Mr. MAYNARD. Mr. Speaker, I venture to seek the floor in order to add a few words attestating my appreciation of the deceased. My acquaintance with him was comparatively recent. I met him for the 1st time at the 1st regular session of the 37th Congress. The circumstanees that brought us together were such that our intercourse soon became intimate. It was in the early part of the war. His district was within the theater of active hostilities. Many of my own constituents had taken refuge in Kentucky, and were engaged in the service of the country on that field. He had a soldier son, under whose command were many men of Tennessee as well as of his own State. I also had a son who served in the same field with him. The incidents which interested him also interested me. The subjects brought before Congress for action were interesting alike to us both, for our constituents were affected very much alike by the measures here adopted. I learned to appreciate his native good sense, his mental endowments, and his judgment of public questions. He seemed to me to belong to a class of men from which the people of that district so long as I have known them have selected their Representatives in this House a class of men especially distinguished for their general excelence of character sober, discreet, consider ate, decided. As a member of this body he seldom spoke, rarely obtruding himself upon the attention of the House. I saw him, however, upon more occasions I think than one, one certainly, when he exhibited powers of oratory which satisfied me that in his younger and more enthusiastic days he had not neglected that magnificent art in which Kentucky, if not excel ling all other States, certainly has not been inferior to any. I have not forgotten, I suppose none of us have forgotten, the few words pronounced by him at the last session on the death of Senator Collamer, and the touching allusion he made to the fact that years before in their service in this House they had attended the worship of God together in the congressional prayer meetings; words that to a Chris tian heart give full assurance of all that has just been so well said by his colleague of his piety and religious faith. .in his manners, unobtrusive, patient, benignant, kind, gentle, he has left a record during his service here showing that in times which tried so many of our citizens he never swerved in his patriotism or in his devotion to his country. However we might differ in regard to particular public measures, however much we might regret the consequences of some particular policy which others of us deemed wise as well as necessary and just, no man would question for a single moment he felt an abiding interest in the prosperity and perpetuity of this Government. Though in the afternoon of life, he was not stricken in years. Few could have anticipated his demise. When we parted last summer none of us, I am sure, deemed him so near the edge of the silent river, nor thought that so soon he would join the beckoning hosts who had already crossed and awaited his coming upon the other shore. In such an hour as we think not the summons comes. This much I desired to say. More I would be glad to have said, but more I do not feel at liberty to say on the Present occasion. In his last days he often spoke of death, Mr. RICE, of Maine. Mr. Speaker, I was unaware until a moment ago these resolutions were to be brought before the House, but I cannot forbear offering a passing tribute to the memory of one of the purest and best men it was ever my good fortune to know. His uniform courtesy, his gentlemanly deportment, his genial manner, and his warm exPressions of sympathy for all persons and classes in want and trouble come back upon my memory with vivid distinctness and impel me to add a few words to what has been so well said by others on this occasion. I do this, sir, not in any studied or formal manner, but simply and alone from the sonse of duty which I feel to speak kindly and sadly of the clear intellect, the warm heart, and the open hand now cold and forever closed in the embrace of death. Let us all who knew him in life imitate his purity and his goodness, so that like him we may at any moment be prepared for the great change which must so soon come to us all with the assurance that we shall enter into a better life. When I commenced my service in the 30 7th Congress I was upon a committee with him, and there I came to know him well; I might say intimately. I conversed with him freely on all the great subjects that were then agitated and dividing the country. No man ever felt more keenly than he the distraction and trouble that were upon the country or labored with a purer purpose to avert them. In the 38 h Congress, and again in this, it was my privilege to be associated with him on a committee, and there our intimacy and friendship were continued and confirmed. And during all that time I never heard him utter an unkind word of any man. He was a man of the utmost purity of character. He was a Christian gentleman and an honest man. Although I differed with him politically still I desire to say, and I say it with the full consciousness of what I utter, that no man ever occupied a seat in this House who had a more true or loyal heart than HENRY GRIDER. His whole soul, all his sympathies were enlisted for the good of his country. His prayer, I have no doubt, night and morning, was for the deliverance of his country from the trouble that weighed down upon her, and that the Union which he loved so well might be preserved. Coming as I do from a State far distant from the one which he so well in part rePresented, it is with great pleasure that I recall the acquaintance I formed with him thus early and the continued friendship that so strongly knit us together. I think fe was the 1st Gentfrom the State of Kentucky whose acquaintance I had then formed, and entertaining some of the prejudices which have so unfortunately divided the people of sections remote from each other I was most happy to have them dissipated by the genial s and the gentle, Christian character of our deceased asso ciate. I never knew him or met him save in these Halls and in this city, but from what I learned of his character here I know full well that what has been said of him by his colleagues today in the walks of private life and in the retirement of home must all be true. He could not be otherwise than a kind husband, father, and friend. I can give them my sympathy in their great bereavement even without personal acquaintance. In the examination of all questions pending in committee or before the House he calmly and dispassionately considered and weighed all the facts and arguments pertinent to the issue, and analyzed them with remarkable clearness and precision. In argument he was always considerate and courteous, but firm and decided. He always stated his opinions and conclusions with clearness, elegance, and force, and always submit;ted to defeat with gentlemanly resignation and dignity is a sad duty and privilege here today to add these few words, inadequate as they are as my last tribute to the memory of a decease friend.