Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
Death Comes to Pennsylvania's
 Great Politician.

D0aCn comes CO HennSylVanlN'9
 Great Politician.
 dispatch from Lancaster, Pe., says General Cameron is dead. Death came sud denly from a weak spell. Up to the last at tack he was conscious and had no trouble tc swallow the food given him and which he ap peared to assimilatc. Around the deatE bed were ex- Attorney General McVeagh and wife, Mrs. Haldcman, James Cameron, Simon B. Cameron and wife, and Mrs. David Watts granddaughter.
 Simon Cameron, who was for over half 8 century identified in the eyes of the country with Pennsylvania politics, began life as a poor boy, and was mainly indebted to his own efforts for his early education. He was born at Lancaster, Pa, on the Sth of March, 1799. Left an orphan when but nine years of age, he was early apprcnticed to the print ing business and gained the chief part of his education within the walls of a newspaper office, first in Harrisburg, Pa and afterward at w ashington, D. C. At the age of twenty one he became editor of paper at Doyles town Pa., the Pennsylvania Intelligencer. Two years later he had transferred his edi- torial ability to Inc service of paper at Har- risburg He warmly cspoused the cause ot General Jackson when the latter was nomi- mated for the Presidency. His business abil- ity had fully developed itself, and within 8 few years ho was known as one of the ablest fnanciers of the State. He established the
 
 He was appointed Adjutant General of the state, and ill 1S45 he was elected to the United States Senate for four years, to fill tho vacancy caused by the resignation of Mir. Buchanan. At this time, still democrat, he voted for the war with Mexico and for the proposition to extend the Missouri compro- mise line to tue Pacific The repeal of that compromise in 1854, and the lawless and bloody struggle to force slavery upon Kansas, made him a sincere and earnest member of the new free soil party, and as such he upheld and voted for Fremont in 1856. In 1857 he was reelected to the United States Senate. When the year 1860 arrived MT. Cameron was named as one of the prominent candidates for the Presidency. In the Chicago Convention he stood third on the first ballot. Before the second ballot he withdrew and his friends cast their votes for Mr. Lincoln.
 On Mir. Lincoln's entrance upon the active duties of his office, March 4, 1861, he nom- mated MT. Cameron as Secretary of War. Mr. Cameron accepted, resigning his position in ment. He was the first officer of the Govern ment to recognize slavery as the real enemy and assailant of the nations life, and to recommend in December, 1861, that the war should be fought out by the destruction o1 slavery.
 Mir. Cameron resigned his position in the Cabinet in January, 1862, being succeeded by Mir. Stanton. MT. Cameron was appoint ed Minister to tho Russian Court, but re mained only until November of the same year. He was delegate to the Baltimore Convention in 1864, by which Mr. Lincoln was renominated for the Presidency, and ir 1866 to what is known in history as tho Southern Loyalists' Convention" held ir Philadelphia, with view to bring about more amicable feelings among the reunited States. In 1867 ho took his seat for Q thirt term in the Senate of tho United States. IT 1871 he was appointed chairman of the Com mittee on Foreign Affairs to succeed MT Charles Sumner, and made an exceedingl, efficient and satisfactory record in tha capacity. On the expiration of his term a. Senator, in 1873, he was reelected for ; fourth term of service.
 MT. Cameron resigned his seati the Senate in March, 1877, and his son Don Cameron was elected by the Pennsylvania Legislatur to fill the vacancy.
 The estate of General Cameron is said tt be worth from s1.ooo,0oo to $1,5o0,ooo l There are eight heirs in the regular line 0 | inheritance These are United States Senate J. Donald Cameron, the wife of ex-Unite. | States Attorney General Wayne MacVeagl and Mrs. Richard Haldeman, who are tn Generals children, and five gran dchildren.