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Excerpt from A Discourse Upon the Life, Character and Services, of James Madison One of our most gifted Statesmen and J urista has eloquence ly said, the tears which flow and the honors that are paid, when the Founders of the Republic die, give hope that the Republic itself may be immortal. It is fit that by public as sembl y and solemn observance, by anthem and by eulogy, we commemorate the services of National Benefactors, extol their virtues, and render thanks to God for eminent blessings, early given and long continued, to our favored country. Our most celebrated Senatorial Orator has beautifully observed that a nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds. They constitute one common patrimony - the nation's inher itance and a powerful English writer has, with equal truth and felicity, remarked that the nation may go down and be submerged in the common tide of human casualty, but the fame of her great men stands up, like the mountain tops in the deluge, the last retreat of the national hope and virtue - the first point from whence they re-issue to possess and restore the land. Demosthenes in his celebrated oath, swore by the manes of those who fell at Marathon and Platea. Our ensample and watchword should be the rounnnns and defenders on the ensue. Their characters should be constantly held up before the present and coming generations, to cheer the faint ing and rebuke the unworthy. If there is any voice that can lure the living from the haunts of folly, and the selfishness of a misguided ambition, it must be the voice of our buried Pa triarchs proceeding from the cold lips of the sepulchre. To the long scroll of our trophied names that will outlive the deeply imbedded granite of our everlasting hills, and the ever speaking voices of our mighty cataracts, we may now, with mingled pride and sorrow, add the name of james madison. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Daniel D. Barnard (1797-1861) was a United States representative in Congress from New York. He was elected as a Whig and served from 1839 to 1845. His lecture was "delivered before the Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement in the city of Albany on February 28, 1837. He gives a history of James Madison from his birth in Orange County, Virginia, through his education at Princeton; political career in the Virginia government during and following the Revolution through his major participation in the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia as primary author of the Constitution; all the way through his terms as President.

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