Show FRELINGHUYSEN In the death of exSenator Freling huysen the Republican party has lost a man who was always active in its interests and who had a higher sense of right and public duty than many of the prominent men of his party have He belonged rather to the antebellum Republican party than to the postbellum Republican party j and in consequence he never became a Republican of the type which drove the better men out of the party On the death of President Garfield and the assumption of presidential duties by VicePresident Arthur he was given the Secretaryship of the State Department and his course there while not so brilliant as ins predecessor Mr Blame was far I more conservative and dignified and soon the country felt assured that the State Department would not assume to extend the Monroe doctrine to the islands of the South Pacific or ignore treaties upon important questions with firBt < lass Powers As Secretary of State Freling huysen served his country creditably although he was probably not the fittest man for the position which his party could have furnished He was born at S Milltown Somerset county New Jersey i August 4th 1817 In 1830 he graduated from Rutgera College a college more I famous then than 4 now and was admitted to the bar in 1839 He was elected to the Senate in 1860 and remained there until 1881 when he was called into the Cabinet by President Arthur He passed away quietly yesterday surrounded by his friends and family at Newark New Jersey where his remains will doubtless restTintil the day shall come when all J areisummoned to before appear the Judge of All |