The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-05

OF an opponent with a timely anecdote or
| Jest, he had few equals. A few years be-
fore the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise Senator Siidell introduced a bin in
! congress appropr.ating some $200OOO0O for
| the purchase of Cuba. General Cass made
an elaborate speech supporting the bill on
| the ground that it was dangerous to have
| dependency of foreign power so near
our shores as Cuba. Hale followed: Con-
| slstency,' said he. has always been a
| browning jewel in the diadem of the sem
ator from Michigan. He faVors the annex
| alton Of Cuba because its proximity is
| constant menace to our welfare when
| every night of his life, when he is at home.
| General Cass lived in DETROIT from the
| window of the room in which he sleeps you
can throw a stone into the possessions of
| her Britannia majesty Thus in two
minutes he destroyed the effect of General
Cass' three hours argument"
| Hale knew there was no chance of his
| election when he ran for President as the
candidate for the free-soilers in 1852, and
| hence cherished neither resentment nor
| disappointment at his defeat He served
in the Senate for some years and then was
sent as minister to Spain. He went into
retirement in New Hampshire after his
| return from Spain, and his death, when it
came, so completely had he been forgot
ten, was dismissed by the newspapers with
| a paragraph.
NJ uSLGdteQ dSplfdul the presidency
| ever had a more checkered after-career
| than that of John C. Fremont, Buchan-
! ans rival in 1856. His military career end
| ed in misfortune and personal chagrin,
| and the ill-wlll which he bore Lincoln
led him, in 1854, to accept a nomination
for President rendered by a so-called par
| ty, which met in Cleveland How
ever, Fremonts good sense was sufficient
! to teach him that his candidacy could
only imperl the union cause and in Sep
| TENDER, 1854, he announced his withdraw
! al from the field. mot to aid in the tri-
umph of Mr.. Lincoln, but to do my
part toward defeating the election of the
democratic candidate" After the war
| Fremont plunged into business enter
prises, but he was not good fnancier,
and few of the argosies which he put
! afioat ever came back to him. He died
! in poverty in New York city eight years
| ago.
Stewards presidential ambitions vanish
| ed when the nomination which he coveted
went to Lincoln, and Breckenridge and
Douglas were the other wrecks left on
| the shore by the political storm of 1860
| During the war the former commanded
a confederate army in the field and served
| for a time in Davis cabinet but his
heart was never in the confederate move
! ment, and when ii was over he felt that
| his career was ended. He went back to
Il
| tice of law, but did not live long after he
retired to private life. Douglas, when the
war opened, was prompt and outspoken
in support of the union, and had he lived
he would probably have been one of Lin
| coins most valued advisers. But he had
! been ailing for more than year, and the
mighty strain of the canvass of 1860 cou-
Piled with grief at the hopeless rupture
of his party, undermined his constitution.
| He sank rapidly, and when it was evil
| dent that his day was ending he sent for
his sister to come and nurse him during
his last hours. After his death the mani
festations of respect revealed the mighty
| hold which he had upon his party and
the admiration his great opponents had
come to feel for him because of his splen-
did stand for the union. No part of Doug
las life so well became him as it's close
After the campaign of 1864 Gen. McClel-
Ian emerged but once from his self-sought
retirement. In 1877 he was nominated
for governor by the New Jersey democrats
and elected This was the only political
office he ever held, and when his term was
over he returned to his pleasant home in
Orange, where the balance of his life was
spent. He died suddenly without warn
ing of Illness, some ten years ago. Ho-
ratio Seymour survived for dozen years
or more his crushing defeat by Grant in
1868, but thereafter took small, if any,
part in public affairs. Horace Greeley
died less than a months after the election
of 1872 His death, however, was not
due to disappointment at his failure to
reach the presidency-he had known for
weeks that the tide had set strongly
against him-but to the exhaustion of the
campaign, followed as it was by the
tender nursing of his wife, who fell i'll
and died few weeks before election day.
The strain was too great. Insomnia
seized him with all it's horrors, and it
seemed to those who knew him as If he,
realizing that he had dangerously strain
ed his physical and mental powers, gave
up at once without making struggle for
life.
Tilden in 1876 accepted the loss of the
presidency with perfect composure. If he
had personal disappointment or nourished
resentment no one knew 1t. Within
month after the seating of Hayes, he car
ried through an important business enter
prise which added millions to his already
large fortune. A little later he bought
beautiful place on the Hudson, and, divid-
ing his time between that and his city
home in Gramercy park, spent his last
years in peace and serenity, surrounded by
books and by men of the highest cultiva-
ton.
Gen. Hancock was never heard to repine
of his defeat by Garfield in 1880, and
Blaine, within a week of his defeat four
years later, was hard at work on the sec
ond volume of his Twenty Years of Con-
gress," giving no token of disappointment
at the outcome of the canvass, which had
brought him within 1000 votes of the
presidency. Cleveland. as soon as his first
term in the white house was ended, settled
down to the practice of his profession IN
New York city, and, although he per-
mitted his labors to be broken in upon by
political inclination and the desire for
denomination, probably made more money
during the ensuing four years than at any
other period of his life. While in 1898
Harrison, following Cleveland's example.
at once went back to his law books and to
his old place as leader of the bar in In
diana.
HEIR TO MILLIONS.