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cious Power which governs us all, ~ another and
would reverently hope, to better world.
He was always q student--an ardent and devO
ted student. The study of his profession especial
~, as learn from his more intimate friends, was
both his habit and his enjoyment; and hence 1t was
that he became not only eminently qualified by his
learning and his love of Investigation for judicial Ia
bors, but that the whole texture OF his mind became
gradually and essentially Judicial also. He thought
with care, with system, with clearneSS, with recu-
tude, and he thought to results A sound lawyer,
a wise Judge, trusted satesman-he was more
than all these; he was sound, irreproachable.
trustworthy, and honest man never--and speak
it with emphatic utterance--never bringing upon
any human face, by any act OF his, either the blush
Of shame or the stain of a tear. Wherever his av-
ocatons his duties called him, it was the cheer
ing lot Of this excellent to be always surround
ed by friends-friends who respected and who loved
him. And, having thus lived life of probity and
oil peace upon earth, he has gone, lin the meridian
OF his day, to the tomb, without solitary reproach
to follow or solitary enemy TO forgive him.
Like his late and amented colleague from Loui-
Sana (Nlr BARROW, } he stricken down in all
the pride of his physical power and i'm the full
turity OF his brightest manhood like him he was
crushed by an unexpected and startling blow, and
sharing side by side with one another, they did,
,ne hopes oil their country and the joys of freshest
lie, how sad how strange how admonitory is it to
us all TO see them parted by death for season. and
then grouped and gathered again as companions for
the grave! Unlike that Senator however, my
honored colleague breathed his last in the bosom Of
his family, and had his forlOrn and solitary pathway
tn another world soothed by the presence and COM
forted by the aid of all who We're dearest to him in
this Here it is, in the breaking up of that tender
and holy bond which bring wife and children to the
pillow of the dying husband and father, that find
a bitterness in death to which the rupture of all o.
Their relations is as nothing. But it is not for to
look upon this private sceno it not for TO into
The sanctuary OF this sorrow. nor listen to that cry
Of anguish and brokenness of heart which is there.
As frail and dying and Christian men, however, we
cannot think upon such distress without sympathy
and awe. nor without an involuntary appeal to him
who is the Father and Saviour Of all, that he
would spread the shelter of his wing for the poor
sufferers who are weeping and bleeding under the
stroke of his power
To us who are here this lesson after lesson on
'ur own mortality is too solemn and too sacred to
De lost II we are provident and wise, we know
hat we are immortal, let us take these lessons as
70 many providences, mercifuly and seasonably
or our good and flushed now are with all
he energies and hopes of life, be it our part to seek
or and TO seize upon that hope blessed above every
'ther-that hope (Which travels through nor quits
is when we die''-whch unites the last throb of
Expiring nature with the first of ending
oy.
''To man in this his trial state,
The privilege is given,
w hen tossed by waves of human fate,
To anchor fast Heaven"
With these remarks, Mr.. Speaker, | move the
resolutions which will be offered by one of my col
eagues.
Resolced, That this House has heard with deep
enslbllity the announcement of the death Of the
Hon. ISAAC >. PENNYBACKER, Senator in Con-
sress from the State OF Virginia
Resolced, That as testimony Of respect for the
memory OF the deceased, the members and officers
If this House will wear the usual badge of mourn
ny for thirty days.
Resolred, That the proceedings Of this House, in
citation to the death of the Hon. ISAAC S. PENNY
,ACEER be communicated to the family of the de-
eased by the Clerk.
ReSoLoed, That this House will attend the fune-
al Of the deceased in body; and as a further
mark Of respect for his memory that it do now adj
ourn