Mr. FOOT. Mr. President, I rise to ask the Senate to suspend, for this day, its delib erations upon public affairs, that. we may offer fittin an appropriate tribute to the character and t to memory of one who has long been associated with us in the national councils, but who is with us now no more. Since our assemblin here at this present session, we have all had occasion to remarknone of us can have failed to remark the absence of one of our number; one whom we have long been accustomed to meet and to hold counsel with in these Halls. An elder brother, who has long mingled with us in our deliberations here; a wise and discreet statesman; a learned and judicious counselor; a pure patriot; a just and an upright man, has won removed from among us by the hand of death. A venerable form, long familiar to our sight, has been taken away out of our presence. I bring no new message to this body or it. has already been heralded throughout v the countryyet none the less sad, in making the formal announcement to the Senate of the death of my late colleague, Hon. Jacon conLAMER. It is eminently tit and becoming, Mr. President. as it is also in accordance with an approved and sacred custom, that we pause for an hour in the ordinary routine of our dailyla. bors, that we may consecrate that hour to the virtues and the memory of a deceased and lamented associate, who has shared so long and so largelyin our regards, and in the public confiden cc, for his mature wisdom and for his great moral excellence. “ Your colleague, Judge COLLAMBR, isdead ll was the starth ng telegraphic message I received at my home about 5 weeks ago. He expired at his residence in Woodstock, Vermont, on the evenin of the 9th of November post, after a brief ilIness of little more than a single week, at his own home, in the midst of his own affectionate and devoted household, in the full exercise of his intellectual faculties, with an abiding and unshaken faith in the Christian religion, and in the cherished hope of a blissful immortality. But 3 weeks before his decease he visited Montpelier, the ca ital of the State, some 50 miles distant from is residence, to attend the funeral services of a younger and favorite brother. Having paid the last sad othees of respect and affection to a brothers memory, he returned to his own home; but alas! only to lay himself down so soon to die. By this dispensation, so sudden and so sad the Senate of the U.S. has lost one oft ie oldest, most experienced, and most trusted of its members; the country one of the ablest and purest of its statesmen; society, and the church of which he was a member, one of their worthiest and brightest exem plars my own State, her most eminent. citizen, and this day there is mourning through all her borders. JACOB COLLAMER was born in Troy, in the State of NewYork, the 8th day of January, A. D. 1791, and was, therefore, at the time of his decease, in the 705thyear of his age, and in the number of his years was the senior member of this body. In early childhood he was removed, with his fathers family, to Bar lington, Vermont. There his early life was spent. There he was educated. There his academic years were passed. He entered the University of Vermont at the a e of 15 where he graduated in 1810 with credit and commendation for good connet and scholar ship, thus giving ear y promise and hope to his friends of future eminence and usefulness. This promise and these hopes were not doomed to disappointment. Immediately upon the conclusion of his collegiate course he entered the law office of the late judge Aldis, of St.Albans, then an emi nent and fieading lawyer at the bar in the State. Having passed through the usual preparatory course ol legal studies, he was admitted to the bar in 1818, and entered at once upon his professional career. Aller remaining a few months at St.Albans, and thence sto ping for ayear or 2 in the town of Randolp, he finally settled at Royalton, in the count of Windsor, where he resided during the whole period of his active professional career, and unti he removed to Woodstock, in the same county in 1836, where he continued till the time of his death. Here his advancement in professional business and reputation was alike rapid and gratifying, and soon placed him in the front ranks of the leading men of his time at the bar. Forensic laurels, fresh and fair, gathered thick and fast upon his youthful brow, and he became at once the compeer, as he was the contem orary, of Prentiss and Phelps, and Royce and ates; of Vanness and Upham; of Skinner and Hall and Everett, and early took rank even with the senior and more advanced champions of the profession, like Daniel Chipman and Band liidmend, and Chauncey Langtlon, and Horatio Seymour, and Charles K. Williams and Jonathan H. Hubbard, and Charles Marsh, and Yilliam C. Bradley, who had long held supremacy at the bar in our State. It was in a school of practice like this; it was in contact and collision with minds like these, that his own powers were quickeued and invigorated and in which he was early trained and disciplined to habits of close application and study, and which became the fixed hubit ofhis life, and was, indeed one of the chief elements of his success, and which enabled him to reach and to maintain the 0st of eminence and distinction, awarded to him by the popular judgment, in the front ranks of the legal profession. During the period of his active professional practice, although his time and attention were chiefly engrossed in his professional duties yet, besides holding for several years the loca offices of register of probate, and of States attorney for the county of Windsor, he was, at 4 different times, elected by the people of Royalton to the popular branch of the State Legislature. He served thml h the several sessions, devotin himself, with is accustomed vigilance and fideity, to the interests of his constituents and of the State, and took a prominent and influential part in the debates and the business of the body of which he was a member. In Janua, A. D. 1886, and while then a judge upon 1 e bench, he was a delegate from is town to the constitutional convention then holden at Montpelier, to consider and to act upon certain proposed amendments to the State constitution, the most important of which was o Proposition to abolish the old “Gubernatorial Council, ” socalled, and in its stead to constitute a legislative branch having coordinate powers with the HoRep, to be called “ the Senate.” This proposition was vigorously opposed in the convention, and brought out a protracted and perhaps the ablest parliamentary discussion ever had in the State upon any single question. The convention contained an unusual number of the leading and foremost men of the State. Judge Couausn led the debate in the affirmative of the question. The proposition was carried; and I feel myself authorized to say, mainly through hisinfluence. In 1833, and after a successful and even brilliant career at the bar of just 20 years, he Was placed, by vote of the Legislature, upon the benc of the supreme couit of the State, a positionforwhich ie possessed peculiar and eminent qualifications, and which he hel (prbey successive elections 9 years, and until he was returned by the people of his congressional district to the national HoRep. As a judge upon the bench e added luster to the reputation he had ulread acquired as a lawyer at the bar. He POSSESSetintellect no] and moral qualities most essential and requi site to the best discharge of the duties of a high fudicial magistracya clear and discriminatin mind, an impartial judgment, strong practice good sense, a profound and instinctive sense of right and wrong. patience of investigation, an inflexible integrity, and a sincere and earnest desire to reach a just and correct conclusion. He held the scales of justice, therefore, with a firm and even hand. All these qualities were brought into practical implication, and were beautifully exemplified throughout. his whole udicial career; and when he retired from the each he laid aside the judicial ermine untarnished, and “without spot or wrinkle or any such thin,” From tie bench he was transferred by the voice of the people of his district to the U.S. HoRep, where he took his seat in 1843, succeeding Horace Everett, long a distinguished member of that body. By successive elections, he continued an active and useful member of the House. though most of the time in a small political minority, until March, 1845), when he was called to the Cabinet of President Taylor as oneof his confidential and constitutional advisers, and placed at the head of the General postoffice Dept. Under his judicious and ener getic administration, the vast and complicated machinery of that Do tment was brought into system and order anfiliciency. He held this position until the death of President TaylorJn July, 1850, when, with all his associates in the Cabinet, of whom the distinguished Senfrom Maryland, [Mm Joiixsox] now present, was one, he resigned his place, and returned, a private citizen, to his home in Vermont. o was not long permitted however, to remain in the quietu e of private life. The people ofhis State still demanded his services in a public capacity, and in the following October e was chosen, by the Legislature, presiding judge of the court in the judicial circuitin which c resided. He held this office through 4 years by successive legislative elections, discharging its duties with “all diligence and fidelity, ” and to the entire popular acceptance and approval, when in October, 1834, he was elected to the Senate of the U.S., and he took his seat as a member of this bodythe 1st Mon day of December, 1855. He was reelected to his seat here in 1860, with an almost unprecedented degree of unanimity. He has been with us and of us just ten years. His course through all this decade, embracing, as it does, perhaps, the most important period in the history of the Republic, is familiar to us allit is familiar to all the country. During this period, and on this forum, where grave questions of State; where questions of peace and war; where questions of foreign and domestic policy; where questions of trade and commerce; questions of hnance and revenue and taxation;lliere where every variety of question pertaining to governmental administration, is presented5for consideration, for discussion, and for final determination here, in this forum, he has woii for himself a national reputation, an honorable and an enduring name, as a learned and able Senator; as aWise and discreet counselor; as a judicious and upright legislator; in short, as a Christian statesman and a Christian statesman, it has been well and truly said, is the glory of his country who has borne himself erect and above reproach through all this career, and kept himself “unspotted from the world.” By the very constitution of his nature he, revolted at every form and species of fraud and corruption, or of wrong and injustice. No man ever ventured to approach him withthe offer of a price for his honor. Jobbers in iniquity came not into his presence. Purity of motive and integrity of purpose, unsullied and unassailed, were alike the law and the rule of his life, in public or in private action. Allof us who have known him ongest and known him best, will, with one accord, concede to him the possessionrin an eminent degree, of what Cicero commends as the bom Senatmispmdentia the “ wisdom of a good Senator.” It is no less our duty, Mr. President, than it is our grateful privilege, in the midst of this sorrow, in this high place, and in the presence of the American people if I may borrow the language of another on a like occasionto pay the tribute of our recognition of the national loss, in the removal of those to whom we hive been accustomed to look, especially in times of doubt and difficulty, for direction and for counsel. such a loss is the more deeply felt, occur ring at a period like the present, when questions novel and of paramount importance, growing out of a new and changed condition of public affairs, are to be considered and determined questions vital to the best interests of the country, and involving the highest welfare, and even the very integrity and faith of the Government. The national heart has been laden with mourning and grief at the loss of many gallant and noble and patriotic sons of the Republic numbering in its list of the mighty dead the chosen ChiefMagistiate of our country during this. passing year now rowing to its close, to whom we were all loking for counsel and for guidance in these times of perplexity and trial. in the midst of these great be reavements, we have only to bow in humble submission to the will of Him who ehastiseth “not willingly, ” and who “doeth all things well.” It is only left to us to cherish the memories of the good and great who have been taken from us, to imbibe the spirit of their teachings, and to follow on, so far forth as we may do it, in the light of their examples. Like most of the distinguished men ofour time and especiallyof our country; like most of those who have risen to the high places of power and trust; like most of the men who stand at the head of affairs in the various Depts of life, whether political, professional. literary, commercial, or other pursuit; like most of the men whorin our day and country have made their impress upon society, and who have written their own history upon the times in which they livedlike these men, JA enu COLLAMER was emphatically the author and the arbiter of his own fortunes. He owed nothing at all to the factitious aids or the accidental circumstances of birth or fortune or family patronage. Under God, he made his own fame and his own fortunes. With his own hands be cleared the rugged pathway which led him up to the entrance door of the temple of honor and renown. He made his own good name, and made it known and honorable am ng men. With the advantage ofu gifted mind, and withl a resolute purpose to fulfill the great end of his being the service of God and his countryby application and industry, by energy and perse verance, and an honest and an honorable life of welldoing, he formed his own character and won his own distinction, and left it as a rich inheritance to his children, and as an example to those who shall come up after him. other and like examples abound through all our history. So did Daniel Webster, in whom the son of an humble Salisbury farmer among the nitehills of NewHampshire becomes in after years, and by popular appellation, the “great expounder of the American Constitution;” the great American Senator; the great American stateman, who stands, by the common recognition of mankind. as the intellectual monarch of his age. So did Abraham Lincoln clamor nomen the or Kentucky boy; the martyr President, whiz, under God, had saved a country and redeemed a race; the martyr President, who, having saved his country from the great rebellion of all history, and redeemed a race from the bondage of centuries, falling by the assassin hand of treason, went down to the grave amid a nations tears, and amid the requiem of anations wailin.yct bearing with him to the tomb more of the worlds affections, more of its sympathies, and more of its honors too, than were ever accorded toother man, or prince, or potentate of earth; and whose highest eulogium is spoken in the Universal lamentation and soI beg pardon, if in the least I offend a aiust the proprietiel of this occasion, or of his presenceso did AndrewJohnson, the humble mechanic from the mountains of NCarolina, who now, by the will of the American ople, and by a providential dispensatiow, wie s the power and challenges the homage of the 1st magistrate of the nation, and on whose will or word today, more than of other living man, hang the destinies of this American Republic. These aregreat examples. These are illustrious exam les. Our history is full of them. They are as beaconlights along the dim and crowded pathway of human life. They are for instruction, for guidance, for encouragement, for inspiration to the rising and the coming generation of American youth,” The fame which a man wins for himself is best: That he may call his own.” Jacos COLLAMER was endowed with a rare combination of intellectual and moral qualities of a high order; a capacious mind, at once act ive. clear, and discriminating a mind, too, in which the analytic powers and the reflective faculties were large y developed; and he was also gifled with a retentive memory. He was capable of fixed and continuous application of his mind to the examination and analysis of whatever question he took in hand. These faculties were all sha ned and strengthened by varied reading an acquirement, and by habits of careful study and reflection. He possessed, in a remarkable degree, the power of condensation, and of arranging the various points or propositions involved in any subject under discussmn in the most clear and logical order, and which enabled him to present them with great force and perspicuitylo the minds ofothers. He always secured respectful attention and deference to his opinions, whether in public debate or in private discussion, for the clearness and force with which he presented his views. He oflen enforced or illustrated an idea or proposition by the timely introduction hit“ some apt and racy Bud often amusing anec etc. If he was not always eloquent, he was always instructive. If he was not an orator in its ordinary acceptation, he was more and better than a mere orator. He was a reasonera clear and logical reasoner. He was an excellent talker an excellent public as well as private or social talker. He had the faculty of making himself understood, and consequentl of may in his subject understood. o a dressed himself to the reason and the understanding, rathe r than to the impulses or the fancies of men. lt was his aim and his effort to convince the judgment by force of argument, rather than to move the passions by the appeals of eloquence, or to please the fancy by the beauties of rhetoric. If he had not the hi best order of what, in popular phrase, is caIled genius, he had more solid common sense than any man of genius, and was master of its practical use. A thoughtful and conscientious man as he was, he spoke always and only from the convictions of his own judgment. His opinions, especially n on grave and imprtant questions, were not stily formed nor inconsiderately expressed, but only after the most careful and mature reflection. Hence his opinions always commanded great respect and deference, and carried with them a correspondin weight and influence. His opinions, especially upon legal and constitution a questions, or upon questions of international law, were always received with profound deference and regard. His intelli gent and independent judgment, his strong, practical good sense, and his unbending integrity of purpose, imparted to all his opinions uncommon weight and value. His whole life, public and professional, whether at the bar or upon the bench; whether in a high executive Dept or in the halls of legislation, has been assiduously devoted to the cause of truthand justice. Few public men have left a more excellent or amore honorable record. With his high intellectual endowments were happily blended the kindlier affections of the heart; and to all these were superadded the purer and holier graces of a Christian faith and of a consistent Christian life. In 1825 he made public profession of his faith in the Gospel of Chili. tmdr united with:he Gargreational church in ltoyalton, then the place of is residence. through all these 40 years, his life, in all its varied modes, no less in the public than in the private walks of society; no ess in the national councils than in thesocial and do mestic circle, furnishes a practical and beautiful illustration of the benclicent influence and power of the religion he professed. The loss of such a man is indeeda loss to the nation; it is a loss to the State; it is a loss to society. But we have only to know that it is Gods doing, and “ be still.” This bereavement I hardly need to say, Mr. President, falls with terrible and crushing severity upon an interesting and stricken famil household. But I am Ine t. at liberty to enter the sanctuary of this grief. may not lift the curtain which vails from public view the deep sorrow which sitteth and wec eth there. Mr. President, he whose death we now lament is gone to be with us here no more. His work on earth is done. He strikes a golden harp among the seraphim on high. His precepts and is example are left to us for our instruction and our profit. Hap y, indeed, will it be, if we shall so profit by them that we shall be ready, as he was ready, for the final summons, in that hour which is coming to us all, and to some of us is not far off, when this world and its worthlessness shall fade from our sinkin vision. Mr. President, I offer the following resolutions: Resolved, That the Senate has received with deep sensibility the announcement of the death of Hon. Jacon Cottiiisn, late a Senator of the U.S. from the State of Vermont. Resolved. That the membersof the Senate. from a sincere desireof showing every mark of respect due to the memoryof Hon. Licoli COLLAHER, will go into mourning by wearing crape on the left arm or 30 days. Resolved. That as a further mark of respect for the memory of the deceased. the Senatedo now adjourn. Offlflzfll, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the HoRep.