Isaac E. Holmes), as representing the veneration felt by South Carolina for the great champion of human rights, and her grief for his death, followed his remains from the city of Washington to their final resting-place in Massa- chusetts ! Having eulogized the great Abolitionist, and paid the last honor to his memory, Mr. Holmes returned to Congress where, while laboring to extend slavery to the Pacific, he pronounced the emphatic words, " I hold it (slavery) to be the greatest blessing that God ever conferred upon man.'* To no member of Congress did the charge of giving " aid and comfort" to the enemy apply with more force than to Mr. Adams ; yet Mr. Polk, in an official order, de- clared him to be " a great and patriotic citizen ;" and the official journal, robed in mourning, eulogized, as the " illus- ti'ious and venei-able patriot and statesman," the very man who the editor had formerly affirmed was considered " a general nuisance."
Of course the whole press, of all parties and shades of party, was vocal in praise of the departed patriot ; and one of the most profligate of the fraternity, who had ever thrown