The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-01-03

the minds Of others. He always secured
respectful attention and Difference to his
opinions, whether in public debate or it
private discussion, for the clearness and
force with which he presented his views
He often enforced or illustrated an idea
or proposition by the timely introduction
of some apt and racy and often amusing
anecdote.
If he was not always eloquent, he was
always instructive. If he was not an or
ator in its ordinary acceptation, he was
more and better than a mere orator. lie
was a reasoner-a clear and logical reas-
oner. He was an excellent talker--an
excellent public as well as private or So
cial talker. He had the faculty of making
himself understood, and consequently of
making his subject understood. lie ad-
dressing himself to the reason and the IN
derstanding, rather than to the impulses
or the fancies OF men. 1t was his aim
and his effort to convince the judgment
by force of argument rather than to move
the passions by the appeals of eloquence,
or to please the fancy by the beauties Of
rhetoric. If he had not the highest or
der of what, in popular phrase, is called
genius, he had more solid common sense
than any man Of genius, and was master
of its practical use.
A thoughtful and conscientious man as
he was, he spoke always and only from
the convictions Of his own Judgment. Ills
opinions, especially upon grave and i'm
portant questions, were not hastily formed
nor inconsiderately expressed, but only
after the most careful and mature reflec-
ton. Hence his opinions always com
manded great respect and defer
ence, and carried with them cor
responding weight and Influence. His
opinions, especially upon legal and con-
stltutlonal questions, Or upon questions Of
intern ltlonal law, were always received
with profound Difference and regard. -
His intelligent and independent judgment.
his strong, practical good sense, and his
unbending integrity of purpose, impaired
to all his opinions uncommon weight and
value.
Ills whole life, public and professional.
whether at the bar or upon the bench ;
whether IN II high executive department
or in the halls OF legislation, has been as
siduously devoted to the cause of truth
and justice. Few public men have left ii
more excellent or more honorable re-
cord
With his high intellectual endowmenis
were happily blended the kindlier afftc-
tlons OF the heart and TO all these were
superadded the purer and holicl graces of
a Christian faith and of consistent
Christian life. in 1925 he made public
profession of his faith in the Gospel OF
Christ and united with the Congregational
church in Royalon, then the place of
his resdedce, Through all these forty
years, his life, in all its varied moies, no
less in the public than in the private
walks OF society; no less in the national
councils than in the social and domestic
circle, furnishes practical and beautiful
illustration of the benificent influence and
power OF the religion he professed.
lhe loss OF such a man is indeed a loss
to the nation; it is loss to the StBte; it
Is loss to society But we have only
to know that it is Gods doing, and ''be
STILL" Thi. bereavement | hardly need
to say, Mr.. President, falls with terrible
and crushing severity upon an interesting
and stricken family household Bnt
am not at liberty TO enter the sanctuary
OF this grief. Imay not lift the curtain
that wells from public view the deep sor-
row which sitteth and weepeth there.
MIR. President, he whose death we now
lament is gone TO be with us here no
mole. His work on earth is done. He
strikes golden harp among the seraph-
I'm on high. His precepts and his ex-
ample are left to us Tor our instruction
and our profit. Happy, indeed, will it
be, it we shall so profit by them that we
shall be ready, as he was ready, for the
final summons, in that hour which is COM
ing TO us all, and 10 some of ms is not far
OIL, when this world and its worlhlessness
shall fade from our sinking vision.
Mr.. President, offer the following
resolutions
Resoired, That the Senate has received with
deep sensibility the announcement of the deatn
of Hon. Jacob Collsmer late a senator of the
United States from the State of Vermont
hesolusd, That the members Of the senate.
from a sincere desire 81 showing every mark OF
respect due to ths MEMORY of Hon Jacob Col
iamer' will go into mourning by wearing Grape
of ia,
RESOLVED, That as a further mark of respect
for the memory of the deceased the Senate do
now adjourn
Otde'cd, That the Secretary communicate
these resolutions to the House oil Representa-
tiyes.