Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-14
DEATH OF hon. ALLEN A. Hal

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United States Minister to Bolivia, at La
Paz, the capitol of that government, on
the 28th of May last
Mr.. Hall was long and prominently
connected with the politics of this State,
and had filled several positions of honor
and responsibility under the General gov
eminent he was native of North
Carolina, but emigrated with the other
members of his family to this vicinity in
his youth. He was endowed with lib
eral education, and qualified himself for
the bar. His tastes, however, were not
suited to that field, and he did not achieve
the success that his cultivated capacity
deserved Ia 1926 ne became political
writer and, in the following year, was
made editor of the Nashville Republican
and Gazette. Under his conduct, that
paper was an advocate of the election of
Gen jackson to the Presidency, and,
upon the achievement Of that result, was
an able home organ and supporter of
that administration until the year 1884.
At that time, his paper was fused with
another journal under the name of the
National Banner, and Mr. Hall espoused
the side of the public men who took
grounds against some Of the leading mea-
sures of Gen. Jackson's policy, and ulti~
mately formed what is known as the old
Wing party. At the commencement of
Mr.. Van Buren's administration, under
other internal changes, the paper assumed
the name of the Republican Banner,
which it retains to-day In l84l, Mr.,
Hall was appointed by President Harri-
son Charge d Afdires to Venezuela, and
remained in that position until l845.
Shortly after his return, he became editor
of the Nashville Wing, and continued in
that service until lS49 He was an early
supporter of the claims of Gen. Taylor
to the Presidency, and received from that
administration the Registership of the
Treasury. Soon thereafter he was trans
ferred to the Office of Assistant Secs
rotary of that Department He did not
remain long in this position, and relin-
quished it to take charge of the Washing
ton Republic, as the chief organ Of the
administration. His connection with that
paper was dissolved on account. of fun
damental disagreements with leading
members of the Cabine'; and he was
then sent to San Francisco as Super
intendent of Public Buildings. In 1852
he returned to this city, and in the
following year, upon the retirement ofthe
late Gen. Zollicoffer from the editorship
of the Banner, he resumed the charge Of
the post he had quilted twelve years
before, and remained in it until 1858,
when the Nashville Daily Ne'Os was es-
tablished under his auspices 1t was in
the fall of 1859, while in charge of that
paper, that the unfortunate difficulty oc-
Cured between him and the lamented G.,
G. Poindexter then editor of the Union
and american, in which the latter was
slain by Mr. Hall. During the Presiden-
tial contest of 1860, Mr. Hall was the
editor of the National Union campaign
paper of Tennessee, supporting the Bell
and Everett ticket He adhered to the
Union cause in 1861, and left his home
for the Northern States in the fall of that
year. He returned with the Federal
army in 1862, and shortly after was APP
pointed Minister to Bolivia, in which
position he died as above recorded.
Mr. Hall was one of the most aceu-
rately informed politicians of his time
When he abandoned the pursuit of the
legal profession, he devoted the whole
energies of his intellect to public affairs.
He was of an ardent temperament, and
though in the social circle an amiable
gentleman, was fierce partisan. The
labors of his pen were for many years a
power in this State, and though never a
candidate before the people, he was the
trusted priVy counsellor of many who
achieved eminent positions. Jackson, Bell,
Polk, Grundy, White Foster and others
of national fame recognized in Allen A.
Hall champion to be cOurted and an
antagonist to be feared He did not pass
through the violent collisions incident to
his vocation without mourning enmities,
but maintained always character for
personal integrity above reproach--alike
earnest and sincere in his opinions, and
honest in the discharge Of his public du-
ties He leaves a family of daughters to
mourn his decease, and many friends and
acquaintance, who, in connection with
this intelligence, viii recur with kindness
and admiration to their associations with
him