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following resolutions:
Resolved That committee of six be appointed by the
President of the Senate to take order for experimenting
the funeral of Henry Clay late member Of this body
which will take place tomorrow at L. O'clock meridian
and that the Senate will attend the same
Resolved, That the members of the Senate from sin
desire of showing every mark of respect to the
memory of the deceased will go into mourning for
month hy the usual mode of wearing Grape left
Resolved As further mark of respect entertained by
the Senate for the memory of Henry Clay and his long
and distinguished services his country that his remains
in pursuance of the known wishes of his family be
moved to the place of sculpture selected by himself at
Lexington Kentucky in charge of the Sergeant Arms
and attended by committee of six Senator's be APP
pointed by the President Of the Senate who shall have full
power to carry this resolution into effect
Resolved Than additional mark of respect to the
memory of the deceased the Senate do now adjourn.
Messrs Cass. Hunter. Hale, Clemens, Cooper Seward.
Jones Iowa. Brooke followed in eloquent tributes
the memory and virtues of the great and distinguished
dead.
Your reporter has time to furnish by the cars.
sketch of these speeches. except that of Mr. Cas
which is as follows:
Mr. President Again has an impressive warning come
to teach us that the midst of life in death The
ordinary abors Of this Hall suspended and its
tentons hushed before the power of Him who says to
storm of human passions he said of old to the
Galee Peace be still The lessons Of his Providence.
they be- often become merclfu dispensatons
like that which is spreading sorrow through the land
and which reminding that have higher duties to
fulfil graver responsibilities to encounter than those
word and invoke his holy name promising to be faithful
to that Constitution which he in Ills mercy and
will withdraw only in the hour of our blindness and DISC
bedience, and of his own wrath.
Another great has fallen in our land, ripe indeed
in years and honors but dearer to the American
people than when called from the theatre of his services
and renown that final bar where the lofty and the low
ly must all meet at last
do not rise upon this mournul occasion to indulge
the language panegyrc My regard for the memory
the dead and for the obligations of the living would
equally rebuke such course The severity OF truth is at
proper duty and our best consolation Born du
ring the Revolutionary struggle, deceased associate
wa
present generation with the actors in the trying
that evenu period and whose names and deeds will
be known only in the history of their country
He another illustration and noble one. too. of the
glorious equality of our institutions which freely offer all
their rewards all who justly seek them for he the
architect of his fortune having made his way
in life by self exertion ank he was an early adven-
urer the great forest of the West then world of
primitive vegetation bnt now the abode of intelligence
and religion. of prosperity and civilization.
But he possessed that intellectual superiority which
surrounding obstacles and which local seclu-
sion cannot long withhold from general knowledge and
probation 1t is almost half century since he passed
through Chicohe then the seat of government of Ohio
where was member of the Legislature, his way to
take his place this very body which listening
this "Reminiscences. and to feeble tribute of regard from
who then him for the first time. but who can
forget the impression he produced by the charms
of his conversation the rankness of his and the
high qualities with which he endowed
Since then he has belonged to his country. and has
taken part and prominent part, both in peace and
in all the great questions affecting her interests and
her honor and though it has been often my fortune to
participated in the councils of nationanxous for
the public good and seeking to attain ii during all the
vicssitudes of long and active life That he exercised
powerful influence within the sphere OF his action,
through the whole country indeed all feel and know
and know, too, the eminent endowmens which gave
him this high distinction
Frank aud fearless in the expression of his opinions and
in the performance of his duties with powers of elo
uuence. which failed to rve the attention of his
auditory, and which always commanded admiration,
when they did carry conviction; prompt in decision
and firm in action, and with vigorous intellect. trained
in the contests of stirring life, and strengthened by
arged experience and observation. joined wthal to
ardent love of country and to great purity of purpose
these the elements of his power and And
we dwell upon them with mournful qualification now
when shall follow him to the cold and silent
tomb where shall commit earth to earth, ashes to
ashes dust to dust With the blessed conviction of the
truth OF that divine revelation which teaches that
there is life and hope beyond the house where
shall leave him alone to the mercy of his God and Of
He has passed beyond the reach of human praise
but the Judgment OF his contemporaries has preceded
and pronounced the judgment of history and his
and fame will shed usre upon his country. and will be
proudly cherished in the hearts his countrymen for long
ages Yes they will be cherished and freshly
membered when these marble columns that surround
often the witnesses of his triumph but in few brief hours
when his mortal frame despoled Of the immortal spirit
shall rest under this dome for the last time to become the
witnesses of his defeat in that final contest where the
mghtet fall before the great destroyer when these
bio columns shall themselves have fallen like the works of
leaving their broken fragments to tell the story OF
former magnfcence amid the very ruins that
decay and desoation.
often with him during his last illness when the
world and the things Of the world fast fading away
before him He knew that the silver cord was almost
oosened, and that the golden bowl breaking the
fountain; but he resigned to the will of Providence
feeling that lie who gave has the right to take his
good time and After his duty to his Creator
and his anxiety for his family his first for his
country and his first wish for the preservation and per-
peaton of the Constitution and the Union dear to him
in the hour of death they had been in the vgor
life, Of that Constitution and Union whose defence in
the last and greatest crisis of their peril had called forth
all his energies and had stimulated those memorable and
powerful exerons, which he who witnessed never
forget and which doubt hastened the final catasto
phe nation depores with sincerity and unanimy
not less honorable to themselves than to the memory
the object Of their affections.
And when shall enter that narrow valley, through
which he has passed before US and which leads to the
judgment seat of God, may be able say through
faith in SON Savior and in the beautiful language
Of the hymn of the dying christan-dying but everything
and triumphant:
The world recceds. it disappears
Heaven opens my eyes my
With sounds seraphic ring
Lend. lend your wings! mount, fly
Oh grave, where is thy victory!
Oh death, where is tlv sting -
Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last
end be like his.
The resolutions were then unanimously adopted Messrs.
Hunter Dawson Jones Of Iowa Cooper Bright and Smith
were appointed the Committee of Arrangements for the
funeral
The Senate then adjourned
House OF REPREsENTATrvEs-The members assembled at
II O'Clock pursuant to adjournment but it bapast
two before the Journals read appropriate prayer
having been made by the Rev. DR.. Butler.
Immediately after the journals had been read
received from the Senate announcing the death
OF the Hon Henry Clay. member of that body from
Kentucky, accompanied by the resolutions which had
been passed in consequence of that and appointing
Committee to accompany his remains to Kentucky in
charge of the Sergeant-at-Arms
Mr.. breckenridge, of Kentucky, Immediately and
alluded to the protracted illness Of Mr. Clay during which
he had been oaced by the sympathy and attention of his
relatives and friends until he at length sunk under the
effect of disease and died TRANQUILITY and supported by the
faith Of a Christian
He then briefly referred to the more prominent events
in which Mr.. Clay had acted the part of mediator
traced his early history and pointed the which
had attended his Indictment to the youth Of
the country to initiate his example The testimonials of
grief which everywhere displayed demonstrated the
estimation in which he held by his country and
even the Capitol seemed to exhibit that guiding spirit
had departed. He concluded by submitting the resolu-
tions usual on such occasions
Mr. Ewing, of Kentucky followed and delivered short
address of general nature euogisc Of the char
acter of the deceased statesman did Mr. Caskie
ginia.
Mr. Chandler, of Pa said, if he could have consulted
his feelings, he should have remained silent but he
represented constituency who pride themselves the
been received from their fathers The message that
through the land yesterday he said went to the hearts of
millions and each felt that in the death he had partcu-
ular separate from the natural loss and went at
much length into eulogy of the departed statesman
Mr. Bayly, Of Virginia said, although the opponent of
Mr. Clay yet from youth friendship had existed between
them and for twenty years personal intimacy had been
maintained by them far the discrepancy between
their years would allow and that distinguished
during the last twenty had frequently been the Wis
tier ut his house and the guest at his table This made
it proper that he should then pay the last tribute Of
spcct for his memory
He had never known of higher attainmentS than
Henry Cay-of greater self possession and selfreance
or OF greater moral and physical courage. He
doubted as to where lay the path of duty
hestated to pursue it, and he possessed the qualifications
OF great general as well as OF great statesman Two