Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-12-28
rTlAND HERALD.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER D., 1865,
Death Of senator Coilamer.

III the speeches that were made in the
A,uonal Senate and House o, Repre-
Altatiyes in reference 20 the late Sena-
III Collamer. We should be glad to
atblish all these speeches, especially
hose o, the Vermont members, but our
Intts forbid. We give entire the re-
MARKS Of Senator Foot, which We doubt
Of will be perused with deep interest
II all our readers.
y Mr.. Foor. Mr. President, rise to ask
2de Senate to suspend, for this day, its
deliberations upon public affairs, that
NE may offer titting and appropriate
butte To the character and memory Of
BE- who has long been associated with
4 In the national councils, but who is
18th us now no more. Since our assem-.
b ug here AZ this present session, We
live all had occasion to remark-uOuc
Il us can have failed to remark-the alb
InCe Of one of our number; one whom
h. have long been accustomed to meet
1d hold counsel with in these halls.
II elder brother who has long mingled
bin Us IN our deliberations here wise
L nj discreet statesman a learned and
/ jicious counselor; pure patriot "a
D. and an upright man, has been re-
bowed from among Us by the hand Of
ltath. A venerable form, long familiar
ID our sight. has been taken away ont
l our presence bring no new mes
,Ige To this bOty-tor 1t has already
Zen heraid,d throughout the country
h. none the less sad, in making the for
bal announcement to the Senate, Of the
| attn Of my late colleague Hon. Jacob
\ Rmer. 1t is eminently tit and be-
bnfing, Mr. President, as it is also in
EcordauCe with an approved and sacred
IstOm, that We pause for an hour in the
culinary routine Of our daily labors,
=, bat we may Consecrate that hour to the
lrtues and the memory Of deceased
Nj lamented associate, who has shared
\ .Ong and so largely in our regards,
~ in the public confidence, for his ma
pr wisdom and his great moral excel
0lnce,
4 Your colleague, Judge Colamer, is
Dad :" was the startling telegraphic
b tassage l received at my home about
D. weeks ago. He expired at his resi-
Fence in Woodstock, Vermont, on the
evening Of the 9th Of November past,
liter a brief illness of little more than
tsingle week, at his own home, in the
tdst Of his own devoted and affection
II household, in the full exercise Of his
ftellectual faculties, with an abiding
td mistaken faith in the Christian re-
tgion, and in the cherished hope OF a
dl.ssful immortality.
But three weeks before his deCease he
Islted Montpelier, the capital Of the
Hate, some fifty miles distant from his
ksidence, to attend the funeral services
younger and favorite brother Hay-
" paid the last sad offices of respect
I'D affection to his brothers memory,
lie returned to his own home; but alas
Hly to lay himself down to die. By
IIs dispensatiOn, so sudden and so sad,
D. Senate OF the United States has lost
H. OF the oldest, most experienced, and
host trusted OF its members the COun-
r. one of the ablest and purest of its
statesmen; society, and the church Of
thiCh he was a member, one of their
f0rthiest and brightest eXemplars; my
kwn State, her most eminent citizen, and
kls day there is mourning through all
r borders
4 Jacob Collamer was born in Troy, in
e State Of New York, the 9Th day Of
January, A. D. 1871, and was, therefore,
u the time of his deCease in the seven
I-1fth year Of his age, and in the num-
per of his years was the senior member
this body. In early childhood he re.
bowed, with his fathers family, to Bur
Ington, Vermont. There his early life
kas spent. There he was educated.
There his academic years were passed.
Ee entered the University Of Vermont
IT the age Of fifteen, where he graduated
b 1910, with credit and commentator
Fr good conduct and scholarship, thus
living early promise and hope to mis-
blends OF future emlnenCe and useful
fess. This promise and these hopes
fere not doomed to disappointment.
I Immediately upon the conclusion of
BIS collegiate course he entered the law
office of the late Judge Adds, Of St. Al
Mans, then an eminent and leading law
ner at the bar in the State. Having
PASSED through the usual preparatory
kourse of legal studies, he was admitted
D. the bar in 1918, and entered at once
kpon his professional career. After re-
Banning few months at St. Adams,
fnd thence stopping for year or two in
Pie town of Randolph, he finally settled
ft Royalton, in the county of Windsor
fVhere he resided during the whole peri
fd of his active professional career, and
fntil he removed to Woodstock, in the
eame county, in 1885, where he contin-
ped till the time Of his death. Here his
Enhancement in professional business
nnd reputation was alike rapid and graf
Hying, and soon placed him in the front
fanks of the leading men OF his time at
she bar. Forensic laurels, fresh and
|Plr, gathered thick and fast upon his
youthful brow, and he became at once
me compeer, as he was the contemporary,
0 Prentiss and Phelps, and Royce and
bates; Of Van Ness and Upham; of
Pkinner and Hall and Everett, and early
ook rank even with the senior and more
dvanced champions of the profession,
Ike Daniel Chapman and David Edmond,
nd Chauncey Langdon, and Horatio
fcymour, and Charles X. Williams, and
onathan H. Hubbard and Charles
larsh, and William C. Bradley, who had
mo hold cuOranacu o+ ~. -