Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-07-07
IHE LAIE MR. souTHARp.

New jersey. After the announcement,
Mr. John Quincy Adams, addressed
Tie House in the following words:
blr. Speaker: Words caunot express
the feeling With which am called to re.
spond to the eloquent and pathetic appeal
from the gentleman who has Just taken
his seat aud the peculiar relations which
have existed between the deceased and
myself further call on me to ask the nduI-
gence OF this House TO add few words
Of testimonial to the transcendent worth
of Mr.. Southland.
4 My acquaintance with him commenced
upon his entrance into the Senate oil this
Union in 1921, about fifteen years before
| | had known, and this Union had respect
ed, his venerable father, who has so re-
Gently preceded him IN the descent to the
tomb, as distinguished member oil this
| House from the State OF New Jersey.
the clear discernment, the cool and i'm.
partial Judgment, the calm and dspas-
sionate temper, and the firmness and in
tegrty Of the son, had already pointed
him out to the notice oi his fellow citizens
Of the State as eminen;ly qualified. in ear
lv youth, for the eminent and important
office of Judge Of her Supreme Court
He had filled that Office with unsurpassed
ability and universal acceptance for seve.
raj wears before being transferred to the
Senate of the United States. Even then
he had attained little more than tho age
which gave him qualification, by the
Constitution ofthe United States, for ad.
mission to that body.
From the time Of his entrance into the
the Senate my personal acquaintance with
MIR. Soulhard, and the means OF obsery-
ing his public services and his private
Virtues, commenced. They have contn-
ued without interruption 10 the day which
has summoned hun to tho tribunal OF ais
Maker, and within a period of twenty
years, scarcely a day has passed without
adding another leaf to the chaplet Of hon.
or which, at the hour of his decease, EN-
clrcled his dying head. In December,
1923, be became, by the appointment OF
President Monroe, sanctioned by The II.
unanimous advice and consent Of the SEN
ate, my colleague as a member OF the
Cabinet of that illustrious patriot and
statesman. AT the termination OF his
administration, MIR. Southland, at my ear
nest solicitation, consented TO retain the
superintendent of the Navy Department,
which be continued 20 administer, 10 my
unmingled satisfaction, and TO that of The
country, until the accession of my sue
cessor to the presidency, when he volun-
tarily retired from it.
The confidence Of his countrymen new
er forsook him. He had scarcely re-
turned to his home when he was appoint
cd by the Legislature Of his native State
her Attorney General, then her Governor
and Chancellor; and, while occupying
that office, was again transferred to the
s. nate of the United State. Five years
later he was re.invcsted with the same
honors aud powers for another term OF
six years, three of which are unexplred.
On the temporary retirement of the Vice
President of the United States from the
Presidency of the Senate, Mr.. Southland
was, by the favor Of his peers, chosen to
preside over their deliberations, and, by
the subsequent removal of the Vice Presl-
dent to the Executive Chair, that of the
Senate continued to be occupied by Mr..
Southland, as, but for his illness and de-
cease, 1t doubtless would have been, until
the expiration Of the present Presidential
term.
He is gone full, not Of years, but OF
honors. \ lew days before his decease
he had resigned the Office of President Of
the Senate; in which, had the undlscern-
ing shaft of death pierced another bosom
instead Of his own, it would have elevated
him to the summit of power in this Union,
AMI made HIM at this moment the chief
ruler of the land. Earthly honors and
earthly powers, for him, are deposited IN
that tomb TO which we are about to iol-
low his earthly remains. During the Pc
Rod of six years, while we were united as
colleagues and fellow servants IN the Ex-
ecutive Department Of the Government,
nv personal relations with Mr.. Southland
necessarily became Of daily occurrence,
intimate, and IN the highest degree cohfi-
dental and they opened TO my attentive
observation of his character NINE OF IN
teleclual and moral worth richer than
diamonds and rubes. The soundness OF
his Judgment, the candor Of his DISPOSE
ton, the sweetness Of his temper, ard the
6rmness of his adherence to his own sense
of right, were to me, ss colleague and
confident assistant and adviser, treasure
bevond all price. The fidelity of his na.
,ure, applicable TO all the duties of lille,
gave to his friendship stability firm as
the foundations Of the earth.
TO his bereaved and dlscopsoa,e wld.
ow, to his rising and afflicted family, to
his respected and distinguished brothers,
what consultations can we otflr but those
from the world where sin and sorrow are
unknown And as for me, in the anguish
Of my soul, can only draw, from the
same source, the Christian hope that he
has preceded me for a few d ,ys to a world
where we shall again meet to par; no
more
IMPORTANT ExPEpIrIoN.--T st.
Louis Reporter of the l4th says-"Leut.
Fremont, of the corps of Topograhical
Enoineers, left here under orders from the
War Department, about ten days ago,
with A party Of twenty men, on tour 10
the Rocky Mountains. The object ct the
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