Excerpt from An Eulogium on the Late Hon. Theodore Gaillard: One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, and Formerly a Chancellor of South Carolina, Delivered, Agreeably to Appointment, in St. Michael's Church, May 19, 1829

The office of sketching an outline of his striking characteristics has been assigned to one who ear nestly wishedto see it in hands, nearer to and asso ciated with his meridian. The colleagues of his zenith, could more amply jand justly recount his rise and ascent. To them it wouldbe but a remin iscence of scenes and things, that like the fashion ofthe world, have been shifting and passing away. To such it would be but a retrospectiveglance'at the parts of our history in which they themselves had been actors, - at periods and events during which they too had flourished and figured. The office to be sure, confided to Whom it may, is amelancholy one; but melancholy as it is, the dis-0 charge of it may be accompanied with some salu tary effects and animating reflections. It reminds those, of a similar age, that it is the season for preparation, and that they should bury their colli sions before they themselves are inurned. What were before objects only of incidental thought, might be brought closer to their observance. They might he induced to contemplate What should, and what ought, and what they expe'ct and hope to be said of them when they also shall be gone, and the places they fill shall know them no more. It may he an excitement to Some who have latterly hazarded a stake at renown, to recollect that their desire to be remembered can be gratified only by exeruons m something worthy of remembrance.

It is not, fellow-citizens, as an idle matter of course, and 'tolavish praises on the character of the deceased, (whose loss many of us deplore, and some n e know bitterly and irreparably feel, ) that; We have now been called together. It is not un meaningly to hear panegyrized in general extrava gance, qualities and usefulness which in some par ticulars, or m various degrees, are distinguishable in many (but only of the gifted order of our spe cies, ) that you have been invited on this occasion.

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