The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-09-24

ALL THE DLOoD VI AiL ihis hiNo'' -"t.
John Adams King, the exclusive candidate
Of Thurlow Weed and the Central RAILROAD oil
garchy for Governor Of New York, places his
pretensions to that Office on the following
grounds
Mr. KING rose and addressed the convention as fol-
Mr.. President and Gentlemen Of the Couvention-I
Of my heart stand before you - your candidate for
Governor Of the State OF New Yorkhe great State OF
this Union-fu Of intelligence, full Of the love Of liberty
come from race who had something to do With the
framing Of that constitution The same blood runs ~ ny
reis at ran in the pens Of him 'ohosc signature oas
placed Aa instrument As the son OF that man should
be recreant to my duty upon this eccas IN and in susa
presence as this, should hall or hesitae, or doubt
that you have done justice IA pres enng me Is can
aidsse for the Office Of Governo
An examination of ar Kings claims to the
favor of the people the score of blood is there
fore legitimate. The issue is one chosen by HIM
self. He is son of the late Rufus King. Rufus
Kings blood runs in his veins. Rufus Kings
principles overload his intellect.
Who was Rufus King, and what were his prin-
ciples? He was member Of the Congress of the
Confederation from 1854 to 1887, from the State
of Massachusetts,, and was regarded as possessing
fair abilities, and was subsequently zealou
federalist. We are not aware of his being the
author Of any measure of note or Of being very
prominent except as partizan politician. In
1896 John Adams rewarded him with the place
of Minister to England. He was there until
ousted by Mr.. Jefferson, and during his residence
at that court was conspicuous for his hostility to
the cause of republcanism in France, and for his
opposition to the Irish patriots then seeking TO
break the chains of British oppression. Such
was his course there that on his return to the
United States he was excluded from public life
till 1919, when he was elected to the United
States Senate from New York, by the aid of Mr..
Van Buren,, where he staid till 1925, when John
Quincy Adams sent him back to his old post OF
Minister to England where he remained till re-
called by Gen jackson. He was not afterwards
in public life.
Mr. Rufus King was Minister at st. James when
the Irish revolution was crushed out by the Bri-
fish government, and when the patriots, Oliver
Bond Edward Fitzgerald, Robert Emmett, Law
renee AMI Arthur O'Connor, William Jackson,
Thomas Adds Emmett, William Sampson and
LII. William McNeven nad Deen apprenenueo
and imprisoned by the British authorities SOM
of these gentlemen finding the cause hopeless, to
save the effusion of blood agreed to an arrange
ment with the British government to emigrate to
the United States, and wrote to Mr.. King, a.
American Minister and a correspondence took
place on the subject.
Elsewhere in our columns viii be found these
curious documents. They are taken from a work
published in this city in 1907, by DR.. McNeven
and the late Thomas Adds Emmett. Mr.. Kings
conduct towards them is described in way which
we presume will not induce the descendants Of
these or other patriots in the United States TO re-
cognize Mr.. J. A. Kings claims to be their Gov
ernor on the score of his descent or blood" OF
race or inherited principles.