The same methods have been followed in substance at Lawrence and Woonsocket and other manufacturing places.
He preserved his vigor of body until he entered his seventy- seventh year, taking walks of five or six miles without fatigue.
About that time he took a severe cold at a neighbor's funeral.
An illness followed which seriously impaired his strength.
He died, November 2, 1856, two days before the Presidential election.
He was six feet three inches in height, erect, with fine gray hair, blue eyes, of graceful and dignified deportment, and of great courtesy, especially to women and children.
He held a few simple beliefs with undoubting faith.

He submitted himself to the rule of life which followed from these, and rigorously exacted obedience to it from all for whom he was responsible.

He accepted the exposition of Christian doctrine given by Dr.Channing.

The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 seemed to him a nearly perfect system of government.
He earnestly resisted, in the Convention of 1820, the abolition of the property qualification for voters, and of the obligation of all citizens to be taxed for the support of religious worship.
He took early and deep interest in the temperance reform, and gave much time, labor, and money to promote it.

"The strength and beauty of the man," says Mr.Emerson, "lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which in manhood and in old age, after dealing all his life with weighty private and public interests, left an infantile innocence of which we have no second or third example,--the strength of a chief united to the modesty of a child.