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Excerpt from A Discourse, Delivered at Dedham, May 14, 1841: The Day of the National Fast, on Occasion of the Death of William Henry Harrison, Late President of the United States
Such is the event which is the occasion of our present meeting, and which has clothed the land in habiliments of mourning. The nation deplores its chief, cut off with a fearful suddenness in the day of his high and palmy prosperity, at the very moment of his greatest success, in the hour of his most brilliant fortunes, when he had scarcely passed the threshold of his elevated office; had just received at the hands of a great, enlightened, and free people, the most substantial proofs of confidence in their power to bestow; the festive procession exchanged for the death march, the same breeze, it is scarcely a figure of speech to say, bearing on its Wings the shouts of gratulation and the funereal wail.
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