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Search - Obituary Addresses On The Occasion Of The Death Of The Hon. Henry Clay - A Senator Of The United States From The State Of Kentucky, Delivered In The Senate ... Representatives Of The United States,1852.

Obituary Addresses On The Occasion Of The Death Of The Hon Henry Clay - A Senator Of The United States From The State Of Kentucky Delivered In The Senate Representatives Of The United States1852
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OBITUARY ADDRESSES ON T ar OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF TBE HON. HENRY CLAY, A SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, DELIVERED IN TEE JUNE 30, 1852, AND THE FUNERAL SERMON OF THE REV. C. M. BUTLER, r CE.4PldIN OF THE SENATE, PREACHED IN THE SENATE, JULY 1, 1852. WASHINGTON -- Mr. RANGUM submitted the following resolution, which ma... more »s considered, by unanimous consent, and agreed to- Resolved, That the Committee of Arrangements cause to be published in a pamphlet form, and in such manner as may seem to them appropriate, for the use of the Senate, ten thousand copies of the addresses made by the members of the Senate, and members of Ule House of Representatives, together with the discourse of the Rev. Dr. BUTLER, upon the occasion of the death of the Hon. HENRY CLAY. Attest, ASBURY DICKINS, keetarg. m 0 OBITUARY ADDRESSES. SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30,1852. After the reading of the Journal, Mr. UNDERWOOD rose, and addressed the Senate as follows Mr. PRESLDENT I rise to announce the death of my colleague, Mr. CUY. He died at his lodgings, in the National Hotel of this city, at seventeen minutes past eleven oclock yesterday morning, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. He expired with perfect composure, and without a groan or struggle. By his death our country has lost one of its most eminent citizens and statesmen and, I think, its greatest genius. I shall not detain the Senate by narrating the transactions of his long and useful life. His distinguished services as a statesman are insepa- rably connected with the history of his country. As Representative and Speaker in the other House of Congress, as Senator in this body, as Secretary of State, and as Envoy abroad, he has, in all these positions, exhibited a wisdom and patriotism which have made a deep and lasting impression upon the grateful hearts of his countrymen. His thoughts Y l 5 a 6 and his actions have already been published to the world in written biography in Congressional debates and reports in the Journals of the two Houses and in the pages of American history. They have been commemorated by monuments erected on the wayside. They have been engraven on medals of gold. Their memory will survive the monuments of marble and the medals of gold for these are effaced and decay by the friction of ages. But the thoughts and actions of my late colleague have become identified with the immortality of the human mind, and will pass down from generation to generation as a portion of our national inheritance, incapable of annihilation so long as genius has an admirer, or liberty a friend. Mr. PRESIDENT, the character of HENRY CLAY was formed and developed by the influence of our free institutions. His physical, mental, and moral faculties were the gift of God. That they were greatly superior to the faculties allotted to most men cannot be questioned. They were not cultivated, improved, and directed by a liberal or collegiate education. His respectable parents were not wealthy, and had not the means of maintaining their children at college. Moreover, his father died when he was a boy. At an early period, h. CLAY was thrown upon his own resources, without patrimony. He grew up in a clerks office in Richmond, Virginia. He there studied law. He emigrated from his native State a and settled in Lexington, Kentucky, where he cornmenced the practice of his profession before he was of full age. The road to wealth, to honour, and fame, was open before him. Under our Constitution and lams he might freely employ his great faculties unob structed by legal impediments, and unaided by exclusive privileges. Very soon Mr. CLAY made a deep and favourable impression upon the people among whom he began his career. The excellence of his natural faculties was soon displayed. Necessity stimulated him in their cultivation...

ISBN-13: 9781408609989
ISBN-10: 1408609983
Publication Date: 10/26/2007
Pages: 140
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