Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-12-31

the peoples Representatives in the other branch Of the
National Council
How srikngly, Mr. President, should these ofrepeat-
ed bereavements admonsh Of the uncertain Of
every thing that is human how forcby should it teach
81 what shadows are, what shadows We pursue I"
The message from the House Of Representatives informs
us that BRooKSs CAAPBELL is Hedeparted this
life in this city Sunday last about o'clock He
numbered with the dead, having passed that bourne
from which there is return
MIR. Campbell, the Representative of the first Congress
sional district of Tennessee reached this CITY, in feeble
health about the opening OF the present session of Con-
gress His health continued to decline until nature,
weared with the unequal contest yielded to the stern fiat
Of Heaven and the spirit released from its fetters winged
its flight TO the invisible world The casket remains but
the jewel is gone.
The honored subject Of this humble tribute native
Of Tennessee born in the county Of Washington in the
year 1908. For many years he was member of the
Legislature of the State and in 1916 chosen to pre-
side the deliberations Of its House of Representa-
tves In the commencement of the with Mexico he
appointed assistant quartermaster, and in the dis
charge of the duties of this arduous service he doubtless
contracted the disease that has thus prematurey closed
a life full of hope and promise.
Thus, again, Mr.. President, is the nation called to
mourn the loss of another of whose life given
to vindicate its honor and defend its flag What multi
udes Of that patriot army have been gathered to their
fathers, and now sleep the long sleep Of death Many
fell in the fierce conflict of arms and many by the
slow but less fatal progress Of disease Though many
sleep beneath foreign soil in stranger land and others
permitted to be buried with their fathers yet sir
scattered their remains varied their for
tunes and their Deaths they are not forgotten Their
deeds and their memories craven on nations heart
where they will live, and rsshen, and bloom long
liberty shall have a freedom home.
know, Mr. President, that eulogies often as un
meaning as they are unmerited / deal in
panegyric shall say than is due to truth and
justice Brookins Campbell honest man and in
all the varied relations of life vindcated his title to this
high distinction As husband, father, and friend he was
aectionate kind just and true. But all these virtues
clustering around him and shedding their lustre his
pathway of fe not sufficient to shield him from the
shafts of death The devoted fondness of wife, child,
and friends afforded immunity from the dread fiat.
fla life of usefulness his family his friends and his
country could have avaed any thing, then he had not
died. But, alas how impotent is all human effort; how
| unheeded the entreates of friendship; how unavang
the tears of love and affection Who but the Omnpotent
the demands of nsatiate death, stay its
fearful desolaons The decree is thou
art and dust shalt thou return he has the de-
mand and sleeps quietly
Whilst we, his colleagues who knew him, and knew
him only to love and admire his loss; whilst his
State and large, large circle Of friends will join us in
sad regrets yet there is heart which this painful
will fall with crushing forcethe companion Of his
| bosom, the object of his devoted affection.
If the sinceres sympathy aught of human effort
human kindness could avail any thing to tighten this
blow soothe the anguished spirit it would be freely
offered But here all earthly efforts fall all human
ISOLATION mockeries We are left to commend
her Him who tempereth the wind to the shorn lamb
and hath promised to be father to the fatheress and
| husband to the widow
As last tribute of respect and affection to the memory
of the dead, offer, Mr.. President, the following
lutions:
Roired That the Senate has received with deep sensi
biy the message from the House of Representatives
nouncng the death of the Hon. BRooKSs CAMPBELL Rep
| resentatve from the State of Tennessee.
Resod That in token of for the memory of the
deceased the Senate will attend his funeral the hour
pointed by the House of Representatives and will the
usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
Reolced That further mark of respect for the memory
| of the deceased, the Senate do adjourn
The resolutions unanimously agreed to and the
| Senate adjourned.