Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-06-23

VIZ w I'll, Ao WAS PIdctlcllS law IN
Cincinnati, and at that time and for
some years before was City Solicitor.
He responded to the first call for vol
unteers in 1861, and was appointed
Major of the Twenty-third Ohio In
fantry. He went at ,once with his
regiment to West Virginia, serving
under Gen. Rosecrans. In Novem-
Der he was promoted to Lieutenant
Colonel, and took command of the
regiment and served under Mcclellan
until he was disabled at the battle of
South mountain. In 1862 he was
made Colonel of the Seventy-ninth
Ohio, but owing to his wounds was
unable to take command. In the
meantime he was made Colonel of
the Twenty-third Regiment, and in
December, 1862, was put in command
of the First Brigade Of the Kanawha
Division. He continued IN this COM
mand until Sherldan's great battle at
Winchester, in September, 1864, when
he was put III command of the Kama
wha Division, and led it during the
campaigning of that year. In Octo-
Der, 1864, he was made Brigadier-
General "for gallant and meritorious
services in the battles of Winchester,
Fishers Hill, and Cedar Creek" In
the pring of 1865 he was put in
command of an expedition against
Lynchburg, and while that was in
preparation the war closed. He was
brevctted Major-General for his gal
liant services in 1864 in West Vir-
glnia. He was in active service the
greater part of the time, was wound
ed four times-once severely. While
serving in the army, in 1864, he was
elected to Congress from one Of the
Cincinnati districts. In 1865 he was
reelected. Before his second term
had fairly begun, he was nominated
in 1867 as the Republican candidate
for Governor Of Ohio. He resigned
his place in Congress and canvassed
the State, he being a pleasing and
forcible speaker. His Democratic
competitor was the present Senator
Allen G. Thurman. He was elected
after a severe conflict. In 1860 he
was again nominated, and his Demo-
cratic competitor was the we'll known
George II. Pendleton, and was again
elected. He declined a third cleo
ton, intending to retire from public
life He is wealthy, and sought the
pleasures and quietude of domestic
life. But in 1875, a portion of the
people of the Western Reserve OBJ
jccted to the nomination of Judge
Taft for Governor, because of his
Judicial opinion excluding the Bible
from the public schools. Judge Taft
thereupon withdrew, urging the NOM
ination Of Gov. Hayes, who, in this
way was again compelled, by popular
request, to become a candidate.
That campaign has become histor-
ical. William Allen, who had been
elected Governor i'll 1878, was the
Democratic candidate. No State
was ever so thoroughly canvassed.-
A hundred men of each party from
outside the State, in addition to the
home forces, were at work night and
day. The discussion at first cmbrac-
ed variety of subjects, but all mar
rowed down to the currency. The
canvass continued up to the night
before the election. The vote was
unprecedentedly large. The count
stood: Hayes, 297,sl4; Allen, 1922
273. This victory, won by such in
domitable energy, such brave adher-
ence to truth and sound political
doctrine, was welcomed by the ma.
ton, and the gallant soldier who bore
himself SO nobly throughout the
fight was at once elevated to a CON
spicuous position among the men
with national and honorable reputa.
tons.
William A. Wheeler, the nominee
for Vice-President, is native of
New York State. He was born in
Malone, franklin county, in 1920,
and is consequently about SO years
of age. He is full Of health, OF
robust stature, of excellent physical
habit, and has all the hearty and pop
ular qualities that usually appertain
to that sort of a build. There is not
a more popular man in public life
among those who know him person.
ally. He is q lawyer by profession,
but has also had an extensive bust.
ness experience. He was for many
years engaged in the banking bust
ness, and was at one time President
of the Ogdensburg & Rouse's Point
Railroad Company. He entered pub
lie life a full generation ago. He
was elected a member of the New
York Legislature in 1850; in 1857 he
went into the State Senate, he was
elected to Congress in lso0,-the
Thirty-seventh Congress- and has
served his district in the National
Legislature continuously, we believe,
since that time. He was tor many
years Chairman of the Pacific Rail.
way Committee, at that time one OF
the most important committees in
Congress; and, though this will be
urged against him during the cam
paign owing to the present hostility
of the people to subsidized railroad
schemes, we have yet to learn that
Mr.. Wheeler was ever corruptly in
fuenced OF ever suspected in his
dealings with enterprises that form
erly received the most patriotic and
enthusiastic approval Of the entire
country.
He was the author of what become
famous under his name as the
"Wheeler Compromise" whereby the
hostile factions in Louisiana were
conciliated, and a condition of peace
and comparative good feeling was
brought out from what threatened a
new civil war. This Cancellation was
brought about by Mr.. Wheeler's per-
sonal activity and judgment, and his
final adjustment of affairs was con-
coded on all sides to have been judi
cious, fair, and honorable. 1t will
be remembered that the state of
things was chaotic, that parties were
lmplacable, and the whole country
seriously disturbed. Mr.. Whcelcr's
efforts resulted in the permanent es-
tablishment of the Kellogg State