The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-04-05
Departure OF Professor Haddock and 3. G..
Goodrich, ESQ.

Correspondence of the Phiia. North Amnican.]
NEw YoRK, April 8, 1851.
Msssns. EDIroRs: You have, ere this, the list of
passengers by the Arctic yesterday. Among them
were Prof. Charles b. Haddock, of Dartmouth Col
lege, our Charge d'AfIaires for Portugal to reside
at Lisbon, and S. G. Goodrich, esq.,, our consul to
supersedc Mr.. Walsh at Paris. In the present
political condition of Europe, these appointments
are among the most judicious of the present Ad-
ministraton. Born and educated in the centre of
territory whereon republican liberty had its
earliest struggles and triumphs, their immediate
ancestors being prominent actors in those scenes,
they are fitted, both by the sympathics of assoca-
ton and by their practical life at home, for just
that course Of action, whatever it may be, which
will subscrve the highest interests of liberty
| abroad.
They not political, but practical men; scholars
and working men in tho cause of popular educa-
ton, and all Legitimate, practical movements,
which really elevate the condition of the masses.
Professor Haddock is eminently of this class. He
is now about fifty four. His childhood chiefly
passed at Elm's Farms, franklin, New Hamp-
shire, owned and cultivated by his distin-
guished uncle, Daniel Webster. Here he was the
pupil of Chief Justice Fletcher and Justice Willard
of Massachusetts, and the poet and scholar, Mr.
Nathaniel H. Carter, with the latter of whom his
taste for the classics first inspired. He grad
uated at Dartmouth, in 1916, with the first honors
or a class which numbered In It's ranks such names
as George A. Simmons, DR.. Absalom Peters, Pre-
sidont Wheeler, and Professor Torrey, of Yer
mont, and George Hubbard, of Maine. Few men
have crowded into short period Of active
manhood 30 great and actually benefcent va
riety of literary and public labor. In very few
years after graduating he received the degree of
Master of Arts, and appointed Professor Of
mt
This post was held with distinguished success for
nearly twenty years. till, in 1898, he succeeded to
the chair of Intellectual Philosophy and Political
Economy. which he still holds, and TO the entire
inquishment of which the trustees of the college
would not consent by this absence. Few officers
hold greater measure of esteem, either from
alumni or under graduates For one yet in his
meridian, Prof. H. has done noble work out of tho
institution. He was four consecutive years men,
Der Of the Legislature of New Hampshire; origi-
mated her present valuable school laws by his good
sense and strong argument secured their adoption,
and, as first commissioner, put them into successful
operation. He was also one of the parent spirits
of the system of railways in New Hampshire.
Added to all this, few of his age have sustained
80 much miscellaneous public labor-have deliver
ed SO many Phi Beta Kappa orations, addresses,
and lectures before literary societies and lyccums.
Ills eerlesOI leuers 10 students ana teachers while
commissioner of schools, excrted a marked and
elevatipg influence on the standard OF instruction
in that State. A large volume of his miscellaneous
writings was published in 1876. Professor Haddock
is well versed in public law, and knows intimately
tho policy Of the American Government Chaste
and polished a scholar of sound practical sense,
of direct and high aims statesman, his appoint
Incnt will prove excellent one for US and the
country to which ho il accredited.
MIR. Goodrich is well known as the Peter Farley
of America, whose prolific pen has furnished more
mental aliment for American youth than any other
author of our continent. Merry's Monthly Mu-
scum, (still to be edited by him in PARISH the
Youths Popular Library of Curiosities and Scien-
ti6c Facts, Parlcy's Primary and Quarto Gcogra-
phies. his illustrated United States, Eng
land. France, Greece, and Rome, with numerous
other works-arc widely circulated in every part of
our country. Mr.. Goodrich has been much in
Paris; was there during the revolution and the
abdication of Louis Philippc knows well the pub
lie men of France, her literature, and the antago-
nistic elements of her society; and, whatever tho
conflicts to come, will throw the weight of his
influence always into the scale of republican
liberty.