The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-03-17
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

..a.. THURSDAY, March Is.
As soon as the House organized this morn
Mr.. EVANS, of Maine, addressed the Chair in the
following words:
Mr.. SPEAKER: These badges of mourning which
we still wear denote that death has lately been in The
midst of us. Again his arrow has flown; and again
has the fatal SHAFT been sent with unerrnp aim into
small and already broken, rank 1t is my mean-
choly office 10 announce that, since the last adjourn
ment of The House Of Represe natives, TIMOTHY JAR
Wis CARTER, then one of It's members, from the Stale
OF Maine, has surrendered up to the Being who
gave il life upon which many anxious hopes de-
pended, and for whose preservation many an ardent
prayer had gone up to the Father of all spirits. He
died last evening, at ten o'clock at his lodgings in
this city after sickness of not very protracted dura
ton, but of great and cxcrutiaiing intensity of suffer
ing and agony. The ways of righteous Providence
are inscru,able, and while we bow in submission,
we are yet oppressed with deep and solemn awe.
Our deceased friend and colleague was native of
the State and the district which, lately he repre-
scented in this branch of Congress- and he therefore,
brought with him the confidence largely bestowed,
OF those who had known him from his earliest years.
Well did he deserve it. His character for probitv,
integrity, uprightneSs, morality was free from spot
or Flemish. His principles, were wcll-iounded.
Loving the country of his birth, and its institutions
with all his heart, he pursued with fidelity such mea
sures as his Judgment deemed best calculated to pro-
mote the welfare of the one and the durability Of the
other. He was lawyer by profession, faithful,
just, discriminating, attentive. humane, in its prac-
ticc.
Ofmanners, mild, courteous. afab!e and a tenn
per kind, conciliating patient he won respect and
attachment, even from those who differed with him
in matters Of opinion; and probably there lives not
human being who has single resentment, one
unknd recollection, to bury in his grave. He has
gone, in the strength of his manhood, and the ma
turity Of his intellect, the road that all must once
pass. ." .....
" --cacanda scmc via leth''
The ties that bound him TO life are severed for
ever, as all human ties must be severed.
:" I.nqucnda ,clus e, domus, ct anans
Uxor; ncque harum, quas coils, arborum
Tc, prIcr lnysas cupressos
lila, brevem domiuum sequctur
Although when his eyes opened for the last Zinc
upon the earth and the sky, they fell not upon his
own native hills; though the sod which shall cover
him will not freshen in the same influences which
clothe them in verdure and beauty though he dled
far from his home, the companions and the DroheIS
of his childhood were with him--the sharer OF ms
Joys, the soace of his greS stood by him ana .he
hand which could best do il assuaeed The otei pains
of pairing life The last earthly sounds Whlch lei
upon his ear were tones of sympathy ana kindness,
and affection, aud support-ones when ceaNeG nov;
even when they vanv strove 70 pierce me coa ana
leaden ear of death Tears shall How coplotiSy, ana
deep signs be heaved over his liteless iormi tears
not more scalding srghs not deeper drawn, because
mingled with any bitter recollections-any unavail-
| ing regrets.
| If human means could have availed--if devoted
| fraernal sympathy and care-f constant, abiding,
selsacrifCing Affection triumphing over exhausted
nature and bearing up a feeble frame unconscious
of wcarncSs, through long and painful vigilS could
have saved his lie, he would long have been spared
TO The friends who now depore his DEATH and 10 The
| State and TO the country which he served TO that
stricken bosom proffer-alaS how little will II
avail sincere sympathy and coincidence. lie