Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1847-01-21
DEATH OF SENATOR pENNYBACKER
TUESDAY, january l2, 1874

Mr.. PRESIDENT "A few days only have pasSe
over us since we witnessed this hall clothed in tn
deepest expression of mourning for the loss of on
u OF the most esteemed and beloved OF our associates
IL was no ordinary enhancement of that afllictiv
dlspensaton that 1t fell subject i'm the meridian
5 OF manhood, IN the fullest enjoyment of vigorous
health, and OF constitution which gave the flares
promise OF 4 long career of usefulness and b,pn
ness and honor.
! On that occasion it was nv desire TO have min
gled the feeble tribute of my esteem and coincidence
with the honoring testimony which burst from eve
~ corner OF this chamber for he was among the
dearest of my friends. The fulness of my feelings
rrecluded me from the indulgence of this desire
could not, and am glad did not, make the attempt
to trust my feelings TO words.
corresponding occasion invokes at nv
hands the office of announcing it, which nv position
allows me no option in the discharge.
1t has been my loss that cannot claim the privi-
lege of particular friend, in the announcement
have to make; that claim the briefness of our ac-
quainance would not authorize me to make, how
ever larger acquaintance may have matured the
high respect with which he had impressed me to
that result The subject of my allusion is my late
colleague, the Hon. Isaac S. PENNYBAcKER, who
departed this life this morning at O'clock at MS
lodgings In this city, the victim of relentless dis
ease, which resisted all the ministrations of medical
skill and cares of solicous affection. Yes another
esteemed associate, like the lamented Barrow has
been struck down by the nsatiae spoiler. and been
! gathered TO his receptacle of trophies Inscrutable
the grand dspensations of an over ruling and all
wise Providence This one of our associates also
was in the prime and vigor of manhood, of robust
constitution, giving promise of long protraced life
ana usefulness, now so unhappily overcast. 1t was
In harvest only Just touching maturity that the
fata sickle has been put TO garner for the house of
the grave.
1t was not my fortune TO have had acquaintance
with Mr. Pennybac till he came to this floor in
the honored character OF my associate in the hipll
functions assigned to us by native State Oar
residences were widely separated, and our pursuits
did not lead us towards each other. He was born
and resided In the most beautiful part OF the most
beautiful region OF the Union, the mountain Valley
OF Virginia, and derived his parentage from that
population marked by the most premature smplici-
ty OF character which is the unvarying and honor
able distinction of the mountain valley regions He
seems to have fully partaken Of those Characters
Tics, imbibed from that atmosphere of purity or
his merit, unequlvocal evidences are given i'm the
extraordinary success of his honorable career so
brief and yet ut his death only forty one wears of
age, he had filled in succession the distinguished
appointments OF member of the House of Represen-
tatves, Judge Of the Federal District Court of this
State, and Senator in the Congress of the United
States How well he has filled the two former OF
these stations is proved by his elevation at an age
so early to the last.
lie became my acquaintance here. heralded by
the reputation of high probity of sound understand
Ing, improved by laborous habits, of kind affections,
expanded In large domestic and social sphere and
Oh simplicity and blandness of manners which pre-
pared the way for the esteem which his character
was calculated to impress. There is no one. be-
''eve, who has known him here who will not unite
Win me In the expression of the opinion that he
has fulfilled the promises of this heraldry.
For his bereaved and afflicted family, who were
In attendance to afford every soace which affection
ate attention could minister to his last moments
al,
Power which is said sometimes to chasten because
IL loveth, and which Is never found to deny the boon
OF comfort to those who ask in reverence that his
WILL not theirs, be done. To that source of conso
atIon, with all reverence, refer their disresscs
| MIR. Archer concluded by moving the following
resolutions:
| ReSotred unanimously, That a committee be an
pointed by the President of the Senate pro teppore
to take order for experimenting the funeral of the
Hon. ISAAC 5. PENNYBAcKER, which will take
place tomorrow at II NJ, and that the Senate will
/ attend the same.
Resolced unanimously, That the members Of the
Senate from sincere desire of showing every mark
/ OF respect due to the memory of the Hon. is,Ac s.
| PENNYBAcKER, deceased, late member thereof
Will 90 into mourning for him month. by the
usual mode OF wearing Grape on the left arm.
ReSotUed unanimously, That as an additional
mark OF respect for the memory of the Hon ISAAC
>. PENNYBACKER, the Senate do now adjourn
The resolutions were adopted, and the Senate
then adjourned
The Senate notified the House of Represents
tives by their Secretary Of the death of the Hon
ISAAC >. PENNYBACKER, late a Senator in Con-
gress from the State of Virginia.
Whereupon Mr.. Mcdowell, Of Virginia, rose
and addressed the House follows
i rise, Mr. Speaker TO perform, for an honored
and valued colleague, lately representing our native
and common State In the other branch of this ma
tional assembly, the same sad and melancholy of
flee which he himself performed in his place less
than year ago for my own kinsman and imInedi-
ate predecessor here. | rise to say--what ! know
will be felt with sensibillty by those who hear me
and what Will send pang to the hearts of thou
sands who do not-that ISAAC -. PENNYBACKEK.
one of the Senators from Virginia is TO more
Whatever, under the guidings of Providence, OF in
the fulfilled and cheering promise of his outset he
might have become in the lofty career which the
confidence of his country had assigned him. that
career Is now over his expectations and his efforts
in it arc now ended and the silence and seal of
death are forever upon him.
lie was selzed and snatched away from his la
bors almost before he had begun them but not be-
fore the modest and ingenious qualities of his nature
had been seen, or before he had shown himself, in
all the safest, soundest and purest virtues of pub
lie man, to be worthy of all acceptation He was
comparatively young-less than torty-two wears of
age--so that he came 10 the eminent station which
he filled precisely at that period of life when the
body and mind, in their complex action upon one
another, cooperate the BEST and when man is most
capable of builing up the richest monuments Of use
iulness and fame for his country and himself lie
was born in Shenandoah county. Viroinia-was
educated TO the profession OF law which he entered
upon in early manhood, and practised with high
and progressive reputation until he was called upon
to represent his native district in Congress- from
whence, at the end Of his first representative term,
he was transferred, by appointment Of the Presi-
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