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DOMESTIC. PHILADELPHIA, May 10.Died, at Philadelphia,May ioth, half after u o'clock laft night, Gen. Stephens Thompson Mason, one of the Senators reprefentative of the ftate of Virginia, in the Congrefs of the United States. General Mafon had arrivedin this citv on Tuefdav laft for medical• ■»afiiftance in a dropfical complaint; bur. the difeafe had arrived at too malignant a ftate to fnbmit to the Ikill of the faculty, or the power of medicine.it requires faculties and virtues equal to thofe which have diftinguilhed his honorable life, to render jufticc to the character ol this man of men. In his lofs his councry fuffcrs in common with his family, for to both was his public and his private life devoted. In fecial life,, as the faithful hufband, the affectionate parent, and the unchangeable friend—in public the intrepid alferter of his country’s liberties, and the punciples of the. revolution of 1776. Blefftd by Heaven with a benignant and generous fpirit— favored by education with all the endow’-tr,ents which give genius dignity ; wire-, ther in the trying hour of political conflict and perfection, or in the calm of liberty refeued from deftruflion, he ha.r alike commanded the rcfpfclt;ft of his adver--faries, and the incrcafing efteem of his friends.Few men have patTed through trying times with greater dignity and refolu-tion, ani none with more ktninefs even to thofe who.n he oppfted. His hoftili-ty was not the war of ’.ailicc but of a generous patriot; h s It rife though at was vigKjjj, w 13 nooie, and even hen it: co fto 1 11:1 hi; oui'VK in tdc blaze o' Y ! • 1 ‘h; f*uui
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Augusta Chronicle and Gazette Of The State
Augusta, Georgia, US
Sat, Jun 04, 1803
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