The standard of merit and social distinction there has not been the possession of wealth or the inheritance of ancestral fame. It has been adjusted by personal worth and uprightness of character. The county of Macon and the neighboring country was settled by enterprising immigrants from all of the old thirteen States. and their children are Americans in the best sense of that high calling. Mr. THOmpSON was born of a parentage that had no special claims to distinctions in talents or letters or in public service. and no property that had not been earned by honest industry. and no accomplishments that were not the simple but beautiful decorations of pure and virtuous lives. and no religion that could not have an altar in every respectable home and a controlling influence for good in every action and emotion.
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