Mr. MORRILL. Mr. Speaker, the resolutions just received from the Senate announce, what recurs with sinful regularity, that death has again thinned) our numbers, and that we, members of Congress, sooner perhaps, than others in different walks of li e, are doomed to an early dismissal from among the living. In this instance, it is true that our deceased friend, the late Senfrom Vermont, had reached fullness of years and of honors, but his constitution had been so admirably preserved that those of us who had recently associated with him were glad to believe he had yet many gears in store of useful and lustrous service is sudden departure surprised the country and his colleagues as much as his own famil, and he will be as sincerely lamented by the public as by his friends and relatives. It was my happiness to have been admitted to his intimacy, and I shall speak of him in terms of affection, my feelings not allowing me to do less, but at the same time, as he would himself have most desired, with entire justice. Hon. JACOB COLLAMER would have been 75 years old had he lived until the 8th of January next, having been born at Troy, NewYork, January 8, 1791. With his father, a soldier of the Revolution, he moved to Bur lington, Vermont, where he received his education, and graduated at the Vermont University in the class of 1810. After being admitted to the bar in 1813, he made a brief campaign in the last warwith enland, as alieutenant ofartil lery in the detached militia of the U.S. service, and there was no portion of his history to which he referred with more pride. Haw“ing settled in RO alton, he represented the town, while successfullypursuing his profession, in the State Legislature in 1821, 1822, 1827, and 1828, was member of the State constitutional convention in 1836, and was made associate justice of the supreme court of Vermont in 1833. He was continued on the bench until 1842, when he was elected a member of the HoRep in the Congress of the U.S. Reelected in 1844and 1846, he was, at the expiration of his service in this House, immediately called to the Cabinet of President Taylor. Upon the death of the President he resigned his place in 1850. The same year he was again placed as judge in the supreme court of Vermont, and so remained until 1854 when he was elected a Senator of the U.S. for 6 years from 1855. At the expiration of the term he was reelected. At his 1st entrance upon his duties in the Senate he was placed upon the ComTerritor, at which Judge Don his was chairman, and made the celebrated rep y of the minority (March 12, 1856) to the report of that distinguished gentleman on the Territories of Nebras a and Kansas. The compact statement of facts, the logical deductions therefrom, and the powerful condensation of the summing up at e conclusion, at once established his reputation in that body of which he became so marked a member. At the close of his career he held the position of chairman of the ComPostOffice& Roads, chairman of the JtcomLibrary, and was also member of the ComJudiciary. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the Vermont University in 1849and from Dartmouth College in 1857. Suffering from a sharp attack of congestion of the lungs, induced by a cold caught while returning from the funeral of a brother, Senator COLLAMER died, from an organic disease of the heart, on the evening of Thursday, NO vember 91nst, at his residence in Woodstock, attended by the love and watchful solicitude of a devoted tiimily, where the pastor ofhis church, on the followin Sabbath, performed impressive funeral services, without pomp or show, and l where the people of the town and the bereaved family, as the sun was slowly sinking in the west, followed him with tears and sorrowto his quiet tomb. His constant elevation produced no change in the modesty of his demeanor, and there was no station, in this long recital of his public employments, which he did not titly fill and adorn. At the start in life, young COLLAMER was a Jeffersonian Republican. Later, when parties assumed other names, he was a Whig, and always distinguished for the thoroughness with which he examined all questions, for his moderation, for the courtesy With which he ever treated political opponents, and for his scorn, which he took no pains to conceal, of demagognes. Though stoutly maintaining his own predilections, he reviled with cruel words neither parties nor persons, and now, that his course is run, he is at peace with all the world. As a judge, he was distinguished for swiftness in the ispatch of business, for ability and stern impartiality, and for the perspicacity of his opinions, as orally delivered or as recorded in reports. While in Office, though habitually urbane, he never forgot the ravity and dignity of his judicial position, which sometimes gave the impression of hauleurnot actually felt. He was I: end disciplinarian, and, therefore, oc casionally curt, as when the time of the court was unnecessarily consumed by illogical oi ir relevant speeches, and the unfortunate members of the bar, or partial observers, may have thought he was sour and cold, when he was reall, to those who knew him, a man of excel lent umor and as appreciative of merit as of demerit. Vhile he End a full grasp and comprchcnsion of the principles of law, is memory never failed to supply instances in which those principles had been illustrated and a plied. Under his administration, jurors had little difficulty in the solution of nicequestions of law and fact, however intimately by ended; and the authority of urors under his idunce and teachings suffered no depreciation, but their functions and capacity appeared to be vindicated upon every trial. n a State which has not been deficient in eminent jurists, including such menasChi man, Chase, anNess, Phelps, Prentiss, and illiams in the past, not to say anything of the living. the name of COLLAMER is, and will be, ranked as a worthy peer. He was an n right judge. It will c remembered that the Cabinet of General Taylor, in its highorder of character and ability, has rarely, if ever, been surpassed in the history of our country, and it was, in fact, what cabinets were designed to be, the wise council of the President. Among such distinguished associates it is fair to say the late Senator was not dwarfed by contrast with any. In the discharge of the practical duties of his Dept he is still remembered by official veterans yctlin cring there for his untirin doe votion and inte ligent application to that usiness of the Government which comes to the knowledge and touches the daily accommo dations of more persons than that of any or all other of the Executive Depts. By his report it appears that the excess of the revenues of the General Postoffice over the expenditures in 1849 was $400,000, but soon after it ceased to be even seltlsustaining, presenting annual deficits until the present year. While PostMGenl he organized a division in his Dept to attend to all foreign mails, foreign postal arrangements, and ocean steam ship lines. The existing postal treaty With GreatBritain, at his entrance, just agreed upon, was carried out by him, and all the details for that purpose perfected. The various subsequent international postal arrangements show the wisdom of such treaties, and they are still executed in the Dept accordin to the original plan. The administration of the offioa while in the hands of Mr. Commune met with no complaint, which is the highest compliment this extended and everextending Dept can achieve. a While in the Senate he commanded the confidence of all its members, and the measures he introduced were not only easily carried in the committees of which he was chairman, but when they were brought into the Senate nearly always passed without even a division. He participated in all the important debates, bring in those acceptable offerings which aid in the solution of subjects under discussion; and, without making any dazzling display, or aspiring to any domination, justly wielded a large influence over his fellow members. If he was not theirmentor, there was no other Senator whose counsel upon all subjects was more frequelntly sought, or more generously apprencipat. Nature had dealt liberally with him, having given to him a fine figure as well as a full on wellpoised mind; and in his youth the races of his person bespoke favor. In his age e not only spoke like a Senator, but with the mastery of a piercing eye, that “ spoke audience ere the tongue, ” looked like one, and, as such, his words were accepted as wise among wise men. In his conversation he led, when he led at all, with useful topics for discussion, and then pursued them with unflagging animation, not mo nopolizing all the time, but everand anon showing himself an engaged and gentle listener, as ready to be pleased with the with of others as with his own. An hour with him produced no impression of a sermon or a comedy, but his sense and humor were so commingled that those who enjoyed such intercourse felt that neither the one nor the other could have been more dignified and useful, nor more leasaut and exhilarating. To all his natural) advantages, to all his varied eitperience, he added patient industry and forceof character. He decided nothing by intuition not looking forJu iter to come to his aid from the cloudsbut, elping himself, he always diligently studied subjects as they came up in all their parts and relations; so that his opinions, whether in the social circle, on the benc, or in the Senate, far from being crude or extravagant, were the fruit of wise reflection, and no man reasoned more independently, or was less afraid to stand alone. Senator COLLAMER was not a wide and desultory reader, though well versed in history and standard literatureincluding many uaint and rare old booksbut he was a very did igent and conscientious student of the books he loved, retaining forever any mastery he had once acquired over them, and among them none were more thoroughly read and inwardly digested than the Bible. A model in the regularity of his habits, modest and republican in his style of livingin his tastes as well as principleshe maintained a character of spotless purity in all the relations of life, public and private, and his own home was mai o happy by is presence. His piety was unatfected, and he was a regular attendant wherever he dwelt upon divine wor ship. He was liberal and public spirited in proportion to his means, though an economical manager ofhis own affairs, as he was of those of his country. In his own State at the time of his decease he was regarded as her foremost man, and his loss will be mourned by the nation as the loss of one of its great men. I believe he desired to be regarded as a Christian statesman, and any terms added to these he would have considered as terms of diminution. He preferred to be quietly right rather than to be conspicuous and wrong., Ile sought to convince, not to be eloquent. He was impressive rather than impulsive. He appealed to the reason of men, and did not nimto excite their temper. He tried to make his au dience understand the weight of the argument, not to please them with the beatitudes of rhet oric. he truths to which he gave utterance were calculated in their naked simplicity, some times in. their puritanic, gritty homeliness of phrase, to stand the tests of all time, but he took no care to embalm his works with the ornaments of the schools, or the spoils of liter ature in orderto win that fume which style ofien secures even to shallow thinkers. It was breadth of view and not felicity of diction be aimed at. He borrowed little from others. His intellectual structures were built oftimber he had T freshly cut and hewn on his own domains, redo lent of the perfume of the forest, and were not piled up from dead driftwood quotations which float on the surface of, learninf, so tempting to merely literary wreckers. “hough always bravely in earnest and self Conscious of his power, he had no hot blood, teeming with a uxuriunt progeny of hyperbole and fancy but his unembellished words always kept on a level with his argument, clear, cogent, and inspiring the bearer with the idea that the speaker was wiser, freighted with more thought upon the subject, than himself. Knowing that the human mind wearics with loncontinued attention, he was accustomed to enliven his speech with an occasional apposite aneedote, o which he possessed a wonderful opulence, but they were always chaste and never delayed the argument. They were singlefiashes of with which shed light over the subject in hand, while the speaker and hemerwere a long way further on in their jour ney. the h it, was obvious that he had a keen relish or wit, he more worshiped the light which shines forever than the momentary brilliancy of the meteor, and was more truly great to intrench himself and bid defiance lo oppoquents. He scrutinized novelties, and was slow to exnge a present inheritance for future pros pects. But, if he was not an innovator, he was ready to sustain and defend any wellconsidered and substantial improvement. Conservative from natural temperament, as well as age and experience, he yet never, was unwilling to strike at any tangible evil or governmental abuse. The constitution of his country he had read with profound attention, and upholding it in all its parts, mainly in accordance with the school of Madison, he strove to be the guardian of the natural rights of the people as well as the just authority of the Government. He loved liberty and revered law. Loving his own State dearly, and watchful of all her rights, he never hesi Stated to subordinate her sovereignty to that of the nation. His merits in the Senate, as a constitutional lawyer of ample learning and uncommon sagacity, were cheerfully acknowledged there; and his fame, if it did not. leap over, extended as wide as the boundaries of our country. Though his views were usually in harmony with those of the people of his own State, the transcendent regard they had for him and his exalted character permitted him to differ with them upon some questions, as they felt, whatever differences there niight be, that they were the iresult of patriotic an independent opinions of u. fullgrown man. He abhorred war considered as a trade or profession, was jealous of the snpersedure of laws by military rule, and had serious fore bodings as to its influence on public morals; but he had large faith in the American people, in their intelligence and traditions; an, in responding to the wager of battle by a wicked and rebellious people, he was for the energetic and full exercise of the military power of the country. Chary of legislative weapons, he had no doubt at all of the etiiciency of martial resources. In the Senate others may have excelled him in learning, in genius, in sarcasm, in oratory. but no one surpassed him in stores of knowl ede, in admirable clearness of statement, in 10 y purpose, in directand vigorous argument, nor in that combination of sound opinions which make the intelligent statesman. such a lifewith no words his friends could wish to blot; with no acts that do not contrib ute to his raise, closing with his countrys plaudit, ” ell done, than good and faithful servant, ” triumphantly cIOsing with the Christian s hope in the resurrectionup eals to us by the force of its illustrious examp e, that we may so make up our final record, that those who survive us may be able to say, as werdo now, ” Be hold with no remembered sins of youth. here are tesplendors of an age, a long ago of good works.” I offer the following resolutions: Ruolwd. That the HoRep of the U.S. in the irresistible logic with which he was wont U.S. has receivedwith the deepestsonsibiiity the intelligence of the death of JACOB COLLAHEH, latea Senatorin Congress from the state of Vermont. licoolved, That the members and officers of this House, as a proper mark of respect for tho personal character and nag and faithful services of Hon. Jacon COLLAMFJi, will go into mournin by wearing crnpeupon the left. arm for the period o 30 Reached. As a further mark of respect for thdeads. e ccased. this House do now adjourn.