The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-01-21


measure Of his glory in that nant republic, his skifui
and equal hand US the chief Justice of her highest court
fashioned and gave practical direction 70 her new uris
prudence
Thus sir he came before u.s. although young man, a
practical statesman full of all the honors which de-
light To win and wear and which history records in her
brightest pages the chief distinction and glory of
How he grew in his proportions here have all wit
messed What he would have been had he lived no man
tell but the hearts of his countrymen will attest
that they have lost of their greatest and most valued
statesmen whom they had hoped TO place in higher
and more responsible position. a tr.i
What Junius has said of Lord Chatham will apply to
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Recorded shall around his hcken
over him. solid Fabric and will support the aurels that adorn
Mr. SEWARD. Mr. President, in funeral ceremonies
il is not any of those who the companions of the
heahsone of the dead but who sustained only
public relations to him. that expected to pronounce the
customary psnegyric On this ground should claim the
privilege OF being silent this occasion thought that
my connection with the late Mr. RUsK rightly under
stood. 1t is true that not his knsman, nor his
ncighbor his political associate. was never
theless attached to him by bonds strong the charity
that those relations But they Pc
cular bonds. Twas his captive adversary overpower
cd overcome and conquered by his generosity in my
first encounter with him here in this field OF sectional
STRIFE released parole prisoner at large but devoted
to him by gratitude for the period Of my whole life In
character follow the hcarse which is bearing him
away from our 8ght. since must speak, nature snail
have its way, and my utterances proceeding not from
study but feeling shall tell less of his great worth
than of my own great loss.
All the world knows that THOMAS j. RusK brave
heroic and yet prudent and patient in the camp and
in the field These the virtues which distinguished
him here and they chiefly the means of his success
in the Senate He knew fear of opposition raised by
either prejudice passion He undertook nothing with
first balancing all the chances Of success and gath
ering in and combining all the available agencies
say to it and he maintained perfect equanmity
until all resistance overcome As he was without
fear, he also free from jealousy and from envy
Thus happily constituted he tolerated in all Others the
fidelity to their characters and the loyalty
to the interests they represented which he bore to his
instincts and to the interests coned to his He
despsed art trick and cunning and advanced always d
rectly towards his appointed end II he sometimes
ritaed at seeming injustice, misrepresentation, he cor
rected his without even waiting for complaint or ex
PLANTATION. doubt whether any setting sun, during his
whole life, witnessed his anger.
As he manifestly unassuming and unaffected, So
for aught that could hear he altogether
unambitious He practised hattery. am sure that
sensible man ever offered him aduation He was not
in any degree, sectional in his policy; but he aimed al
the advancement and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of his whole
country. Hence Notifications, improvement of roads
rivers and lake navigation everywhere within nation
al jurisdiction and explorations and extended
and telegraph communication with all accessible regions
without it, in every part of the globehese the
achievements he made these the monuments of wis
dom and patriotism which he has left among 1t
quaintance with him rpened into ardent friendship
Each of deplored his ignorance of the regions
ing which legislating and they seemed to
to be growing worldwide, spoke half seriously and
half imaginatvely, OF going together to enlarge
knowledge in a voyage around the world. But it a
thing easier to conceive than to execute and though it
might be executed it still pleasant to oonem
plate.
saw him last at the late special session of the Senate
called to inaugurate administration. demanded
of him that he should cause one personal and political
friend of NINE but who nofiensive, and a competent
and faithful officer to be retained in subordinate post
under the administration. He promptly responded
pleasantly adding that he would make the granting of
my request condition of his loyalty to the
powers We separated. He went to his own sunny land
and to my home under the genial north star.
the last day of August reenterng the port of
Quebec after voyage of thirty days. in search of health
along the inhospitabe coasts of Labrador The sympa
thes of home and country so long suppressed were
vived within me, and was meditatng new abors
and studies here when the pilot who came on board
handed me newspaper which announced the death of
the senator from Texas My first emotions those of
sadness and this bereavement of personal
friend When these had had their time, tried to divine
why it that he, among all the associates whom hon
ored esteemed and loved here thus suddenly and
prematurely withdrawn from the scene of common
labors he, for whom thought higher honors pre-
pairing and fuller wreath being woven he, who
seemed to me to stand monument against which the
of faction must break if they should be stir
red up from their lowest depths he in short with whom
could do almost nothing to magnify and honor the
public That question could not solve cannot solve
it now. 1t is only another occasion in which re-
qured to trust, where not permitted to know, the
ways of the Great Disposer.
Mr. President, the teeming thoughts of this solemn
hour bring up before the manly form and
beaming countenance of my friend though it is but for
that formal parting which has, until now been denied
me- Farewell, noble patriot; heroic soldier faithful
statesman generous friend loved by no means the least
although among the last of friends secured little
thought that whspengs about travels earths
rest lands and broadcast only the suggestions
inward natures to prepare for the sad journey that
leads through the gates of death do not doubt that
for yourself death is gain since tho event was appointed
by Him who doeth all things we'll. 1t is best for me-
also it oosens another of the bonds that bind
the earth divess the fate of one of its
crrors and creates through the hope of reunion another
aspiration for better life beyond the grave.
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