His health was then good, and he was always bright and genial: sometimes he showed the lambent play of passion and of fire." -- His eulogies in both branches of Congress were many.

Mr.Hamlin, long his colleague, had been a student in his law office, and placed him in the front rank of American senators.

Mr.Trumbull presented him as he was in 1855, when they first met in a Senate of sixty-two members, of whom only fifteen were Republicans.

Mr.Williams of Oregon described him as "towering in mind among those around him, like Saul in form among his countrymen." In the House, Mr.Lynch, from his own city, gave the home estimate of Mr.Fessenden's character.

Mr.Peters eulogized him for his eminent professional rank; and Mr.Hale described him as a man "who never kept himself before the people by eccentric forces, and went in quest of no popularity that had to be bought by time-serving." Words of tenderness and affection were spoken of him by men whose temperament was as reserved and undemonstrative as his own.
-- "A truer, kinder heart," said Henry B.Anthony, "beats in no living breast than that which now lies cold and pulseless in the dead frame of William Pitt Fessenden." [( 1) A few extracts from Mr.Bayard's speech of July 9, 1863, at Dover, Del., will exhibit his spirit of disloyalty to the Union of the States.
Mr.Bayard said,-- "And is such a war necessary for the peace and happiness of the United States?
For half a century we have lived at peace with Great Britain, with her Canadian possession upon our Northern border.