Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-01-19
Death OF Edward Everett.
From ,he Cincinnati Gazette.l

From The Cincinnati Gazettel
The announcement fthe death of Edward |
Everett will strike the country with the |
same painful surprise: that sgitated the com.
munity in which he dwelt. The venerable
state man and patriot had indeed passed the |
limit which the inspired writer assigns to |
the life ofman, but the stroke OF the destroy
er fell suddenly, and at a moment unex pect-
ed by all. With the exception of a cold, !
not regarded as serious, Mr.. Everett was
apparently as well as usual when he retired |
to rest on Saturday night. Before daylight
yesterday he was q corpse. A stroke of
apoplcxy in few short hours completed
its work.
Edward Everett was the second Of two
distinguished sons of the Rev. Oliver Ever
EFT, q clergyman of Boston, and was born at
Dorchester near that city, on the 18th of
April, 1894. Like his elder brother Alex
ander, he was marvel Of precocity. The
latter graduated at Cambridge, with the
first honors Of his class, in 1906, at the early
age of fourteen. Edward received his
diploma Mt the same institution, with equal
rank, in 1871. He was then seventeen years
old, and the youngest member of his class
Two years later, when only in his twentieth
year, he succeeded the brilliant Buckmins
ter as pastor OF the Brattle Street Church,
Boston, and speedily acquired foremost
rank among the Unitarian clergy. A year
after a keen reply to the deistical work of a
young uan named English, who had re-
stated the arguments Of Anthony Collins
against the application Of the Old Testament
prophecies to tho Messiah, gave him reputa.
ton as a cotrovcrsialist.
! But the pulpit did not meet the intel
lectual aspirations of Mr.. Everett. In 1914
he was appointed Eliot Professor of Greek
at Harvard College. and given time to
Ereparo himself more fully tor the position.
! lie accordingly spent five years in Europe,
attending lectures in the German Univer-
stiles and making the acquaintance of the
chief lileralt of England and the continent.
On assuming the position of Professor, his
zeal and learning gavo new impetus to the
study of Greek at Cambridge, and his popu-
larity and reputation greatly extended. -
About this time he became editor of the
North American Review devoting to that
periodical the leisure allowed him from his
professional dsties.
lie was now thirty years Of age, and had
achieved literary reputation which would
have satisfied the ambition of most men,
but the path of political preferment was
now opened, and he obeyed the call of his
fellow citizens to enter it. In 1924 he was
elected to Congress from the Cambridge
district, and held the place by reflections
for ten years. Our limits do not allow us
to even glance at the incidents of this part
OF his career. In 1884 he declined renom-
ination to the House, to accept tho position
of Governor of his native State, which Of
fee he held for four successive terms of one
year each In 1889 he was beaten for fifth
term by one majority his Democratic COM
pettor, Marcus Morton, heing chosen -
In 1910 he was appointed Minister to Eng
land by President Harrison, RESPONSE
bilility which he discharged with equal cred
it to his country and himself. On his re.
; turn to America, in lS45, he was elected
President of Harvard College. holding the
Office for about three years. In 1852, on
tho death of Mr.. Webster, he was called
to the Cabinet Of Mr.. Fillmore as Secretary
OF State.
Passing by the many other important ma
tional questions which were satisfactorily
adjusted by him in this capacity, we may
recall tho readers attention to his happy
disposal of the tripartite convention for tho
perpetual guarantee of Cubs to tho posses
sion Of Spain. Mr. Everett's reasons foi
declining to enter into the agreement form
, the basis of one of the ablest expositions O
, American diplomacy. In 1858 he took hi
seat in the National Senate, to which h,
, had been elected by the Massachusetts b
! Legislature before his term of service il
the Cabinet expired. This place he wa
compelled to resign by ill-health, in May
l 1884. Short MS was his tenure of office, j
n was sufficiently protracted to enable him t,
: display much of his peculiar ability
T 1t was about this time that he com
{ menced those labors for tho purpose OF SO
curing the homo of Washington to the ma
ton. He delivered tho lecture on Tho
8 "Fathcr of his Country" about one hun
. drod and fifty times, giving all his proceed
without even the deduction of personal ex
+ penses to the cause for which he labored. :
v The compensation for his contributions Il
the New York Ledger were devoted to tn
u same purpose. In 1860 he was nominate,
s as Vice President on the American ticket
. John Bell, of Tennessee, being the candi
date for President The subsequent carce
latter, hew deserving the former, of tn
highest trusts in the gift of the nation.-
s To-day grateful country mourns the mem
@ ory Of Everett and decrees honors TO hi
name, while shame and ohscurity are tn
lot Of the once honored Bell.
We have thus hastily glanced at few o
{ the more prominent events in Mr.. Everett
/. career, leaving unnoticed his counties
speeches, lectures and addresses, literary
:, political, benevolent and festive. Still "
|. must not omit to mention that since th
: outbreak of tho rebellion his voice has bee
: frequently heard and his pen been alway
ready in behalf Of the Union cause. Pas
!, conservatism was forgotten in sympathy 70
u the existing crisis. His last public efior
n was his appeal for the Savannah sufferers
/. delivered in Fanouil Hall, on the Tussda
. before his death.
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