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

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other wrapt tresses Of the same brght NAT "a I'M ne
ded ali II J ns disposed among in the
drawers his desk that whenever nc iorv insight
might be reminded nT Of OF n her as ahy life With these
Were preserved some letters OF n.s W. .uortiye
Character He lived With Young wife FIVE years and
him two sons one OF s heSome the father Of
numerous family health falling, he took her 10
Europe in the hope tha atnr anTishns While she died
al Paris in the year 1871 She sleeps III the ,esey ~
strange 10 her childhood while he, after surviving her
for years yet never foTgelPg h sd h ao IN
lantic ocean rolls between their graves
IN EUROPE.
He remained in Europe little while after this event,
and having looked at what the Continent had to show
him went over TO England. In his letters to his friends
AT home ne spoke patheay of the loss of her who was
the blessing of his life; OF the delight with which, had
she lived she would have looked at many things in
the Old World, attracting his attention ana OF the
misfortune Of his children to Toe deprived OF her care ana
guidance In Of his letters he relates TINS ahec-
doie: ,,
lin that he the bes Of considerable cargo OF ' RE-, m
higher relish for the give hi, 'nscdSe When
ton where gentleman purchased splendid EDITION o. %
quires suetoneer purchaser went to BIcn What P was
reading shn Lady Byron did something to vt me- threw the
boob at h head and she carried out Of the Too inquire :" some
PUBLIC
Nh VcrpaBcls was elected in 1920 a member OF the
NewYork House Of Assembly, but do not learn that he
particularly distinguished himself while in that body
Ia the year following he appointed in the General
Theological Seminary OF the Episcopal Church, Pro
fessor OF the Evidences OF Revealed Religion and Moral
Science in its relations 10 Theology. For four years
What ability is shown by his Treatise the Evidences
Christianity, the fruit OF his studies during thls
1t was IN 1925 that he published his essay on tue
Doctrine of Contracts in which he maintained that the
transaction between the buyer ana seller "l conoug
Of conceament that the seller should he held to disclose
everything within bis knowledge when w9ud aer, 'no
which is compressed into the two Latin words, cdfedt
epor-the maxim that the buyer takes me risk 1 Uad
rule Of conduct ANA Should not De fe'oEhHeu D3 INC
HIS RECORD IN CONGRESS.
In 1925 Mr. VerIlanck was elected one Of the three
Representatives Congress- to which this city was then
entitled. lie Immediately distinguished himself as
working member. Then arose the great controversy
concerning the right of TO refuse obedience at
pleasure to any raw Of Congress, right contcnded for
under the Of publication, by some ofthe most cn
Congress under the Constitution to levy duties on i'm
ported merchandise, for the purpose OF idV0nns me
home manufacturer, and maintained that IT could only
lay duties for the sake Of raising revenue Mr. Yer
panck favored neither this view nor their theory OF nut
hcatiOn His view Of the subject presented with
great skill and force in pamphlet entitled " letter
to Col VIM. Dry ton Of South Carolina published
His pamphlet so ably reasoned that william
Lcggett said 10 him, in my presence MT Nerplanck.
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opinion from yours but You have settled the question
against me. that whatever may be the injus-
tce Of protective duties Congress has the constitutional
I right To- impose them"
it was While this controversy was going that Presi-
resisted laws that their resistance was re-
garded asrebeon and would he queed al the bayohets
point. Mr. Calhoun and his friends were not prepared
Tor this indeed 90 not think that IN any Of his plans Tor
the separate action of the Slave States, he contemplated
a resort to arms either side. They looked abOu them
To find plausible pretext for submission, and this
the country not unwilling to give. Ii was generally
admitted that the duties imported goods ought Ia he
reduced and Mr. McLane Secretary of the Treasury and
Mr. Nerpanck Chairman OF the committee OF ways ana
Means each drew plan for lessening the burdens of
the tariff Mr. VerplancEs plan OF q tarih was liberal
He not protectonst, and his scheme contemplated
large reduction of duties-as large as it was Thought
facturcrs 1t was thought that Mr.. Calhoun and his
ignobe retreat from their dangerous position. While
these projects before Congress- Mr. Littell gen
| of The Licing Age, drew up a scheme OF revenue
for more thu 9 Wa egr Sf e ST he
that it would satisfy the Southern politicians;
in several earnest speeches and by the help
of his great influence over his party it was rapidly
promise Tariff the establishment of the friends Of free
trade the mill owners, the Secretary of the Treasury
country large. thought it hard measure for Mr. Yer
panck that credit ~ this reform should he taken out
his hands by who had always been the great adyo
cate of protective duties; but this was one of the
fortunate strokes Of policy when MT Gay, when III TIE
yigor of his faculties had the skill TO make.
While in Congress- Mr.. Verplanck procured the enact
a
To use his own words additional security to the
property authors and artists in their works and more
smpifvin the Law in various respects" 1t was passed
IN 1881, though Mr.. Nerplanck had begun to urge the
measure three years before when he brought IN bill for
the purpose but party strife was then AT it, hight and
rte else than the approaching elections were thought
During Mr. verpamck's fourth and last term in Con
gress became separated from his associates Of the
Democratic party by difference In regard to the Bank
Of the United states.
1sA CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR.
In 1884. the Wing party, looking for strong caE1i
date for the Mayoraty of the City offered the nomiEa
ton TO Yerplanck, who accepted Il. ON the other SIDE
the Democrats brought forward Cornelius W Lawrence
"A man of popular manners and uIquestoned integrity
Lawrence elected Mayor by majority Of about twG
While in Congress, verplanck had leisure daring the
interval between session and another for literary
occupations. He wrote about one,lhird OF an annual
collection Of miscellalics entitled the "Tnisman,
the two following years. 70 these volumes he contrib
ucd the Peregrinaons Of Petrus Nudd," humorous
and lively sketch, founded on the travels of a New
Yorker of the genuine old stock who when he re,1rned
from wandering all Europe and part Of Asia, set
where he had been. OF the gTaver articles, he usoe
De Gourges chapter from The history Of the nsue-
and Tconderoga," and several others In conjunction
quaint humor, he contributed two papers 10 the coeo
lion entitled Scenes III Washington," of humorons
satrca character He disked the manual labor q
writing, and fond of debating while another held
the pen. In 1883, lerpanck collected his public
livered in August of that year in Columbia Col
lege, in which he holds up to imitation the
illustI1ous examples Of great men educated at that
institution of those passages OF stately elOquence
which knew well 10 frame he speaks OF the worth
Of his Old adversary De Witt Clinton, the first graduate
of the College after the peace OF 1888, and pays due
''hOnor that lofty ambition which taught him TO look
10 designs of grand utility and To their successful
ton his arts Of gaining OF edeeming the confidence Of
a generous and public spirited people" In the same
discourse he pronounced the euiogy OF DR.. Mason who
had died few days before.
After separating from the Democratic party, Mr.. Yer
panck ELECTED by the Whg in 1881 10 the Senate Of
the state of New YORK, while that body Was yet Court
trTHr fri mi fIx
and in that capacity decided questions Of law OF