him with a rare union of force and discrimination, and he presented them in an order of arrangement, marked at once with great perspicuity and with logical acuteness, so that, when he arrived at his conclusion, he seemed to reach it by a process of established propositions, interwoven with the hands. of a master; and topics, barren of attraction, from their nature, were rendered interesting by illustrations and allusions, drawn from a vast storehouse of knowledge, and applied with a chastened taste, formed upon the best models of ancient and of modern learning; and to these eminent qualifications was added an uninterrupted flow of rich and often racy, oldfashioned English, worthy of the earlier masters of the language, whom he studied and admired.

"As a statesman and a politician, his power was felt and acknowledged through the Republic, and all bore willing testimony to his enlarged views, and to his ardent patriotism. And he acquired an European reputation by the state papers he prepared upon various questions of our foreign policy; and one of these—his refutation and exposure of an absurd and arrogant pretension of Austria-is distinguished by lofty and generous sentiments, becoming the age in which he lived, and the great people in whose name he spoke, and is stamped with a vigor and research not less honorable in the exhibition than conclusive in the application; and it will ever take rank in the history of diplomatic intercourse among the richest contributions to the commentaries upon the public law of the world.

"And in internal as in external troubles he was true, and

tried, and faithful. And in the latest, may it be the last, as it was the most perilous, crisis of our country, rejecting all sectional consideration, and exposing himself to sectional denunciation, he stood up boldly, proudly, indeed, and with consummate ability, for the Constitutional rights of another portion of the Union, fiercely assailed by a spirit of aggression, as incompatible with our mutual obligations as with the duration of the Confederation itself. In that dark and doubtful hour, his voice was heard above the storm, recalling his countrymen to a sense of their dangers and their duties, and tempering the lessons of reproach with the experience of age and the dictates of patriotism.

"He who heard his memorable appeal to the public reason and conscience, made in this crowded chamber, with all eyes fixed upon the speaker, and almost all hearts swayed by his words of wisdom and of power, will sedulously guard its recollections as one of those precious incidents which, while they constitute the poetry of history, exert a permanent and decisive influence upon the destiny of nations.

"And our deceased colleague added the kindlier affections of the mind; and I recall, with almost painful sensibility, the associations of our boyhood, when we were school-fellows together, with all the troubles and the pleasures which belong to that relation of life, in its narrow world of preparation. He rendered himself dear by his disposition and deportment, and exhibited some of those peculiar characteristic features which, later in life, made him the ornament of the social circle; and when study and knowledge of the world had

ripened his faculties, endowed him with powers of conversation I have not found surpassed in my intercourse with society, at home or abroad. His conduct and bearing at that early period have left an enduring impression upon my memory of mental traits, which his subsequent course in life, developed and confirmed. And the commanding position and ascendency of the man were foreshadowed by the standing and influence of the boy among the comrades who surrounded him.

"Fifty years ago, we parted-he to prepare for his splendid career in the good old land of our ancestors, and I to encoun-` ter the rough toils and trials of life, in the great forest of the West. But ere long the report of his words and his deeds penetrated those recesses where human industry was painfully but successfully contending with the obstacles of Nature, and I found that my early companion was assuming a position which confirmed my previous anticipations, and which could only be attained by the rare faculties with which he was gifted. Since then he has gone on, irradiating his path with the splendor of his exertions, till the whole hemisphere was bright with his glory, and never brighter than when he went down in the west, without a cloud to obscure his lustre, calm, clear, and glorious. Fortunate in life, he was not less fortunate in death, for he died with his fame undiminished, his faculties unbroken, and his usefulness unimpaired; surrounded by weeping friends, and regarded with anxious solicitude by a grateful country, to whom the messenger, that mocks at time and space, told from hour to hour the

progress of his disorder, and the approach of his fate. And beyond all this, he died in the faith of a Christian, humble, but hopeful, adding another to the roll of eminent men who have searched the Gospel of Jesus, and have found it the word and the will of God, given to direct us while here, and to sustain us in that hour of trial, when the things of this world are passing away, and the dark valley of the shadow of death is opening before us.

"How are the Mighty Fallen! we may yet exclaim, when reft of our greatest and wisest; but they fall to rise again from death to life, when such quickening faith in the mercy of God, and in the Sacrifice of the Redeemer comes to shed upon them its happy influence, on this side of the grave and beyond it."

CHARLES C. BURLEIGH.

CHARLES C. BURLEIGH, the eccentric and eloquent abolitionist, is brother to William H. and George Burleigh, the celebrated poets. He is an out and out "come-outer"- -a nou-compromising radical-a splendid scholar-an off-hand orator. He is not so genial as Garrison-but has more force -not so bitter as Pillsbury, but his severity has a keener edge and cuts deeper-less eloquent than Phillips, but more logical than he—not so blunt as Foster, but, like him, he is a plain-dealer. His best thoughts are struck out at a heat, and come to the heart winged with words of fire. There is thunder and lightning in his logic-and the concussion, as well as the conclusion, are irresistible. His arguments are not betinselled with gauze and silver spangles; it is pure gold that glitters in his speeches. You look in vain for the double refined essence of nonsense and affectation, with which literary dandies perfume their productions. There is a smell of gunpowder in the atmosphere, and a mighty fluttering of game, when he levels his gun at a multitude. His arguments are forcible-his appeals pathetic-his language classical. When he follows an opponent in debate, he begins at the beginning, pursues his meanderings, and sweeps away his sophistry, as gossamer is swept by the wind. He may be seen selling