Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-12-10
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

At the opening of the Court yesterday morning
Mr.. CUSHING, the Attorney General of the United
States, addressed the Court as follows:
May it please your Honors rise to submit motion,
which TO be called for by the nature Of the subject
matter. God, in his inscruabe but supreme will has
moved from the service of the country and that path
OF honor which, through long lifetime of greatness and
goodness he had so noby od the Vice President Of the
United States. When the voice OF future panegy
rst the banks of the Mississippi the Bravo or the
Columbia, shall speak Of the heroes the legislators the
statesmen and the magistrates Of country it
counts the names borne that glorious roll of immor
taty it cannot fail to pause with unalloyed satisfaction
at the name of WILLIAM r. KING Providence from time
to time raises up to lead armies victory through
the clash of the or by rare gifts of written or
spoken thought to WELD at will the ercest impulses of
nations. Such men, if they have superlatively splendid
career yet have agitated They create events,
and they partake of the vcisstudes of events They
may they often do have shaded sides the mental for
nation, without which the bright would be too daz
zingy brilliant They to be praised disprased
alternately according to the light in which their
viewed and the ux the reux of the tides popular
emotion Ii William X. King be not of these yet he has
appropriate, and perhaps enyabe place in the
temple of fame and in the hearts of Americans for Of
him it is with planest truth be said that with lofty
elements in his character to merit and receive the most
ELECTROMAGNETIC, there is nothing in it open
sure He stands to the memory in sharp outline it
were against the sky like chiselled column of
tque art consular statue of the imperial repub
lie, wrapped in its marble robes grandly beautiful in the
simple dignity and unity Of faultess proportion Placed
things considered in this any land the Senate Of
the United States and continuing there with brief
interruption of the most eminent diplomatic employ
ment during whole generation Of time and repeatedly
elevated to preside its deliberations grown
be- not Of 1t merely but it's representative man. typ
cal person. its aconspicuous model Of an upright pure
spotess high minded chivalrc American Senator This
it is in my judgment which constitutes the distinctive
trait in his character and career and which drew him
the veneration and the confidence of his counymen We
think of him almost historical monument of Sena-
toral integrity rather than mortal Of the
age Like that gallant soldier who received the of
marshal in the very scene of his achievements and fell
struck by cannonshot in the of grasping the nsg
mia of his command the Vice President did but reach
the pinnacle of his greatness to die Such DEATH
timed though premature for whom he has left behind
to the tolls and cares of public duty not premature
for the consummate completeness of his
Knowing how deeply his loss must be depored by your
Honors, 1t is deemed fitting for to that this
Court, in unison with what has been done by the two
Houses of Congress, do adjourn in manifestation of
its for the memory of the deceased Vice President
of the United States.
Mr.. Chief Justice TANEY replied as follows
The Court is sensible that every respect due
to the memory of the late Vice President, WILLIAM R.
KING.
His life passed in the public service, and marked
throughout by its purity integrity and disnterested de-
voton to the public good.
Ii is true that part of it connected him particularly
with the judicial branch of this Government. But the
people of the United States had elevated him the high
est Office but in their gift and the loss of
like him, honored and worthy of the honor be-
slowed is felt to be public calamity by this department
Of Government as well as by that to which he inn
medately belonged. And, token of their high
spect for him while living and their sincere for his
DEATH the Court will adjourn to-day without ransacting
its ordinary business.
Whereupon the Court adjourned until Monday morning
at ii o'clock