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Description: Obituary.
Date: July 4 1850Newspaper published in: Washington, DC
Page/Column: Page 106
Obituary.
Died, in Albany, after a long illness, JULIUS R. AMES, well known throughout the country as a stanch friend of the Anti-Slavery cause. His death occurred on the 5th instant, and he was followed to the grave by a large circle of friends, who will long hold him in fond remembrance. A more amiable person, or one upon whose life there rested fewer of those stains which are produced by the vices of avarice or ambition, we have never known. Nor were his good qualities merely negatives. An active sympathy with misfortune and misery, in all their forms, was the characteristic of his nature and the law of his life. Though a lover of philosophy, the studies in which he found most pleasure were those which had some connection with the amelioration of society. His principles not less than his impulses were all on the side of humanity. His house and his heart were ever open to the friendless and the helpless. And what fortune he possessed was all expended for the good of others.