The Arkansas banner., 1848-05-23

l 1fL z PuFsaio in hfe, and my own sAAxperienee, have made me familiar with scenes efafFtrins-,oo cf- ten of death. As duty, hase.ained myself to look upon the suaorings. even ,e eIasolution of my own sex, not with coIdBes oheart, trust, but with some degree of composure Bat the sight of woinan's sorrows-aBd of such ,rrows as I have had to witness within the last fsWaays--has, Icon. Tess, unnamed mc--has made n very child in feeling; and in it's manifeslation,I have seen the strong man, full of life and hope addenIy cut down mot afraid to die, but unwiilInao leave those he loved 90 tenderiy. His agony tas touching. I bowed my heart In humility befo, that Power who has created. and who may des,To all things, while lconiessed the emptiness of eart and the Heeting vanity of all human pGrsaitn kat, sir, it was the heart breaking of that noble ai devoted wife who. for more than quarter of entary. had spread the balm of her affection about ss heart, and smiled away his cares, while she leand upon him for that support and protection whiehwas never withheld it was the utter prostratonf that lovely daugh- ter, who, like an angel of gAce. hung about his pillow, endeavoring to rePa, his early and never iaiiing care, with those ofics of affection which the heart of woman alone kbws when 10 offer, as her hand alone can apply;-iwas these things, sir, which overcome me-under these my heart has sunk. From the scene of thee occurrences, have come here to speak of their sbjeet. No wonder, then, am unable to do him js;ice; nc wonder sha, language fails to do the bidtng oi my own full heart, and falls far short of yor desires.
 But, sir, gloomy as the pieure we contemplate undoubtedly is, Il Is not entiIly without relief Deep as its shades cOnfessedlhre. the light is not wheily excluded. Our friendnaa died, and his loss has brought agony to the heas of survivors; but as he lived not without usefulness, so he has died not without hope He gave lbundant and heart. cheering evidence, in that hor when deception is never practised, and self -d,luon rarely induged- on his death-bed, and when h knew be must die in that Sslemn and soul-tryin,hour he gave abund. ant and heart-cheering eyidere that he was pat riot and a Chisfian. I, has been my fortune to stand by many beds of deathin the retirement of domestic privacy. suIroundedjy all the endeaIing as- sociatious of home and friens have seen brave men die upon the field of battle, when nerysi by ali the appliances of enthusiaSn-the clash of arms and the shouts of victory. Bd can say with per.
 
 death (although unwiIIingly) sith more calm cour- age or PiOus resignation. Among his last words, addressed to bis family with great self possession and in tones of emphatic sincerity, were these and they are worthy of renenbaance: "Pray for the welfare of Oar country and prepare to meet me in heaven"
 Mir. President my relations tsward ell ofshe three senators from Arkansas have been pecuiar.- Though hot yet five years Iesient of that State, it has been my fortune 10 succeed one of them up- on this hoor--to have attended as afrend, medical adviser, in the dying hours of he other two and, ia reference to the fast, to ppnoance his eulogy. Sad have been these latter reatioss and strange are the mutations which they mark upon the cal. endar of human affairs MS Heaven grant me strength 10 sustain the responsible duties 10 which have succeeded.
 MT. BOrland concluded by olering the customary resolutions.
 MT. BREEsx then addressed te Senate to the fol. lowing effect:
 Mir. PRESIDENT: In rising tt second the motion of the honorable senator, wh has just made the solemn announcement of theseath of one of our honored associates-an even alike startling and sudden-I may be permitted.I hope. without in- trusion, to add few words to ,e beautiful euogium he has so feetingly pronounced fear, in so doing, l shall disturb the harmony oits language, whils, 1t is yet vibrating on the eai and interrupt that generous flow of feeling it hasso universally inspi- red. Yet sir, there are circumstances in the life of the deceased, and of himwho now addresses you, 10 which 1t may not b improper, on this mourntui occasion, to advert, ,and which prompt me to offer slight tribute to sis memory It Is, sir, thirty years since we medor the first time in the then iarof wilderness of te vest he my senior by many years, then praeting lawyer, 1 a stu dent, preparing for that honorble profession. both buoyant with hope, with light and promising world before us, and both eniting t with an ardor and determination to win sname. Professional business in the winter of lsls'20, called tho de- ceased temporarily, us he thel thought, to Arkan- sas, from which he did not iturn. Common, re- port, which reached the friend he had left in Ih- neis. told them of the high sdiDg he had quired at the bar of that State and hat he had. by prop CT exercise of his tnients. aunssed large fortune
 
 associate in this chamber, a the second session of the 'weniy-eighth COngres. Our acquaintance was at once renewed, and VI had much to Apeak of the varied yet similar fortune quarter of entury had achieved for us In ts next Congress, we were associated on two of te most important com mittees of this body; we lva together al the same house. and an intimacy va established matuaity cordial and sincere. Knowing him as l did, Mir President, may be Pennittd to say that to every task to which he was cailsd,he brought 10 its ac- corDPishment untiring indutry, great research and an uniagging zeal seldom nrpassed His talents were of no common order. nd he was never found unprepared upon any subect committed to his charge; and with six years service stI before him, who knows to what high h.nors he might have si- tainedl The character of lis mind was investiga- ting; and. aided by pIeasiAg manner, always 'eoas and often energetic. he was enabled to make has views well understood ly the Senate, and 10 produce marked eSect uPdn its deliberations. As