The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-04-22

OHtO ftbefs
CINCINNATI, April Is, 1852.
To the Editor Of the National Era
Two of the most distinguished men in the
history of our State have lately deceased, and
had YOU space. column instead of these few
lines might well be occupied in speaking OF the
moral worth and public services OF each |
refer to the late Governors Brown and Morrow.
Gov Brown died suddenly, while attending, IN
last month, the Democratic State Convention OF
Indiana of which he was one OF the Vice Pres
idents. He removed to that State few years
since, but was for many years citizen OF Ohio,
in which he held several important trusts. He
WAS Governor of the State for two terms and
represented the State at different times in the
Senate and Lower House of Congress, and was
universally respected by men of all parties,
wherever known.
Governor Morrow was no common man. He
was one of the pioneers in the Northwest Ter
ritory and a prominent member of the Con-
vention which framed our first Constitution.
On the organization of the State Government,
he was chosen member of Congress, and for
ten wears represented the State alone in the
Lower House In 1913 he was elected to the
United States Senate, in which he served until
1919, being continued for sixteen years in sue
cession in our national councils After few
years retirement, he was called by the people,
in 1922 to preside over them as Governor of
the State and was reelected in 1924. After
his retirement from this Office he was chosen
to the State Senate from the county of Warren,
in lS27-'2S; and at the urgent call of his
friends was candidate for a seat in the Lower
House for the session of 1866, to which he
was elected and, though advanced in life,
faithfully fulfilled its duties.
In 1910, on the resignation of Thos, Corwin,
who was chosen Governor, Gov. Morrow was
elected to fill the vacancy thus Occasoned in
the Twenty-sixth Congress, and at the same
time was chosen to serve the whole of the
Twenty-seyenth Congress He was an early
and consistent friend of the internal improve
ment policy of the State, and of all its great
interests, and, in company with De Witt Gin
ton, assisted in breaking ground on the Ohio
Canal-the precursor of our State improve
ments, now so rapidly multiplying. 1t is sell
dom that any one has enjoyed for so long a
time the confidence of the people of a State,
and received so many marks of their esteem.
The State has lost one Of its greatest and best
men, long-tried and never-failng friend. He
had witnessed the progress of his State from q
vast wilderness to become the garden spot of
the Mississippi Valley and from being inhab-
tied by savages and handful as it were of
white men, to stand the third State in the Con-
federacy, with upwards of two millions of souls
within its borders and all the free institutions
and reiinements of the oldest communities: and
full of years and honors descended to the tomb
with the blessings of all resting upon his mem
DRY, and the everlasting rewards of the JUST
MAN before his He was Christian, OF
h. 10 Dec Cd
Our General Assembly is making slow pro-
| gress with the public business. A large mum
! Der of new enactments are made necessary by
the adoption of the new Constitution the
| Legislature meets but once in two years, and a
| large portion of the members are new men
| little acquainted with the details of business
| An adjourned session, to meet next winter, has
| been proposed by committees in both Houses
but seems to meet with little favor from the
| press of the State especially the Democratic
| The prospect of an extra session is of course
| grateful to the printers and citizens of Colum.
| bus generally, who, for the money expended
| there during its session, would no doubt be
| glad to see the General Assembly there the
whole year through. The Columbus press
therefore, of both parties, 60 for the extra ses
sion and are ready with urgent reasons for il
as plenty as blackberries.
| A bill is now before that body for dividinl
the first Congressional district Hamilton coun
ty) into two. This ought to have been don.
before, and the bill should by all means b,
passed. We have more than population enough
for two members, by some so, 900, and = few
years will have enough for three. Mr. Disney
our present member, can boast the most nu
merous constituency represented in the Love-
House Of Congress
Since my last we have had heavy rains, anC
the Ohio river has been at an unusually hgl
stage-high enough to permit the largest boat
to pass over the falls At this place last week
it rose to within between ten and eleven feet
of the great floods of 1882 and ls47. Fears
were entertained of another flood similar tc
those but they were disspated in a day or two
by the Geographic reports from points above
Some damage was done by carrying off lumber
and other goods, owing to the very rapid rise
of the water but no extensive injury has been
done. The weather this week is wet, and the
river still high, and general rain from here
to Pittsburgh for day or two might bring
another food like those ever-memorable ones
so well remembered here. Yours, p