Excerpt from Eulogy on William Henry Harrison, Late President of the United States: Delivered Before the Citizens of New-Bedford, April 27, 1841 Ample as was General Harrison's capacity for the highest trusts, it Was not chiefly because of extraordinary wisdom in' council, or skill in arms, that our country deemed him worthy of peculiar respect, but because men believed that they had found in him one, who had a higher law than mere selfish ambition and self-aggrandize ment; because, his life showed, that in whatever stat1on he was placed he was governed in it, by a highminded integrity and a disinterested patriotism; because he had practised on that maxim whichhe so eloquently enforces in his celebrated and admirable letter to Bolivar, that to be eminently great one mu'st'be eminently good. In briefly reviewing his long and varied career, I would therefore especially dwell on such incidents as may il lustrate those high moral qualities, which distinguished him throughout his life, and for which he should be remembered now that he is one. 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.