The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-05

engaging inquire aiter MS defeat by Pierce
in 1892. His disappointment was no
doubt keen, but he gave no outward sign
of it. Crank Pierce" said he, when he
heard the news, was good soldier with
me in MeNico,and he ought to make n GOOD
President. And then he went quietly
about the discharge of his duties as com
niandcr of the army, which position he
continued to hold until short time be.
fore his death, 1862
HALE WAS A STRONG MAN
John p. Hale, the free soil candidate
for President in 1852, is now almost for
gotten, but in his time he PLAYED n large
part in public affairs. The venerable
Galusha a. Grow considers Hale one of
the most brilliant and useful men who
ever served in the Federal Senate. "IIale
had been. four years in the Senate when
first took my seat in the House, 'isaid Mr..
Grow, and there was no one more feared
by the Southern Senator's than he.
"a big, rotund, good -natured man. in
the art of totally demolishing the long
and labored argument of an opponent
with timely anecdote or jest, he had few
equals. y few years before the reDeal of
the Missouri compromise Senator Slidcll
introduced n bill in Congress appropri.
ating some $50, 600, 900 for the purchase
of Cuba. General Cass made an elaborate
speech supporting the bill, on the ground
that it was dangerous to have Il depend-
cncy of Il foreign power so near our shores
rs Cuba
"Hale followed: Consistency said he
has always been browning Jewel in the
tladem of the Senator from Michigan
He favors the annexation of Cuba because
its proximity is Il constant menace to our
welfare, swhen every night of his life.
when he i at home General Cuss lived in
DetroiO from the window of the room in
which he sleeps you can throw Il stone
into the possessions of her Britannia MAJ
icsty.' 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 rs the
candidate for the free soldiers in 1852 and
hence cherished resentment or disappoint-
ment at his defeat. He served in the
Senate for some years, and then was sent
| as II minister 20 Spain. He went into re-
| tirement in New Hampshire after his re.
| turn from Spain, and his death, when ii
| came, so ompletely had he been forgot
| ten was dismissed by the newspapers
with paragraph.
FREMONT'S CHECKERED CAREER
No defeated aspirant for the Presidency
| ever had a more checkered after career
| than that of John G. Fremont, Buch-
anan's rival in 1856. His military career
ended in misfortune and personal chagrin.
and the ill-will which he bore Lincoln led
| him, in lS6l, to accept Il nomination for
President rendered by Il so-called party
| which met in convention ut Cleveland
| However, Frcmont's good sense was suiIi-
cient to teach him that his candidacy
could only imperil the Union cause, and
in September, 1864, he announced his
| withdrawn from the field, mot to aid in
the triumph of Mr.. Lincoln, but to do my
/ part toward defeating the election of tn,
| Democratic nominee After the wal
| Fremont plunged into business enter
! prises, but he was not a good fnancier
and few Of the argosies which he put
aiioat ever came back To him. lie died
| III poverty i'll New York city eight years
| ago.
Stewards Presidential ambitions van.
| ished when the nomination which he GOV
| cted went to Lincoln, and Breckenridge
| ana Douglass We're the other wrecks left
on the shore by the political storm OF
! 1850. During the war the former com.
mandcd a Confederate army III the field,
| and served for time in Davis Cabinet
but his heart was never in the Confederate
movement, and when it was overthrow
he felt that his career was ended He
went back to Kentucky, expecting To take
up the practice of law, but did not live
long after lie retired to private life.
Douglass. when the war opened was
prompt and outspokcn in support of the
Union, and had he lived he would proba.
bly, have been one of Lincoln's most val.
ued advisers. But he had been ailng
for more than a year, and the mighty
Strain OF the canvass of 1860. coupled
with grief at the hopeless rupture of his
party, undermined his constitutions He
sank rapidly, and when it was evident
that his day was ending he sent for his
sisters 10 come and nurse him during his
last hours. After his death the manifes-
tations 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 splendid
stand for the Union No part OF Doug
lass HE so we'll became him rs its close.
DOWN TO LATER YEARS.
After the campaign of 1861 General Nc
Cleiland emerged but once from his self
sougt retirement. In 1877 he was nomi-
natcd for governor by the New Jersey
Democrats and elected. This was the only
political office nc ever held, and when his
term was over he returned TO his pleasant
home III Orange, where the balance of his
life was spent. He died suddely, without
warning of illness, some ten years ago.
ltorat'o Seymour survived for Il dozen
Yeas or more his crushing defeat by
Grant in 1865, but thereafter took small,
if any, part in public affairs. Horace
Greedy died less than IL month after the
election of 1872 His death, however,
was not due to disappointment at his fail
u-e to reach thePresidency- had known
for weeks that the tide had set strongly
against hm-but to the exhaustion of the
campaign followed, as il was, by the ten.
der nursing of his wife he fell i'll and