roduced greater effect on the hearer.
Colonel Benton said that the eminent William Pinkney of Maryland
was always thinking of the few hundred who came to hear him in the
Senate Chamber, apparently forgetting the million who might read
him outside. Mr. Sumner never made that mistake. His arguments
went to the million. They produced a wide-spread and prodigious
effect on public opinion and left an indelible impression on the
history of the country.

Jacob Collamer of Vermont was a senator of eminent worth and ability.
He had earned honorable fame as a member of the House of Representatives,
and as a member of the Cabinet in the administration of General
Taylor. He had entered the Senate at a ripe age, and with every
qualification for distinguished service. To describe him in a
single word, he was a wise man. Conservative in his nature, he
was sure to advise against rashness. Sturdy in his principles, he
always counseled firmness. In the periods of excitement through
which the party was about to pass, his judgment was sure to prove
of highest value--influenced, as it always was, by patriotism, and
guided by conscience. Without power as an orator, he was listened
to in the Senate with profound attention, as one who never offered
counsel that was not needed. He carried into the Senate the gravity,
the dignity, the weight of character, which enabled him to control
more ardent natures; and he brought to a later generation the wisdom
and experience acquired in a long life devoted to the service of
his State and of his country.

UNITED-STATES SENATORS.

Zachariah Chandler had been the recognized leader of the Republican
party in Michigan from its formation. He had superseded General
Cass with a people in whose affections the latter had been strongly
intrenched before Chandler was born. He had been four years in
the Senate when the war broke out, and he was well established in
reputation and influence. He was educated in the common schools
of his native State of New Hampshire, but had not enjoyed the
advantage of collegiate training. He was not eloquent according
to the canons of oratory; but he was widely intelligent, had given
careful attention to public questions, and spoke with force and
clearness. He was a natural leader. He had abounding confidence
in himself, possessed moral courage of a high order, and did not
know the sensation of physical fear. He