Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-02-23
Death of Edward Everett.

The announcement of the death of Edward
Everett will strike the country with the same
painful surprise that agitated the community
in which he dwelt The venerable statesman
and patriot had indeed passed the limit which
the inspired writer assigns to the life of man
but the stroke Of the destroyer fell suddenly
and at a moment unexpected by all. With the
exception of a colo, not regarded as serious,
Mr.. Everett was apparently as well as usual
when he retired to rest OH Saturday night
Before daylight yesterday he was corpse. A
stroke of apoplexy in few short hours com.
pleted its work s'S'o -
e sRdward, Everett was the second of. two dis
| Iuhguished sons of the Rev Oliver Everett, o
clergyman of Boston, and was born at Dor
chester; near that city on the llth of April
1874. Like his elder brother Alexander. he
was a marvel of precocity The latter grad
uated at Cambridge, with the first honors Of
his class, in 1906, at the early age of fourteen
Edward received his diploma at the same in.
stitution, with equal rank, in 1871. AS 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 Buckminster as pastor of the Battle
Street Church, Boston, and speedily acquired
foremost rank among the Unitarian clergy.
A year after keen reply to the deistical work
of young man named English, who had re-
sisted the arguments of Anthony Collins
against the application of the Old Testament
prophesies to the Messiah, gave him reputation
as controversialist .a. ......-- e.
But the pulpit did not meet the intellectual
aspirations of Mr.. Everett. In 1914 he was
appointed Eliot Professor of Greek at Harvard
College, and given time to prepare himself
more fully for the position, He accordingly
spent five years in Europe, attending lectures
in the German Universities and making the
acquaintance of the chief literati of England
and the continent. On assuming the position
of Professor, his zeal and learning gave new
impetus to the study of Greek at Cambridge,
and his popularity and reputation greatly ex-
tended, About this time he became editor Of
the North American Review devoting to that
periodical the leisure allowed him from his
professional duties. .......-
He was now thirty years of age, and had
achieved a literary reputation which would
have satisfied the ambition of most men, but
the path of political prefermerit was now open
ed, and he obeyed the call Of his felow-citi-
zens 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 a denomination to the House,
to accept the position of Governor of his ma.
tive State, which office he held four successive
terms of one year each. In 1899 he was
beaten for fifth term by one majority, his
Democratic competitor Marcus Morton, being
chosen. In lS4O he was appointed Minister
to England by President Harrison, respon-
sibility which he discharged with equal credit
to his country and himself. On his return to
America, in 1915. he was elected. President
of Harvard College, holding the office for
about three years In 1852, on the 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 ad-
justedby him in this capacity, we may recall
the readers attention to his happy disposal
OF the tripartite convention for the perpetual
guarantee Of Cuba 10 the possession of Spain.
MIR. Everett 5 reasons for declining to enter IN
to the agreement form the basis Of one of the
ablest expostions of American diplomacy
In 1858 he took his seat in the National Sen
ate, to which he had been elected by the Mas
sachusetts Legislature before his term of SER
vice in the Cabinet expired. This place he
was compelled to resign by ill-health. in May,
1854. Short as was his tenure Of Office, it
was sufficiently protracted to enable him to
display much of his peculiar ability,
ltwas about this time that he commenced
those labors for the purpose of securing the
home of Washington to the nation. He de-
livered the lecture on the "Father of his Coun-
try" about one hundred and fifty times, giving
all his proceeds without even the deductien of
personal expenses to the cause for which he Ia
bored. The compensation for his contribu-
tions to the New York Ledger were devoted to
the same purpose. In 1860 he was nomina-
ted as Vice President on the American ticket,
John Bell, of Tennessee, being the candidate
for President The subsequent career of these
two men showed how unfit was the latter, how
deserving the former, of the highest trusts in
the gift of the nation. To-day grateful
country mourns the memory ofEverett and de-
crees honors to his name, while shame and
obscurity are the lot of the once honored Bell
~ We have thus hastily glanced at a few of
the. more prominent events in Mr.. Everett's
career, leaving unnoticed his countless speech
es, lectures and addresses, literary, political,
and festive. Stillwe must not omit
to mention that since the outbreak of the re-
bellion his voice has beeu frequently heard
and his pen been always ready in behalf of the
Union cause Past conservatism was forgot
ten in sympathy for the existing crisis. His
last public effort was his appeal for the ,Savan-
nah sufferers, delivered in Faneul Hall, on
the Tuesday before his death e
D Weshall enter upon no laborcd analysis of
his charactey his career, whichis more or less
familiar to all, is its best exponent. His mo-
raility was unimpeachable, his scholarship
profound and comprehensive, his taste exqui-
site If occasionally fastidious his industry un-
firing, and his energy in the public servic in
domitable. Hisloratory was elegant rather
than vigorous, and his published addresses
will bear the same relation to those OF Web
ster and Clay that the rythmical prose OF Ly-
sias sustains to the fiery invective of Demos
themes. Few men haveposscssed greater YER
satiity of talent fewer yet have brought into
such full and successful use the powers with
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