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operating with the committee of the Confederate Congress in paying the last sad tribute to the remains, of the Hon. John Tyler, and to pass resolutions commemorative of the public services of and private worth of the illustrious deceased. Whereupon he appointed the following gentlemen to prepare appropriate preamble and resolutions in reference to this great national and social bereavement, viz: Rev. John C. McCabe, D. D; Geo. M. Jackson, George Lemmon, Thos. B. M. Lewis, Esqrs., and Captain B. S. White. The committee retired, and in a short time reported the following: Whereas, the Great God, who is "too wise to err and too good to be unkind," has, in the exercise of His prerogative, called back from this world, where it had accomplished its grand mission, the souled of his servant, John Tyler; and whereas if it is our duty on this, and all occasions to bow to "Thus saith the Lord," yet we cannot contemplate this, to us sad bereavement as a nation, without shedding natural te