(April 1, 1815–September 2, 1884), was a U.S. Senator. On January 9, 1872, he delivered a eulogy of Roger Williams in Congress:
He knew, for God, whose prophet he was, revealed it to him, that the great principles for which he contended, and for which he suffered, founded in the eternal fitness of things, would endure forever. He did not inquire if his name would survive a generation. In his vision of the future he saw mankind emancipated from … the blindness of bigotry, from the cruelties of intolerance. He saw the nations walking forth into the liberty wherewith Christ had made them free.2486