New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-17

limited States S.nator from the same State,
and sat from 1851 to 1854, and his fathers
brother was q member OF the same o0Gy,
and from the same State, from Iopo 70 1oSs,
W. Stevenson. OF Kentucky. is the son of
Andrew Stevenson, celebrated in Virginia
politics, dying, aged seventy three, y nuary
s. 1857. after having passed through long
catalogue of distinguished offices
of the House of Delegates OF Virginia, Re
preventative in Congress from 1871 TO 1874,
and Speaker Of the national House from
1SSs tn 1894. also minister to Great Britain
from 1886 to l84l. His sOn, John w., NOV
ing to kentucky in l84l, was equally for
tunate, and is now serving out his trs.
term in the Senate of the United States.
The father and grandfather OF John T.
Stockton, Senator from New Jersey,
both served in the Senate OF the United
States, and his great grandfather was
signer OF the Declaration OF independence.
His Republican colleague, Frederick 4.
Freliughuysen, born August 3, 1917. IN
Somerset county, New York, is the nephew
and adopted son Of Theodore Frelinghuy-
sen, Senator in Congress from New
Jersey from 1929 to 1885, a candidate OF tie
Wing party for Vice President with Henry
Clay, president of Rutgers College anc q
leading member of the American Bible
Society and other religious organlzations,
His father, also named Frederick, served
in the Continental Congress. Hon. ). j.
Cox. the brilliant Representative from New
York city, strong in himself. alike by his
requirements and bis native genius, at once
a writer and speaker OF the highest order,
now in his fftit tn year, editor, traveller,
linguist and Congressman, may proudly
turn to his ancestry. His grandfather
nf kPAa..
hold, New Jersey, was, tor nearly twenty
years, Speaker Of the lower house OF the
Legislature of that State, and died as
Democratic representative in Congress n
1903. His father was a printer and an cd
tor graduated at the True american office
in Trenton, and in 1918 established one OF
the first papers in Ohio. His grandfather
ON his mothers side was Judge Samuel
Sullivan, of Delaware. Emigrating to Ohio,
he was chosen State Treasurer, and it is
curious fact that every member OF the
Legislature went on his bond. Clarkson
Mott Porter representative from the elev-
enth New York district, is the grandson OF
the Rev. Eliphalet Mott, president of the
great Union College OF New YORK; and
AlOnzo Potter. The father Ut Roscoe Conk-
ling Senator in Congress from the same
State, was United States Judge appointed
bv John Adams), minister to Mexico zap
pointed by President FillmOre), and pre-
vious to that a Representative in Congress.
But nearly all the men Of mark in both
houses are what come under the category
of self-made. could fill columns with the
romance of many of these lives. The ex-
perience of the humorous James w. Mes
NTH, former Senator and now Representa-
tive from Oregon; Of Senator Cameron,
William u. Kelley, Carlton B. Curtis,
GLENN w. Scoield, of Pennsylvania; OF
Shurz and Bogy. Of Missouri; Of Henry
Wilson and George s. Boutwell,, OF Massa-
York; Of John A. Logan, Of Illinois; of
Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota; of w.
Sprague and Henry b. Anthony, Of Rhode
Island; OF James Gillespie Blaine, Speaker OF
the House Of Representatives. OF Benjamin
F. Butler, of Massachusetts; of James b.
Beck, of Kentucky; of the brothers HOar.
of Massach usetts; of Joseph r. Hawley, OF
nois; Of William q. BrOwnlow and Horace
Maynard, of Tennessee; of Godlove 8. Or.h,
of Indiana; of Lucius @. c. Lamar, Of Miss
issippl; of John D. Young, of Kentucky,
and Pierce M. b. Young, Of Georgia; Of
Marcus L. Ward, of New Jersey; and of the
several cOlOred mem bers, Josiah 7. Walls,
of Florida; Robert B. Elliott and Richard
H. Cam, OF South Carolina; and if each OF
these men could tell his own story, describe
not paralleled by any political or represen-
tative body in the world.
1t is easy to perceive that the controlling
influences in the American Congress are
not the men of wealth, nor the descendants
of the great families, nor the apostles OF
extinguished theories. A new, selfmade
class dominates the situstion-men gener-
ally highly cultivated, and almost without
exception inspired by modern progress and
Development. The future is in their hands.
The war opened wonderful era in our
country. The Wings of the South joined
the Democrats. and hundreds Of thousands
of the Democrats of the North joined the
Republicans, and these two organizations
are no longer managed by the old leaders.
The ideas that triumphed over the rebellion
are the masters Of both, and the Congress
which began with Mr.. Lincoln's administra-
ton, followed by others made by the same
majorities, stimulated by the same motives,
and pushing forward the same reforms,
whatever may be said of them, accomplished
far more for the general benefit than any of
their predecessors. These reforms pelmeate
the whole system, and at the end of another
decade nothing will be more clearly or more
firmly established than that the govern
ment which was saved by force will be per-
petuated by the peaceful principles which
gave victory to the Union arms.