come as hearty and sincere as it was unpretending. Possessing naturally strong sensibilities easily excited, the prudence and self-command for which he was remarkable, indeed, I may say, his whole character, was in a great degree the result of moral discipline, restraining every impulse within its proper limits, and confining each to its proper function. In a word, his private character was as pure as his public character was illustrious, and, "take him for all in all"-seldom, very seldom, have we looked upon his like, and seldom shall we "look upon his like again." The sudden and untimely departure of such a man from the cares and responsibilities of his earthly career, while it impressively admonishes us that neither wisdom nor virtue can postpone the inevitable hour, is not without its consolations even to those who are most deeply affected by the awful bereavement. If his country has been deprived of his living services, his high example will illustrate her annals and animate the patriotic struggles of her freeborn sons, when successive generations shall have passed away. If his afflicted widow has been deprived of the affectionate offices of his protecting kindness and conjugal love, she can dwell with a melancholy and increasing pleasure on the memory of his virtues, and derive a soothing consolation from the universal sympathy of a whole community in her sorrows. If his children have been deprived of his parental guidance and fostering care, he has left them the imperishable inheritance of an illustrious name-and long, long may they preserve that inheritance, and transmit it from generation to generation in all its original purity and lustre.

APPENDIX.

The following communication was received since the delivery of the Eulogium, and is inserted to illustrate more than one feature of General HAYNE's character.

MY DEAR M'DUFFIE,—

CHARLESTON, FEB. 1st, 1840.

My absence from South Carolina, during the present winter, has prevented my attending more early to your request, that I should furnish you with any recollections, I may have preserved, of our inestimable and lamented friend HAYNE, with whom it was our pride and happiness to have been intimately associated, both publicly and privately, during the best portion of our lives.

As your own knowledge of his admirable character, and the communications of others, have doubtless afforded you the most interesting illustrations of his life, I will briefly confine myself to one anecdote, which furnishes an exponent of the feelings he carried into the public service of his country, at a moment of no small difficulty and peril. In the midst of the painful excitement which existed in this city, in the interval between the passage of the Act of Nullification and Mr. CLAY's proffered compromise, one evening about nine o'clock, Gen. HAYNE despatched a messenger to me, with a request that I would immediately call to see him. I found him alone. He had but recently given me the command of the volunteers in Charleston and its vicinity. To be prepared against an assault of the federal forces of the Government, then in the harbor of Charleston, we were both engaged, daily, in completing our field train, and the heavy ordnance intended for our stationary batteries, at different points in the city. After giving me some or. ders for the succeeding day, he appeared to be exceedingly thought. ful, and was obviously oppressed with much anxiety and care. said to me, "I have always supposed, General, that if, unfortunately, the struggle between the General Government and ourselves did come on, it would be confined to an issue between the regular troops of the army of the United States and ourselves, and how.

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ever greatly I may regret such an issue, nevertheless, in defence of our own laws, I am willing, in blood, to abide it. But, I have come painfully to the conviction, within a few days past, notwithstanding our hopes to the contrary, that, from, a mistaken sense of duty, a large portion of the Union party, in this city, will stand in the ranks with the United States army, and that our streets may run with fraternal blood. God knows how soon we may be cursed with this calamity. In this event, the struggle would almost cease to be one between the Government of the United States and ourselves, but become a domestic civil war of the worst character. Let, therefore, the responsibility rest on our opponents. It is impossible to say what accidental conflicts may arise, we must stand on the defensive. Let us, by no means, be provoked to strike the first blow. For, you know, that among our opponents, there are men, whom we have long known and loved, and with whose families we are all intimately connected. If we are driven in the defence of the laws of our own State, and the process of our own courts, and, in self-defence, not only to stand by our arms, but to use them, we shall have done our duty before God and our country."

I never heard him speak with a deeper sensibility, combined with a greater tone of firmness, in a crisis, in which he displayed those delightful resources of kindliness of feeling, joined to a high courage, which fitted him for any exigency, however dark and lowering. You know with what an anxious and earnest benevolence he contributed to a final pacification of parties in the State.

He has left us, my dear friend, in the midst of his unfinished labors, and created a chasm which we will not see soon filled. And for ourselves, where are we to look to have the void supplied in our friendships, which this bereavement has occasioned ?

I remain with sincere and unabated esteem,

Yours faithfully,

Gen. GEO. M'DUFFIE.

J. HAMILTON.