East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-01-27

city OF Chicago, on the fourth OF July
next i'h
Resolutions on the Death Of Senator
Robertson. "a
The death Of Senator Robertson was
officially announced in the Senate on
tho Goth The announcement was
made by Mr.. Croswell, who delivered
the following eulogy upon the deceas-
ed:
Mn. PREsIDxxr.-The late session
of the Senate had just terminated, and
each of us had retired to his home,
and was quietly pursuingth ordinary
avocations Of life, when the telegraph
suddenly flashed upon US the painful
Intelligence that recognized leader,
an enlightened counsellor, and an ac-
complished member Of this body had
departed from US forever. Andrew 8.
Robertson, Senator from the Fourth
District, died at his home in the vii
lage of Mt. Clemens, on the night of
the Oath Of March last. During his
rest he was attacked by disease of the
heart, and suddenly, without pain to
himself, without alarm to those about
him, the brittle thread Of life was sew
cred, and his spirit passed from this
world to another.
a native Of England, OF ccotislI
cestry--claiming kinship with tho il
lustrious historian Of the same name
The early imbibed thatardent love of
liberty, that restless spirit of inquiry,
and that fondness for the grand and
beautiful that so eminently character
ICES the sons of Scotland. tb
His father havingproved unsuccess-
full in business, came with his family
to this country, and our late associate
in the freshness of youth; without for
tune or influential friends, and with
only the rudiments of common
school education, found himself on the
shores of the new world, and prepared
by his own innate energy to carve his
way to success.
For time he literally obeyed the
divine injunction, and earned his
bread by the sweat of his brow.
Naturally possessing a high order of
intellect he cultivated 1t by careful
study and discipline. and enriched and
adorned it by familiarity with histo-
~, poetry and the best literature in
our language.
Having resolved to follow the law,
he maintained himself by teaching
school, and at intervals during his
leisure studied and mastered that hon
orable profession.
Admitted to the bar, he soon took
front rank among his associates, and
rapidly obtained a large and extensive
practice. Indeed, i am informed that
for ten years proceeding his death,
scarcely suit had been tried in his
county in which he was not engaged
on the one side or the other.
His public life commenced in 1859.
The people of this State had resolved
to change its organic law, and they
cast about for men of talent and abili-
ty to compose the constitutional con-
vention. The men of Macomb county
in my judgment, very appropriately
selected him for that position. Al
though one OF the youngest of the
members Of that convention, he par
ticipated largely in itsproceedings and
debates, and won for himself the re-
spect and confidence Of all with whom
he was there associated. He was sub
sequently elected a member of thia
Senate.
With a clear, logical mind, calm
and self possessed, fluent in language
apt in illustration, ready in resource
with tact and skill suited to any emer.
gency, 1 may truly say that he was
the peer of any man on this floor in
debate, and that, whether in the Sen
ate or in the committee room, hii
views and opinions ever commanded
the respect and attention of US all.
He was an affable, kind, courteous
gentlemanly man, whose loss we shall
ever feel. We shall want his percep
ton, his clearness, his soundness o.
judgement, his manly eloquence. Lee
us treasure his memory and his vir
tues in our hearts and history.
Within the past year death hal
reaped golden harvest. He hal
desolated many q home. While thous
ands of our brave, true men hav,
fallen on the ensanguined field Of bat
tie, have poured out their blood lik,
water for the integrity and honor o
the nation, death has not been idl'
here. His hand has been felt heavil,
upon the other chamber. As some O
us turned our footsteps homeward las
spring, we bore with us to his las
resting place the high-souled Buel
and we had scarcely reached our home
before intelligence came that he win
had worn the ermine Of the highes
judicial tribunal of the State-wh'
had represented the nation abroad
was no more; and the sere and yellow
leaves of autumn had not fallen be
fore the tidings came that he who hat
long represented that rich, rugge'
Northern Peninsula--whose noun
tains glisten with ore, whose cham
bers are filed with undeveloped wealtl
with his bright boy, had gone dow
: on the ill-fated steamer Sunbeam ;
sleep forever beneath the waters 0
Lake Superior.
Robertson, Buel, Pratt and Sher
man, all gone. Oh, sirl what shad
ows we are; what shadows we pursue
: Death on the field, Death in the coun
! Gil, Death whispered in every breeze
"Ths boast Of hsraldry, the pomp Of power,
And al that bessty, oil that wealth Ger CAV