Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-05-02

was surprisingly beautiful, and could hardly have been
excelled B sentiments and dictaon by the genius Of
Webster
lie is deadi No power on earth can recall him. As
we stand by his bier and look upon his eye now lacking
its wonted lustrc and on his marble cheek let US ask
outselyes-Is this all Of life?
Does human existance end here If man die shall
be live again Believing as do, with all the powers
of nay soul, in the Immortality OF man, doubt not
he lives tonight in all the penude OF his intellectual
power. Whether he sees here, his spirit lowering
over us along these walls where his voice has often
fingered or not this know, he lives. He will come
| 10 US no more, but We shall so to him."
The eloquent gentleman from Alabama said he had
faults. Surely he had Who Of US have not? An
gels have been charged with folly. 'Man was made
little lower than the angels" Then he must have had
faults Let us forget them Let us bury them in obi
yion Let us hope that the recording angel when he
died let fall the tear that eaced them forever and that
she records of his deeds shall be found only written on
the fair pages of the book of life
The resolutions of Mr. HARTRIDGE we're then unan
mOusly adopted
When the House met Saturday morning, Mr.. HODGE,
of Kentucky offered the following Preamble and ResO
lutions
Whereas, The House Of Representatives has been de-
prved OF most faithful public officer in the death Of
its late Clerk Robert E. Dixon and it is meet upon so
solemn occasion, that it should honor the dead who
served it while living therefore,,
Resolved That his funeral expenses and cost Of trans
portation be paid out Of the contingent fund Of the
House. and that his body be transmitted under the
and superntendenec Of the Doorkeeper to his family,
at their residence, in Columbus, Georgia.
Mr. HODGE said
Mr. SPE4KER-I rise for the purpose of moving sus-
pension of the rules of the House that may offer
resolution relative to the proper disposal Of the remains
Of its late Clerk
On last evening, sir amid the gloom and sorrow which
pervaded this body at the official announcement of his
premature and melancholy fate wher the chosen friends
Of his bosom paying the just tribute Of their testi
mony to his usefulness in past and his promise in the
future when the lips of those who had been his cher
ished companions in boyheod and early manhood, were
utterng mournful requiem for him. felt that to speak
single word to do aught but offer my silent sympathy
in and appreciation of their grief would be intrusion
upon the sancty Of their But to-day his corpse
lies in this Capitol-inits marble neaments still lingering
traces Of that manly beauty and noble bearing which
we're our admiration while he lived The tragical
circumstances which characterized his DEATH call for
all the Tenderness of attention which this House be-
stow upon his memory in the last Offices to his mortal
frame.
trust, sir that the resolution which offer will
be accepted evidence by the House his native State
and his family, that Of all who mourn his sudden fate
none 10 so with more heartfelt pity or more poignant
regret than the delegation from Kentucky.
The resolutions we're then adopted