Mr. FOOT was born in Cornwall, in the State of Vermont, in 1802. He graduated at Mid dlcbury College with distinguished honor in 1826, and the same year became principal of the seminar at Castleton. He was tutor in the University ofVermont in 1827; and again, from 1828 to 1831, principalof Castleton Sem inary, and by his earnest efforts and marked executive ability gave such an impulse and character to the institution that it ranked for many years among the 1st of the classical schools of Vermont. In the midst of his faithful and arduous labors as atcacher he devoted the time usually given to recreation and the refined pleasures of social life to the study of the law, and in 1831 was hdinitted to the bar in Rutland, and immediately commenced the practice of his profession. For 5 years he was a member of the Legislature of Vermont and for 3 years Speaker of the HoRep. From 18236to 1842 he was prosecuting attorney for the county of itutland. Ie was a member of the constitutional convention which established the Senate as a coor dinate branch of the Legislature of Vermont, in which body he actively codperated with his late colleague, Judge Collamer. From 1843 to 1847 he was a member of this body, and declined a 3rd election. In 1850 he was elected Senator of the U.S., and occupied the position until the day of his death. such is a brief recital of the public and official positions occupied by Senator Foor, embracing a period of nearly a 3rd of a cen tury. Born of highly respectable but comparatively poor parents, he was by force of circumstances thrown upon his own resources, and early in life acquired independent habits of thought and action. Without any of the adventitious surroundings of wealth or station on patronarc, without any of that extreme brilliancy of genius which now and then start lcs and dazzles the world, he looked updh life as a great realit and upon success as the reward of labor. Ie was rather solid than showy. He lacked genius, but possessed talent and judgment. His qualities did not shine forth like the greater lights in the heavens, but there was in them a proportion and bar mony which gave a moral grandeurto the man. Hence Senator FOOT was what we call a self made man. I do not attribute to him any particular credit for that. The term “self made man ” is a much abused one. There is no royal road to greatness. Every man who comes to be a power reaches it through personal effort. The scholar is self maderand becomes a scholar through atientand exhausting labor and iellection. The professional man is self made, and so is the merchant and the artisan. That Senator Foor succeeded where a weak will would have failed is doubtless true, and hence the greater honor to the man. As a lawyer, Mr. oor was not learned. As a statesman, he never seized upon new theories or ventured upon untried paths. As apolitical economist, he never originated new ideas or developed old ones with extraordinary power; and yet, without question, he was one of the safest statesmen and most judicious legislators of the age. He did not resemble the mountain towering to the skies, barren and useless from its height, but rather the lesser eminence, whose summit is covered with the forest, and whose slopes wave with the yellow grain. He did not resemble the terrific shower which destroyb its violence, so much as the gentle rain which the earth drinks and then dresses herself in new life and beauty., God granted Mr. Foor one of the greatest of earthly blessings, a loving, praying, pious mother, who early instilled into his mind principles of reverence toward God, obedience to authority, and love of truth; and through a long public life the great leading characteristic of his mind, and perhaps the highest power of his character, was his devotion to truth; that high ethical truth which is grounded in the moral bein and the fitness of things, lying back of an deeperthan refinements or popularities, reaching down to the inner nature and clevatin the moral forces. “His ivor was as good as his bond.” No social or political combination orinfluence; no sycophantic flatterer; no dastardl and cun ning insinuator; no expectation of reward or place or power ever shook the truthfulness not“SOLOMON Foor. " Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshnken, unseduced. unterritied, His loyalty he kept, his love his real: Nor numbernor example with him wrought To swervefrom truth or changehis constantrmnd, Though single.” Senator Foor was a patriotic man. “He loved his land because it washis own and worried to give aught other reus why." He cherished the principles of the DeclarIndep. e believed that all men were created free and equal; and yet sub ordinated his acts and theories to the Constitution of the land. Constitutional liberty was his watchword, and when by force of law all men became absolutely free he was the ear nest and fearless advocate of those measures designed to protect the freedman in all his civil rights. But, sir, when the 1st gun was fired at Fort Sumter, and the cry “To arms!” echoed from peak to peak of the mountains of his native State, then the nobleness, the patriotism, the gene rosity of Sononos Foo r s one forth like astar. Calmly and serenely he metthe issue, and every where infused into the people his own hereic and enthusiastic nature and when at times during the progress of the rebellion the clouds seemed to lower about us, his faith in God and liberty never faltered. He trusted in the right. He met and performed every obligation of duty without fear and without reproach. The highest and proudest encomium which apublic man can ever receive is justly his. Popular at home beyond description; elevated by the people to almost every office within their gift eloved, honored, and trusted, he always and everywhere proved himself an honest man the noblest work of God. He loved his native State. To him there was no air so pure as that which swept about her mountains; no water so sweet as that which bubbled from her crystal springs; no grass so green as that which clothed her valleys: and he now lies beneath the shadow of her hills, where the wind sings his requicm and the solemn old pines stand as sentincis over his dust. During the long and bloody rebellion, when suffering and deat entered almost every household, no who unded soldier, no weeping sister no heartbroken wife or mother ever call upon Senator FoOr in vain. Their wants were his wants. Their suffering was his suffering. In sunshine and in rain, in sickness and in health, by tender and sympathizing counsel, and by active and efficient effort, be labored for their relief; and we may truthfully say for him, “ When the eye saw me then it blessed me. When the ear heard me it gave witness to me, for I delivered the poor that cried, the father less, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was readyto perish came upon me, and I caused the widows heart to sing for joy.” Mr. Speaker, it is a lorions thin to live in this world. When its reatorlaunced it forth in the perfection of its beaut, the morning stars sang together for joy. t was made for man, the last exercise of creative power, for man made in tlfe image God, into whose nos trils he breathed the breath of life. It is noble to live for the development of the soul. It is beautiful to aprcciate and enjoy all the works of God, and all the endearing relations with which we are surrounded. It is glorious “To have Attentive and believing faculties: To go abroad reoicing in the joy Of beautiful an well created things; To love the voice of watersand the sheenof silver fountains lcup in to the so To thrill with the rich inc ody of bir Living their lifeof music; to beglad In the guy sunshine, reverentin the storm; Iose en.beaut in the stirring lenf; To find calm t oughts beneath the whispering tree; To secand hear and breathethe evidence Of Godsdecp wisdomin the natural world." But more beautiful than life is the death of the Christian.Mr. FOOT from the commencement of his sickness seemed to feel that he would die, and when the final summons came he was ready. His last thought was for his country, and his last desire to look out upon the beautiful sun light and thisnoble edifice, where he hadlabored so long and where he believed the future safety of the Itc public rested; and then, as if fully sat isfied, with eyes full of celestial rad ance, he exclaimed, “ I see it! I see it! The gates are wide open! Beautiful! Beautiful l and the plastic form was stilled; the casket wa t broken, and Sonouos Foor entered upon our nzil rest. Mr. Speaker, the life of a good mar like that of him we mourn is not confined to its imme diate and most apparentresults. Itsinfluence lives on, inspiring other men to lives of noble ness and duty. this the pillar of fire by night and cloud by day that safely guides us in our weary wanderings. Let us mark it well, so that when to us the last dread summons comes we each may “Go. not like the quarry slave at night Seourgedto hisdungeon, but sustainedandsoothed By an unfaltering trust, approach our graves Like one who wraps the drapery of his conch About him and lies down to pleasantdreams." I submit the following resolution: Resolved.That, asa furthermark of respect for the deceased.the House do new adjourn.