conflicts and his glorious triumphs. Not a word discloses, that a slave ever breathed on "the soil of America : that a siaveholdinor Republic had been added to the " area of freedom," or that a war was then raging, which Adams had denounced as waged for the extension of slavery, and from which he had voted to withhold supplies. Some of the speakers were minutely accurate in specifying the dates of Mr. Adams's appointments in former times, but all were mar- vellously oblivious of his recent services. One gentleman, preferring fiction to truth, favored the House with a beau- tiful and touching romance. Said Mr. McDowell, of Vir- ginia—" No human being ever entered this Hall, without turning habitually and with heartfelt deference first to Am, and few ever left it, without pausing as they went, to pour out blessings upon that spirit of- consecration to the coun- try, which brought and kept him there." Had Messrs.
Gilmer, Hopkins, Hunter, and Wise been in their seats, they might possibly have dissented from the accuracy of the picture drawn by their colleague, and disclaimed for themselves the feelings and the acts so eloquently ascribed to all. But judging from the Lethean spirit in which the faculties of the speakers were apparently drowned, it is more probable, that these gentlemen, far from contradicting Mr. McDowell, would have testified to the truth of his statement. Mr. Holmes, of South Carolina, was another of the eulogists. He lamented that death had taken from among them " the gravest, wisest, most revered head"
one " adorned with virtue, learning, and truth ;" and he called him " the Patriot Father, and the Patriot Sage."
It did not, perhaps, occur to this gentleman, that as a few years before he disdainfully refused to be associated with this " Patriot Father, and Patriot Sage," in the Commit- tee of Foreign Relations, it might be interesting to the public to know, how recently, and by what means he had discovered, that his was " the gravest, wisest, and most revered head" in Congress. This same gentleman (Mr.