Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1843-12-28
Maine, Ellis Of n. Y. Douglass # ILL.,.
and Carrot DAVIS q Kentucky.
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and Gasret DAVIS q Kentucky.
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Mr.. Adams rose to announce the death
Of Mr. Barker Burnett Of Massachusetts,,
and he spoke as follows:
the second session Of the twenty
seventh Congress, it became my painful
duty, amidst The arduous labofs and iin-
poftant deliberations of the House, to
announce the decease Of one Of my then
colleagues. a member Of the House from
the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts.
The same melancholy service has now
ieyalve,l apon me again; and at the We
~ threshold Of a new Consress-when
every heart should bound with hope that
the legislation Of the nation has fallen
into hands bu~ily silent, and abunslantly
qualified to advance the prosperity ard
promote the geoeral welfare Of this great
community the heart is saddened with
the reflection that one of our number. a
mong the most ardent, jealous, upright
and Intelligent co-operators with US for
the accomplishment Of that glorious pur-
pose-sle happiness Of the people, las
been taken from US in the midst Of his
useful aud honorable career, cut down
BY the -scxthc Of Death.
lam to communicate to this House
the defniseo of Barker Burnell, late an ac-
tive and efficient member Of the 9th
congress. and by the sulirages- of an en-
larged constituency destined (had It SO
pleased the omnipotent Disposer OF e.
vents to take an active. vigilant and Ia
bprious part in the proceedings q the
Congress new first assembled III these
halls. Such has not been the will of
Heaven. This hall shall hear his voice
no more.
He was native Of Nantucket, a small
island Of The ocean appeudant TO the
State Of Massachusetts, long renowned
as the mother of race CT men, for I'M
l.bIenished integrity, for perlous enter
prise, for energy Of excrtion and hardl-
hood endurance. unsurpassed by any
other portion of the dweilers upon this
reraqueous globe. In saying this do
but repeat, in humble strain and simple
language, the magnificent tribute OF JUS
tice to the forefathers 0. the present sse,
nearly seventy years since pronounced
by tie most eloquent lips that ever gFa-
ced the British House Of Commons.-
The panegyric of Edmund Burke upon
| the Nantucket Whaemen Of bis age has
resounded in every corner OF tie earth
whe,e The English language is spoken or
understood. 1t has stood the test oil time,
and will be cherished in the memory OF
man so long as that language shall 1--we
to express the thoughts of the wise, the
benevolent and the free.
Sir the ISLANDERS of Nantucket, our
contemporaries, have not degenefated
! front the virtues of their fathers; and OF
| that race eli men Mr.. Burnell @as the
worthy representative on this iloor.--
Born and nurtured among them, as one
of themselves, and chosen by their vol
untary. unbought suHrages, be reflected
upon the deiberatiye councils OF the ma
ton the express image Of their character.
He had represented them before III both
branches Of the Legislature of his native
! Commonwealth. Those OF us now pes
ent who lieid seats in this hall at the last
Congress, have seen and heard him here.
Two years from last May, he came iull
Of life and hope and vigorous enersy, to
his country as a trusty councillor; and
faithfully did he fulfil that trust. 50
thought his constituents, who with the
increased numbers of congeniai spirits
on the adjoining contlnet, had with a
confidence in him rivited by experience
,e-committed the charge Of their inter
ests to his hands, already enleeDied by
that insitiious disease which was hurry
inc him to the tomb! During a great
part of the last session of Congress, he
was disabled from attendance in his seat;
and at the close of that Congress, he was
| left in the confinement Of SICK cham
Der. There On the 1st of Nay last,
took leave Of him, in the tender and at
fectionate nursing care of partner. "or-
thy of himself, and TO when his NE was
more precious than her own. | lett him
with yet lingering hope that we might,
under happier auspices, meet here again.
That hope. was doomed to disappoint-
menf: his dissolution was near at hand;
and on the 18th of last June he expired.
/ far from his beloved native island, but
with ali the appliances of domestic love
and friendly Kindness that could smooth
| tie bed of death
.By strangers honorcd, and by strangers
( mourn d.