Mr. HARRIS. Mr. President, it is not for Vermontto mourn alone; NewYork claims the privilege of standing by her side in this hour of her affliction, of bendin with her in gief over the grave of her illustrious Senator. e was the son of Vermont by adoption, of NewYork by birth. The elevated position he so long occupied, the extensive influence he so long wielded, the honor awarded to him by all, may justly excite the pride of both his native and his adopted Stata. A man of sin lgulilir worth and rare virtue has been lost to 0t 1. As Senators, we may well unite in paying our tribute of respect to the memory of one so justly honored, and pause in our deliberations to bestow our homage upon one so justly beloved. The Senate has, indeed, lost one of its ablest statesmen, one of its purest patriots. In honoring such a man, we honor ourselves. When we met in this Chamber afew days ago, I am sure the thought was present to every mind that one of our number was not here; that one seat had been made vacant; that the oldest, the most experienced, and perhaps the wisest of our body, was gone. It is bar for us to believe that the venerable form so familiar to us here will no longer stand in our midst; that he who so latel was the object of our reverence has already eea carried away into sepulchral darkness; that we shall never again listen to words of wisdom and patriotism from his lips. Those who knew him best will miss him most. In the Senate, where his conn sels had been so prominent, his death will be felt as no common bereavement. We do well to mourn his loss. How frequently, Mr. President, we have been called to honor the Senates dead, to pay the homage which friendship is ever prompt to offer to those who have been our associates in the nations council l This is the 8th occasion, since I became a member of this bod, when the Senate has paused to render its pali lic tribute to the memo of its dead. The eloquence of Douglas anldI Baker is no longer heard in these Halls. Bingham and Pearce and Thomson and Bowden and Hicks no longer appear in their wonted places. Thus, one after another, familiar faces disappear, and the great and the good pass from among us. But of them all, not one will be more missed from the Senate than he to whose memory we now pay the last tribute of affection and respect. It is not my purposeto S)8. k in detail of the life or the character or tie public services of our lamented friend. To do so would be to repeat what has been so well and so beautifully said by the Senator who has preceded me, in the eloquent eulogy to which we have just listened. He has traced the course of Judge COLLAMER from the earliest beginning of his career to his latest hour; showing how by his energy, his intellectual power, and his moral worth, he reached the high position he so long occupied. I did not know him, as did the Senfrom Vermont, when in the prime and freshness of his life. When we 1st met the hand of time had touched him. But even then I saw enough to realize what he might have been when in the full maturity and vigor of his manhood. He had passed the allotted period of human life; yet even his latest years were devoted, with equal fidelity and success, to the service of his country; and to the last he continued to exhibit the fruits of a mind well disciplined by early habits of industry, and well furnished with the rich stores of a long experience. In him were happily cembined those elements which constitute a sound and judicious statesman. A man of great personal dignity he was justly esteemed for the excellence of his judgment and the purity of his character is most grominent characteristies were, I think, sound iscrction, clear discernment, good common sense, and great honesty of purpose. Nopurer patriot ever participated in the councils of the nation. He did not often occupy the attention of the Senate in debate, but when he did rise to speak he was sure to ieCeive the most respectful and earnest attention. such was the directness and force of his argument, so affluent were his resources, both of wisdom and exerience. so minute was his knowledge of public affairs, that all present, Senators and spectators, became eager and instructed listeners. He had looked upon life with an observing eye. No man was more thoroughly conversant with the great interests of the country. His memory seemed almost oxhaustless, and from its treasures he was ever readyto drawinstruction for the benefit of others. Itwas, however, in his rivate and friendly intercourse that I learnedI most to admire him. I count it among the felicities of my life that I was permitted to know him, and in some degree to enjoy his friendship. But he has been taken from us in the midst of his usefulnesa His sunwentdown inbrit ness. Notwilight obscured its setting. when his appointed time had come, disease, “not tardy to perform its destined office ” dismissed him from earth, and he has gone to his heavenly rest.” Judge COLLAMER was happy in the circumstances of his death. Of him it may be said, as it was ofJohn Quincy Adams, that “no excesses of a profli the outh, no vices of middle life, had shattere an hurried to a premature dissolution the bod in which his incorruptible spirit resided.” othing in his habits of life interfered with nature, to whose gentle influrences it was left to destroy gradually, and to restore in a good old age to its parent dust, the perishable art of our friend. The law of mortality, which knows no exception among the passing generations of our race, was executed, in his case, with as much tenderness and reserve, so to speak, as is ever permitted by Providence. He was not left to be an object of compassion to his friends and admirers. No painful contrasts forced them to revert in memory to better days. But, with a mind unimpaired with an interest in life unabated, with a command which protracted sickness had not destroyed, he passed to his rest. Thus we pay our last tribute to the memory of one whose life has been long, and useful, and illustrious. In private life he was without reroach. As a lawyer, he was an ornament to is noble profession. As ajudge, he was learned and upright. As a Senator, he occupied the front rank among the statesmen of our count. There may have been those whose career lhas been more brilliant and dazzling, but. there have been few whose labors have been more useful, or who have secured for themselves a reputation more enviable or enduring. We all respected and admired him while living, and now, that he is dead, we render our sincere horn e to his memory. Never again will he grace t is Chamber with his presence; never again shall we hear his voice. He has passed through the vicissitudes of a long and eventful life. e has met and manfully fulfilled the duties allotted to him upon earth. Death came to him in the ripeness of his years and his fame. Nostain rests upon his honored name. His life was full of moral beauty, and with mingled feelin of reverence and love we commemorate his Virtue and lament his loss.