The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-04-26
DEATH OF Dir. KING.

ucAtn " Vaf Voc Ahcsiuehl IN. H. hlhE,
from the Free Trader Of the goth inst:
"By a telegnPhie despatch received here on
yesterday, we learn that The Hon. William X.
King, Vice President Of the United States, e1-
pired at CahawbA Alabama, on Monday night
at ten o'clock.
Althoug this sad event has long been ex-
pected, the announcement will be eyerywhere
read by his countymen with mournful inter
est and they will pause awhile from the tur-
MOL Of busy life to pay tribute to his memory
With the exception Of Mr.. Benton, Mr.. King
at the time Of his death, had been longer inI
public life than of his surviving eotempora1
|ies. More than thirty years ago he took his
seat in Congress as a Senator from the State
Of Alabama, and with brief intervals he has
remained there ever since, amid all the yicissi1
|tudeS u party which have occurred within
that time. During the Administration Of Mr.
Polk he resigned his seat in the Senate to ac1
|cept a mission to France, and after his return
was reelected. In the last Baltimore Conven]
|tion he was nominated on the second ballot
with great unanimity as the democratic candi1
date for the Vice Presidency.
Mr.. King was never remarkable for INTEL
%lectual power, but he always took clear and
strong views ofevery great public question on|
which he was called to act or speak, and
guided by a generally correct judgment and
%virtuous~ impulses, he was generally found on|
Ithe right side. Though by no means Brilliant
JAS an orator nor powerful as a logician, he|
rarely spoke upon a subject that he did not
impress his auditory with a sense Of the sound
ness of his views and the disinterestedness of
Ibis motives; and, throughout his long career,
he won and preserved, untarnished, a reputa-
|tion for public a private virtue, which the ma
|Iice Of political and personal friends may all
ways find a source Of pride, and Of %consola1|
|tion in the bereavement that has befallen them.|
lie has left a name without reproach, a repu-|
|tation u%nsullied by any act for which the most
sensitive Of those who have loved him need
ever blush. He has been in public life for q!
generation be has mingled in the partizan|
contests of his times; he has witnessed and
been an actor amid the vicissitude Of party, in|
1.-The prosperity and ill-fortune Of his own in|
sunshine and in storm, when shouting the|
songs of victory and when smarting under dis
%astrous defeat, an actor Of no mean promi-|
nence or minor influence, but one who was of
those who ruled the destinies of the country
Yet in all this time, throughout all thesc1
changes, and amid all this variety Of good
and evil fortune, he has 30 borne him.
self as to win the reputation of q sound and
reliable statesman, with an escutcheon as UNI
furnished as any that warrior ever bore in|
knightly combat.
Lies ftful fever is over with him, and he|
sleeps well and to-day he will be borne to|
his last resting place in the bosom of his own
beloved Alabama, where his grave hath beenI
laid by Heaven amid the clustering violets of
early spring. The cheerful voices which have
welcomed him home from the foreign land
had not yet ceased their joyous greetings ere|
they were changed to accents Of sorrow and
heard in the wall Of bereavement. Wei andl
kindly has il been ordered by heaven that he|
should breathe his last breath in his native
land, that his footsteps were turned from be-
meath the foreign skies, were it would have
been stranger hands that smoothed his dying
pillow, and stranger voices which uttered the
funeral dirge, to the scenes of his youth, the
theatre Of his manhood, and the home Of his
age.
How sad a commentary is this melancholy
event on the vanity Of human ambition ! But
a few months have elapsed since the %illustri-
Gus deceased was moving among men, seem
ingly full Of life and vigor, the object Of exalt-
ed eulogy from a thousand tongues, the choice
Of millions to one Of the most honorable posi-
tions known to the governments Of earth. But
soon the stealthy approach of the grim spoiler
was whispered, and rapidly did his footsteps
draw nigh. Clouds gathered over the path
way d future fame, and the noble hopes which
had sprung up in his path withered almost in
the hour in which they blOomcd. Death had
set his mark upon him almost in the same
hour in which Triumph placed her seal upon
bis brow.
Almost at the same time when he with
whose name an admiring and eoniding people
bad linked his own in glory and in triumph
was entering the threshold Of his high caree,