Excerpt from The American Patriot: An Eulogy, Delivered on Occasion of the Funeral Obsequies of Hon. Henry Clay, in the City of Detroit, July 13, 1852 Tidings of woe, on the lightning's wings, have spread over our land! Pangs of grief are felt from the heart to the extremities of this great Confederacy! And here, WE throng this temple, fellow citizens, to mingle in the general lamentation. An idol of the people has fallen from the shrine of Liberty. The living embodi ment of that pure patriotic Spirit, whose clarion voice, like bugle sounds, for half a century ever heard in times of peril and distress, has ceased to breathe! Henry clay has been numbered with the dead! What a heavy wave of sorrow has this event rolled over the breast of this American people A mighty nation groans, and, assuming the habiliments of woe, befitting the obsequies of a loved and honored leader, enters the house of god to indulge the gushing sorrows of its bleeding heart. What crowds of solemn reflections meet us here! How painful do we feel their pressure Yet is it well for us, fellow citizens, to tarry for a sea son in this Sanctuary and ponder on the mournful event. 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.