Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-04-06
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

The Journal Of Friday having been read (Mr Speaker
CoBB presidiSs -
Mr.. vINT0N rose and s,id We may expect, in little
time message announcing the melancholy which is
already known 10 all a national calamity. / move
therefore, nstead Of the Hsuse proceeding the ordinary
legislative business suspend the rules and that the House
take until they receive message from the Senate.
The SPEAKER said that if there objection the
motion would be considered as agreed to-
And thereupon the House took
At quarter past o'clock the Speaker again called the
House to order.
message was then received from the Senate by Mr..
DIcKINs their Secretary announcing the House the de-
of the Hon. JOHN c. CALHOUN, Senator in Congress
from the State Of South Carolina, and the proceedings Of the
Senate thereon.
The resolutions of the Senate having been read by the
Clerk
Mr. HOLMES, of South Carolina, and addressed the
House follows
becomes Mr. Speaker my solemn duty to announce to
this House the decease the Hon. john G.. CALHOUN,
Senator of the State Of South Carolina He expired at his
lodgings 10 this city yesterday morning, at o'clock He
lives longer among the living he sleeps the sleep of
long night which knows no dawnng The which rose
brightly this morning brought to him no healing in its
beams.
We the Representatives Of State,
the dead but the vtue and the life and the services of the
deceased confined by and bounds but stand
ing the broad expanse of this Confederacy he gave his
genius the State, and his heart to his entire country
Carolina will not therefore, be suffered to mourn her honored
in cells and solitary shades but her sister States
viii gather around her in s palace Of the nation, and bend
ing over that bier, weep she weeps, and mourn with the
deep, affective mourning of her heart Yes sir her honored
sonhonored in the associations of his birth, which occurred
when the echoes and the shouts of freedom had yet died
along his native hills born of parents who had paaken Of
the tolls been affected by the struggles and fought nthe bat
ties for berty-eemed If he baptized in the very
fount of freedom Reared amid the hardy scenery nature
and amid the stern pou and reserved population unseduced
yet by the temptations and unneved by the luxues of life
he gathered from surrounding objects, and from the people of
his association, that peculiar hue and coong which tram
h.t sc
the schoohoue he wandered in those regions which
rounded his DWELLING unmoesed and INDUCED those solitary
thoughts in rambling through her mighty forests which gave
that peculiar cast Of thinking and reflection to his mighty soul
He was among people who knew but few books and
hose minds learning had not yet thrown its eugence. But
they had the Bible and with his pious parents he gathered
rich lore, which supasses that of Greek Roman story
AT an age when youths generally prepared scan
the classics ne was yet uniniated in their rudiments
Under the tuition of the venerable Dr. Wadd his rela
tive and friend, he quickly acquired what that gentleman
able to mpa and even then began develop those mighty
powers OF clear perception rapid analysis quick comprehe-
sion vast generalization, for which he subsequently SO
emnently distinguished. He remained but very short time
at his school, and returned again to bis rustic empoyments
But the spirit had been awakened the inspiration had come
like TO spirit from on high, and he felt hatwihn him were
found treasures that learning essential to unfold He
gathered patrmony he FASTENED the college of YALE
and there under the tuition of that accomplished scholar and
profound theologian, Rev. Dr. Dwight he became in short
PERIOD the first among the foremost indusiDg not in the en-
joyments, in the Injuries, and the designations of college
life but with toll with energy unbendnp with devo-
ton to his studies he became TO the language Of con-
temporary ga man among boys" In conflict nteIec-
tual with his great MASTER the keen eye of Dr. Dwiaht dis
cened the great qualifications which marked the man. and
Pophesed the honos that have fallen in bis pathway He
was solitary and associated much with his class He in
dulged his propensity solitude be walked among the ems
that surround that college, and in the cells in the
secret shades Of that institution he felt that dawnne on his
mind which was to pecede the brighter the grea ay
and, raising himself from the materiay around him. he soar
ed on the wings of contemplation heights sublime and
welding his flight along the zodiac raised his head among
the stars The honors Of the college became his need and
departing thence with the blessings and the benedctions Of
his venerable instructor he repaired, for short period to
the school OF Lched and there imbbed those principles of
the law based upon the rights Of man. and throw
ing Gordon around the British and the American citizen He
left and upon his return home greeted by the glowing
pressure OF his friends who had heard from distance The
his position among his neghbors He was sent by them to