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Those who could once claim him as a fellow Townsman may on the holy Sabbath cast their eyes to his pew in the Church in hopes of meeting his, But alas; instead of his smiling countinance they behold the afflicted Widow & three orphan children weeping for the loss of a husband, a father, little did the wife & the children think when she & they parted with the husband & the father at the threshold of the door of their then happy dwelling when bidding adieu for only a short lasting time they supposed to one dearer to them than their own lives that they were bidding him farewell forever on Earth & that they should be called so soon to mourn his untimely exit. Yet so it is. Let us sympathize with them for their loss which we in common with them feel to be great.

Yes Sir the Bright & morning Star of Lincoln has set & we see not another in her horizon that would fill the space lately occupied by the missing orbit. It arose in unclouded splender & cast its brilliancy over the American[?] great national Hall till Saturday the 23d ult when it set to rise no more, & now New England mourns; one of her bright & Blooming flowers had been cruelly plucked from her nursery in the national Garden. let her Mourn till her affliction can be borne no longer, so that it may prove her Salvation,