Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-11-22
DEATH os VICE PRESIDENT VIII
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DEATH Of VICE PRESIDENT VIII
SON.
Tho sad. yet not unexpected news is
tslegraphed from Washington to-day
that Henry Wilson. Vice President Of
the United States. is dead. Few partie.
ulars 81 tho event are received. About
week aimee the Vice President was
stricken with spopleIy 10 seriously
that IL was thought he would not rally.
The contrary. however. wa the case.
and for several days past no rapidly re-
gained his strength until last Saturday.
when but for the urgent restraint Of his
physicians he would have ycntursd out.
To-day We receive news Of his death.
The whole nation will mourn TIE death
Of one OF the few statesmen who have
been tested in the erscibls Of public lie
and found without alloy. Henri, VIII
son was born February lG. 1912. and
Wa smphatically a solf-mado man.
His parent. we're poor. and having been
a~pprsnticsd al the ags Of ten years. the
whole period Of his school attendance
until his majority was attained Was 10 IS
than q year. Yet being q great read
or. he had managed during that time on
Sundays. BY freight and moonlight. to
dsvour the contents Of nearly . thous-
and historical and biographical volumes
He aitsrward hirsd himself to .
shoemaker at Natick. Massachusetts,.
with whom hs remained two years,
whom placing his savings In
the hands OF . person for safe keep
ing. he marked out and entered upon a
system Of academic education. This
va soon cut short BY the insolvency Of
the person Who had his money. and in
1893 he returned 10 Nstick and resumed
work d his trade. His first en-
trance into public life was in
he Presidential canvass OF 1870
during which he made something over
forty speeches for General Harrison.
He was thereafter thrice returned to the
State Legislature. in which he soon
became conspicuous - an active and
enthusiastic anti.slavery man. In 1916.
he made . speech in favor Of the adop-
ton BY the Legislature OF res
olstion declaring the uaAiterabie
hostility Of Massachusetts, to the further
extension and longer continuance OF
slavery In America and her fixed deter
mination 10 use al legal and eonstitu-
tional msans for its extinction" which
was pronounced BY the leading anti
slavery journals TO be "ths fullest and
most comprehensive on the slavery
question that had yet been made in any
Legislative body in the country" In
1sis he was a delegate to the whie Ma
tional Convention. and in the same
yssr purchased the Boston Rspu5,ioan. a
daily paper. which no edited for two
years. In 1919 he was elected Chair
man Of the Free Soil party OF Massa-
ehusstts. which position no held
for four years. In 1850 and 1851 he
was elected to the State Senate OF
which he was made President. In 1852
he was made President Of the Free Soil
National Convention at Pittsburc. and
Chairman Of the National Committee Of
that party. In the same year he was
that psrty's candidate for Congress in
the Eighth Massachusetts, Distriet. but
was defeated BY less than a hundred
In 1859 he was the Free Soil
candidate for Governor. and va. again
defeated. In 1855 he was elected 10
succeed Edward Everett, in the United
States Senate. and became at oncs con-
spicuous as an anti.slAvsry advocate.
In 1856. when Sumner was assailed by
Brooks Of South Carolina, Mr.. Wilson,
in . speech to the Senate, de-
nouncsd the act as a "brutal. murder
Gus and covardly assault" For this
Brooks challenged, but Mr.. Wilson re-
fused to accept il. ON the ground that
dusling Ia barbarous practice. rightly
branded a. q crime by the laws OF the
country. He. however. significantly
added that no believed in the Divine
night Of self.defsnse. Mr.. Brooks pur-
sued the subject no farther. From that
time up to his election. in 1872. as Vice
President. Mr.. Wilson has been Que Of
the most prominent men Of the RsPub-
iicsn party.
In 1861 he was made Chairman OF
the Senate Committee on Military Az
fairs. a post which the civil war rem
dsrsd one Of unprecedented labor and
responsibility. In this caracity he in
txo.,,e>1 and c.rried tbrougb copcress