In making this announcement, it is not my purpose now to speak of the character and services of one so long and so notably a member of this body; but at some suitable time I will invite the Senate to express, by resolution and by eulogy, its sense of the irreparable loss the nation sustains in the death of so distinguished a citizen. Mr. President, as a mark of respect for the memory of a Senator present at our last adjournment but absent now forevermore, I move that the Senate do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; and (at three o'clock and ten minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned. ADDRESSES ON THE DEATH OF ZACHARIAH CHANDLER, A SENATOR FROM MICHIGAN. DELIVERED IN THE SENATE. The VICE-PRESIDENT. By the unanimous order of the Senate this day has been set apart for the delivery of eulogies in commemoration of the death of the late Senator from Michigan, ZACHARIAH CHANDLER. Mr. FERRY. Mr. President, the time having arrived for the delivery of eulogies upon my late colleague, the announcement in the Senate of his death having already been made, I now offer the following resolutions and move their adoption : Resolved, That the Senate receive with profound sorrow the announcement of the death of ZACHARIAH CHANDLER, late a Senator of the United States from the State of Michigan, and for nearly nineteen years a member of this body. Resolved, That to express some estimate held of his eminent services in a long public career rendered conspicuous by fearless patriotic devotion, the business of the Senate be now suspended, that the associates of the departed Senator may pay fitting tribute to his public and private virtues. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is, will the Senate agree to the resolutions? The resolutions were agreed to unanimously. Mr. FERRY. that they be read. I send other resolutions to the desk and ask The resolutions were read, as follows: Resolved, That the loss the country sustained in the death of Mr. CHANDLER was manifest by expressions of public sorrow throughout the land. Resolved, That as a mark of respect for the memory of the dead Senator the members of the Senate will wear crape upon the left arm for thirty days. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate communicate these resolutions to the House of Representatives. Resolved, That as an additional mark of respect for the memory of the deceased, the Senate do now adjourn. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is upon agreeing to the resolutions just reported. Address of Mr. FERRY, of Michigan. Mr. PRESIDENT: The observance of the Senate this day is in memory of no common man. The sterling qualities of his manhood none ever dare assail. He wore his faults upon his sleeve. Charges of his defamers were frivolous and discreditable to themselves; for of all the great men who have lived and died in this generation, there was no keener seer, no shrewder organizer, no franker partisan, no truer patriot than ZACHARIAH CHANDLER. The Chandlers of Bedford, New Hampshire, were well-to-do farmers of the Puritan Mayflower stock. There, in 1813, he was born, and there he passed his childhood, receiving what was then thought a good primary education. As the boy grew up his father gave him his choice, a college training or a thousand dollars to stock a business life. He chose the latter, and, with the spirit of adventure which has always marked the New England race, he made for western wilds. Michigan at that time was a trackless wilderness, whose solitude lay unbroken save by the roar of surrounding waters. Detroit then was a town on the border, with a population of some five thousand souls. There he stuck his stake and began his mercantile career. His main object in those days was to win commercial success. This he achieved by his self-denial, energy, fidelity, sagacity, and integrity. No man worked harder, lived more frugally, or upheld a higher standard of business morality. Many a night he slept on the floor or counter of his store, and many other nights, through the forest roadway, under the light of the stars, he traversed the peninsula from point to point, doing business by day and pushing his way by night. For several years he thus had been toiling, when the great financial crash of 1837 overtook him. Smaller country merchants could not meet their paper. CHANDLER'S store in Detroit felt the wave of disaster, and, gathering up all available effects, he pushed for New York and laid before his creditors the exact situation, proposing to make to them an assignment of all he had. Their answer was equally creditable to him and to them: "CHANDLER, you are too good a man to be lost for want of confidence; go back and go on with your business, and if you want more goods send on your orders." The result showed they had not misjudged. In a couple of years he had weathered the storm, and paid every debt, dollar for dollar; and from that hour his fortune was assured. Meanwhile he became most thoroughly identified with his city and State. Generally known as a thorough business man, his acquaintance with the business men of Michigan was better than any one of his associate pioneers. His public spirit led him into all relations with his fellow-citizens which promised to promote the welfare of his adopted home. Then, in his earlier vigor, he took part in the various organizations of the young men of Detroit, and first became known as a speaker in |