Show Henan on DeathBed Recantations Recanta-tions What would be a source of deo > lation to me would be to bare to r through one of those periods of disintegration dis-integration in which a man who ha had strength and virtue is but the shadow and the wreck of his former self and often to the delight of fools destroye the labor ous structure of his life Such 11 old age is the worst gift the gth can confer on man and if such a fate be In store for me I protest beforehand be-forehand against the weakness which softening of the brain migb induce me to commit or to sots sot-s ibe It is Kenan sound in bra and heart as I now am not Bent balf decomposed by death as should be were I to molder slow out of existence whom I wIsh peP < to hear and believe I protest again and repudiate beforehand the bfc pheraies which the darkness of ffJ last hour might wrest from n against the Eternal I |