National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-03-28

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TRB TWO T0NBG
JAMES HuohANAN AND THADDEus
STEVENS.
In Ne current number of the fEAara'eo
11eatAH Ass,ltemer, published at Lancaster,
ays printed sketches of the lives oithe Two
sfess men who helped to win Tor that county
- proud title Of "The Empire" aSeomPerled
- hle wood cuts Of the tomos tnss "cAoso
Their Wondering bones. MI. buchanan was
bsn April %, 17sl, and died june I, 1858.
Als bd,thplace was an humble tenement N
via gorge near Mercersburg, Franklin
comfy, and he breathed his last 1t Wheatland.
He vss buried in Woodward Hill Cemetery,
near Lancaster, and his funeral was one Of the
largest ever bald In that vicinity. With Mr..
Buchanar's political career the great majority
Of our readers are well acquainted.
In 1856 he was nominated at Cincinnati -
the Democratic candidate for President, and In
March, 1857, he took up his abode in the White
House, having narrowly escaped death from
the ssNational Hotel disease" owing to the
precautions taken by his then friend, Surgeon
Ioltx, Of the Nsvy-since Surgeon General
who, at his urgent request, Travelled with him
ffom Lancaster TO Washington and lived with
him after he had gone from the National Hotel
to the White House, while he was stin suffer-
ing from the effects Of the so-called "Natiooal
Hotel disease" which was in reality the result
ofpoisoning by some metallic poison. In 1851
he retired TO Wheatland, where he lived ND to
the day OF his death. Two days before
his death he gave instructions to one of
his executors ~ TO his burial. During
the conversation Mr.. buchanan expressed
his religious convictions a. follows: 1.-THE prin-
caples Of the Christian religion were instilled
INTO my heart In early youth; and from all I
have observed and experienced in the long life
Providence has vouchsafed to mo have only
become more strengthened in my convictions of
tAe divine character Of the Saviour, and the
power Of atonement through His redeeming
grace and mercy" He further said: "Poster-
ny win do me Justice. have always felt, and
stfll feel, that I discharged every public duty
imposed upon me conscientiously. have no
regret for any public act of my life, and history
VIM vindicate my memory from every unjust
aspersion." 10 -. 80.
Hswauted no large and expensive monument
p be erected over his remains, but requested
that there should Be . simple bpt substantial |
oblopg tomb sfsctAii III. xAs.-i--t Ia be Of the |
- -, - ~-rssv.ae -
1nest and most durable marble, on which
aAould BE cut the inscription and nothing more.
His wishes we're carried out; and in the besuti-
mi Cemetery Of Woodward there standstoday
his tomb with the following inscription:
. . . - . = . . = 80 80
HERE REST THE REMAINS OF
JAMES BUCHANAN,
HIFTIENTH PRESIDENT OF TIE UNITED .
STATES. oil
Born in Franklin county, Pa. April q, 1791. 81
= Died at Wheatland, June 1, 1858. sl
&c = = . .
fHADDEUs STEVENS
b not painted by the Lstsligeneer in glowing |
color or with fidelity. He was bofn in the |
town Of Danville, Vermont, . year later than |
buchanan was In Pennsylvania, viz: April 4,
l7o2. His mother was . woman Of strong nat |
Ual sense and great resolution, and gave all |
her cons good education. Thsddeus was the |
youngest Of them, and was somewhat de- |
formed, having been born with . club foot. |
In his early youth he worked ct his fathers |
misunderstanding. In 1914 he was . student |
ct Burlington College. He graduated, how
ever, at Dartmouth College in 1915. About |
the end Of this year he made his appearance at
York, Pennsylvania, where he obtained situa- |
{ on Is teacher in an academy. He was then = |
hard student and remarkably backward and |
retiring in his manner. He did not stay long |
1t the academy, and shortly after leaving It he
applied for admission to the bar at Gettysburg.
A he had not read law for two years In an At
torney's Office, as required by the rule of court,
he could not BE- admitted, going, however,
ACROSS the line to Belsir, Maryland, where
shere was no such requirement, and where he
was admitted.
His return from Belair was fraught with dan
ger. The morning after his admission he LEFT
on horseback for Lancaster, crossing the sus-
quehsnma at the bridge which was then being
built ut McCall's ferry. It was not finished,
and his horse, taking fright, would have fallen
into the river with him had he not been with
difficulty rescued by one of the workmen. He
stopped at Slough's hotel, the old Swan hotel,
on Centre square, where he dined. He walked
nom one end of King street to the other, and
not being pleased with the appearance Of the
town he determined to return to Gettysburg,
and mounting his horse he slept that night At
York. For some time he had nothing to do,
but Just as he was about to seek another loca-
ton he was employed q counsel for the de-
PENDANT In murder case. He got . fee Of
euted. In afser life he used to say that he had
been the counsel for the defence in more than
my murder cases, in all of which but one he
lad been successful, and all of his clients de-
served to be hung except the one who was
hung, who was certainly insane.
Mr.. Stevens died at Washington, August II,
1858, q few months later than Mr.. Buchanan.
He left behind him Q handsome estate, which l
viii be applied, according to the terms n his
win, to the establishment in the city of Ian
casesr Of an institute of learning for colored
people. He is buried in shremer's graveyard,
. 0nall burial place near the centre Of the city;
the cause Of his refusal to be buried in either of
the two large cemeteries is contained in the
following Inscription, which he directed to be
cut upon his tomb:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES xx=<zx<xx<
al repose in this quiet and secluded
spot, not from any natural preference
for solitude, but finding other ceme-<
teEes limited by charter rules - to-
racs, have chosen il that might be
enabled to illustrate In my death the
principles which have advocated
through . long Hfe-equality Of mans
before his Creator"
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On the reverse side of the monument are in
scribed his name and the dates and places Of
his birth and death.
GOLDSMITH ON HIS TRAVELS. I,
GOldsmftb as Boswell aaid tn Johnson anna /