Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-07-03

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Resolved That the House Of Representatives OF the
nted States has received with the deepest sensiby in
tegence Of the death Of tho Hon. HENRY Clay Senator
I'm Congress from the State Of Kentucky.
win wear the usual badge Of mourning
FOR thirty days as testimony Of the profound respect
his House entertans for the memory of the deceased
R.sousd That the officers and members Of the House
IN Reuresenatiyes in body, win attend the funeral Of
the Hon HExRY CLAY the day appointed for that pur
[pose by the Senate Of the United States.
Resolved That the proceedings Of this House in rela-
on 10 the death Of the Hon. HENRY CLAY be communi
Gated TO the family Of the deceased by the Clerk
Resolued That further mark of respect for the
Of the deceased this House do adjourn to the
|day appointed for the funeral.
Mr. EWING, of Kentucky, rose and said A noble
hear has ceased to beat for Along OF brilliant and
selfdevoed public service is finished at last and we now
at its conclusion looking back through the change
u history Of that life to its beginning contemporaneous
with the very birth Of the Republic and its varied events
mingled in hearts and memores-with the tri
umph and calamities the weakness and the power the
Eadversity Of country we love much AS we contem-
plate this sad event in this place. the shadows of the past
gather the memories of events long crowd
upon U.S. and the shades of departed patriots to
hover about u.s. waiting to receive into their midst the
spirit Of who worthy to struggle with them in
cause and to share in the rewards Of their vr
tines. Henceforth he must be to'us as one Of them
They say he was ambitious If SO, it grievous
fault and greyously has he answered it. He has found
nought but disappointment It has but served to ag
gavate the modification Of his defeats and furnish
additional lustre to the triumph Of his foes Those who
after may aye they will, inquire why his statue
among the statues Of those whom thought
ablest and worthiest to govern.
But his ambition high and holy feeling, unsel6sh
{magnanim0us. Its aspirations were for his countrys
good and its triumph was his countrys prosperity Whe
her In honor reproach in triumph defeat that heart
his never throbbed with Pulsation save for her
honor and her welfare Turn to him in that last best Decd
and browning glory Of life full of public service and
honor when his of personal ambition finish
ed for ever Rejected again and again by his country
just abandoned by party which would scarce have
existence without his genius his courage and his
abors that great heart firm and defiant to the as
eaults Of his enemies but deenceess against the ngra
ttude Of friends doubtless wrung with the bterest NOR
tfcaton Of his e then it was and under such crcum
stances these the gathering storm upon his coun
try All eyes turned to him. all voices called for those
services which, in the hour of prosperity and security
they had 50 careessy rejected With no misanthropic
chagrin with morose, selfish resentment he forgot all
but his country and that country endangered He returns
to the of his labors and his fame, which he had
thought to have left for scene that American
Senate Chamber clothed in gorgeous drpery to daz
Ee the eye of fancy shrouded in superstous awe or
ancient for hereditary power but to reflect
ing American mind more full of interest of dignity and
Of grandeur than spot on this broad earth not made
holy by religions consecratng seal See him he
tiers there trembingy but hopefully upon the last most
momentous perhaps most doubtful conflict OF his life
Sir many gay tournament has been more dazzling to
the eye Of fancy more gorgeous and imposing in the dis.
trumpets in the grand array Of prncey beauty and Of
royal pride. Many battlefield has rembled beneath
more ostentatous parade Of human power and its
querors have been crowned with laures honored with
umphs and apotheosized amid the deigods Of history
but to the thoughtful hopeful philanthropc student of
the annals OF his race there conflict in which
such dangers threatened such hopes mped the
hero Of which deserved warmer gratitude nobler tri
umph, prouder monument.
Sir from that long, anxious and exhaustng conflict he
never reganed his mortal strength In that last battle
for his counry honor and his counys safety he recey
ed the mortal wound which laid him low; and we now
mourn the death Of o martyred patriot
But never in all the grand drama which the story OF
bis life arrays, has he presented sublimer
touching spectacle than in those last days Of his de-
cline and death Broken with the Of State wound
ed and scathed in many fiery conflict that aged worn,
and decayed body in such mournfu contrast with the
verifying strength Of his giant spirit he seemed proud
and sacred though crumbling monument Of glory past
Standing amongst US, like some ancient colossal ruin
amidst the degenerate and dmnutye structures Of
modern times, its vast proportions nagnfed by the con-
as he reminded us of those days when there were giants
in the land and remembered that then there
whose prowess could Withstand his To watch
him in that slow decline, yielding with dignity and II
were inch by nch to that last enemy, hero yields to
conquerng foe the glorious light of his intellect blazing
stn in all its woned brllancy, and setting at defiance
the clouds that vainy attempted to obscure it, he
full of interest than in the day Of his glory and his
power There some whose brightest intellectual
emanaons rise little superior to the instincts of the
ana that led earfuly to doubt that cherished
truth Of the soul1 immortality which, in despair,
men press to theydoubtng hearts But it is in the death
Of such man % he that treasured by the
emplaton of akndred though superior spirit of soul
which immorta like his fame, knows old age, de-
cay, no death
The wondrhls light of his unmatched intellect may
have dazzeda world; the eloquence of that inspired
tongue mayave enchanted millions, but there few
who have sounded the depths Of that noble heart To
him in sicness and in health in joy and in sadness in
the sentkatches Of the night and in the busy daytime
this it VS. to know and love him. To the impeuous
torrent that resstess will the hurricane of those pas
sions bhed in peace breathe calm and gently as sum
mer zphyr to feel the gentle pressure Of that hand in
the gasp of friendship which in the rage Of fiery conflict
coul hur and defiance at his oe to that eagle
eve which oft would burn with patriotic ardor or fash
viii the lightning Of his anger, beam with the hndiest
EXPRESSIONS of tenderness and aectonhen was, and
hen alone could learn know and feel that that heart
warmed by the same sacred FIRE from above which
kndcd the light Of his respondent intellect In the death
Of such patriotism itself might pause and for
moment stand aloof while friendship shed tear of
upon his bier. ellis life gentle and the ee-
mens mixed in him that Nature might stand up and
say to all the world, this was manl'
But who estimate his country loss? What tongue
portray the desoaton which in this hour throughout
this broad land hangs gloomy pail his griefstricken
countymeni How poorly words like mine translate
the eloquence of whole peoples grief for patriots
DEATH For nations loss let nation mourn For that
supendous calamity to country and mankind be the
heavens hung with blnck let the waing elements chant
his drge and the universal heart Of throb with
common pang Of grief and anguish
Mr. CAsKIE, of Virginia, said; Mr.. Speaker must
try to lay single laurel leaf in that open coffin which is
already garlanded by the eloquent tributes to the Illus
ous departed which hive been heard in this solemn
hall for come, sir, from the district of his birth