New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-06
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mack down William Mckee DnI4ns % tnala1ai,
r;fes az sjxty paees, and Potter, 81 Wiseonsan,
specified bowie-knyss u response % ho rs .ad
Pryors challenge Lhe ansss e e fb nee SInntsn Of
Eontharn 1embera arose merely from theiE pshet
that the Republicans youd nos agns Mt Ina that
he w0nld mot be buIIied. and that II occasion
came he would fight without hestaCicn No ohe
despised the code more than ne, Dug nc orv tbs
the time had come to put stop TO the SouInerh
praetice of hectoring and insulting NoFtnern ou !.
A display of personal courage, even t1DeS siia -
shocked the Northern sentiment AGAINST oueInnns,
ne believed wonld be Of service to the cause no nan
at heart In February, 1858, persopai altereatLcH
occurred in the House between heiG~ oi 1JSc
Carolina and Grow, of Pennsylvania ~ winch
Keitt was the AGGRESSION. Blows were struck ana
general melee followed Shortly sfterwards ; co..,
Cameron and Green. of Missouri, In Whlch tne ne
was given and threats made by Green OF pers93ina.
O t sS n 10th houses at the time grew
remarkable agreement when was put cuPon pao ond
signed by Benjamin f. Wade, simon cameron aug ano
Zachariah Chandler, and sealed with tne undS h
Standing that it should not be opened until oil tbe
si0neFs were dead. Its contents were understood
snv Pepnblican Senator of the kind that had been
80 often praetsed it should DO the DUTY OK one ..
the three to take the quarrel up ana make DIS owl
to the full extent of the code-t0 the death, need
he The import of the document became Known,
and the demeanor of the Southern freeaters toward
the Republicans was changed to one Oh personal
courtesy. -
SERVICES DURING THE REBELLION.
Mr.. Chandlers speeches during this period at
tracted the attention of the whole country by their
boldness bluntness and vigoF. No one dealt harder
blows at slavery and at the embryo treason then
plotting at Washington. When the storm OF REBEL
lion broke out he was a tower OF Strength 10 Tue
Union cause Whether urging vigorous prosecu-
ton of the war upon the Administration. pushing
measures for raising troops through Congress- or aid
ing enlistments in Michigan by personal exertioDs
hear iYfI of q
nnflagging energy singleuess of purpose and devo-
ton to the ideal of free and united nationality
His conspicuous zeal and tireless activity got Tor
him the sobriquet Of "the great War Senator" lie
vvas n member of the Committee on the Conduct or
the War, composed the part OF the Senate OF
Wade Chandler and Andrew johnson. and on the part
OF tn Honse of GOoch, of Massachusetts, Coyade
of Pennsylvania, Julian, of Indiana, and Odel, or
New-YOrk. This committee was q thorn IN the sue
of dilatory haIf-hearted generals, who Thought the
war could be endeu Oy deiTsyS anu eoP d omest,or
them sharply about their mOVements. among tne
officers it examined was General Mcclellan. VINO
was asked about the cause OF his long inactivity PC
fore he began the disastrous Peninsula campaign.
He replied that 1t was because there were not SUM-
ccnt meaps OF communication Win Wasnlngt ..I
two bridges over the Potomac. Dir. Chandler asked
what the number of bridges had 10 do with an al,
vance movement, and General Mcclellan explained
viii much detail that it one of the most i'm
pOrtaDt features of military strategy that com
mauder should have plenty OF room TO retTeat De-
fore making an attack. To this Mr.. Chambers re;
spouse was: General Mcclellan, understand
' on correctly, before you strike at the reoes you
want to be sure OK plenty Or rc1 20 sa' you g
scared" added senator Wade.
THE CLOSE OF AN ACTIVE LIFE.
Mr. Chandler was reelected TO the Senate in 1868.
and again in 1869. HIS during the war and
the reconstruction period is familiar to alfnews-
paper readers that it need not be dwelt upon 1t
hnl1
ness, consistency and answering fidelity to the
principles of liberty, equal rights and National
unity. 1t would be interesting. if space permitted.
10 speak of his legislative work outside Of strict
PARTY politics his support Of all measures giving
wise protection to American industry, his agency,
as chairman of the Commerce Committee, In the
adoption of legislation for prosecuting great works
Of internal Improvement, such as the St. Clair Flats
Canal and the Mississippi jettes, his sturdy defence
of the Nations credit and financial honor, his I'M
compromising hostility to all the dishonest currency
schemes that sprang up in the West, and his reso-
Into assertion of tho rights and dignity of the
United states in questions concerning her relations
with other nations, which form the subject OF
several of the best chapters in the volume under
consideration. His success as member OF Presl-
dent Grants Cabinet from 1875 to 1877 in reforming
the abuses and corruptOns that prevailed IN the ln-
terror Department 80 conspicuous as to win him
n new title to public regard. He showed that he
could be an able and honest executive officer, as
well rs n strong partisan and a Jealous politician.
lie failed of reelection to the Senate In 1873 by
reason of the Republican reyerscs IN 1879, when
sent so many DemOcrp IS to the Michigan Leglsla-
ture that few Republican mem bers who were op-
posed to Linn held the balance OF power, aud sue
ceeded in putting Christiancy IN bis place. In 1879
Christianey resigned. and the veteran Senator VINO
had been nearly two years out OF public lie, was
Death overlook him before his mental or physical
powers had begun 20 show decay, and while no was
In the midst of hard political work. He took an
active part in the campaign OF 1879, addressing
large meetings. in Maine. Massachusetts,, New York.
OHIO Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. On the |
evening of October 81 he spoke in Chicago to the |
Young Mems Republican Club. After the meeting |
he talked With friends who called at has room IN
the Grand Pacific Hotel and seemed in his usual ex-
celent health He retired about midnight and was |
found next morning dead III DIS pea Inc tnree
lines quoted from TennysOn on the title page OF the
biography have q singular appropriateness TO his |
death and character:
iron nerve, to true occasion true,
o ialPn ut length that tower OF strength 49, |
Which stood fOur-square to all tho winds that Blew"
Senator Chambers home-life was a happy one. |
He married Letitia Grace Douglass, Of New York. |
noble, Christian woman, whose social ACCOMPLISH
ments blended dignity with grace AMI who rui- |
filed her share of the exacting duties attendant
upon his public career. Their only child Is the
wife OF the Hon. Eugene Hale, of Maine. and hives
strongly attached to his family and took great de-
light during the latter years OF his life in rompng
with his daughters three healthy, handsome boys. |
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Love In LITERATURE.-Such books as those |
of NJ de Maupassant l0psided They treat OF the
eon; whereas, one OF the finest wits among hts own
countrymen might taught him that there not
tween the they had not heard 80 much CONVEX
saton about It, 1t Is the shortest-ved OF our sent