The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-01-03
"oArn" on rrlpEy, BRYANT, AND BloELow.

"GATn" on TILDES, BRYANT, AND BIGELOW.
Speaking Of Mfr. john Blgelow, WHO distinguished
Himself recently by declining the ofIice OF United
States Assistant Treasurer at New York after hay
ihg been confirmed by the Senate, Mr.. George Al.
fred Townsend In the Boston Globe, gives some
interesting "reminiscences Of Tilden, Bryant, and
Bgelow. He says: Bigeow Is one Of that curious
old Bryant school which kept the Euenfng Post
newspaper for long time at once progressive and
courteous II cold Bryant resented personalities in
the Journals, and so far from employing them as his
transient successors have done, he once went out
and assaulted James Gordon Bennett on the street
for having made some coarse references to him out
side Of his public life. The Bryant interest In that
property has been converted into money and real
estate and putno the Commercial AduertfSer which
is pretty good representation Of the old Epenino
Post with the Republican party bias Bryant mar
ried one Of his daughters to Park Goodwin, q New
writer through the country, and John Bigelow be-
came attached to the paper and made out Of 1t re-
since. with the addition of some Official occupation.
He was our Consul In Paris for some time, and for
little while Minister there.
In the press, and that originated from their acquaint
ance as supporters OF Martin Van Buren,. When he
ae ns SS r ~ the G new Nv
wrote 'Thanatopss,' at the early age OF twenty or
so. Van Buren, had just become Attorney General OF
New York State. In 1926 Bryant came on the
ErenfnJ Post, and then Van Buren, was in the United
States Senate Mr.. Tllden was a sort OF go.between
for Van Buren, with Bryant the collection of his
writings recently made by Mr.. Bigelow shows.
Bryant had been In early life a Federallst, Bit
terly assaiiing Jefferson In poem called the En-
eral views with timc and the old manis said to have
been 80 fond OF money tnat he never afterward
been started in isoi by the Feteralists to oppose
| the second war with England, which the Republic
cans had accepted. When that war closed with the
triumph OF the Jefersonan party and the complete
humiliation of the Federalists, who had meantime
been holding their Hartford conventions and other
around and Bryant got on it as snb.wrter. and in
the course three or four years he took CONTROL
have sometimes reelected that the influence Of the
paper was procured In the usual way the politicians
OF that day set to work, with the patronage OF ofice
| and printing. Mr.. Bryant. who had been fierce
| Federalist, soon turned into the other lines and
finally split the difference every way, but always in
Ginning toward his own cxchequer. Mr.. Tlden sup
Piled TO Van Buren,, of whom he was a nelghbor at
Undertook, in New York, a missing quantity,
| the newspaper writer's assistance. Gen. Jackson
| had discerncd the need of that kind Of assistance
when he brought Frank p. Blair from Kentucky to
| Washington and gave him newspaper. 1t was
necessary also to have assistance In New York, and
Tilden seems to have written for the Ecenfng Post
rs well as for the State Democratic paper at Albany
Many years afterward after Tilden became Cover
nor Of New York. his first public reception was given
swan Buren, was led into proclaiming himself
against the acquisition of Texas, and thereupon he
and his supporters became Free Soil Democrats
or Barnburners. The Ecenfng Post continued on
from this movement to be an anti slavery paper,
| while the Van Burens aud Tllden's slipped back
| again into the regular Democracy. Ultimately,
| when Pierce was nominated for President, all the
| Barnburners, and proslaveryites, too, supported
him: including many important men afterward In
up again In Pierces administration concerning
Kansas and Nebraska matters, and there was re-
division, but many of the old Barnburners. like
Tilden and Van Buren, took care to get on the
regular party side. Now Mr.. Blgelow, one Of
Tilden's supporters, has got the subtreasury here
| bankers and merchants around 1t. He has an &C.
centric wife, very beautiful woman In youth, and
| impulsve and warm hearted