The daily union., 1852-07-02

protector father and friend. America mourns the de-
parure OF uminary heh enlightened and illustrated
the continent; the United States coanseior OF deepest
wisdom and purest purpose mankhas tue advocate oi
human rights and constitutional liberty.
1 Mr. WALSH said Mf Speaker, the Iilustrious man
whose death we tins DAY mourn was 30 long p pDeA
that cannot allow that he shall go down to The grave,
without word at least OF ahecnonale uememoIance-
without a tribute to a memory which VIII exact tributes
as long shall be found 10 beat within The bosom
OF civilized man. and human agency shall be adequate IN
any form 10 give them an expresslon ana even sir'
had heartel sigh TO pour out hereif mad no tear
for that con's lid should do injustice TO those whose
representative in part am If did not IN this presence,
and at this time, raise the voice 10 SVEN he accents OF
the profoundest public sorrow.
The State OF Maryland has always We'd with Ken
lucky in love and alteration OF his name Her people
have gathered around him with all the ervor OF hfs
affection and with more than It's duration Troops OF
friends have clustered about his pathway with
personal devotion which each man oil them regarded as
The highest individual honor-frends cir, to whose fire.
sides the tdngs of his death will go with all the with
erng influences which felt when household ties
severed.
| wish, sir | could offer now proper memorial for
such subject and such affection But as strive to
utter it, feel the disheartening influence OF the we'll
known truth. that in view OF death all minds sink into
triteness 1t would indeed, sir, that the great
eveler Of would vindcate his title to be
sidered by making all think alike in regard to his
vsation-sthe thousand thoughts that begin and end in
one"-the desoia,on here-the eternal hope hereafter
influences felt alike by the lowest intellect and the
lofest genius.
the councils of his country whose peculiar charge was
to see that the republic suffered detrment-s patriot
for all times, all circumstances, and all energencieshas
passed away from the trials and triumphs OF the world
and gone TO his reward Sad tho emotions which
such an would ordinarily excite their intensity is
deeply heightened by the matters SO fresh Withn the
memories OF us all
"Oh think how TO his latest day,
When death. just lowering, claim'd his prey,
With Palinurus' unalterd mood,
Firm at his dangerous post he stood,
Each call for needful reperd,
With dying hand the rudder held
Then, while on freedoms Thousand plains
One unpollued church remains,
Whose peaceful bells ne'er sent around
The bloody tocsins maddening sound,
But still, upon the hallow'd day,
Convoke the SWANS TO praise and pray
Greet his cold marble with a tear,
He who preserved them Clay lies here."
In character Mr.. Speaker. so lustrous and beaut.
full, is difficult select any point for particular notice
from those which go 10 make up its noble proportions
but may around his honored grave call to CRATE
fu recollection that invincibe spirit which personal
sorrow could sully, and disaster could overcome. Be
assured sir that he has in this regard left legacy to the
young Of the republic almost sacred and dear
as that liberty of which his life was blessed iustra-
ton.
dishearened his friends, and made them feel
without hope his clarion voice still heard in
the purpose and the pursuit OF rights as bold and eo
quent when it first proclaimed the freedom Of the seas
and its asmanc tones struck of the badges OF bondage
from the lands of the ncas and the plains of Marathon
not forget the duties OF the He was aectonate
adviser all points wherein inexperienced youth might
require counsel He was disnteresed sympathizer in
personal sorrows that called for consolation. He
ever upright and honorable in all the duties incident
his relations in life.
To an existence lovely Heaven in its mercy granted
fitting and appropriate close II the prayer, Mr.
Speaker of distinguished citizen who died some years
since in the metropolis, while his spirit fiutteI
ing for It's final flight, that he light depart gracefully IL
may not be presumptuous TO say that what was IN that
instance the aspiration of chivalric gentleman in
this The realization of the dying Christian, in which
blended all that human dignity could require with all that
Divine grace had conferred which the hrmness OF the
man only transcribed by the fervor OF the penent
short period before his death he remarked to By
his bed side, " That he fearful he becoming
selfish, his thoughts were entirely Withdrawn from the
world and centred upon eternity" This, sir, was but
the publication OF his noble spirit from all the dress OF
earth-a happy illustration Of what the religious muse
has SO sweetly sung
| "No sin to sain--no lure to stay
| The soul, home che springs;
Thy sunshine on her joyful way
Thy freedom in her wings"
Mr. Speaker, the solemnes OF this hour may be
forgotten. We may back from the made grave
only still 10 show that consider eternity the bubble,
life and time the enduring substance" We may not
pause long enough by the brink to ask which OF
eers of To-day shall next be at rest But be assured sir
that upon the records OF mortality will be inscribed
a name more illustrious than that OF the statesman
patriot, and friend whom the nation mourns.
The question then put on the adoption OF the
luGons proposed by Mr.. BREcKERIDGE, and they were
unanimously adopted.