The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, July 1945 - April, 1946 Page: 285
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Pallbearers, chosen from the Senate, were:
Albert G. Brown, of Mississippi
James F. Simmons, of Rhode Island
Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina
Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois
Graham N. Fitch, of Indiana
Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts
At a time when sectional feelings ran high one seeking
absolute impartiality in appraisal might discount what was
said of Senator Henderson from the Southern side; so the
following is given--a part of the remarks of William H. Seward,
Senator from New York.
If anything on this occasion has seemed to me more worthy of remark
than another, it is, that although Senator Henderson was yet a young
man, he had been a most successful and fortunate man, and, at the same
time, a type of the public man of America. In listening to the eulogiums
which have been pronounced upon him, I have been surprised as they
have followed him from the bar to the head of a brigade, from the head
of a brigade into the cabinet of his State, from the cabinet into a foreign
mission, from the foreign mission back to the bar, from the bar, flushed
with success, transferred again to the diplomatic corps-the ambassador
of his State to foreign lands, the ambassador of his State to form a union
with the United States-thence back again to the bar, then a member of
the constitutional convention to frame the organic law for his State, then
the Governor of that yet new but already great State, then a major
general in the Federal service, and, finally, a Senator in the Congress of
the United States. It is a singular and a successful career for a revo-
lutionary man, a man who has spent his whole life in revolutionary times.
It was his felicity, one which rarely happens to revolutionary men, that
he did not survive either the fortune of his State or its favor.285
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