Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-16
General Joseph R. HawIey.
The Next United States Senator From
 Connecticut.

The Next United States Senator From Connecticut.
 Hartford Correspondence New York Times.J
 General Joseph Roswell Hawley is 54 years of age, in vigorous health, and in the prime of his intellectual powers Of Connecticut ancestry, he was born in Richmond county, N. C.. His parents removed to Connecticut when he was lad, and he had the advanta- ges of education in the academies of Far mington Conn, and Cazenovia N. Y and in Hamilton College, where he was graduated with honor in 1S47. He began the practice of law in 1850 in Hartford, in the office with John Hooker, like himself, thorough Free soiler and Abolitionist. His first presidential vote was given for Van Buren in 1848, and from that time until the Republican party was organized he was one of the most active Free-soil leaders. It was in his office and on his invitation that Gideon Welles, John M. Niles and dozen other prominent Hartford men met, Feb. 1, 1S56 and made the first Republican organization in the State. A few months later, in the first Republican State convention, he opposed and defeated the at- tempt to fasten on the party some of the pro- scriptive principles of the Know hing par ty, which was then about ending it's existence. In 1857 General Hawley became editor of the Hartford E0e1at1eg Press, paper estab- lished in the interest of the Republican par ty. and which, under his management be- came the leading party organ in the State. When Sumter was fired upon Hawley was the first Connecticut man to enlist as a private in Company A, First Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. He became captain of the com pany, which was one of the few that left the Bull Run battlefield in good order. Enlist ing again for the war, he went to the field as lieutenant colonel of the Seventh Connecti- cut Volunteers, under Colonel Alfred H. Terry. He left the service 0 few months af- ter the close of the war, wearing the stars of a Major General. In 1866 he was elected Governor of Connecticut, and the following year returned to journalism as editor of the Cour09at with which the Press had been con- solidated. Since that time General Hawley has been prominent in public life. He pre- sided at the Chicago convention of 1868, when General Grant was first nominated and his address on taking the chair a master piece Of stirring eloquence, and had pow erful influence in bringing the party, then first threatened with imitation heresies, on to the highest ground of honest finance. No one who was present will ever forget the ef- feet when the speaker, in his ear nest manner, said 'cFor every dollar of the national debt the blood of soldier is pledged Every bond, in letter and spirit, must be held as sacred as a soldiers gravel As member of the committee on resolu- tions in subsequent national conventions, he was always effective advocate of honest money, as he has been in Congress, where he has served for several terms, including the present Congress. He was also chosen Pres ident of the Centennial Commission, which position he occupied from the beginning un- til the very successful close of that great en- terprise. As campaign worker he has few equals in the country, his fine constitution enabling him to endure an unusual amount of fatigue. During the campaign just closed he spoke nearly every secular night from the last of August, being obliged to cancel only one appointment on account of illness. As writer and speaker he is clear, incisive, vigorous, scholarly and convincing. He has few equals among the public men of the day, either with pen or voice. If he is sometimes too impuIsive, it | is never except when stirred to indignation by some sham or wrong. There is nothing of the demagogue in his composition, and of all the titles he has won there is none which l is so pleasing to his friends or which a life record has proved to be better merited, than l the popular one of Honest Joe Hawley.n