Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1847-09-09
Gcralo Of: the Gimes,
RHODE SlAMDER;.
NEWPORT:
Thursday Morning Sept. 9, 1917

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OF Mr. WRdnr, which came SO uuexpec ed
upon the public, aud has excited in all polite,
circles the marked sensation, which the uncon
mon powers of mind and The peculiar positio
occupied by the deceased was especially iitte
to create. Subsequent accounts state, that h
was overiaken by The attack which terminate
his life, while perusing his letters in the Po.
Office at Canton, st. Lawrence county, N. Y
and that though medicalaSsistance was imme
diaely resorted 10, and his strength availe
him to reach his dwelling, in very brief in
lerval thereafter he brealhed his last. MI
Wright was born at, Amherst, Mass. on tn
Gath Of May, l195, and was consequently, at hi
| deceaSe, in the SD year of his age. II fahe
removed the year after his birth to the town o
H Weybridge, in Addison county, Vermont, wher
he purchased farm on which he labored as
sidsously during his proiracied life. and wher,
his distinguished son received the usual New
England elementary instruction by attending
Il school IN winter, while his summers and au
tumns were devoted to the labors Of the farm
In August 1871 young Wright was entered in
Middebury College, Vermont, and received
his bachelors degree from that institution in
the summer of 1878. Having completed his
preparatory law studies first with Mr.. Martin
dale, of Sandy Hill, and afterwards with the
Hon. Roger skinner, then attorney Of the U. s.
for the Northern district. N. Y he was licensed,
hnuary 1919, to practice in the Supreme Court
of that State, and fixed his residence ct Canton,
in the county of St. Lawrence. then a new viii
lage of a moderate population, just emerging
from The forests of that sequeslered district.
In 1898, he was elected a Senator in the
State Legislature for The county of st. Law
renee for the term of years. During that pc.
riod the famous contest took place, in The Stale
of New York respecting the choice of electors
'of President ofthe U. S. which resulted in the
ultimate defeat of the caucus candidate, Mr..
CRAWFORD. lu this controversy Mr.. Wright
was the unhnching adherent Of Crawford, and
was one of "the immortal sercntttn," as they
were sometimes called who, in the State Sen
ate. refused TO commit that election to the peo-
pie In the Goth Congress, the second under
Mr. AdamsS administration, (!s27) Mr.. w.
was returned member of the House of Rep
and served through his term. lie was decided
10 be elected also to the Congress which sue.
ceeded though he did not take his seat in that
body. The Legislature Of New York having
at lhislime chosen him their State Comptroller
he accepted that place at their hands, and con
tinued in the discharge of its duties until Janu-
AIRY 1893. At The November election preced-
ing Mr.. Marcy, being elected Governor, re-
signed his seat in the Senate of the U. s. and
i'll January following, was succeeded by, Mr..
Wright. On the expiration of the residue of
Gov. Marcy's term. March Sd, iS'7, Mr.. w
was reelected for the constitutional period of
six years, which he filled to its close and was
subsequently again chosen (Feb. ls43) for a.
mother six years, bat served only until Novem-
ber 1874, when he was elected to the office of
Governor AT the State election, two years af-
er, November lSiG) he was superseded in
his Office, as is known to all our readers, by
NAMED private citizen, though necessarily a
very prominent one until the day of his death.
b Mr.. Wright, had he chosen to pursue the
profession of the law, would have been counted
among It's great lights and ornaments, for his
mind was eminenlly fitted for the rigid and
profound analysis, which the investigation of
legal and constitutional questions demands of
It's leading and most gifted votaries. But he
nnpIIl ~ rn mil tiaI ~. -
and duties of public lile,-and here. on its high
EST theatres, without an apparent effort, he at
once became prominent, and soon acquired an
almost undisputed ascendency in the manage
nent and direction of the party, with which his
education and youthful prepossessions had
originally linked him. The strength and pc
'uliarity of MIR. Wrights powers were felt on
lis entering the House of Representatives in |
S27, particularly on the subject ofthc Tariff.
With whose details he had made himself famil- /
ar, and which occupied SO large portion ofII
he attention ofihe statesmen Of that Congress H
But it was in the Senate of the United States,
hat the powers of Mr.. W. were most fully ap. Il
reciated. In the midst of the exciting career
f General Jackson, when that body abounded
With able men, whose great minds were en-
aged in opposition TO measures which we can.
ot but deem to have been the bitter fountains
{ all our subsequent calamities--Mr Wright
TODD foremost in support olthe administration Of
is choice, its most trusted leader, the acknow-
'dgcd equal oflhe men who with unsurpassed
biliy gave consistency and direction to the
navaiing opposition We have mentioned. lie
'as the competitor and rival ofthe Clays, the
VebSters, the Leighs, and the Soulhards al.
'ays master of his subject,a t,and present ing it in
'rln so well adapted to his purpose, that it re-
ulrcd the greatest intellecls of the Senate to
ONT out the fallacies which too ofcn envelop
Il It, In connection with these powers.
c possessed the most entire seli.possession
ndimperlurbable good per ,opd never failed
his upvaried urSahW Md moderation to win
ven upon those who deprecated he most sin
'rely the effect Of his doctrines. What was
cry remarkable, however, in character where
ct and shrewdneSs formed so considerable an
ement, he seemed entirely devoid of the or.
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