The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-11-10
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American political history ID full of Gu
riosities and singular Incidents For in.
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fefson. and Sames dohroa Gen. NasEl
iD8toH, ,.wheaA he FetisSd fhousthsr Predi-
dency, was in the sixty-sixth year of his
age. His successor, John Adams, when
he left, was sixty-six years old. After
him came Thomas Jefferson, James Ma
olson, and James Monroe. Mr.. Jefferson
was sixty-six, james Madison had just
passed his sixty7sixth year, and Mr..
Monroe was,in his sixty-seventh. when
they respectively left the Presidential
chair. Gen. Harrison was sixty-seven
years old when he was elected, and died
in the Presidential Office.
From 1901 to 1926, the Presidential
Office was filled by Virginians. During
the same interval, with the exception Of
four years, the Vice Presidential Office
was held by citizens of New York. John
Adams negotiated the treaty of peace
that concluded the war of the revolution
with England. His son, John Quincy
Adams, was leading envoy, and nego-
tiated the treaty which ended the second
war with England in 1914. His son,
Charles Francis Adams, at the third great
crisis OF our history, was the minister to
England during the recent war, from
1861 to 1865, the period which covers
the Alabama claims, out of which an
other war is altogether possible with the
old mother country.
In 1900, John Adams was on q leading
Presidential ticket. Twenty -four years
oftor bio onp Tobr, Nr;,o,, xr,, o1,o
Presidential candidate. Twenty four
years from that time. Charles Francis
adams, John Quincy's son, was IN i'm
portant candidate for Vice-President,
with contingent Presidential success
sion. 49, -
Of the first six Presidents, four of them
were taken from the Office of Secretary
of State; and the other: two being the
first elected, could not perform its duties
From this fact, rose the precedence that
makes the Secretafy of State the first Of
ficer in the Cabinet. Instead of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, which is the case
in Great Britain, -.
No less than Ave of tile greatest of
American statesmen were, born in the
same year, S2:1Daniel Webster, John
G. Calhoun, Thomas H. Benton, Martin
Van Buren,, and Lewis Cass. From 1900
to 1856, q period spanning from the Sc
>cond President to the seventeenth, only
two persons flied the Office of Chief JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of the United
States-John Marshall and Roger b.
Taney.
LETTER FROM FATHER HYAcINruE. =
The following is the substance of the let
ter written by Father Hyacinthe to the
'Evangelicai Alliance" meeting held in
New York, on Thursday:
Father Hyacinthe said that he felt gra-
tilted at the honor shown his discourses
in Paris by their republication in Eng
lish. He would have been glad to have
had them more worthy; but, such rs
they were. he committed them to the
world. He added, that he presented
them to America and those Protestant
churches of which his talented translator
was one of the heads. He was proud of
being Frenchman, and hoped France
would soon initiate the country which
she had done so much to liberute during
the revolution. He said he continued
faithful to the Catholic Church. If he
had entered protest against her usurpa-
tions, one could Judge Of his love by the
bitterness of his lamentations However,
he was none the less sensible to the SYM
pathies of the churches of other faiths
in the stand he had taken. He did not
think that churches separated from the
Catholic communion, are beyond the pale
of the Holy Ghost. Whatever may di-
vide us now, we will be united in the
space of time, and all live in hopes of
the samo eternity and love of the same
God. We are NIL laboring in common
for The great Church Of the future Men
had laughed his ideas to scorn, but that
he had expected. After expressing him
self further, he concluded by snying that
he looked forward to one God. enc faith,
one baptism, and one shepherd, and
signed himself Brother Hyacintbe.
HORACE GREELEY AT WEDDING