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- amid ,be very ruins that announce de-

cence, amid The very ruins that announce oe-
cav and desolafion.
was often with him duiing his iastiHness;;
when the world and the things OF me woIio
were fast fading away before MN. ne An.~
,b., the silver cord was almost loosened, and
| that the golden bowl was breaking at the
eoun,s;n but he was resigned TO the will OF
/ Providence. feeling that He who gave has the
| riebt 10 lake away in his own good tune and
manner. After his duty TO his Creator and his
anxiety for his family, his FIRST care WAS for
| his country, and his first wish TOR the preserva
| ton and perpetuaiion OF the Constitution and
the Union, dear 10 him in the hour of death as
they had ever been in the vigor of life OF that
Constitution and Union those defence in the
last and greatest crisis of their peril had called
forth all his energies, and had stimulated those
memorable and powerful exertions which ne
who witnessed cen never forget, and which, no
doubt, FASTENED the final catastrophe nation
now deplores with sincerity and unanlinity
not less honorable to themsels es than TO the
memory of the object of their affections. Aho
when we shall enter that narrow valley inr1
which he has passed before us, ana "n'I I
leads to the Judgment seat OF God, may we oe
able to say, through faith I'D his son. oul ,ha
viour, and in the beautiful language OF 'ne
hymn Of the diving chrislian-dying, but ever
living and triumphant
ssThe world recedes; it disappears;
Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears
With sounds seraphlc riDg
Lend, lend your wings mount fly
Oh grave where is thy victory
Oh death, whe:e is thy sting
LET me die the death of the righteous, and
let nv last hour be like bis ~
Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, spoke next We
give the following extract from his remarks:
"Mr. President, he may not have had as
much of analytic skill as some others IN dis-
seeting subject 1t may be, perhaps, that he
did not seek TO look quite so far ahead as some
who have been most distinguished tor polilicai
forecast. But it may be truly SAID OF Mr;
CLAW that he was no exaggerator. he looked
Of events through neither end of the telescope,
but surveyed them with The naked eye. He
had the capacity of seeing things as the people
saw Them, and of feeling things as the people
felt them. He had, sir, hey md any other man
whom ! lave ever seen, the true mesmerG
touch of the orator-the rare art of transferring
his impulses to others. Thoughts, feelings,
emotions came from the ready mould Of his
genius, radiant and glowing, and communica-
ted their own warmth TO every heart which re-
ceived them. His, too, was the power OF WELD.
ing the higher and intenser forms of passion
with a majesty and an ease which none but
the great masters of the human heart can ever
employ.
at was his rare good fortune to have been
one of those who form, as it were, a sensible
link and living tradition which connects one
age with another; and through which one gen.
Grafton speaks its thoughts and feelings, and
appeals TO another. And unfortunate is it for
a country when it ceases to possess such men;
for it is to them that we chiefly owe the ca
pacity to maintain the unity of the great
epochs of human history, and preserve the
consistency fpoiitical action"
Messrs. Seward, Hale, Clemens, Cooper, tof
Pa,,) Jones, tof Iowa,) and Brooke, (of Mich.)
also delivered addresses.
In the House of Representatives, also, an
unprecedented number Of addresses, all OF
them highly eulogistic, was delivered. We
have not room for extracts. The speakers
were Messrs. Breckenridge, Ewing, Caskie,
Venable, Brooks, Bayly, Haven, Chandler,
Faulkner, Parker, Gentry, Bowie and Walsh.