Mr. EDMUNDS. Mr. President, were the aphorism of the great dramatist true, that “Tho evil that mon do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." there would be little, indeed, left to remind us of him who has now so lately vanished from the Council Chamber of the nation and from the vast and majestic edifice which has grown into stature and beauty under the euchantment of his labors; he would stand with those described in the sad but beautiful passage in the Divine Comedy: "On enrth they left no record in their day; More and jusliee hold them in Speali not of them, disdain: but look and passaway." and his memory would pass with his mortal body from the knowledge of men. But a higher philosophy and a better reli gion teach us that however it be with evil, the good that men do is not buried with their ones, but lives after them, ever growing, wid ening, elevating, never lost, and casting its bencbeent fruits even into the lap of the remotest future. Whatever, then, maybe the sphere of use fulness and good to which a man is called orin which he moves, whether it be in the loftiest regions of polities or ethics, or in the cold and severe solitudes of abstract science, or in the practical administration of affairs, or in the rumblest callings of humble life, be his work well and faithfully done, be his mission filled to completion, he has earned in equal recompense, and has equall won the victors crown. Thus it has seeme to me that on this sad and sorrowful occasion I may leave to other and more familiar tonrues the praise of Mr. Poor in his charactero Senator and legislator, and may fitly be excused from any philosoph ical analysis or estimate or panegyric of him as compared with other eminent men, and leave to the future the task of fixing with impartial exactness his place in the high temple of fame, among the heroes and worthies who have gone before him to their rest, and the rather. as my heart prom ts me, and as the wishes of the people w 10m he has so long and so worth ily represented, would I am sure direct, us his home friend and fellow citizen, dwell for a lit tle space, as we mourn at his departure, upon his icrsonal relations to his people and upon his lon!r life of unblemished purity and of cordial an earnest love for and pride in his native State, and upon his constant and untiring and successful efforts to promote their welfare and to realize their wishes upon his love of his country and of man. Born to no ancestral honors, and reaching forward to usefulness and influence only by the merit ofhis own vigorods butunaided endeavor he entered upon life in perfect sympathy with the universe aspirations of the people, and so as step by step be advanced from pupil to teacher, from teacher to leader, and from leader to ruler, he was to them the type and example of republican social progress the representative man, and all the people looked upon his successes as their own, and felt in his advancement a triumph personal to themselves. This affectionate sympathy of sentiment was fully reciprocated by Mr. FOOT. He took u, as if by instinct, the feelings of the people and never failed to assert them against all antagonism and these qualities of is mind and heart were not limited to geographical boundaries. He believed in the exhortation: “ Save thy country and every other, and wherever man dwells find a brother Whom God hath related to thee.” So he was admired and followed and trusted by the masses of the people. Whenever he was called upon for assistance he individualized the case of each applicant and made it his own; his heart warmed and his face lighted up with joy at the o portnnity ofassisting any, however humble, ofhis fellow citizens, and 100s and 1,000s will carry through their lives the pleasant remembrance of his grasp and smile as he would dismiss them With eucouragementnnd counsel. Thus he endeared himself to men individuall. His sense of truth and juistice was quick an vivid, allhouvhbhisres set or sincere oposition was perfect; and sodiMnot easilypxiiisled; thus he obtained the confidence an er.of those who could not gain his aid as wel as of these who were the recipients of his favor. His life was pure, generous, and blameless; free from all shadow of suspicion or reproach, and all who knew him had faith in his fidelity to his principles and to his State against all pressure and all temptation and therefore on all sides there gathered around this earnest, fervent, hearty, iatriotic man, the pride, the confidence, and the affections of his whole people, who now mourn his loss as an individual bereavement, as does he who now addresses you, whose relations with that noble man were of such affectionate intimacy and good will as would make him fitly turn away and weep rather than speak the language of deserved eulogy. In a busy, useful life he has filled his allotted sphere and discharged his trust. “With enmity toward none, with charity toward all, " he has lived and died. Mr. President, as we gather hope and wisdom even out of these sorrowful duties, let us remember that it is good deeds, and not the LINGering years, that make up the full, true life of man, and that crown him with his best rewards.