Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, I had no intimation that any commemoration of the death, life, and character of Senator WRIGHT would take place today; nor had I until the resolutions now under consideration were moved, any reflections or thoughts connected with such an occasion. But I am impelled by my great respect for the deceased while living, and by my approbation of the honor that is being paid to his memory, and of the sentiments expressed in the resolutions, to give them my avowed support. } 1st became acquainted with Senator Wright about 25 years ago in the HoRep, and served 4 years with him in that branch of Congress. When we parted in that Hall I never met with him until he had been reelected a Senator the 2nd or 3rd time from NewJersey, and took his seat on this floor to fill a term which had not elapsed when he died. During our service together, both in the House and in the Senate, it was my privilege and pleasureto havepossessed his friendship and confidence. When in the House he was what was denominated a Whig in his politics, and was a devoted personal and political friend of the great statesman of the West; and he being of a frank and genial, though? ". disposition, we formed close relations of friendship and mutual respect. When Mr. Wright and I met again in the Senate, I learned from him what I had before from the public prints, that he had accepted the name and party position of Democrat; but 1 as Whig or Democrat he never was an extreme partisan; and in his polities and all the affairs of life he was characterized by signal candor and moderation. With him the partisan was always subordinate to the patriot. There was no ambition or selfishness in his adherence to his party; he was always faithful to it, but that fidelity was won and retained by his conviction that its principles, measures, and policy were the best for the whole country. He was a Emerc.han;t, intelligent, honest, diligent, and and affluence rewarded the proper pursuit of his noble profession. He never deated in either House, but no member had a more correct comprehension of every measure and proposition upon, which he was called to vote. He examined them all in the broad and distinct light of an intelligent and virtuous citizen, an experienced and enlightened merchant, and a lofty patriotism that was devoted to his whole country and all her interests. It has been said that Senator WRIGHT was modest; he was precminently so; but he was equally courageous, public spirited, charitable, generous, and hospitable, and he covered all those high and attractive attributes with the veil of modesty. Nature made Senator WRIGHT agentleman, and the noble qualities of the true gentleman with him were confirmed, polished, and illus trated by his whole life. In the Representative Hall, in the Senate Chamber, in the social circle, I never knew him to be guilty of an impropriety, and he was among the few men I have known that I believed to be incapable of that sort of delinquency. Mr. WRIGHT never attracted to himself much of the public gaze, yet in his day and generation he was an exalted public benefactor. He has left, both as a private citizen and a public man, the example of a life active, efficient, unobtrusive, successful, useful, and adorned by every virtue. Would that we had many, yea, millions of Mr. Wrights of the same moral and intellectual stature, and that the destinies of our country were given to them; it would not only be delivered. its present confusion and perils, but it would be borne along peacefully, prosperously, and gloriously to fortunes far above all the past and which no imagination can compass. Mr. E. I have been more than gratified, not by the strains of panegyric, but the story of simple truth told of". by the Senators from NewJersey and Maryland, and by the opportunity of giving my own humble tribute to so much of departed worth. The resolutions were unanimously adopted; and the Senate adjourned.