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was called into the political field by an cleo tlon to the Senate of his adopted State.- Thence he was called to the performance of judicial duties by Federal appointment to | investigate land htles. Thence he was cal led to the high station of Senator in the Con- gress oi the United States-first by an Exc cutlve appointments then by three successive almost unanimous elections. The last of these elections he received but one year ago, and had not commenced his duties under it had not sworn i'll under the certificate which attested it-when a sudden and ore mature death put an end to his earthly ca reer, He entered this body in the year 1853; death dissolved his connexion with 1t in lS43. For ten years he was beloved and distinguished member of this body and surely a nobler or a finer character never adorned the Chamber of the American Se- nate.
 He was my friend; but speak not the language of friendship when I speak his pralse A debt of justice is all that I can at tempt to dlscharge-an imperfect copy of the true man is all that 1 can attempt to paint.
 A sagacious head and a feeling heart were the great characteristics of Dr. Linn. He had a judgment which penetrated both men and things, and gave him near and clear views oi far distant events. He saw at once the oearlng-the remote bearing of great measures, either for good or for evil; and brought instantly to their support, or oppo sitlon, the logic of prompt and natural elo- quence, more beautiful in it's delivery, and more effective in it's application, than any art can bestow. He had great fertility of mind. and was himself the author and mover of many great measufes-some for the benefit of the Union-some for the benefit of the great West-some for the benefit of his own State many for the benefit of private indi- vlduals. The pages of our legislative histo- ry will bear the evidences of these merito- rlous labors to remote and grateful posterity.
 Brilliant as were the qualities of his head, the qualities of his heart still eclipsed them. It IS to the heart we look for the character of the man; and what a heart had Lewis Linn The kindest, the gentlest, the most feeling, and the most generous that ever beat
 Tn the bosom of bearded man! And yet, when the occasion required it, the bravest and most daring also. He never beheld case of human wo without melting before it; ; he never encountered an apparition of earth ly danger without giving 1t defiance. Where IS the friend, or even the stranger, in danger or distress, to whose succor he did not fy. and whose sorrowful orperilous case he did not make his owni When-where-wa he ever called upon for service or sacri- flee, and rendered not, upon the instant, the one or the other, as the occasion re- quired?
 The Senatorial service of this rare man fell upon trying times-high party times when the collisions of party too often em- bttered the ardent feelings of generous na- ture. But who ever knew bitterness, or par ty animosties ill him? He was, indeed, party man-as true to his party as his friend and his country; but beyond the line of duty and of inciple-beyond the debate and the vote-he knew no party, and saw no oppo- nent. Who among us all, even after the iiercest debate, ever met him without meet ing the benignant smile and the kind sauta- ton? Who of us all ever needed friend without finding one in him? Who of us all was ever stretched upon the bed of sickness without finding him at its side2 Who of us all ever knew of a personal difficulty of which he was not, as far as possible, the kind composer?
 Such was Senator Linn, in high party times, here among us. And what he was here, among us, he was every where with every body. At home among his friends and neighbors; on the high roads among casual acquaintances; in foreign lands among strangers; in all and in every of those situa- tions, he was the same thing. He had kind ness and sympathy for every human being and the whole voyage of his life was one continued and benign circumnavigation of all the virtues which adorn and exalt the char acter of man. Piety, charity, benevolence, generosity, courage, patriotism, fidelity, all shone conspicuously in him, and might ex- tort from the beholder the impressive inter- rogatory, For aeltat place acas Htis man nude 9 Was it for the Senate or the camp' For public or private life j? For the bar or the bench , For the art which heals the dseas- es of the body or that which cures the in- firmties of the State? For which of all these was he born? And the answer is, for all. He was bonn to fill the largest and most varied circle of human excellence; and to crown all these advantages, Nature had given him what the great Lord Bacon calls perpetual letter of recommendations coun- tenance not only good, but sweet and win ning-radant with the virtues of his soul- captivating universal confidence; and such as no stranger could behold-no traveller even in the desert could meet, without stop ping to reverence, and saying, Here is a man in whose hands could deposite life, liberty, fortune, honor. Alas that so much excel lence should have perished so soon! that such man should be snatched away at the early age of forty-eight, and while all his faculties were still ripening and developing
 In the life and cha acter of such man, so exuberant in all that is grand and beauti- ful in human nature, it is difficult to particu- larize excellencies, or to pick out any one quality or circumstance which could claim pre-eminence over all others.
 If l should attempt it, I should point, among his measures for the benefit of the
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