Death of Senator Henderson
We have again to record an instance of the visitation of our legislative halls by the fell destroyer. Another member of that body has been stricken by the hand of death, and has fallen beneath the blow, after a protracted season of suffering. We refer to the Hon. J. Pinckney Henderson, U.S. Senator from Texas, who died at his lodgings in this city, last evening, of a pulmonary disease, with which he has been so greatly afflicted for months past as to prevent his regular attendance to his duties in the councils of the nation.
Senator H. was a North Carolinian by birth, having emigrated to Texas in the year 1836, and participated in the revolutionary difficulties and early formation of the government, when an independent republic. He afterwards filled numerous high positions of trust and honor, and on the admission of Texas into the Union, was its first Governor as a State of the Confederacy. He was unanimously chosen by the Legislature last year to succeed the lamented Thomas J. Rusk in the U.S. Senate. He was a lawyer, statesman and orator, of the highest order of talent, and his demise will deprive the nation, as well as the State of Texas, of invaluable services.
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