The Arkansas advocate., 1836-07-08

Has peeH oendtoT Tn the Legislature of hiS own State. He has been District attorney of the United States. He has been Presi- dent of the Bank of Tennessee. He was se- lected Commissioner between Virginia and Kentucky in the settlement of important land claims. He has been Commissioner un- der the Spanish treaty. He has been thrice elected Senator of the United States, and has been President of the same body. He has refused place in the Judcary of his own State, and also upon the Supreme Bench of the United States. He has more than once refused a eeat in the Cabinet of Presi. dent Jackson. But Hugh l.. White is no seeker of office or of honors. He has shown no keenness Of relish for the gathered fruits of his fame. They have been showered up- on him in rich profusion by generous pub lie, but he has ever viewed them with the sdcredness of 6 trust, which he held fer his country; and which he was always ready to restore with usury. There is harmony, an order an elevated purpose in the character ot Hugh l.. White, which cannot be appre- eiated by those who breathe the atmosphere of fierce contention. They cannot conceive of sincerity being allied to moderation, and they feel suspicious of the fidelity of him who does not prostitute every faculty of mind and soul to the success of every ephem- eral party measure. But the great majority of the honest and intelligent freemen of our country, who are as little pefverted by the bitter rivalries of the press and inferior poli- tcians, us they are infected with their cor ruption, have affixed that estimate upon his character, which exalted worth has never failed to receive In this land of liberty and promise.
 Another trait in the character of Hugh l.. White, which distinguishes him from most politicians, Is an iHease deeotion 10 Me diay to which he has been called. He is the first man in his place in the Senate; and the last to leave it-and, says distinguished member of Congress, "I know of no man, except Judge Marshall, who rides about the city so little in carriages When in the public pay, he looks upon his time, as every honest man should, as no longer his own, but his country y's-and neither pleasure, nor private business, nor even the keenest ahd weightiest affiietions have drawn him from it. And he has borne share of the latter which seldom falls to the lot ofhumanity. He has followed the greatest part Of a large family of chil- drcn, and their mother, to the grave-and this during the course of his public life.
 One of the most powerful efforts he ever made in the Senate, was on the morning at- ter he received the tidings that the hand of death had torn asunder the tenderest flores of human affection. 1t was his speech on the Indian bill. This question had occasioned great embarrassment and coficern to Presi- dent Jackson. Hugh L. White was Chair man of the Committee-the weight of the measure devolved upon him, and procrasti- nation was certain defeat. But he appeared in his seat-asked no indulgence-made no apology-and showing forttude worthy of his character, made one of the abest and most successful efforts ever witnessed in that body, and carried the measure. Such lofty and honorable views of the nature and obli- gation of a trust-such intense devotion to it's fulfilment, have distinguished Hugh l.. White from the most of his colleagues in ev-. cry station of life. It may be affirmed of him, and the records of the nation will bear, out the assertion, that in whatever station, high or low, he has been engaged, Hugh l.. White WAS NEVER KNOWN TO FAIL TO DO HIS DUTY. This honorable and enviable fact i'll his history, in these days of political vacilla- ton, desertion and change, will be remem- bered when this generation shall have passed away. A rare instance of his delicate sense of honor and strict integrity in the private relations of life, deserves to be recorded.- While he was one of the Commissioners un- dcr tue SpdIlSh lfcdlys He WdS diso IIcsl- dent of the State Bank, which station the friends of the bank prevented him from re- signing. While absent on the Commission, he still continued to correspond with, and advise the Directors, by which the bank re- mained iii d very flourishing condidtion.- After >the expiration of the commission, he found that his accustomed salary had been passed to his account. We have unquestion- ahlo authority for savipn thaf thqrp Is now due him of updrawn salary, nedf eight Hou- saltd doliars, for services rendered as Pres-
 dent of the Bank, during the time mentioned above and at other times, when he was em- ployed in public stations which the Directory have repeatedly urged upon his acceptance, but which. from a delicacy that Is not com mon, he has peremptcfly and forever declin- ed receiving.
 What man in this Government can hold up his public and private character to scru- tiny, and suffer so little as Judge Whites What man can look back upon long and
 eventful life with less cause of dissatisfaction or look forward with brighter prospects to high and final appreciation from the country
 which he has So long served. Few, vefy few, have ever engaged in the works and the interests of politics. without some loss Of pu- r.ty, of independence, of honor. But if the
 man lives who has passed through the scerch- l ing furnace, and came forth as he went in,
 that man is Hugh l.. White. If nobler in- stances of hallowed patriotism, of rejected
 honors, of devotion to duty, of forgetfulness
 of self in the cause of his country, can be
 found upon the page of American history, we
 must look for them only in the life of the great WASHINGTON, the first and the last of | his race. whom no man has eaualled-With