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I have often heard him speak of her before, in those tender and respectful terms which tell that the love of the heart borders on idolatry.

"But alas! nor wife nor children more shall behold,
Nor friends, nor sacred home."

I have come here to-day, Mr. President, all unfit for the duty, feeble and out of health, to bear a passing, slight, slight tribute to friendship-to give a slight expression of my feelings on this mournful occasion. I come, prompted by those feelings of attachment and respect which I cherished for our deceased friend in life, and by that melancholy regard with which I shall continue to hold him in memory through

life. I could not forbear-I could not do less. I will add the expression of the single hope that she to whom I have alluded-the partner of his bosom-when the lapse of time shall have relieved her overcharged heart of its heavy burden-that she may find a mournful consolation in turning back to the proceedings which marked his last hours; and after those hours were gone, the sombre scenes which filled up his little abiding time above the ground. I trust, sir, that when time, and years, and above all, the soothing voice of religion, shall have abated the mighty burden of her grief, and she shall have become calm in her woe, she will find a relief, a sad relief, in the thought, that though it was denied her hand to smooth his dying pillow, to bathe his fevered brow, and to catch from his pallid lips the last fond sigh, yet kind and devoted friends, his best-loved associates and comrades in this chamber, were there to watch, not with her love-ah, no! that could not be but with the love and sorrow of brothers to watch over the closing scene, and minister to his departing struggles. And I trust, also, that she may find something to break her grief in the thought that at his obsequies strangers of whom she never heard, were eager to pay just tribute to his exalted worth, and embalm with heartfelt homage the memory of

her husband

Mr. CRITTENDEN then arose, much affected, and said: I desire, Mr. President, however needless it may be after what has been said, to offer my tribute in a few words. Mr. C. then paused, and, after an evident struggle with his feelings, he could only say, "I beg pardon, Mr. President," and sat down."

Mr. MANGUM thereupon rose and moved the following:

Resolved, unanimously, That a committee be appointed by the Vice President to take order for superintending the funeral of the Hon. ALEXANDER BARROW, which will take place to-morrow at the hour of twelve M., and that the Senate will attend

the same.

Resolved, unanimously, That the members of the Senate, from a sincere desire of showing every mark of respect due to the memory of the Hon. ALEXANDER BARROW, deceased, late a member thereof, will go into mourning for him one month, by the usual mode of wearing crape on the left

arm.

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Resolved, unanimously, That, as an additional mark of respect for the memory of the Hon. ALEXANDER BARROW, the Senate do now adjourn.

Ordered, That the Secretary communicate these proceedings to the House of Representatives. The Senate then adjourned.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

WEDNESDAY, December 30.

Death of Hon. Alexander Barrow. A message having been received from the Senate announcing the death of the Hon. ALEXANDER BARROW, Senator from the State of Louisiana

the House as follows: Mr. MORSE, of Louisiana, rose and addressed

Mr. Speaker: The melancholy communication which has just been read, and a request from my colleagues in this House, has devolved upon me the painful duty of arresting the ordinary business of your body for the purpose of announcing the solemn intelligence that ALEXANDER BARROW, late one of the Senators from the State of Louisiana, is now no more.

Within the past year Death has reaped a golden harvest, and numbers among his victims some of the brightest ornaments of our Commonwealth

To many of these it has been permitted to give the latest pulsation of their hearts and the last life-drop of their blood in defence of their country-to realize the noblest sentiment that can animate the human heart, "How sweet it is to die for our country." But that death is still more noble when heralded by the shouts of victory, so dearly purchased by their own

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JANUARY, 1847.]

Increase of Army-Lieutenant-General.

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tinued their confidence in him by re-electing | presence of that manly form, nor the marble, him as often as was agreeable to his wishes.

The occasional development of talents which, on ordinary subjects, he seemed unwilling or averse to exhibit, the suavity of his manners in his intercourse with his brother members, and the confidence in the purity of his motives, served still more to increase the admiration of his friends, and extorted homage from his opponents.

In 1840, then not forty years of age, he was elected to a full term in the Senate of the United States, which elevated position he filled in a manner highly honorable to himself and eminently useful to his country.

There was a blunt honesty of purpose and a frank boldness in his manner which, though it might sometimes offend, always commended itself to our respect from the consciousness of its integrity.

nor the canvas, to recall the many kind and delightful associations that will forever be entwined with the name of ALEXAnder BarROW.

Was this dispensation of Providence visited upon us to remind us how frail the tenure of our lives is, the death of our friend forms an impressive lesson.

Among the youngest members of the Senate, blessed with competence, extensive and influential family connections, health, and a constitution not impaired or even approached by disease, there was no member of either House who had a more reasonable expectation in looking forward to a long and brilliant career; and, when the summons shall come to all of us, may the consciousness of a well-spent life enable us to meet it like a Preux Chevalier, sans peur et sans reproche."

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He was taken suddenly ill on Friday evening, The death of ALEXANDER BARROW is the while on a visit to Baltimore. His disease re-fourth that has occurred, within the brief space sisted all the skill and attention which the so- of four years, in the small delegation from licitude of his friends had summoned from Bal- Louisiana; and true it is "death loves a shining timore and Philadelphia, and on Tuesday morn-mark." PORTER, Bossier, Dawson, Barrow! ing about five o'clock, in the full possession of all his faculties, with a perfect consciousness of his approaching end, with a firmness which marked his whole life, surrounded by numerous friends from both Houses of Congress, perished all but the immortal spirit of ALEXANDER BAR

ROW.

Although his disease was so violent in its course that many of his friends scarcely knew of his illness until after its fatal termination, I had the melancholy satisfaction of being with him a few hours before he died. His last moments were occupied with the tenderest and heart-rending allusions to his wife, children, and country.

When these melancholy tidings shall reach his now happy home, who can penetrate, in imagination, that veil of woe that must enshroud his wife and only daughter, but will offer up to the Disposer of all things one prayer that he will "temper the wind to the shorn lamb."

Two sons, the younger of whom was with him, and the other a student of Harvard College, with his wife and daughter in Louisiana, constitute all his immediate family. A recommendation to his friends to watch over their education, and be as a father to them, one bitter pang that he could not for the last time press her to his bosom who had been to him the most devoted wife, were the last of earthly matters that occupied his thoughts. May his children be only worthy of their sire! friends ask no more.

His

When I pressed his cold hand for the last time, he returned that grasp with a strength which even disease seemed scarcely to have weakened, and, in a voice of more than usual firmness, said, "I shall never see Louisiana more." No, brave spirit, you will not again revisit the scenes of so many bright and happy years, but your numerous friends need not the

What four names living can outweigh yours dead? The earth that holds you dead, bears not alive four nobler spirits; and, while the mighty Mississippi rolls her tribute to the sea, your memories will live in the hearts of your countrymen.

In conclusion, I move you the adoption of the following resolutions :

sensibility the announcement of the death of the Resolved, That this House has heard with deep Hon. ALEXANDER BARROW, a Senator in Congress from the State of Louisiana.

Resolved, That as a testimony of respect for the memory of the deceased, the members and officers of this House will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.

Resolved, That the proceedings of this House, in relation to the death of the Honorable ALEXANDER BARROW, be communicated to the family of the deceased by the Clerk.

Resolved, That this House will attend the funeral of the deceased in a body; and, as a further mark of respect for his memory, that it do now adjourn.

And the House accordingly adjourned.

IN SENATE.

MONDAY, January 11.

Increase of Army-Lieutenant-General. BENJAMIN B. FRENCH, Esq., Clerk of the House of Representatives, delivered to the Senate the bill to authorize the raising of additional regiments for a limited period, and for other purposes; and it was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Dix, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported two bills, as follows:

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A bill to provide for an additional military force, and for other purposes; and

A bill to appoint a lieutenant-general to command the military forces of the United States during the war with Mexico.

He moved that these bills be printed, and made the order of the day for to-morrow. The Secretary read the bills a first time. The PRESIDENT then stated the question to be on making these bills the special order for to-morrow.

Several Senators: Oh, no, it is too soon.

Mr. Dix urged the necessity of prompt action upon these bills, and reminded Senators that more than one-third of the session was gone already.

Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON suggested to the Senator from New York the propriety of fixing Thursday, instead of Tuesday.

Mr. Dix reiterated, that it was very desirable the bills should be taken up and acted upon immediately; he had therefore named to-morrow as the earliest possible day; and would still prefer that day, unless it was the desire of the Senate to name another.

Mr. SEVIER inquired if the bill reported was like the bill which had just been received from the House of Representatives.

Mr. Dix replied, that there were some differences. He had, however, not carefully examined the bill from the House of Representatives; but he believed their substantial provisions were the same.

Mr. H. JOHNSON suggested Thursday instead of Tuesday, for the reason that the bill would not be printed by to-morrow morning. If it was to be taken up it was desirable that the Senate should know exactly what its provisions were; but he saw not how this could be accomplished by to-morrow. Besides, it could make but little difference whether Tuesday or Thursday were named, as he presumed it would be voted upon during the week in any case.

Mr. HUNTINGTON said, it was important, doubtless, that there should be speedy action on these bills, as the Senator from New York had remarked; but it was unusual to name the day immediately succeeding that on which the bills were reported. By Thursday the Committee on Military Affairs will have had before them the House bill on the same subject, and will have considered its provisions.

Mr. Dix supposed the committee would be ready to report on that bill by Wednesday. Several Senators: Well, say Wednesday, then.

Mr. DIx. Wednesday has been named, and I accept this suggestion.

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will now be read a second time, unless objected to

Mr. MANGUM. I object.

After a short pause, Mr. M. withdrew his objection, and the bills were read a second time. The question then recurred on making the bills the special order for Wednesday.

Mr. BADGER inquired if the Senator from New York intended to make them both the order of the day for Wednesday.

Mr. Dix replied in the affirmative.

Mr. BADGER Suggested the propriety of separating them. He saw no reason why they should go together.

Mr. SEVIER briefly explained the features of the bill which had recently come from the House, and remarked that he supposed on that every Senator would be prepared to vote at any time. He hoped, therefore, the Senator from New York would adhere to his original motion, and make them the special orders for to

morrow.

Several Senators: "Oh! no, no, no." Mr. SEVIER. Well, Wednesday, then. The PRESIDENT again rose to put the question on the motion to make the bills the special order.

Mr. MANGUM called for the question to put first on the longest day.

The PRESIDENT accordingly put the question on fixing Thursday as the day, and it was agreed to-31 in the affirmative, and 17 in the negative.

So the bills were made the special order for Thursday.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

MONDAY, January 11.

Oregon Territorial Government-Anti-Slavery Ordinance of 1787 extended to the Territory.

The SPEAKER announced the business in order to be the bill to establish the Territorial Government of Oregon, which had been made the special order for this day.

After some conversation on a point of order between Mr. JACOB THOMPSON and the SPEAKER,

The House, on motion of Mr. DOUGLAS, resolved itself into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, Mr. HOPKINS, of Virginia, in the chair, and proceeded to the consideration of the bill to establish the Territorial Government of Oregon.

The bill, having been read through, was taken up by sections.

Mr. JAMES THOMPSON said: Mr. Chairman, I rise to make an inquiry of the honorable gentleThe PRESIDENT rose to put the question on men who reported this bill. It will be recolmaking the bills the special order for Wednes-lected that at the last session of this Congress, day; when

Mr. MANGUM interposed, and said they had not been read a second time, and no disposition could be made of them until they had been read.

The PRESIDENT assented, and added, The bills

I had the honor to offer to the bill for the organization of the Territory of Oregon an amendment to provide against the introduction of slavery into said Territory. I desire to know what provision this bill contains on that subject: whether it contains the amendment then

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Oregon Territorial Government.

Mr. DOUGLAS replied by reading the twelfth section of the bill, which extends the provisions of the ordinance of 1787 to the Oregon Territory, and said he presumed the gentleman would find slavery expressly prohibited by that ordinance.

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offered? If not, I desire to renew the amend- [tution. Should the bill remain in its present shape, what would there be to prevent the President of the Hudson Bay Company himself, or any member of that company, from becoming a member of the Legislature of Oregon? We had long been struggling to rescue this Territory from under British dominion; surely we ought not now to adopt a course which might practically throw it back under that dominion in a different form. Were gentlemen prepared to allow to any and every member of the Hudson Bay Company on the north side of the Columbia River the right of suffrage in choosing the Legislature of an American Territory? Were they willing to see aliens of this description taking their seats in such a Legislature, to make laws to bind American citizens?

Mr. THOMPSON said he knew this to be so. If that ordinance was, as he had no doubt it was, in force at this time, he would reflect on the subject until the section came before the committee.

Mr. DOUGLAS, in reply, read the following portion of the twelfth section of the bill, which, he thought, would fully satisfy the gentleman's inquiry, viz:

"SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the inhabitants of said Territory shall be entitled to enjoy all and singular the rights, privileges, and advantages granted and secured to the people of the territory of the United States north-west of the Ohio river, by the articles of compact contained in the ordinance for the government of said Territory, on the thirteenth day of July, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven; and shall be subject to all the conditions, and restrictions, and prohibitions in said articles of compact imposed upon the people of said Territory."

The second and third sections were passed over without amendment.

The fifth section was then read, as follows: "SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That every free white male inhabitant above the age of twenty one years, who shall have been a resident of said Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory; but the qualifications of voters and of holding office, at all subsequent elections, shall be such as shall be prescribed by the Legislative Assembly: Provided, That the right of suffrage and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States, and those who shall have declared, on oath, their intention to become such, and shall have taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of

this act."

Mr. W. W. CAMPBELL moved to amend it, by adding, between the words "the age of twentyone years " and the words "who shall have been," &c., the words "who is a citizen of the United States."

Mr. C. observed, that as the bill stood at present, every free white male inhabiting the Territory, whether Jew or Gentile, Englishman or American, had the right of suffrage, and this provision would remain in force so long as Oregon should remain under a territorial form of government. However proper it might be that States should enjoy the right of determining on the qualifications of its own voters, he held that, when Congress was legislating for a Territory of its own, it should take care that the right of suffrage should be exercised in a manner conformable to the principles of the consti

He hoped not; and he should therefore move to amend the bill, so as to require both those voting and those voted for to be American citizens. The bill, to be sure, required that voters should have taken an oath of allegiance to the United States; but this they were all bound to observe whether they took an oath or not. They were also to have made previous oath of naturalization; but this oath did not, in the mean time, release them from allegiance to a foreign Government, and there would be nothing to prevent a British alien from walking in and taking his seat in this American Territorial Legislature. He hoped, now we had at length got peaceable possession of Oregon, that we should do what we could to Americanize it.

of the bill was only in conformity to the known Mr. DOUGLAS, in reply, stated that this part state of the population in that country at this time. It was known to gentlemen that these people had met and formed a sort of temporary constitution for themselves; and, under that constitution, some of the persons now exercising authority there by the choice of the people, were not legally American citizens, but were, in all cases, persons friendly to the American Government, and desirous of the extension of our laws over them. The reason why, though entertaining these feelings, they had, nevertheless, not actually become American citizens, was, that they never had had an opportunity, there being in the Territory no courts of record, or other legal authority, before whom the necessary oaths could be taken.

Mr. LEVIN was understood to inquire whether these oaths could not have been taken before any magistrate?

Mr. DOUGLAS replied that the bill provided for the establishment of courts of justice and the appointment of judges and justices of the peace, and it allowed that all who had taken the oath of allegiance, and made oath to the purpose of becoming naturalized, might vote for members of the Legislature. So that, even at the first election, they could not vote without this qualification. Nor did it follow that even then they could vote permanently, unless the Legislature so provided. And if the people knew a man to be an alien, and did not

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wish him to serve, they would make such a pro vision. He thought that a man who had been an inhabitant of the Territory from the very beginning, and who had always been friendly to our cause, if he was willing to take the oaths prescribed in the bill, ought in fairness to be allowed to have a vote. He hoped the amendment moved by the gentleman from New York would not prevail.

Mr. FICKLIN suggested that the oaths taken should be in conformity with the law of the United States now in force, or to be in force. on the subject of naturalization.

Mr. DOUGLAS said he had no objection to adopt that as a modification of the bill.

Mr. VINTON expressed his concurrence in the views advanced by the gentleman from New York (Mr. CAMPBELL) as to the propriety of requiring that all voters should be citizens of the United States; but was wholly opposed to surrendering to the Territorial Legislature the right of prescribing, permanently, the qualifications of voters. It was allowing a Legislature, that was a mere agent of Congress, virtually to repeal the organic law, or constitution, prescribed by Congress for the Territory.

The question on agreeing to this amendment was taken by tellers, who reported, for the amendment 65, against it 55.

So the amendment was agreed to.

Mr. VINTON moved further to amend the fifth section, by striking out the words "the first election," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "all elections."

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McC.) had made, had failed to change his opin-
ion upon the constitutional question involved.
After a few remarks by Messrs. THURMAN,
CARROLL, BOWLIN, and VINTON,

Mr. Roor obtained the floor, and on his motion the committee rose and reported.

IN SENATE.

TUESDAY, January 12.
Death of Judge Pennybacker.

Mr. ARCHER then rose and addressed the
Senate as follows:

Only a few days, Mr. President, have passed over us, since we witnessed the spectacle of this Chamber clothed with the deepest expression of mourning for the loss of one of our most honored and beloved associates. It was no ordinary enhancement, Mr. President, of that afflicting bereavement that the subject of it was in the prime and vigor of manhood, blessed ordinarily with the highest condition of health, and giving the promise of the maturest and the fullest career of usefulness, and happiness, and honor. Sir, it was my desire on that occasion to have mingled a feeble expression of my regret with the honored lament which burst out from every corner of this Chamber. The subject of this bereavement was reckoned in the number of the very dearest of my friends. I felt myself, however, Mr. President, unequal to the discharge of that office, from the overflowing fulness of my feelings. I felt, sir, that I could not trust myself to attempt to commit to words the emotions which were laboring for utterance in my bosom. Sir, a correspondent occasion has now occurred, from which it is not my option to exempt myself, from the peculiar relation in which I stood to the deceased. Sir, it is not my good fortune-I am not able to say that it is the loss of a particular friend that I have to present to the Senate. My acquaintance was too short to authorize me to claim that distinction, though I might have hoped that a fuller acquaintance would have authorized me to do so. The subject of the bereavement to which I now call your attention, stood to me in the relation of a most esteemed colleague. On this morning, So the amendment was adopted. sir, at about four o'clock, the Hon. ISAAC S. Mr. VINTON moved that the section be fur- PENNYBACKER departed this life-the victim of ther amended, by striking out the words "the a relentless disease, which resisted all the minfirst election," and insert the words "all elec-istrations of medical skill, and all the efforts of tions." Also, by striking out the words "but the qualification of voters and of holding office at all subsequent elections shall be such as shall be prescribed by the Legislative Assembly."

Mr. V. also moved to amend the fifth section, by striking out the words "but the qualifications of voters and of holding office, at all subsequent elections, shall be such as shall be prescribed by the Legislative Assembly."

Mr. V. contended that the House should prescribe to this Territory a provision in regard to qualifications of electors which should be its organic law, to be changed by Congress only. The officers to be chosen were paid out of the treasury of the United States, which was an additional reason why Congress only should make the permanent provision.

Tellers were demanded, and being ordered, the result was as follows: 65 in the affirmative, and 55 in the negative.

Mr. McCLERNAND said he had not expected to have been drawn into the debate by venturing the suggestion he had to his friend from Ohio, (Mr. THURMAN,) for whose opinions he had a high respect. He would say, however, that the views which had been presented by his friend, in answer to the suggestion he (Mr.

solicitous affection. Yes, sir, like the lamented BARROW, Mr. PENNYBACKER, too, was in the number of the very youngest of the members of this body, and promised, by the vigor of his general health and constitution, as Mr. BARROW did, a very long protraction of a useful and honorable life. It was in harvest, having just reached the point of maturity, that the sickle has been put which has gathered it to the garner of the grave. Inscrutable dispensation of an overruling and all-wise Providence! Another,

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