The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-06-30

fhe had respect, he permitted none TO overbeal
This Judgment or control his action The coun
TRY has great need Of such men, and, on &C
count Of their comparative rarity in public life
I DR.. Bailey will be missed the more.
There is a very large literary circle, also, in
(which the grief for his death will be profound
land sincere. The literary department of the
4 National Era has always been one of its prom
Enent features, and has contributed very largely
4 to its success. DR.. Bailey himself always main
ttained an active supervision over it. and gave
lit the character for vigor, freshness, and good
taste, by which it has always been distinguished
& Uncle TOMS Cabin first appeared in its col
umns. Mrs. Southworth was first INTRODUCED
Ito the public through its agency, and John g.
whittier and other well-known authors have
I been regular contributors to its pages. With
out any special pretensions to literary eminence
himself, DIR. Bailey was clear, strong, and not
I inelegant writer-a man of fine education and
highly cultivated taste, and gifted with a quick
appreciation of merit in whatever writings were
submitted to his inspection.
In person he was rather under the medium
height, and slightly built-with the air of stu
fdent rather than man of physical action, and
1.-THE manners of one who shunXed rather than
lcourted the notice of the world at large His
conversation was easy, and always agreeable,
turning upon events rather than books, and
marked by sagacious and charitable construc
ltdn of the conduct and motives Of public men.
! Not the least affecting circumstance OF his
.decease is the fact that ne leaves wife and six
Ichildren to mourn his departure. His eldest
son was the only one of his family who was
with him but everything possible was done for
shim his life, In all probability, could not have
been prolonged had he remained at home, and
VI nj a.
Hit could possibly have been, had it occurred in
1.-The midst of those whom he loved. There is
something desolate and cherries in the thought
sof friends dying at sea-but this is more per
3hapS in imagination than in the reality. The
anguish of surrounding friends certainly can
Firing no comfort to the parting soul-and the
amurmuring of the waves, as they break peace
fully against the couch OF the dying, is more
grateful requiem than the roar of traffic and
1.-The hum of business which disturb the last mo-
Z ments of one who dies in the heart of great me
ropolis. Ii. }. r..
The New York Ereni,tg Post contains the
following brief sketch of his career:
From the New York Evening Post +
q DEATH OF DR.. BAILEY, EDITOR OF THE Ma
FlONAL ERA
DIR. Gamaliel Bailey, editor of the National
Era, died at sea, on board the steamer Arago
bound for Havre, on the 9th of the pre- sent
month. Dr. Bailey had for some years been
suffering from chronic dyspepsia, which had SO
{enfeebled his system that on the 18th Of May
HE left the United States, in company with his
eldest son, to regain his health by tour in
Europe.
The main incidents in DIR. Bailey's life are
thus summed up:
He was born at Mount Holly, n. j. in 1907,
studied medicine in Philadelphia, and took his
degree in 1923. After serving as ships physi
Ician on a trip to China, he commenced his ca
ireer in journalism in Baltimore as the editor of
the Methodist P,oteStdRtl subsequently,, in
1881, he removed to Cincinnati, where he was
physician to the Cholera Hospital
during the prevalence of that epidemic Iu
1896, he Joined the late James e. BirneyI in
the publication of the PhuaHhrOpiSt, a Liberty
party paper at Cincinnati. His paper met the
usual fate of all Anti-Slayery journals in those
Bnmes, his press and printing office being
several times destroyed by mObs. Mr.. Birney
withdrew from the paper in 1897, and was sup
/ ported by the PhilanthOpist for the Presidency
fin 1910. DIR. Bailey continued the publication
fof his paper till l847 when it was merged i'm
sthe National Era, an Anti-Slavery paper pub
sished at Washington by the American and
Foreign Anti-Slaveryl Society, of which DIR
Bailey was chosen editor, with John G.. Whit
4 tier as corresponding editor. In l848, he pur
chased the paper from the Society, and contin-
4 ued its publication on his own account.
As an editor, though by no means violent,
! he was quite too plain-spOken to suit the me
fridian of Washington, and the mob decided to
destroy his press, His office was besieged for
two or three days, but he was not driven from
shs post. In 1856, DIR. Bailey supported Ere
4 IL u
party. His paper has maintained a high lite
srary character, and first gave Mrs. Stoves
,story Of Lncte TOMS Cabin to the world. 4
number of authors of note in American litera-
sture first attained reputation through the EN-
scouragement Of Dr. Bailey
DIR. Bailey's death creates a void in Ameri-
lean journalism and in the political world which
cannot be filed. He was a man of great
moderation of temperament, and noted for the
sagacity, and fairness, with
(which he discussed questions of political inter-
TEST. On the subject of the relations of Slavery
with the General Government his thorough
land lucid articles were of peculiar value, and
4 merit republication in a permanent form.
Added to his logical vigor and the persuasive
qualities of his style, DIR. Bailey possessed a
5manifest sincerity of purpose, and tenacious
zlntegrity, which made him an invaluable cor
srector of the compromising tendencies of the
Eparty of which he was a leader, and which
owed its vast and rapid increase from small
beginnings in no small degree to his judicious
2and untiring labors.
The Doctor, although the prominence of his
fjournal as an organ of Republcanism had of
5late somewhat diminished, still continued to
i lead the nucleus of the party-the stern, IN
compromising Anti-Slavery men who had fought
sthe battle of Freedom from its days Of adversi-
$ty to its present ascendency in almost all the
free States. They trusted the Doctor implicitly,
7fOr they never knew him to lose sight of the
great principles for which they had so heroic
Tally contended, and it was he who turned this
active and energetic element into the service
bot the Republican organization.
~Dr. Bailey was a man of much refinement
land culture, and drew around him persons of
Kindred tendencies. The hospitality of him
sself and his accomplished wife formed one OF
sthe most agreeable attractions of Washington
Society, and his Saturday evening reunions
Ewere more attended by men of distinction in
Eliterary and political circles than even the am
zbitious receptions of the President and the
sCabinet.
q DIR. Bailey leaves wife and six children
4 ABOVE SUsPIcION.-The Presidents orgau is
seized with paroxysm of indignation at the
{ bare thought that the President could be sus
spected of wanting thirty million appropriation
klor the purpose of using tito influence elections
The. Constitution says:
We can hardly conceive ANYTHING more
iCruo nut s.s,1 Oh A. /