Description: death of James Madison! New York Mirror July 23, 1836 This is an issue a New York weekly journal, published over 185 years ago. It measures 10.5 x 13.5 inches in size and is 8 pages long. The paper came from a bound volume and has typical minor disbinding marks at the spine, and the pages have a small age-browning spot in their blank upper margins, but the issue is otherwise in excellent, attractive condition. The New York Mirror covered mainly literature and the arts, but each issue also carried a variety of news items and essays on subjects of American interest. The highlight of this issue is a eulogy/tribute to the recently deceased former president James Madison, one of Americas Founding Fathers. The article is titled THE LATE JAMES MADISON, and appears in a column labelled Original Sketches of Character. It takes up almost half of the papers 4th page, and runs 19 column inches in length. Madison died on June 28th, at age 85, so this tribute appeared less than four weeks later, in a period when news travelled much more slowly than now. The piece says, in part: THE LATE JAMES MADISON Great occasions produce great men. The records of our own country bear testimony to this truth. In the early and in the later ages of her struggles, there were not wanting men to advise and to set for a nations welfare. Among those who have acted a conspicuous part in building up our political and civil institutions, for more than sixty years, was James Madison, who has lately sunk to rest, full of years and honours. Mr. Madison was by birth a Virginian, and wholly educated in this country. He was intended for a statesman from his youth, and made himself a master of constitutional law, when it was hardly known as a science either in England or in this country. . . . In March, 1809, Mr. Madison became President of the United States. It was a stormy period. France and England, in their fierce struggles for mastery, forgot the rights of neutral nations, and outraged out independence. . . . The war had its dark and bright spots on the tablets of fame, but its results were altogether fortunate . . . . there should always be wisdom and honesty at the head of our people to make the most judicious use of every event. In 1817, when the reign of peace was established, Mr. Madison retired to his farm to enjoy the serenity of rural life; but here he has not been idle. On the death of Mr. Jefferson he was made Chancellor of the University of Virginia, and, as well as his predecessor, took a deep interest in the prosperity of the institution. When Virginia called a convention to alter her constitution, Mr. Madison, with Chief Justice Marshall, and Mr. Monroe, were found among the sages who . . . were good judges of the best forms of amendment. . . . . . . He never talked for the love of display, but simply to communicate his thoughts. . . . He was so perfectly a master of his subject . . . His voice was deficient in volume, but it was so well modulated that its compass was more extensive than that of many speakers of stronger lungs. His conversation was truly a charm. . . . He had no enmities to settle, for he had quarrelled with no one; he had no slanders to forgive, for no one ever traduced him. . . . Etc. _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))
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