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VOL. XV.
TANARUS: E (IQR6IA JEFFERS9MAN.
IS PURUSHED KVERY THPItSI'AY MORNING
BY WILLIAM CLINE,
At Two SDollars and Fifty Cents per an
mxTO, or Two Dollars paid in advance.
A i V'Kli n VIE.Vj'S arc insrrtrd at OX’E
iwr •<|iii%44i;.ihe li;td i.ivrtton, and
PiFTY CE.XTS per square, stir etulflnserlToh
I iierealier.
\ re.iso- • will r>e made to those
who n,iv< .• hv the year.* . ,
All a .tis-'raents n.it otherwise ordered, will
!• >:or ‘ .od Sill |i>r'ud.
A'.* ••■}'.F.< OF VftS hv Adintnislrators,
■o! • .tors or Gna'dian? are required l>% law to be
h‘dd on the lir-M Tuesday in the month, between
the tionrp o- ton in the l ireti ion and three in the
afternoon, at the Coiut-I louse, in the county mi
which the ‘ami is slimited. Notice of these sale,
’•:n>t he ..riven m i ptihiie gaz-tle FORTY D.QYS
yr—do is •(> th<- <lav of sale.
ft •2/..-J.V OF .VI'.GHOES mnsl he made nt |i.i!>-
h<- mnetton on the first ‘i’nesdnv ot’lhe month, be
tween the hours ul’sale, at the jilace o! puh
l.e sales m the county where the letters Tt'slu
tuntary, of Aimiiiistr tion nr Guardianship mav
have hems e rant eh first oiving FORTY DJIYS
••otice the . o! >n one ot the imhlie Gazettes ot this
S'.i* .and at time, itirl house, who e such sal ear so
i ‘• held.
f'o'.n t..r the sal.-of f*rsoaa! Property must
*•• ,t.f— in like m ie.ncr FORTY DA l’S previous
iln • dav nt Mile.
;t.c •to O.eiio’i 1 and f’rcdifors of an estate
must ho ptiohslic.l FORTY D.IYS.
Not’i e . h,.l omiheation will tic made to the Court
O i uyrv for *.*: ut to svs.t. land must be puh
h>r TFO MO.YPfIS,
No'i to* i.kayk to vßti. negroes must he
poh's j• I V!>M MOM TilS helorc any order ah-
Mi’otc -’ .'I o i made thereon l>v the Court.
V! ’\I VS for Letters of Administration,
tot:** ; o on l:>h • I THSRTT IU1*; for Dismission
font \ Ii; ■’ -],■'-pine mont!iit six months: for
I) * u.*v t t .‘o n •'> uard'iusliip. ruu rr pay?.
.oh tor'll. I'orc;lomik- of Mortage must he
o ’ ft ! iusrii.t p-tr. four months, esiab
psh if* ‘ for the fuil space ot three
m xt i*; tor • 0it1.5~-.ino 11: irsi from Executor ms
hi: i.s : iheic a bond litis been {.iven by
h • i-. ■ > He space of THREE MONTHS.
Cot’gve’frs of the United States.
£m Seitiite, Bcu. Bi!s.
U-TV. WM. R. K!\;.
MR. IILNTLR rose and said: Since
the adjournment of the last Congress an
evvut has OC‘ arr :d which it becomes us to
hos ii T.te American people have lost a
v ice Pivsidmif, an 1 Use Senate a presi
l:ug ..=ffi'-2r, by the (leaill of Wis. 11.
mis who departed this life o;t the —of
A or” Inst, at his home in the State of
Alabama. 1 rise to ask that wc may
pause for a day at least in our delibera
tion., upon ihe affairs of life, to devote it
to the memory of one who was bound to
us by so many personal and official tics.
.Surely, sir, there is none within the limits
of this wide-spread confederacy, to whom
the life aud services of Win. R. King are
known, who would not be ready with
some offering, either of public respect or
personal affection, to besto.v upon his
tomb. There have been few public men,
whose lives have been as long and as .ac
tive as his, who have made more friends,
and none, I am sure, ever left fewer ene
'.tiles. ‘Nor was !?Ls one of those’ cold and
impassive characters which shed their
light without heat, .but its kindly influen
ces fell with genial anl friendly warmth
within whatever circle he might move.
It is a happy thing for a country when
the lives of its public men may be thrown
freely open to the world, and challenge
its closest scrutiny, with a consciousness
on the p art of the friendly critic that t’.icre
is no blot to be concealed, and no gl .ring
fault which a love of t:\ith forbids him to
deny, and his own sense of right scarcely
allows him to palliate. Here, at least, Ls
a public man, in whose life there can be
found no instance of a mean or equivoca
ting action, none of a departure from the
self-imposed restraints of a refined and
lofty sense of honor, and none in which
either the fear of man or tiie seductions of
ambition tempted lit in to a deed which
ccruld destroy cither his own self-respect,
or the respect of others for him. He trod
the difficult and devious paths to political
preferment long and successfully, and yet
he kept his robes uusoiied by the vile mire
which so often pollutes those ways. It is
s iid that trie story of every human fife, if
rightly told, may convey a useful lesson
to tho-m who survive. Os all the public
men whom I have known, there ore none
‘Whose lives teach more impressively the
great moral of the strength which public
virtue gives than that of Colonel King.—
His was an instance in which greatness
was achieved without the aid of those
brilliant qualities whose rare assemblage
the world calls genius, but, by what is bet
ter far, a sound judgment, a resolute pur
pose to pursue the right, aud a capacity
to gather wisdom from experience.
lie was no orator, and yet from the
force of character he could v.ield an influ
ence which mere oratory never command
ed. lie had none of that presumptuous
self eoalid -nee which so often misleads
ourselves and others, aud which, though
a daturarous, is still acorn minding quality;
but i.. k i hv ho w to inspire a people with
just confidence in the sound less of his
judgment and the integrity of his purpose
so us to be look * l to as a safe depository
of trust and power.
\1 though gentle and kind in his inter
coarse with others, ho could be stern c
iioug.i when the public interests or his per
sonal ho ior required it. Hft was a man,
sir, whoso whole soul won’ 1 have sickened
u rler a scuso of perso ul dishonor.
ft is not surprising, then, that each
fop it> the pol ideal career of such a m.i',
-mould have been crowned with public
ho ors. At the age of twenty one lie was
A- tel to tiie 1 ‘gl-datai'e of North Caroli
na, ills ; itive State, where he serve 1 until
L was mad; so! citor. In that capacity
acted until he was twenty live years of
v, hen lie was sent to the House of
“iftbpresentadves of the United States,
v/her oe served from 1811 to ISIG,’ when
he resigned to go abroad as secretary of
legation to Mr. Pinckney, our minister to
Kujsav Upon his return he emigrated to
Alabama, where he was almost immediate
by sent to their constitutional convention.
At the first session of the first legisla
ture which assembled afterwards, he was
sent to the Senate of the United States
from the State of Alabama, where he may
be sai l lo have served continuously, until
his election to the Vice Presidency, with
the exception of two yours, when ho was
Minister to France. Finally lie was e
lected Vice President of the United States
by a large majority of the American poo-
@l)e (feotgi n 3effe mtimsm.
— “ - - ■
pie. As he ascended step by step to this
elevation, his vision seemed to grow with
his horizon, and when the occasion came
lid was always found equal to it; for, to
the aid of a sound judgment, he brought,
as he grew older, the wisdom of a large
experience.
11 is political career may be said to have
| been one triumphant mhfcli through life—
! a march in which his step neither faltered
| nor stumbled in ascending to that place
J which was perhaps the chief object of his
j aspiration. And yet, as if to show that
i even the mo*t successful of uicri must soon
er or later feel the emptiness of the earthly
objects of our usual pursuits, that much
prised honor was to him the Dead Sea
fruit which turns to ashes on the lips. It
came, but it came too late. The breath
of public applause could not revive the
flame which flickered in the lamp of life.
In vain did the assiduity of relatives and
friends surround him with affectionate
care. In vain did the aspirations of a
whole people ascend to Heaven for his re
covery. The balmy influences of neither
sen nor sky could revive or restore him.—
Ahen the public messenger came to clothe
him with the forms of office, his chief earth
ly wish was to see his home once more,
and, in the midst of familiar scenes, to die
amongst, his friends: His desire was gra
tified. Life and its busy scenes on this
side the grave are now closed on him for
ever. But its tale yet remains to be told
not by me, sir, or at this time—but it
v'lli be told in the chronicles of his State
hereafter; when it may become a labor of
love to some of her sons to write the story
of its founders and sages. It will be told
in our own political history by whoever
may portray the stirring ami eventful
scenes in which he acted a prominent and
useful part. It will be told, too, and per
haps heard, with most interest in the tra
ditions of a family of which lie was the or
nament and pride.
Mr. President, those to whom our peo
ple have been long accustomed te look in
times of difficulty and emergency for co’iln
sel and opinion, are falling fast around us.
H is an anxious tiling to feel their loss at
a time like this, pregnant with change,
and teeming, perhaps, with great and
strange events Ihe men we cannot re
call; but let us preserve their memories;
let us study their teachings, and it will lie
well if, in many respects, we shall follow
their example.
I offer the following resolution:
Il.'s,l’vcil, Taat from respect tot lie lute Wu. ft.
King, Vico Piesident of the United States and
President ofklic Senate, th elixir of flic President
of the S malelie ciirnuded with black; and, a a
further testimony ot'reaped to Ihe memory of the
deceased, tiis members of the Senate will go into
mqiirmno |>y wearing crape on tlt-ir left arm for
thirty da vs.
Ordered, Tha* the Secretary of the Senate com
mil licate this rejo'n'ioti to the II jusq ol'll’presen-
I.Hives
MR. EVERETT. Mr. President, I
have been requested to second the moti -n
which has just been made by the Senator
from Virginia. I do so with gretOl cheer
fulness. In was my good fortune to enjoy
the acquaintance of the late Vice Presi
dent—l hope, even some portion of his
friendly regard—for a longer period pro
bably then most of those within the sound
of my voice—a period of nearly thirty
years. Such being the case, l feel as if I
ought not to remain silent at this last mo
ment, when our relations to him as mem
bers of the Senate are, by the performance
of this and iv’s melancholy duty, abo.it to be
closed forever
There is an ancient maxim, sir, founded
at once in justice and right feeling, which
bids ii i soy “nothing but what is good of the
dead.” I can obey this rale in refer
ence to the late Vice President without
violating the most scrupulous dictates of
sincerity. 1 can say nothing but what is
good of him, for I have never seen or
heard anything but good of him for thirty
years that I have known him personally
and by reputation..
It would h ird'y be expected of me to
attempt to detail the incidents of the
private or the public career of the late
Vice President That duty belongs to
others, by whom it has been, or will no j
doubt be, appropriately performed. 11
regret, particularly on this occasion, the
unavoidable absence of our colleagues from
Alabama. It is the province of those of
us not connected with him by political
associations, especially of those inhabiting
remote parts of our common country, to
express their cordial concurrence in the
affectionate praises which have been or
may be pronounced by his fellow-citizens
an l neighbors.
Few of the public mcirof the day had
been so intimately associated with the Sen
ate as the late Vice President. I think
be had been a member of the body for
more years than any person now belonging
to it. Besides this a relation of a different
kind had grown up between him and the
Senate. The federal constitution dc
volves upon the people, through the medi
um of the electoral colleges, the choice
of the presiding officer of this holy. But
whenever the Senate was called to
supply the place temporarily, for a long
course of years, and till lie cease I to belong
to it, it turned spoatauiously to him.
. He uni ruble lly owed t-hi* honor to ills-’
tiiiguishod qualifications for tiio chair. He
possessed, in a:i eminent degree, that
quickness of pereqpti >n, that promptness
of decision, that familiarity with the now
somewhat complicated rules of Congres
sional, proceeding*, and tint urbanity of
manner, which are required in a presiding
officer. Not claiming, although ail acute,
forcible debater, to rank with his illustri
ous contemporaries, whom uow, alas! we
can mention only to deplore —with Cal
houn, with Olay, with- Webster, (I name
them alphabetically, and who will presume
to arrange them any other way?) whose
unmatched eloquence so often shook the
walls of this Senate—the late Vice Presi
dent possessed the rare and the highly
important talent of controlling with impar
tiality the storm of debate, and modera
ting between mighty spirits whose ardent
conflicts at times seemed to threaten the
stability of the republic.
In fact sir, he was ehdowol with what
Cicero beautifully commends as the boni
senaloris prudciilia, the “wisdom of a good
senator;’’ and in his accurate study and’
ready application of tho rules of parlia
mentary law, he rendered a service to the
country, not perhaps qf the. most brilliant
GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY 31DRNING, JANUARY 5, 1854.
kind, but assuredly of no secondary im
portance. There is nothing which more
distinguishes the great national race to
which we belong than its aptitude for
government by deliberative assemblies;
its willingness, while it asserts the largest
liberty of parliamentary right, to respect
what the Senator from Virginia in another
connexion has called the self-imposed re
strictions of parliamentary order, and I do
not think it an exaggeration to say, that
there is no trait in their character which
has proved more conducive to the des
patch of the public business—to the free
dom of debate—to the honor of the coun
try—l will say, even which has done more
to establish and perpetuate constitutional
liberty.
The long and faithful Senato’Vial career
of the late Vico President received at last
its appropriate reward. The people of the
United States, having witnessed the dis
position of the Senate to place him at
their head, and the dignified and accepta
ble manner in which lie bore himself in
that capacity, confered upon him, a twelve
month since, that office, which is shown by
recent experience to be above and second,
if not actually the first, in their gift—-the
office which placed him constitutionally
and permanently, during its continuance,
in the chair of the Senate.
A mysterious dispensation of Providence
has nipped these crowning honors in the
bud. A disease, for which the perpetual
summer and perfumed breezes of the tro
pics afforded no balm, overtook him at an
age when he might, it) the course of na
tare, have reasonably looked forward to
still many years of active service. Clothed
by a special and remarkable act of Con
gress, even while under a foreign jurisdic
tion, with the constitutional qualifications
to enter upon the high office to which lie
had been elected, lie returned, not to ex
ercise his functions, but to seek his much
roved home, aui there to die.
Thus, sir, he lias left us to chase for a
little while longer the shadows which he
has exchanged for unutterable realities.—
He has left us, sir, prematurely for every
thing but his spotless name, and Ills en
trance on the well-earned honors of Ills
unambitious career. And we, senators,
for all the interchange of kindness for all
tiie intercourse of private life - for all the
acts of co operation in the public service
—to which, for at least four years, the
Senate was looking forward in its connex
ion with him—have nothing left to offer
to his friends and his memory but the un
availing tribute of this last mournful fare
well.
I second the resolutions* of the senator
from Virginia.
Mr. CASS. Mr. President, again has
death invaded the high places of our land,
and has taken from us a citizen distin
guished by his talents, his worth, and his
services, and enjoying the confidence and
affection of his countrymen. In the Pro
valence of Cod, these visitations come to
warn ns that nane arc exempt from the
decree, that in life we are in the midst of
death, and that be ye also ready is a sol
emn admonition, announced tins from
the cradle to the grave, by the mighty and
the lowly, as they successively fall before
the great destroyer. The lesson is the
more impressive the higher the position,
and the more eminent the character, of
him whose departure we may be called
upon to mourn. And when one who oc
cupied tbe second station in our country
is summoned from the duties of this life to
the responsibility of that which is to come,
as the loss is a national one, the manifesta
tion of public sympathy, and the acknowl
edgement of the public grief, should be
national also. Oar lamented friend, the
late Vice President, lias been taken from
us, full of years indeed and of honors, but
in the midst of his usefulness,; an 1 when hp
was just prepared to enter upon the high
career to which he had been called by the
American people. Upon this occasion I
desire to do little more than to express
those sentiments of affectionate regard
with which an acquaintance of many years
had inspired me, leaving to others, who
have this day well fulfilled the task, to
prescut those features of his character and
services which endeared him to his coun
trymen in life, and will e idear to the n his
memory, now that the scenes of life are
forever closed upon him.
His career was eminently useful and”
fortunate; and in the whole range of A
tneric.in statesmen there are few, indeed,
to whom our youth can better look when
seeking models of imitation and encour
agement, than to VVm. R: Ki.vg
Firm but courteous, frank and fearless,
of high honor and irreproachable morals,
he brought a vigorous intellect and"varied
and extensive information to the public
counsels; and the ripe fruit of his experi
ence, joined to these endowments, gave
conviction to his opinion and authority to
his example. Wc always heard him with
attention; for he elucidated every subject
he investigated, and brought to our dis
cussions the stores of his Knowledge and
experience, with a manner as unassuming
as it was captivating v'hilc loving the
State in which he so long resided, and
which had given him so many proofs of
i confidence and affection, he loyql alsp our
eo.n no.i country, and at home and abroad
proved himself the true patriot, the able
and faithful citizen. In tall the relations
of private life lie was loved an 1 honored,
as well from the amenity of his manners
as from the kindness of his heart, and in
the social circle he was the very model of
the accomplished gentleman. For almost
half a century he was in the public service,
and was intimately connected with many
of the great events which marked that
long and stirring period, and he proved
himself equal to all the circumstances in
which lie was placed, sustaining himself
with signal ability among men whose re
nown is written in imperishable characters
upon the history of our country.
But better than all this, and above all,
lie was a sincere Christian ;-adding another
to the long list of eminent men who have
searched the (J-ospol of Jesus and have
found it the will and word of God. In
his last illness, when the world and
the tilings of the world’ wero fast fa
ding* before him, he found consolation
in the promises of the Savior; and, calmly
surveying the approaoh of death, he look
ed beyond its power ta'tlie glorious immor
tality promis'd to the belierev, The p!a
ces that knew him will know hi ano m ;
but, though dead, his me i . ■ i< mbalm-A
in the hearts of his c mut'vm <, a l Liu re
it will live, honored and c'ori th 1, lo t
after all those who are iu;,v t ikin ? p :rt in
this tribute to his worth shall In vs fol’ownii
him in the journey, where, for a brief up- tee,
lie has preceded us through Jjic’ (1 rk v:i ! -
• ley of the shadow of loath. .<*
Mr. DOUGL T'n> h- j-v ,ll *jhv¥ iS
; to add anything of vaVe o
i so well said by others. For the lust eight
■ months the mournful event which is no.v
• officially announced t> the Senate his Arm
. known, felt, aud lamented di In
! the meantime, we have passed th"ough
scenes well calculate to engross our
thoughts an’tl divert our attention, if not
.to obscure the Ires;in ss of the iir*t im
pression, or assuage t te keenness -of tha*
sorrow which fiiied every heart. But p
matter what the iap-e of time ffor its re
sults, the meeting of the Senate, and the
absence of one whom all admired an l lor
ed, and delighted to greet and honor, e ills
Up associations and remhib ,*ene''s which
impart to the occasion aif the effects of a
sudden and unexpected bereavement. -
T hose whose happiness !l was to be asso
ciated with Colonel King, in public duty
and private intercourse, are alone capable
of realizing the extent of our loss. II: <
example in all the relations of life, pubhc
and private, may be safely commended to
our children as worthy of imitation Few
men in this country have ever served the j
public for so long a period of time, and
none with a more fervent patriotism or!
unblemished reputation For forty-live!
years he devoted his energies and talents ;
to the performance of arduous public tin- 1
ties—-always performing his trust .will} fi
delity and ability, and failing to
command the confidence, admiration, and
gratitude of an enlightened constituency.
Willie lie held in succession numerous offi
cial stations, in each of which he'maintain
ed and enhanced his previous reputation,!
yet the Satiate was the plaice of his choice 1
and the theatre of his gre itest usefulness {
Here he sustained a i o iviable reputation 1
during a pario 1 of thirty years’ senatorial
service, always manifesting his respect for |
the body by his courtesy and oropr ety of!
deportment. Here, where his character
was best understood, and his uses lines*
and virtues mod highly appreciated, his
loss, as a public mm and a private friend,
is most painfully felt and deeply lamented
Mr CLAYTON I shah- only pay a
debt of honor to the spirit of the dead, by
offering my humble testimonial in addition
to what lias been so appropriately and
eloquently expressed by others. A quar- 1
ter of a century has since I be- j
came acquainted with Am. R. Kixo as a ;
brother, senator on this floor. During the !
greater part of that long penod I was an ‘
attentive observer of his course as a pub j
lie man, and I c-ian-K i t justice remain l
silent when an opportunity is off ?red of i
paying a tribute to the memory of one who j
so honorably de-o't:.v<‘ ; : t. -i- *
That mau who dying cm lie said to
have passed Ids days without a stain upon
his reputation has justly earned the honors
due to a well spent life. The Roman po
et has immortalized the sentiment
“Ni;c ma c visit, qui a itu*Tnurtc )<q in folcilit,”
and Wm. R. Ki.vg may be truly said to
have passed from the cradle to the grave
without a blot upon his name.
The chief part of his history is written
upon the records of tin’s Senate, in which
his high character as a legislator and states
man was firmly established. I would
avoid the common’ places e mployed on occa
sions similar to the present, when speaking
of such a inan. It is not enough to sav
of him that lie performed his duties well
as a member of the Senate He was dis
tinguished by the scrupulous correctness of
of his conduct. He, was remarkable for
his quiet and unobtrusive, but,active, prac
tical usefulness as a legislator. He was
e nph itica!!y a business me nber of the Sen*-
site, anl without ostentation, originated
and perfected m >r-3 useful measure j than
m my who filled the public eye by greater
display and daily cOinmatvdfiiftlt-j applause
of the listening Acute. He never sought
with some of his co temporaries t ) earn a
brilliant reputation by.. of
splendid oratory; an i. to his honor’ be it
spoken, he never vexed tue ear of the
Senate with ill timed, teJi&as, oi>u:>:wees
sar'y debate lie prefere.i to be -.‘hacked
for silence rather then o bj tasked for
spec .‘h. Vet o i till occasions .when a great
issue was before the country, c diiug for
tiie exercise of manly firmness, courage,
an;l patriotism, Mr. King was always with
those who stood foremost for the safety
and tire glc'fy of the republic.
He graced the chair of the Senat e long
er than any other man that ever occupied
it —not continuously, or y virtue merely
of repeated elections as our temporary
President, but often also at the request of
the Presiding officer. 1 think lie was
thus engaged in the performance of the
duties of the President of the Senate du
ring the greater put of the terms of five
Vice Presidents; and at last he reached
the second office in the gift of th.* people
—an office excelled in honor only by one
other in the world. To preside over such
VI adorn'd; rys fie Senate of the l/aited
States, and to do that as lie did it, was
enough to satisfy the highest aspirations
of an honorable and patriotic amuition.
In this elevated position lie wat distin
guished fan l I may add was never ex
celled) for the dignity of his deport neat,
i the impartiality off his trie
promptness aud fidelity with wlflch lie
maintained the order and enforced the
rules of this body. 1 can re member no in
stance in which he lost sight of what was
line to his own self-respee. or the rights of
his political opponents, by tiie indulgence
of party feelings in the chair. Presiding
as he did, when party spirit raged in tor
rents of fire, all just men will admit tiiat
he could have been no common man who
maintained his high character for justice
and impartiality at such a period A lit
tle man, at tlrat time, would have shown
his littleness by yielding, himself up as an
■instrument of oppression to -tiie minority.
But lie sought an honest and enduring
faiiiG, and he obtained it With .it ‘V em
ployment of any unworthy means, or the
slightest sacrifice of principle. He en
gaged no hireling press, no mercenary li
ioeler, to traduce others, or to trumpet his
awn fame. Jle paid respect to the feelings
of other t, and rigidly exacted the Obsor
vttnci of the same lvsp'ct for himself.—
Generous as ho wos brave, his conduct to
; his opponent* suffering under defeat was
l al ways li’end and kind; and, by his in
fla-ib!: fru’di, he won the entire confidence
ot men of all parlies in ills own unblem •
i.kic.d honor
I Others have spoken of his service in
I■> ic” pi'-eet, but T a:mi! sneak of nothing
*to vfhich J was not ft witness. “W hile Mr.
Kivu remained in the Senate there was
stili one member of th t body who had ser
ved with me m fids floor during the ses
:.ou of— 3). it is melancholy to
. .'lee’. Fiat ue.trlr all the rest of the sena
tors of that p.-riod have closed their career
on earth., and that not ore of those who
survive remain here vwth me to day.
The master sprits of the time were a
mong the senators of that day. I speak
not of the living. But hero, then, were
Clay, Calhoun, Forsyth, Webster, and
Livingston, the learned and laborious
Woodbury, the astute Grundy, the witty,
sarcastic an 1 over-ready Holmes, the chiss-
I ic Robbins, end, among many other justly
di uingnished, the graceful and accom
’ pl’shc 1 on tor of South Carolina, Robert
j Y. Hayne,—
*•.’ !i i e wi>r<l* ’ini stum -,i m-dtine fl >**',
An! ?,|ki!;i? of~o rwcdly \v<T,
Tin v lik> tli • set - ’ nest snow,
And nil ws bri a hart <?■=•? wh ro they fell.”
Oh! I could enumerate, and delight to
t dwell o.i, the virtues of them all; ami then
revert to him whose fame we now com
memorate, as to one not inferior in integ
rity and honor to the proudest among
them. Bat those reminiscences are at
tended by the mournful reflection that our
connexions with them in this world are
oAiled forever
‘ Ar aiitd ii.j, r>;ie!i disarveriri! chain
i <i £;> irkimg ran:
And enrtlily hands cni qe’er
Unite t iosi: brt/kc.n m-s.”
Tie resolutions were unanimously a
(looted.
Mr. IIUNTER. Asa further mark
of respect, to the memory of the deceased,
I move th it the Senate do now adjourn.
The motion was agreed to, a id the Sen
ate adjourned.
Slucc!i of .Tic. fflitclicl!*
Til3 IRISH rATRIOT,
Ddivertd at U moldy n, on the. Bih hut , in
reply to the Mayor, Aldorman, and Com
mon Councillors of the city of Bioo/dy t.
M ii. M IT J HELL, sail:
It is almost needless for mb to say how
deeply gratifying and overpowering, the
kindness ofthat eloquent address is to me
today. I only fee! that it overvalues my
poor and ineffectual services in the cause
of that liberty which we all love so well
It certainly does not exaggerate my zeal,
and li dots not exaggerate the wrongs I
have endured in consequence of that zeal.
Tne reference the address makes to the
i-0 : >n of the rforporatio/i ot tpis city,,
an 1 many other cities of the Union, in
order to induce the President of the Uni
te:.! States to interfere in a friendly manner
with the British Government for the liber
ation of me and my associates—that
reference leads me to observe that, on the
wnoie, we all felt glad that tiiat movement
of iiivcrferance was permitted to drop
i a ive no scruple m saying, that we
disnUe any appeal being made to the
magnanimity ot the English Govcrnmant
in oar bcnail. Wc have seemio instance, no
example in all history, of that lnagnanitni
, ty. vVhe.il we Siting ourselves between the
starving, perishing Irish, and the potent
jcmp.ro of Great Britain, w.e never con
i tempiated thiv-.vm j ourselves afterwards
upon tiie mercy .of ih it Government.—
[Applause.] rio that with all gratitude
for the go a-'To .is goal will manifested 1
towards us in America,-and I believe by
the President himself on that occasion,
wo felt glad that the matter was allowed
to drop. Ia n much more delighted that]
my friend, Mr. Meagher, ami myself, owe
oar liberation, not l£>k- eleui mey of the:
Q loan of England —ack a me/ wgleh we ;
have never seen exercised -but to our own
exertion and the gallant daring of our
j friends. Ore utE-r . obeervatitm I will •
i ntake, with allAoiiiig of my own imwor-!
thy ness of such a triumphant proscssioa as !
you have given me to day—America owes 1
as so nothing, if it be a crine to love j
liberty—to worship liberty—to adore re-j
public inis. n, America seduced my vouch-’
nil mi ld into’ crime, [Loud Applause,] j
for from my earliest days, 1 have followed j
in kinematic:! the truck of that glorious j
flag. i know every mountain pass that,
it took from f'e redcoats; yes I have pant
ed after it at Trenton, on the Delaware;’
I have seen it waving at Brandy wine and |
Saratoga, and at Yorktown my heart has j
triumphed in tiic triumph of liberty. Sir,’
many a year since, i have avowed myself a
disciple of riiomas Jefferson. Yes, of ail
the residences of noble and eminent philo
sophers that this world boasts of, I
kno w none to compare with the shades of
Mouticeiio. The Tusc.ilum villa of
Cicero is famous, and Pliny’s retreat at
Cquio is no less renowned; but one object
of my pilgrim ige to America is to visit
ime shades of Mouticeiio. As my voice is
weak, and as 1 wish to address the citizens
outside, perhaps you will allow me to
proceed lucre now, and accept my sincere
thanks for the honor you have done are.—
[ id ith lsiastic applause.]
Mr. Mitchell, accompanied by his num
erous friends, was then e inducted by his
Honor the Mayor, and the members of
the com non Council, to the portico of the
Gity Hall, No sooner wss the patriot seen
by the thousands of his friends and admir
ers, densely congregated in the City Hall
Park, and all around the portico of the
building, then the air was rent by
stentorian cheering, which lastcd for some
minutes. As soon as the enthusiastic
plaudits of the dense assjublage hid sub
side 1, Mr Al.tchellsaid:
UiriZE.vsi’ The honor of being publicly
welcomed to America by the civic author
ities of these two noble and more than iui
p rial cities, is indeed a high and proud
personal distinction; but if that were all,
I should, as my friend Mr. Meagher did
on a former oeca.uon, Log to be excused
from accepting it. With him, I feel that
we Irish r diels have as yet earned no such
tribute. We are nit conquerors, but fu
gitives. A’ it only have we not conquered
—wo had not even the good fortune to
light, it is year generous appreciation of
mere good intentions, of well-meant but
baffled efforts—it is, above all, your right
eous republican disdain and horror of no
torious public injustice, that prompts yon
to hail the arrival amongst you of one
who, in a monarchical country of Europe,
was found guilty of the felony of republi
canism. [Cheers] Surely Americans
must lore liberty dearly well, for they
Honor not only the high priests and tri
umphant champions of that faith, but the
oh ure martyrs, the baffled, beaten, ridi
"uled, execrated confessors. America not
only shrines in her heart, and crowi s the
brows of a LaFayette a:ul a Washington,
whose swords victoriously hewed a way
to Freedom’s temple—not only does hom
age to tuc horoisin of a Koskiusco and a
Kossuth, who lost, indeed, liberty’s battle,
but whoso Titan struggles made Europe
s hake and ring—she piously searches out
the humble soldiers and preachers of that
sacred cause, the men whom tyrants have
hanged, or shot, or transported for their
felony, and whom slaves have laughed at
tor their folly, and she honors their memo
ries, and makes their names household
words, and bids the survivors be of good
cheer.
America waits, and longs, and listens,
to hear that Emmett's epitaph has been
“'r tten. Oh, that it were written with
an iron pen! No matter where in all the
world there is but a throb of pulsation of
freedom's heart, America’s blood tingles
mid her eye Humes. America clasps one
Irish rebel to her bosom like a mother;
America holds out her arms to O’Brien
over the sea, entreating him to take shel
ter under her wing; America receives me
with thanksgiving, plaudits, and blessings.
[Great cheering.]
I delight in yovr cordial greeting, but
not ou my own account. It is impossible
for me to regard it in the light of a per
scmal concern at all. I forget myself; I
efface myself. lam but as a seaweed,
thrown up by the heavLugs of.the dark
and stormy sea of our Irish life; and i
know well that the things you take an in
tcrest in is not the floating weed, but the
strength and direction of the tides and
currents that whirl it along. I will meet
your republican welcome with a republi
can frank.,ess, and will tell you the pre
cise meaning and value which I attach to
this day’s events.
The English Government regards us
Irish rebels, and justly regards us, as its
irreconcilable enemies; therefore, it nick
names us felons, traitors, convicts, and
buries us in felon dungeons. That end it
attains by denying us a trial before our
county. men, (who would have been sure
to acquit us,) and by performing a mock
trial before its own creatures, in utter dis
regard of even its own laws and coustitu
lion—which you know are the envy of
surrounding nations. Thus, then, stands
the issue. 1 charge the British Govern
ment;, with devastating and ruining my
country. The British Government tells
me lam a felon for my saying so. I ex
hort my countrymen to throw off the Bri
tish yoke and to govern themselves. The
British Government thereupon, without
trial, binds me in chains, and sends me
across the seas to reconsider and repent
of my republicanism at leisure; and in the
mean time, millions of our countrymen lie
down and die of hunger, and other millions
turn paupers and robbers, while England
sends us over, by way of alms, about a
twentieth part of what Ireland yearly
sends her by way of tribute, and bids us
be thankful, and submit to the dispensa
tions of the Almighty. I tell them that
we curse their charity, and abhor their
blasphemy. I say to them that they are
not a government, but a gang of murder
ers and robbers; that their people are not
only living and thriving while ours are
pining and dying, but that they are feast
ing upon that very Irish food for want of
which our people die. I say to them,
God indeed sent the potato blight, but the
English created the famine. [Hear, Hear,
and continued cheers.] Then they cry
out treason! felony! flat burglary! They
run to i.im'r London Parliament, and get
any act iff - v ask for passed, of course; so
that we awake one morning and iind that
the mail from London lias brought us
word that we are felons.
Thus the question comes before yon to
day. 1 stand here one of the representa
tives of Irish nationality, of Irish revolt
against foreign oppression, of Irish lle
publieanism —but, by London law, a con
vict. And in doing me an honor to-day,
I understand you to pronounce a flat con
tradiction to that government cud that
London law. [Hear, heir,] I under
st md you to intimate that, in the opinion
of Americans, it is no ignominious crime,
even in Europe, to love liberty and jus
tice. beers] I understand you con
demn indignantly the denial and violation
of all law in the sham trials of Irish pa
triots. [L md cheers.] I understand
you to affirm that British rapacity and
tyranny fully justify all Irish in seeking
to regain a separate national existence,
and in denying the authority of those pre
tended laws. [Cheers.] Am flight in
my interpretation? [Yes, yes ] Then
I confess, unworthy as I feel myself of
high public honors, I could not find it in
my heart to decline any occasion of col
lecting the snlfrages ol these cities for the
cause of liberty arid Ireland/
Citizens, it is not for me to shield the
canting, cruel, Government of England
from the hitter insults which freemen this
day pour on it. Ido not lake their part
—they deserve your execration. [Hear,
hear] A.word of explanation, an \ l have
done. You have iieard me speak bitterly
and vindictively of the Biitisli govern
me it. No man here, I trust, will ima
gine I mean the British people. Here in
America, the government is the people
—in England, the government is the ene
my of the people. [Hear, hear.} In
1843 We were well aware that the vast
body of the industrious people of England
were favorable to justice and to Ireland—
but they have no power—the laws are
made for them also by their oppressors;
and we know weil that it would have
been regaidcd as a boon hardly less to
the English than to the Irish, if we had
fortunately succeeded in abolishing that
fuel government, the enemy of mankind
[Hear, Lear.] Yes, many people talk
Mlf.at liberal, that .•nlig!it ( , l!t . ( i and popu
nr. J.derail ent l’lv.oy one will? peak
mitas he finds if, and I take the t.t’erty
■u cal ing it—what many Americana, too,
have known it, a gang of handed conspi
: ator> against the human race, [( fleets ]
‘Before quill ng the subject of die En
g'isfl people, too, permit me to say it
would Be an ill grace indeed that { sh:u!d
t * ei a p’ J rd lit disp md rfin.ent agiinst
• ‘ Many dear friends ul mine are
Li.glish, Vt hen j was making my at
tempt fit escape from penal exflp, sumo
° mv surest guides and must zealouff
and efficient auxiliaries, were loyal Bri
tons. [vJicer.J W fleo Ifail to acknowl-
e '*ge the generous and cflivaliic friend
sflip of some British friends, then may
my tongue cleave to tfl e fmf of mv
One other word !
cavet , Si‘ V to prevent mistakes. The
able editor of the most influential New
* ou jounai, speaking of the probability
° r,l - v l' Ul) li -fling a newspaper in Atneri
-Ca’ SCe,, '; s to ‘-ongine that here is anew
gamecock corning, dressed nij S() drre>
!,t< ; Je aie.nijjof American faction, , n I
U .„T , . , " iade ' 8 for me already.
I ® W,,|t P“” he says, against certain
“ones, or priest,, or flEhops, whom ha
names, and on the, whole, so,ms to ex
p< Ct good sport. [Laughter.] !J w -i!l
jit mt-r But I ill m.t come to the
‘ii'iji cl. [‘ic.ar, hear] Positively, I
VV “; 1 c-specifuliy decline the cumii.il;
II u 1 n.ivi.se ail prftd. nt speculators
not to Let Upon that flattie. { an, n )t a
* t ‘ vtl ‘S'""’ 1 am a rebel. [Continued
c-.cmiug J j have no quarrel with any
l, if l,, P s i ir B ie " ls dm world-least ,ff
Mi w.ln the Catholic clergy, among whom
n..*e many personal friend/, and amongst
a uoni ( a hat is fur more imnoriuni'i 1
recognize <> profound and exhuusiies*
• end of disaffection against the IJr tid’i
(to y error tent, b G enough —the enemies
o that Government are mv brothers
[imul cheers] I have imw
; U ’ 1)e ' 1 A'.uiuicrvention, 1 know, is the
seti.ei! principle of American policy. B *
u so. But that does not prevent the in
eivenlion of honest opinions. [Hear,
near J J uo not ask you fora fleet of war
steamers and transpons, aj,d armies, and
military coests. I ask for countenanco
and friendship, and moral support from
the citizens nf ibis, the Great Ucpublic
of earto. lor the present that suffices.
r h . a * tl,ne and chauce may bring to us
m the coming year, no man can foresee;
out if good days are ever to dawn for
Ire,and—if isl e survivor* of that ruined,
scourged, disarmed nation of able-bodied
paupers, be indeed destined to rise out
of thetr ashes and a. keioth, clothe their
country at last with the beauty aud glory
of Umt freedom we all have so panted al
ter, the., 1 know that the voice of America,
Which chiC:S and consoles us in this, the
uay ot our humiliation, \s iil not be slow
to welcome us into the .society of Lee
and proud nations.
A Word to the Ladies.—We confess,
says the* \\ urrenton News, we felt a little
—no not a little but deeply mortified ou
reading the following advertisement in a
V trgima newspaper:
“ricocTH Sxuff. Avery largo stock of
tne above, put up expressly for the North
Carolina trade, and for safe at very >o\v
rates.”
We fdt mortified, because the intima
tion is here made, and wc fear too truth
fully, that the practice of begriming the
soxt pouting, reu lips of the ladies, which
nature seems to have designed exnressly
.or the purpose of _ kissing, and emitting
soot.iiiig and musical sounds, with naii
ccous tobacco dust, is peculiarly prevalent
m North Carolina. This is a subject of
reproach to the lovely fair ones of our
btate-a practice in itself indecent, and
unhealthy, and one which they should be
asnamed to indulge in. The Irish will
hardly ever get clear of the opprobrium
cast upon them for their blunders—the
Dutch forbuudiing, ortho ladies of North
Carolina for the nasty practice of dipping
suufl But we hone the latter will make
an cliort, and in the course of years they
may succeed. * J
A I’ravATE Companv, with a capital of
ten millions, has been formed at. San Fran
cisco, for steam com unification with Chi
na. The steamer Fremont is to be the
pioneer of the new line to Guyamas. A
new line is also to commence on the Ist
ot December, to run between San Fran
cisco, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua
Cost a Luca, and Panama.
Shaghai has been captured by the celes
tial insurgents. There must hav been
some bLb ‘ crowing” on the occasion.
Hon. 11. A. Wise has recently married.
1 o our dear bachelor friends still “hail
ing between two opinions,” vvesav, “G >
and do ii/cs Wise.”
A Kougii Kentuckian hearing >
child squall very loud and furiously, rt
merkeo:“How wickedly that sind!'sim
ple of mankind is s wearing in die
infantile vernacular! What wilt'it come
to w hen it is educated?”
A Boy, who was sent to inquire how
an old lady named Wilkins was in health,
said to her servant “Missus’ wants to now
how old Missus Wilkins is to day;” to
winch the iaiter replied, “She is just 74
to-day.”
The man w!io“couldnu eon:alia him
self,” was found, upon inquiry, to Con
tain about ft quart of the fluid extract of
corn!
An itinerant * minister was one day
preaching tu * ‘pack of hardened siunars]’
when he made one of the following orurj.
nal ami rather striking similes; “My heli
!ers,Vaid h=*, ‘1 cau compare yon to nu .
thing out a parcel of knotty hickory
‘butts;’ the gospel ij trie wedge, and’J
thro'wing himself in die attitude of a
woodsman —‘by the grace of Guu I’m i| )Q
heetie to and r-i-vcil into you'd
drunken fellowjwbo lately died of
‘delirium trenuns has’ hosa* seen Ov a
clairvoyant spirit-rapper, who says”tbat
he was egging Dives onto ask Lazarus
for ft drink.
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