St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-14

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ton as political writer, and
made his paper, the Richmond
Examiner, great political power
in his day was also of the same family.
The maiden name OF John W. Daniels
mother was Warwick, daughter of Maj.
John Warwick of Lynchburg. Col. Charles
Elicit, the celebrated engineer, who was
well known in the Mississippi valley twen-
ty-tive years ago, married sister of Mrs.
Daniel. Young Daniel was educated at
the Lynchburg college and at preparatory
school taught by Dr.. Gessuer Harrison IN
Albermare county. Virginia. When the
war was commenced young Daniel was a
student at DR.. Rarrisons school. His
cousin, young Charles Elicit, was also a
student at the same school. The
boys had been reared together as
brothers and their parting at the
commencement of hostilitles be-
tween the sections was an affecting incl
dent. Young Elicit came North, and,
| raising a regiment. entered the Union army
as colonel of volunteers. He fell at the
head of his command in one Of the early
engagements in the West. Young Daniel
cast his lot with the South, and entered the
| Confederate army at the age of 10. as
second lieutenant in an infantry regiment.
1IC IOSt W IIt VI lIlGJOl- otlltl w do dS-
signed to duty on the staff of Gen. Jubal
Early. He was several times severely
wounded, and still walks on crutches.
After the surrender of the army of North
ern Virginia at AppomattoX, Maj. Daniel
attended the law school at the
University of Virginia. After grad
uating he located at Lynchburg and entered
upon the practice of his profession. He
soon took a high position at the bar, and is
| the author of several law text books. His
works on negotiable instruments and at
tachments are standard books. An address
delivered by Maj. Daniel at his gradua-
ton at the commencement exercises of the
university attracted public attention to his
| finished style of Oratory. Soon after he
| located in Lynchburg he was elected to rep
resent Campbell county in the lower house
of the legislature, and subsequently
| in the state senate. In the legis-
lature he took leading part
| in opposition to MahOne's repu-
| diation schemes. He became so prominent
as an able leader of the debt-paying Dem
ocracy that he was nominated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor in 1851, but
was defeated by Cameron, who was the
Malone candidate. Last fall he was elected
to congress from the Lynchburg district.
| -1dJ. I(dlIICl HlSJ dIldlliCU udliOilul plOhll-
nence by a speech he made at Cincinnati in
1880, seconding the nomination Of Gen.
| Hancock. He pronounced the Grafton to
the memory of Washington upon the oc
casion of the dedication of the Wash
ington monument in the house of
representatives last February. He
will not take his seat in the senate
until March. 1887. and will be enabled to
serve out his full term in the lower honse
of congress. Mr.. Daniel is tall, with a
spare figure and strikingly classical face,
! somewhat of the Edwin Booth type. He
| has sharp acquiline features and smooth
| Shaven face. His eyes are very dark and
| sparkling and deeply set under a full fore
head and prominent eyebrows. His nose
is long and thin with a slight hook at the
end. His mouth is thin-lipped, curving
slightly toward his sharp pointed chin. His
hair is dark, thick and curly. and is care
fully brushed back on his polished
forehead into a we'll arranged mass
at the back of the neck. He is a
brilliant orator and has a wonder
full command of ornate and fiowery phrases.
He is a young man of high character and
| equally high ambition. and those who know
| him best predict a brilliant career for him
in the senate. In a national sense, he is a
/ wonderful improvement over Malone. In
addition to taking decided stand in favor
of paying the debt of Virginia, he has also
been an active enemy of monopoly. and
took the lead in the Virginia legislature in
securing the passage of laws regulating
railroad traffic. When his friends brought
hlm forward as candidate for senatorial
honors, he was opposed in the Democratic
canvass by Hon. John S. Barbour, the
member OF congress from the Alexandria
district. Mr.. Barbour is chairman of the
Democratic State Central committee, and is
also president of the Virginia Midland rail-
road, one OF the most important and influ-
ential railway lines in the South. 1t was
supposed that Mr.. Barbour would be an
over match for the young statesman. But
the young blood of the state was aroused.
and Daniel went through On the nrst bal
lot, beating Barbour two to one
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