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Thomas Morris

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Day
12
Month
May
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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The sudden death of the lamented Thomas Morris is frcsh in the memories of our readers. Dr. Brisbane recently pronounced a eulogy upon himat Cincinnati, from which the following facls are gathered: At the age of fourteen he made a full hand in the harvest field. At sixleen he shouldered liis rifle against the Indianson the frontiers of Virginia and Pennsylvania. Al scventeen he served in Capt. Lewis Morgan's company of Ward Rangers, stationed in the wilderness, in what is now the eastern part of Ohio. At nineteen (about the year 1795,) he became a resident of Columbia, in this county, se ven years before Ohio became a State. He wns atthattimea clerk in the store of John Smith, afterwards one of the firstappointedU. S. senators from Oiiio. In 1797 he married the lady who is now his widow, and about three years afier that settled in Clerrnont county. - In 1802 he commenced Ihe study oflaw with few books, and without a preceptor, and the next year was admitted to the bar. In 1800 he was elected a representative to the Ohio legislflture, and in 1809 was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of this State, to fill out an unexpired term. The next year he was re-elected lo the legislature, and he continued to be sent either to the House or Senate, till 1832, when he was elected U. S. senator for six years. In 1838-9 he made his great speech in the Senate of the United States, in reply to Mr. Clay on the slavery 1 tion, and was discarded by his party. - In 18-11 hc was nominated by the Liberty party as its vice presidential candidate, and re-nominated for the same ofllco in 1844. H;s death iook place just after the election, December 7, 1844, from apoplexy; and his last words wcre, 'Lord have mercy upon me!"

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Signal of Liberty
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