Sir, it is but a short time since the American congress buried the first one that went to the grave of that great triumvirate. We are now called upon to bury another. The third, thank God! still lives, and long may he live to enlighten his countrymen by his wisdom, and set them the example of his exalted patriotism. Sir, in the lives and characters of these great men, there is much resembling those of the great triumvirate of the British Parliament. It differs principally in this: Burke preceded Fox and Pitt to the tomb. Webster survives Clay and Calhoun. When Fox and Pitt died, they left no peer behind them. Webster still lives, now that Calhoun and Clay are dead, the unrivalled statesman of his country. Like Fox and Pitt, Clay and Calhoun lived in troubled times. Like Fox and Pitt, they were each of them the leader of rival parties. Like Fox and Pitt they were idolized by their respective friends. Like Fox and Pitt, they died about the same time, and in the public service; and, as has been said of Fox and Pitt, Clay and Calhoun died with ‘their harness upon them.’ Like Fox and Pitt―― ‘With more than mortal powers endow’d, How high they soared above the crowd! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place―― Like fabled gods their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar. Beneath each banner proud to stand Look’d up the noblest of the land. * * * * * Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom; Whom fate made brothers in the tomb; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again!’ * * * * *