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Excerpt from An Eulogy on Silas Wright
In complying with your invitation, I have only to lament my inability adequately to delineate the life, and portray the character of that great statesman and excellent man, to whose worth the expression, which we have so lately witnessed, of admiration and regret, so general and spontaneous, is a tribute from his country as honorable as it must be sincere. Bound to him by the ties of a personal friendship, which it was ever my pride and happiness to cherish, and regarding with uniform respect his sentiments on all important public questions, I might reasonably distrust my own estimate of his character, and my judgment of his actions. But the narrative of his life, gathered from sources that are authentic the evidences of his patriotism, his genius, the wisdom of his counsels, and his private virtues, drawn from records readily accessible to us all, will present a picture that friendship need not ?atter, and individual judgment is unable to exaggerate. This, and this only, it shall be my effort faithfully to accomplish.
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