Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, my late colleague of the HoRep, HENRY GRIDER, died in the recess of Congress, and in concurrence with the action of the body of which he was a member, and in conformity to the usage of the Senate, I rise to move an appropriate recognition of the solemn and admonitory fact that death has struck with his shaft another member of the National legislature. The father of Colonel GRIDER was a revolutionary soldier, and in an early day of the settlement of Kentucky removed from NCarolina, his native State, and settled in Garrard county, where his son was born July 16, 1796; and from thence the family removed in 1801 to the neighborhood of Bowling Green, War ren county. He was there taught the rudiments of the common branches of education that were then the whole course of eour frontier settlements; but even this was suspended when he was but 17 years of age by his exchanging the log cabin school house for the armed but tentless field in the war of 1812. His father and an older brother, John, were in the same service, and they all shared in the dangers and glory of the battle of the Thames. Thus in his boyhood the fires of his patriotism were lighted from the altar of 1776, and a soldier father from those sacred fields again followed its glorious light, as it led his 2 youth: ful sons to strike for their country in her 2nd war of Independence. At the end of his term of service he resumed his school studies, and prosecuted them with such assiduity and success that before he had reached man's estate his neighbors required him to become a teacher, in which vocation he continued for several years. His leisure hours he diligently em: ployed in the study of the Latin language and the lower branches of mathematics, in which by his own efforts he attained to a respectable proficiency. He relaxed not after those acquisitions, but while yet teaching read very carefully some of the elementary books of the law, and in 1821 obtained his license to practice from the office and under the instruction of Frank Johnson, one of the eminent lawyers of Kentucky. Crit: tenden, Sharp, Breathel, and Underwood had been for several years practitioners at the Warren bar, and even then their ability and fame had begun to assume the grand proportions to which they afterward grew; and the late brilliant Senator Moorhead and the clear and accurate Judge Graham commenced their professional career with him. Those were the men whom he encountered in the same lists in honorable competition for business, eminence, and fame. Colonel GRIDER was not a greatman, nor did he ever claim to rival those forensic champions of the Green river region of Kentucky. But he strove diligently and manfully to mate himself to their might; and by this hard discipline he slowly but steadily evolved a growing strength, continued to approximate their stat ure, and in their contests sturdy blows were reciprocally dealt his with the added force of the highest character for honesty and sincerity. In Kentucky every lawyer of any ability is also a politician, and Colonel GRIDER was drawn into that vortex. He was 1st elected a member of her Legislature, to the House, in 1827, and was annually reelected for a period of several years, when he declined to stand further for the place. In 1833 he was elected to the Senate of the General Assembly of Kentucky for a full term of 4 years. I was then 1st chosen a member of the House, and at the ensuing session made his acquaintance and gained his friendship and confidence; woch it was my happiness steadily to hold throughout the residue of his life. At the end of his term he again voluntarily retired from office and diligently resumed the practice of his profession. In 1843 he was elected to the House of Congress, and was reelected in 1845 and for both terms it was my fortune to be his colleague. He then voluntarily sought the 3rd time the quiet of private life, the society of professional companions, and the moderate emoluments of the practice of the law in rural districts; and this mode of life, so congenial to his tastes, he continued until the breaking out of the great insurrection. He thenoand decidedly pronounced for “the Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the laws, ” gave his whole influence and effort to uphold the proper and constitutional authority of the government, and urged and aided a gallant son to raise one of the noblest regiments that served in the Union Army. In 1861 his countrymen once more summoned him to the civil service by electing him for the 3rd term to the House of Congress; and they reelected him in 1863, and again in 1865. He served through file most of the last session, but near its close, admonished by the grasp of mortal disease, he quitted this city iithe discharge of his public duties forever, and hurried home to die. He was even then apparently possessed of an uncommon amount of physical strength for one of his age, and his colleagues were deluded into and exPressed confidently to him their belief that he would soon be well; but he spoke his dissent in a few solemn words that showed his unerring conviction that his time had come. He reached his home; his disease continued to march quietly but steadily upon him until the 7th of September, when with undisturbed reason and a serene spirit, surrounded by his friends, he sunk beneath its force to his eternal rest. He was a ripe sheaf, and was fully ready for the Great Harvester. Religious sentiment was the most prominent feature in the character of Colonel GRIDER. In his early youth he became a professing Chris tian and attached himself to the Methodist Episcopal church, in which connection he continued until his death. In his religious life he combined the simplicity, truth, purity, and steadiness of the primitive Christians with the spirit of charity, forgiveness, and peace which its sinless author preached, and which could emanate only from Divinity. For more than 50 years his walk of life was serenely lit up by the brightness of his faith and works, mellowed by true Christian humility. He possessed great physical strength and dauntless courage, and a warm and impetuous spirit; and though his strong sense of justice ever restrained him from being an aggressor, every assailant of his rights found him prompt and effective in their defense. But desistance never failed to appease him, and any manifestation of regret or purpose to make atonement always won his prompt and full forgiveness; and when convinced of having done wrong to anyone he never rested until he had made the amplest reparation. Envy, malice, cruelty, or revenge found no resting place with him. The genius, endowments, honor, fame, and fortune of others were appropriated by his unselfish and noble heart as the sources of his own personal happiness; and he rejoiced in their existence everywhere as the common riches of his countrymen and of mankind. In all the relations of life he was without" reproach. His system of ethics taught him that the essential nature of public and private villainy, of public and private virtue, were the same; and he equally reverenced and supported the one and abhorred and contested the other. In polities he was too pure, too enlightened and patriotic to be a partisan; in religion too charitable and humble, too deeply imbued with the spirit of his Divine Master to be a bigot. Even rivalry and enmity always pronounced upon him the most concise, most comprehen sive, and the noblest of all eulogies, “HENRY GRIDER is an honest man and a Christian.” To his congressional associates he gave from day to day an unobtrusive but noble pattern of virtue and patriotism. His death filled with Generalsorrow the community in which he ived, and his name will live there among the most cherished. Mr. President, I move that the Senate adopt the following resolutions: seRness iboillviteyd. That the Sceenmateenhtaosf rtehceediveeadthwoitfh IdIoene.p ENRY GRIDER, late a ePresentatives, member of the House of from the State of Kentucky. Resolved, That the members of the Senate, as a mark of respectfor the memoryof the deceased, will o into mourning by wearing crape on the left arm or the residueof the session. Resolved, That, as a further mark of respect for the memory of the deceased, the Senate do adjourn. now The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and the Senate adjourned.