The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-06-11

from tho House, without originating meas
ures which might affect the revenue, SO al
10 coerce either ills increase or prevent IFS re-
duclion. In 1874 he left the Senate, 10 stand
for the Governorship of New York and ne
yer did his self-sacrifcing temper undergo q
stronger trial, or submit TO greater sacrifice
He liked the Senate; he disliked the Gov.
ernorship,, ,,even 10 absolute repuguance. Bul
il was raid 10 him (aud truly, as then believ.
ed, ard afterwards proved) that the State
would be lost 10 Mr.. Polk, unless Mr.. Wright
was associated with him in the canvass; and
to this argument he yielded. He stood the
canvass for the Govemorship-carred it
and M. Polk with him and saved The pres
! idential election that year.
Judgment was the character of Mr.. Wrishrs
mind purity the quality of the heart.--
Though valuable in the field of debate, he
was still more valued at the council table,
where sense and honesty are most demands
ed. Gen. Jackson and Mr. Van Buren, re-
lied upon him as one of their safest counsel
lors. A candor which knew no guile--an
integrity which kne1 no deviation-whch
worked right on, like a machine governed
by law Of which was unconscious-were
the inexorable conditions of bis natuse, rul-
ing his conduct in every act, public and prl-
vate. No foul legislation ever emanated
from him. The jobber, the speculator, The
dealer in false claims, the pundersr, whose
mi nG oil
these found in bis vigilance and perspica-
city detective police, which discovered
their designs, and in his integrity scorn of
corruption which kept them at distance
from The purity of his atmosphere.
His temper was gentle his manners SIM
ple-his intercourse kindly-hls habits abo-
rious--and rich upon a freehold of thirty
acres. in much part cultivated by his own
hand. In the interval of senatorial duties
this man, who refused cabinet appointments
and presidential honors and seat upon the
Supreme Bench-who measured strength
with Clay, Webster and Calhoun, and on
whose accents admiring Senates hung this
man, his neat suit OF broadcloth and fine lin.
en- exchanged for the laborer's dress, might
be seen in the harvest field or meadow, car
ryng the foremost row, and doing the clean.
est work: and this not as recreation or pas
time, or encouragement 10 others, bet as
work which was 10 count in The annual cu.
tivalon, aud labor 10 be felt in The produc-
tion OF the needed crop. Hs principles were
Democratic and innate, founded in feeling,
sill more than conviction, that the masses
were generally right in their sentiments, tho
sometimes wrong in tneIr ac'iou, aud that
there was less injury 10 The country from the
honest mistakes of the people, than from the
interested schemes of corrupt and intriguing
politicians. He was born in Massachusetts,
came 10 mans estate in New York, received
| from that State the only honors he would ac-
cepl; and in choosing his place of residence
in il gave proof Of his modest, retiring, uu-
pretending nature. Instead Of following his
profession in the commercial or political cap
ilal of his Stale, where there would be de.
mand and reward for his talent, he cons,ilut.
ed himself village lawyer, where there
was neither, and pernaciously refused tc
change his locality. In an outside county
on the extreme border of the State, taking
its name of ST. Lawrence, from the rivel
which washed its northern side, and dividing
The United States from British America-and
in one of the smallest towns in that county
and in one of the least ambitious houses
of that modest town, lived and died this pa
lr:oi staiesman--a good husband (he had M
chidren)-a good neighbor-a kind relative
"a fast friend--exacl and punclual in every
duty, and the exempliication Of every socia
anG moral virtue.