Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-12-14
Supreme Court oftns United States.

AT the opening the court on Fri ay morning
Mr.. CUSHING, the Attorney General OF the United
tates addresSed the Court us follows:
M0y it pLeIse your HonOrs: to submit mo-
tion which seems To be called Tor by the nature Of
the subject-matter. God, i'll his inScrutable but
supreme will, has removed from the service OF The
country, and from that path OF honor which, through
n long lifetime OF greatness and goodness, lie had
so Mobly tod, the Vice President OF the United
States. When the voice of some future panegy-
rlSl OH the banks of the Mississippi, the BIavO, or
the Columbia, shall speak OF the heroes, the legS-
lstorS, the statesmen, aud the magistrates of
our country, as il TecountS the names borne on
that glorious roll of Immortality, 1t cannot fail TO
pause with uhalloyed satisfaction at the name OF
WMLIIM X. KING. Providence from tine To time
raises up TO lead armies on TO victory through
he clash of The battle field, by gifts of writ
ten or spoken 10 weld will the fercestimpulses
OF nations. Such men, il they have supera-
lively splendid career, yet have an ngitated one.
They create events, and they partake oil the VIciS
STUDIES of events. hey may, they often do, have
shaded sides of the mental formation, without which
the bright ones would be too daZZngly brilliant.
They come 10 be praised or dIspralSed alternately,
according 10 tie light in which their actions are
viewed and the flux or the refux Of the tides of
popular emotion. IfWiiIiam r. King be not of
these, yet he has an appropriate and perhaps more
enviabIe place In the temple of lame and in the
hearts of Americans; for of him 1t IS with painest
truth TO be SAID that, with lofty elements Ill his
comueddation, there is nothing in it open to CEN
sure. He stands TO the memory, IN sharp outlines
as were against the sky, like some chIseled col
umn Of antique art, some consular statue of the
impeEiolrepublic, wrappedIn marble robes, grand
ly beautiful in the simple dignity and unity If
ia ltleSS proportion. Placed at an early age in
that august assembly, tile highest, all things con-
sdered, III this or any other land, the Senate of
the United States, and continuing there, with
brief interruption of the most eminent diplomatic
employment, during whole generation of time,
and repeatedly elevated 10 preside OveritS deliber-
atoms, he Iladgtown 10 be, moi of it merely, but
us representative man, its typical person, It's all
conspicuous model OF an upright, pu.e, spotless,
high-ninded, chivalric American Senator. This
Il IS, in my judgement, which constitutes The dis
tnctive trait in his character and careeanu which
drew to Inn the veneration and the confidence of
his countrymen. We think of him almost as an
bistoricarnonument OF Senatorial integrity rather
than as mere mortal man of the age. Like that
gallant soldier no received the baton If ma shall in
the very scene OF his achievements, and fell, by
eannon-shol, in the act of gTasping the insignia of
his command, so the Vice President did but reach
the pinnacle ofhis greatness TO die. Such death,
so timed, though premature for us whom he has
left behinto the tolls and cares public duty, aB