Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-10-21
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: easiest thing in the world to charge ther
with being mercenary; to say that sue
y and suchan article was paid for; that any
/ body can have anything praised or abuse,
/ in paper. If he will pay for it; and, say
) a wiseacre, every now and then, "If ha'
newspaper here, wouldn't | pitch int,
J this or that, and would MT 1 show the peo
pie what an independent paper is?" Well
my friend and pitcher, why not establish
a paper and "pitch ino every thing anC
every body?" Nobody can object to YOU
doing so. The papers that are in the hab
it of pitching into everything are the ca
+ siest edited in the world 1t is only we'll
practiced and matured editars that pos.
sess that Wisdom aud true independence
which consist in refusing 10 'rteh in
that manliness which can withstand pub
lie clnmor, that can scorn personalities,
and that can treat public questions with
the dignity and soberness that can alone
secure respect for the press.
nea- Sir John Franklin was born at Spills.
by Lincolnshire, April 10th. 1856, being
the youngest son Of a respectable yeoman.
He was put to school at 81. Ives, and af-
terwards at Louth lie had an early long
ing for the sea- and entered as midship-
man on the Polyphemus in 1900, being at
the battle of Copenhagen, April I'd 1901
de saw much and varied service, and was
signal midshipman on board the Belero-
phon at Trafalgar. lie commanded the
boats of the Bedford in the fight with
American gun boats at New Orleans, cap
turing one of the boats, and receiving
appointed to the command of the Trent,
in the expedition ordered to attempt the
passage to India by the poler sea. north
of Spitzbcrgen. The expedition turned
out unfortunately, but Franklin gained
much reputation. In 1919 he was sent in
command of an expidition to explore the
coast of America, east of the Coppermine
river The result of this was great ad
dition to our knowledge of Artic geOgra-
ply franklin returned to England in
1922. In 1925 he was ordered on anoth-
er overland expedition to the Artic sea,
and he had to leave the sick bed Of his
young wife. who died the day afte he went
to sea. He returned by the way of New
York, and landed in Liverpool September
Oath, 1927. ial
On the Sth of march, 1928, he was mar
ried to Jane Griffin, the present respected |
Lady Franklin. In the following year he
was knighted. In 1880, he was sent to the
rendering good service to
the Greek cause. In 1886, he was made
Governor of. Tasmania, or Van Dieman's
Land, which Office he administered ably
till 1913 whe he returned to England In
1845, he was appointed to command new
expedition to search for the northwest pas
sage, and he sailed with the Erebus and
Terror on the Goth of May 1915. .T The re-
cord ends with his death on the 11th of
June, 1917, at the age Of sixty one years
and nearly three months.
Of the two wives of Franklin the first,
Eleanor Ann Porden, was lady of unusu-
al accomplishments and scholarship, who
taught herself Greek and Latin when eev-
en- or twelve years old, and beanie prof.
rient in other languages, besides studying
branches of natural science. She
wrote and published sevcralpoems, one Of
which, "The Ar,ic Expedition which APP
peared in 1918, led Franklin to seek her
acquaintance, and the were marriedin 1923
She died within less than two years of con-
His second wife, who survives
him. was a daughter of John Griffin and
was born about 1900 Her devotion to
him is known to the whole world, and it is to
her persistent efforts that the final discov-
cry of his fate is due -I'hitedephia Bull
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