The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-12

Anonymous prose pamphlet. Wherein ne revived
Verplancks conviction for riot, ana unler an
turmoil tho tSbi Ssf'1 however, BY dis sovoTins
Clinton's pen beneath tho anonymo. New rorkers
now lenghed at their Mayor because, relying
this puff OF Clinton himself: ''Clinton, among
his other great qualities, Is distinguishes for
claim more varied and extensive knowledge"
But he laughs best who laughs last and despite
a Che NG perssTeTSps CONTINUED sng ab SiSsp't of I'll the ;si latter
finally made him Governor ana the nero Oh inc
vcrpianck was a founder OF q Democratic
faction In Tammany that became known as INC
Bucktails, because their sachems,, instead OF
buck. Tho faction was Composed OF. anti.Clin:
tonians. and with their help vcrplanek Was sent
for four years to the Assembly, and atterwsrd
Court Of Errors, he delivered, many great opin.
ions which are still regarded ~ mllestones in
jurisprudence. He became u professor IN inc
new Episcopal Theological Seminary. and his
lectures on The Uses, Of Reyealed religion
later ! legal treatise upon fraudulent contracts.
Next he served eight years as n New York city
Congressman, and held the important ohairman-
reported the famous ctmpromise tariff of 1888,
the curious feature Of which was a gradna,
NUMBER Of " years. ans'eS Both SSf'pSn he and. Henry Clay
had tariff bills, but the one finally pssSed was
mainly Verplanck's measure, although history
verpianck separated from the jackson party
on the national bank question, and became ono
Of the founders of the Wing party: This led TO
his nomination for Mayor In 1884 ngninst MS
Congressional colleague. Cornelius W.. Law,
.cncc. the Tnmmnny candidate, who was elected
by n majority Of only 1872. and Norplanck al
ways believed that he had been counted out,
This was tho end of his active participation
In politics., although for a. dozen years prior to
his death, in 1870. he held by appointment the
office of Commissioner OF Emigration. lie
contributed essays to tho weekly Mirror and
the Harpers employed MIN to edit an illustrated
edition of Shakespeare. His notes were ortEt.
nal and learned, and were nftcrward literally
used by the poet Bryant and the critic Duyck-
inck, who edited another similar edition, after
tho verplanck plates were melted In the fire at
the Harper establishment years ago. Copies
of those Nerplnnck volumes are rare, but occa-
%sionally bring very high prices Mt book auctions.
Ncrplanck's magnanimitv WINS shown In an ora
ton before the literary societies of Columbia
College after the death of Clinton, in which he
did Justice to the statesman and said:
Whatever of party luminosity might have
blinded me to his merits died away long before
his death. and l now honor tho lofty ambition
works of public utility" -,
Broadway pedestrians can read ,Verplanck's
scholarly inscription on the tall shaft erected
at the Fulton street side of st. PnuTs church.
yard to the memory of Thomas Adds Emmett.
Ncrplanck delivered discourses before Union
and Geneva Colleges. For half a century, AZ
trustee of the Society Library, he selected al
the new books, and he served as Regent Of the
State University. During. n quarter of n cen
he was once accused of rioting. He was one Of
the founders of the Manhattan Club. and he wal
President of the Century Club during TIVE
decades.