Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-02-21

1 SOhO UOhh tO SfdNty anu Llc sun Ol
 that " tomorrow which he trusted might
 shine upon the realization of schemes and
 hopes, now gilds the shaft that points from
 the place of the repose of his body, to that
 which 1 trust in God is the place of the re
 pose of his soul
 Mr. Chairman-0ur deceased brother
 had scracely passed the meridian of life,
 and his career had been eminent, distin-
 guished. and honorable. As soon as he
 reached mans estate, he gave evidence of
 that large and profound intellect, and those
 high and noble impulses which won the
 esteem and confidence of all who knew him. AS soon as he was admitted to the bar
 in that State, which to the last he so much
 loved, he rose to the front rank of the pro-
 fession, and enjoyed the unbounded conf dence and esteem of the entire circuit with
 in which he practiccd. Called at an early
 age from scenes of professional labor, he
 was honored by the people with evidences
 of their love and admiration, in being re- peatedly elected to the legislature of the State, from which he was transferred to the counsels of the federal government. Hav- ing served one session in Congress, and de- clining a reelection, he resumed the active practice of his profession, which he never abandoned, and was again at most inter- esting period of the history of Maryland, elected to the legislature. l had the honor of being a member of that body at the ses- sion referred to, and our deceased brother was then the recognized leader of the old whig party. When that party passed from ll. 4l. A. advocate and pursue those conservative principles which had attached him to the whig party, and which his conscientious convictions induced him to believe were calculated best to promote the public well fare. Three years since, he removed to this city to practice law, and immediately took Q prominent position at HAD>5af, and by that noble, manly, and generous nature, which never left him, gathered to himself many friends who now with us deplore his loss.
 Sadly as the news of his death has fallen upon us, Mir. Chairman, and upon his friends in Illinois, their sorrow and ours is light when compared with the sorrow which that news will awaken throughout the State of Maryland Sir, fron2 his earliest youth to the day of his deatn, he had 8 place in the hearts of that people, and they all loved him. Mir. Chairman, it is no small commendation of man to say that in that ancient and noble commonwealth of noble and honorable men, he stood pre- eminent in their love and esteem He whom we lament, sir, did stand pre-emi- nent in their love and esteem. You and the gentlemen around me knew him not as I have known him. You do not mourn the man that we, the self-exiled children of Maryland, mourn. He had changed from what he was. The gay buoyancy of life with him was not in later years what in times past it had been--the eloquence that charmed always, did not charm with such resistess power as in former times-the flash of bright intelligence, though ever so bright, was not as dazzling as the morning and the forenoon of life. The tree, sir, which has been rooted in the soil for two thirds of the period allotted to its existence by natures law, if transplanted, seldom again puts on the some richness of foliage which adorned it in the land of which it was the indigenous growth.
 Why has he changed it is useless to speculate. As we move on through life, sir, each heart gathers its painful secrets, and the burthen that weighs upon it, all unseen to the outward observer, works mys- terious changes upon the mind and the manner.
 NIr. Chairman, there is one to whom I feel compelled from flial duty to make passing reference. One now bowed down by grief for which this earth has no balm l refer to the mother of our lamented brother "a noble and excellent woman, most noble and excellent My heart is with her in her affliction. I shall ever cherish an alice tionate recollection of her mothery tender ness towards myself and it seems that our sorrow is as nothing to hers. now grieving that those who should have followed her in the course of nature have been called to precede her upon that dark ocean that rolls round all the world, and she left deSolate and alone.
 Mr. Chairman, the deceased loved his country and his fellow men, and I know not sir, if our sorrow is not selfish on ac- count of our own loss, rather than the high and noble sorrow which grieves only on ac- count of the mfsfortunes of the object which incites it; for l know not, sir, if Almighty God may not now have closed this mans eyes that he might never live to behold scenes which, when we witness, we shall weep that we have lived so long.
 SKETCHES OF WHAT WAS SAID BY OTHERS
 E. Van Buren, esq.,, in seconding the re- solutions, and it was his fortune to form the acquaintance of the deceased shortly af- ter his arrival here. He knew him in pri- vate life as well as in professional life, and he never met a more high toned gentleman, or found more astue mental organization than was his. In him, every member of the bar found model worthy of imitation. He was always eloquent, always faithful and always true. It was but yesterday that 8 case in the federal court was continued to await his return to the city, and to-day, the members of that court were met, not to try that cause, but to mourn the departure of him thus so honored and esteemed so highly.
 S. w. Fuller esq, followed Mr. Van Buren. He alluded to the professional character of the deceased, and spoke of the fact that the Maryland law reports, wherein the name of the deceased appeared in con nection with so many cases, bore evidence of the truth of what had been said in regard to his professional standing in his native State.
 E. c. Larned, esq.,, spoke of the deceas- ed as gentleman who recognized the sin cerity of all men; who could do justice to the views of an opponent upon all ques- tions, and whose professional character was
  fessional fame was nothing; but those quail ties of heart and mind which make the man endure forever.
 NJ. w. Fuller, esq, spoke of the charac- ter of the deceased as an exemplification of the falseness of the popular idea that in the profession of law the intellect becomes