Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-01-06


army with which he was associated but the hearty |
approval of the President of the United States. 1t
in that foreign cline, and while in the military
service OF his country, he contracted the fital DIS
ease which has cut him off in the meridian OF life
AMI Sin the midst of his usefulness"
In 1850 he was again elected representative
to the State Legislature and by his wise, jealous
and success su advocacy of those public measures of
that session-whch looked to the development of
the resources and the promotion of the prosperity
of the whole State-Mr. CAMPBELL acquired an in
huence and power possessed by butfew other mem
bers of either branch of the general assembly. In
gratitude tor his distinguished services, as well as
on account of his ability and purity Of character,
he was chosen by his district in August last to rep
resent it in this branch of the national legislature.
In politics Mr.. CAMPBELL democrat, and
radical, too, in his political faith. He engaged
lively in most of the political struggles in his ma
tive State since 1884. But no prejudice, no politi
cal excitement, could make him swerve from the
path of religious duty.
For some time past he had desired to represent
his district in the Congress of the United States
He reached the goal of his ambition; and arrived
here in time only for his soul to take its departure
from the capital of the nation to that city above
mot made with hands, eternal in the Heavens. ~
He
$50 lived, that when the summons came to join
The innumerable caravan that moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
He went, not like the quarry slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon; but sustained and soothed
BY an unfaltering trust, approached the grave
Like that draws the drapery of his couch
About him. and lies down to pleasant dreams"
Mr.. S. concluded by offering the following reso-
lutions:
Resolued, That this House deeply larnents the
death of the Hon. BRooKINs CAMPBELL, whO at
the time of his decease was a member OF this
House from the lst district of Tennessee, and tend
er to his widow sincere sympathy in this most
affecting bereavement.
Resolved, That the Clerk communicate copy of
the foregoing resolutions to the widow Of the de-
ceased and further, that he communicate these pro-
ceedings to the Senate.
ResolUed, That the members and officers of this
House will attend the funeral of the deceased to-
morrow at II o'clock m.
RESOLVED, Gas further mark of respect for the
memory Of the deceased That the members and
officers of this House will wear the usual badge OF
mourning for thirty days, and that this House do
now adjourn.
Mr.. CARUTHERs of Missouri, in seconding the
resolution, said
A residence of many years in the State of Ten
nessee, where | learned to admire the character Of
BRooKINs CAMPBELL intimacy ripened into the
warmest friendship between him and my relations
there-haVing often seen him in his place in the
councils of his State and knowing much of the
deep love Tennessee bore the man and will bear his
memory, makes 1t, perhaps, peculiarly proper that
| should minge my voice with his colleagues in
mournlul expression of their States and country's
bereavement
How sadly frequent have become these occa-
slons in this hall The mourning in which it is
shrouded speaks gloomy vet eloquenty of the
memory of the late hgh-soued and chvalrous
Vice President of the United States The voice of
eulogy of the amented Anterior, and of sorrow for
his death, still fingers here.
To-day, for the third time during this session. (of
vet but few weeks) We are mourners-mournng
the loss of the gifted and pure. The death of Mr..
CAMPBELL has fallen upon this House. upon the
country, upon his family, with all the crushing and
stunning force of an unexpected bereavement
His district, the country had scarce heard the sto-
nv of his illness-his wife, the wife of his love-
had not heard the story of his danger but his death
is to fall upon her heart the lightning of Heaven
falls, shvering to ruin all its cherished hopes. 1t
may carry with it balm of some soothing to that
crushed and bleeding heart, to know that nation
appreciates highly his lofty talents, his extensive
usefulness, his unwaverlng tirmneSs his intending
integrity, his pure patriotism, his charming social
qualities that his last hours were tended with all
the kind miniStrauons of friendship and his death
greved by all who knew hlm-for they all loved
him-with all the agony of a personal bereave-
ment.
Beloved in his life, mourned in his death he has
gone to that shadOwy land from which there is no
returning. He was cut down in the bloom of his
manhood-in the pride of his inteect-in the SER
vice of his country. How expressively sad this
warning, teaching of the mutabllity of human life
OF how powerless are the earthly bands of love
and of friendship to save-and teaching, too, how
sincerely the good, and the wise, and the kind are
deplored When the sad tdings shall 60 through
the land, with its wall of anguish, that BRooKINs
,, IT, Ill
nesSee will feel that she has lost of the nobest
and best of her noble and good sons. Tennessee,
Alabama New Hampshire, a bereaved trio, weep
their honored dead. Missouri would mngle
her voice and her tears with their voices and their
tears. | second the resolutions Of my honorable
friend from Tennessee.
The question then taken upon the resolu-
tons, and they were agreed to; and the House,
thereupon, adjourned until to morrow at y o'clock,
NJ
The proceedings on the occasion of the funeral of
Mr.. CAMPBELL are thus given by the Washington
Sentinel, of Thursday, the 29th ult:
FUNERAL OF Hon. BRooKINs CAMpBELL-There
was no business of legislative character transacted
in Congress yesterday: the members of the branch
es being engaged in payrg the last sad friendly Of
fees to the late BrookinS Campbell, elected to the
House OF Representatives from the State of Tennes-
see.
The proceedings on the occasion were as follows:
The body was brought into the Hall of Repre-
sentatives by the pal-bearers, Messrs Hubbard,
Ashe, Dawson, Fuller, Meacham, Cox, Hem, and
Hunt, and deposited on stand in the area fronting
the Clerks desk, under the charge of the commit
tee of arrangements: Messrs Stanton, of Tennessee,
Churchwell, Orr, J. G. Davis Caruthers, Appleton,
j. L. Taylor, and w R. Smith.
The Senate ofthe United States entered and took
their Seats their president pro tenn, being assigned
a position on the immediate left of the Speaker of
the House, and their other officers at TIE desk in
company with those of the last named body
The President Of the United States and the men,
berS Of his cabinet next came into the hail. followed
by the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the
Supreme Court Of the United States and its officers
the diplomatic corps judges of the United States,
officers Of the Executive Departments, officers of
the army and navy, the mayor Of Washington the |
physicians who attended the deceased and Others |
The members of the House remained standing until |
the persons above referred to seated in the vi
cinity of the corps, which was enclosed in patent
metallic case.
The funeral services were commenced by the Rev.
Henry Slcer, who read the nineteenth psalm and
part of the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians and
delivered prayer.
The Rev. William H. Miburn, the chaplain of the
House of Representative, then addressed the assem-
DIV, fOrbearing to pronounce paneuyrc on the de-