The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-10
DEATH OF CALEB GUSHING

DEATH Of CALEB GUSHING.
One OF the remarkable men OF
the country died last Friday nigh,
at Newbnryport, Mass, aged sew.
enty.eight years.
In any other State where person.
al independence ot1ends less than
III Massachusetts the general senti.
ment, Caleb Gushing would always
have had a leading place. He was
a man of great natural ability, um-
firing industry, aud of studious
habits TO the end OF his life. He
was the confidential adviser of Mr..
Lincoln's administration, and of
Gen. Grants. That the latter
president esteemed Mr.. Cushing
highly is shown by the fact that he
sent his name to the senate rs chief
justice of the supreme court and us
minister to Spain. Mr.. Gushing
held the rank OF general during the
Mexican war, and but two OF equal
rank among the volunteers of that
war survive him. The New Or.
leans Times has the following to
say of Mr.. Cushiug's life and Ca
rper:
There is probably not a man in this
country that has held as many offices, both
by election aud appointment, as Caleb
Gushing, and served in all Of them so sat
istactorily. In 1925, when twenty-five years
of age, Dir. Gushing was elected TO the lrgis-
lature of Massachusetts in lSE to the
State senate; in ls33 Il re, preventative
again; in 1885 II member of congress, be.
ing re elected in 1887, 1889, loll and 1913.
lie was nominated for secretary of the
treasury in lS43, but the senate re-
jected the nomination; i'll lSI3 he
was minister to china and negotiated
the first treaty with that country. Upon
his return home, he was elected again to
the legislature of Massachusetts. This
was just before the BEGINNING of the Mex,
can war, which Gushing strongly favored.
The legislature of Massachusetts, however.
was bitterly opposed to this war and re-
fused to appropriate one cent toward a
fund to equip a regiment of volunteers.
cushing hcrcupon stepped in, equipped
the regiment at his own expense, n
marched at the head as colonel tuthe front.
lie served throughout the waE and rose to
the position OF b%riGadier general. While
still absent in Mexico he was nominfted
by the democrats Of Massachusetts for
governor, but defeated. He was elected,
however, rs a member of the legislature
for the sixth time. In 1850 and 1851 he
served az mayorof Newburyport. He was
nominated Il justice of the supreme court
Of Massachusetts i'll 1852, and in 1888 at
tOrnry.general of the United States, which
position he held for four years. At the
end of his term of office he returned to
the legislature of Massachusetts, to which
body he was reelected four times in sue
cession. Thus, from the time he came OF
age to the war, he was in the continuous
service either of his State or his country.
in the field, in the legislature or on the
bench. In 1860 he was president of the
democratic national convention that me
at Charleston, and afterwards of the Bal.
timore conventions. Then came the war,
during which he retired altogether from
political lite. In 1866 he was appointed
to revise the laws of the United States
In 1877 he represented this country at
Geneva, where he succeeded in completely
outWlttllIg aud Outgeneraling the English
representatives, and securing for the
United States a much larger award than
was expected. The subsequent year he
was sent as minister to Spain. Upon his
return home he was nominated for the of
flee of chief justice of the United States,
an appointment, however, which the re-
publican senate declined In rntifv