty years after, though legally and honorably discharged from the debts of that period, he came forward voluntarily and discharged them in full. A circumstance so honorable to his character, and so worthy of applause and imitation, we do not feel justified in passing it over in silence.
We offer this feeble and imperfect tribute to his memory, and bear our sorrowing testimony to the sense entertained by our community of the loss they have sustained by his death. The very first call that the State made upon her sons, on the election of Lincoln, brought letters from him full of patriotic expressions of entire devotion to her cause. He ?ew to her side at the call for a Convention, and the last o?icial act of his life, was that in which, as a member of that illustrious body, his signature was affixed to the Ordinance by which she has been emancipated from political bondage. Almost his last thoughts were devoted to his country; the last lines he wrote, addressed to a friend from his sick bed, were these: What is it about Fort Sumter? If anything is to be done send for me, and I will go.
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