The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-23
"REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN
BY ZEN: pERLEY pooRE.

Al
Gated the admission of Texas, even
though war might result. He adverted
to the growth of the worship of man.
mon throughout our country in these
piping times OF peace, and said that If
the crystal waters OF peace proved in
sufficient TO cleanse us from the accum-
ulated corruption, he would let the
bloody streams OF war perform the
work. 1t would sweep off drones and
loafers, and men of broken fortunes
and broken reputation, many of whom
would hail the first blast of the trumpet
as the renovating note OF their emanci-
patton. War was curse. but it had
its blessings, too as the destroying
lightning OF heaven purified the atrnos-
phere.
George Catlin. Philadelphia artist,
was inspired by visit from a dozen
Sioux chiefs TO Washington. in. 1892,
with determination to visit every
tribe OF Indians on the Continent of
North America, and to bring home
faithful portraits OF their prime pal per-
sonages, male and female, views OF
their villages, games etc.. and full no es
cure specimens OF their costumes, and q
complete collection of their weapons,
implements, AMI manufactures. in or
der to form gallery. he car
ried his hazardous undertaking into eff
feet, and roamed about for seven or
eight years, IN the course of which he
visited and associated with, on familiar
terms, fort ght different tribes, the
widest and most remote. and brought
away 300 paintings in oils, of which 800
were portraits, besides an extensive
collection OF their costumes, etc. he
made several unsuccessful attempts to
have Congress purchase his collection,
and then took it to Europe, where he
exhibited it at several capitals. but
could not dispose of it At last he be-
came involved pecuniarily, and an Eng
lish sheriff seized his collection. After
his death, however, it fell into the
hands OF one who appreciated it, and
who generously gave it to the Smith
sonian Institution.
When the Senate met in December,
1886, letter was read from Mr.. Wal
ter Louvre, resigning the Office of Sec
rotary. Mr.. Lowrie was O native of Ed
inburgh, Scotland, who had emigrated
to Butler County Pennsylvania, when o
lad, and who, after several years SER
vice in the State Legislature,
had been elected to the United States
Senate in 1919, and had served until
March, 1925. When the Senate next
met, in March of that year, he was
elected its secretary displacing Charles
Cults, OF New Hamsbire, and he served
until he resigned in 1886 to become
secretary of the Presbyterian Board Of
Foreign Missions, which position he
held until his death. at New York city,
in 1865. The competitors for the Sec
retaryship OF the Senate thus vacated
IN 1886 were DR.. Arnold Naudain, who
had just resigned as senator from Della
ware. and Asbury Dickens of North
Carolina, then clerk in the Treasury
Department. Mr.. Dickens was elected,
and held the position until he was dis
placed in 1861 by John W. Forney.
General, then Colonel, Burnside in
a brief speech which he made at o pub
lie reception given him at Providence
soon after the first battle of Bull Run,
expressed his unreserved opinion that
the advance should not have been made
when it was. ~ called upon Gen.
Mcdowell" said he, ''and expressed
my dissent 10 the policy of fighting the
enemy at that time. Senator Wilson
was present, and looked at me when /
made the remark as though I was a
coward. Gen. Mcdowell said. II do
not fight them tomorrow, cannot do
il in six months. Better said /, wait
that time than hazard q battle now
Gen. Mcdowell invited meeting of
officers at his headquarters on the night
before the battle, but he (McDowell
was not present until ten o'clock, and
then nothing was to be heard but the
reception OF orders for the following
day"