Mr. BANKS then pronounced at eulogy on Senator FO0TE. [published in the Appendix] Remarks on the Death of Senator Foot. Mr. BANKS. The high respect entertained by the people of Massachusetts for the honored Senator whose death has been announced by the Senate renders it proper that in this House, as in that of which he was a member, some tribute should be paid in their name to his memory. It devolves upon me, in behalfofiiiy colleagues and the people we in part represent, to discharge this duty. The State of Vermont acuired its territory from NewYork, but its eary population was chiefly from NewEngland. There has ever been between them and the people of Massachusetts an attachment that is due to common interests and origin. The anniversaries she cherishes are celebrated by us in connection with her sons with the same spirit we give to those of the Pil rim fathers. In common with other States of the Union we mourn this inscrutable dispensation of Providence that has derived a patriotic sister State of 2 sons so istinguis ed, so honored, so trusted, and so worthy, whose death she has been called to mourn. There is but one feelin, one manifestation. It is that of dee est pubic regret. Families sorrow for the affiiction of bereaved families, citizens lament the loss of statesmen and counselors in whose experience and patriotism they were accustomed to confide, an the State sympathizes with her sister State bereft thus suddenly of her most trusted servants and brightest ornaments. It is but a short time since we were summoned to pay the last solemn honors to the memory of the Senator of Vermont, senior by years if not in service. We are now called upon to remder a fraternal and public acknowledgment of the high honors due to the memory of hot remaining Senator. There are few characters in American history more complete and perfect than that of Senator Foor, or whose service has been more varied, satisfactory, and important. The public life of the late Senator, it is true, was identified with the Senate of the U.S. Yet he hail faithfully discharged the mine r but not less important duties of local and neighborhood government which are so cssentia to the maintenance of our institutions and so close! identified with the destinies of the nation. I e had been student, teacher, professor, town officer, representative. speaker, attornc of the people, constitutional legislator, an for a brief period, limited by his own choice, a member of this body. He had studied the science of medicine and of law, the logic and passion of popular assemblies, andin the course of his long and useful career served his native State in every public capacity except that of the executive or judicial administration of law. He had given much time to public service in those assemblies and as sociations of the people which are unrecognized by statute law, but which are of such uraniount importance to good governuient. nowing him as we do, we can we l appreciate how much be contributed, by his benign influence, in these unostentations labors, to. the prosperity and stability of the State he loved so well. such services are the foundations of the State. They make forms of government practicable here which are possible elsewhere. They are the basis of merican liberty. It is in such duties that the peoplelearn to support and legislators to direct public administration. We cannot over estimate their importance when performed by men of eminent capacity or station, and we ought not to with hold from public servants the honor due to those who lldithfully discharge them. It was not until Senator Foor appeared in the Senate that his reputation became national and his character fitly appreciated by the millions that now mourn his death. It is not distinction that the lament. It is the loss of valued service. the reputation still exists. With the lapse of years it brightens, but the capacity for public service, now, alasl more than ever needed, is gone forever. He entered the Senate in 1851. That memorable year ushered in the most eventful period of our national career. Congressional history divides itself into 3 periods. The 1st is that of the immortal l ashington. It closed with the Administration of the 2nd Adams. Every President, with this exception, and nearly every public man, had been numbered with the founders of States, the heroes of the war, or the fathers of the Constitution. It was the revolutionary era. The election of General Jackson brought into operation ncw principles of action and new elements of power. lhe West, then lim ited, with the exception of Louisiana and Missouri, to the States east of the Mississippi, 1st asserted its power and assumed to s ape the policy of the country in contradistinction to that of the Atlantic States, North and South. Its mission was the development of the conti nent and the maintenance and peretuity of the Union of States. Secession an nullification were the enemies it 1st encountered. The intellect of Webster dissipated the metaphys ical sophistries of secession, and the mailed arm of Jackson struck down at one terrible blow the hydra, nullification. Although presented under ordinary forms of legislation, it is now too apparent that the leading object of a portion of the people during the latter part of this period was the extension and perpetuation of slavery, or, failing in that, the destruction of the Government. This struggle cul minated in the measures of settlement in 1850. It was in the succeedin year, at the very opening of the new age, that the Senator we honor entered the Senate. The old parlia mentary leaders were passing away. A few of the veterans still battled for a year or two, and then all were gone. New men had risen! Old principles were to be afiirined with new zeal. The great States of NewYork and Ohio had broken the lines of ancient parties by unexpected and thorough revolations in public sentiment, and sent to the Senate the present SecyState and the ChicfJnstice of the Supreme Court. Massachusetts suffered a still more surprising revolution in political opinion, and was represented in the Senate by the senior member ofher present deleation. ther States exhibited equally radical changes. The South, though suffering no revolution in opinion, had gained in unity of purpose and intensity of spirit what it had lost in authority or talent by the change of leaders. It was too soon apparent that the bleeding wounds of the country, though assuaged, were not healed. Power had not won the prize for which it struggled, and concession had not secured the peace 11coveted. Contests occurred in different parts of the country upon the execution of the meas tires of settlement. The compromise of 1820 was abrogated. Lurid flames of domestic violence and civilWar appeared in the distantterritory of Kansas. The presidential contest of 1856 1st disclosed the organization of sectional parties. Statesthreatene secession. the da of the country was fired upon by domestic enemies. Open rebellion ensue; and the most desolating and terrible war of all history was followed by the surrender of the enemy, the cessation of hostilities, the dissolution of armies, and apparent peace. neither the place nor occasion offers fitting opportunity or the discus.sion of these great events. The new Senfrom Vermont was called upon to grapple with the 1st and each rapidly succeeding fact in the history of the unparal leled treason. Resistance to the purpose of the enemy and the organization of measures and forces for the preservation of the country opened to him a theater that might have sat isfied the" highest ambition and the noblest atriotism. ever greater constancy, never iigher wisdom, was emanded of man. In all this history the deceased Senator, unshrinking. unselfish, and equal to the occasion, bore well his part. It is enough for us to say, taming down here the leaf of history upon his career. that none of his august associates, either of the earlier or later part of this great period, were more worthy of the high office he bore. It is not now in this presence undue praise to say that in the review of 16 years of memorable senatorial service, amid complications and perils unprecedented in our annals, he has left nothing in word or deed that we can wish to blot from his dying record. He satisfied the country he served. He strengthened the cause be honored with his support. His labors were attended with constant y increasing success and his life, rounded to its full period, close with the respect of adversaries, the confidence of constituents, the affection of friends, and the adImtiration of the world. would he unjust to claim for him in any especial degree those brilliant qualities of mind or manner which in the judgmentof some persons, cunstitute the grace and charm of parlia mentary life. It was his apparent choice, the approval rather than the applause of listening Senates to command. All nations have regarded with pride the master pieces of rhetoric and passion as well as of massive reason and diction which the world calls eloquence. Our countrymen, perhaps, carry this reverence to excess. It is not by any means the highest attainment of states men, and often is found unaccompanied by any gtialit of mind or heart which qualifies men or a airs of government. Speech making is scarcely nhigh art. It is, rather, what Dr. John son calls it, a knack. It is not comparable in real importance with the power of conversation or of dehate in its true sense, still less with capa city for administration. Exuberance, and even extravagance of speech, however, are the counterpart and accompaniment of liberty. A vice in individuals it may be, but it is the image of virtue in an age. Yet it is not in itself power, nor the accompaniment of power. Power exists in integrity and truth. Rhetoric sustains as well the apparent as the real cause. Great rulers have been almost invariably silent, thoughtful men. If it were well to gild refined gold or paint the lily we might add to the majesty of great actions the affluence and ornament of exuberant and eloquent diction. But the Senator we mourn never failed in strong logic, convincing illustration, or intense reason, when itwas requiredto satisfy the Senate of the justice of his convictions or the wisdom of his principles. Speech in him rather served to sustain than command the judgment. He hadother avenues to the human eartthun those of imagination or persuasion. He silenced adversaries and sustained friends by more effective though less brilliant appeals. Hi; depended for success upon more enduring and nobler qualities. Firmness of purpose, ullness of experience and information, integrity of principle, constancy to duty, purity of characterz serenity of mind correct judgment, unflinching cour age, and unceasing and honest labor, were the weapons with which he won his conquests or turned or struck a blow. In him spoke an earnest, intelligent mind, and the illustrious Commonwealth he represented. Individual capacity and representative integrity gave him authority and won for him the unfading honors which will forever rest upon his name. We recur with unallo ed pleasure upon this sad occasion to the principles which adorned the life of the departed statesman. Love of man and love of country illnstrnted every act of his public career. this scarcely possible that it should have been otherwise in private life. “ For when was public virtue to be found where private was not?” No trace of selfish aspiration, of unmanly detraction, or sordid jealousy tarnished his official course. I do not know in this hurried estimate of character what in him was wanting that is necessary to the formation of a ure, patriotic, Christian character. His life is proof that success in public service is not inconsistent with strict integrity, and that advancement does not always wait on dissimulation and corruption. The manly simplicity which distinguished him ought not in this age of ostentations and effeminate luxury to pass unnoticed. It was neither complaisance noi austerity. His manner was unchanged, whether in the Executive Chamber, the Senate, the committee room, or the social circle. He would have been the same to peer and peasant. The ripe age to which he lived, his unimpaired energies, his genial and generous temperament, his elastic step, and the jocund health so constant! beaming in his open manly countenance, alattest the purity of his habitsof mind and body. They were those of the people he represented. He could cheerfully have shared with them in their mountain home“A Roman meal, DSueclihciaosutsh, emistressof the world found when her patriots of high note, Perhaps by moonlight. at their humbledoors, And under an old onksdomesticshade, Enjoyed, sparefeast!a radish and an ml" It would be the unanimous judgment of men that such capacity and experience ought to be spared for the direction of the generations that succeed each other. Butthe law of Providence is otherwise. One existence cannot span 2 lives. It is a consolation to know that the Senator we mourn lived the time allotted to man, and that he died full of years and of honors. His career is perhaps not yet ended. He who spoke the universe into existence, who said, “ Let there be light and there was light, " who created man in is own image, and gave him dominion over the earth, may have called him to another 5 here for higher duties. We may have yet the benefit of his love if not of his care. It is but a step from one life to another, which all alike must follow, from the least unto the greatest, until we are one with God! Happy it will be for us if in sharing the common lot we close a career as long, as useful, as honorable, as pure as his whose loss we mourn. The great struggle which opened and closed with his career was finished. He had assisted in removing from the escutcheon of his country the foul stain that tarnished its luster. He had fought the fight and kept the faith. His name was honored among men. He had received the highest honors of his State, and of the Senate to which he belonged. He had completed his work. Surrounded by family and friends, be reviewed his life and settled his accounts with man. He took his last.fare well of those nearest and dearest to him. He made peace with God. He was conscious his end had come. He caught even from this side glim sea of the blissful mansions above. He aske not delay. What restrains the flight of that immortal spirit? He has one thought, one last thought more. It is for his country. He is lifted from the couch of death that his eyes may again rest upon its Capitol. The massive columns, the extended wings, the sculptured emblems of its progress and power, the rising roof, the majestic dome, the goddess of Liberty surmounting all, and aiming the way he was to follow, have him the last taste of earth! pleasure! this the alace of the people, the symbol of Union, the temple of liberty! and with this vision photographed upon his immortal spirit he passed from earth to God! May his translation he to us instrue 1tion and example!