Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-05-31

little understood in these latter times those
of the latter founded in the prerogative of the
House to originate all revenue bills those of
the former to act upon the propositions from
the House, without originating measures which
might affect the revenue, SO as to coerce either
its increase or prevent its reduction. In 1874
he left the Senate, to stand for the governor.
ship OF New ork and never did his self-sac
rihcing temper undergo stronger trial. or sub
nit to q greater sacrifice. He liked the Sen
ate ; he disliked the gsvernorship, even to alb
Solute repugnance. But it was said to him
(and truly, as then believed, and afterwards
proved) that the state would be lest to Mr.
Polk, unless Mr.. Wright was associated with
him in the canvass and to this argument he
yielded. lie stood the canvass for the COVER
aorship-carried it-and Mr. Polk with him
and saved the presidential election that year.
Judgment was the character of Mr. Wrights
mind purity the quality of the heart. Tho
valuable in the field of debate, he was still
more valued at the council table, where sense
and honesty are most demanded General
Jackson and Mr. Van Buren relied upon him
as one of their safest counsellors. A candor
which knew no gule-an integrity which knew
no deviatiOn-Which worked right on, like a
machine governed by a law of which it was
unconscious-were the ineXorable conditions of
his nature, ruling his conduct in every act pub
lie and private. No foul legislation ever ema-
mated from him. The jobber, the speculator,
the dealer in false claims, the plunderer, whose
scheme required an act of Congress all these
found in his vigilance and perspicacity detec-
tive police, which dicovered their designs, and
in his integrity of corruption which kept
them at distance from the purity of his at
moSphere.
His temper was gentle-his manners simple
his intercourse kindly-his habits laborious
and rich upon freehold of thirty acres, in
much part cultivated by his own hand In the
inyervals of senatorial duties this man, who re-
fused cabinet appointments and presidential
honOrS and a seat upon the Supreme Bench
who measured strength with Clay, Webster,
and Calhoun, and on whose accents admirng
Scnatcs hung this man, his neat suit of broad
cloth and fue linen exchanged for the aborer'S
dress, might be seen in the harvest field, or
meadow, carrying the foremost row, and doing
the cleanest work : and this net as recreation
or pastme, or encouragement to Others, but as
work, which was to count in the annual culti-
vation, and labor to be felt in the production
of the needed crop. His principles were demo
cratic, and innate, founded in Il feeling, still
more than a conviction, that the masses were
generally right in their sentiments, though
sometimes wrong in their action and that
there was less injury to the country from the
honest mistakes Of the people, than from the
interested schemes of corrupt and intriguing
politicians He was born in Massachusetts,
casne to mans estate ia New-Y York, received
frcm that state the only henors he would ac-
cept and in choosing his place Of residence in
it gave proof of his modest, retiring, unpretend-
ing nature. Instead of following bis profession
in the commercial or political capital of his
state, where there would he demand and re-
ward for his talent, he constituted himself a
village lawyer, where there was neither, and
pcrtinaciously refused to change his locality.
In an outside county, on the extreme border of
the state, taking its name of st. Lawrence,
from the river which washed its northern side,
and disiding the United States from British
America-and in one of the smallest towns of
that county, and in one of the least ambitious
houses of that modest town, lived and died this
patriot statesman-a good husband (he had
no children "a good neighbour kind rela-
tive-a fast friend-exact and punctual in eve
~ dHty, aud the exempliGcatien of every social
and civic virtue