The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-24

VIAL FORCES a tuberculosis OF the lungs, WHICH
year before had brought him almost to the
grave, became stationary, and then refrigerated
under the iron rule Of the brain; and stom-
ach long enfeebled by dyspepsia was goaded
into active digestion by the tyrant head, that
it might be energized by nutrition for the ac-
complshment of impending labors. At the
close of the campaign, when too late, the head
sought rest. 1t no longer worked off the ex-
element it absorbed, and its accumulation re-
suited in deep congestion and coma, under
which he gradually sunk.
Mr.. McGINTY was born in Montgomery
county, Tenn, on the 14th Of September, 1917.
His father was very poor man, and deter
mined, after the birth of his sixth child, to re-
move 10 Illinois, where he hoped the struggles
for the maintenance of his large family would
meet with greater reward. A peculiarly
sensitive man, his proud spirit chafed under
accommodating difficulties, which the most man.
ly efforts could neither remove nor palliate.-
Shortly after his removal to Illinois, in rude
hut, constructed with his own hands, in the
wilderness, be gave back his spirit to God
The stricken mother and her orphans made
their way back, as best they could, to their
acquaintance in Tennessee. There were three
sons and three daughters. Our subject was
then in his eleventh year, and the principal
charge of the family devolving upon him, he
struggled manfully and heroically in the dis
charge of his onerous duties. He had enjoy
ed but poor school advantages prior to this
event, and had not moment 20 spare after
wards in a school-house. He loved his mother
and sisters with his whole heart, and conse-
Grated bis life and energies to their service
Two brothers and his devoted mother followed
the father to Heaven, and upon our subject
devolved the necessity of providing for him
self and orphan sisters. We challenge the
history of the world for an example of the
magnanimity, heroism and success of this poor
and friendless boy in tie discharge Of This sa
cred duty. AFFECT poverty not only mehaced,
but was upon thems while grim restitution
howled fearfally in the distance. The great
hearted little orphan placed each of the three
sisters at board and at school, and undertook
with the labor of his own hands to defray
their expenses, and succeeded jp accomplish
ing it, Having great energy and ingenuity,
sharpened by necessity, he succeeded in a
printing Office in Russelville, KY, in learning
to set type so rapidly as almost from the very
beginning, to earn money enough to keep his
sisters at school. AS his earnings increased,
the sisters were afforded higher means of in
structon. One was in the country at school,
one at GAINESVILLE, and one in the Female Ac-
ademy of this city. The sisters, knowing that
his tolls and privations were the price of the
advantages they enjoyed, implored him to take
them from school, and let them labor in COM
mon with him, but in reply, he exhOrted them,
if they loved him, to attend to their studies,
and in good time their Heavenly Father would
bring about happy reunion.
At about eighteen years of age he purchas-
ed the Chronicle press and Immediately COM
menced editing the paper. He was sole COM
positor and pressman, as well as editor. In a
few years afterwards, the education of his
sisters being completed, the long hoped for re-
union occurred. The eldest sister having mar
ried, they all occupied the same house, and a
more happy and intelligent family did not
exist anywhere. They were all deeply pious
and members of the Methodist Church, and
upon one occasion their Minister, being on q
visit to them, was struck with the extra rdi-
nary happiness of the family, and remarked to
Mr.. MoGINTY feelingly, that such home in
his estimation, was an approximation to para
disc. 81 have the three graces," replied Mr..
NJ, pointing to his sisters.
1t is unnecessary to say that so remarkable
q boy must have been the son of mother
equally remarkable. Two anecdotes of her will
sufficiently illustrate her character. We en-
quired of her accomplished daughter by what
means her mother supported herself and or
phans, upon her return to Tennessee from Il
linois: "By prayer and constant labor" said
she, "often have been awakened in the dead
hour of night by the hum of my mothers
prayers, the joyful accompaniment of her
needle" The fathers cabin in Illinois stood
within sight of the Ohio river. One night
after his death, the little group of widow and
children were suddenly alarmed by the APP
preach of a noisy and drunken crew of fiat
boat. The children screamed with terror,
but the dignifed matron, proud in her christian
strength, met them at the yard fence and said
to them calmly, am an unprotected lady
and a christian" The poor fellows were in
stantly melted to tears, and on their knees i'm
plored her pardon, aud then rising to leave,
begged our little hero, who stood by his moth
or, TO receive some small pieces of money.
Mr.. MoGINTY was for single term a Repre-
sentative of his county in the State Legislature.
OF his bearing in that body we quote an elo-
quent account, written since his death, by the
accomplished editor of the Republican Banner
of this city:
Our deceased friend and contemporary had been
connected with the political press for many years,
having wrought his way up from the humblest to
the highest position. AS Editor Of the GAINESVILLE
Chronicle, his labors a political writer first at
tracted attention. There was a fund Of information,
a clearness Of reasoning, and vigor OF style, even