Their highest, their best praise, is your deep conviction of their merits, your affectionate gratitude for their labors and services.

It is not my voice, it is this cessation of ordinary pursuits, this arresting of all attention, those solemn ceremonies, and this crowded house, which speak their eulogy.

Their fame, indeed, is safe.

That is now treasured up, beyond the reach of accident.

Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record to their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.