The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-01-25
1S61-1S7S.
some Interesting Congressional Reminds
cences-The Senate and House of 81
and '78 COMPARED.

ADranBm I1ncOln nau Deen electeu
President. The second session of the
Thirty-sixth Congress opened with
thirty-six Democrats, twenty-six Repub-
licans, and two Unionists in the Senate
Kennedy, of Maryland, and Critten-
den, of Kentucky. Prominent among
the Democrats were Jefferson Davis, of
Mississippi; Robert Toombs, of Georgia;
r. M. Il. Hunter and James Mason, of
Virginia; Thomas l.. Clingman, of North
Carolina; Clement @. Clay, of Alabama;
Judah z. Benjamin and John Slidell, of
Louisiana; Lewis Wigfall, of Texas; and
William Gwin, of California. These
went with the Confederacy. Stephen A.
Douglas, of Illinois; William Bigler, of
Pennsylvania; James A. Bayard and
Willard Salisbury, of Delaware; and
Andrew johnson, of Tennessee, re-
NAMED in the Union. Among the promi-
nent Republicans were Hannibal Hamlin
and William Pitt Fessenden, of Maine;
Solomon Foote, of Vermont; Henry Will
son and Charles Sumner, of Massachu-
sets; William II. Seward, of New York;
Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania; Ben
jamin f. Wade, of Ohio; Lyman Trum-
bull, of Illinois; j. r. Doolittle, of
Wisconsin; Zach Chandler, of Michigan;
James Harlan and James w. Grimes of
Iowa.
1t will be noticed that the two Sena-
tors from Delaware in 1861 have two sons
as Senators from the same State in 1879
"A very remarkable incident. Hanni-
bal Hamlin had been elected Vice Presi-
dent, and resigned his seat early in De-
cember, being succeeded by Lot M.
Morrill,, who resigned a year or so ago to
become President Grants last Secretary
of the Treasury.
Henry b. Anthony, of Rhode Island,
is the only Senator now in his seat who
heard jeff Davis farewell speech. Fes-
sender left the Senate four years after
to become Lincoln's Secretary of the
Treasury, when Salmon p. Chase was
appointed Chief Justice; Hale, Foote,
Wilson, Sumner, Seward, Douglas,
johnson, and other great men who were
their colleagues then are dead. Lafay-
cite S. Foster, of Connecticut, is men,
Der of the Legislature of that State;
Dooiittle and Trumbu1 are in the ranks
of the Democratic party; Cameron,
Chandler and Wade are watching from
private life the return to power of their
old adversaries. Bigler is specializing
in Philadelphia, and was Financial
Agent of the Centennial Exhibition.
Gwin is hanging around Washington as
a lobbyist, and is known as the Duke of
| Sonora, title he got from Maximil-
lian, having followed the fortunes of the
| invaders of Mexico. Jefferson Davis is
writing his own biography, recluse !;
Judah p. Benjamin, the Secretary of
State of the Confederacy, is a London
lawyer Toombs has recently managed
constitutional convention, and now
wants to GO to Paris as an Exposition
Commissioner. His remarkable feat
ures are often seen in Washington
around his old haunts; his grizzled, I'M
kempt hair piled in disorder over his
massive features, with deep, heavy
ridges in his face, and active. nervous
manner, make him marked man every
where he goes.
Anthony sits alone in the Senate,
spending the last of his term of twenty
four years, and occasionally talks over
old times with Hamlin, who ranks him
in priority of service, but not the length
Of consecutive terms.
Roscoe Conkling, Justin S. Morrill,,
William Window, and l.. @. @. Lamar,
now Senators, were members of the
House of Representatives. John Sher-
man, now Secretary of the Treasury,
was there, and was the leader of the Re-
publican majority, as Chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means. The
only members of the present House of
Representatives are John w. Killinger,
of Pennsylvania, Republican; Samuel
| S. Cox, then Representative from the
Columbus district of Ohio; John ii. Rea-
gan, of Texas; John L. Harris, of Vir
ginia, and Ohio II. Singleton, of Missis-
sippi. The three last named left their
seats to join the Confederacy, aud Rea-
gan was made Postmaster General
Harris and Singleton were at once elect
ed members of the Confederate Con-
gress. Lamar was sent as Ambassador
from the Confederate States to Rassia
Reagan alone of the four named took an
active part in the debates in the House
before he retired, and urged the adop-
ton of the Crittenden compromise.
John A. Logan was member of the
House, but resigned soon after to raise
O regiment for the war. Elihu B. Wash
burn, McClernand, and Lovejey were
there from Illinois. Holman and Col
fax were Representatives from Indiana,
as was also Gen. Dunn, now Judge Adj
vocate General of the Army.
Gov. Phelps, of Missouri, was
a member, as was also Alexan-
der H. Rice, now Governor OF
Massachusetts,. Horace Maynard, Min
lister to Turkey, was a member from
Tennessee, and Charles Francis Adams
from Massachusetts; Gen. Spinner, 80
long Treasurer of the United States
Arson T. Burlingame, who opened the
ports of China TO the commerce of the
world, was in the House, anxious to
fight duel in Summers behalf. Reu-
ben T.. Fenton, and Daniel E. Sickles,
who lost 4 leg in the war, and was re-
Gently " MISTER to Spain, were members
Twoy 81: before Sickles had been tried
for the murder of Key, his wife's Sc
1ucer, / n the courts of the District OIL
Columbia. John Young Brown was
then from Kentucky, the youngest mar
IN the House, who was not sworn in al
the opening of the session, but who
waited few days until he should reacl
the constitutional age of % years. Pen
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