The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-20

representatives, where Mr.. Hudson, of Massa-
chusetts, gave a short recaptulstion Of the vari-
Gus and prolonged public services of Mr.. Adams,
as ambassador to nearly every European State
IN snccesslon, as Secretary of State to the repub-
lie, as President, and subsequently rs Senator
and member of the representative assembly
Mr.. Hudson concluded his speech with the fol-
loving hue passage, reerriug 10 the private and
personal character OF tue deceased-d passage,
the spirit OF which We should much like to see
initiated in our own houses OF Parliament
But 1T il rot as public man merely, that to
| contemplate MIR Adams In the private walks of lf,
whsre trad dsslmulation drops the mask and man ar
pears he really Ia find In him all those silent and
social virtues which sdorn the character. His ardent
love OF Justice his inhexbe regard for truth his stern
devotion to tns Of civil and religious liberty were
blended with me,kness sobriety aud charity But the
browning glory OF his character his devotion the
cause of his Redeemer."
Mr.. HoLMBs, of South Carolina, followed in
an equally good speech.
"But the last Sabbs;h and In ths hail. hs worshipped
with others; now his spirit ninges with the noble army
Of martyrs and the just made perfect In the eternsl
ration Of living God, With him this is the end of
Is gone aud for The that ushers in the orn
OF that next holy day While it gds th. lofty dome Of
the Capitol, shall rsst with soft and melow light upon
the spot beneath whose turf lies the
patriot father and the patriot sagen
| The conclusion of the speech of Mr.. M'Dow-
all, OF Virginia, ls, however, if possible, an i'm
| provemeut upon what We have quoted -
But kindDg to the imagination aud soothing to
the feelings is the death of Mr. Adams with ali tho
accessories and spot around him how
infinitely deeper che iatercst which Is given It, by
tho conviction that he willing and ready to meet It
lie was happily spared by the preservation OF his rich
faculties to the last from becoming melancholy specta
Gle Of dotard and dwelling old age. He still
happily spared by the aud wise AMI truthful of
those faculties from becoming the melancholy and
Voting spectacle OF irr- weren't and wicked old age
None knew better or felt more deeply than he that
| ''ris not the whole OF life to live,
| Nor all OF death to die
And hence for long y'su his life has been continuous
and beautiful illustration OF the great truth that whilst
the fear Of man IL the contamination Of all folly the fear
OF God is the beginning of all wisdom TO suoh
composure amid tho psrs Of death and when the LAST
OF earth was come is supporting power frequently and
Diviney given and II has not been permitted to him
to prophet of old to be spared the bitterness death
and to the heaven he looked and that he loved
In chariot of fire yet to the eye of human faith his
Instead Of wsarn~ nader the ~
passing through a the thrOes ond which
generally undergce, blow Of brief but mortal ago.
ny stkes him at unto the tomb and thus his spirit
instantly freed goes up to tho parent fountain from
whence it eame tho messenger caSthe soul is in hes
| ven"
Ia the Senate, the character of the speeches
| was the same; we have room for bat one or two
extracts; we begin with that OF Mr.. DAVIS, Sc
| natOr for Massachusetts,
"lt is believed te have been the earnest wish Of his
heart to die like Chatham, Ia the midst OF his labors
Il was sublime Thought that where he had toiled in
vice. the stroks OF death could resch him. and there
the lies of love aud patriotism which bound him to
which hs had before been victim TO dsssribs tho
scene which epsued would be impossible. IL more
than the s ! gush Of feeling which al such
1t was the expression of for his moral worth
Of admiration for his great intellectual endowments, and
OF venera'on for bis age and public services All gather
ed round the sufferer and the strong sympathy AID
feeling which manifested itself showed that tho business
Of the House (Which was Immediately sdjourned) wal
forgotten amid the distressing snxsties the
He removed to the apartments of the Speaker
tho weary clay resigned It. nmo9t. spirit This thu
end of earth Brief but emphatic words. They wore
amsog the last uttered by ths dying christian
gh4II nth huf nfh yfron Ic
from the speech OF Mr. Benton, of Missouri -
Pnocual to every duty death found him at tho post
stage Of his career for tho fifty years Of his llustr
Qua public life From tho time OF his first appointment
by Washington to his is: election by the people OF his
native town where could death have found him but Mt
the post Of duty? AT that post In the iuness Of age
in tho rpeness Of renown crowned with honors, sur
rounded by his family his frieds and admirers and In
the very presence OF tho national representation
beer gathered to bis fathers leaving behind him the
mory OF public services which the history Of this
country fer half century aud the example Of life,
public and private, which should be the study aud
del Of the generations Of his countrymen."
righteousness exalteth nation, but sin is a
| reprOach to any people,"
If the speakers whom we have quoted are re-
representatives. OF the prevailing spirit OF the Uni
ted States there is little cause to wonder at their
| prosperity; at all events, the gentlemen from
| whose speeches we have made extracts, have
faithfully discharged their duty in sustaining the
religious feeling OF their fellow citizens; and
with such glorious subject as the religious life
OF John Quincy Adams before them, they have
had great opportunity Such men as he, "be-
ing dead, yet speak," and they who commence
rate his worth, do little more than give a voice
| to plety and every other virtue.
We own that we are BUNDLED when we reflect
| that, except 1t were Sir Robert IngIis or Lord
Ashley-men otherwise distinguished above the
reach of sneers, by talents, character, and ser
vices-searcely any member of our House OF
| Commons would dare to speak with the courage
with which the American gentlemen have illus.
| trated that freedom from I" that consummatlon OF
all folly, the fear of man." by confessing "the
dom" 1t is thus that man like John Quincy
Adams, even from his grave, pcurs blessings
| upon his country.