was totally
annihilated by the sturdy Tennesseean, for his imbecile attempts to
excuse his pusillanimous submission to his chivalrous dictators. So
successful was he in conjecturing and exposing the designs of the
malcontent Senators, that the boldest of them feared to meet him in
forensic discussion, and recoiled from the honesty and acuteness of one
who knew them and did not hesitate to hold them up to ignominy. Through
all the dangers which have beset the neighborhood from which he came, he
has stood firm in the assertion of patriotic principles; nor to save his
own household from disaster, has he yielded a jot to the demands of
traitor tyrants. At present, he is provisional Governor of Tennessee,
and is doing good service in bringing that once-honored State back to
the folds of the Union. Of few public men can we say, what may be
confidently said of him, that he has shown himself ready to sacrifice
every private interest to subserve the interests of his country, and has
given us a certain and practical example of a heroism unknown before the
present crisis to Americans, except in the colored narratives of
history.

Senator Green, of Missouri, was justly regarded as one of the clearest
thinkers and speakers in the Upper House. Irregularity of life had
somewhat blunted what must once have been a very superior mind. His
statesmanship was of a high order; his oratory ingenuous, generally
courteous and conciliatory, and always entertaining, from its lucidness
and keenness. He was decidedly popular in social circles, genial and
good-natured, and full of animal spirits. His excesses, indeed, rather
tended to make him the more companionable, though they undoubtedly
undermined an uncommonly fine intellect; and certainly nothing can be
more sickening than to see one so highly endowed, and who might command
the applause of listening senates, gradually sinking below the level of
manhood by habitual indulgences. In personal appearance, he was rather
awkward, of an ungainly figure, his countenance not highly intelligent,
but cheerful and rather pleasing. After the ostracism of the great
bulwark of Democracy, Douglas, from the councils of his party, Senator
Green became the leader of that side of the house, assuming the place on
the Committee on Territories made vacant by the Illinois statesman. As a
manager of party tactics, and as a bold, shrewd, and energetic leader,
few could equal and none surpass him. His rise to so high a