tion of Judge Story, though with less compass of note. He uses but little gesture, and his most emphatic passages are always in an under-tone, which produce a solemn effect and leave a deep impression. It is the still small voice in which he pours out heart, and soul, and feeling, charming the audience into a silence, as if they were listening to the last fading notes of an Æolian harp, when they feel that the spirit of the wind is dying away. His countenance is fair and pleasing, with a smile always playing around his lips."

Mr. Forsyth was not a hard student in the "midnight lamp" sense. He was, however, a deep thinker. He mastered the contents of a book whilst others would be turning over its leaves. His knowledge was extensive, and whatever he knew was always at his command. As an off-hand debater he had no superior. To his lofty spirit as a man, was added a breast overflowing with ardent affection for his family.

The Legislature of Georgia, at their session in 1841, unanimously adopted the following report :

"The people of Georgia have heard, with feelings of deep regret, of the decease of this distinguished citizen, whose eminent talents and elevated political course have, through a long series of years, shed lustre, not only upon this State, but upon the whole Union. Entering public life at a period of extreme youth, and at an early day in the history of the Republic, John Forsyth rose at once to the first rank; with unequalled rapidity attained political eminence, in which elevated sphere he continued to move, with splendour and applause-exemplifying the statesman, dignified and firm-the orator, brilliant and beautiful-the gentleman, whose elegant deportment and honourable bearing attracted universal admiration and regard. First, the Attorney-General of Georgia-then its Representative in Congress-the Ambassador of the nation at a Foreign Court-subsequently the Chief Magistrate of this State, and its Senator in Congress—and finally, Secretary of the United States. John Forsyth discharged the duties of these several stations with a brilliancy, a readiness, and an ability which few may expect to equal; in all of them maintaining the honour and sustaining the interest of this State and of the nation.

"As the immediate representative of Georgia, John Forsyth early riveted the attention and secured the affections of its citizens, by his great talents and his commanding power of eloquence, and the promptness with which he employed. them in vindicating their honour, and in defending their peculiar and exclusive rights. Occasional differences of opinion and embittered party excitements have never withdrawn the attention, nor dislodged those affections, and the people of Georgia now mourn his death as a great national bereavement, sensibly felt by the State of which his eloquence and talents made him so distinguished an ornament, and by the nation, in whose service much of his life was spent, and for the protection of whose honour and interest some of his greatest intellectual efforts were made.

"It is therefore most fit and proper that the representatives of the people of Georgia here assembled should, in a becoming manner, acknowledge the magnitude and importance of the public services of this accomplished citizen through a long and eventful political career, and testify to the country, in an imposing