ON THE DEATH OF HON. T. H. HICKS, DELIVERED IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1865. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1865. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SATURDAY, February 25, 1865. Resolved, That five thousand copies of the eulogies on Senator HICKS, delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, be printed for the use of the members of this House. ADDRESSES ON THE DEATH OF HON. T. H. HICKS. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1865. Address of Mr. JOHNSON, of Maryland. Mr. PRESIDENT: It is my painful duty to announce to the Senate the death of my late colleague and friend, THOMAS HOLLIDAY HICKS. The sad event occurred at his lodgings in this city on Monday morning, the 13th instant, at seven o'clock. A few days of indisposition, so apparently slight as to give his friends no uneasiness, was, without any seeming premonition, followed on the Friday before his death by a sudden attack of paralysis, so severe that its fatal result was at once seen to be inevitable and near at hand. It rendered him speechless, but did not so affect his mind but that he recognized the friends around him, and by whom, to the last, he was carefully and affectionately attended, until within a few hours of his decease. Governor HICKS (a title by which he is best known and will be ever gratefully remembered, not only by Maryland but by the nation) was born in Dorchester county, Maryland, on the 2d of September, 1798. His parents were highly respectable, but with a large family and limited means they were unable to give their son a collegiate education. What he was taught was merely rudimental, and this was acquired in one of the common schools of the county. His father being a farmer, Governor HICKS assisted him in that occupation until his minority terminated, when he commenced a career of his own. With man ners and disposition that were native to him, and well calculated to win esteem and confidence, he was at an early age made a constable of his county, an office humble but trustworthy, and discharged its duties so satisfactory that, in 1824, at the early age of twentysix, he was elected its sheriff, an office of high grade and of much importance and responsibility. This office also he conducted with an intelligence and integrity that commanded general approval, and gave him even a stronger hold on the popular judgment. Its term expired, he engaged in mercantile business in Vienna, a village in his county, and in this position his diligence and integrity were again exhibited. In 1836 he was elected a member of the electoral college which at that period appointed the senators of the State, and in the proceedings which ensued, and which for a time filled our citizens with solicitude, and attracted the attention of the whole country, he conducted himself with his accustomed discretion and firmness, and evinced his inherent love of law and order. He was at one time one of the governor's council, a station of the greatest trust and honor, and for several years was elected by the people of Dorchester a member of the house of delegates of the State; and on each occasion so dis |