New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-02

officers OF the army ano Navy WAS present..
The procession moved precisely at twelve o'clock In
the following order
Military Escort.
DR. Hall, Attending Physician.
SergeantAt Arms.
Senate Committee Of Arrangements.
FUNERAL CAR,
Flanked on each eide b. alLbearers
Senators and Representatives, OF henfucEy'
Members of the Senate, preceded by Its President
and Officers .
Members Of the House Of Representatives, precede1
by It's Speaker and Officers.
The President and his CABINET
Justices of the Supreme Court and other Judges ana
Law Officers.
Officers of the Army and Navy.
The Baltimore Delegation
Corporation Officers and City Councils OF washington
GEORGETOWN and Alexandra
Mechanics and Lsborers on the CaPlIo nehuou W
Architect Walker ard Superintendent strung
Citizens and Strangers.
In few moments the procession arrived and entered
the Chamber, preceded by the Senate commune Oh
Arrangements and that appointed to accompany the
corpse to Kentucky The corpse was encssed In patent
metallic coffin shrouded in Grape, with silver handles
and mountnes a movable silver plate over the face
and massive silver plate, bearing the simple Hscrp
ton of HENRY CLAY" Following the corpse were
the palbearers and the near relatives ana tnends OF
the deceased Next came the members OF the House
of Representatives preceded by their officers. Inc
utmost silence prevailed. All present, Including the
crowded auditory in the galleries and lobbes, seemed
70 be deeply impressed with the solemny OF the occa
siou All being in the places assigned them, Rev C. ~
Butler Chaplain Of the Senate, read the l5hchapter
Of the First Epte to the Corinthians, commencing At
the goth verse This concluded, he delivered sermon
THE SERMON.
"How the staff broken and the beautiful rod
Jeremiah, xlyiih chap. l7th verse.
Before all hearts and minds in this august assem-
blape the vivid image OF one stands. To some
aged eye he may come forth from the dim past as he
appeared in the neighbering city OF his native StAe
little and ardent youth full of promise, OF ambition ana
of hope To another he may appear as In distant
State In the Courts Of Juitice, erect high strong bold
wearing fresh forensic aurels his young and open
brow. Some may zee him In the Garner ana sos IA Tue
latter stages Of bis career In this auspcious theater
of his renown and TO the former he will start out In
the background Of the past "a he appeared IN the
neshboIipg chamber, tall, eate, lmPassoneu, win
flashing eye, and suasiye gesture ana clarion VOICE az
Acknowledged AgamemnOn, king OF men; and 10 otn'
ers be will again stand in this chamber, the strong
staff of the bcwidered and staggering State, aud
the beautiful rod rich with the blossoms oil genius,
snd of patriotic love and hope the life OF youth
still remaining to give animation, grace aud ex-
baustless veor the wisdom the experience ana the
gravity Of age To others he may be present as ne SAT
In the chamber Of sickness cheerful majestic gentle
his mind clear his heart bis hope liked on heaven
peacefully preparing for his last great change To the
tent humble and peaceful Christian, who received him
with the affection of father, and joined with him in
solemn sacrament and prayer, with tue genueness Oh
woman ana the humility OF a cnnd. o9t Oh tne
strong came forth sweetness. How the strong
,tsH broken and the beautiful rod J! But not De-
fore this assembly only does the venerable image
of the departed statesman this day distinctly stand
for more than thousand miles, East West North, ana
south il Is known and remembered that AZ this place
and hour a nations representatives assemble 70 40
honor 10 him whose fame Is now nations heritage;
nations mighty heart throbs against this CAPITOL snd
beats through you. a. many C.-Cs, banners -.S1p
bells toll cannons boom, funeral draperes wave
In crowded Streets and on surrounding wsrves-
upon steamboats, and upon cars-in helds and In
workshops-in homes in schools-milllons OF men,
women and children have their thoughts fixed upon this
scene and say mounfuly TO each other this Is the hour
in which, at the Capitol, the Nations Representatives
are buryipg HENRY CLAY Burying Henry CLAYt
Bury the records OF your countys history Bury the
hearts Of living millions Bury the mountains, the
refs the lakes and the spreading lands from sea 10 sea
with which his name Is inseparaby associated and even
then you would not bury HENRY CLAY, for he Ia Ia
other lands and speaks In other tongues and 20 oHS
times than ours great mind, great nearr
great orator, a great career have been consigned
to history She will record bis rare gifts OF deep To-
sight, keen discrimination, clear statement rapid imag
nation, plain. direct and convincing logic She VIII
love TO dwell on that large, generous, magnanimOus
open, forgving heart She will hnger with iond de-
tht on the recorded traditional stories OF an elo
quence that masteIful and stirring, oecausel
was but himself struggling to come forth on loving
words; because, though the words were strong and
beautiful and meodious It was felt that behind them
there was a soul drawer, stronger, more beautiful
and more meodious than language could express She
will point a of craftsmanship which has u
remarkable extent stamped itself on the public poicy
of the country, and reached In benehcia practch re-
suits the fields the looms, the commercial m4rts, and
the quiet homes of all the land, where his name was
with the departed father, and is with the living child
ren and will be with successive generations, an non.
oed household word feel as a man, the grandeur of
this career-but as an immortal with this broken wreck
of mortality before me, with this scene as the end OF all
bumsn glory feel that no career truly great but aat
of him who whether he be iusrious or OBSCURE, lyes
10 the future in the present. and linking himself TO
The spiritual world draws from God the life, the rue,
the motion and thereward Of all his labor 50 would that
great spirit which has departed say 70 US bis solemn ad
monition when say tina, esuanship 10 then only
glorious when II Is Christian, and that man is only then
safe and true to his duty and his soul, when the IKE
which he lives in the flesh, embraces the life oil
faith in the Son of God Great indeed Is tue prV-
Iere and most honorable and useful Is the career OF
a Cbristisn American Statesman. lis percelyes mat
civil liberty came from the freedom wherewlIh Chilst
made its earliest martyrs and defender tree lie
recognizes il as OF the twelve manner OF fruits
ON the tree of life with which lis lower branches ior'
rish the best nutriment of earth hangs on rs TOP
| most beughs which wave IN Heaven fruits thM eNaH'
ifate the immOrtas Recognizing the State as God III
stuiion he will perceive Il at his own ministry Is
divine loving consciously under the ey and In tne love
and fear of od-redeemed By the Lord jesus sancaned
by bis spirit loving his law, he will give huise IN pr.
yae and in public 10 the service OF che saviour ne WI"
not admit that he msy act on less lofty principles Ia p1o
lie ia an in private life and that he must De careful
lis N oral Influence in the small sphere at nome ana
| peiehboThood bat need take no heed of IL wden
stretches over continents and crosses seas. lie wiz
know that bis moral responsibilities cannJt be divided
! and distributed among Otsers. When be i told that
adherence TO the stTictest moral and religious prn
| ciyle is n compatible with successful ana emit
rent career be will deuounce the assertion as ahbel
on the venerste1 father of the Republics 1l on the
honored living ard the ius.Iious dead i)ei aSainst
eres, and Christian nation libel against ID him
self who has declared and made eOdiness profitable
for tee life that H. He will strive to make laws tran.
scripts of the character aDd institutions, Illustrations OF
the providence Of God He viii scan with al piraGn
sd care e purDo.e of God in the future history OF the
world in throwing open this wide continent
from e. TO sea, as the abode OF freedom
intelligence, plenty, prosperity and peace ana
| EEL that In giving his energies with patriotic