Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, I rise briefly to articipate in payin honor to the memory of pour dleparted frientfand associate. such tributes to virtues public and private, as he possessed, cannot fail to benefit the living as well as honor the dead. They show those who are commencing life how it is, and what it is, to earn a name that will live after death, and be to family and friends a priceless heritage. They show th value of honest fame, a fame which survives death and becomes brighter as time rolls on. They show how immeasur ably superior in the estimation of the good is such fame to that sickly and evanese ent one which is occasionally achieved by artful and dishonorable contrivances. The life, too, of a Christian man as Summon Foor was, if no other evidence existed of the truth of the Christian dispensation, would be sufficient to demonstrate it. Its influenceu on him in this world, its comfort, its joy to imin death, is sufficient to establish its divine origin. He who with evident sincerity and while his mind was as perfect as ever, nearly at the moment of dissolution, could say that he felt “ borne up as on angels wings " and in the very moment receding it, with hands and eyes uplifted could exclaim, “I see ltl Isee it! The gates are wide open! Beautiful! Beau tiful!” and then die, is a witness to our faith that the sophistries of skepticism can never counteract. The memory of such a man should not be lost. It is not enough that it may survive in the recollection of his family and friends; it should live in the records of the body to which he was so long attached and which he so faith fully served and honored. The Senate of the U.S. should perpetuate the evidence that Souonos Foor was for years one of its most honored members, respected, admired, loved by every associate for his faithfulness, his patriotism, his endearing social qualities, and revered for his Christian death his will be done by the proceedings of this day. Mr. Foors public career is now so well known that it would be idle in me to attempt its detail. This has been done by his colleague. Seldom engaging in debate, we yet knew, in advance, the result to which his sound judgment, ever unswuyed by passion or prejudice, would lead him. Though in a large and comprehensive sense a party man, his principles were adopted because they, in his estimation, led to general and not partial good. No sectional feeling ever conse iously influenced him. His mind and his heart embraced his whole country, and he loved even his native Vermont, to which he was so strongly attached, the more because it was 2. art of that great whole. His reading, his famifiarity with the history of his country, his experience had convinced him that national prosperity and renown, as well as the happiness of the several States, could only be attained through the Union established by our fathers, and he could never, therefore, tolerate those who threatened its dissolution or foolishly attempted, with a view to depreciate it, to calculate its value. In heart and in mind a Unionist, he entered zealously into all.the measures calculated to terminate our recent civil strife; and although in some respects, I believe, not a very sanguine man, he never doubted a successful result. It was encour aging to hear him speak on the subject. He had studied our institutions, had become exten sively acquainted with our people, and knew how deep was their attachment to the General Government; and with this knowledge he was satisfied that the 1st were adequate to meet the eme ncy if their powers were exerted, and that the latter would peril all to have them exerted. He lived, thank God, to see his prediction verified. When he left us he knew that the strife was over, the Union everywhere rein stated in all its rightful authority, and nothing remained to be done but by properefforts to calm the agitation inseparable from such a contest and win us all back into our ancient brotherhood. Mr. President, although we shall no more see our late brother in this Chamber, which of us will ever forget his manly presence, his Uniform dignity, his ever constant watchfulness over the proper decorum of the body, his unbending rmness, his uniform courtesy as its frequent Presiding Officer? and, above all, which of us who listened to the touching story of his last days on earth, as recently told us by the reverend clergyman who was his pastor in this city, but will have cause to rejoice if he can live and die as lived and died SOLoMos 4 dying, to use his own truthful words in his eulogy on his former colleague, Jacob Collamer, so affectingly delivered in this Chamber on the 14th of December last, and so strikingly applicable to himself, “in the full exercise of his intellectual faculties, with an abidin and unshaken faith in the Christian religion, and in the cherished hope of a blissful immortality?”