OCR Text |
Show CASDIDATRS .OSIlKATED il- TH UNIO?? WNSTlTtnlOKAUSrs; AT TOJ,- Mmitm, Mx ionr. TKit IjEliith&candiilalo for t!o Prcsi Icbroary'lS, 1S07. Ho whs tho son of A rarmef fa moilcrhtc pircarristatlccs, who was, Ijoircvcr, ?bl9 tr-gvi; him a gOml rarl 4 Minbetlntul Coicger jiow f "Si l1-1 Fj"vcFt "too lw graduatcil W-1 ?.Ic .stu,l"-,3 ws ad- nitted , to the bar In lijlG. -aiul selUctl at i rankhii, Williamson couny, Tcnn., nd J;clcctcd to the State Seilato fu l< to soon-g hfs error In cntcriog so early into public liftytnd declined a rCKjlectron, $1, 9f , tcn of "is do. votwj himseU to hii profession, la hli enndidato for ' Gotigrcu Hfati Fchx qri?dono' pf thopoim-wf thopoim-wf ,U,:,l,,n. tl,c State of Tennessee, ml 3? 1Vail1Ut& Howcrful support of An-ww An-ww ; Jackson, then a candidate for the Ittfiidcncy against John Quincy Adams. ;KV " Wos c,cctcd- J stccossiva. icctious ho coiituuicd a member or the Jlouso 41 Representatives for fourteen years. ne entered Congress a warm ad- ! imrcr of Jlr. Galhonn, and strongly opposed op-posed to tho protective system, against1 Milch he made a speech fu ti?ai Std). iuit Iuvcstijfations und relieetioii i- dnccd ltl(i T6 cImi',liiV?opJidoi)a.Stfth'At Lciccpt htpasp;of'iViij'gfe'at:rWail IwJntJltf djr'trj)flKo; the-.a,aeific;Hailii(.It.; i'aiid;,iH favor of-'U 'ihcitrifgrit-ixuft.UHtirtitof With ult'WCIrettt adftitraUoh for. 3tf,0il': liirIl'eU' .op$sM- lH itiuicrnro. iiria.' fdocthhov t - ntillttteatoj;vnil'wfe ih'6iic Cimlroihii -jofif tli p Jjwittf d ry-' Gtni? nilUc&.of'5 lhcK&is.? tff llepfcsdintfttivcs;: Vfith spctffntkyereilce'.tdlUje jjuoMibH'.eo)!1 .nectedUh''t!iat 'tjject' )ikh mfgl.it' have, tobc toHldcfifd-ftui i-eportd, on F6r ten year s;1te.;ivKktJlinlrma'ti; of the' 'Cftjminhtttf .oii. ludihu Alfaira. f .lib"' wa: jirfavorr d, A;lJ1ted .tot'es Bht)M, HoliU" Iic?.-vo(ed; rigaingt.llio' iiill fatits rcf-clwrtcr in i&o$f beca'iis tetli.fiVt'liev'etl. -:tirai; 'tjbe:5bjcci,T?K.btou'ghtija ,-rj- yo&r$ .fccfdi'c" ;tli'e- cs'i!wtidii' rjf "tlie: oW- ciiarteriHici-cly; loUcfa'o (jyiefat' yatilisofv ). tlic'prisiitpg'tx'sufeM tio'h aitd'.'bec'aiisK Jib' Wn -ofriud "the; President wot'tM. vctQ' the. bilf, liich proTe4 td ho." thecasoV Ho pro'tccd iigariiat thcj.reiuoval' of; tlio.iiepos1t, and rtfiiscd .to Ttitcf; fpri.a' resolution proying-tliat tneasuref; irjrrefiisalswa QDj.pf -the" causes ,whjchd(?d:tQ lHe.Ku)se-quciH' lHe.Ku)se-quciH' bi-caclr ijetty ecti liitiisel rind l'rsSK dcrit Jaejaoii tho. deniQeratfe partyj and iinnliy to .hjs cj).-6Tperatfon with, the whigs. iq chapg'a of party relation jva'nn'ich aeeele:ratcdcl)yihi?- election, to ,ty.:SiehIeritilp,oi;th'o J,Ionso-,of JU?prcf (fcif atH'ca; in ,lit. .1 uUeofif hfiyear MrT I'SioygnVoq resigneii- the;.clialr: npoa being, noiulnated 'Jlirifstertd Great -BrK ,taio, aptl pVIrlJell wnselecVed tb snccM Iiim'iit oppositlon to,; Jafitea K, Vitik', nf tcVthirds t'tesidnkdf the'lFincd S.ttteK who jvas' the candidate jpf theadwmfstra-tion theadwmfstra-tion aitd of iho deroosjratie party, it. Boll Vn .-supported liy tlic Athijjs; and portion of tlus democratic" mly who were Opposed t6 this 'ititcn'dod iibinlnatiort o . Martin Tait Buren as succcusor lp Gen, Jaekson, The jmncipai grouiKl of 31 r, Belt'fi oppOMtion ty Mv. Van IJurpii was his strong disapproval llm system of rchinv'tils' froat tiio subordfnato pfllct for boliticiit ieasorisf-a avstcin whk-h-itr. "VTati 4iuwn had r,tfjdHiis4y promoirid iii-lie Vm? couiirujp o the;3tatfTKcW oyft, and ivhmht it was sOpposedj-liojidentieiiV (b.;cari'y out. fa. itjj ftm. estot .1lil; ad-mmt.siriUlGn ad-mmt.siriUlGn of the Tudeful 'poverniaentj The fo'in?i6,eiuu-atiin'be ,jCij,;Jaekspn. tool:' pisuic:- fii. iSS,.wlTisii.' JSti UeH flcIarea .1ri(3?ff in -Tayor of j.ud Whitefor llre-B'rc.sidieyt4iioppo-i sitipn .to AJun; liitrcii. lp'tp.itintj liino there had, bccji up oppositioa1 Ja.-i Tenncssep IP Gen, Jntlison?s ttdininlstra'.': llont .'and it., was generally supposed ttni Ins jiersonftl unit political hdlucnee-: ponid not fail- to fiubdne tia opposition raised iiy trndgayhite and hisr friendR, The: whole farce of the., adirj'unstration was- exerlM. to this end. -fudge White carried the S tate by a large ruajorttyj and. Al r, 3Ucll was re-elec ted to Congress. An iinpulse was given to the political character charac-ter of Tennessee, which arruyed it in opposition op-position to thc deuiocracy during the four succeeding Presidential elcc'lion!), 18i0-ti-4,3152. When the reception or petitions for -the abolition of silvery in the Distriet-of Distriet-of Columbia was agitated in tho lloiisp of lleprcsenlattves, in ItfJUt, ,ir. lell, alone, of the Tennessee delegation, fttvwed tlieir reception, Bubscipicntty, in l83iS, when A,therton'S resolutions were introduced, projwsiug to receive ami. lay these petitions peti-tions on the table, hejnaintaiiicd Jus con sistency by voting in the .negative; When l're?ideiit .Harrison, in 131 1, was fanning his. Cabinet, Jfr. Ilcll was invited to accept ac-cept the "War lA'parttncut geeretaryship,.; to vyjiiclv he ,'readily assent !!. Arlth tn'c rest, of th'e.pafiinct,- Webster only excepted lie. resigned oflice on the svpa-ration svpa-ration . of President Tyler from tlic -vvlng party, in the ttwtmnn of that year. The ; whig majority in the next Teunessee legislature le-gislature which metaftcsr his withdrawal from the Cabinet offered him the of-;.fice of-;.fice of XJnftcd Slates Senator, winch bo declined. Air, ell remained in retire-, fnient instil, called by Uie people of his I country, in JB7, to represent them in the Stale Sentib, in which year;on the oc-currenc;o oc-currenc;o of a vacancy lie was elected in the United. States Seuate; to .which he was rcelecicd in 1S53. liis, tcrt.u of service ser-vice expired in March, 1S50, since which time lie has been Hviug in .retirement from public life. In the'Seiiate Mr. lell.opposol the policy po-licy of anucxing Mexico and other Spanish-American States to the Union. He was in favor of the compromi?e measures flf 1550, but desired, to-sco tl htim then made fully settled at the time of the di-vtjion di-vtjion of Texas into Muto, as. provided by tho act pr annexation. In l8it,wlieu the Kobraskn bill was presented in the Senntci Mr. JJell protested against its pas-siage. pas-siage. In the coutrpveray on flio admission admis-sion of JCansiSs, in March, 1 SOS, Mr, Hell .opposed thp Jiccompton constitution. inwAnn Eyxn:Tr, ok jiASiACnuierra. Kdmi.rd J3vorett, the Union eandidatc for iee IVcaidcnt, was born in 1 lurches-tpr, lurches-tpr, Matachnhetl, Aiifil 7, IVJl I Us af . ;v. ... : t - 'ST'rf lJr;'-C; "'iftiss-t1"; wi ii; father, t'Jm; ri'ic 'Qllrf. i-U:er.ttVv'ft thc: predeticor'; ot-'f'rcsideti l. lutklaud' a .pas .tprt;Uie:?jrpthlh', Chnrph $ ilosioti, :aa'Afa"s,tervord?'..tii4gfl , ot Up.i'ntoril''fcas f n 'Vf fblk't'oimfy'ltvss;, Uilwaritefetthteredrnrv In .l.SQT atthe earljr ae-of thirteen jawt waS-grrianafjtdil!) Ctf higja'syiMoiiVfljcfaa tha'h-.tlibraii'a'gpain.ottn isPujP.tiiijc'.fter ritfijamg--hc; was e'rii plPyc'dJrf :bts4lnia' Maicr:.'aX a iiitoVat. , tfif fsii)m'tiiUffjlsrMiin lii'isti'iditi iti. divtV Mjty, theprriP!.i'S:llic;Uhe- hiid. sele'crtil; fIir '3Us,l,2' heiiferrijdaVinrffed poem'bt!; fpfp., the 41 J.?I-Sict6 Ji'-Wi-,AnicricaV")pet?!.; jln IS .ha'vaettied" ,'ns pisstprpfer.': ,lhq ".rattle Rrcc't'eliurclt Ht JJostpiii JA.lSll.riftpuliftsiUfiii evei-al '$orl?s;;fliii$ .ycnfe'lioWfticlMcniJrofvssq'fe !of;'G'rctk lirafiutjvfit ItaryartF Ctillcglj; "vruh,V vifesr rf?xpiaUfy,ug; IniiiSelffor''tlicidiiiieA pf lusfpost,''cntCfcil SiVn'nn'exfeuderl1' cobrprirof' Jtjc3a.w studyanit jcAvip-hPtnoj ,nr ih'6:-kprfugpf ' :islpv and j jm'ied iyo-years-at-ihe fdttirJnS iVvMi1 t'y. of .0bjtliij(cntsil ihf;R(ii(Jy :ofj thp Oornfan jaugiiqgp; iaiulVilie ferriuelJes of learnlfng connected with -tiiis. xlepart; liietit JIc passed the. wutcr ;bf?l(Jtvi&' at .XJarij; The uuit. sprijfghe again1 vfeltfcd liondou, and passeti a.fer .weeks at CambridgoriBd'Oifprd, Jn thc.nh ,ttin)n otipiVvTnchio-ttCon iicnt, andividcijl thpntcV between Flp; ren.cp;Kprati andSNaidcl.'' lVi,thpipV5rig ofXlVliw madea-jsliprijlour iiCGrceccy5 : returjicdbouid' in thefsahie yeararjd .cnterciV.uponho t1ntics.of his prpftssoVr ship,' jDuring;- hisTresidcnc'e in l3nrpc his Vpu'ric Qr.'fitndycntbraccd? tljq ,'ailcicnt "classic'Uie mpdern languaeitothe.hijtoryj .fliid' prjriqijrfc of public AW 3?tluh'prP: fesscdih tifft- Jcnnatt nhitcrsiticsud.a coMprlciisiv'obxftihinationof the existing Apolitical ; Rystnl- -pf Kurofie; Simultaneous Simultane-ous witt ins, prpfcs'iofiiiiiry lie edited itie' ; jS'qM Anitwitti IUrkw, whfch'he conducted conduct-ed till iMk lie. also found time, to pre- paro and publisli ft trnnsiatiou of "Bptt-' "Bptt-' man's Greek . Grammar.'' Mr. Kverctt's jjiubiie Jife . began fu ISI.-whcri he was . nominated nsjrt elwic tp Congress by tW IcoirtfiUieiiev; of the district iiMthicli ha reaiiltd. His nonnnalion was tnado wjUv-i uj,hh tieing conaalted; arid wa'a.-spojitM ncous1 inovtment OnJ thfe. part pf they Piing. ;trien of his.diitrtet, withplit dfslicctiQn'tjf ;pfu;ty. Hu was a snppprter' of John ttdricy Adams,- tbfen jsv o'lec;tp,d X'resi-, dent of hjo-UDited Stated Mt'-.. Everett served ten jrcars in Gpiigrcs5j and during1; ;thp whoio. fjenoil, be?' wifs--a- me)nbcrof the CpnniiTUeeoh; Foreign Affair?, pcrnif;. ;the-hiotJmportnnt-oneaahat tfnt'q hf tho lton.tp of KepresentatiVes . Jn "th'o"Tircn-tieth "th'o"Tircn-tieth Congress, he was chairman of that. .cotnuihteeV In the Jvincfccllf Congress, though thcajust elected IP tholltiuse.and theonirgest member of ihp cotnipiftec, he drew the Celebrated report oh thd l'a-: naiha missipi). JIo was chairnian during. 3Ir. Adonis' XVesidehey, in the Georgia j controversy, and Was always zealous- and pro)Uihent in his clTorU to secure ood treatment tP the Indiatyt, Iuring his1 Congressional career he displayed a tho rough knowledge of tho politics of the jCtmntry and the wants of the ,wholtv (Uniou, ,nnd his speeches nhvay3. en-' en-' gaged the jnopt profound attentioi). In .the autumn of 1834 he declined jt re- nomination IP Conjjresi, as his political ; friends in -Mnssaemisetts; were desirous : ot. presenting his ntuue as candidate for .! the office of Governor, to which ho wa ehosen by a large. majority in the ensuing election. He was afterwards three tunes 'reelected, holding the executite" office ! four years. His administration was dig-hlifted dig-hlifted useful pud. popular, lir the auliinm :'of 1839, after ait animated struggle, he WftsdeJeiited in anplher cputet.for the. ignbentatprial chair, by Marcus Moiton,. by a mojotiiy of one vpte, Jn 1&A0 hc sailed' for Knf ope with his faiuily,, and re-. innincd abroad for five years, four of ; which hp pagscil as American Minister at ' ; the Court of St, Jamrs. Huring thepc-,-1 riod of hU Jnission some delicate qucs- J jtipns, of which that of the JN'orlhcastcrn J IbQtmdury and the McLcod ease were the j Unosi prominent, thrcafcuetl ther pacific i relations of the United States and Great Britain, and to their amicable adjustment tho firmness and diplomacy of pur Mink- ter largely contributed, The case of the j Creole, and questions counccfed with f Oregon and Texas, were also elements of .irritation. He procured at variPus times, 'and in the faco of great obstacle the re- lease from the penal eolony of Tan Die-man's Die-man's Land of sixty or seventy American cjtuon?, convicted of participating in the ' Cauada rebellion. Th space allotted to this sketch will not allow us to enumerate further the invaluable ' ssrvice of Mr, JiJycrcH while Our Miiiutcr at Eugtaud, jSuluceitto say, his course was of the most .dignified character, Jn the spring ' of IMS he was appointed to fill the new-' new-' ly constituted commission to China, vyith :a view to establisli commercial relations "with that country, which honorable trust he was compelled to decline. Upon his . return tQ tho United Slate, .in 1,;, ho was chosen l'resi(ieiit of Harvard Uiii-i Uiii-i ' versity ; but his impaired health compelled -,-; , hint lo reftig.tf lii Ijost at tWtirtl. pf 'that7 yfiii rt J n iS.U lip'vjwas cjdled upon',- by TrPsidr-nt i'ilimPre io .fill the. vacant refeihippf.Staro-tndtfc yac'iuit 'hf tho. .death ot M?l. .Wobsfcr, He lleld :M office tluriu.tlip last foiir inouihs ,pf 5tr l"1JJlrtcrx?6 lidndnistratipiu The, condition' bf the ppblic hRixiiicsi juadc tlienj iupitt)ts pfinPsijS'uvcrd liibof. Ampiig the i-pprtat(t,lMV? i-pprtat(t,lMV? 'tyfi tlciiia tided Itii cpu-sidera,ti6h cpu-sidera,ti6h w'crptliost. relating to the Orescent; Cit' 'fltninprfi'trjtjo9lslAmli,an4. ihtt nogotfa lions . pcrtairiiifg to thcfislieri! ielif;Jrc:cpne.ridgd an ihtertintlofiar copy'-' right Vcpiiveujiprj. 'with Great Hrifain, ahtt & Cpusular CoiivcntlPn.' with, Traiice;" atid rey.icwa'd.tlip wljtolc fuiitfqet of Central Ahicricaij'vafrairstti ihpir rclatipiSs jib the gpveriiinchtpf theUisitcdStatesnnd i 'rtbf Aiidltiiltice!! pdpll'Wjtaejbtlittfcii' Sjrtiion oftl.sdlirsf'cthsk tpOciitralAmeripa, f Uuttho tU'itiPrihntattracteiT most of Tho; t tmljiip interest during Mr'.ifcrt'tt'sVadi L.miniBtttUip orth'o Hepartmeti.t -of, "State" was; titohint proposition of Grcat,i!WWh apil. jiaiicp'.tp litc vVlttv the Unitcit' Sta'tcaintq a'H.fiiJa.rtitpcpHTcntlpn, gua1 iranjeeiug- to, St'iaiii' in ..priictuity the. e'x-. pni:p pPsscssion,.,of;Cubht, IhispropcK lsitio va3: dcclTntd byUho trfnted Statw, jij. a. dljjiPinVtie note orgreai a.bility drawn pi'by; Mr: liycrctu, . JJeforo leaving; ihc 'DeprtriicniV Sth'tp !M;ir,',Kvett was elected ibyjliieKcgislatriro .of Jft'lossncha-BctlaHo Jft'lossncha-BctlaHo thp Scnatp'or thp-"UhUc(l States, topic lilstBcat'iii that bb'dy,; at the cotn-iinencenicutdf cotn-iinencenicutdf tl;o; special executivd tui 'sipi! tin JIirc!ij1853i.'aTid inade nix clalfl-; rata speech" dittihb'Cc'ntrat -Arhericau puesVioiC'lSjich is a bipuilinoof'3!n Kvcr'etVs career,'; Though . past ,tlic, age bfixty-fohr; lie is still iii.fult vigor, of Am iutpHectual fnctdtic' siirpass.in.'me hisiiianljpod. "Those who rtsncmbec' his .oralpytliirty.ycar4 ago. rcc.ognijie ihv it; -ilt same fire. aTid pnergy that charrped 'tllem atibatiwriod, rciined And chastened by ioiig'praoliconnd.fautitiarity' with, nil tlasscs.M'anditors,, It is rare ta find a JniarjL.whoJtas led so laborious a -Jifc, disr playing after years of toil, m keen an ihr jterpst in every inovcment of life and aiTalrs Thpiigh classed among tlic pon-' pon-' servative moti of tho cPuittry, ho is tlic i.Ujfhavpcatp Pf ratiPaab progress in. jyery fornifpciai; -Sese1ppettte"nt |