to promote an
auspicious result of its deliberations were active and constant. And
when fatal disease assailed his life, and his enfeebled powers yielded
to its virulence, his last utterances were of the Constitution and the
Union.

Mr. PRESIDENT, Judge WRIGHT was my friend. His approval cheered and
encouraged my own humble labors in the service of the State. Pardon me
if I mingle private with public grief. He has gone from his last great
labor. He was not permitted to witness upon earth the result of the
mission upon which he and his associates, who here mourn his loss,
were sent. God grant that the clouds which now darken over us may
speedily disperse, and that through generous counsels and patriotic
labors, guided by that good Providence which directed our fathers in
its original formation, the Union of our States may be more than ever
firmly cemented and established.

Mr. PRESIDENT, I offer the following resolutions:

_Resolved_, That in the death of our late venerable
colleague, the Hon. JOHN C. WRIGHT, we mourn the loss to the
State of Ohio, and to the nation at large, of one of our
most sagacious statesmen and distinguished patriots; and to
the cause of Union and conciliation, one of its most
illustrious supporters.

_Resolved_, That while we deplore with saddened hearts the
affliction with which an All-wise Providence has visited us,
we know that no transition from life to immortality could
have been more grateful to him who has fallen than this, in
which his life has been offered a willing sacrifice in an
effort to restore harmony to his distracted country.

_Resolved_, That the members of this Convention tender their
heartfelt sympathies to the family of the deceased in this
their great affliction.

_Resolved_, That these resolutions be spread upon the
records of this body, and a copy of the same be transmitted
to the family of the deceased.

Mr. CHARLES A. WICKLIFFE, of Kentucky, moved the adoption of the
resolutions, and said:

Mr. PRESIDENT, I rise to tender my most cordial sanction and second to
the resolutions which have just been read.

Mr. WRIGHT and myself entered the councils of this nation thirty-seven
years ago. We served together during a period when party excitement
ran high upon questions more of a personal than a constitutional
character. I can bear witness not only to his ability, but to his