The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-11-23
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Death Of Vice. esidens wilson Y 81 IS IS
vice. President Henry WILSON died In
washington city yesterday merning a. 2
O'Clock. BE was born ct Farming ton. n. a.,
November 16, 1919, and was therefore In the
sixty-third year OF bis age 1t the time Of his
death. First an apprentice to q farmer, after.
wards 10 shoemaker at Natiok, Mass, bis
beginning OF liie was nos advantageous for
che acqnisition of knowledge. BE, however,
seemed TO have made The most Of his oppor-
tuni.ies. With his limited stock Of inforrna !,
zion and q profound ignorance Of political
economy. he seems to hsye entered puoiic
life early. he had astock Of everyday smart
ness and an abundant collection OF the Aoo"
lstton literature OF the time. He showed
great rasentiyeness Of recollection with re-
gard to the passionate and enthusiastic rant
ing, and systematic habit Of preserving the
BIS. rant and the best argument on the sub.
jec. at period when anti-slayery had takes
. fresh start and was gaining bold upon the
politics OF the country. I,
In 1910, having shown o readiness for
public speaking, he undertook the work OF
political oratory, and entered the arens as an
advocate Of HAssrsos's election TO the prest.
dency. La the next Eve years be was three
times elected from Natick to che Legislature,
and twice senator from Middlesex.
But It was as. an boltionist that he gsined
his northera laurels.s He was in 1876 se-
lected with the poet WHIrTIER to- carry the
Abolitionist remonstrance Of Massachusetts
against the annexation of Texas. In the
same year he introduced resolutions against
the further extension and longer continu-
apce of slavery. he gained great eclat by
his speech upon these resolutions, and they
were carried by ninety-three majority. bis
speech was the result of his systematic
habit of preserving political material and
an ingenious talent Of arrangement.
He was delegate to the Wing National
c onvention of '4s; but upon the rejection
by that body of anti-slayery resolutions ne
Withdrew from it and took an active part IN
organizing the Free.Soil party. At that
time he became the editor of the Boston
Republican, Free.soil paper.
MIR. WILSON was o member OF the Massa-
chusetts Legislature for ten years, and pre-.
sided over the upper house tor two years. AS
a. Free.soil candidate tor Congress in the
Eighth district he was defeated; was in '53 o
Free-Soil candidate for Governor, and was
again defeated. he was elected United States
senator TO succeed EDWARD EVERETT, aud took
his seat>in '55. He was reelected in S9 and
again ip '65. He YVES elected Vice-Presi-
dent on GRANTS ticket in 1872.
Vice. President WILSON'S career is distin'
uished for nothing outside of anti.slaVery
and negrophilism. Save anti-slayery ha-
ranges and bitter anti.slaYery lucubrations his
effusions are devoid Of interest, and hardly
elevate his fame above dead msdiocrity.
He was lifted into high position by the mad
fan atical wave of anti-slaVery, as were many
of his contemporaries. There was, save
with reference to two or three persons, not q
grain of craftsmanship or calm philosophy
in the whole body Of legislative fanatics.
They did their worst In the way Of exciting
the public mind by their furious agtations.
yice-President WILSON was not the least
lfficient in spreading sectional hate and pre-
{aring the nation for the fratricidal war
which came and left to the country evils that
gave great concern to some of the more con.
scientious OF the fanatics, and we include
Mr.. WILSON in this list.
When the war came he had some knoWl.
edge Of old.field mastering and marching,
and, with on idea that he was soldier, raised
regiment, and went to the field as colonel
of the same. He was soon transferred to Nc
OUTLAWS staff, where he held sort of orns-
mental position as o guardian of piety and
instr uctor in goodness and love in the midst
Of the hostility and slaughter he helped to
produce. But the tented field and its dis
comforts suited him not. His senatorial
duties soon called him TO greater ease and
comfort at the Capital. There he went alopg
with the ultras till after the war, and did
not venture to restrain the hand Of vindlc.
tiyeness until the Radical programme of
punshments was completed.
After the war he maintained position
amongst the ultras with sufficient show of
good faith to receive his nomination on
GRANTS ticket, thus endorsing all the ohjec-
tionable and arbitrary measures of the AID.
ministration.
Up to that time he had exhibited only
now and then sign Of relentiDg. They
were titful and impracticable, always accom-
panied with fanatical ideas repusive to every
Caucasian who had any pride or proper ap.
probation of the grandeur and superiority of
his race over oil the different races of man
kind. He turned cold shoulder upon poor
GREELEY, who seemed as jealous for peace
and ".universal amnesty" as he had ever
been for abolition. 81.
or hate Vice-President WILSON had as
sumed the tone and bearing of a moderate
man, seeking to assuage sectional bitterness
and soften the rancors of the war, Whether