The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-08

again entered the public service, declaring
he could not serve against his country,
would not fight against his country
men.
His son, John Potter Stockton. was
the last OF the family t, entsr the United
States Senate Like his ancestors. Mr..
stockton studied 1T Princeton, gradu-
ating ia lS43. In 1857 he was appointed
Minister to Rome. out was recalled at
bis own request In 1861. In 1865 he was
chosen intel States Senator by q plu-
Iaiity vote of tho Legislature. a resoIu-
ton changing the number necessary to
elect from u majority 70 a plurality hav-
Ing been passed at the same time. His
election WIS contested on this ground.
The Judiciary Committee reported unani-
mously in his favor. aud he was seated
ny a vote Of % to 2l-he himself voting In
the affirmative. The mex day he with
drew his vote aud was uuseAted. Bat in
1869 he was re~eiected aud served his full
term.
Since his rsturn to New Jersey he has
ably served her in the office of Attorney
General.
THE FRELINGHUYsENs.
The Frelinghuysen family is almost as
remarkable 10 long legislative record as
Is the Stockton, the Senatorial honor hav-
lug descended therein for three genera
lions, from Frederick, q member Of the
Colonial Congress, and OF the United
0bAtuS 0C4hbS. " MS G6COuN Spus e
dore. aud to his grandson, Frederick T..
The elder Frederick seems TO have been a
remarkably precocious youth. graduating
from Princeton in 1770, when only seven
teen Years old. aud entering the Provin-
cial Legislature at the age of twentv-
three. In ITS he was elected to represent
New JERSEY in the Continental Congress,
but he believed in legislating with guns
AS we'll as ballots, and while still holding
his seat in the Congress he managed to be
present at many important engagements
and it Is said that a bullet from his pistol
at Trenton pull an end to the life OF the
hailed Hessian commander. Colonel Rail-.
In 1898 he was elected United States
Senator from New Jersey under the
newly adopted Constitution, and In the
three years Of his service seems TO have
inclined to the opinions of the Federaltst
majority. He resigned his seat in 1896.
giving place to the second Richard Stock
ton.
During the whiskey insurrectiou in 1894,
President Washington appointed him u
Major-General. aud he served with the
New Jersey troops until the close OF the
outbresk. Early in, 1904 he was seized
With what an old record terms "a mys-
terious malady;" he took to his bad and
prophesied that he would die on his mex
birthday. April 10. The prediction was
verified.
His sou. Theodore, was bis successor,
and like hin, was graduated fro Prince
ton. class OF 1904. although the records
tell us that ne was very unwilling to he
g student, aud pleaded earnestly with
his father to be allowed TO become Il
farmer" He studied and practiced Lam
in Newark. and in 1917 was appointed
Attorney-General of the State. He W s
twice ~reappointed, but IN 1929 resigned
Co accept n seat in the United States
Ssnste. Wills thsre his vigorous
efforts to obtain the passage of \ bill re-
moving the Indians beyond the Missis-
Christian statesman." In politics he
was an enthusiastic Wing, aud, IN the
language of a newspapsr of that
day, The fought the battle of true Libsrty
against all Jacksoa's mad encroschmsats
and tyranny side by side with Clay,
Webster and Ewing. He resisted the
destruction of the bank and the emsval
Of deposits. He stood up manfully for
Clay and Sergeant ia 1882. as he bad done
for J. @. Adams, and he has since done
for Harrison"
ON THE TICKET WITH CLAY.
In 1874 Mr.. frs~liughnyseu. who was then
Chancellor of the University of New
York. WAS nominated as Vice President
on the Wing ticket with Henry Clay.
After the tickets defeat he spent bis de>
CHUNG years as the President of Rut-
gers College.
The last OF the Senatorial Frelinghuy-
sens, Frederick Theodore, grandson of
Frederick and nephew of Theodore. was
also prominent IN Las Nation'+ cpunc Is.
He was the only member of the five fam
lilies mentioned who was graduated else
where THAI from Princeton. He received
his education at Rutgers. from waich iu~
stltulion he was graduated III 1886. He
bee me Attorney-General OF the S q g in
1856; was appointed to the United States
CsnatQ in 1897 and alorfad I'm 1870 r a
full term.
Like mis- uncle he was a ma of strong
convictions. an ardent republican. aud
an advocate of all the Reconstruction
measures. He voted Ia 1868 for the cons
viction of President Andrew johnson.
then on trial before the Senate. In 1870
he was appointed Mi lister to England,
was confirmed but declined.
II 1881 be entered Presi .ent Arthur's
Cabiuet as Secretary of State. He died
soon aftsr the expiration of his term.
Such are the careers of members of
these two distinguished families who
have given to New Jersey seven distln :
guished N ,tioual legislators.