The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-11

As Secretary OF State for eight years he
fulfilled the arduous duties incident TO that
high post in country just emerging hom
conflict. To the highest office OF the PEG
pie he wasquickly raised and how, in that
sphere he moved, with what ease, ability.
and grace, we all know, and history will
record be crushed no heart beneath the
rude grasp of prescription he left no leri-
tage Of widows cries or orphans tears.
lie disrobed himself with dignity of the
vestures of office, not to retire to the shades
of Quincy, but, in the maturity of his intel
lect, in the vigor Of his thought, to leap into
this arena, and TO continue, as ne had begun,
a disciple, AN ardent devotee at the temple
of his county's freedom. How, in this de-
partment, he ministered to his country's
wants, we all know and have witnessed.--l
How often we have crowded into that aisle
and clustered around that now vacant desk,
to listen to the counsels Of wisdom rs they
fell from the lips Of the venerable sage, we
can all remember
Bu. the last Sabbath, and in this Hall he
worshipped with others. Now his spirit
mingles with the noble army Of matyrs and
the just made perfect, in the eternal adora-
ton Of the living God. With him ''this is
the end Of earth" He sleeps the sleep
that knows no waking. lie is gone--and
forever! The sun that ushers in the morn
of that next holy day, while il gilds the
lofty dome OF the Capitol, shall rest with
soft and mellow light upon the consecrated
spot beneath whose turf forever lies The PA
rRror FATHER and the PATRIOT SAG.
Mr.. Vinion rose and addressed the
House. The venerable man whoia the des
troying angel smole down in oar yeiyl pres
ence-ihe book of whose great lie is now
written and misunderstood olt far beyond
the res. of Us, upon a broader and higher
elevation. de was more than the son OF
Massachusetts, he did not belong to her
alone; he offered himself to his country,
and she made ham her property. His fame,
his wisdom, and bis works were all his
lcountry's. These are his rich and common
legacy to US all. II is, therefore, that we Of
the great national brotherhood claim the pre-
cious privilege TO cluster close around the
children Of Massachusetts--to take par
with them in this sad solemnity-to sympa
thise with them--to give utterance to on
sorrow, 10 our reverence, TO our venhno
! for the departed dead, and to our dec
! ton in this great national bereavement
E man has heretofore died, when a nlenlbl
a this body, who will fill so large space i
I his country's history, or who has stamped 81
: deeply his impress on her institutions
D When time shall have numbered with tn
h dead Us who were actors with him upoI
D this great drama of life; when the PARTIAL
/. ties Of his friends and the p;ejudices Of hi
: enemies, If any he has left behind, shall
) have been buried in one common grave, h
5 and the work Of bis great life may be safel
trusted to the truthful historian, and to tn
e Judgment OF an impartial posterity. I
e this great and Just ordeal, he, with all tn
1t renowned and mighty Of the earth VIII
,f have gone before him, must come at last
And TO its verdict those of us who kne,
of him best, and were most devoted 10 him
IS are most willing 10 commit him, and a
le that he achieved.
a. Mr.. Mcdowell, Of Virginia, then ros
Il and said Such for half century, Nj
e. Speaker. has been the eminent position
as Mr.. Adams in the eyes of his comtrymeI
of Born in our revolutionary day and brougl
up in early and cherished intimacy with ii
u fathers and founders of the republic,
We was living bond Of connexion betwee
e. the present and the past-the venerab
I'd representative of the memories Of anoth
ne age, and the Jealous, watch(ul, and powe
lg ful one OF the expectations, interests, al
ic progressive knowledge of his own.
tn There he sat, with his intense eye upc
re everything that passed, the picturesque al
ne rare old man, unapproachable by all othe
lis in the unity OF his character and in the tho
III sand fold anxieties which centered upC
n him. No human being ever entered III
~ hall, without turning habiually and wi
nj heartfelt Difference first TO him, and few ev
a left it without pausing as they went to POI
out their blessings upon that spirit Of cons
at Grafton to the country which brought al
he which kept him here.
N Standing upon the extreme boundary
a. human life, and disdaining all the relax
n, tons and exemptions of age, his outer fran
% work only was crumbling away. The 81
:; rious engine within still worked on u
N hurt, uninlured, amid all the dilapidatiol
Y around it,. and worked on with It's won
ID ed and its iron power, until the blow W
ahc,ra xuhtnh frnShal a. -,
of fragments before us. And however apps
ling that blow, and however profoundly
mr. smobe upon our feelings Us We beheld ln<|
a tinguishing effect upon his, where el
: it have fallen so fifty upon him :
no else could he have been relieved fr0I
yoke of his labors so well as in the h.
RI where he bore them Where else wou
in he himself have been SO willing to ha,
q yielded up his life, as upon the post of du
of and by the side Of that very altar to whic
he had devoted it? Where, but in the car
g lol OF his country, to which all the thro
ed bings and hopes Of his heart had been give
he would the dying patriot be SO willing tn
n. those hopes and throbbings should CEASE
IN And where, but from this mansion.house
liberty on earth, could this dying Christii
er more ftly go to his mansion house of etern
Ie. liberty on high!
av Mr.. Newell rose and moved the folio,
ing as an additional resolution
az Resolped, That the seat in this hall il
vacated by the death OF the late John Qain,
90 Adams, be unoccupied Tor thirty days, al
that il. together with the hall. remain cloi