spoke no more, the hand of death was upon him, and he was conscious that his hour was come. With surprising self-possession, he prepared to die. Composing his form at length, and folding his arms upon his bosom, without a sigh, without a groan, the father of his country died. No pang nor struggle told when the noble spirit took its noiseless flight; while so tranquil appeared the manly features in the repose of death, that some moments had passed, ere those ound could believe that the patriarch was no more. EULOGY ON JOHN C. CALHOUN.*-Webster. -: 1. Mr. President: I hope the senate will indulge me in adding a very few words to what has already been said. My apology for this is the very long acquaintance which has subsisted between Mr. Calhoun and myself. We are of the same age. I made my first entrance into the house of representatives in May, 1813. I there found Mr. Calhoun. He had already been a member of that body for two or three years. I found him then an active and efficient member of the assembly to which he belonged, taking a decided part, and exercising a decided influence, in all its deliberations. 2. He was a man of undoubted genius and commanding talent. All the country and all the world admit that. His mind was both perceptive and vigorous. It was clear, quick, and strong. Sir, the eloquence of Mr. Calhoun, or the manner of his exhibition of his sentiments in public bodies, was part of his intellectual character. It grew out of the quali Mr. Calhoun died in the city of Washington, March 31, 1850, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. He was a member of the United States Senate, from South Carolina. ties of his mind. It was plain, strong, terse, condensed, concise; sometimes impassioned,- still always severe. Rejecting ornament, not often seeking far for illustration, his power consisted in the plainness of his propositions, in the closeness of his logic, and in the earnestness and energy of his manner. 3. These are the qualities, as I think, which have enabled him through such a long course of years to speak often, and yet always command attention. His demeanor as a senator is well known to us all, is appreciated, venerated by us all. No mau was more respectful to others; no man carried himself with greater decorum; no man, with superior dignity. I think there is not one of us but felt, when he last addressed us from his seat in the senate, - his form still erect, with a voice by no means indicating such a degree of physical weakness as did in fact possess him, with clear tones, and an impressive, and I may say, an imposing manner, - who did not feel that he might imagine that we saw before us a senator of Rome, when Rome survived. 4. Sir, I have not, in public nor in private life, known a more assiduous person in the discharge of his appropriate duties. I have known no man who wasted less of life in what is called recreation, or employed less of it in any pursuits not connected with the immediate discharge of his duty. He seemed to have no recreation but the pleasure of conversation with his friends. 5. There was a charm in his conversation not often found. He delighted, especially, in conversation and intercourse with young men. I suppose that there has been no man among us, who had more winning manners, in such an intercourse and such conversation with men comparatively young, than Mr. Calhoun. I believe one great power of his character in general, was his conversational talent. I believe it is that, as well as a consciousness of his high integrity, and the greatest reverence for his talents and ability, that has made him so endeared an object to the people of the State to which he belonged. 6. Mr. President, he had the basis, the indispensable basis, of all high character; and that was unspotted integrity, — unimpeached honor and character. If he had aspirations, they were high, and honorable, and noble. There was nothing groveling, or low, or meanly selfish, that came near the head or the heart of Mr. Calhoun. However, sir, he may have differed from others of us in his political opinions or his political principles, those principles and those opinions will now descend to posterity, under the sanction of a great name. 7. He has lived long enough, he has done enough, and he has done it so well, so successfully, so honorably, as to connect himself for all time with the records of his country. He is now a historical character. Those of us who have known him here, will find that he has left upon our minds, and upon our hearts, a strong and lasting impression of his person, his character, and his public performances, which, while we live, will never be obliterated. 8. We shall hereafter, I am sure, indulge in it as a grateful recollection, that we have lived in his age, that we have been his cotemporaries, that we have seen him, and heard him, and known him. We shall delight to speak of him to those who are rising up to fill our places. And, when the time shall come, that we ourselves shall go, one after another, in succession to our graves, we shall carry with us a deep sense of his genius and character, his honor and integrity, his amiable deportment in private life, and the purity of his exalted patriotism. LESSON CXIII. EULOGY ON HENRY CLAY.-CoOPER. 1. Mr. President: It is not always by words, that the living pay to the dead the sincerest and most eloquent tribute. The tears of a nation, flowing spontaneously over the grave of a public benefactor, are a more eloquent testimonial of his worth, and of the affection and veneration of his countrymen, than the most highly wrought eulogium of the most gifted tongue. 2. The heart is not necessarily the fountain of words, but it is always the source of tears, whether of joy, gratitude, or grief. But sincere, truthful, and eloquent, as they are, they leave no permanent record of the virtues and greatness of him on whose tomb they are shed. 3. As the dews of heaven, falling at night, are absorbed by the earth, or dried up by the morning sun, so the tears of a people, shed for their benefactor, disappear without leaving a trace to tell to future generations of the services, sacrifices, and virtues of him, to whose memory they were a grateful tribute. But as homage paid to virtue, is an incentive to it, it is right that the memory of the good, the great, and noble of the earth, should be preserved and honored. 4. This being the case, it is befitting here, to-day, to add to the life of Henry Clay, the record of his death, signalized as it is by a nation's gratitude and grief. It is right that posterity should learn from us, the cotemporaries of the illustrious deceased, that his virtues and services were appreciated by his country, and acknowledged by the tears of his countrymen poured out upon his grave. 5. The career of Henry Clay was a wonderful one. And * Mr. Clay died in the city of Washington, June 29, 1852, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. He was a member of the United States Senate, from Kentucky, at the time of his death. what an illustration of the excellence of our institutions would a retrospect of his life afford! Born in a humble station, without any of the adventitious aids of fortune by which the obstructions on the road to fame are smoothed, he rose, not only to the most exalted eminence of position, but likewise to the highest place in the affections of his countrymen. 6. Taking into view the disadvantages of his early posi tion, disadvantages against which he had always to contend, his career is without a parallel in the history of great men. To have seen him a youth, without friends or fortune, and with but a scanty education, who would have ventured to predict for him a course so brilliant and beneficent, and a fame so well-deserved and enduring? 7. Like the pine, which sometimes springs up amidst the rocks on the mountain-side, with scarce a crevice in which to fix its roots, or soil to nourish them, but which, nevertheless, overtops all the trees of the surrounding forest, Henry Clay, by his own inherent, self-sustaining energy and genius, rose to an altitude of fame almost unequaled in the age in which he lived. 8. As an orator, legislator, and statesman, he had no superior. All his faculties were remarkable, and in remarkable combination. Possessed of a brilliant genius and fertile imagination, his judgment was sound, discriminating, and eminently practical. Of an ardent and impetuous temperament, he was nevertheless persevering, and firm of purpose. Frank, bold, and intrepid, he was cautious in providing against the contingencies and obstacles which might possibly rise up in the road to success. Generous, liberal, and entertaining broad and expanded views of national policy, in his legislative course, he never transcended the limits of a wise economy. 9. But, of all his faculties, that of making friends and attaching them to him, was the most remarkable and extraordinary. In this respect, he seemed to possess a sort of |