Year: 1862

' result Ot that acquaintance, ana now, as | his bier passes before us, offer incense due to the memory of one-brave, generous, | enlightened and patriotic-whose loss we deplore, but whose name lives in the af- fections of that country to whose interest and honor he was so sincerely devoted. His illness was short, his death unexpect- ed. I left him few days since in his usual health, and although boarding in the same house I only learned he was sick two days before his death My first visit to him revealed to me his perilous situation, and on my next l saw him in the agonies of death Sir, this is 8 solemn warning to us all of the truth, that we are merely soldiers in the battle of this world sur rounded by dangers not the less imminent because unseen, not the less certain because unheraded. Present time demands the performance of present duty; watchfulness and christian preparation for the hour ot death is not only wise in itself, but cntorc- ed by consideration of our highest interest. ] Death; the mighty leveler, summons all of every condition in life, nor does he pass by and spare the patriot or the statesman; but with the humblest of our race, his sum- mons is certain and memorable, and from the coffin of our deceased colleague, voice continually falls upon our hearts and ears, Be ye also ready: for at such an hour as ye know not, the son of man cometh."

 Towards his family and friends our sym pathy flow out spontaneously. The heart knows it's own sorrows, and we trust that the consolation which a kind God ant Father gives to his children may heal their grief and give them submission to his will. l miss his social intercourse, so delightful ly adorned with the modest amenities, those ornaments of virtue itself, and so near akin tosit that they are we'll nigh insep- arable His accurate know. edge and i'm partial knowledge of personal and cotem- poraneous history in a course of stirring and startling events in his own State, dis covered his honesty of purpose, his freedom from guile, jcalously or envy; and his ma tured judgment of the value of facts and incidents made his association a source of continued pleasure.

 Ny friend from Arkansas has we'll said that JudgeiHemphill was the first member of our body who has fallen in the embrace of

 

 We last July united our sorrows with be- reaved friends over the fall of another who slept on the field of glory with his war cloak around him. Sir the same courage which was demanded of one, was equal Iy necessary for the other. The calm cour- age as we'll as the wise forecast which char actorised the ''Roman Senator, when Rome had Senate" is now indispensable in the present glorious revolution in which we are engaged. It is now we need and now we miss the presence and the c0unsels ofOur friend, who leaves behind him the fragrance of patriots memory. His whole life, whether as a soldier in the early struggles of his State for independence, in the contest with Mexico at later period, G5 3 Iawer in the practice of his profession, as an enlightened and incorruptable judge, is but an accumu lation of evidence that his loss IS most deeply to be deplored becaase occurring ih the hour of his conntry's necessity.

 Judge Hemphlll was brave man; quiet, modest and unobtrusivo, but firm and nn- yielding, when convinced of the correctness of his conclusion. conversed often with him on the affairs of the country. He look ed calmly, cheerlulIv, hopefully upon our condition. Having confidence in the ca pacity and patriotism of those in whose hands the authority Of the COntederacy was placed, he looked above and beyond small subjects of discontent, with the highest con fidence in the glorious result of our struS gle for independnece and self-government. Sir, let us emulate his nigh qualities. and

 

 be ever ready like him as statesman in the service of the Contederacy, 10 work to the last, to die, like the war horse, in full har- ness He walked from the council cham Der to the tomb, filled with occupation in the business of his country. He, whGsw swas spared on the fields ef Texas and Mexico; who, with the fierce courage of the soldier, knew nothing of cruelty; with the high au- thority of a judge never scllod the ermine with tyranny or corruption. but ornament ed it by his purity and his fearing; temper ing, by his moderation, one revolution in his own State, whose iurisprudenco he may be said to have modified and perfected, has now gone to the grave, amidst our tears, leaving us the task of completing this sec ond revolution which his heart approved and his efforts advanced until death closed his labors in the midst of his work. Sol dier Patriotl Juristl Statesman! You rest from your labors. Honor to your mem- ory!

 Mr. Boyce said.

 Mir. President, trust 1t may not be con- sidered inappropriate in me to add my fec ble tribute of respect to the memory ot our late colleague. as we are natives of the same State. Mr. Hemphill was born in Chester district, South Carolina, the adjoining dis trict to that in which l live. He was de- scendod from a highly respectable family. His farther was a man of very marked char acter, a leading divine in the Seeded Church, branch of the great Presbyterian denomi nation His ancestors were therefore from Scotland, and of sect distinguished in Scottish history for their vehement devo- tion to duty, daring the anger of bigoted king, and the dangers of the battle field, rather than compromise, even in matters ot form, that religious belief which they held dearer than property, or life itself. It was to perpetuate the memories of these heroes and martyrs of the right of conscience, that the original of old mortality piled his chls- sell It was from christian heroes that Mr. Hemphill drew his lineage. There isa great deal in blood, and the guarantee of lndlvld-