Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-11-27
FROM WASHINGTON.

VICE PRESIDENT WILSON'S DEATH
OUR CORRESPONDENTS VIEW s
OF HIS CAREER, AND PERSONAL
TRAITs-MR. FAULKNER PROF.
ABLE COURSE IN CONGRESS SPEC
ULATED UPON-HIS APPOINT
MENT TO THE INDIAN FRAUD
COMMISSION, &C.
Special Correspondence of Independent
WASHINGTON, Nov. %.
The death Of Vice President
Wilson is CT cou.5e The leading
topic of conversation here, at pre-
sent. His remains viii be taken
to Massachusetts, for iniarment.
The arrangements therefor have
not been announced yet. His desih
was unexpected at the time, his
physician having rr" naced him
much SO bet.er,that he had con;em-
plated going home this week.
Poor man, he has gone home"
sure enough, and after life's fitful
fever he sleeps well. He is the Sc
cond persouage connec ed with the
presidential Office who has died in
the capitol-the first bel ex-
President Jonn Quin.ey Adams.
Notwithstanding there wasun-
derstoed to be more or less OF feeling
of estrangment between the Vice
P,esidentand the Pres.dent,cause
by rivalry AID the 70 merS remarks
in connection with the "third
term question, as ia the case OF
Andrew Johnson, General Grant.
has had the good sense and mag
nanimi ! not to show any re-
sen.n It. When the news of his
prostrati0n at the Capitol reached
the White Hou q, the President
hasten j 10 hiss side aud expressed
Ii; sympa, beco.ningly, aid
now in his proc mation, announ-
cling his dea. ), and giving the us
ual orders to the war and navy
secretaries, he has taken occasion
to speak in high terms of him as
. man and q public servant. He
deserves all the President has said
OF him.
/ had kaown Heocv Wilson we'll
for great navy years, and been
associated with h IN politically 10
no small extent. The firsi time l
met him was at the Great Free
Soil Convention that met at Buff
falo, N. Y, in 1913. He was a del
egate from his adopted State, Mas
sachusetts, and l from my fist
adopted State. Maryland. He was
the first Vice President Of the con-
We ltion. / afterwards encounted
him at the Free Soil Convention at
Pittsburg. in 1852, which nomi-
mated Johu p. Halls of his native
State for President, and George
w. Julian, of Indiana, for Vice
President-the nominees at Buff
fale, as you will recall, were Mar
tin Van Buren, and Charles Francis
Adams. Henry was by no means
brilliant man, but he was man
OF great political power, because a
good wlrepuller and an indomita-
bic worker. never knew an as
pirant for popular favor who
could win friends so successfully
BY hanging round all sorts of con-
vocations, whether Of women or
man including the woman's rights
conventions and those OF the nom
voting Garrisonsian anti-savery
people, and making friends among
them without committing himself
exactly 10 their particular move
ment. His fellowshipping the
GaTrisonians, seeing that they
were not generally voters, might
have seemed loss of time to one
not cOnversant with the influences
at work. But they had no little
influence In the Free Soil party, in
lis day 1.-THE forerunner of the Re-
publican party as ii was and az
forwards la the Republican party
itself, because all their force was
thrown positively against the
Democrats, and therefore negative
ly in favor of the Republicans
all of which General Wilson plain
ly saw. He was very ambitious
man, ana never gave up his hope
of occupying the Presidential
chair. Had he lived till the next
Presidential canvass, he would
have cen by no means feeble
contestant for the prize of the uom-
ina ion, for which he had his plans
we'll laid. With mauageme mt OF
the most communicate KIDD and
a perseverance in hard wofk that
was proverbial, he would have
given Grant, supposing him really
In the field,or his chosen successor,
not n little trouble. But / should
have been surprised TO witness his
success in carrying the nomination
mo, l can hardly say would