Died on
Sunday Oct. 18; General SAMUEL RING-
GOLD of Washington County, in the 60th year of his
age. His remains were interred at Fountain Rock,
attended by his mourning relatives and sincere friends,
and a respectable assembled of his fellow citizens.
General Ringgold was too well known in Maryland
to need any eulogium - He possessed a warm and ge
nerous heart, and his noble mind rose above every
thing that was mean - He was a Republican in grain,
a Republican of the Jefferson stamp, and the prime
of his life was devoted to the service of his Country
to the cause of Mankind. His services too were
purely disinterested, he never asked for; - he never
enjoyed, any offices, but those conferred on him by
the people. - In the senate of Maryland he aided in
the great work of reforming the Judiciary, and in ob
taining the right of universal suffrage for all hi fel-
low citizens; and in Congress he was one of those
who zealously advocated the Declaration of War a
gainst Great Britain in 1812, and che faithfully sustain-
ed the administration during that trying time, and
held his seat until peace was proclaimed.
He has gone the way of all flesh, the way we must
all go. His memory will long be cherished by those
he loved, and friendship will long lament his loss,
for if ever a man deserved the sacred title of Friend,
it was Samuel Ringgold; and whoever may hereaf
ter visit his grave, they can say, with truth - here
rests the Friend of Liberty - the Foe of Tyranny -
the Friend of his Country - the Friend of Mankind.
Maryland Gazette, 22 October 1829.