The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-06
HONORlNG HIS MEMORY.
Eulogies Pronounced on the Late Vice.
President Hendricks by Senators voor-
hees, Hampton, Ransom, Spooner, Sher-
man, Evarts and Others.

EuAOBiCs VII uhC hIutC NICO"
President Hendricks by Senators voor-
hees, Hampton, Ransom, Spooner, Sher-
man, Evarts and Others.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2T.--Yesterday being
the day approximation the Senate addresses in
memoriam of the late Vice-Presdent Hen.
bricks, the galleries of the Senate began to
fill at an early hour. When, therefore, at
noon, President pro tempore Sherman called
the Senate to order, all the seats in the gal
leres were occupied, the larger proportion of
the occupants being ladies' After the trans.
action of some unlmportant business Mr..
voorhees, called up his resolution expressive
Of the Senate's deep sense of the public loss
in the death of the late Vice-President Hen
bricks The resolution having been read,
Mr.. Voorhees, addressed the Senate.
In strong and graphic English, Mr.. Voor-
hees reviewed the life and public serv-
vices Of Mr.. Hendricks. In dealing with
Mr.. Hendricks political views, Mr. Voor.
bees said It had been, and especially
late in his life, charged as a reproach
against him that he was partisan If. by
that, the speaker said, was meant that he Gin.
cerely believed in the principles and purposes
Of the party to which he belonged and sought
to be the public good by placing
it's measures and its men in
control of the Government then the &C.
cusat on was true, and the term OF reprOach
was the partisan of deep, honest convictions
dealing Justly with opposing views, who, IN
all ages of the world, in every field of human
progress had led the way.
In conclusion. MIR. voorhees, said "As long
as American history treasures up pure lives
and faithful public services-as long as
public and private virtue, stainless and
without blemish, iss revered, so long
bricks be cherished by the American
people as an example worthy of emulation.
Monuments of brass and marble will lift
their heads to Heaven in honor of his name,
memory and more valuable to the world has
already been grounded In the hearts of
the people whom he served so long, faithfui-
ly and with such signal ability: in the busy
harvest of death of the year 1885 there was
gathered into eternity DO nobler spirit no
higher intelligence. no fairer soul
Mr.. Hampton Is. c. said that when one OF
the great actors In the political arena fell,
impression was indelibly fixed on the speak
or $ mind by the extraordinary spectacle be-
held at the funeral Of General Grant, when
among those who bore the body of the great
Captain of the Union armies to the grave
were Confed crate soldiers, who, a few
brief -ars ago were his mortal enenl es.
The same generous feeling marked the obse.
ques OF the dead Vice Pres dent. III political
should we not be tolerant and charitable IN
judgments on Our contemporaries, he asked,
even though they were our political oppo-
nentS?
Mr.. Ransom IN. O. said that Mr. Hendricks
Ind always proved mself 4 lover of his
whole country and its liberties. The South
ern States, in this emergency, felt deep, sin
cere and overhowng sympathy and sorrow
At the bereavement of the Northern sisters
THANK Almighty God" sad Mr. Ransom,
that the everlasting covenant of our Uniou
is established IN the hearts of all our people,
and that through the clouds of this sorrow
we can behold the peace that is never to be
broken"
Mr.. Spooner WIS.,, in eulogizng the dead
Vice-Pre .ideut, delivered his maiden speech,
and was listened to with great interest He
spoke at length of MIR. Hendricks strong
partsanship and sad that to him 10 polit-
ical partisanship. honorable in its methods,
was offensive In party he saw ouiy tine
iustrumentality through which. and through
which alone, might be wrought out the trl'
umph of his principles. IN active, faithful,
honorable party service he saw, therefore,
devotion to the principle, not mere lust for
office. The imputaton that he was a spoils-
man, he said, rather angered than 9rlevcd Mr..
Hendricks, for he knew II came from those
who had either been of a hostile camp, or, il
his own, had wont to linger in the shade and
slumber while he and the boys" rs he some.
times loved to call the party workers. had
borne the heat and dust and burden of the
battle Spokesman OF not, he went down to
his grave loved, trusted and incurred by his
party.
Addresses were also delivered by Senators
Sherman (OD, Evarts IN. ", Vest MO- aud
Harrison 1ndJ. The resolutions in memoram
were agreed to, and the Senate adjourned out
of respect TO the memory OF the dead.