Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . 52, whenhe was chosen Speaker of the House. In i860, agedand infirm, he attended the National DemocraticConvention at Charleston, S. C , as an anti-DouglasDelegate, where he received more attention from theSouthern Delegates than any other nlember. Hesupported Breckenridge for the Presidency. Afterthe October elections foreshadowed the success ofLincoln, he published an address urging the Demo-crats to rally to the support of Douglas. Immedi-ately preceding and during the late war, his corre-spondence evinced a clear s
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . 52, whenhe was chosen Speaker of the House. In i860, agedand infirm, he attended the National DemocraticConvention at Charleston, S. C , as an anti-DouglasDelegate, where he received more attention from theSouthern Delegates than any other nlember. Hesupported Breckenridge for the Presidency. Afterthe October elections foreshadowed the success ofLincoln, he published an address urging the Demo-crats to rally to the support of Douglas. Immedi-ately preceding and during the late war, his corre-spondence evinced a clear sympathy for the Southernsecession, and about the first of March, i86r, heurged upon the Buchanan officials the seizure of thetreasure and arms in the custom-house and arsenalat St. Louis. Mr. Reynolds was a rather talkativeman, and apt in all the Western phrases and catch^words that ever gained currency, besides many cun-ning and odd ones of his own manufacture. He was married twice, but had no children. Hedied in Belleville, in May, 1865, just after the closeof the
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