The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-01-22

ton He speaks, and all acknowledge the power Of his
voice he moves and few but follow ia the measure OF his
steps. ~
These hours, in such an appointed day may be
coming swiftly upon us grand cloud OF witnesses ties
tfy that great happening around us. Govern
ent is society what the ship TO the ocean IL heaves
and losses with every surge of the mighty pillows Abroad
revolution muters and it may yet enguf both ducal
crown and royal throne in its fiery sweep AT home the
public heart is stirred and it will not much longer be
awed by the rowns of authority bound by the tfeads
of parasite legislation. Our mission will be fulfilled
The progress OF society is southwark and thher An
gloNorma population is moving with the firm tread Of
Roman legion 1t win yet carry its banner and spread
its laws over all this continent celebrate in fit time, the
union Of the two that wash its boundaries and,
under the ministries of Providence work out the final de-
velopment OF the human intellect in its most gorgeous
and furtherest reaching forms
The wheel of usually rolls with something of
leisure aud but roll 1t slowly roll it swiftly,
this end will yet be accomplished 1t this mission
that fired the imagination and nerved the heart OF the
patriot senator from Texas Along this track he moved
with feet of fire and perls of the march and no
WEAKNESS Of the road deferred him for, upon him,
upon the patriarch burst visions Of glory and in them
he saw his country leading the Panahenaan procession
OF the nations while the ascending OF her children
crowded up the mystic ladder the topmost rounds Of
which are lost in the enduring spendoB OF eternal
mind.
Mr.. JACKSON. If it be true that the dead expe-
rence the emotion of qualification at what anspes in
honor of their memory here the immortal spirit of the
late senator from Texas must be gatied to-day Texas
weeps here his remains, because he was eminent
among those heroes who achieved her sovereignty by the
sword and because after her incorporation into Union
he ably and fifty represented that sovereignty in the
council chamber of soveregnsthe Senate of the United
States. &.
South Carolina bows sorrowing by the side of her
younger sister, because he born beneath her hot
and that fired his heart with much of that i'm
peuous chivalry which characterzes all her excellent
children
Georgia also approaches his bier as mourner because
Gen. RusK lived for brief period among those beautiful
mountains that skirt her northern frontier and imbbed
perhaps from their wholesome atmosphere something of
that harhood of character which characterized the sol
der and that robust judgment and sound practical
which marked the senator.
The entire South follows this procession to the grave
with melancholy yet proud step, because he was her
sontrue and loyal to that institution which fasten-
ed upon her unwilling infancy which has grown with her
growth, which has become interviewer with every
fibre of her being and by which, under Providence she
this day clothes the nakedness of mankind
The North, too, and the mighty and still growing
Northwest all pay willing tribute of unfeigned sorrow
to the memory of this great man. because whths heart
thus true to the instincts of his birth and the alty
of his boyhood it big enough to embrace in Its pa
ioc love all the States of the Union and his eye keen
enough to that the true interest of each really the
interest of all Well may all mourn hero has
left the battlefield forever Roman has departed from
the Senate chamber never more to return.
repeat If be possible that the dead experience
JOY over what transpres here the spirit of the departed
senator must be gratfed to-day But sir, this cannot
wisdom in the grave whittier thou gocst and these
sad ceremonies only useful to the living Their Of
flee is two-fold first, that of the good Samaritan, to
pour oil into the bleeding hearts of the surviving
relatives and friends and, secondly, to draw from the
character of the deceased some moral by which may
all profit
In that district of Georgia which have the honor to
represent here, and among those mountains of which
have spoken, there live to-day aged couple. Almost
four winters have urrowed their faces with wrin
kles and covered their heads with frost They are, sir
the father and mother of the deceased wife of the late
ator from Texas and however heavily the blow Of his
death may have fallen in other places nowhere has it
descended with crushing severity than upon the al
ready aching bosoms of my venerable constituents In
deed sir, the young heart like the flesh of youth,
rapidly from wounds inflicted upon it but the af
ctons of old people become like their ysica organza
ton, rigid and fixed and time the great resorer rarely
and slowly, if at all, heals up wounds inflicted upon
them The young sapling will bend instantly to the
sweep of the tempest as it passes but, it is
gone, erects itself again The old tree, with trunk
almost decayed and sap flowing but fccby beneath
its all but withered bark relies alone upon the vine
which has grown around it for years its only prop
against the storm.
The relation borne by the late senator from Texas to
my old constituents not unlike that of this vine to
that tree The last prop that held them up has been
sundered and they too, must totter and fall And
sir it is simply because thought it might be grateful
their feelings that their immediate representative here
should bear open part in this solemn drama, that
yielded to the suggestion of my most distinguished COL
league Mr. STEPHENS and agreed to speak for Georgia
to the resolutions upon your table,
Sir, well remember the conversation had with my
old friend but few weeks before left home the sub
ject of which the dead of his family and among
them the death of his daughterI believe the last
vving chdthe wife of the distinguished senator, and
the death of his distinguished son-in-law, of whom he
was justly proud. And l before now, Mr..
Speaker the convused face and trembling lips Of the old
he expressed to the conviction that the death
of his daughter the wife Of the senator might possibly
have precipitated his
Sir, will not speak of the manner Of his death Let
that charity which hopeh all things cast her mantle of
love his dead body and pointing to the noble and
beautiful and self sacrificing virtue which led him to fol-
low the departed spirit of her he loved hide forever the
vice to which unhappily that love may have led.
But should be unjust to ourselves Mr. Speaker if
allowed this occasion to pass without drawing from it
some moral by which may all profit. The late
tor from Texas possessed of wisdom in high de-
gree-Nwisdom as distinguished from genius that wis
dom which made up of sound Judgment accurate and
extensive observation of men and of things, and
argcd experience He possessed courage in the true
of that word-physical and moral courage, displayed
upon the battlefield and exempfedin the Senate cham
Der. More than these, Mr.. Speaker, and better than
these his heart llspng of deep and pure aec-
ton, whose current increasingly towards the object of
his early attachment her who had been the companion
of his manhood and whom he hoped to keep by his side
as the solace of his declining years.
Sir an instinct of nature, Heaven-b born, faint
trace of that image of purity which God stamped upon
the heart Of ADAM leads all rrestiby to love those
noble qualities wherever find them. They golden
qualities but alas sir like everything else of earth,
even gold is found mixed with baser metal 1t re-