The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-17
A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO A DEPARTED
STATESMAN


BY Mr.. Ferry, an act for the benefit of Elizabeth
A. r. Sinn and Mary Sim Baer, passed during the
session of the Missouri Legislature. The bills
exempt from State, county and city taxation, all
lands acquired, hereafter to be acquired by the
widow or daughter of the late Senator Sinn.)
Mr.. Ferry-I feel assured, Mr.. Speaker, that no
appeal to the maenanimity of the House is neces-
sary to procure the passage OF this bill by the rep
resentatves of the great State of Missouri. 1t is
a tribute of respect which is eminenty due to the
widow and only surviving child of the late Senator
Sim, whose brilliant career statesman, and
whose meritorious public services have not only
shed lustre upon the State to whose interests he
devoted the energies of his capacious mind, but
will beam out in letters of living light upon the
pages of Western history. He not only the
model Senator of Missouri but he was emphatcal-
ly the model man of his age. In the language of
his distinguished colleague, 'the whole voyage Of
his life one continued crcumnavigation of all
the virtues which adorn and exalt the character
of man." Of the measures which he inaugurated
and successfully carried through the national
councils for the benefit of the State, it is not
cessary in this connection to speak. We are all
familiar with his interchangeable and successful eff
forts to procure the establishment of post-ofces,
the erection Of forts and military roads for the
protection of our exposed frontiers-to procure
donations of land and appropriations for the i'm
provament of our rivers and harbors; and, above
all, his great measure for the acquisition OF that
spendidly beautiful region known as the Platte
territory, now almost empire in population and
resources and which will cause his name and fame
to spread as wide and to last long as the acqui-
sition of the Platte has been glorious and auspi-
cious for the State.
To the late Senator Sim, more than TO any other
statesman of his age, belongs the credit of having
planted the American flag and the American pio-
neer on the distant plains of Oregon. But he was
cut down in the midst of his career of usefulness,
with that great project unfinished upon his hands
dropping from the brilliant theatre of his patriotic
labor like orb suddenly struck from the heavens.
Mr.. Speaker, the bill which l have had the honor
to present, only comes appropriately from me,
BECAUSE when at home, the widow and daughter
of the late Senator Sim reside in the town of
Boonville, within a few rods of my door,
where they dispense the graceful but unosentatious
hospitality of quiet cottage home. Sir, they are
amongst the most gifted and accomplished ladies
of the land. Though rich in the inheritance of
the husband and the fathers fame and virtues they
cannot be said to be rich in the possession of the
worlds gear-for that husband and that father had
heart too firmly wrought to be engrossed by the
sordd acquisition of the worlds goods. His heart
as boundless and peryading in its benevolence
the sunshine of heaven. By his death his widow
and daughter necessarily bequeathed and COM
mended to the affectionate regards Of the whole
State of Missouri.
In conclusion, Mr.. Speaker, allow me to avail my
self of the language of distinguished gentleman of
Boone county, formerly a member of this House,
when advocating an appropriation for the Sim
monument-''l say, Sir, let the bill pass, and let
there not be dissenting voice.