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SPEECH ()F JIB. WINTHBOP.
A large anti enthusiastic meeting of the
political friends'of Bell and Everett- was
held in Boston on Tuesday last. The “min
ute men” ot that city and vicinity were
resent in lull force, and the best spirit is
represented to have prevailed. Effective
aldresses were delivered by Richard H
IV, Ksq., oil taking the chair, and by
t,eo gc T. Curtis, Esq. At the conclusion
,f pie able speech delivered hy the later.
the 11” u. Robert C. \Yiuthrop rose, amid
geit applause, and spoke as follows :
[ tlunk yen, f. Ifow-citizens, for these
.’tii 1 '! ats greetings. I thank my friends bc
h:nl me for their words ofcoinplitneut and
kinlre-ss. 1 am ti *t insensible to such man
ilin'aiio is if welcome and regard, aud yet
I would _ ally have i*cen excused ti om this
i. 1 ivuuid gladly have been still
lon’ r, if n t al'og*. < tier, cxeus and iia.it any
active partH sp r.ioii iu these political pro
ceed in, s. Not b‘cause I have had anv
douot vuiLfe to go, or under what banner
to tak my stand, (applause ; ) but because,
loving so recently returned from a pro
tracted and by no means unclouded tour
in fore;.ii lands, and having hardly yet re
covered ti'Kiu the fatigues of travel and the
dizziness of nti ocean voyage ; with a pon
derous pile ut unacknowledged letters, to<.,
h iritig me in the fate, and no small arrear
age o! private business to bo disposed ot, [
l;av<‘ I nil 1 myself quite out of condition
la (!■• jus lie. eiiher to yon or my-* If. N
on 1 d'-iiy licit 1 should have Ifaed a
iv 1 -li;'* r uppoi i unity for exchanging
! *:d!y ings vviih neighbors and id 1-
i .v-;.!iz as i>{ id op,mi ns and all parties,
t'>r h -nig plunged into the vortex of an
oiZ'y j):;rt; an cinflict. Rut one cannot
:.o e he the cn ,-oscr oi tun sand seasons.
c,. um- i .kc his place in the cars w hei.
tieb il rii.gs. or they will be oil without
ii';i. iode. I, tin* frtin .is already in mo
t in,an-l tlvre hvi;:h n. alternative but to
junp v-rt t*.. the pUitbrhs', just as i am. —
i, ; o• -ii;- r;m 1 dant; .] i
Hi. itsly, irl ads, 1 act per,*, as your
r ‘itiiin; ej well tin lei stand, to make no
‘:ir lab ‘n 1 speech, hut I could not
■•“■I it ‘j'lite Consistent wu ‘a mv co;j\ leti ns
1 *’.ity io resist their sollett&lions that I
“'Juki t>* ptvsent wish you this, evenings t;
lean tu others who ha 1 been invited to
h-Uiios y u, and Lo express in a f< w plain
words t!i • views which l entertain of the
folding political campaign,
i haw* said nhcariy, and 1 repeat, that I
II -Vc nut desired delay because my decision
‘■not taa lc up, or because there was tin*
wavering or hesitation in my mind
‘° di of the candidates to be ad-
V'K'ated in i supported. I found on my
ni‘ii oil. on my return 1 in* other day,
aih ! 'n im.ny iiicr letters awaiting a reply,
°t‘ecviiii-n*iy written in ignorance ot my
i! ’ :i 'f hum home, in which it was sug-
P"'*’ ! tint my Jong sileuce had been coij
- lll d. in some quarters, into a change of
!;hival sentiments ; a change, too in the
<u ( , t the sell-styled Republicanism
. the day ! And were 1 ambitious of find
s'a feet hold in what has been f r some
j’cs* the dominant party of this (Jom
p ‘‘Wealth—among those who have recent
•'y in denominated the masters ot Mass
>• Usotts—it has been whispered in my
‘“‘that such an interval might afford me
“ favorable chance for doing so. I dare
;l r it would. A much shorter interval, if
Riistake not, has often answered the pur-
Ne for much more considerable conver
‘•jQ. Rut it is not more true, Mr. Prcsi
■tit, that, by an accidental and most
“ ruble coincidence, 1 sailed from Bos
ton the 15th day of June, 1859, and re
’ and to Boston on the St li day of Sep
\'’Vr, 18b‘0, in one and the same stanch
Ca drainer, with the best of all possible
D nuw*(the America,) than it is 1 brought
i a Vi.ii me the self-same political opin-
and principles with which I embarked
aud, I think, unchangeable.
*‘ S >l am with you, fellow-citizens, iu all
•’ Jr aims and elforts to maintain and up
die Constitution aud the Union of our
y-"wvl couutry. i am with you in all
• exertions to arrest the progress of see
ped strife and discord. I am with you,
1 j >a tiie earnest support of the candi
-3 “ho have been nominated for the
;;^- st offices of the nation and ot the
/ at / hy the Constitutional Union Cou
- / 1 ‘Ds at Baltimore and at Worcester. —
r } niiiig that I have seen abroad, and
p) tni U g ? I may add, that I have heard
J hijtne during my absence, has con
in my adhesion to the cause,
c :s incomprehensively and signifl
lii ,; stunned in those noble words of
a ii J •’ which are emblazoned upon
stitur r baQQ ers—“The Union, The C-m
----q . lljn j the enforcement of the Laws/
I pre 1 a ‘ o,n Henry Clay himself, to
I the i tbat sentiment once more on
I Gr** , rts ‘ f hs s fellow-countrymen !
I cheering]
I oll e oi f ," b ' ,lout . a ll question, my friends,
I lle best influences of a sojourn in
foreign lands, upon a heart which is not
insensible to the influences of patriotism,
1 that one forgets for a time, or remembers
j only with disgust and loathing, the con
tentions and controversies which so often
alienate and embitter us at home. There
is no room on that little map of his country
which every patriot hears abroad with him
photographed on his heart ; there is no
room ou that magical miniature map for
j territorial divisions or sectional boundaries.
Large enough to reflect and reproduce the
image and outlines of the Union, it repels
all impression of the petty fotographical
features which belting to Science and the
j Schools. Still more does it repel the mis
j crable seams and scratches hy which sec
j tionul politicians have sought to illustrate
their odious, distinctions and comparisons.
And so, the patriot traveller in foreign
lands, with that chart impressed in lines of
light aud love on his memory, l"oks back
: on his country only as a whole. He learns
ito love it more than ever as a win le. He
. accustoms himself to think kindly of it,
and to speak kindly ot it as a whole ; and
: lie comes home ready to defend it as a
whole, alike from the invasion of hostile
i armies or the assaults of slanderous pens
i and tongues. He grasps the hand of an
American ul road as the hand of a brother,
without stopping to inquire whether he
hails from Mussa husetis or front Smith
i Carolina, from Maine or Louisiana from
Vermont or Virginia. It is enough that
!:rs passport bears the same broad seal, the
*.iuie national emblem with his own. And
every time his own passport is inspected ;
every time he enters anew dominion or
crosses anew frontier : every time he is de
layed tit a custom-house, or questioned by
a policeman, or challenged by a sentinel ;
every time he is perplexed by anew lan
guage, or puzzled by anew variety of coin
age or currency—lie thanks bis God with
fresh fervency that through Jill the length
and breadth of that land beyond the swell
ing floods, which In*is privileged and proud
to call his own baud, there is a common
Constitution, common laws and liberties,a
common inheritance ot glory from the past,
and, it it be only true to itself, ft common
(hstiny of glory for the future! [-'p
pin list.*.]
Aud does any one imagine sot an instant,
iiiat, entiling home from such influences
and such impressions, 1 could he found
giving in my adhesion to a party, of which
I w eild say nothing disresp* clful, f*r it
itichid s not a few es those whom l most
esteem in private and, sorial life, but so
many of whose accredbed organs and oni
ons are busily engaged in arraying om*
half . I the Union ag iust the o;h--r half,
and in p airing out a torn nt < f Jibii.se, lu
x’ ctive, and vituj.-era-ion against, a whole
seeti'-n of their fellow-citizens P Could
my one imagine that I should take this
opportunity and“ all others, to unite myself
wil l those whose selected candidate for
lie high* st honors of our own Common
wealth, would seem to have expressed
s -met h i tig more—softie thing in ore * —! ha n
a sympathy the deserved fate id an avowed
;iud convicted instigator and organizer of j
slave insurrection and treason against the
Uniteil States !
I hiv * said, Mr. President, that every
hing 1 have heard from my own land du
ring my absence had confirmed my attach
ment to the cause in which y**u are assem
bled. 1 shall U')l soon forget the emu-
lions with which I received at Vienna, last
November, the first tidings of that attro
cious affair at Harper's Ferry. They carrie
in the form of a brief telegraphic despatch,
without details, without explanations, sim
ply announcing that an armed and organ
ized baud of abolition conspirators had
taken forcible possession of the national
Arsenal, in furtherance of a concerted in
surrection ot the blacks, and that blood
had already begun to flow. 1 think there
could have been no true American heart in
Europe at that moment that did not throb
and thrill with horror at that announce
ment. But I confess to have experienced
emotions hardly l*ss deep or distressing
when I read, not long afterwards, Jiti ac
count of a meeting in this very hall, I be
lieve, at which the gallows at Charleston,
in Virginia, was likened to the cross on
Calvary, and sit which it was openly de
clared that the ringleader of that desperate
and wicked conspiracy was right. Sir, if
it had been suggested to me then that be
fore another year had passed away, the
presiding officer at that meeting would
have been deliberately nominated by the
Republican party of Massachusetts for the
Chief Magistracy of the Commonwealth,
l should have repelled the idea as not
within the prospect of belief, as utterly
transcending any pitch of extravagance
which even the wildest and most ultra
members of that party had ever prepared
us to anticipate. But the nomination is
before us. The candidate, lam told, is a
most amiable and respectable gentleman,
and I have no wish to say an unkind word
of him or of those who end >rse him ; but
[ should be false to every impulse of my
heart if, being here at all tLis evening, it
opening my lips at all during this cam
paign, I did not enter my humble protest,
as one to whom the cause of Christianity
and social order is dear, as one who would
see the word of God and the laws of the
land respected and obeyed, it I did not
enter mv humble but earnest piotest
agaiust such an attempt to give the seem
ing sanction of the people ot Massachu
setts to sentiments so impious and so
abominable.
But I am glad to remember that the re
ports of other meetings on the same sub
ject and on other subjects wero not long
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES: —DISTIMCT, LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA.”
THOMABTON. GEORGIA. SATFRDAV MOR.MXIJ. OCTOBER 20, IS6O.
afterwards forthcoming ; meetings at Fan
ned Hall, Conventions at Baltimore, and
ratification meetings in all parts of the
[Country. It was in Paris, if I remember
right, that I received the account of that
patriotic aud glorious gathering at which
John Bell and Edward Everett were nom
inated for the Presidency and Vice Presi
dency of the United State. Wherever it
was, you may be sun- that I ratified those
nominations fit sight / rejoicing with fill mv
heart that names had been selected which
| represented no extreme opinions, which
1 recognized both ends of the Union, and for
which men of moderation and justicecou Id
vote with a clear conscience and a hearty
good will. [Prolonged applause.]
I have had the good fortune to know
Mr. Bell for more than twenty years, and
have been tin humble witness to his labors
and services in the Cabinet and in both
branches of Congress. Shame, shame
upon the perversions and misrepresenta
tions which Would implicate him in the
ultraisms or extravagances of either sec
tion of the Union ! There is no truer
friend to this whole country than John
Bell ; not one who would hi* more anxious
or more able toadminis er the Government
with an even hand upon the true priuci
pies of the Constitution, without fear or
tavoritcisin ; uot one who is less disposed
to give any undue preponderance to the
peculiar instiunion of the section from
which he comes ; not one whose record
contains nobler evidence of his courage to
stand up singly and alone, it need In*,
against the South its well tts against the
North, whenever a sense of justice and of
duty should call upon him to do so ; imt
one, whose election at this moment would
do so much to restore harmony to our na
tional councils, and give us tour years more
of assured prosperity and peace at home
and abroad.
As for Mr. Everett, it is for others in
other places to speak of him. lie needs ;
no commendations here. II is spotless
character, his unrivaled accomplishments,
his matchless eloquence, iiis aid< tit patri
otism, are all too familiar to us to require;
an allusion. Bui it is not lu re alone that :
he is known ; it is not here alone that he
is appreciated. 1 express no ofl'-hatid, uo
considered, individual opinion, lmt the de
liberate judgment ot thousands at home:
and abroad, when 1 say that (he result ofj
a Presidential election which sit uhl place |
Edward Everett in either of Urn two high
est offices of the National Government,!
won id do more thorn even his own masterly■ /
address, on the 4'll of July ; tit re than
any words or acts of any <>r all other men,
to vindicate out count iy in the estimation
of the world from the impression which
Inis been so lamentably prevalent of bate,
that our free institutions have proved a
failure, that our national character and our
national career are already marked by de
generacy and decline, and that all honora
ble, accomplished, and virtuous men are
practically excluded from the management
of our public affairs. He has himself fur
nished us with the best argument against ,
many of these foreign assaults ; but the
people of the United Suites, iu electing’
him to one of the highest offices in their
gift, would supply the proof, illustration,
and living example.
1 have but little to say, my friends,
about otliei candidates. I have no wish to
institute odious comparisons. It was toy
fortune to be in the House of Representa
tives with Mr. Abraham Lincoln during
his only term ot Congressional service.—
Volt will be sure that 1 remember him with
interest, il I may be allowed to remind
you that he helped to make me speaker of
the 30tti Congress, when the vote was a
very close and strongly contested vote, and
when Certain geiulemeii of the and
the East, whom 1 remember with no na-
kinducss, refused me their support. I cer
tainly thought well of Mr. Lincoln then,
and I have not a syllable to say against
Him now. If lie should become President
of the United States by fair consri u ional
means, he shall have my best wishes for
his success ; and 1 will stand by the Union
aud the Constitution with him and under
Lilli as long as he stands hy them himself.
(Applause.) There art*, indeed, some
tilings in his old record, if I mistake not,
w hich are much better calculated tos.itisly
other people, mv friends, than they are to
satisfy those who have nominated him.—
When one of our own M Lssachusotts dele
gation of that day moved a summary reso
lution, o” bill, for tfie abolition of Slavery
in the district of Columbia, Mr. Lincoln
gave a bold, plump, manly negative to the
proposition ; and he repeated his Nay to
the same substantial measure when it was
presented in another fain hy Mr. Joshua
Giddings. 1 commend this record to those
who are dealing so critically and so calum
uiously with the record of Mr. Bell on the
same subject. They may find that these
old records are two-edged swords. I should
like to hear them read these votes of Mr.
Lincoln fairly and squarely to their Aboli
tion friends in New England.
But the question is not where a man
was twelve years ago, but where he is now;
with whom he is now acting; in what di
rection he is now moving, to whom and to
what he is now committed. Old records
are nothing. Names are nothing. Men
are nothing in a campaign like the present.
There is but one simple hut all-sufficient
and all-embracing consideration, certainly,
which will govern my own vote at the com
ing electionand if it could govern the
vote of everv other man in the Union I
should have no fears for ih* result. It is
no consideration of slavery or anti-slaverv.
It is no question of personal or of party
triumph. It is the conviction which has
taken possession of my whole heart, and
I soul, jiral mind, that the best and highest
mterestsof ourconntrv, atidof every human
being who inhabits our country-yes, I will
not sent jle to include black as well as
white, boutl as well as free—that all our
dearest moral and religious interests, as
wt-ll as our highest political and sociftl in
terests, demand a truce, a long truce, if
possible a final termination of the fratrici
dal strife whieh has lieett so long waged
between the North and the South Peace,
concord, the restoration of national harmo
ny, of mutual good-will and of individual
j-0 ul nature, this is the one great want of
< ur land in all its relations a this moment.
Nothing, mu hing but mischief has thus
far resulted from ti e sectional criminations
tintl^iecri/ninations which have so long
formed the whole web aud woof of our
public debate. Extravagant and untena
ble ibdtines have been advanced and ad
vocated both at the North and at the South,
in mere spite towards each other,and mea
sures have been set on foot which would
never have been dreamed of except in a
spit it of retaliation aud revenge. Bad
blo.nl lias been engendered, Rid language j
has fallen from lips educated to better lit- j
terances, and blows have followed words.—
Both the Nor hern and the Southern mind
need r.-sf and repose in order to recover
from the fever and pkrenzy which recent
domestic struggles have produced. A four
years’ truce to all liu-se dismal and dreary
and wholly abstract disputes and bicker
ings about squatter sovereignty, and l)red
Beott decisions, and Southern oligarchies,
and sectional aggressions, would do more
to restore and advance just views of the I
Constitution, and just views of freedom, |
and just views of slavery, too, than all the i
harangues and pliillippies which have been j
composed and uttered since the days ofj
Demosthenes and Cicero.
It is not often 1 find anything on this
subject in an English paper to agree with,
but here is a slip from the London Athenae
um, published on the very day 1 left Liv
erpool, and which comes very near to ex
posing the whole truth of the matter. It
is it paiagraj li from ;t brief review of a
book called “Havery Doomed,” bv a Mr.
Edge, find who I should think might be a
twin brother, or at least a cousin-german,
of Mr. Helper, and who hails Mr. Lincoln
as th* first anti-slavery President of the
United Hates, and looks forward to the
extinction of slavery, and of the Union too,
and of the cotton crop more especiallv, as
the result of his election. After speaking
ot iLis book, and after alluding to ihe re
j many \ears ago of what it calls Mr.
-Eli isor/s scheme of emancipation, the
unt r in the Aihenmum says as follows :
“Since then wild schemes have been pro
pounded and wilder plans attempted, the
whole question has become embittered, and
a lite and death feud has sprung up where
the sole chance lay in friendly and titiim
jiassioned relations • steady-going minds
have flung themselves with heat and ardor
into the tray ; gentlemen have become ruf
fians while discussing’ the best mode of
dealing with it ; Christians have developed
into savages ; while the few cal in men, at
least on the pro-slavery side, who can real
ly hold their own in times of tumult, have
withdrawn from the contest altogether,
seeing no chance for rational philosophy to
be heard in company of madmen hacking
at each other’s throats. Thanks to certain
indiscreet partisans, abolition, as a feasible
and practical good, lots been delayed yet
another generation, to the grief of all hon
est men and the confusion of all wise ones.”
Now, whether this writer is correct <>r
not in what he says about abolition as a
practicable and feasible good, la* has pr
seated a most forcible and graphic picture
ot the Condi ti nos things at this moment
in our country, and has placed the respon
sibility where it belongs for the delay and
indefinite postponement of any measures
w hich have ever been either feasible or
practicable for ameliorating the condition
of any portion ot the African race on this
continent.
1 repeat, fellow-citizens, we need a res
toniiioti of national harmony, of that fra
ternal feeling between different members of
the Union which was so eloquently and
admirably advocated hy the gallant and
true hearted Crittenden iu his late noble
speech, in order that all the great interests
of our cotiairy may once more be calmly
and justly considered and provided for.—
Ami national harmony can never he res
tured by the triumph of either of the ex-
Hetue parlies, whether of the North or the
•South. Certainly, it cannot he restored
by the triumph of a party whieh has w hol
ly refused to recognise the Southern States
in the selection ot their candidates, and
which dues uot pretend to rely upon or to
anticipate a single electoral Vote from any
one of those Suites. Certainly it cannot
be restored hy the triumph of a party at
least one ot w hose candidates is so identi
fied with those who would award the holi
est crown of mart} rduin to the very insti
gator arid organ zeros insurrection and
treason, and so many of whose organs are
daily denouncing the South as a land of
barbarism, and daily exulting in the idea
of au irreconcileable and irrepressible con
flict between the slave States and the free
States. It would he madness to expect
from such a triumph any thing but renewed
agitation, renewed irritation, and renewed
outbreaks of fanaticism at one end of the
Union and fury at the other, which no pa
triot and no Christian can contemplate
without a shudder.
For myself, my friends, I have nothing
to 6ek iiotn any candidate or aDy party, 1
and 1 can take but an humble share in what
remains of this campaign. Neither my
health nor UiY engagements will allow me
to mingle often in the strife ot tongues.—
But I rejoice tLar I am here iu season to
give a vote for the candidates whose nom
ination voti are assembled to ratify ; to
give a vote which shall virtually and prac
tically say, “That man of blood, aud trea
son. and massacre was not right. The men
of the South ;tre no barbarians, to be le
vied and defied, but our brethren, with
whom we delight to dwell in unity. And
there is no conflict between the free Hates
and the slave States which moderation and
reason and justice and patriotism cannot
repress, and ought to repress, at once
and forever/’
That vote may be in a minority or in a
majority— one of many or one of few—but
whatever may he the result, it will at least
secure to him who gives it the cheering
consciousness of having done what he
could to arrest tic* progress ot ns mad ami
mischievous a strife as ever disturbed the
peace or endatigered the union of a great
and glorious country. [Loud and pro
longed applause.]
from the Macon Telegraph.
Sketch of the I/tc l>uvi(l
I4eiilull TI. D —By a l'rieitd.
Seemingly few jire the words of grief;
the notes of sorrow are little heeded ; attd
tlie sadness- of woe is soon forgotten atnid
the busy hum and stirring scenes of life.—
The teeming millions of animated human
beings; the blooming floWer j the budding
plant ; the restless ocean ; the rolling river,
and the gurgling brook, impress us with
the idea that all nature is imbued with an
imation. Deluded beings ! we seem to
forget that the grave is the common desti
ny ot all ; that life is short, and that the
shows and pleasures of this world are tran
sient and ephemeral as thesummer’s shower.
But while we stand amid all the gaities
and festivities of life, unconscious of the
rapid flight of yesterdays and to-morrows,
death unannounced glides noiselessly in
and snatches from our midst some loved
one, leaving us to mourn the sad event. —
The once sweet and cheering tones of the
Voice are silent forever, and the hand that
was wont to clasp ours in friendship is
cold and stiff in lifeless clay.
‘•Our lives are rivers gliding free
To that uufathomable bouudless sea,
The silent grave !
Thither all earthly pomp and boast
Roll, to Le swallowed up and lost
In the dark wave ! ’
These reflections are suggested ly the
death of Dr. David Kendall, which occur
red in the bosom of his family at his resi
dence in Upson county in the month of
July last. Hemet the King of Terrors
tint), calm, and unshrinking, and dud as
he had lived an honest and God-fearing
• man. He bore his sufferings patiently
j and resignedly, confident that they were
I only the precursors of a glorious and hap
-Ipy immortality beyond the grave ; and
though not a member of any church, we
have every reason to believe that his was
the Christian’s reward.
Dr. David Kendall was born in the year
1790, in the county of Washington, in this
•State ; from thence he removed to Han
cock, and was for many years a citizen of
that county. In the year 1830 he came
to Upson county where he continued tore
side up to the time of his death.
The deceased was a noble example of
w Imt integrity, perseverance and industry
! can accomplish. He began life as ji pool
plough-boy, hut struggled bravely and suc
jeessfirily with the ills and disadvantages of
poverty. And notwithstanding he was
surrounded by many discouragements, lie
found means, unaided by anything hut his
own industry and firm resolves, to educate
himself highly and cultivate the superior
talents with which he was endowed. He
commenced the practice of medicine (at
what time is not precisely known to the
writer) in the vigor of manhood and use
fulness, and sooti obtained a large and well
merited practice, lie was firm and steady ;
in his habits and ever governed bv the high- i
est sense of honor iu all his social inter
course and business transactions. And
notwithstanding his liberality and kind
ness to the needy, he stejulily prospered,
[and many years before his death had the
gratification of seeing his perseverance and
industry rewarded with comfort and inde
pendence.
Modest and unassuming, he never thrust
himself forward to gain the applause or
the flattery of the world; aud though his
solid worth and talents would hare doubt
less commanded for him high posts of pub
lic trust and honor had he desired them,
yet he was content silently and unosten
tioitbly to perform the work of a good man
and a Christian, and allow such deeds to
tell to the World “what manner of man lie
was.” All that he desired was a pure
heart and clear conscience.
From many years of intimate acquaint
ance with Dr. Kendall, the writer had
learned to revere and respect him for the
sterling qualities of his head and heart.—
He was firm, though just in his convic
tions of right and wrong ; and he judged
n< man either hastily or harshly, lie was
compassionate in an eminent degree and i
was ever ready to mingle his sympathy
with the misfortunes and sorrows of his
fell mv mam His ear was always open to I
the s.id tale of woe, and his liberal hand
and charitable heart were ever ready to ex
tend aid and succor to the need aud suf
ferings of the poor; and he will lie long;
and gratefully remembered by them as a
kind friend and generous benefactor. A
mac ot extensive reading and observation, •
I J avuble in Advance,
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he was wonderfully facinating in conversa
tion in the social circle and around the do
mestic fireside ; bis thoughts were chaste
and his expressions pointed and correct. —
He was equally familiar with all subjects
of interest or importance and his rich store
of knowledge seemed to be iucxhaustable ;
and hence his conversation was alike im
proving and entertaining to his hearers.—*
His attachments were warm, sincere, and
lasting. They did not as the rainbow,
vanish amid the fog of the storm, hut like
the majestic oak of the fo r est as it waves
its tali head above the scattered ruins and
devastations of the furious tornado, they
stood firm and unchanged among the bro
ken promises and shameful desertions of
false fiiends. 11 is friendship, like the ivy
that twines its gentle tendrils round the
giant oak, seemed only to cling the tighter
to its object with the increased fury of the
storm. Wherever he was known (and he
was extensively known throughout the
State) ho had many warm and admiring
friends and as few enemies as it is possible
for frail humanity to make. The commu
nity in which he lived has beeri deprived
of one of its brightest ornaments atid most
useful members, and bis loss will bo the
more deeply felt bv his friends because
they had long learned to know and value
his usefulness and great moral worth.
For his servants he had very strong at
tachments, lie knew that they were depen
dent upon him for protection, and he was
alive to the great responsibility. His de
sire was, to make them comfortable and
happy ; and in this he succeeded admira
bly. He could never soil any of his ser
vants or allow families of them to be sepa
rated ; and as a proof of this, he still own
ed at the time of his death the firstservant
he ever possessed. The servants on their
part were warmly attached to their mas
ter ; and often when the labor of the day
was finished, has the writer seen their hap
py faces and heard their joyous peals of
laughter as they could assemble in little
groups around their houses ; and we ouly
speak what we know to be true, when w*i
say, that a happier collection of human
beings, either vVhite or black, it has never
been our good fortune to bt hold. To them
his place can never be filled ; they have
lost a wise and humane master ; and he w ill
long he affectionately remembered by them
and often will they assemble around, and
in their cabins to talk of bis kindness and
care for them.
It is not moot in this place that fte
should speak of the deep sorrow andaioitrn
ing which his death has brought upon big
family ; it is a theme too sacred even for
the most intimate friends. But we trust
that we will he pardoned for saying, that
! tie was the most affectionate of husbauds,
! and the kindest and most indulgent of pa
rents ; his chief aim was, to make his fam
ily happy and prosperous ; himself, happy
| in the thought that they were happy ; and
he in turn was justly beloved and adored
by them. By his death they have lost a
firm support and piotector, and one who
was calculated hy his good example and
wise counsels, to guide them clear of the
follies and rough storms of life's uneven
seti. None hut they can ever know or re
alize the great and irreparable loss occa
sioned by his death. Let tie kindly and
gently draft the veil of sympathy over their
sad affliction, and commend them to the
care and mercy of Him who has promised
to be a husband to the widow, a father to
the orphan.
Politically, Hr. Kendall was a Demo
crat of the State’s Bight school, and how
ever others might differ ftith him in opin
ion, none, not even his most violent oppo
nents, ever doubted his integrity or patri
otism ; he was a true and incorruptible
patriot-, worthy of the purest days of the
Republic. His judgment when expressed
had great weight with men of till parties
in bis own county ; he was honored by his
fiiends for several years with a seat in the
State Legislature and repaid their confi
dence with universal satisfaction. I have
said that he was a patriot ; blit his patri
otism was such that it commenced at the
family fireside, thence It extended to the
community of which he was a member,
then in widening circles it went out over
his State j next it enciicled the “sunny
South then the Union, and finally em
braced the poor and oppressed ot all na
tions and of all climes, who were denied
the boon of a free and republican govern
nvfit. We would that such men were
more numerous; our country netd then
have no fears for the stability and firmness
of its institutions.
13*it. it was to the medical jirofession that
Dr. Kendall devoted the greater portion of
his time and talents ; he was its student
all his life, and kept up with the discov
eries and improvements which science had
made in its ditferent branches ; and what
he thus acquired was never forgotten* but
j was ever at hand and ready ior service.—
flo displayed great skill and prudence in
the treatment of disease ; had a large and
• extensive practice, and was eminently suc
cessful in it. From his superior talents,
and long study and experience, ho was
recognized by all the medical traternitjr
who knew him, as standing in tlieforemoat
ranks of the profession, and his judgment
when formed and expressed always com
manded deference aod justly carried with
it great weight and iutluence. The com
munity in which be lived olaced unbounded
confidence in him as a physician, nor was
their confidence misplaced. He was ever
ready at the call of the sick to alleviate
their suffering as far as skill was able to
do. In the sick chamber he was kind,
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Number 49.