New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-20
OBITUARY.
JOUN PARKER HALE.

against Slavery has Joined the captains who went |
before him. To tho names OF Lincoln uldd'ngs
Loveioy, Seward and Chase must now be added that
of John p HALE who died last night at his residence
In Dover New HAMPSHIRE. Unlike the others we
have mentioned, who departed In the 1ui pi~e Vi
their fame and the full tide of activity MI haie nao
outived his usefulness, and well nigh wearieu INC
consideration of his old allies. The disciplined Vaior
of the great fighter seemed to desert MN "heh Uno
fight was over. His nature was so strongly COM
batiye that when the monster he had fought lor
lifetime was dead he began series OF lively coniic.s
with his associates. The superfuous energy iciV
after Slavery was killed, he devoted TO attackiis
Seward and Greeley. But the gallant ana intrepiu
leader of quarter Of century ago gradually u.S-
appeared from the scene and for several years MI
Hale broken by incessant and painful maadles' mas
been living in comparative obscurity, attended IL Is
true. by the sympathes Of those who had been inti-
Mate with him, and the respect of all who appre-
ciated his resoute and brilliant labors in the cause
of freedom In America. The world moves so fast
nowadays that even contemporary history mas hl'io
chance of being remembered. Comparatively Re"
people who read to-day the announcement OF MI
Hale's death will remember that he was for many
years the bodest and most dashing opponent OF
Slavery in the Capitol; that he was an ackno"i-
edged leader in the Senate that he thad represented
the nation abroad at of the most critical PERIODS
of modern history that he had been the candldate
of the Free Sellers for tho Presidency, at the most
wildly interesting period in the life of that party
Mr. Hale was born in Rochester Stafford County,
N H.. March 81, 1906. He studied at Phillips
Academy in Exeter, and in his nth year entered
Bowdoin College, where four years later. be was
graduated with distinction. ain 1923 be settled IN
Dover. n H.. studied law and was admitted to the
bar in $780, He soon acquired large practice, ana
in 1882 was elected TO the Legislature Oh new
Hampshire rs a Democrat. He received from Presi-
dent Jackson, in 1884, the appointment OK United
States Disrict-Attorney for the District OIL new
Hampshire and retained that position until loiO'
when he was removed by President Tyler. on party
grounds In 1913 he was elected by the Democrats to
the United States House Of Representatives, ana
therein promptly took sides with the few opponents
of Slavery which it numbered. He opposed at IT'S
inception the project for the annexation OF Texas al
| though that measure was favored by the PRESIDENT
elect Polk and sustained by the great mass Oh
the Democratic party. Feeling that his course
| in this matter was fatal to ms poiitlcai
prospects. he decided to resume his profess
| sional duties. and reside in this city, but
| was with some difficulty dissuaded from doing
| So Mr. Hale was nominated again for Congress III
1876 but having reiterated his disapproval OF the
Texas scheme, declaring that the reasons advanced
in its favor were erninenly calculated to provoke
J tho scorn Of earth and Judgment OF Heaven" the
leading Democratic journals strongly denounced
I him. and called on his constituents TO rebuke ana
silence him. Yielding 10 this clamor, the Democratic
| State Committee called a Convention, which, after
hearing bitter speech from Franklin Pierce,
| promptly struck Mr.. Hales name from the
ticket and nominated another candidate In
| his place. Irrtated at this arbitrary act,
Mr.. Hae's friends, under the - leadership
Of Amos Tuck, continued the contest and although
they failed to elect him they deprived the regular
nominee of the requisite majority. Ihls contestwas
followed by the founding OF The Independent Demo
crat which was conducted with signal ability and
tact aud rendered effective service against the Slave
| Power In the next campaign Mr.. Hale took an
| active part and by his peculiar, versatile. and
| powerful eIoquence exerted great influence over
the people. Chagrned at his popularity, the Demo
cratic leaders pitted Franklin Pierce against him, at
a meeting held in the Old North Church. Replying
to the bitter sarcastic speech Of his antagonist Mr..
Hale used this vigorous language, the effect of which
can now be only inrpefectly realized:
Iexpected to he called ambitious, to have my name
cast out IS evil 10 be raduced and nisrepresented.
have disappointed But If things have come TO
this condition that conscience and sacred regard for
truth and dusy 10 be publicly held up TO rdcue and
secuted without rebuke as has just boon done here.
IL matters not whether we annexed to Texa. or
Texas Is annexed TO may be permitted to say that
the Of my ambition will be full If my earthly
career shall DO finished and my bones are laid beneath
! tie soil OF New-Hnmpshrre, and. when my wife and
children shall repair my grave to drop the tear Of
affection to my memory, they may read on my tomb
stone, "He who lies beneath surrendered office and
| place and power, rather than bow down and worship
Slavery"
Mr.. Hales independent defiance Of party dictation
was justly appreciated when ealmer counsels pre-
vailed. I'm 1885, he was chosen member of the
Legislature, was made Speaker and in 1S47, by q
combination of votes from different parties, he
elected to the United States Senate. He opposed in
tho Senate Mr. Clay's compromise measures, and
showed the same resolute defiant spirit that he had
eyinced in the early period of his public career Re-
fering to his services at this time, VioePresident
Wilson observes, in his Rise and Fall Of the Slave
Power in America"
Nor Is the nations debt Of gratitude to Mr. Hale small
for his ong brave fight in the Senate against the
and cOntumely Of the save.hoding majority. For II be
did not then proclaim the full and perfect evange of
liberty his certainly the voice OF crying In the
Wilderness preparing the way Of complete deverance.
his successful resistance TO party and slsveholdng
tyranny broke the spell OF its assumed invncbility
and encouraged Others TO go and do likewise so his
ready eoquence and wit. his brilliant repsrtee and
unfang good bumor did much to familiarize the
try With tho subject and IN call attention Its facts
and principles, which perhaps sterner advocate would
| have failed 10 eject.
Mr. Hale was engaged as counsel, in 1851, in the
important trials which out Of the forcbe res
cue Of the fugitive slave, Shadrach, from the GUS
tOdy Of tho United States Marshal at Boston. In
August, 1852. the Free Soil Democracy, who pro-
fessed open and thorough hostility to Slavery extern
sion and all pro-slavery compromises, held their