The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1841-01-08

friend, the Hon Felix GRUNDY, is no
more. He departed this life OF hS msn-
sion house in Nashville, on Saturday
evening, at 4 o'clock. His bereaved
family are in tesrs-a large circle OF
highly respectable connexions are in
] lears-and the people are mourning
The social circle mOurns the loss ol
one OF ils brightest oTnaments-the
Estate mourns The loss Of one other mos
eminent stalesmen--the seat of a truly
8great;man,'a patriot \ PhilsnthTophist,
lis vacant in the National Senate and
our counlry's Constitution has lopt one
Of it's abIest defenders.
Judge Grundy was native ofVngin
gia, born among the mountains Of Berk-
J ley county, on the lllh of Sept. l775.
In $50 his father moved his family TO
sKentucky, where bIs son was educated
under the tuition Of Dr. Jamss Priest
Hey. He pursued his legal studies un-
der The direction Of George Nicholas,
| then the most celebrated councillor in
! the wesl; was admitted TO the Kentucky
bar about l797-a delegate from Wash
;iogron county to the State Convention
for revising the Constitution Of ken-
lucky IN l799--soon after elected a
member Of the General Assembly Of
THAT State, and so continued by success
ssive 70. elections, some ofthem mani
1 M Us, until Nov. 1906, at which time he
was appointed Judge Of the Court OF
sAppeals, and subsequently Chief JUS
Ice of the State.
10 the year 1909, Judge Grundy re-
signed his Office as Chief Justice of the
State of Kentucky and removed to Ten
uesHee, attending 10 devoIe himself ex-
gclusiveIy tc his profession; he came to
Nashville, where he has ever since re-
sided. His practice soon became luc.
sratve and extensive, but as the national
controversy began to assume a warlIke
scharacler, his patriotic feeling became
enlisted, and in 1871 he was elected to
Congress from this district with great
..GnahimiiJ. We will net atlcmp, in this
I place 10 do justice 10 his bold and no.
I bile course on the war question. II is
fresh in the memory OF the aged-and
lis a tale of ofpatrlotism which every Ten
pessee mother loves TO tell to her chill.
dren. On future occasion our pen,
or the pen ofsome other shall recur to its
instructive and interesting particulars.
Mr.. Gruudy left Congress in the year
1914, and for fifteen years his extensive
practice at law aud the nurture and ed
|ucation of his children, formed his priR-
scipaI and favorite employment. with the
exc epnon of temporary official trusts
and occasional service as a member Of
| the Legislature Of Tennessee. In 1879
he was elected to the U. S. Senate by
our Legislature, to fill oul the unexPired
term Of his predecessor was re-elec-
ted for six years in 1888, and contin-
Iued member Of that body until 1887,
when re was invited by President Van
Buren, 10 a seat in the cabinet as Ahor-
ner General OF the United States. In
the fall of 1899, Tennessee again sum
imoneG him into her service, when he
.cheeinlIy la,d down the emolumenis and
Ehonors Of cabinet officer 10 enter again
into tho more arduous and less lucrative
duties of U. s. Senator. The people
|of his own State called upon tim-and
The could not be, as he never had been,
dea TO the, calls ard !her interest.
Judge Gruhdy was Une OF the poneers
Of The West and # he did not take a.
active par, by w'c'diug the weapons Of
warfare upon the itoniIer, he did much
IN ma'uIcr years 10 open 10 The worI'
1 The vast national RESOURCES of the valley
Of the Mississippi, 81 was too young
said he in an eloqvent speech deliver
! I'D in the Senate few years ago wher
some observations reminded him oil tn,
incidents of his early lfe-"l was to-
Voung to participatein those dangers &
difficulties, but ! can remember when
death was in almost every bush. an''
avery lhicket contained aN ambuscade.
| If am asked 10 lrsce my memory back
and name The first indelbe impression
it received, it would be- The sight of
my eldest brother bleeding and dying uu
der the wounds inflicted by the 'toma'
hawk and sca|plug knife. Another, &
Eanolher, went IN the same way! have
3 en- a widowed moher pun'ered of
/ her whole property ia a single night ;
] rom alIluence and ease reduced 10 pow
] ssrty in moment and compelled TO la
a5our with her own hands to support &
seducale her last and lavorilc him
avho aOw addresses yOu! Sir, (conIln-
J sled Mr.. e. addressing the Vice Pre-
I ldon,, and looking round upon his as
.cciates in The Senate, with good dea
I of emotIon,l the anc'enl Sullerugs oi
he West were great. know 1t. J
aneed turn to no document to teach mt
what they were. They are written up
on my memory-a part Of them Dpon
smy heart. Those of us who are here
n h. tho onE 81 la m