New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-18
CUBAN G. VERPLANCK.

listen to William Cullen Bryant. esq., on Tue bil''N
actor and Writings Of Guian C. Verplanek' Inc pat
form was crowded with literary celebrities OF this city
and ueighborhood and the body Of the hall was filled
with a select and apprecative audience Cen DIX pre-
sided and in introducing Mr.. Bryant spoke as follows;
LANES AND GENTLEMEN: You are assembled by nyi-
tatou of Historical Society 10 listen 10 us
course upon the life, character and writings OF one on
lac most distinguished and Venerable members of our
society who IN funeSS Of his age and the calmness
of a Christian spirit was it were, gently led ont rom
among s nv the hand OF death-the late (ulan c. Yer
plaack. To many OF Ms he was personally known;
to most OF Us the outlines OF ms ca
r T@gE acdnantcd haync mingled With item
many years in friendly compauionshp In IRE SO ipiS
% cover - years ont Of century W9"id h1s o
surPsng 4 there were many details when 9 ia MANY
others they are entirely unknown lhese nSl9 t Corccr
hcd NJ and skctchcd out, and sketches OF M CaIo
member al the society who was well acquanted with
him. and L., VIII permit me 20 say aS h ~ r
al q spo,le>s life do not propose Ia dealh !ouo any
thing more than tins brief preface 81 IN MN va Of nv
one the services OF the evening coulI De iIe
fn.v performed than by him whose name we love. lie
needs no Introduction. and II were called upon IN any
community / know means 10y which he could be
III naInc-Wm. Cullen Bryant. iAiplausel
M Bryant was warmly greeted. He spoke in sub
stance follows:
Gulan Crommoin Verplauck born in Wall-st, in
thecity Of NewNork on The 9Th of August l5s6. Inc
house in which he born large yellow mansion,
been built His father, Daniel Crommelin Verplanck was
respectable citizen Of the old stock OF coonsts nom
eress aud whom remember as short stout Old gentle
man commonly called Judge Eerpan9S, ron EaNang
Court Duchess Here hc resided IN the latter years
Of ms lie on the patl mona estate, where the ever
since 1 knew MIN, was always in the hahit
Of passing part ~ the summer. 1t had been
~ The family ~ the Nerpancks ever since their
auces,ors. Cuban N.rplanck and Francis Romhout in
lcS purchased IT, with oher lands oi the M4pI1iSer
Indians FOR rin amount OF none! ana uercaaulSt
spcched in deed signed by the Sachem sakorachucN
ara other cho,. the spelling Of whose names seems 10
dor pronunciation The two purchasers aftcrward di-
vded hi, domain. and 20 the Verpaucks assigned
This samuel Nerpi3uck by q custom which seemed not
10 have become obsolete in ms time was hetrothrd when
daughter Of wealthy banker OF the Hugucno stock in
Amsterdam When the youps Gentlemen was OF ,hS
hrinc home his bride lie was married i'm the bankers
great stone house standing beside a fair Dutch garden
with wide marble outraucchall the continglo9m ON
side oi IT, and the drawing room, bright win gliding
iary accomplished and versed not only in several mod
iaucu rut M creek and Latin, speaking huenty
man. Erasmus furnish so rich store Of phrases for
ON tie mothers side our friend had ancestry Of
quite different political views His grandfather, William
revolutionary fathers Before the revolution he
the agent of Connecticut IN England; when II broke
oJ DC took Jealous part IN the cause q the revoted
when Congress sat in New York, and he aided in framing
tie Constitution OF the United States. Afterward he
President ~ Columbia College from the year le7 10
statford where he died in 1879 at the age of o. His
father the great grandfather Of the subject of tins ne
NOR Was Dr. Samuel Johnson OF siIatI0l, one OF the
finest American scholars Of his day. and the first lres
dent uf Columbia tufCe he was inc liltllN OF Bishop
in his family. The younger OF these Dr. Johnsons-fof
the University Of 0Xford-had daughter, Elizabeth,
WHO married Daniel Cr9mmeiin HerplanCE, the son OF
Wac IA, subject OF this memoir. His mother died when
he was Int three years old leaving the boy the
81 lis grandmother. by whom he indulgently yet
carefully reared The grandmother Is spoken OF as a
lively little lady often seen walking up Wall
81. dressed N pink satin and IN dainty
Watc Win.,ins from her waist lie was trained by her
tolove books and study to Which, however he seems to
that at a very tender she taught him declam pas
cages from Latin authors, standing ON table, and re-
b. johnson, the grandfather Of young Verplanck, on
The mothers SIDE came from sIatorq to he PRESIDENT
born 10 him in equal dc gree with his grandmother,
Sas 6y fS s S9 HGE born As
he took 70 books a, oher boys take to marbles ana the
prepare him for entering '9i , o when yet mere child 4
AZ gefn year a. age c me IC Sr af nt b IE
1urdtLcr had returned Stratford. To that place he
vrtl stored and wc'urauged library be pursued the
studio. he loved. TIE tradition is that he conned his
MS month and the fingers Of the other hand employed in
twisting lock Of th- brown r on his forehead. lie io2A
ever lC; ar towing piece OF drew trout from the
mcrvSING uPE.
After taking lis G..I.e be read in the law Office 81
Josiah Ogden Hoffman eminent member OF the New
York bar much esteemed in social life, whose house
lere,or- IF the best company in New-York. His first
public ad.ro-s. Fourth OF July Grafton delivered
when bc NJ. i. wears of age in due season he was ad-
T.. law IN Ncw-Yoik. A letter from Dr. Moore formerly
Pie idert e. Columbia College relates that Nerpldnck
ard himself toik an Office together the east side Of
PIl~t. opposite % laHoycrsquare. He spent much OF
III tnc office and not very studiOus when
iu. but evident that he read or had read else
where T. good pUIpo,e II IS mentioned IN some ac-
co OF Ms nc that he was elected IN ISL 10 The New
Tors Hous, ui Assembly by party called the TalcOn-
tents, but have no; had The means Of verifying ts ac-
Cv.ut avn able to discover what were the objects
fr which tie i4'f called NalcOutent, was formes. In
tbs ycar&n incident occurred OF more Importance 10 HIM
than his election 90 the Assembly.
PROSECUTED FOR " EiOI'-THE VAR wITH DE WITT
CIINTOS
on the sth q irest. ISL the annual commencement
Of C.. ambia college vas held IN Trinity Church Among
those who wcIo the degree of Bachelor Of Arts
VIZ d. young man named Stevenson who had composed
an oraou 10 be delivered on platform. contained
some passages ~ Patoe nature, insisting The duty
81 representative 80 obey the VIII OF ne constituents.
Political parties AZ that time much eNascPcratcd
against each other, and Dr Wilson of the Colesc TO
v um III. Grafton subn.trrd, acting thought
,,,c WIN Ma. mon Provost Of the College struck out
t q,sag, IN quest aud directed that they shOulG he
omitted n delivery. stevenson spoke them nOtTth
standing tud was then Uriyatoy informed by one Of the
Professors lhat MS degree would be denied him Yet,
when the diplomas were dehvcSd, he mounted the plat
form with tbs tthcr graduates AID demanded the degree
of Dr. S!aSOu. II rcSuscu because of his disobed
.ncc. Ill. Hugh Maxwell, aI.erward eminent as an
adTora uTsug upon the platform and appealed 10 the
audience against ths denial OF what he claimed to be the
yign of Stevenson. Great confusion followed, shouts
aIaIses aud hisscs in tn midst Of which VerplaDck
rgl ed on she platform saving Bhe not
satisfactory; M Maxwell must be supported and then
h moved Chat the thank Of the audience be given TO
Mr. maxwell Or Dis spirited defense of injured man"
was time before the tuDut cOnld he alayed the
audience taking with the disturbess but the result
ws that Maxwell Nerplanck, and several others were
prosecuted for riot i1 the Mayors Coutt Dewitt Chn-
then Mayor OF NeN-IorE. in hls charge 10 the
fury be uycished with great severity against the
cused particularly Nerpanck of whose coDdnc he spoke
az piece " HESS impudeuce, and dcclarod the dis
turbauee IN OF the grossest and most shameless
0utrages he had ever known They were ioupd guilty
Maxwell Ycypanck and stevenson were fned AGO each
az several others less. An appeal was entered 10y the