Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-06-07
The Republican Candidate for Vice
President.

Henry Wilson was born of humble parents at
Pennington, New Hampshire, in 1872. His
father was very poor, and at the age of ten years
young Henry began the battle of life on his own
account. To use his own words: 81 left nv
home at ten years of age, and served an appren-
tceship of eleven years, receiving month";
schooling each year, and at the end of eleven
years OF hard work, yoke of oxen and six sheep
which brought me eighty-four dollars. never
spent the amount OF one dollar in money count
ing every penny, from the time was born until
is to travel weary miles and ask INV fellow men
to give me leave to toll" In 1893, when tw .nty-
one years Of age, he went to Great Falls, n. H.,
10 get work In the mills, but failed. He then
went to Salmon Falls, Dover, and NEWMARKET
and tried to get work, but without success, and
returned home, as he says, weary, but not dis
couraged.' Soon after he put little pack, con-
back and trudged to Natick, Massachusetts,.
where he learned the shoemaker's trade
by INDUSTRY and economy he earned money
enough In three years to enable him to secure
an education. Then, at the age Of twenty-four,
he visited the city of Washington and attended
the debates in the Senate. Andrew jackson
the Senate, and John Q. Calhoun, Daniel Web
ster, Henry Clay and Thomas III. Benton were
there. stephen A. Douglas was attorney gem
eral OF the state of Illinois; Abraham Lincoln
was a captain in the Black Hawk war; Charles
sumner was editing " Dunlap's Treatise on Adj
miralty Practice;" Schuyler Colfax was the ed
itor VI luc oOutn bend hsglstcr, and Ii was only
twenty-eight years before Grant crossed the
Rapidan and encamped in the Wilderness Du-
ring that visit Mr.. Wilson witnessed the passage
or Pinckney's resolutions against the reception
or anu-savery petitions in the House. He be-
held the horrors of Williams slave pen -
and from that moment to this the three
grand central ideas OF his life-manhood
anti-slavery and the glory of America-haye
possessed his thoughts and controlled his actions
AT the age OF q he was elected member of the
NJ Massachusetts, house of representatives, and in
1siiS5 member of the state senate. In 1916
he was again q member OF the state legislature.
and was active in securing the authoritative
voice or Massachusetts, against the extension
and continuance OF slavery. When the whig
national convention Of 1913 rejected the cele.
or ated Wilmot provisO he retired from it, After
that, Tor more than two years, he edited the
Boston Republicdn. He was elected to the state
legislature again in 1880, 1851, and 1852 presid-
ing over the senate the last two years: was a
member Of the state constitutional convention
In 1853. He was elected to the U. 8. Senate TO
succeed Edward Everett, who had resi- gned.
and took his seat February 10, 1855. He was re-
elected in 1889, again reelected in 1865. and
again reelected in 1871. In 1851 he raised a
regiment OF troops for the war, serving as its
colonel, and afterwards as a member of General
McClellan's staff until obliged to resume his
congressional duties. Mr.. Wilson is about sixty
years Of age.