The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-06
DEATH OF ZACH. CHANDLER.
The-Senator from Michigan, Secretary Of
the Interior under Grant, Found Dead
In his Bod at Chicago Hotel.
CHICAGO, November 1, is

CHICAGO, November /, 1879.
Senator Zachariah Chandler, of M;chi-
gan, was found dead in his bed at the
Grand Pacific Hotel this morning, He
had been speaking in Wisconsin, and last
night addressed an immense audience al
with his usual earnestness. After the
| meeting, when he and Senator Logan
and Hon. Jesse Spaulding were sitting
ia his room, engaged in conversation,
| Senator Chandler complained of indiges-
tion. AS he had complained Of the same
distressing feeling while en- route to the
city with these gentlemen, Mr.. Spauld-
| ing suggested that he remain over in the
city until Saturday night, but he said
that business affairs required his atten-
| ton at home, and an order was given to
have him called in the morning at 7
o'clock. His friends then bade him good
night and left. That is the last time the
! Senator was seen alive. This morning
when the cffice boy called him there was
| no response, and as upon repetition of
the knock silence still prevailed, the
clerk effected Ell entrance through the
transom and found that the Senator was
dead.
The body was not quite cold, and the
physician who wss present decided that
his death had occurred about three hours
previous to the discovery. The face
looks tranquil, showing that his death
was painless. The coroner will hold an
| inquest
From partial examination it is
| thought that Mr.. Chandler died of sud-
! den congestion of the lungs, brought on
| by cold contracted at Janesville.
WASHINGTON, November 1.-The fol-
lowing proclamation was issued by the
\ President this afternoon:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
November l, 1879.
The sad intelligence of the death of
Zachariah Chandler, late Secretary of the
Interior, from the State of Michigan, has
been communicated to the Government
and to the country, and in proper respect
to his memory I hereby order that the
several executive departments be closed
to public business, and their flags and
those of their dependencies throughout
the country be displayed at halfmast on
| the day Of his funeral.
r. B. HAYES.
| CHICAGO, November 2.-The coroner's
| jury held an inquest upon the body Of
| the Hon. Zachariah Chandler at the
\ Grand Pacific Hotel last night, and found
that his death took place between mid
night and g.. M, and was probably the
result of cerebral hemorrhage. The rela-
tives and friends Of the deceased objected
to thorough post-mortem examination.
Later.-The last sad offices for Senator
Chandler were performed at an early
hour this morning at the Grand Pacific
Hotel. Rev. David Swing officiated, and
the services were necessarily very brief,
consisting simply of prayer and reading
| from the scriptures. The remains were
then escorted to the depot by three COM
panies of the First Regiment, 200 vet-
with large number of friends. At the
depot a special train, with o committee,
headed Iby Ex-Governor Bagley, was
waiting to take the remains to Detroit.
CHANDLER'S LAST SPEECH, AT MIL
| wAUkIE.
| The one great question is, Are we or
arc we not a nation? We had the whis-
key rebellion in Pennsylvania. 1t was
conquered,t and we said now we are a
nation. South Carolina rebelled against
the tariff laws of the country. Andrew
Jackson happened to bo in the Presiden-
| tial chair, and he was informed that
South Carolina, under the leadership of
John c. Calhoun, had inaugurated o re-
bellion. Said jackson "Let South Car
olina commit the first overt act of trea-
son, and, by the Eternal, will hang
John G. Calhoun"-and everybody in
America, including John C. Calhoun
knew that he would do it, and the overt
act was not committed. Then we were
| sure we had government.
When the rebels surrendered at Appo-
nattox they surrendered to a govern
ment. When they surrendered their
people and their arms they surrendered
| fO the poyernment of the IJnited States
of America. They simply asked that
their miserable lives might be spared.
We gave them their lives, and told them
To go home and raise crops and behave
themselves, and obey the laws. They
had forfeited their property, and we re-
turned it to them. They forfeited their
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