Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. President, Irise to announce the death of Senator WRIGHT, of NewJersey, and to move appropriate action relative thereto by the Senate. It is, sir, to me a melancholy reflection that the seat to which I am appointed was made vacant by death, and that now the duty devolves on me of announcing the sad event. Nature certifies to us of God! Through the familiar events of the daily life of its divine Author the sublime truths of Christianity are conveyed. But it is by the providences of our lives, and especially. the bolt of mortality falls upon an associate, that our attention to the great truths of our being is attracted. We need, then, no apology for pausing that we may recognize the event and each for himself apply the lesson of death, for death is the most august of visitants to his victim and the greatest of moralists to the living. Since the recent session and on the 1st of November last, Senator WRIGHT, of NewJersey, died at his residence in Newark. For months, with much suffering, he faced the stern messenger, made minute preparation for his departure, and then in a strength not his own he calmly entered immortality, That is the event I have risen to announce. It is an event that has occurred to millions on millions, to the child, to the mother “when she felt for the 1st time her 1st born's breath, ” to the warrior and the patriot column on the field of carnage; and yet since that immortality, indicated by the conjectures of the ancients and almost proven by the toil some aspirations of man in all ages for a fame that survives the grave, has been clearly revealed, no one can consider the event other than momentous and suggestive. It is proper that I state the fact, and it is becoming that I leave its lessons to those who hear me. The originalancestor from whom Mr. WRIGHT was the 6th in descent settled in Virginia. Dr. William Wright resided in Rockland county, NewYork, where in 1790 his son, the subject of these remarks, was born. The father died while the son was a o: boy for college. Thus diverted from is studies, he gave his attention for several ears to mercantile occupations, and in 1823, in the morning of his manhood, he moved to Newark and engaged extensively in manufac turing pursuits. o His district, the State of NewJersey, now more extensively engaged in manufacturing than any in the Union, as its revenue returns show, in 1842 made Mr. WRIGHT its Representative in Congress. He was reelected in 1844. In 1853 he was elected Senator and served his full term. He was reelected to the Senate in 1863, and having served about half his term the inexorable mandate terminated his career. His training and habit had been such that when his constituents repeatedly reelected him they did not anticipate that he would take a prominent part in debate on E. the questions be: the country. But there are those here who could bear witness that he, with sound judgment, intelligence, and fidelity, discharged the very many other duties of Senator and Representative. And I can bear witness that he was true to that class of political sentiments which he avowed; and in a Government which is representative and where the will of the people is sovereign, it is a commendation that one is true to the sentiment of the party that elected him. When prostrated by disease, when death held him by the hand, when the fires of ambition had burned out, he was carried to the Capitol that he might give his views in accordance with the views of those who elected him. And he manifested his devotion to the country by consenting that his only son should join its defenders when a few dollars from his ample fortune could have procured a substitute. His urbanity and gentlemanly bearing and sentiment were marked features of the man, and known to all who ever had intercourse with him. For many years I lived his immediate neighbor and, although differing with him politically, such was histolerant and generous estimate of the opinions of others that not one word ever disturbed the flow of kind and friendly feeling between us. Socially he was hospitable and took true enjoyment in the offices and deli cacies of friendship. His church commends his charity, while others know it was not confined to any sect or class. As a man of business he was diligent, intelligent, and enterprising and obstructions and difficulties gave way to his energy, He started life with that that early orphanage entailed and was the architect of his own fortune. He did much to promote thein termal improvement of the State and to advance the manufacturing interests of the country. His marked success in life illustrates the genius of our free institutions. But, sir, Mr. WRIGHT, notwithstanding his energy and enterprise, his wealth and civic honors, is gone. The physical mechanism by and with which he lived here has fallen into decay, but the immaterial, as independent of that mechanism as are the motive powers of the earth of the machinery they move, still lives but not here. And so the representatives of this people who are molding and shaping the destinies of a nation destined to be greater than ever known to history must, when the irrevers ible sentence goes forth, leave their tenements, taking with them as they go the record here made and leaving to the world the momentous results of their labor. Sir, NewJersey within the last few years has suffered much from the have c of death. speak not, of course, of the noble youths whose patriot graves, in common with those from other States, furrow the land. I refer not to Taylor and Bayard and the intrepid Kearney, who shot through the war like a blazing star through a midnight sky, or to a host of others whose persons rise before me and whose names tremble on my lips, but of men known and valued in the civic walks of the nation. Speaker Pennington is gone. Long valued at home, he appeared in the national councils at a critical period. The nation was about F. the fearful ordeal. Then Speaker ennington, more by his cordial integrity than by the rigid enforcement of rules, controlled and calmed the fierce and turbulent spirits of the Representatives of the people. He is gone. Minister Dayton, worn out by anxiety for his country at a foreign coupt, has fallen like a sentry at his post. Robert F. Stockton, who in former years illustrated the prowess of the Navy, once a Senator here, a descendant from one who signed the immortal paper which declares that “all men are created equal, ” has recently been gathered to his fathers. But I forbear; men die but the nation lives. It has been cast into a furnace 7 times heated, out of which it has come, as has been eloquently written, like the young Jews of Babylon, with nothing destroyed except the chains that fettered it. May we not carry the figure further and say that our deliverance was because walking with the nation in the furnace was one having the form of the Son of God. Heaven grant that his simile may here termi nate, and that they who cast the nation in may not, in their rashness, be consumed by the very fire they enkindled. I move the following resolutions: Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sensibility the announcement of the death of Hon. WiLLIAM Wright, while a Senator in Congress from the State of NewJersey. Resolved, That as a testimonial of respect for the memory of the deceased, the members of the Senate ill wear the usual bardgeof mourning for 30 a esolved.That theseproceedingsbecommunicated o amily of the deceased by the Secretary of the oiced, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the Senate do now adjourn.