Mr. POMEROY. Mr. President, I bring to the offerings of this occasion a grateful memory of the services rendered astruggling people in a distant Territory by the late Senator FOOT, of Vermont. Generous efforts made at a crisis in ones history can never be forgotten; and when such offerings are unsought and unrewsrded they deserve honorablemention. I remember to have looked in upon the senate of the U.S. when the affairs of the Territory of which I was a resident engaged the attention of Congress and the countr. The period to which I refer was the 9th day of August, 1856. A few only of the distinguished members of the present session were. then in this body. It was in the old Senate Chamber, and the leaders in the debate on that day are now and have been for some years nwa from us. On the day previous the present residing Officer of this body had made for Kansas a most earnest, faithful, and eloquent speech and I shall never forget the our which the late Senfrom Vermont devoted to 1pleading the cause of our struggling people. am sorry that speech has not been reserved. The congressional Globe of that ate says, “ The speech will appear in the Appendix. I have searched the Appendix in vain, and I think it is not there. he only record of that memorable speech that I can find is contained in the National Intelligencer of the 11th of August, 1856, as follows: [EDITORIAL] “Mr. Foor roseto address the Senate, for the 1st time. we believe. upon the Kansas troubles. which. sifted and discussed as that subject has been for months and exhausted. were it possible derived fresh interest from the ability. eloquence and impressiveness with which it was treated by the honor uble Senfrom Vermont. “This lumine us effort we hope to lay before our readers at a nearly day." Incelliaence r. umutll. This is most invaluable testimony, as it comes from a source which did not then or now sympathize with the cause which was so ably ving dicated. I remember well the eloquent and stirrin appeal he made in our beha f. He demande for us the rights of free men under the Constitution, of free homesteads, free ballots, and a free State. Noble words! and “fitly spoken.” They made an impression upon my own mind as indelible as the teachin of my boyhood, and I shall forget them on y when I cease to remember any of the events of this life; and g, not to recognize services rendered at such a crisis would beingratitude which could not be pardoned; and far awe beyond the valleys of the Mississippi and the lissouri, there are quiet cabin homes where the name of SOLOMON 1 on is a household word. In the name of that people who cherish the memories of their benc actors with undying gratitude, I bring today this humble tribute of grateful acknowledgments. While others lay cos the r and more imposing offerings upon his burial place, I will content myself by p anting but a single shrub. It shall be an evergreen tor it is the unfadin tribute of gratitude. “ e opened his moutlgi for the dumb, ” and did not shut his ear to the cry of the poor; “ and the cause that he knew not, he searched out.” such cfforts, nobly rendered, shall not be forgotten, for the people whom he vindicated were not his people. they were separated from him by the breadth of half the continent. But the cause which he plead was the cause of freedom, the cause of his countrymen; ay, the cause of mankind. For when one member suffers all suffer; when one is degraded all are dishonored. “ Whatever link you strike" in the great chain which binds the human family to each other and to God, "10th. or10,000th, You break the chain alike." Mr. President, the departed Senator is not dead. No man who has nobly lived can ever wholly die. The deeds of good men live after them. Their memory is undying, and their influence is reflected by those who live after them and it lives on in endless circles, widening and deepening forever and forever more. Good men are reproduced in each generation, and theirlives are as immortal as truth, virtue, and God. Sir, amidst the green hills and budding for ests of the early spring time the Senator sleeps, beloved and honored, and embalmed ever in the affections of his devoted home circle of friends. But, sir, far away, across the wide continent even, there are those who will hold him in perpetual and grateful remembrance; and year by year, as the seasons come and go, will a generous people, with offerings of grati tude, consecrate their little children by giving them at the altar of their ha tism the honored name of the Senator who ving icated their rights and secured them their liberties. But. from this burial scene we must tear our selves away, for life has its duties as well as death its lessons. We should not yield to sor r“ow, for life, and death, even, have their hopes. For ifa man die, he shall live again.” “ hen the heavens are no more he shall awake and be raised out of his sleep.” “Life is struggle.combat.victory; Wherefore have I slumberedon With our forcesall unmarshaled, With my weaponsall undrawn? " Oh what a glorious record Had the angelsof mokept. Iffd done lust d of doubted. Had I warr nstoadof wept. "Build thy great actshigh and higher. Build themon the conqueredsod Whore thy weakness1st fell bleedin. Where thy 1st prayer roseto God.