162 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 2,

At the close of the address of Mr. Steiner,

Mr. Mudd arose and said:
Mr, President,

As the representative of the people of Charles county upon
the floor of the Senate, I feel, sir, that injustice would be
done my county did I not, in the name of her people, heartily
endorse the resolutions of respect to the memory of Col.
Chapman Billingsley. Desparity in years and other circum-
stances have combined to deny me the privilege to have known
him personally in early life, but in my public associations
with him in this Chamber, in my private associations with
him elsewhere, in my intercourse with the people of St. Ma-
ry's and Southern Maryland, I have learned to regard the
name of Col. Billingsley as but a synonym of truth, honor
and integrity of character.

Though having attained to the ripe old age allotted by the
Psalmist, he was not born down by the weight of years.

The vigor and strength of body and mind, which ordinarily
attach to those of fewer years, were remarkably preserved to
him, until, by the fell stroke of acute disease, the inexorable
fiat was announced and the State and society bereft of the
services of one who, I believe, struggled for the vanguard
enly, in the cause sf right and justice—in the cause of the
people. In his public and private life, Mr. President, Col.
Billingsley has left an enviable record—a record worthy of
our emulation; and truly may it be said, that he was, in the
language of the bard, one of the "noblest works of God," an
"honest man."

Mr. Stevens addressed the Senate in eulogy of the high
character and distinguished services of Senator Billingsley,
and of his personal knowledge of and intercourse with him as
associated in the Senate, and upon the Committee upon Edu-
cation with him, and closed with the following quotation
from Dryden:

"Since every man who lives is born to die,

And none can boast sincere felicity,

With equal mind what happens let us bear,

Nor joy, nor grieve for things beyond our care.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend :

The World's an Inn, and death the journey's end."

The resolutions as read were then adopted.
When,

On motion by Mr. Lawrence,
The Senate, at 2.20, P. M., adjourned.