A LAMENTABLE LOSS TO THE COUNTRY.
From the “Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.”
He was a man of high faculties and purposes, and of great breadth of sympathy. He had courage of heart equal to capacity of brain, and placed in the core of the South, in her most busy city, and the undoubted representative man of her ambition and progress, it is lamentable that he should be lost to the country.
It seemed to be in no man’s grasp to do more good than he had appointed for his task. He has done that which will be memorable. It is something forever, to plow one deep furrow in fertile land for the seed that is in the air.
He is dead, as the poets that are loved must die, still counting his years in the thirties; and there is this compensation, that it may yet be said of him in the South, as was so beautifully sung by Longfellow of Burns in Scotland, that he haunts her fields in “immortal youth.”
And then to die so young, and leave
Unfinished what he might achieve.
... He haunts his native land