MEMORIAL ADDRESSES ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF ANDREW JOHNSON, (A SENATOR FROM TENNESSEE, ) DELIVERED IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JANUARY 12, 1876. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF CONGRESS. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. 1876. ADDRESSES. ADDRESS OF MR. COOPER, OF TENNESSEE. Mr. President, upon me devolves the sad duty of formally announcing to the Senate the death of Hon. ANDREW JOHNSON, late a Senator from the State of Tennessee. On the 31st day of July, 1875, near his mountain home in East Tennessee, surrounded by family and friends, he passed from earth to meet his reward. The event was a shock to the people of the State who had so recently honored him by an election through their representatives to a seat in this body; it was a shock to the nation, whose highest offices he had filled. The conflicts of party in which he freely mingled are too recent not to have left deep scars; but throughout our mighty Republic everywhere there were those who delighted to do him honor. The greater part of his life was passed in the public service; much of that time in the councils of the nation; and having almost reached his three-score years and ten, the scriptural limit of human life, he has passed the portals of the tomb, been claimed by the insatiate archer, his spirit summoned to God who gave it, and his body consigned to the place appointed for the dead. |