Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-05

was prompt punctua active and
I'm the votes he gave with fidelity to the principles Of his
constituents and yet tolerant Of the opinions and chart
table in his construction of the motives Of all others lie
did not indeed debate Debate in these halls either wins
great influence utterly wastes the speakers power
He exercised that calmer influence which felt by a and
the manner OF which is seen by no
Two weeks ago he FASTENED back from his distant home
by night through inclement Storm to his wife
Of the recovery of child whom he had visited there The
disease which was become mortal attended him his
chamber. He died yesterday morning and, although he
had attained the ripe age Of ftyon years. yet he died
without having encountered ebbof fortune of pub
lie favor On the contrary growing prosperity and higher
honors seemed to be soliciting him to live
know, Mr. President thati Is customary occasions
like this speak of the touching Of DEATH and to
offer consultations to the bereayed survivors And yet SIR
cannot do it, Those subjects to too sacred to
be approached by who like myself is habitualy en-
gagged in the affairs fe and not in the contemplation Of
deathn the srfes of the world and MOTH the peaceful
Offices of religion will say, therefore, of the manner Of
thedeath Of late colleague only this that it showed
that he had acquired the forude which enabled him TO
pay became christian, the debt which, in common
with ALL he owedt to nature OF coincidence with that
weeping wife, whom the care OF his orphaned children
is exclusively devoyed, and with that mother who
had leaned his supporting until she had passed her
egthtieth year. with gadness increasing with its in
creasng strength could speak only such words human
reason would suggest know full well that the light
which throws into the darkness Of souls oppressed
by such gefs theirs is only the borrowed light Of
the and stars They know better than could tell
illumination
Mr. President what belonged to Others to do oil that
they could do this sad occasion, has been DONE The
bereaved partner of the deceased has closed his eyes with
her gentle hand and mnisering friends with scarcely
less Of tenderness have invested his pershng form with
such habiments as be6t the grave His colleagues from
New York. all of them, from Manhattan Island with its
towers and temples lost behind the masts of domestic
and foreign commerce, to Niagara screening his majesty
in primeval forests have attended that sad and
the precious burden she conveys the place of depar
tura from he md hefore the
had risen, accompanied by many of those colleagues
could be spared from public service here, the process
sion already its way to the desoated mansion Of
the deceased, where sorrowing knsmen and lifelong
friends win be in waiting to receive those precious
mains and consign them to their final rest
The House of Representatives has paid unaffected
tribute of panegyric to his memory All that remains
for do all that do here is to respond to that
tribute, know shall do with the sincerity of
row and of sympathy and then to show not only our
respect for the deceased but also for the
Great Power who hath thus suddenly called him away
from among into the divine presence by abstaning for
day from the and the thoughts of this world and
devong that brief period to medtatons betting those
who have been thus touchngy admonshed that they
journeyng to world where death cannot enter; and
where to those who have qualified themselves for gra
cous reception there by faith and penitencc for
committed here, sorrow can never come offer the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Reoioed unanimously That the Senate the death of
the Hon. ALEXANDER H. BUELL. late member of the House
Representatives State New York, and tenders
ment.
Resore As mark of respect for the memory Of the de-
ceased, that the Senate do now adjourn
Mr.. FISH rise to second the resolutions offered by
my colleagues not to add word to the just and faithful
tribute which he has paid to the memory of true man,
but to express my in what he has said of the
character of deceased associate to my voice with
his in testimony Of departed worth, and in sympathy with
bereaved family and friends My personal acquaintance
with Mr. Buell. dates only from the period when met
here in the discharge of the duties of respective posi-
TONS but his character had previously been sufficiently
known to prepare me for appreciation of the gentle
amabiity united with firm purpose and unbendng nte
gritty, which marked his life.
shall look back with satisfaction to the inter-
course brief it has been, which have enjoyed with
my deceased colleague and fail to associate
the idea of integrity, of energy of rmness and of
tleness with the of Alexander III. Buell..
Mr.. HAMLIN also paid proper tribute of respect to
the memory of the deceased lie sold that the announce
ment Of death, always startling to him in the pre-
almost invading the social circle of his
household and made him feel that he too should perform
of the last duties the living pay the dead.
The resolutions adopted unanimously.
And the Senate adjourned.