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BY WILLIAM S. JONES.
CHRONICLE & BKNTINEL.
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Are alto pabllsbe I at thia office, and mailed to aabacrlben
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uent Insertion.
UNIVERSITY Os NABHVILLE.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
mgRE SECOND AN NT AI. COUBBK Ok LECTURES
J# in th - Department will couiruenee on the ttr*t Mom.at
ok Xovfcwuriit i« xt, ami umthiue till the first of the ensuing
March.
PAi L V EVE, 31 D., Principle* an»l Practice of gar
eery JOHN M. WATSON, M. D., Obstetrics and the
eo mm! Children. A. 11. BUCHANAN,
M. D., ; i jr :al and Anatomy and Physiology.
\V. K. DoVVLINO, M. D., Institutes and Practice of Merl*
icir:<. 'I. WINSTON, M. D-, Materia Medica and Med
'-'*• t" M I'IUM M. I).. fieri
erul and .special Anatomy. J. BERRIEN LINDS LEY. M.
D , Uhemlrti-y .rut Pharma cf. WILLIAM T. BRIGGS,
M. !>., Demorirtrauir of Anatomy. •
Th*- An it iinical Rooms will Ihs opened for Students on the
tlr«t Monday of October. The Students will have access
to th»- State Uocnital. •
A full J'lvllmhuiry Couth of lectures will be given by
ihe ‘ ( , commencing also on the first Monday of
October. •
Fee of f ch Professor, |ls. Matriculation ticket, $5;
.fog ticket, $10; Graduation fee, $25.
Gu . I ! ot rd r.m be obtained in the city at from $2,50 to
per week. Further information may be obtained by ad
drettdn# tin Dean.
J, R. LINDS LEY, M. D., Dka*.
Nashville, Tenn., June, 1852. jy l«w4t
NOTICE.
U A YAW AY from the subscriber’s Plantation m*
in W>ikin*on county, S miles west of Irwinton, JW
on the night of the titti just., my two Negro Fellows,
LKVI unt AHA. Lovi is about 22 years old, 0 feel 2 *>dL
Inch.'' high, and well net; h-»n a cheerful and pleiisant
oount« naii -« , mid Is quite intelligent; can write, and will
pronably travel with a pass of his own coining; is quite
black, and b a knot about the sfse of a Partridge egg on
one of his I- i?h,o» ’h outride, just above the knee.
Asa is about 2 1 y < ars old, 5 feet ft inches high, chunky
and well built; hub • quite dark ; full African blood.
They were both rahe I in Oreetie county, Noriflßarolina,
and brought to this Plate by a trader last they
will doubt!' -* endeavor to make their way baaAthere, as
Levi, the }• i-ler, has bo for# tills made ati efforlß the kina.
A flis ril reward v:i Ibe paid for the apprehension and
delivery to me of said Negroes, or cither of them, or their
confinement in any safe Juii eo that l get them.
JOHN M. WARE.
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARB REWARD.
RAYA WAY from toe subscriber, about the #
first of May last, my Negro Woman, ANNE, a jffh
bright mulatto, about HO years of age. 1 will give
thoabove reward for her apprehension and delivery —jLSL
to me, with proof to convict any responsible white person
o? huvlitg harbored her, or given her a pas*—or Five Dol
lar* for her delivery to me without such proof.
Augusta, June 12. J«lß*dtwAwlw A. STEVENS.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
GIRARD HAIL HOAD.
SKAI.KD I’llOl’OSAl.H will be receivedat the Fngi
noer’s office of the Girard Uni) Road, at Cottbus, Ga.,
till tlie I.lth of July, ISM, for the building ami superslruc-|
uro of that portion of the road extending from Girard to'
Dry Uraurli, a distance of twenty-twomlleti.
Thli work Includes two Jirni rUiea treette Ilridges, one
across (ta-radc llrnurh, three hundred feet, the other
across Ucheo Creek, one thousand feet.
Contractors will state what proportion of the Stock of the
Company a ill lie taken In payment. Drawings and speci
fications of the a ark may he seen from the that to the fif
teenth July, Inclusive.
J!y order of the President anil Directors.
EDGAR E. HEItrOT,
pdil-wtjylh Principal Ass’t. Engineer.
to ruitmk.
Till' fel liMTlflllilt would respectfully Inform Plant
ers, that he furnishes
SMALL GRIST MILLS,
Suitable to he attached to Gin Gears, of different slice,
and or dlHerint patterns ht tlie lowest prices.
These Mills have given tile highest satisfaction, and can
be compared with any from the North.
Please givo us a call before buying elsewhere.
\VM. It. SCIfIRMER.
Rat i* Mill Stone Mnnufiicturer, Augusta, Ga. JaU-ly
NOTICE.
DU. ill- VIIV BACON having transferred his Interest
in the firm of D. It. PLUMB & CO., to Dr. I. IV
GARVIN, tlie undersigned will continue the DRUG BUSI
NESS at tlm iciesf stand and under the same firm nume,
and will close up use business of tho old firm.
D. B. PLUMB,
I. P. OAHVIN.
Augusta, January 81st, 1 S.V2. fel
iVilSlf! oiINS!
On Mclntn ih elreft, two doors from Georgia Railroad
Jin it i\
J I’NT RECEIVED, per steamer Africa, the largest
and be-t assortment of ENGLISH GUNS ever oiler
• 1 In tills city, comprising every variety, from Lmdon and
Birmingham ’makers, at Ibe lowest rates fur cash.
Double and Single Barrelled GUNS, all sires anil prices.
A line assortment of Single and Double Barrelled UUNB
or bovs.
BULKS and Double GUNS, of my own make, one barrel
Ride mid tho other Eliot, a flue article for hunting dear and
1 "colts’; Allen’s, and other REVOLVERS; also Single bar
relic,l, Self Cooking and Rifle PISTOLS, east steel barrels.
common Pistols, nil kinds ; Percussion CAPS, of Wester
y Richard's, Cox’s u iiter proof, W alker's anilG. D. Trench,
and Military Caps. _____
A great variety of PoVdor FLASKS, Shot BELTS, and
Game BAGS, of the finest Patterns.
Aim, Wash Rods* Drinking Flusks and Cups, Nipple
Wrenches, Pocket Compasses, Screw Drivers, fine large
hunting llorns, and everything In the Spurting line.
Being a practical Gun Maker myself, and having these
ant. S ramie mmy order, expressly for this market, persons
l.nvh « '.dl gel a much bettor articles Ilian is sold at the Hard
ware k 'Wi , and at equally low prices, and all warrant
ed to shi.-ot well.
p order ,-ml Shot, Wholesale and Retail, all varieties.
N II —qfFLES made to order, and all kinds of Repair
ncamiiv.-i..,•kingGUNS, done iu the best manner and
warranted. oHMy E. IL ROGERS.
XLEUEEN XtiCH’6 PATENT CENTXtE VENT WA
TER WHEEL.
CVI TlON.—Having been informed that a certain per
son named Itcnn, is rending a Water Wheel upon
which the water Is conducted by means of u splrlal scroll, as
upon Reuben Rich's “Patent Centre Vent," we hereby notify
.■out caul ion tlie public, that we will prosecute, In all In
stances for miy evasion ur Infringement upon said patent,
I,oth the maker and party using, ami will be thankful for
any information referring us to parties (bus trespassing.
UINDU AT »t .CO.
Montpum#»y, Ala., Jum 11, IS3O, Jt?2l *tf
THE MONTGOMERY MANUFACTURING COM
PANY'S IKON WORKS.
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.
M\.\l I'ICTIRK, in suuerlor stylo, Horlauntal and
Upright i-TI'AM ENGINE*, of »ll sixes; Steam
llOli Kits ; LOCOMOTIVES ; Ouat Iron WATER WIIKBL8;
hug u- MILIjS ; have mid Grist Mill IRONS, of every varle
tv (Including llnxle'scntitlnuoua foet for Saw Mill";) En
gine and liandLATUES; lion Md llreusCAliTl.W, of all
kinds, Ac., Ao.
All orders lilted with despatch.
«i'- ' GINDRAT ACO.
IMPORTANT TO MILL OWNERS AND MANU
F ACtO It LIIS.
fa r.V u'M//it/uwemrtif fn W<tUr
Till. sil'HStillUKlW are sole Mums for Baking and
fending the bos. - Water Wheel in th« world, known as
Vandewater's W aier Wheal. Wo challenge the World to
produce its equal. It ha* but recently been Introduced to
the public, end so und to be far In advance of all other
vihei-s, b.tii In newer and ecoaeiaiv iu water, every drop be
ing effectin', and nano wasted. This Wheel to not in the
least affected by hack water. As we prefer them being
I laced below '.ail water iu every hustauct, consequently we
s.-t every Inch of head ; they belli* entirely of east Iron,
1. and.' id construction, are not liable to get oaf of order,
no,.'ere mure durable than any wheel uaw iu use. We
line reoenlly put one in operation for George Schley,
K«1. a,' his Helville cotton factory, to whom we would give
r eferenee Bee certificate annexed.
All ordei T tor Wheels or Territorial Righto, will meet with
attention bv addressing the subscribers.
attention by- JAGGRR, TREADWELL A PERRY.
Albany, New York.
Or to their Agenl. J. 3. Kiamt, August*.
rcaaTirn-iTi.l
Acoucta, Ga., March 84,1581.
J«c,-e- Treadwell A Perry—Gentlemen : —I have the
gratification of informing >«’ that your Vandewater Wheel
was nldly put iu oiieihiUon at my factory last week,
:,"l it'woikcd to perfeetton. <l* s-impltctty. durability, and
uniformity of spoil, are recomtu-widatlou. ahuie; huUbove
all, Us highest encomium is the entail quantity of water it
takes as compared with other wheels. I hare been using
ono t.r Reuben Klch'e Centre 'cut Wheels, of three feet
and a halt' diameter, and eleven Inch bucket, the discharge
openings measuring 400 inches. I displaced that and put
n our of voiivsef sis feet diameter, with discharge open
nga nicasur ~g NO Inches, and your wheel run the same
amount of um. Innery that the Rich Who*.* ha»l thriven, ana
here w as a dith renee in favor of your* of *“*« “
he depth of water in the UU race. I fed no jariitutuin in
ccmv.n.'ndiiig yoar wheel to all manufacturer* aud iniu
wile s, beliet dig it is tlie greatest wheel of the ago. !' “»•
you success in the tntradocton of so valuable an
revtmcni, 1 main, icry respectfully, vonrs, Ac,
ml.'.* i-*l v GKO ROE SCHI.KT. j
i o:: lanr to .maxukai'TL’UKßS.
rpllK M tlriC'HimiHS are prepared to supply all
VTi’miN AND WOOLEN MACHINERY,
of a .U«n« M ud.tv, SHAFTING and MILL GEARING,
,si:h in'urovc.i Cwipllng aud Pulleys, Self-Oiling Hangers
•hk*h require oiling only once iu three months); LOOMS,
. y e, .a variety of Patterns, for Fancy and Twilled Goods,
* n ne to K c‘u*<vn Shuttles; also,fbr Gcxxla, capa*
. ,* ruuninj; from K>o to I*o pick* per minute.
Via ct n .MvJ, from their extensive improvement*, to
rrovluc - V\KNS anl OOOm*. with coaiparHtirelj little
at>or • * t *'i Manufacturers, before purchasing their Ma
hit rv « 'U .Jo well to visit Phiiadel?>hia and vicinity,
where thw the Machinery with all the latest iu
ir.tv i ir» N i t f«U .•»«! successful operation; or they can
br rvfviTv.l t > I'uctorlt > in almost every State S»>uth and
West, by add racing a Uue to the Subscribers.
* * AI.KRKD JKNKS * SON,
Fet> ISM. fe*b-ty Kri.it'sbnrjf, near Philulelphia.
> {* ; i:\ctoriet,wlv>the facatkmof Machinery,
he simpvt incthvxl of driving, and calculation of **-peed,
f urnished five of eharw.
AUGUSTA FRENCH BDRB MILL STONE HAND
factory.
THE suhN-riber, thankhil for the kind patron Age heretofore
extended to the lute firm ol Bcauum A W:«*»p. would
respectfully inform his Mend* and the public, that ho eontin
ue» to execute enior* fitr his wed known Wamtntixl '.'r.nvh
ItURR MILL inX>SF3,of every deJrahle *iae, at the lowwt
twice an.! shortest not* e. He uko furnlshre
‘ FSOITS and COLOGNE bWNEg,
EMI T MACHINES, of various patterna,
BOLTING CLOTHS, of the best brand,
CEMENT, tor MiU use.
And every other artida nece«-.iry In a Min.
Aleo, for I'iautcrs, -oiaii GRIST MlLlgs to attach to Gla
Gears. , ..
A!1 order, pumiptly aUrndcxi
JalSwtf Parvirinr partnw of Schirtncr A Wlgand.
* liKHT ETIHAI. IMPLAf ,
\ JILN rs.—The undsrsigne.l are ■---*
recviving frem the mauufactur- VgNN.
, at the N. rtb,and wHI k.vp con
on Hand a large assortment of the best AGRIt l L
TCRAL IMPLEMENTS to be had in New York or New
l-' igbunl, or this cite, and adapted to Southern Husbandry,
•*** .hey wUlKdl’low forc^ ARMICUAI;L * BEAN.
Aucufta, Georgia. ____________
NOTICE.
VI. I. PEBSONS are Hereby warned not to trade for
either „f to o prombeory NOTES given by me to Har
rison Mu-grove, or lamer, or orU r, for One Thousand and
Sixty-two Dollars each, <late>l on the loth Oct., l»il, and
psvOile with interest freim date, one ami two years there
after. I t»h.vll nut pav «ud notes, as the coosKlcraUon for
whieU they were given ha* fail*!. p WAfMa
Athens. May 81st. 1554.
IxOB Ski Is
1 ofiU bhdt. BACON ;
bS “ SUGAR;
NWbhls AVHISKEY: .
190 “ I'LOUR;
In Store and for tale, on 4 and S mouth* time, with approv
ad security- lel-wrf t JOHN KERR
on. CLOTHS.
AI BHO * HOYT, Nos. and T 4 John street. New
York. Manufacturers and Dealers In Oil CVuha, exclusive
ly. At Ui«r Facfories are turned out (.under a patent pro-
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS,
Which for beante of design and elegance of finish, snrpam
any thing of the kind hitherto produced in this country or in
Europe, and for which they obtained the prim medal at the
World’s Futr.
Atiheir Ware-rooms In New York, c»n be found a large
and complete assortment of Henry Medium, and thin Floor
Ofi Cloths, from 37 Aches to 43 feet wide.; also Table, Fur
phure. and Carriage OB Cloths.
>•» Vark. <l*
1852. PROSPECTUS 1852.
OF Till
MTIRI CULTIVATOR
VOLUME X, FOR 1852.
Dr. D.IYIEL LEE, TD. BED9O.TD,
Knirog. | Awntant Eorroß.
TEEMS.—ONE DOLLAR A TEAR Qf ADVANCE
The SomiEKN Ccltivatob i. Untied every month,
»nd in exclusively devoted t« Agriculture, Horti
culture, Floriculture, Domestic end Farm Economy,
Tillage and Husbandry, the Breeding and Eairing
of Domestic Animals, Poultry and Bee., and the
genera! routine of Southern liantingand Fanning.
* Tile new volume for 1852, will be issued on aroval
octavo sheet of 82 pages, with NEW TYPE. FINE
PAPER, AND BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS!
It will contain a much greater amount of matter
than heretofore—will tfiseuna a greater variety of
topics, and will be in every respect the bast Agri
ccltirai. I’apxk is the South! and equal to any in
the Union!
Friends of Southern Agriculture! I
A* the (tcLTivATon was the Frmrr journal established
in the Cotton Growing States, exclusively devoted
to the interest* of the Planter; and as it has ever
been an earnest and consistent advocate of those
interests, we confidently hope that, having foetcred
and sustained it thus cordial and generona
support will still be coutmiicd.
J'i.antlbs, Fakmkhs, Gakounkrs, Farir Growers,
Stock Rameim, Ncr-kp.vmkn, and all connected in
any way with the cultivation of the soil, will find the
Honnr.R* CcLTrvAToB replete with now and valuer
ble information; and richly worth ten times the
rifling sum at which it is alforded.
TERMS OF THE CULTIVATOR :
ONE copy, one year, ::::::: $ 1.00
SIX copies, :::::: t : i : 5.00
TWELVE copies, : : : : : i : i 10.00
TWENTY-FIVE copies, :::::: $20.00
FIfTY copies, : : : :::::: 87.50
ONE HUNDRED copies, : : : : : i TS.OC
ALWAYS IN ADVANCE
%%T Gentlemen who obtain subscriptions, will
please forward them as early as possible.
JSF’AU bills of specie payi.no Banks received at
par—and all rnoucy sent by mail will be at our
I riait.
W. S. JONES, Publisher.
Anfrusta, Ga., January 1,1652.
SI,OOO REWARD.
DR. 11l .YTKII’H celebrated SPECIFIC, for the car#
of Gonorrhoea, Stricture*, Gleet and Amtlagous Com
plaint* of the Organ* of Generation.
f>s Os ail remedies yet discovered for the above com
plaint, this in the most certain.
It make* a speedy and permanent cure without re
striction to diet, drink, exposure, or change of application
to buKinea*.
tftr It i* perfectly harmlce*. Gallon* of it might be
taken without injuring the patient.
r«r It in put up in bottle?, with full direction* accom- I
punying it, so that person* can cure themselves without re
sorting to physician* ot other* for advice.
One bottle is enough to perform a certain cure. Price sl.
X'tT' It is approved and recommended by the K#yxl
College of Physicians and Surgeons of London and has
their certificate enclosed.
tST It i* sold by appointment in Augusta, Ga., by
PHILIP A. MOIBK,
Under the new Augusta Hotel, and by W. H. L J. TURPIN.
Ord#M from the country promptly attended to. Je'J
GLENDINNING & CO S
M A KRIaK WOHKft, Broad street, Augusta, Georgia,
Where we have on hand and will continue to keep a
large stock of both Italian and American Marble, for
.Monument*, Toombs, Head tttones, Ac., to which wc res
pectfully call the attention of those wanting work In our
ine. we arc now prepared to fill all orders at short no
tice, in as good style and as low a* work of the same quality
can be furnished for from any establishment in the United
fttatc*. Plans and prices will b« sent thos# who cannot call
and examine for themselves.
P. 8. —Orders from the country executed with neatness
and despatch. d 27
\\7 ITII TIIK permission of the writer, we publish the
v ▼ following letter, that we may show the great efficacy
of TtJTT’ft COMPOUND EXTRACT OP SARSAPARILLA.
JackhonviLlb, Fla.,* May 21st, 1652.
Dr. Wm. H. Tctt— Dear Sir— lt Is with great pleasure
that I comply with my promise, when in Augusta, to in
form you what effect* your Extract of Sarsaparilla had ou
my disease.
It is at all times pleasant to testify to the good qualities
of any body or any thiug, that wc know to be meritorious,
but, far more so, when we can speak of a remedy which
ha* rid u» of a disease, which divested iff* of all comfort.
On my passage to this place I suffered very much : the
pains in iny limbs were at time* so severe that I could not
sleep for whole nights, the swelling of th# Innies increased,
and I must confess that I would have thrown your prepara
tion aside had you not recommended it, with so much con
fidence. I perse\ ored, and when I had finished the second
bottle, the pains began to grow less severe, the swellings to
go down, and my appetite and strength began to returd.
1 have taken the half dozen bottles, and I cunalder myself
perfectly restored, and can walk five miles with less fa
tigue, than I could a half, before. I shall ever be grateful
to you, and you have my permission to make this public,
in order that any who have suffered so much as I have,
from the imprudence# of youth, may know wher# to find
relief. Believe me your sincere friend.
Jm*-dAw4 (higned) F. THORNTON.
THE CHEROKEE~BPRINGBr
» Will open on ths\*t. of July.
rpUKftK bold Chalybeate* rise from the solid rock /Sk
1 at the base of Taylor’* Ridge, only X mile from JfjjH
Col. Ramsey’s Platform, on the State Road, and 2 miles from
Ringgold. They were held in high repute by the Chero
kee*, for their truly medicinal properties, and ar* now
gratefully acknowledged by those who have experienced
their benefits. They are situated in a high and healthy
region, and their contiguity to the platform renders them
easily accessalile. Hacks will attend duly the arrivsl of
'the cars. Board cheap. J. G. PENIBTON.
Walker county, Ga., June 1,1852. Jo4-w4t
ALL Executor*, AilinluitUratora anil Guardians, are
hereby notified, that on failure to present their ac
counts, with Estate* they represent, within the time pre-,
scribed by Uw (Ist July,) Rule# NI. fli. will necessarily issue
indispensable to my duty.
S. CRAWFORD, Ordinary.
Columbia county, G«., June ft, 1852. w 8
JCE. ICE, ICE.
THE ELLIS STREET ICE COMPANY have com
raenced receiving their supply of ICE, which is unu
sually Inrge, now offer it at the p*me prices as heretofore,
viz: At Retail, 8 cents per pound; or by the |5 worth,
Tickets 2X cents; at which price# not lees than 2 pounds
of Ice will be sold at a time.
At Wholesale, to Hotels, Bar Rooms, Soda Fountains, und
other large consumers, by S2O worth, Ticket* at 2 cents, for
which not Less than 20 pounds of lee will be delivered at a
time. Term* Cash on delivery.
All ord#rt from the Country, directed to A. DEAN, Agent
Ellis Street Ice Company, Augusta, will receive prompt at
tention. Rack age# ami blanket* furnished at customary 4
prices, and the lo# carefully packed, to be sent by rail road
if desired.
The House will be open from sunrise till sunaet, and on
the&ihbath from 7 o’clock until 10 o’clock, A. M., and from
12 o’clock until 2, P. M. Ticket* may be purchased from
the Agent, Mr. A. DEAS, at the Ice House.
apl7-dlwAwtJyl
NOTE LOST.
IONT OR BTOLEN, from me in Burke .mmwtilLUU
J county, a POCKET BOOK, containing a
Note of One Hundred and Ten Dollar*, dated
October 11,1851, mode by Michael King, pay-
able to Timothy Donovan. I forewarn all persons against
trading for said Note. ja2o ts TIMOTHY DONOVAN.
LOOfc HEBE.
'■pins HriIBCKIRP.II offer, for Sale tto RKSIDKNCE
J. in Roswell, Cobb county, furnished thoroughly. Ther#
arc ft Acres of Land attached to the house, all under good
fences—with all necessary out-buildings. The house is one
of the best finished and most desirable in the Cherokee
country. Roswell Is 18 miles from Marietta, and is consid
ered, both on account of its society and location, ono of the
Uio&t delightful In the State. Also, a fine Farm, containing
between and 400 acre* of Land, (about 200 cleared,) a
well finished s»rl comfortable House, with suitable out
building*, together every thing necessary to carry on
the farm, which is now under cultivation. The above will
be sold together or separately, aud possession given os soon
as desired. Pur further particulars, enquire of
ft*4-lawd£wtf ROBERT A. LEWIS, Savannah.
PHILIP A. MOISE,
* JMPOUTOK AND DIALS! IN ft
DILUG* and MEDICINES, PAINTS, OIU,
dyS wrong, window glass, brush- is
KS, PKKrtm'P-Y, PATENT MEDICINES, 43
INSTRUMENTS, Ac., Ac.
J Vo. 19ft Brottrt Strc+t, im4er V* Augusta Hotel.
Ha* now on hand a very large Stock of above articles,
which arc offered for sale at very low prices, a.ul on accom
modating terms.
XW“ Country Merchants, Fhysiclans and Planters ar#
iuvtu.J to call and examine, before purchasing elsewhere.
Jalfi-w _
D- > PLUMB ft CO.
n ARK rnn.tantly receiving frwh »nd pur. n
iffiMviiicinv., Clu-micala, Choice perfumery, 8M
Ym Toilet Article. Ac., at their tMtahliMuiu-.it LB
Lif. tM tireen C. It. Hotel and Post Office corner.
Medicines carefully dispensed at all hours, by catling at Mr.
Homes’, corner Greco and Mclntonsh stress n9B
W. H. & I. TURPIN.
(tnx-Bwnns to w. h. namr,
fOPX’FB TO PHYSICIAN.*, Planters, Mer- n
chants, as<l the public at large, a choice amt ipy
well assorted {lock of DRUGS AND MEDI- LB
Cl NO, OHS, PsirTS, DYESTUFFS, Glass £»
and Putty, Brushes of every ascription, Straw Brooms,
Spirlto Turpentine, Ac., Ae.
We purchase our goods for cash, and or. prepared to sell
on the most advantageous terms. Merchants will find It to
their interest tn look at our pricos. All articles warranted
to he what Is represented, fix.com t call aud satisfy your
selves. »dS
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CIOSIMt SITIffiL
THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS,
FIRST BESSION.
DEATH OF THE HON. HENRY CLAY.
IN SENATE, Wednesday, June 80.
Tlie anticipated formal annunciation of the
death of the Hon. Henry Clay brought together an
unusual auditory. Meinbers’of the House of Rep
resentatives intermingled with Senators ; the rep
resentatives of foreign sovereigns paid the tribute
of their presence; Cabinet ministers and heads
| of bureaus, und members of the judiciary, cius-
I tered without the bar. Os the illustrious contem
poraries of the distinguished dead hut few remain;
but one form attracted all eyes —the honorable
Secretary of State, Daniel W ebstor. sat there.
The General-in-Chief of the army, Major General
Scott too, was present. Attorney General Crit
tenden long the colleague of the deceased ; the
Hon. Beverdv Johnson', a contemporary in the
Senate, and one of the Attorney General » prede
cessors ; and numerous others, os eminent for
their eloquence aDd their gonius, there contempla
ted the end of human greatness.
The Chaplain to the Senate, the Rev. C. M.
Butler, in his opening prayer, supplicated for the
living ; but he also alforded Christian consolation
by speaking hopefully of the dead, whose de
clining days were cheered by the Gospel dispensa
tion. •
The Journal having been read—
Mr. Underwood rose and said, Mr. President. I
rise to announce the death of uiy colleague, Mr.
Clav. He died at his lodgings, in the National 110 •
tel of this city, at seventeen minutes past eleven
o’clock vesterday morning, in the seventy-sixth
year of liis age. He expired with perfect compo
sure, and without a groan or struggle.
By his death our country has lost one of its
most ominent citizens and statesmen ; and, Itliink,
its greatest genius. I shall not detain the Senate
bji narrating the transactions of his long and useful
life. His distinguished services as a statesman are
inscperablv connected with the history of his coun
try. As Representative and Speaker in the other
House oflCongress, as Senator in this body, as Secre
tary of State and as Envoy abroad, he has, in all
these positions exhibiteda wisdom and patriotism
which have made a deep-and lasting impression
upon tho grateful hearts of his countrymen. His
thoughts and his actions have already been pub
lished to the world in written biography ; in Con
gressional debates and reports; in the journals of
the two Houses; and in the pages ol American
. history. They have beon commemorated by mon
uments erected on the wayside. They have been
engraven on medals of gold. Their memory will
survive the monuments of marble and the medals
of gold ; for these arc ctVaeed and decay by the
friction of ages. But the thoughts and actions
of my late colleague have become identified with
the immortality of the human mind, and will pass
down from generation to generation as a portion
of our national inheritance incapable of annihila
tion so long as genius has an admirer or liberty a
frioud.
Mr. President, the character of Henry Clay was
formed and developed by the influence of our free
institutions. His physical, mental, and moral fa
culties were the gift of God. That they were
greatly superior to the faculties allotted to most men
cannot be questioned. They were not cultivated
improved, and directed by a liberal or collegiate
education. liis respectable parents wero not
woalthy, and hud not the moans of maintaining
their children at college. Moreover, his father
died whon he was a boy. At an early period-, Mr.
Clay was thrown upon his own resources, without
patrimony. He grew up in a clerk's office in
Richmond, Virginia. lie there studied law. He
emigrated from his native State and settled in Lex
ington, Kentucky, where he commenced tho pra-o
tice of Ilia profession before ho was of full age.
Ttie road to wealth, to honor and fume was open
before him. Under our Constitution and laws
lie hight freely employ his great faculties, unob
stmeted by legal impedimenta, and uuaidod by
exclusive privileges. Very soon Mr, Clay made a
deep and favorable impression upon tlui poople
among whom lie begun bis career. The excellence
of liis natural faculties was soon displayed. Ne- j
cessity stimulated him in their cultivation. His 1
essiduity, skill, and fidelity in professional on- ;
gageinents secured public confidence. He was j
elected member of the Legislature of Kentucky,
is which body be served several sessions prior to
1808. In that year be was elevated to a seat in the
Senate of tho United States.
At the bar and in the Genera] Assembly of Ken
tucky Mr. Clay first manifested those high quali
ties as a public speaker which have secured to him
•o much popular applause and admiration. His
physieal anil mental organization eminently quali
fied him to become a great and impressive orator.
His person was tall, slender, aud commanding.
Histempernmcntardent, fearless and frill of hope,
iiis countenance clear, expressive and variable
indicating the emotion which predominated ut the
moment with exact similitude. Ilia voice cultiva
ted and modulated in harmony with the sentimeut i
hsdoaired to express, fell upon the car like the j
melody of enrapturing music. Uis eye beaming j
with intelligence aud flashing with coruscations of j
genius. His gestures and attitudes graceful and !
natural. These personal advantages won tho pre- l
possessions of an audience, oven before his intel
lectual powers began to move bis bearers ; and
when his strong common bcubc, liis profound rea
soning, his clear conceptions of iiis subject in all
its bearings, and bis striking and beautiful illus
trations, united with such personal qualities, wero
brought to the discussion of any question, ins au
dience was enraptured, convinced and led by the
orator as if enchanted by tlio lyre of Orphe us.
No man was ever blessed by his Creator with
faculties of a higher order of excel once than llioeo
given to Mr, Clay, in tho quickness of his percep
tions, aud the rapidity with which his conclusions
were formod, he had i’ew equals and no superior.
Ho was eminently endowed with a nice discrimina
ting taste for order, symmetry aud hoauty. lie
detected in n moment everything out of place or
deficient ill his room, upon his farm, in his own or
tho dross of others, lie was a skilful judge of the
form and qualities of his domestic auimuls, which
he delighted to raiso on his farm. I could give
you instances of the quickness and minuteness of
his keen faculty of observation which never over
looked anything. A want of neatness and order
was offensive to him. He was particular and neat
in his hand writing and bis apparel. Aslovcnlyblot
or negligence of any sort met his condcittuotiou,
while nc was t o orgaiiizod that ho attcudod to, and
arranged little things to ploaso and gratify his
natural lovo for neatness, order and beauty, bis
great intellectual faculties, grasped all the sub
jects of jurisprudence and polities with a facility
amounting almost to intuition. As u lawyer, he
stood at the head of his profession. As a states
man, his stand at the headof the Republican Whig
party for nearly half a century, establishes his
title to pre-eminence among iiis illustrious associ
ates.
Mr. Clay was deeply versed in all the springs
of human* action. He had read and studied biog
raphy and history. Shortly after I left college, X
had occasion to call on him in Frankfort, where he
was attending court, and well I remember to have
found him with l’lutareh’s Lives in his hands.
No ono better than he knew how to avail himself
of human motives, and all tho circumstances
which surrounded a subject, or could present
them with more force and skill to accomplish tho
object of an argument.
Mr. Clay, throughout his public career, was in
fluenced by the loftiest patriotism. Confident in
the trutii of his convictions and the purity of his
purposes, lie was ardent, sometimes impetuous, in
the pursuit of objects which he believed essential
to the gonerel welfare. Those who stood in his
way wore thrown asido without fear or ceremony.
He never affected a courtier’s deference to men or
opinions which he thought hostile to the best in
terests of iiis country; and lienee he may nave
wounded the vanity ofthoso who thought them
selves of consequence. It is certain, whatever thc
causa, that at one period of his life Mr. Clay might
have beon referred to us proof that there is more
truth than fiction iu those profound linos of tuo
poet—
•• He who seconds the mountain iop m.ad ';:d
Its loftiest peaks most wrapt In clouds anil u>aa ,
He who surpusiee or subdues mankind.
Must look down on the hate of those below,
Though far above, the sun of glory glow.
And far beneath the earth and ocean spread.
Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow
Contending tempests on hie naked head,
Aad thus reward the tails which to those summits lcd.’>
Calumny and detraction emptied their vials upon
him. But how glorious the change 1 He ou.t-li. ed
malice and envy. Ho lived long enough to prove
to the world that his ambition was no more than a
holy aspiration to make his country tho greatest, j
most powerful, aud best goveruod on the earth.—
If he desired its highest olnte, it was because the
greater power and influence resulting from such
elevation would euable him to do more than he
otherwise could for the progress and advancement
—first of his own countrymen, then of the whole
race. His sympathies embraced all. The African
slave, the Creole of Spanish America, the children
of renovated classic Greoco—all families of men,
without reeptet to color or dime, found in bis ex- i
panded bosom and aomprehensive intellect a friend
of their elevation and amelioration. Such ambition
ae that, is God's implautation in the human heart
for raising the down-trodden nations of his earth,
and fitting them for regenerated existence in poli
tics, in morals, and religion.
Bold and determined as Mr. Clay was in ail his
actions, he was. nevertheless, conciliating. He
did notdbstinataly adhere to things impracticable.
If he could not accomplish tits host, he contented
himself with the Highest approach to ii. He has
becu the great compromiser of those political agi
tations and opposing opinions which nave, in the
belief of thousands, at different times, endangered
the perpetuity of our Fed ral Government and
Uni^n.
Mr. Clay was no less remarkable for his admi
rable social qualities than for his ruielbctual abili
ties. As a companion, he was the delight of his
friends; and no man ever had better or truer.—
Thev have loved him from the beginning, and j
loved him to the taut. His-hospitable mansion at i
Ashland wss always open tc their reception. No j
guest ever thence departed without lading happier -
for bis visit. But, alas! that hospitable mansion i
has already been converted into a house ot mourn- 1
ing: already Las intelligence of bis death passed
with electric velocity to that aged and now widow- :
ed ladv who. for more than fifty years, bore to him
all the*endearing relations of wife, and whose lee- j
ble condition prevented her troci joining hiir. iu ;
this eitv, and soothing the anguish of life's last
scene by those endearing attentions which no one
can give so veil M woman and a wife. May God
infuse into her heart wd mind the Christian spirit
of submission under her bereavement'. It cannot
be long before she rnav expect a reunion in heaven.
A nation condoles with her and her children on
account of their irreparable loss.
Mr. Clav, front the nature of his disease, declin
ed very gradually, he L;ro his protracted suffer
ings with great equanimity ani patience. On one
occasion he said to me that when dead, was inevi
table and must soon come, and when the sufferer
wss ready to die, he did not perceive the wisdom
of praviug to Li “delivered from sudden death.”
He thought under suoj. c-roumstances the sooner
suffering was relieved by death thg better. He de
sired the termination of his own while
he acknowledged the duty of patiently waiting and
abiding the pleasure of God. Mr. Clay frequently
spoke to me of his hope of eternal life, founded
npon'tke merits of Jesus chnst asa savior; who,
J he remarked, came into the worul ho *' we
and iinmortalitv to light.' 1 He was a memoc: of
.h« Eniseooalian Church. Inonc of our conversa-
LfOTm. that as bis hour of dissolution
approached, he found dial his affections were con
centrating more and more upon domestic circ.e
—his wife and children. In my dailv he was
in the habit olasking me to detail to him the trans
actions of tife (Senate. This I did, and he mam
favted much interest la passing occurrences. Ilia
inquiries were leas frequent as his end approach
ed. Forth* week preceding hi* deal., he seemed
to be altogether abstracted from the concerns oi the
world. When he became so low that he could
not converse without being fatigued, he frequenby
reqnested those around him to converse. He
would then quietly listen. Hs retained his mental
faculties in great perfection. His memory remain
ed perfect- He frequently mentioned event* and
conversations ofrecem occurrence, showing that
he had perfect recollection of what was said and
dene. H* said to me that h# w*s grater.il to God
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1852 i
for coruinanirf tohim the blessing of reason which
enabled him to contemplate and reflect on his sit
uation. He manifested during his confinement
the same cheractaristies which marked his conduct
through the vigor of his life. Ho was exceedingly
averse to give nis friends "trouble,''’ as he called
j it. Some time before he knew it, we commenced
i waiting through the night in an adjoining room,
j rie said to me, after pa»siug a painful day, per
! haps some oue had better remain all nigbt in the
! parlor.” From this time he knew some friend
was constantly at hand ready to attend to him.
Mr. President, the majestic form of Mr. Clay will
no more grace these Halls. No more shall we hear
that voice which lias so often thrilled ami charmed
the assembled representative* of the American
people. No more shall we see that waving hand
and eye of light, us when he was engaged unfold
ing his policy iu regard to the varied interests of
ourgrowing’and mighty republican empire. His
voice is silout on carthforever. The darkness of
death ha* obscured the luster of his eye. Bat the
memory of hi* services—not only to his beloved
Kentucky, not only to the United States, but tor
the eauao’of human’ freedom and progress through
out the world—will live through future ages, ss a
bright example, stimulating aud encouraging his
owncouotrymcn and the people all nation* in their
patriotic devotions to country and humanity.
With Christians, there is yet a nobler and a high
er thought ill regard to Mr. Clay. They will think
of him in connection with eternity. They will
contemplate his immortal spiritoccupyingits true
relative magnitude among tue moral stars of glory
in the presence of God. They will think of him as
having fulfilled the duties allotted to him oil earth,
having been regenerated by Divine grace, aud hav
ing passed through the valley of tnc shadow of
death, and resebed an everlasting and happy
home in that “house not made with hands, eternal
iu the heavens.”
On Sunday morning ln»t, 1 was watehiug alone
at Mr. Clay’s bedside. For the last hour ne had
been unusually quiet, and 1 thought he was sleep
ing. In that, nowevcr, he told me I was mista
ken. Opening iiis eyes, and looking at me, ho
said, “Mr. Underwood, there may be some ques
tion where my remains shall be buried. Some
persons may designate Frankfort. I wish to re
pose at the cemetery in Lexington, where many of
my friends aud connexions are buried.” My re
ply was, “I will endeavor to have your wish exe
cuted.”
I now ask the Senate to have his corpse trans
mitted to Lexington, Kentucky, for sepulture.—
Let him sleep with the dead of that city, in mid
uear which his home has been for more than half
a century. For the jieople of Lexington, the liv
ing and the dead, he manifested, by the statement
made to me a pure and holy sympathy, and a do
sire to cleave unto them, as strong as that which
bound Ruth to Naomi. It was Ins anxious wish
to return to them before lie died, and to realize
whattlic daughter of Moab so strongly felt and
beautifully expressed: “Thy people shall bo my
people, arid thy God my G<xi. Where thou diest
will I die, and there will I bo buried,”
It is fit that the tomb of Henry Clay should bo iu
the city of Lexiugtou. In our Revolution, liberty’s
first libation blood was poured out into a town of
that name in Massachusetts. On hearing it, the
pioneers of Kentucky consecrated tho name, and
applied it to the place where Mr. Clay desired to
be buried. The associations connected with the
name harmonize with iiis character; and the mon
ument erected to his memory at the spot selected
by him will be visited by the votaries of genius
and liberty with ihet reverence which is inspired
at the tomb of Washington. Upon that monu
ment let his epitaph be engraved.
Mr. President, [ have availed myself of Doctor
Johnson's paraphrase of the epitaph on Thomas
Hanmer, with a few alterations and additions, to
express in borrowed verso my admiration for the
life andcliaractcr of Mr. C#y'. and with this heart
tribute to the memory of my illustrious colleague
1 conclude my remarks:
Born wlien Freedom her stripes ainl star* unfurl,--!,
When Revolution shook the startled world—
Hero-si ynd sages taught Ids brilliant tuind
To know and love the rights of alt mankind.
“ In life's first bloom his public toils begun.
At once commenced the Senator and man :
In business dext'rous, weighty in debate,
Near fifty years he labored for the State,
In every speech persuasive wisdom flowed.
In every act refulgent virtue glowed:
Suspended faction ceased from rage and strife.
To hear his ciorpience ami praise his life.
K-sistless merit fixed the Members’ choice.
Who hailed Idm Speaker with united voice.”
His talents ripening with advancing years—
His wisdom growing with hie public cures—
A chosen envoy, war’s dark horrors reuse,
And tides of carnage turn to stpeanj* of peace.
Conflicting principles, internal strite,
Tariff and slavery, disunion rife,
All are comprohiiml by his great hand.
And beams of joy illuminate the land.
Patriot, Christian, Husband, Father, Friend,
Thy work of life achieved a glorious end;
I offer tho following resolutions:
Seiolctd, That a Committee of six be appointed
by tho President of the Senate to take order for
superintending the funeral of Henry Clav, late a
member of this body, which will take place to
morrow at 12 o'oloofc, meridian, and that the Sen
ate will attend the same.
Retdvcd, That the members .of the Senate, from
a sincere dehire of showing every mark of respect
to tho memory of the deceased, will go into mourn
ing for one month by tho usuul mode of wearing
crape on the lort aim.
Retolved, As a further mark of reflect entertain
ed by tho Seuato for the memory or Henry Clay,
aud his long aud distinguished services to his
country, that iiis remains, in pursuance of tho
known wishes of his family, be removed to the
place of sepulture selected by himself at I.cxihgton,
Kentucky, in charge of the Sergcant-at-Arms, ami
attended by a committee of six Senators, to be ap
pointed by*the President of the Senate, who shall
Itavo full power to curry this resolution into effect.
Mr. Cass then addressed the Senate as follows;
Mr. President: Again lias an impressive warn
ing come to teach us that in tho midst of life we
arc in doath. The ordinary labors of this Hall arc
suspended und its contentions hushed, boforo the
powor of him who says to the storm of human
passions, as lie said ot old to the waves of Galilee,
“Peace, bo still.” The lessons of iiis Providence,
severe ns they may lie, often becomo merciful dis
pensations. li’ko that which is now spreading sor
row through the land, and which is reminding us
that we have higher duties to fulfil, and graver
responsibilities toencountcr,t.hun those that meet us
here, when we lay our hands upon liis Holy Word,
aud invoke his holy name, promising to bo faithful
to that Constitution which he gavo us in His mer
cy, and will withdraw only in tho hour of our
blindness and disobedience, and of his own wrath.
Another great man ha 3 fallen iu our land, ripe
indeed in rears aud in honors, but never dearer to
the American people than when called from the
theatre ofhisserviccs and renown to that final bar
where the lofty and the lowly must all moet at last.
I do not rise upon this mournful occasion to in
dulge in the language of panegyric. My regard
for the memory of tho dead, and for the obliga
tions of the liviug, would equally rebuke such a
coarse. The severity of truth is at once our pro
per duty, and our best consolation. Born during
the Revolutionary struggle, our deceased associate
was ono of tho few remaining public men who
connect tho present generation with the actors in
the trying scones of that ovcntfiil period, and
whose’ names and floods will soon bo known only in
tho history of their country.
He was’another illustration, and a noble ono,
too, of the glorious equality of our institutions,
which freely offer all their rewards to ull who just
ly seek them; for lie was the architect of his owu
fortune, having made his way in life by self exer
tion, and lie wes an early adventurer in the great
forest of the west, then a world of primitive vege
tation, but now the abodo of intelligence and re
ligion, of prosperity and civilization.
But he possessed that intellectual superiority
which overcomes surrounding obstacles, and which
local seclusion cannot long withhold from general
knowledge and appreciation. It is almost half a
century since he passed through Chilicotlie, then
tho seat of Government of Ohio, where I was a
member of tho Legislature, on lfis way to take his
place in this very Dody, which is now listening to
this romimsoenee, and to a feeblo tributo of regard
from one, who then saw him for tho first time, but
who can never forget tho impression ho produced
by the charms of hisconversation, the frankness of
his manner, and high qualities with which be
was endowed.
Since then ho has belonged to bis country, and
lias taken apart, and aprominent partbothm peace
i and war, in all the great questions effecting her
interests and her honor; thongh it has been often
my fortune to differ from him, yet I believe he
was as pure a patriot as ever participated in the
councils of a nation—anxious for tho public good,
andscokiug to promote it during ull the vicissitudes
of a long aud beautiful life. That he exorcised a pow
erful influence within the sphere of his action,
through the whole country, indeed we all feel and
know; and wo know, too, the eminent eudow
; month which gav6 him this distinction.
| Frank and fearless in the expression of his opin
ions, and in tho performance ot bis duties, with
rare powers of eloquence, which never failed to
rivit the attention of his auditory, aud which al
ways commanded admiration, even when they did
not carry conviction; prompt in decision, and
firm in action, and with a vigorous intellect, trained
in the contests of a stirring life, and strengthened
by enlarged experience and observation, joined
withal to an ardent love of country, and to great
; purity of purpose—these were the elements of ins
power and success. And we dwell npon them
with mournful gratification now, when wo shall
soon follow him to the cold aud silent tomb, -where
we shall commit earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust
to dust, with the blessed conviction of the truth
of that divine revelation which teaches us that
there is life and hope beyond the narrow house
where we shall leavo him alone to the mercy of bis
God and ours.
He Las passed beyond the reach of human
praise or censure, but the judgment of his contem
poraries has preceded and pronounced the judg
ment of history, and his name aud fame will shed
lustre upon bis country, and will be proudly cher
ished in the hearts of bis countrymen for long
ages to come. Yes, they will be cherished and
freshly remembered when these marble columns
that surround us—so often tho witnesses of his
triumph, but in a few brief hours, when his mor
tal frame, despoiled of the immortal spirit, shall
rest under this dome, for the last time to become
the witnesses of his defeat in that anal contest
where the mightiest fall before the great destroyer
—when these marble columns shall themselves
have fallen—like all the woAs of man —leaving
their broken fragments to tell the story of former
magnificence, autia the very ruins that announce
decay und desolation.
I jras often with him daring his last illness,
when the world and the things pf the world were
fast fading away before him. He knew that the
silver cord vyesabnost loosened, and that the golden
bowl was breaking at the fountain, but lie was
resigned to the wiU of providence, feeling that he
who gave has tho right to take away in his own
good time and manner. After his duty to Uis
Creator and his anxiety for his family, his first care
wss for his country, and his first wish tor the pre
servation ana perpetuation of the Constitution and
the Union, dear to him in tha hour of death as
they had ever been in the vigor of life. Os that
Constitution and l'nion, whose defence in the last
and greatest crisis of their peril, had called forth
all hid energies, and had stimulated those memo
rable and powerful exertions, which he who wit
nessed can never forget, ini which, no doubt,
hastened the final catastrophe, that a nosioitncw
deplore:-, with a sincerity snd unanimity not less
honorable to themselves than to the niemory of
the ooject of their affections.
And when wo snail enter that narrow Talley,
through which he has passed before u», and which
leads to the judgment seat of God, may we be able
to say, through faith iu his Son, onr Saviour, and
iafhs beautiful language of the hymn of the dying
Christian—dying but ever-living and triumphant:
“ The world recedes, it disappears'
Heaven opens on my eyes I my ears
With sounds seraphic ring;
bend, lend your wings, 1 mount, I fly I
Gh grave, where is thy victory ’
Oh death, where is thy sting*-’
Let me die she death of tha righteous, and let
my last end be like his.
Mr. Hunter. Mr. President, we have heard,
with dgep sensibility, what has just fallen from
the Senators who have preceded me. We have
heard, sir, the voice of Kentucky—and, npon this
occasion, she had a right to speak—in mingled ac
cente of pride and sorrow; for it has rarely fallen
to the lot of any State to lsiment the loss of soch a
son. Bat Virginia, too, is entitled to her plsee in
this procession ; for she cannot be supposed to be
ummndfttl of the tie which bound her to the dead.
When the earth opens to receive the mortal part
which she gave to man, it is then that affection is
eager to bury in its bosom every recollection but
tliose of love’ and kindness. And, sir, when the
last sensible tie is about to be severed, it is then
that » e look with anxions interest to the deeds of
the life, and to the emanations of the heart and
he mind, for those more euduring monuments
which are the creation of an immortal nature.
Iu this instance, we can be ut no loss for these.
Tliis land, sir, is full of the monuments of his ge
nius. His memory is as imperishable as American
liistory itseif, for he was one of those who made it.
Sir, he belonged to that marked class who are the
men of their century; t’orit was hi« rare good for
ttune not only to have been endowed with thecapa
city to do great tilings, but to have enjoyed me
opportunities of achieving them. I know, sir, it
has been said audurploied, that he wanted some
of the advantage* ot an early education; but it,
perhaps, has not been remembered that, in many
respects, he onjoyed such opportunities for mental
training as can rarely full to tho iffl of man. He
had not a chance to learn as much front books, but
he had such opportunities of learning from men as
few men have ever enjoyed. Sir, it is to be remem
bered that he was reared at a tirno when there was
a state of society in tho Commonwealth which gave
him birth, such* as has never been seen there before
nor since. It was his early privilege to sec how
justice was administered by a Pendleton and u
Wythe, w ith the ia-! of whom.he was iu the doily
haoit of familiar illlercouse. Ho had constaut op
portunities to observe how forensic questions wero
managed by a Marsha! mid a Wickham. He was
old enough’, too, to have heard and to have appre
ciated the eloquence of a Patrick Henry, and of
George Keith Taylor. In short,, sir, lie lived in u
society in which the examples of a Jvrtbrson, auda
Madison, and a Monroe were liviug influences, mid
on which the setting sun of a \Yaahhigtau cast the
mild effulgence of its departing rays.
He was trained, too, as has been well said by the
Senator from Michigan, [Mr. Cass,] at a period
when tlic recent revolutionary struggle had given
n more elevated tone to patriotism and imparted a
higher cast to public feeling and to public charac
ter. Such lessons were worth, perhaps, more to
him than the whole encyclopedia of scholastic
learning. Not only wore the o roum’staneos of his
early training favorable to the development of his
genius, but the theater upon which he was thrown,
was eminently propitious for its exercise. The
circumstances of tho early ietfloment of Kentucky,
tho generous, daring, and reckless character of the
people—all fitted it to be the theater for tho dis
play of those commanding qualities of heart and
mind, which lie so eminently possessed. There
can bo little doubt but that those people and their
chosen leader exercised a mutual influence upon
each other; and no one can be surprised that with
his brave spirit and commanding eloquence, and
facinatiug address, lie should havo led not only
there but elsewhere.
I did not know him, Mr. President, as you did,
iu the freshness of his prime, or in the frill matu
rity of his manhood. I did not hear him, sir, as
you have heard him, when his voice ro sedtlio
spirit of his countrymen for war—when lie cheered
the drooping, when he rallied the doubting through
all the vicissitudes of a long and doubtful contest.
1 have never seen him, sir, when, from the height
of the chair, ha ruled the llouso of Representa
tives by the energy of his will, or when upon tho
level of tlio floor Tie exercised a control almost as
absolute, by the mastery of his intellect. When
1 first knew him, iiis sun hud a little passed its
zenith. The effacing hand oftimo hud just boguu
to touch the lineaments of his manhood. But yet,
sir, 1 saw cnouglt of him to be ablo to realize what
be might have been in the prime of his strength,
and iu the full vigor of his maturity. I saw him,
sir, as you did, when ho led the “opposition”
during the administration of Mr. Van Bnren. I
bad daily opportunities of witnessing.tho exhibi
tion of his powers during the axtra session under
Mr. Tyler’s administration. And I saw, as we
all saw*, in a rcoent contest, the cxbition of power
on bis part, which was most marvelous in oue of
his years.
Mr. President, he may not have hud as much
of analytic skill, as some others, in dissecting a
subject. It may be, perhaps, that he did not seek
to look quite so* fur ahead as some who have been
most distinguished for political forecast. But it
may be truly said of Mr. Clay, that lie was no ex
uggerator. lie looked at events through neither
cud of tho telescope, but surveyed them with the
natural and the nuked eye. 'lie hud the capacity
of seeing things as the people saw them, and of
feeling things as the people felt them. He had,
sir, beyond any other man whom 1 have ever seen,
the true mesmeric touch of the orator—the rare
art of transferring his impulses to others.—
Thoughts, feelings, emotions, came from the ready
mould of his genius, radiant and glowing, and com
municated their own warmth to every heart which ,
received them. His, too, was the power of wield
ing the higher aud intenser forms of passion, with i
a majesty and an ease, which none but tho great
masters of the hitman iieart can ever employ. It i
was his rare good fortuno to have been one of tliose
who form, as it were, a sensible link and a living ,
tradition whioh counects one age with another, ana
through which one generation speaks its thoughts ,
and ladings, aud appeals to another. Aud, uu
fortunate is it for a country, when it ceases to pos- ,
sess such men, for it is to them that we chiefly owe (
tlio capacity to maintain tho unity of the great ,
Epos of human liistory, and preserve tho con- |
sistenev of political action.
Sir, it may bo said that tlio grave is still new- ;
miulo which covers the mortal remains of oue of ,
those great men vho hsva bpon taken from our ;
midst, and the darth is soon to open to receive ,
another. I know not, sir, whether it cau be said
to boa matter of lamentation, so far us the dead J
are eonccrnej, that the thread of tliis life has been ,
clipped when once it had boon fully spun. They ,
escape the infirmities of age, and they leave an 1
imperishable name behind them. The loss, sir, (
is r.ot theirit, but ours; and a loss tho more to bo ,
lamented that we sco none to fill the places thus
made vacant ou the stago of public affairs. B ,lt - >t 1
may be well for us, who havo much more oauso ,
to mourn and to lament such deaths, to pause ,
amidst the business of life for the purpose of con- ,
templating the spectacle before us, aud of drawing j
the moral from the passing event. It is when
death seizes for its victims thoso who arc, by “ a
bead and shoulders, taller tliau all the rest/’ that ,
we fool most deeply tho uncertainty of human ,
affairs, and that “ the glories of our mortal stale
are shadows, not substantial things.” It is, sir, in
such instances as the present that wo cun best
study by the light of example the true object of
life, and the wisest ends of human pursuit.
Mr. Hale. Mr. President, I hope I shall not be
considered obtrusive, if on this occasion, for a brief
moment, I mingle my humble voioo nit It those
that, with an ability that I shall neither attempt nor
hope to equal, have sought to do justice to the
worth and memory of the deceused, and at tlic
same time appropriately to minister to tho sym
pathies and sorrows of a stricken people. Sir, it
is the teaching of inspiration that no “man iivctli
and no man didh unto himself.”
There is a lesson taught no less in the death
than in the life of every man—eminently bo in the
ease of one who has filled a large space and occu
pied a distinguished position in the thoughts and
regard of his follow men. Particularly instructive
at this time is the event which wo now deplore,
although the circumstances attending his decease
are such as are calculated to assuage rather than
aggravate the grief which it must necessarily cause.
His timo had fully come. Tho three score and ten
marking the ordinary period of human life, had
for some years been passed, and full of years and
honors, lie hits gone to his rest. And now, when
the nation is marshaling itself for tho contest
which is to decide "who shall be greatest,” as if
to chasten onr ambition, to restrain and subdue
the violence of passion, to moderate our desires
and elevate ojr hopes, we have tho spectacle of
one who, by the force of his intellect and the ener
gy of his own purpose, had achieved a reputation
which the highest ollieial honors of the Republic
might have illustrated, but could not have en
hanced, laid low in death—as if, at tho very outset
of this political contest, on which the nation is
now entering, to teach the ambitious and aspiring
the end of human pursuit and earthly honor.
But, sir, 1 do not intend to dwell on that moral
which is taught by the silent lips and closed eye
of the illustrious dead, with a force such as no
man ever spoke with ; bits I shall leave the event
with its silent and mule eloquence, to impress its
own appropriate teachings on the heart. In the
long and eventful life of Mr. Clay, in the various
positions which he occupied, in the many exhibi
tions which history all'ords of untiring energy,’of
tmsurpassud eloquence, and of devoted patriotism,
it would bo strange, indeed, if different minds, as
they dwell upou the subjoct, were ell to select the
same incidents of his life as pre-eminently calcula
ted to challenge admiration and respect.
Sir, my admiration—ay, my affection for Mr.
Olay—was won and secured manyyears sinco, even
in my school boy days—when his voice of counsel,
encouragement and "sympathy was heard in the
other litill of this Capitol, in behalf of the strug
gling colouies of the southern portion of this con
tinent, who in pursuit of their inalienable rights,
in imitation of our own I'orciatbers, had unfurled-l
the banner of liberty, and regardless of consc- |
quonccs, had gallantly rushed into that contest |
where "life Ls lost, or freedom won.” And, again, !
sir, when Greece, richfin the memories ofthe past, I
awoke from the slumber of aget of oppression and }
centuries of shame, and resolved
“To call her virtues back, and conquer time and fate"— j
there, over the plains of that elassio land, above
the din of battle and the clash of arms, mingling
with the shouts of tho victors and the groans of
the vanquished, were heard the thrilling and stir
ring notes of that same eloquence, excited by a
sympalkv which knew no bounds, wide as the
world, pleading the cause of Grecian Jiborty be
fore the American Congress, as if to pay back to
Greece the debt which every patriot and orator felt
was her due. Sir, in the long sad honorable ca
reer of the deceased, there are many events and
circumstances upon which his friends and posteri
ty will dwell with satisfaction and pride, but none
which will preserve his memory with more mita
ding lustre to future ages, than tho coarse he pur
sued in the Spanish-Amcricau and Greek revtftu
tions.
Mr. Clemens. Mr. President, I should not have
thought it necessary to add any thing to what has
already been said, but for a request preferred by
some "of the friends of the deceased. I should
have been content to mourn him in silence and
leave it to other tongues to pronounce his eulogy, i
wnat lhave now to say shali be brief—very brief. !
Mr. President, it is now less than three short
years ago since I first entered this body. At that
period it numbered among its members many ol'
the most illustrious statesmen this Republic has
ever produced, or the world has ever known. Os
the living, it is not my purpose to speak ; but in
that briet period,death has been busy here; and, i
as if to mark the feebleness of all human things,
his arrows have been aimed at the highest, tne
mightiest of us all. First, died Calhoun. And
well, sir, do I remember the deep feeling evinced
on that occasion by him whose death has been an
! nouucedhire to-day, when hasaid: “I was Lis
! senior in years—in nothing sise. In Abe course off
j nature I ought to have preceded hpm. It has been
1 decreed otherwise ; brt I know that I shall linger
here only a short time, and shall «oon follow him.”
! It was genius mourning oyer his vouDger brother,
and too surely predicting his own approaching end.
He, too, sir, is now gone iron; among us, and
left none like him behind. That voice, whose every
tone was music is hnshed and still. That clear,
| bright eye is dim and lusterics„, aud that breast
where grew and flourished every quality which
could tuon: and dignity our nature. is cold as the
clod that soon must cover it. a lew hours have
wrought a mighty change—a change for which a
lingering illness had indeed, in some degree pre
i pared ns, but which, nevertheless, wiu still tall
! upon the nation with crushing force. Many a
I sorrowing heart is now tnkim? as I did yesterday,
j when 1 heard the first sound ct the funeral beU—
** And is he pons ?—the pure of the purest,
The hand that upheld ear bright banner the surest,
la be pone from cur struggles away ?
But yesterday lending a people :.ew life,
Cevd, amte, tn the cufiin to-day. H
Mr. President, this is an occasion when eulogy
mast fail to perform it.-oifice. The long life which
is now ended is a history of glorious deeds too
mighty for the torgue of praise. It is in the hearts
of ilia’countrymen that his best epitaph must be
1 written. It is in the admiration of a world that
i his renown must be recorded. In that deep love
| of country which distinguished every period of
his life, he may not have been unrivaled. In lofti
ness of intellect, he was not without his peers.
The skill with which he touched every chord of
the human heart may have been equaled. Tho
iron will, the unbending firmness, the {fearless
courage, which marked nij character, may have
t been shared by others. Bat where shall we go to
s to And all those qualities united, concentrated,
t blended into one brilliant whole, and she ding a'
i lustre upon one single head, which does not dazzle
i the baholdcr only because it attracts lna love and
f demands his worship?
I scarcely know, sir, bow far it may be allowa
ble, upon an occasion like this, to refer to party
struggles which have left wounds not yet entirely
healed. I will venture, however, to suggest, that
it should be a source of consolation to his friends
that he lived long enough to see the full accomplish
ment of the last great work of his life, aud to wit
ness the total disappearance of that sectional tern
pest which threatened to whelm the Republic in
ruins. Both the great parties of the country have
agreed to stand upon the platform which he erected,
aud both of them have solemnly pledged them
selves to maintain unimpaired the work of his
hands. I doubt not the knowledge of this cheered
him in his dying moments, aud helped to steal
away the pangs of dissolution.
Mr. President, if 1 knew anything more that I
could say, I would gladly utter it. To me, he was
something more than kind, and I am called npou
to mingle a private with a public grief. I wish that
I could do something bo add to his fame. But lie
built for himself a monument of immortality, and
left to his friends no task but that of soothing their
own sorrow for his loss. We pay to him the tri
bute of our tears. More wc have uo power to be
stow. Patriotism, honor, genius, courage, liavo all
come to strew their garlands about bis tooinb; and
well they may, for he was the peer of them all.
Mr. Cooper. Mr. I’residont, it is not always by
words that the living pay to the dead the sinceres’t
aud most eloquent tribute. The tears of a nation,
flowing spontaneously over the grave of a public
benefactor, is a more eloquent testimonial of his
worth and of tlio affection and veneration of his
countrymen, than the most highly wrought eulo
gium of the most girted tongue. The heart is not ne
cessarily tho fountain of words, but it is always the
Source of tears, whether they be of joy, gratitude,
or grief. But sincere, truthful, and eloquent, as
they are, they leave no permanent reoord of tho
virtues aud greatness of him on whose tomb they
arc shed. As the dews of heaven falling at night
aro absorbed by the earth, or dried up by the morn
ing suu, so the tours of a people, shed for their
beuefactor, disappear without leaving a trace to tel]
the liituras generations of the services, sacrifices,
und virturcs of him to whose memory they were a
grateful tributo. But os homage paid to Virtue is
an incentive to it, it is right that the memory of
the good, the great, aud noble of the earth should
be preserved and honored.
The ambition, Mr. President, of the truly great,
is more the hope of living in the memory an d esti
mation of future ages than of possessing power in
their own. It is this hope that stimulates them to
perseverance; that enables them to encounter lis- i
appointment, ingratitude, andnegloct, and to press <
on through toils, privations, aud perils to the end. <
It was not the hope of discovering a world, over i
which lie should himself exercise dominion, that 1
sustained Columbus in all his trials. It was not for i
this he braved danger, disappointment, poverty, i
and reproach. It was not for this he subdued li'is i
native pride, wandered from kingdom to kingdom, i
kneeling at the feet of nrinoea a suppliant for means i
to prosooute his sublime enterprise. It was not 1
for this, after having at last secured the patronage l
of Isabella, that ho put otTin his crazy and ill-tip- |
pointed fleet into unknown seas, to struggle with i
storms and tempests, aiftl the rage 1 of a mutinous ]
crew. It was another and nobler kind of ambition i
that stimulated him to contend with terror, super- i
stition, and despair, and to press forward on his <
perilous cotirso, when the noodle in his compass, <
losing its polarity, seemed to unite with the fury of
the elements and the insubordination of his crew ]
in turning him back from his perilous but glorious
enterprise. It was tho hope wliioli was rcaiisod at ,
just, when his ungrateful country was compelled to \
inscribe, as an epitaph on his tomb—
“ Columbus has given a new workl to the kingdom of I
Castile and Leon,” j
that enabled him at first to bravo so manv disap- I
poiutments, and at last to conquer the multitude I
of perils that beset his pathway on the deep. This, <
sir, is the amhition of the truly great—not to 1
achieve present ftime, but future immortality. This I
being the case, it is befitting here to-day to' add to ’
tho life of Henry Clay, the record of his death, i
signalized as it is by a nation’s gratitude and grief. I
It is right that posterity should learn from ns, tho <
cotemporaries of the illustrious deceased, that his i
virtues and services were appreciated by his eoiui- <
try, and acknowledged by the tears of liis country
men poured out upon bis grave. ' i
Tiio career of Henry Clay was a wonderful one. ’
Aud wiiat ya illustration of the excellence of our <
institutions would a retrospect of his life afford ? >
Born in an humble station, without any of the ad- t
Yftitioua aids of fortune by which tho obstructions i
oirtlic road of sumo are smoothed, he rose not on- ’
ly to the most exalted eminence of position, but 1
likewise to the highest place in the affections of t
hiß countrymen. Taking into view tho disadvan- 1
tapes of his early position, disadvantages against
which he hud always to contend, his career is with- i
out a parallel in the history of great men. To c
have seen him a youth, without friends or fortune, v
and with but a scanty education, who would havo v
vontured to predict for him a course so brilliant f
and boneficieut, and a sumo so well deserved aud c
enduring i Bike the pine, however, which some- »
times springs up amidst the rocks on the moun- «
tain side, with scarce a crevice in which to fix its c
roots or soil to nourish them, but which, nevorthe- I
less, overtops all tho trees of the surrounding for- v
ost, Henry Clay by his own inherent, seif-sustqin- v
ing energy and gonitis, rose to an altitude of fume t
almost unequaled in the ago in which be livod.— s
As an orator, legislator, and statesman, he had no «
superior. All his faculties wore remarkable, and in t
remarkable combination, l'osscssod of a brilliaut ip
genius and a fertile imagination, his judgement j t
was sound, discriminating, and eminently practi- ] ;
cal. Os an ardent and impetuous temperament, he r
was nevertheless, persevoring nnd firm of purpose. I
t rank, bold, and intrepid, ho was cautious in pro- v
viding against the contingencies and obstacles
which might possibly riso up in tho road to sue- o
cess. Generous, liberal, and entertaining broad a
and expanded views of national policy, in his leg- j
islative course ho nover trausceiidod the limits of a t
wieo economy. r
But, Mr. President, of all his faculties, that of jj
making friends and attaching them him was the e
most remarkable and extraordinary. In this re- ,
sped, ho seemed to possess a sort of fascination,
by which all who canto into his preaenoe were at
tracted towards and hound to him by ties which
neither time nor circumstances hftd power to dis- 8
solve or weaken. In tho admiration of his friends 1
was the recognition of the divinity of intellect; in 1
their attachment to him a confession of his genor
ous personal qualities and social virtues.
Or the public services of Mr. Clay, the present J
occasion affords no room for a sketch more extend- c
od than that which his respected colleaguo [Mr. 8
Underwood] has presented, it is, however, suffi- ”
cicnt to say, that for more than forty years ho lias J
been a prominent actor in the drama of American 1
affairs. During the late war with England his {
voice was more potent than any other in awaken- :
ing tho spirit of the country, infusing confidence ;
into the peoplo, and rendering available the re- !
sources for carrying on tho contest. In our do- :
mostic controversies, threatening the ppecs of the I
Country aqd the integrity of the Union, he has al
ways been first to note danger as well as tosuggest ;
the means of averting it. When tho waters oftlie
great political deep were upheaved by tho tempest
ofdiscord, and the ark of the Union, freighted with
the hopes and destinies of freedom, tossing about 1
on tho raging billows, nnd drifting every moment !
nearer to the vortex which threatened to swallow
it up, it was his clarion voice, rising agave the ]
storm, that adniouished tlio crow of impending
peril, and counseled the way to safety.
But, Mr. President, devotedly us" lie loved his 1
country, his aspirations were not limited to its !
welfare alouo. Wherever freedom had a votary,
that votary had a friend in Henry Clay: nnd in the ,
struggle of the Spanish colonies for independence
lie uttered words of cncoqrugcment which have be
come tho mottoes on the banners of freedom in
every land. Btit neither tho services which ho
lias rendered his own country, nor his wishes for
the welfare of others, nor his'genius. nor tho affec
tion of friends, could turn aside the destrovor. No
price could purchase exemption from the 'common
lot of humanity. Henry Clay, tho wise, tho groat,
the gifted, had to die; and his history is suinmoa
up iu the biography which the Bussian poet has
prepared for all, kings and serfs, viz:
****** “ born, living, dying,
Quitting the atilt shore for the troubled ware,
Struggling with storm-clouds, over shipwrecki dying
And casting anchor in the ailent grave.”
But though time would not spare him, there is
still this ot consolation; He died peacefully and
happy, ripe in renown, full of years and of honors,
and rich in the affections of his country. He en
joyed, too, the unspeakable satisfaction of closing
his eyes whilst the country he had lovod so much
and served so well was still in the enjoyment of
peace, liappiuqss, union, and prosperity—still ad
vancing in all tho elements of tyeaUh, greatness
and power,
i I know,' Mr- President, how unequal I have been
to the apparently sell-imposed task of presenting,
in un appropriate manner, the merits of the illus
trious deceased. But if 1 had remained silent on
an occasion like this, when thehearta of my constit
uents areswoiling with grief, I would have'been dis
owned by them. It is for this reason—that of giv
ing utterance to their feelings as well as my own— !
j that I have trespassed on tho time of the Senate.—
j I would that I could have spoken titter words; but,
snch as they are, they wore uttered by the tongue,
in response to the promptings of the heart.
Mr. Seward. Mr. President, fifty years ago,
Henry Clay, of Virginia, already adopted by Ken
tucky, then as youthful as biinseif, entered the ser
vice of his country, a Representative in the unpre
tending Legislature of that rising State; and having
thenceforward pursued, with ardor and constancy,
the gradual paths of an aspiring change through
Halls of Congress, foreign courts, an<f Executive
councils, he hasnow, with the choerftilness of a pa
triot, and the serenity of a Christian, fitly closed his
long andarduouscarcer, here in the Senate, in the
full presence of the Republic, looking down upon
the scene with anxiety andalarm,—not merely alien
ator like one of us who yet remain in the Senate
House, but filling the character which, though it
had no authority of law and wa-assigned without
suffrage, Augustus Csesar nevertheless declared
was above the title of Emperor, Prima* inUr illut
tres—the Prince of the Senate.
Generals are tried, Mr. President, by examin
ing the campaigns they have lost or wod, and
statesmen by reviewing the transactions in which
they have been engaged. Hamilton would have
been unknown to us had there been no Constitu
tion to be created, as Bratus would liavo died in
obscurity had there been no Ctesar to bo slain.
Colonization, Kavolution, and Organization
three great acts in the drama of our national
j progress—had already passed when the Western
; patriot appeared on the public stage. He entered
I in that next division of the majestic scenes which
| was marked by ail inevitable reaction of political
forces, a wild strife of factions, and ruinous em
barrassments in our foreign relations. This tran
sition stage is always more perilous than any other
in the career of nations, and especially in the ca
reer of Republics. It proved fatal to the Common
wealth in Eugland. Scarcely any of the Spanish
American Stutos have yet emerged from it; and it
has more than once been sadly signalized by the
ruin of tho Republican cause in"franee._
The continuous administration of Washington
and John Adams had closed under a cloud which
j had thrown a broad, dark shadow over the future;
J the nation was do. ply indebted at home and abroad,
I audits credit was prostrate. The revolutionary
(factions had given place to two inveterate parties,
divided by a gulf which iiad been worn by the
conflict in' which the Constitution was adopted,
and made broader and deeper by a war of preju
dices eonceruing the merits of the belligerents in
the £leat European struggle that then*convulsed
the civilized world. Our extraordinary political
system was little more than an ingenious theory,
not yet practically established. The Union of the
States was as yet only one of compact: for the
political, social, and commercial necessities to
which it was so marvelously adapted, and which,
clustering thioki/ upon it, now render it indisso
luble, had not then been broadly disclosed, nor had
the habits of acquiescence and the sentiment* of
loyality, always slow of growth, fully ripened.
Tne reirk that had gone to sea, thaß unfurnished
and untried, seemed quite certain to founder bv
reason or its own inherent frailty, even if it should
escape unharmed in the great conflict of nations,
which acknowledged no claims of justice, and tol
erated no pretensions of neutralitv. Moreover,
the territory possessed by the nation wee inad
• equate to commercial exigencies, and indispensa
ble social expansion; ana yet no provision bad
been made fer enlargement, nor for extending the
i political ayatem over diatant regions, inhabited or
i otherwise, which must inevitably be acquired.
Nor could any such acquisition be made without
disturbing tho carefully adjusted balance of powers
among the members of th# Confederacy.
These difficulties, Mr. President, although they
grew less with time and by slow degrees, contin
ued throughout the whole life of the statesman
whose obsequies we are celebrating. Be it kn own,
then—and lam sure that history will confirm the
instruction—that conservatism was tho interest of
the nation, and the responsibility of its rulers,
during the period iu which he nourished. He* was
ardent, bold, generous, and even ambitions; and
yet. with a profound conviction of the true exigen
eiea.of the country, like Alexander Hamilton, ho
disciplined himself, and trained a restless nation,
that knew only self-control, to tho rigorous prac
tice of that often humilating conservatism which
its welfare and security in that peculiar crisis bo
imperiously demanded.
It could not have happened,(sir, to any citizen to
liave acted alone, nor even to have acted always
the most conspicuous part in a trying period so
long protracted. Henry Clsv, therefore, shared
the naponAbilities of Government with not only
the Proper contemporaries, but also survivors of
the Revolution, as well as also manv who will now
snccoed himself. Delicacy forbids my naming
those who retain their places here; but we may,
without impropriety, roeull among his compeers u
Senator of vast resources aud inflexible resolvo,
who has recently withdrawn from this Chamber,
but I trust not altogether from public life, [Mr.
Benton;] and another, who, surpassing all bis co
temporaries within his country, and even through
out tho world, iu the proper eloquence of the
forum, now, in autumnal years, for a second time,
dignifies and adorns the highest seat in the Exe
cutive Counoil, [Mr. Webster.] Passing by tlieso
eminent and noble men, tho shinies of Calhoun,
John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Mmiroe, Madison,
and Jefferson, rise up before us—statesmen whoso
living aud local fame lias ripened already iutohis
torieal and world-wide renown.
Among geniuses so lofty as these, Honry Clay
bore a part in regulating the constitutional free
dom of political debate; establishing that long
contested and most important lino wfltieh divide*
the sovoiguty of the several States front that of
the States confederated; assorting the right of neu
trality, and vindicating it by a war against Great
Britain, when that just but oxtromo measure be
came necessary, adjusting the terms on which that
perilous yot honorable contest was brought to a
peaceful close;porfccting the army, and the Navy,
and national fortifications; settling the fiscal and
financial policy of the Government iu more than
one crisis of apparently threatened revolution,
asserting and calling iuto’exercise the powers of the
Government for making and improving internal
communications between tho States; arousing and
encouraging the Spanish American colonies on this
continent to throw off tho foreign yoke, and to
organize gwernments ou principles congonial to
our owu, and thus creating external bulwarks for
our own national defense; establishing equal and
impartial peace and amity with all existing mari
time Powers; and extending the constitutional
organization of government over tho vast regions
all secured in his lifetime by purchase or by con
quest, whereby the pillars of tho Republic have
been removed from the banks of tlio St. Mary’s to
tho borders of tho Rio Grande, and from the mar
gin of the Mississippi to tlio Pacific coast. We 1
may not yet discuss tho wisdom of the sovoral '
measures which liave thus passed in review before !
tis, noref tho positions winch the deceased states- :
man assumed in regard to them, but wo may with- J
out offense dwell upon the cornprehensivo results ,
of them all. 1
The Uuion exists in nbsoluto integrity, and the
Republic in complete and triumphant development.
Without having relinquished any part of their in
dividuality, tlio States havo more’ than doubled al
ready, and are iucreasing in numbers and growing
in political strength and expansion more rapidly
than ever before. Without having absorbed any
State, or having even encroached oh any Stato, tlio
Confederation lias opened itself so as to ombrace all
tho now membors who have come, and now, with
capacity for further and indefinite enlargement,
has becomo fixed, enduring, aud perpetual. Al
though it was doubted only bulf a century ago,
whether our political system could be maintained,
at all, and whether, if maintained, it could guaranty
the peace and happiness of society, it stands now
confessed by tho world, the form of government
not only mast adapted to empire, but also most
congenial #li tlic constitution of human nature.
When wo considor that tho nation has been con
ducted to this haven, not only through stormy
soas, but altogether also without a course and with
out a star; and when we consider, moreover, the
sum of happiness that lias already boen enjoyed by
the Amerieun poople, and still more the influence
which the great achievement is exerting on tho ad
vancement aud melioration of the condition of man
kind, we *eo at once that it might have satisfied
tho highest ambition to havo been, no matter how
humbly, concerned in so great a transaction.
Certainly, sir, no one will assort that Henry Clay
in tiiat transaction performed au obscure or oven a
common part. On the contrary, from lho day ou
which ho outored the public service until that on
which he passed the gates of death, he was never n
follower, but always a loader; and bo marshalled
cither the party which sustained or that which re
sisted every great measure, oqually in tho Senate
and in the popular canvass. And lie led where
duty seemed to him to indicate, reckless whether
ho encountered oue President or twonty Presidents,
whether he was opposed by factious or evon by the
whole people. Hence it has happened, that al
though that people are not yotagreed among them
selves on tho wisdom of all or porhaps of oven any
of hia great measures, yet they are nevertheless
unanimous in acknowledging tiiat he was at once tlio
greatest, the most faithful, and the most reliable of
their statesmen. Here the effort at discriminating
praise of Henry Clay in regard to his public policy
must stop, ovtm on this sad ocoasion, which awa
kens the ardent liberality of his generous survi
vors.
But bis personal qnalities may be discussed with
out apprehension. What were the elementsoftho
success of that extraordinary man ? You, sir, knew
him longer and better than I, and I would prefer to
to hear you speak of them. Ho was indeed elo
quent—all the world knows that. He held the
keys to the hearts of his countrymen, and ho tnru
od tho wards within thorn with a Bkiil attained by
no other master, ,
But eloquence was nevertheless only an iiistm
mont, and one of many that lie used. His conver
sation, his gestures, Mb very look was magisterial,
persuasive, seductive, irrcsistablo. And his ap
pliance of all these was eorteous, patient, and in
dofagitable. Defeat only inspired Riip with new
resolution. lie divided opposition by his assiduity
of address, while ho rallied and strengthened his
own lianas of supporters by the eonfidence of
success which, feeling himself, he easily inspired
among bis followers. His affections wore high
and pure, and generous, and the chiofost among
them was that one which tho great Italian poot
designated as tlic charity of native laud. In him
that charity was an enduring and ovorpoweriug
enthusiasm, and it influenced all his sentiments
and conduct, rendering him more impartial be
tween conflicting interest, and soetions than any
other statesman who has lived since the Revolu
tion. Thus, witli great versatility of talent, and tlic
most catholic equality of favor, he identified evory
quostion, whether ol domostic administration or
foreign policy, with Ms own great tame, and eo be
came a perpetual Tribune of the people. Ijo need
ed only to pronounoo in fever of a measure or
against it, hero,and immediately popular enthusi
asm, exeifotl as hy a magic wand, was felt, over
coming and dissolving all opposition in the Senate
Chamber.
In this way lio wrought a cliango in onr political
system, that I think was not foreseen by its found
ers. 110 converted tliis bmnok of the Legislature
from a negative position, or ono of equilbrium be
tween tho Executive and the House of Represen
tatives, into tho active ruling power of the Repub
lic. Only time can disclose whether this great in
novation shall be beneficent, or even permanent.
Certainly, sir, the groat lights ot the Senate liave
set. The obscuration is not less palpable to the
country than to us, who are left to grope our uncer
tain way here, as ip a labyrinth, oppressed with
self-distrust. The time, too, presents new embar
rassments. We are rising to another and more su
blime stage cf national progress—tbatof expanding
wealth and rapid territorial aggrandisemoDt. Onr
institutions throw a broad shadow across the St.
Lawrence, aud stretching beyond the valley of
Mexico, reach even to the plains of Central Ameri
ca, while the Sandwich Islands and the shores of
China recognize its renovating influence. Whero
cver that influonoo is felt, a desire for protection
under tboso institutions is awakened. Expansion
seems to bo regulated not by any difficulties of re
sistance, but by tho moderation which results from
our own internal constitution, No ono knows
bow rapidly that restraint may give way. Who
can tell hoty fe» or how fast it ought to yield ?
Commerce lias brought tho ancient continents
near to us, and created necessities for new posi
tions—perhaps connections or colonies there —
and with tho trade and friendship of the elder na
tions, their coufiiuU and collisions are brought to
our doara aud to our hearts. Onr sympathy kin
dies, our indifference extinguishes the fires of free
dom in foreign lands. Before we shall be fully
conscious that a change is going on in Europe, we
may find ourselves once more divided by tiiat eter
nal lino of separation that leaves on the on# side
those of our citizens who obey the impulsos of
sympathy, while on the other arafound those who
submit only to tho counsels or prudence. Even
prudence wiU soon be required to decide whether
distant regions, East and West, shall oomo under
our own protection, orbolofl tooggrandizo a rap
idly-spreading domain of hostile despotism.
Sir, who among us is equal tft these mighty ques
tions ? I fear there is no one. Nevertheless,, the
example of Henry Clay remains for our instruction.
His genius bas passed*to the realms of light, but
his virtnes still live hero for our emulation. With
them th#re will remain also tho protection and fu •
vor of the Most High, if by tho practice of justice
and the maintenance of freedom we shall dc.serv#
tbem. Let then the Mer pass on. We will fol
low with sorrow, but not without hope, the rever
end form that it bears toitsfinal resting-place; and
then, when that grave opens at our feetto receive
so estimable a treasure, we will invoke tbe God of
ourfathers to send us new guides like him that is
now withdrawn, and give us wisdom to obey their
instructions.
Mr. Jones, of lowa. Mr. President, of tbe vast
number who mourn the departure of the great
man whose voice has so often been heard in this
Hall, I have peculiar cause to regret that dispensa
tion which has removed him from among us. He
was the guardiau and director of my collegiato
days ; four of his sons were my college mates
anS warm friends. My intercourse with the fether
was that of a vouth and friendly adviser, I shall
never cease to feel grateful to him—to his now
heart-stricken and bereaved widow and children
for their manv kindnesses to me during four or
Eve yoars of ’my life- I had the pleasure of re
newing my acquaintance with him, first, as a dele
gate in Congress, whilst he was a member of this
body from 1885 to 188 S, aud again in IS4S, as a
member of this branch of Congress ; and during
the whole of which period, some eight years
none bu the most kindly feelings existed between
us.
As an humble and unimportant Senator, it was
my fortune to co-operate with him throughout the
whole of tl.c exciting question of 1849-'so—the
labor and excitement of w hich is said to have pre
cipitated his disease. That co-operation did not
end with the accordant vote on this floor, but in
consequence of the unyielding opposition to the
series of measures known as the “ compromise, ”
extended to many private meetings held by ita
friends, at til or which Mr. Clay was present.
And whether in public or private life, he every
where continued to inspire me with the most
exalted estimate of patriotism and statesmanship.
Never shall I forget the many appeals he made to
Senators, in and out of the Senate, in favor of the
settlement of our then unhappy sectional differ
ences.
Immediately after the close of that memorable
session of Congress, during which the nation be
held his great and almost superhuman effort* upon
this floor to sastsin the wise counsel# of th a * ra
ther of his Country.” I accompanied him home
to Ashland, athisinvitation, to revisit the place
where mv happiest day* bad been spent, with the
friends who there continued to reside. Daring
that, to mo, moet agreeable and inotruc.l ve journey,
in many conversations he evtnoed the utmost so
licitude lor the welfare and honor of the Republic,
amending to show that he believed tho happiness
of the people and tho cause of liberty throughout
the world depended upon the continuance of our
glorious Union, and the evoidanoe of tboae sec
tional dissensions, wMch eduld but alienate the
affections ol one portion el tbe people from an-
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other. Wj|h tie sincerity and fervor of a true
patriot, he warned his companions in that journey
to withhold all aid from men, who labored, and
from every cause which tended, to sow the seeds
of disunion in the land ; und to oppose such, he
declared himself willing to forego all the tics aud
associations of mere party.
At a subsequent period, sir, this friend of my
youth, at my eunicst aud repeated entreaties, con
sented to take a sea voyage from New York to Hava
na. He ramaiuodat the Tatter place a fortnight, aud
then returned by New Orfeana to Ashland. That
excursion by sea, ho assured me, contributed much
to relieve him from the sufferings occasioned by
tho diseaso which ltns just terminated his eventful
and glorious life. Would to Heaven that lie could
have bceu persuaded to abaudou his .duties as a
Senator, aud to have remained during the past
winter aud spring upon thut Island of Cuba! The
country woultr not now, perhaps, have been called
to mourn his loss.
Iu some matters of policy connected with the
administration of our General Government, 1 liave
disagreed with him, yet tho purity and sincerity
of nis' motives I never doubted ; and as a true
lover of his country, as au honorable and honest
inkn, I trust Ms example will be reverenced and
followed by the meu of tliis, and of succeeding
generations.
Sir. Brooke. Mr. President ns an ardent, per
sonal admirer and political friond of tlic distin
guished dead, I claim tho privilege of adding my
humble tribute of respect to his memory, and of
joiniug in the general expression of sorrow that
has gone forth from this Chamber. Death, at all
times is an instructive monitor as well ns u mourn
ful messenger: but when iiis fatal shaft batli
stricken down tho great in intellect and vcuowu,
how doubly impressive tlio lesson thut it brings
homo to tlio heart that the grave is tho common
lot of all—the great levelor of all earthly distinc
tions I But at the same time we are taught that in
one sense the good and great can never dio;
for tile memory of thoir virtues and their bright
examples w ill live through ull coming timo in an
immortality thnt blooms beyond the grave. The
consolation of this thought may calm our sorrow;
and, in the language of oue of our own poets, it
utuy be asked:
“ Why weep ye, then, for him, who having rail,
The bound of man’s appointed years, at last,
Life’s blessings ail enjoyed, life’s labors done.
Serenely to bis film) rest has passed ;
V bile the soft memory of his virtues yet
Lingers, like twilight hues when the bright sun has set T”
It will b« doing no injustice, sir, to tho living or
the dead to nay that no better specimen of tho true
American character can bo found in our history
than that of Mr. Clay. With no adventitious ad
vantages of birth or fortune, ho won his way by.
the efforts of his own genius to tho highest distinc
tion und honor. Ardently attached to tho princi
ples of civil and religious liberty, patriotism wins
with him both u passion and a setitiuicnt—a passion
that gave energy to liis ambition, and u sentiment
that pervaded all his thoughts and actions, con
centrating them upon his country as the idol of his
heart. 'The hold and munlv frankness in the ex
pression of his opinions which always character
ized him has often been the subject of remark;
and in nil his victories it may bo truly said he never
“stooped to conquer.” In his long and brilliant
political career, personal considerations never for
a single instant caused him to swerve from tho
strict line of duty, and none have ever doubted
his deep sincerity in that memorable expression to
Mr. Preston, “Sir, I had rather be right than bo
President.”
TbiH is not the time tioroccasion, sir, to ontor in
to a detail of the public services of Mr. Clay, inter
woven as they nro with tho history of theeountry
for half a century; but I cannot refrain from ud
verting to the last crowning act of his glorious life
—his great effort in the Thirty-first Congress for
the preservation of the peace and integrity of this
great Republic, as it was this effort that shattered
, It' B bodily strength and hastonod tho consummation
of deutli. Tho Union oftho Stales, as being essen
tial to our prosperity mid happiness, was tho para
mount proposition in his political creed, and the
slightest symptom of danger to its perpetuity llllod
him with alarm, and called forth all the energies
of his body and mind. In his earlier life ho had
motthis dungorand overcome it. Jntho conflict of
contending factions it again appeared; and coming
lorth from tho repose of private life, to wliioh age
and infirmity lmd carried him, with unabated
strength of intellect, he again entered upon tho
arena of political strife, mid again success crowned
his efforts, and peace and harmony wore restored
to a distracted peoplo. But, unequal to the mighty
struggle, his bodily strength sank beneath it, and
lio retired from the Held of his glory toyioldup his
life as a holy sucrifioe to his beloved country. It
has well been said that peace has its victories as
well as war; mid how bright upon tho page of his
tory will be tlio record of this groat victory of in
tellect, of reason, and of moral suasion, over the
spirit of discord and sectional animosities 1
Wo this day, Mr. President, commit his memory
to tho regard and utt'ection of his admiring coun
trymen. It is a consolation to them und to us to
know that lie died in full possession of his glorious
intellect, and, what is bettor, in the enjoyment of
that “ poac ■ which the world can lieithor givo nor
take away. ” Ho sank to rest as tho full-orbod king
of day, unshorn of a single beam; or rathorliko
the planet of morning, liis brightness was but
eclipsed by tho opening to him of a more full und
perfect day—
“ No waning of Arc, no paling of ray,
But lining, still riting, us punning away.
Farewell, gallant eagle, tliou’rt hurietl in light—
God speed thee to heaven, lost star of our night.”
The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and,
in pursmmeo thereof, tho President pro tan. uiude
tho Allowing appointments:
Committee of Arrangements:
Mr. Hunter, I Mr. Cooper,
Mr. Dawson, Mr. Bright,
Mr. Jones, of lowa, | Mr. Smith.
Pall-Bearers:
Mr. Cass, I Mr. Pratt,
Mr. Mnngnm, Mr. Atchison.
Mr. Dodge, of Wis.-, | Mr. 8011,
Committee to attend tho remains of tho deceased:
Mr. Underwood, j Mr. Fish,
Mr. Jones, of Tonu., Mr. Houston,
, Mr. Cass,, f Mr. Stockton.
The order of proceeding for tho funeral is js
follows:
The Committee of Arrangement*, Pall-Bearers,
and Mourners will attend at the National Hotel, the
late residence of the deceased, at eleven o’clock a.
in., on Thursday, July 1, 1852.
At half past eleven, the members of the two
Houses of Congress will assemble at tho same
place, at which time tho corpse will be removed, in
charge oftho Committee of Arrangements, attended
by the members and officers of tho two Houses of
Congress, to tho Senate Chamber, where divine
service will be porlormed.
At the conclusion of tho service, the eorpso will
be plaoed iu tho Rotundu, where it will remain un
til Half past threo o’olook, when it will be removed,
in charge of tho Committee of Arrangements und
Pall-Bourors. to the railroad depot, where it will bo
confided to the committee appointed to ucootupany
it to Kentucky.
On motion by Mr. Underwood, it was
Rtsolved, That as an additional mark erf respect
to the memory of the deceased, tho Senate do now
adjourn.
The Senate adjourned accordingly till to-morrow
at twelve o’clock.
HOUSE, Wednesday, June 80.
HEATH OF MU. CLAY.
The House met at the usual hour, but was not
called to order till ton minntos past two o’clock,
iu consequence of tho death of Mr. Clay, the for
mal announcement of which was to he received
from the Senate.
The Rev. C. M. Butler then addressed the Throne
of Grace as follows :
Almightv God, our Hoavenly Father, wo boscech
thee to look upon us in love, to forgive us our sins,
aud to bestow upon us thy blessing. Take us as a
nation into thy holy keeping. Bless the President
and Congress of these United Stales, and all who
are in authority; enable them faithfully and fra
ternally to accomplish thy will, thut they may en
joy thy perpetual benediction.
Heavenly Father, thou hast in thy wiso Provi
dence seen tit to take out of this world the soul of
him at whose departure a nation weeps. We bow
in resignation tothy blessed will, and acknowledge
that thou doest all tilings well. Wcthank thee lor
the signal public services which the departed states
man, whose deattfwo mourn to-day, was permit
ted to render to his country. We "thank theo for
the oircumstanoes of mercy and his consolation con
nected with liis sickness and liis deutli. We thank
theo for the grace that sustained him in submis
sive patience amidst hit protracted suffering, and
for the testimony which thou didst oftaole him to
give to th? power and excollouey of thy gospel.
Wo bless thee that we are permitted tothiuk of
him, whose long suffering we mourn, as now
resting in the peace and paradise of God.
.We eommead to thy fatherly care the bereaved
wife, the children and the relatives of the departed.
Remember them, O Lord, in mercy, hantity
thy fatherly correction to them. Endow their
souls with patience under their affliction, mid with
resignation to thy blessed will. Comfort them
with usense of thy goodness, und enable them to
prepare to follow him who has gono before them
to that better world, where God wipes away all
tears from those whom death has swallowed up in
victory.
We beseech time to bless this dispensation es
thy Providence to the members of this Congress
here and now assembled, and to all who are en
gaged iu the public service. Teach them that the
glory Os man is as the flower of the grass—that the
fashion of this world pusseth away. Teacli them
the folly of ambition, the- sin of strife, and the
nothingness of renown. Make them so to lay to
heart this lesson of morality as to livo above the
world, to seek thy favor, to study thy law, and in
all their actions to aim at thy glory, at the good of
their own souls, and of tho souls of their t'ellow
men.
j And when we arc called to go the way of all the
earth, may we depart in the confidence of a certain
faith in the comiort of a reasonable, religious, and
I holy hope, in favor with thee, our God, and perfoet
charity with the world. '•All of which wo ask in
the name and for the sake of Jesus Christ, our
Saviour. Amen.
The Journal of yesterday having been read,
A message was received from the Senate by the
hands of Asbury Dickins, Esq., its Secretary, an
nouncing the death of Hunky Clay, late Senator
from Kentucky, and the adoption of the following
proceedings hy thut body, viz:
(The resolutions offered by Mr. Underwood,
which will be found in tho procceedings of the
Senate.]
Mr. Hunter, Mr. Dawson, Mr. Jonca of lowa,
Mr. Cooper, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Smith, were up
j pointed the Committee of Arrangements.
Mr. Breckenridge then rose and said:
Mr. Speaker: I rise to perform the melancholy
duty of announcing to this body the death of Hen
ry Clay, late a Senator in Congress from the Com
monwealth of Kentucky. . .
Mr. Clay expired at his lodgings in this city yes
terday morning at seventeen minutes past eleven
o’clock, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. His
noble intellect was nuclounded to the Jest. After
protracted sufferings, he passed away without pain;
and so gently did the spirit leave his frame, that
the moment of departure was not observed by the
friends who witched at his bedside. Ilislast hours
were cheered by the presence of an affectionate
son, and he died surrounded by friends who, dur
ing his long illness, had done all that affection
could suggest to soothe his sufferings.
Although this sad event has been expected for
many weeks, the shook it produced, and the innu
merable tributes of respect to his memory exhib
ited on every side, and in every form, prove the
depth of the public sorrow aud the greatness of
the public loss.
Imperishable associated as his name has been for
fifty years with every great event affecting the for
tunes of our country, it is difficult to realize that
he is indeed gone forever. It is difficult to foel
that we shall see no more liis noble form within
these walls—that we shall hear no more his liatriot
tones, now rousing his countrymen to vindicate
their rights against a foreign foe, now imploring
them to preserve ooncord among themselves. We
shall sea him no more. The mernorv and the
I fruits of his services alone remain to us. Amidst
I the general gloom, the Capitol itself looks desolate,
as if thegemu* of the place had departed. Alrea
dy the intelligence has reached almost every qoar
: ter of the Kepablie, and a great people mourn with
us, to-day, the death of their most illustrious cW
| zen. Sympathizing, as we do, deeply wish his
I family, ana friends, yet private affliction fa absorb
ed in the general torrow. The spe«nwie of4 whole
community lamenting tho loss of a great man. i’»
tar more touching thau any manifestation of pri
vate tfnet. I n speaking of a loss wliicli is national.
I wnl not attempt to desoribe the universal burst
of grief with which Kentucky will receive these ti
dings. The attempt would bo vain to depict the
gloom that will cover her people, when they know
that the pillar of fire has been removed, which
has guided their footsteps for the life of a gen
eration.
It is known to tho country, that from the mem
orable session 01T549-’SO, Mr. Clay’a health grad
ually declined. Although several years of his
Senatorial term remained, ho did not proposo to
continue in the publicsorvicc longer than the pre
sent session. He came to Washington chiefly to
defend, if it should become necessary, tlie measures
of adjustment, to the adoption of which he so
largely contributed; but tho condition of iiis health
did not allow him, at any time, to participate in
the discussions ofthe Senate. During the winter,
he was confined almost wholly to his room, with
slight changes In his condition, but gradually los
ing #lO remnant of his strength. During the long
and dreary winter, ho conversed lunch and cheer
fully with his friends, and expressed a deep inter
est iti public ail'airs. Although he did not expect
a restoration to health, ha cherished tho hope that
the mild season of spring would bring to him
strongtli enough to return to Ashland, and dio in
the bosom of his family. But alas 1 spring that
briugs life to all nature, wrought no life nor hqpo
to lnm. After the month of March liia vital pow
ers rapidly wasted, and for weeka lie lay patiently
awaiting tho stroke of death. But tho approach of
tho destrover had no terrors for him. No elouda
overhung liis future. Ho met tho end with com
posure, and his pathway to tlie grave was bright
ened by tlie cheering hopes which spirng from
tho Christian faith.
Not long beforo his death, having just returned
from Kontucky, 1 bore to him a token of affection
from his excellent wifo. Never can I forget his
appearance, his manner, or liis words. After
speaking of his family, his friends and liis country,
he changed tlie conversation to his own future,
and looking oil mu with his fine eye undimmed, und
his voice full of its original couipuas and melody,
he said, “1 am not afraid to dio, sir. I have liopo,
faith, and some confidence. 1 do not think any
man can be ontiroly certain, ita regard to Ids future
state, but i have nn abiding trust in tho merits
and mediation of our Saviour.” IS will assuage
the grief of his family toknowthut ho looked ho|>o
fully hoyond the tomb, and u Christian people will
rejoice to hoar tliut such a man in his last hours,
reposod with simplicity and confidence on the
promises of tho Gospel.
. It is the enstom an occasions like this, to speak
of the parentage und childhood ot‘ the deceased,
and to follow him, stop by step, through life. I
will not attempt to rolato oven the great oveuts of
Mr. Clay’s life beeauso they arc familiar to tho
wholo country, and it would bo needless to enu
merate a long list of public services which form a
part of American history.
Beginning life as u iViondlccs hoy, with few
advantages, save those conferred by nature, while
yet a minor lie loft Virginia, the Stato of his birth,
and commenced tho practice of law at Lexington,
in Kentucky. At a bar remarkable for its num
bers and talent, Mr. Clay soon rose to tho first rank.
At a very early ago ho was elected from tho county
of Fuyet'o to the Gcnoral Assembly of Kon
tuoky, and wus tho Speaker of that body. Com
ing into tho Senate of tho United States, for the
first time, in 1806, ho entered upon a parliamenta
ry caroor, tho most brilliant ana aiicoessftil in our
annals. From tliut time, ho remainod habitually
in the public eye. As a Senator, us a member of
this House, and its Speaker, as a representative of
his country abroad, and hk a high ofticor in tho
Executive department of tho Government, lio waa
intimutcly connected for fifty yours with overy great
measure of American policy. Os the moro party
measures of this period, l do not proposo tOßpoak.
Many of them have passed awny, and are remem
bered only as tho occasion of tho great intcllcetnul
efforts which marked their discussion. Concern
ing others, opinions are still divided. They will
go into history, with th rensons on either aide
rendered by the greatest intellects ofthe tiiuo.
Asu loader in a deliberate body. Mr. Clay hud no
equal in Ainorica. In him, intellect, person olo
quonco, and courage, united to form a character fit
to commnnd. 110 fired with liis own enthusiasm, ,
and controlled by liis amazing will, individuals
and masses. No roverso could crush liis spirit, nor
defeat roduco him to dospair. Equally oreot ami
dauntless in prosperity und udvorsitv; when suc
cessful, lio moved to tho accomplishment of his
purposes with severe resolution; whou defented,
lie rallied liis broken bands around him, and from
liis citglo eyo shot along their ranks tlie contagion
of his own courage. Destined for u leader, he
ovory whoro asserted his dostiny. In his long mid
eventful life ho cumo in contact’with men of all
ranks and professions, but ho never felt that he
was in the presence of n man superior to himself.
In the assemblies of tho people, at the bur, in the
Bonnto—everywhere within tlie circle of his pur- •
sonal prosonee lio assumed and maintained a posi
sitiou of pre-eminenao.
But tho supremacy of Mr. Clay ns a party leader
was not liis only nor his highest title to renown.
That title is to bo found in tho purely patriotic
spirit which, on groat oceoions, always signalized
his conduct. We have bad no statesman who in
periods of real and imminent publio peril lias ex
hibited a moro genuine and enlarged patriotism
than Honrv Clay. W’honovor a question present
ed itsoif actually threatening tho existence of tho
Union, Mr. Clay, rising above the passions of tbo
hour, always oxorted his powers to solve it peace
fully and liouerably. Alth ,ugh more liable than
most mon, from his impetuous and ardent nature,
to feel strougly tho passions common to us all, it
was his rare faculty to be able to subdue them in it
groat crisis, and to hold towards all sections of the-
Confederacy the language of concord and brother
hood.
Sir, It will be a prond pleasure to every trnn
American heart to romombor the great occasions
when Mr. Clay has displayed a sublime pariot
ism—when the ill-temper engendered l>y ilia
times, and the misorublo jealousies of tho day,
seemed to huvo been driven from liis bo«om, by
tho expulsive power of nobler feelings—when
every throb of liis heart was given to his conntry,
overy effort of Ids intellect dedicated to lierservico.
Who does not remember the three periods when
the Amcricun systole of Government was exposed
to its severest trials; and who does not know tliut
when history ahull relate the struggles which pre
coded tho dangers which were averted by tho Mis
souri compromise—the tariff compromise of 1882
and the adjustment, of 1860, the same pages will
record tho genius, the oloquenco, and tho patriot
ism of llonry Clay?
Nor was it in Mr. Clay’s nature to lag bohlnd
until ineusiires of adjustment were matured, and
then come forward to swell 11 majority. On the
contrary, like a bold nnd real statesman, he was
ever among tho first to meet tho peril, and liuzard
his fume upon tho remedy. It is trosh In tho mem
ory ol ua all that, when lately the fury of soetional
discord threatened to sever tho Confederacy Air
Clay, though withdrawn from public life, ami op
pressed by the burden of yoars, came back to the
(senate, the theatre of fils glory, and dovotod tho
remnant ol hits strength to tho sacred duty of pre
serving the union of tho [states. r
With characteristic courage ho took the lead in
proposing a scheme of settlement. But while ho
was willing to assuino the responsibility of propo
sing a plan, he did not, with petty ambition, in
sist upon its adoption to tho exclusion of other
modes; but taking lift own ns u starting point for
discussion and practical action, ho nobly labored
with his compatriots to change and improvo it In
such form as to mako it uu acceptable adjustment.
Throughout the long and urdnotis struggle, tho
love ot country expelled from his bosom the spirit,
of selfishness, und Mr. Clay proved for the third
time, that though he was ambitious, and loved
glory, lie had no umbitiou to mount po fame on
the confusions of Ins country. And this convic
tion is lodged iu the hearts of tho people; Uie par
ty measures and the party pussions of former times
have not, for several years, interpose a between
Mr. Clay and tho masses of liis countrymen After
1860 lie seemed to fell thut his mission was ac
complished, and during the sump period the re
gards unu affections of tho American people hnvo
been attracted to him in a remarkable degree
lor rnuiiy months the warmest feelings—tho deep
est anxieties of all parries centered upon tho dying
statesman ; tho glory of his great actions shed a
mellow lustre on t his declining years, and to fill
the measure oi liis fume, his countrymen, weaving
5* “'| n j-ho laurel wreath, with common hands,
did bind it about Ins venerable brows, and send
him crowned, to history.
The life ol Mr. Clay, sir, is a striking example
oftho abiding fame which surely awaits the direct
and candid statesman. The entire absence of
equivocation or disguiso in ull his acta was his
master-key to the popular heart; for while tho
people will forgive the errors of a bold and open
nature, he sins past forgiveness who deliberately
deceives thorn. Uciice Mr. Clay, though often de
feated iu his measures of policy, ulwuys secured
tho respect of his opponents without loosing the
confidence of his friends. Ho never fidtered in a
double sense. Tho country never was 111 doubt as
to his opinions or his purposes. 111 all the contests '
of bis time, liis position on grout public questions
was as clear as the sun iu tho cloudless sky. Sir,
standing by the grave of this great iimri, and con
sidering these things, how contemptible docs ap
pear the mere legerdemain of polities! what a re
proach is liis life on thut false policy which would
trifle with a great and upright peoplo 1 If I were
to write his epitaph, I would inscribe as the high
est eulogy, on the stone which shall murk his rest
ing place, “ Hero lies amtm who was in the pub
lic service for fifty years, and never attempted to
decoive bis countrymen."
While the youth of America should imitate liis
noble qualities, they may take courage from his
career und note the high proof it uil'ords that
under our equal institutions tho avenues to honor
are open loall. Mr. Clay rose by the force of liis
own genius, unaided by power, patronage, or
wealth. At an age when our young men are usu
ally advanced to tho higher schools of learning,
provided only with the rudiments of an Eugl’sh
education, he turned his steps to the West, und
umidst the rude collisions of a border lilo, ma
tured a character whose highest exhibitions were
destined to murk eras in Ins country’s hitorj.—
Beginning on tho frontiers of American civilization
the orphan boy, supported only hy tlio conscious
ness of Ids own powers, andby the confidence of
the people, surmounted ull the barriers of adverse
fortune, and won a glorious name in tho annals of
his country. Let the geuero us youth, fired with
honorable ambition, remember that the American
systom ol Government offers on every hand boun
ties to merit. It, likeCjay, orphunago, obscurity,
poverty, shall oppress him; yet if. like Clay, fie
teals the I’rometbean spark within, it him re
member that his country, HQs a generous mother,
extends her arms to welcome and to cherish every
one of her children whoso genius and worth may
promote her prosperity or increase her renown.
Mr. Speaker, the signs of woe around us and the
general voice announce that another groat man
has fallen. Onr consolation is that ho was not
taken in the vigor ol liis manhood, but sunk into
tho grave at the close of a long and illustrious
career. The great statesmen who have filled the
largest space in tho public eye, one by one are
passing away. Os the three great loaders es the
Senate, one alone remains, and he must follow
soon. « c shall witness no more their intellectual
struggles in the American forum ; but the monu
ments of tiicir genius will bo cherished as tho com
mon property of tho people, and their names will
continue to confer dignity and renown upon tb'ir
country.
Not less illustrious than the greatest t>f these
will bo the name of Clay—a name pronounced
with prido by Americans in every qua,ter of the
globe; a name to be remembered while history
shull record tho struggles of modem Greece for
freedom, or the spirit of liberty ham in tho South
American bosom ; a living and immortal name—a
name that would descend to posterity without the
aid of letters, borne by traditiob from generation
to generation. Every memorial of such a man
will possess a meaning and a value to his country
men. Hie tomb will boa hallowed spot. Great
memories will cluster there, and his countrymen,
as they visit it, may well exclaim—
“ Such graves nr, lb are pilgrim shrine.',
Shrine* to or code confined;
The vales, tho Paketine*,
The the mind.”
Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolutions :
fisjoiwd, That the House of Representatives of
the United States has received, with the deauest
■ sensibility, intelligence of th 4 death of Zy
«oh-ed t That the officers and members of the
Houo4 of Representatives will wear the usua^
[rONCLCtUD OK BXOO NS ties.]