But it may be due to ourselves and to the country, that the national sense of his character and services should be fitly commemorated." Mr.Holmes of South Carolina arose and addressed the House in most eloquent strains.

The following are extracts from his eulogy:-- "The mingled tones of sorrow, like the voice of many waters, have come unto us from a sister State--Massachusetts weeping for her honored son.
The State I have the honor in part to represent once endured, with yours, a common suffering, battled for a common cause, and rejoiced in a common triumph.

Surely, then, it is meet that in this, the day of your affliction, we should mingle our griefs.
"When a great man falls, the nation mourns; when a patriarch is removed, the people weep.

Ours, my associates, is no common bereavement.

The chain which linked our hearts with the gifted spirits of former times, has been rudely snapped.