script of the Eulogy, and trusting that you will gratify the Council and the community by permitting its publication, we remain, dear Sir,

I have just received your note, dated the 15th instant, requesting for publication the manuscript of my Eulogy on the life and character of General HAYNE. Whilst I regret, that from the circumstances under which it was both prepared and delivered, it came far short of my own estimate of what was required by the occasion, I, nevertheless, feel that I have no option but to comply with your request. The manuscript is, therefore, placed at your disposal.

I am, gentlemen,

Your obedient Servant,

GEORGE M'DUFFIE.

Unavoidable circumstances have necessarily delayed the publi. cation of the Eulogy: but well knowing the earnest and general desire of the citizens to peruse it, every effort was made by the committee to gratify this desire as speedily as possible. At the same time, it was thought proper to prefix to the Eulogy the foregoing account of the proceedings of the City Council, and of the citizens, in relation to the death of General HAYNE, for the purpose of preserving, in connection with the Eulogy, an authentic history of all that was done by the community of Charleston to honor the memory of a man, whom, whilst living, they regarded as their brightest ornament, and whose final departure from amongst them they will never cease to deplore.

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EULOGY, &c.

WHY is it, my friends, that we have recently seen our fellow citizens in various parts of the State, regardless of all party distinctions, assembling together in sorrowful communion, and putting on the badges of public mourning? What great and common bereavement has thus united in common sorrows and common sympathies those who were, but the other day, estranged from each other by all the angry excitements of political contention? And why are we here assembled, with hearts full of sadness, amidst all these expressive signs of private and public affliction? Alas! the cause of all this is but too deeply and painfully impressed upon every heart in this assembly. For while conjugal affection, and filial piety, and generous friendship, mingle their tears on the tomb of the best of husbands, the most exemplary of parents, and the most faithful of friends, South Carolina is summoned to deplore the loss of a statesman, who guided and illustrated her councils by his wisdom; of an orator, who vindicated her sacred and violated rights by his eloquence; and of a patriot, who, in the midst of trials, and temptations, and difficulties, and dangers-bore aloft her untarnished escutcheon amidst the raging elements of the political tempest, and with a fidelity and devotion that never

hesitated, a heart that never quailed, and a heroic resolution that never faltered,

"Stood by his country's glory fast,

And nailed her colors to the mast."

Such, while living, were the high and undisputed titles of ROBERT Y. HAYNE, to the confidence and gratitude of his native State, and to the respect and admiration of the whole Union. But now the light of that wisdom is extinguished forever in our councils; the lofty strains of that eloquence are hushed in everlasting silence, and his patriot spirit has gone to mingle with the kindred spirits of our revolutionary fathers in those mansions of rest, where the stormy tempests of his earthly pilgrimage will be heard no more. Cut off in the full vigor of his faculties, and in the full career of his usefulness, by a destiny as untimely for his country, as it is afflicting to his family and his friends, it only remains for us to render the last solemn honors, and the last sad tribute of friendship, affection and gratitude, to the memory of our distinguished and lamented fellow citizen. To me has been assigned the mournful but gratifying part of presenting a faithful delineation of his life and character, which shall testify to posterity our exalted estimate of his worth, and which may serve to animate the patriotic struggles of future generations in defence of their rights and liberties, by the illustrious example it will hold up for their admiration. And if the intimate and confidential relations which have subsisted between us, without a momentary breach, for nearly twenty years, during which we were variously associated in the public service, may be supposed to qualify me in any degree for the task, I may hope that I shall not be entirely unsuccessful in performing this

last melancholy office of affection and duty, to the shade of my lost and lamented friend.

Follow me, then, my friends, while I take a brief review of his early life, and of his rapid and brilliant career at the bar, in the Legislature of the State, in the Senate of the United States, and as the Chief Magistrate of South Carolina, during a most perilous and eventful period in her history.

He was born, then, at his paternal mansion, in the parish of St. Paul's, on the 10th day of November, in the year 1791, and the greater portion of his juvenile days were spent amidst the charms of rural scenery, to which his mind was always peculiarly susceptible. Here he was habituated to those manly sports and invigorating exercises, to which he attached the utmost importance in training up his sons, believing that he was himself in no small degree indebted to them, for some of those striking traits of character by which he was distinguished in after life. There seems to be a general concurrence of opinion among all his early associates at school, that he did. not exhibit, when sixteen years of age, any marked indications of that intellectual superiority over his fellows, which could have warranted the anticipation of the high distinction he deservedly attained so soon afterwards. But there is an equally general concurrence of opinion among all who were familiarly acquainted with him at that early age, that he even then exhibited those high moral traits of character, which, more than any natural endowments of mere intellect, lead to the highest attainments of human greatness. It would indeed seem from some of his private letters written in his seventeeth year, that stimulated by a high moral purpose, he had set up in his own mind a standard of intellectual attainment and moral excel