The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-16

EVER since Acknowledgement Hoar entered the
Cabinet, and especially after the appointment OF
Mr. Boutwell, to the Secretaryship of the Treasury,
which gave two Cabinet officers to Massachusetts,
there have been rumors OF his intended resg gnation
aud now he has at last rendered his resgna-
ton to the President by whom it has been accepted
to take effect when his successor is appointed and
qualified.
Ebenezer lockwood Hoar is a son OF the Hon.
Samuel Hoar, OF Massachusetts, so well remem-
bered In connection with his expulsion from
Charleston, s. O., on the 5th of December 1874. His
mother was daughter OF Roger Sherman, of Con-
necticut one OF the signers OF the Declaration of
independence. The Hon. George F. Hoar, men,
ber of the Forty-first Congress from the Eighth
Massachusetts, district, is his brother. He was born
at Concord, Massachusetts, in 1916 entered Harvard
College in 1884, graduated with distinction in 1885,
and after reading law with his father at Concord,
spent two years at the Cambridge Law School. I'M
medately after leaving college, however, he en-
gagged in teaching at Pittsburg in this State and for
two or three years lived in that and other Western
cities. He was admitted to the bar about the year
1910, and practised with great success in Middesex
and the neighboring counties of Massachusetts,.
At this period in his career he quite active
politician, serving as Whig member OF the state
Senate OF Massachusetts aoout 1896 aud figuring
prominently IN the celebrated controversy between
the conscience" and the cotton" Wings, which cul-
minated in the Freeso bolt OF 1s4s Like his father
and in the course OF speech made by him in the
Senate, employed the terms quoted above to desg-
nate the two branches OF the party with which he
then affiliated 10 the controversy referred to-
he acted earnestly with sumner, Wilson, Allen,
Palfrey, and the other Free-soil leaders, and was
especially active in the canvass in Middlesex
county between Palfrey and his Wing oppo-
nents, which began with Pafreys opposition to the
election OF Robert c. Winthrop to the Speakership
OF the lower house OF Congress in s4s, and the
Free-soi bolt and denunciation of Tayors admins
traton, led by Charles Allen and Henry Wilson, in
the Philadelphia convention OF that year. Mr. Hoar
became the leader OF the new movement in Massa-
chusetts wrote the circular which called the State
convention and started the Free-soil party, which,
beginning with $4,000 votes, within three years
broke down Daniel Webster and the Wing party.
elected Charles Sumner to the United States Senate,
and made Secretary Boutwell, Governor OF the State.
few years after, he withdrew almost entirely
from an active participation in political affairs, on
being appointed Judge OF the Court OF Common
Pleas but he resigned and returned to the practice
OF his profession, this time opening an ONCE in
Boston, where he acquired an extensive and lucra-
tive business. In April, 1859, he was appointed a
Justice OF the Supreme Court OF Massachusetts, a
position which he continued TO hold until his appoint
ment 10 a seat in President Grants Cabinet. Upon
the resignation Of Chief Justice Bgel0w, in 1867 he
Was generally believed to be the proper person to
succeed 10 that position, both on account OF his
being the senior member OF the bench, ana because
| Of bis eminent ability as lawyer. The failure OF