Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-01-09
Tweny Eighth Congress.
Second Session.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
MONDAY, DECEMBER so, 1874.
Death OF Senator Fulton.

The resolutions adopted in the Senate after
the announcement of the death of Mr.. Fulton.
We're delivered to the House by Asbury Dick
ms, esq, the Secretary Of the Senate and were
read by the Clerk e-e,.
Mr.. CROSS then rose and spoke as. follows:
Mr.. SPEAKER: The message Just cofnmuni-
Gated from the Senate relates to melancholy
event which should serve to remind us of the
frail tenure by which life is held and, at the
same time, Of the certainty of death. Senator
Fulton left this city at the close of the last
session of Congress in good health. and with as
fair prospects for long and useful life as any
member Of tie body to which he belonged
Now, his remains rest in the sleep of death. be-
meath the sod Of his adopted State. After
reaching home, his health continued good till
early in August, when it became slightly i'm
paired. In this condition he slept for several
nights in a chamber freshly painted-thus sub
jecting himself to the influence of an infected
atmosphere, and, as was believed, ultimately
causing his death. If medical skill, and the
gentle, soothing, and ever-watchful attentions
which a wife, in the deyotedness of her affec-
ton, can only bestow, could have succeeded.
this distinguished man would have been saved
to his country, to his friends, and to his family.
But the fiat had gone forth; and human skill,
although sustained by the watchfulness of affec-
ton. could not avert it.
+ The hon. WILLIAM S. FULTON died at
Rosewood, his residence. near the city of Little
Rock, in Arkansas, on the 18th of August last,
in the fiftieth year of his age. He was native
of Cecil county, in the State Of Maryland, and
the first step in his public career was taken as
one of her sons in The defence Of Fort McHen-
ry; at its bombardment, during the last war
as temporary aid Of its gallant commanded
Subsequently he removed with his fathers fam
lily to the State Of Tennessee, and soon after
wards joined the army under General jackson,
with whom he served in the capacity of private
secretary throughout his Florida CAMPAIGNS
Ga his return to Tennessee he engaged in the
study of law under the direction Of the late Mr..
| Grundy, Of Nashville, and having obtained
license to practise in that profession, removed
to the State Of Alabama, where, in a short time.
he was honored with place in her Judiciary
In the course of twelve or eighteen months at
forwards. a vacancy occurred i'll the office of
secretary of the then Territory Of Arkansas,
| and his former friend and patron General Jack
SOM being President Of the United States, APP
| pointed him TO fill the vacancy. Subsequently
the same distinguished individual appointed
him governor of that Territory. And in 1886.
upon her admission into the Union as a State,
ne was chosen by all almost unanimous vote as
one Of her senators in Congress. In 1889 he
was again elected by like flattering vote to
| the same high and honorable station It is no
| less remarkable than true, that in performing
the various and responsible duties of these sew
eral offices and situations, running through a
period of nearly thirty years, and embracing
seasons of high party excitement, it was his
rare fortune to escape the slightest imputation
upon his integrity no higher testimony could
be afforded Of his ability to be useful. or of the
purity of his public life. As an honest man and
patriot he may have had equals; certainly no
superior. Arkansas deeply deplores the
loss she has sustained; and no monument to
perpetuate his memory could be more honora-
BILE than thai which he himself has reared in
! the affections of her people. It was, however.
in the social circle, and in the relations of pri-
vate life, that his virtues were most conspcu-
Gus. Amiable. iartless, and benevolent, he new
er failed to acquire the esteem and respect OF
these with whom he associated. Candor.
! frankness, and honor, characterized his inter
course, and were apparent in all his transac-
tions. So go
OF his afflicted widow and bereaved children
my feelings viii scarcely permit me to speak !:
upon them the melancholy dispensation rests
most heavily. Ahusf,and, a father, mo more
but lost to them forever. A recurrence to these
endearlng relations could but deepen the poio-
nancy Of grief; and only add that he died as
he lived-at peace with all his race. and IN the
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