The Portland daily press., 1895-04-15

favor of Trumbull; and the latter was
| elected by 55 votes; 10 majority. No:
Lincoln didn' do this from any per-
sonal hatred he had for "Shields'. Lincoln
never did anything because of hate in
| his life. He may have been afraid he
couldn't hold his people. OF dozen reas-
ons may have intervened. It's long
| way back forty years, and one can't tell.
| But Trumbull was elected and went to
| the Senate and remained eighteen years.
Lincoln Joined him at Washington four
year later to take up his residence at the
White House.
FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH
AMENDMENTS.
"Trumbull and Lincoln, although COM
ing from different political tribes, were
both Republicans from the origin of that
party, and were very intimate when one
was at the White House and the other
in the Senate. Lincoln put much trust
IN Trumbull. AS chief of the Senate
judiciary. committee it was Trumbu who
conceived and framed the thirteenth and
fourteenth amendments. Montgomery
Blair was in Lincoln's cabinet, and both
lie and Trumbull doubted in some of it's
features the constitutional goodness and
validity of Lincoln's proclamation of
emancipation. They claimed that he
could not emancipate the slaves in Ken
lucky and Missouri, where no ordinances
OF secession were passed, and which, as
states, were never in rebellion. So they
put their heads together and the thir-
teenbh and fourteenth amendments we've
invented, to cover up whatever emanci-
patlonary shortages might exist. The
evolution and adoption of these amend
nents were due mainly to Lyman Trum-
hull.
Yes. the old judge is back in the
democracy again, unless he has gone off
with the third party. 1t was in CRAFTS
day when 1'rumbull's republicanism
began to be shaky. He could stand a
war tariff while war existed, but not
afterwaTf. So it WAS that along in the
early '70's Trnmbull became leader of
that wing of the party which called itself
the Liberal repu blicans.' The fact was
Trumbull tried hard to be named for the
presidency at Cincinnati in 1872. Judge
David Davis, another liberal Repu blican
from Illinois, was after the nomination,
too.
"Davis had been an old line Wing,
while Trumbull had been an old line
democrat, but in 1872 they had become
jun bled together IN the rude jolting of
the times in the same party OF liberal
oitt bOUu W0HtCu tuo
White House. They fought each other
to a stand still for the nomination.
Either might have had it, were the other
out of the fight: but MS it turned Greeley
got in and broke his heart on it like q
vessel on reef. Since Greeley's day
Trumbull has always been with the
Democrats, and was one of the visiting
statesmen TO New Orleans in the Hayes
Tilden muss.
Since his close in the Senate Trum-
hull has held no office. lie is fairly well
to do in the gear of this world: not rich,
but comforta bly, $3.50; and still practices
law. He has for twelve years, perhaps
longer. made his home in Chicago, where
his partners are his two sons Perry and
Tom Trumbull. There are not many
like Lyman Trunbull left. He was IN
the full vigor of his power, leader
among men. when the present world
was in its baby clothes. He is much
left alone. The Lincolps and the Doug
lases. the Blairs and the Davises, the old
friends and the old foes, have passed on
and away. Save Morrison and Palmer
there are none now but Trumbu of a
time when Illinois nourished the giants
of politics. Trumbull still goes and
comes among us, with all of an old MANS
majesty. The least that can he said of
him is that he was great in stern hour
when greatness was not taken for grant
ed"