Smyrna times., 1865-12-20
Death of MIR. COrwin.

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Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, died in Washing |
ton Monday afternoon, from the effects of
stroke of paralysis, which occurred last Friday
With the end of his life another of the emi-
nent public men of the last generation has pass
ed away. Mr.. Corwin was born in Kentucky,
on the 29th of July, 1894. His ancestors were
Hungarian farmers, who upon coming to this
country, first took up land i'll New Jersey, but
the family subsequently removed to Pennsylva-
MIA, thence to Kentucky, and finally settled in
Warren county, Ohio, when the subject of this
sketch was about four years of age. There
were but few opportunities for education among
the farmers of that day in that wild coun-
try, and young COrwIn grew up like the rest.
At the age of twenty-One he commenced the
study of the law, and began practice about
three years afterwards. His great talents as
popular speaker soon pointed him out as man
for the public service, and in 1922 he was cho-
sen to the Legislature, in which he served un-
til 1880. In this year he was elected to Con
gresS continuously from 1881 to 1910, when he
was elected Governor of Ohio This was in
the celebrated - IippecanOc" campaign, which
resulted in the election of General Harrison to
the Presidency. Two years afterwards Corwin
was 4 candidate for the same office again, but
was beaten by Governor Shannon, whom he
had beaten in 1910. In lS45 Mr.. COrwin was
chosen United States Senator by the Legisla-
, ture of Ohio, and served until 1880 when he
went into Mr.. Fillmore Cabinet as Secretary
of the Treasury, upon the resignation of Mr..
Meredith. lie was elected to the House OF
Representatives again in 1853 and in 1860,
serving until March, 1861. In the ast-named
year President Lincoln appointed him Minister
to Mexico, a position he held until that Repub.
: lie was displaced by the Macmillan govern.
ment, when he came home
Mr.. COrwin was an old fashioned Whic, and
lattcrly, Conservative Republican lie wa,
a man of considerable ability as a statesman
in the memories of those who knew him wei
as one of the finest humorists and wttiest mel
i Of his day and generation.
= Mississippi has ratified the Constitutions
Amendment with conditions and reservations
c Her Legislature declares that their assent shal
not be construed into an abrdgment of the pre-
ciOus doctrines of State Sovereignty, nor int
a u consent that Congress may abolish SLAYER
IS in any State that refuses to ratify. The Mis-
Ie slSsippl lawyers have got a new edition of Ste
)fI ry and expound the Amendment as inoperativ
!, except in such States as expressly assent to il
n no matter whether three fourths do or not
le Their third prOviso is that the second sectio
" shall not be construed" as grant of pOwe
to Congress to legislate in respect to the freed
men. Will Congress and the Supreme Cour
be kind enough to take notice.
% Apropos of the freedmen, this same Logi.
n lature saw fit to pass law prohibiting freed
6 men from renting or leasing lands-a specime
y brick of the house they mean to build for til
"a freedmen to live in. The President straigh
" way ordered this law to be disrcgarded, an
I. Gen. Howard issued an order to Col Thoma
," to continue to protect the freedmen in tb
e. right to lease lands That is all right and proI
&c er and necessary but does it not properly rails
re question as to the precise condition of tn
" by his executive order? Is Mississippi recoI
is the President interfere with her municip
n affairs? If she is not, what right has she
IL ratify Constitutional Amendment?
M DID SECESSION SUCCEED ?-The Daily Son
on Cdr0linian, of December 7th, exhibits mar
ls- signs that the old heresy of secession still CO.
ad trolls It's controllers. 1t agrees with some
e. our Northern politicians in opposing Mr.. job
ay sons doctrine that the Southern States did n
ok efsctuate secession, and after stating what th
accomplished, asks triumphantly I'll this w
ne only a pretended secession, what tho deu
lot would a real secession be?" To this the =
'as swer is plain, that it would have been n 70
on secession if it had not been failure. m
yer people of the States that went into the ravr
u claimed that they were out of the Union
'h' virtue of their ordinances of secession w
on the contrary, said they were not. and Il
@ 'es matter being one that was placed by the act
y the South beyond the reach of peaceable se
"a tlement, appeal was made TO the sword. m
a. decision was against them in the tribunal IN
oO chose themselves, and therefore il must be a
spuseu that tnere was no real secession.