Report of the committee of arrangements of the Common Council of New York, of the obsequies in memory of the HonHenry Clay . The body remained in the Governors room during thenight and throughout the next day (Sunday, July 4th, theseventy-sixth anniversary of American Independence.)The inhabitants of this city, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh,Hoboken, Staten Island and other places adjacent to NewYork, availed themselves of this opportunity of renderingtheir mite to the general sorrow of the nation, and testify-ing their love, admiration and respect of the illustriousdead, and to take a final look at
Report of the committee of arrangements of the Common Council of New York, of the obsequies in memory of the HonHenry Clay . The body remained in the Governors room during thenight and throughout the next day (Sunday, July 4th, theseventy-sixth anniversary of American Independence.)The inhabitants of this city, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh,Hoboken, Staten Island and other places adjacent to NewYork, availed themselves of this opportunity of renderingtheir mite to the general sorrow of the nation, and testify-ing their love, admiration and respect of the illustriousdead, and to take a final look at the coffin wherein is con-fined all that remains of the once great man of the nation !There he lay, on the very spot where, a few years ago, hestood proudly erect, affable, and self-possessed—the pleasedand pleasing recipient of a peoples homage—admiringwomen crowding the levee, happy to grasp his hand, and 47 0bs&(]i|ies of little girls pressing onward to snatch a kiss from Lio ven-erable lips. On that very spot—lifeless and wasting—en-cased in iron cerements—there reposed all that remainedof the great,
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