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Rt a rising from a setting sun. 'I have,' said he, 'often and often in
the course of the session and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as
to its issue looked at that behind the president without being able to
tell whether it was rising or setting; but now at length I have the
happiness to know that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.'" It was,
however, the setting sun for Franklin. The few years that remained to
him were peaceful and noble; but his old maladies increased on him,
until at the last he was confined to his bed. Yet through it all he
showed the same untiring energy. He wrote against the study of the
classics, against the abuse of the liberty of the press, and from his
very deathbed sent out a stinging letter against slavery. The end was
come: at eleven o'clock at night, April 17, 1790, he passed away.
Philadelphia knew that she had lost her most distinguished citizen, and
he was followed to the grave by a procession including all that was
honorable in the city. In closing this brief Life of a great and good
man we cannot do better than quote the words sent to him by America's
greatest citizen: "If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired
for talent, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for
philanthropy, can gratify the 
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